Alright there is a lot to talk about this issue so I'll do a short non-spoiler description for some who may want to know if its good, and then I'll do a big spoiler box for stuff I want to specifically talk about.
Now for the non-spoiler stuff, basically if you liked the first one and any of the other stuff then you'll like this. It is literally the same creative team as the first series writing a sequel to the original, so if you liked that you will like this. Nothing feels different and though characters have grown older and into new roles it still feels like the same characters you have read before. No one inexplicably has a personality change, no one has evil plots or deep resentment, or any of other dark timeline time skips cliches. It is just the same heroes we have had before with the newer legacy heroes and a few characters who had a smaller role from last time (like Hawkgirl) getting the spotlight. If I had to name some lead characters this time around its definitely older versions of Jon Kent, Cassie Sandsmark, and Dinah Lance. If that interest you, go check it out.
Now onto the spoiler block
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Alright so before we get on to what happens back on earth I want to discuss a lot of what we learned on Earth 2. First I like that Lois Lane has become President of the planet, that a nice touch and if she is not going to be a big part of the action I love that she at least has an important role. I also like that we learn of the surviving earth Green Lanterns, which is that John, Guy, Kyle, Simon Baz, and Jessica Cruz are all alive and guarding Earth-2 while the heroes go back. It stinks for Hal, but I actually like knowing that the entire Corps wasn't decimated. We also happen to learn that Superman/Clark is still very much alive and is still eating the sun, I am sure that will come into play later.
Once we get back to earth things go well for like a minute, they find both Krypto (who was apparently on the Earth these five years) and Cyborg who they get to talk thanks to Cassie and the Lasso of Truth.....but then things immediately fall apart the moment the Anti-life Wonder Woman appears. She destroys the drop ship stranding the heroes and infects Green Arrow, which unfortunately leads to problems where Jon ends up stabbed by the Kryptonite Magic sword on the hope that Wonder Woman can be saved upon learning of the cure from Cyborg. Hopefully he is not infected because the sword went through him and hit Wonder Woman, so hopefully no blood containment. I also hope this doesn't spell the death of Jon so soon but we have to wait and see.
Overall I liked this, I think some characters got some chances to be cool, and I think Jon has definitely grown up to be a lot like his father from going back to earth on the hope life can be saved and choosing to get mortally hurt on the hope that a friend can be saved from the anti-life. I even like that Hawkgirl does a little more then just being set on fire by Captain Atom, hell we even get to see more of Black Lightning and his daughter Thunder. Unfortunately the only one we didn't see was Wallace West, not even in the background, however I feel that may change later as we didn't actually see all who were sent to the earth, I mean we barely saw Mera but she was there for a panel when the ship was hit. Not to mention Taylor did name drop Wallace in interviews so I don't think he'd just leave him out.
Overall it was a great follow up to the original series and after this first issue I can't wait to see what else Taylor has in store and how he plans to connect the pieces from the other DCeased stories like John Constantine and Jason Todd.