Review by Frank Plowright

DC obviously had trouble finding enough time travel adventures featuring the Justice League as they open with a Legion of Super-Heroes story, but all readers should be grateful that’s the case. Steve Vance sets a tough problem and ensures a significant percentage of a large cast have a moment in the spotlight, while John Delaney takes no shortcuts with the cartooning. It’s a masterclass in using a large cast in a thrilling plot.

It’s also a good lead-in to the Justice League visiting the Legion’s future courtesy of Jason Hall and Min S. Ku, which can’t match the high standards of the opener, and did it really need Flash making sexist comments in a comic aimed at children?

There are other futures, though, in the DC Universe, and Stuart Moore and Tim Levins take the Flash to Kamandi’s world where he’s the only intelligent human. His world has assorted eras ruled by assorted humanoid animal species. Moore joyously features cameos of other societies while running a plot about the Flash being fed up with his efforts making no difference. The same creative team are also responsible for the equally engaging follow-up as a threat from the future uses the past to affect the present.

On the accompanying repackagings of these turn of the millennium stories plots from Adam Beechen are the gold standard, each surprising and telling a little something about one of the team. While Moore and Levins are almost there, the closing stories are great. First Carlo Barberi draws the Justice League when they’re taken back to the era of mystical Camelot to give Merlin a helping hand, then Gordon Purcell looks at them in the Wild West. That’s a real treat for older fans with long memories for featuring a teaming of DC Western heroes helping out Vigilante’s ancestor.

With good art throughout and five really top notch stories out of six, Time After Time offers the best value of the pocket sized Justice League Unlimited collections.