Spoilers follow for both the Injustice 2 game and comic.

The premise of the Injustice 2 video game's story was very interesting. Annie threat has arrived and in order to stop it, Batman will have to rely on Superman and the members of his old Regime. Superman is the strongest being on Earth, and it would make sense (simply given the nature of comic-books) that there would eventually come a time where the new Justice League (composed mostly of non-super powered individuals) would face a threat that they would not be able to handle on their own. The idea of Batman having to release Superman and put aside their issues in order to save their world is a recipe for an excellent story.. however, the build up to it (especially in the form of seventy-two chapters worth of storytelling) doesn’t quite work as well.

My biggest issue with the prequel comic is that, even with so much happening, it didn’t feel as though any of it mattered. The main purpose of this comic is to present the audience with the events that proceeded the video game and I suppose, in the broad sense, it manages to do that. We find out how Brainiac came to form an alliance with Grodd, how he managed to merge with Bruce Wayne’s “Brother Eye,” and how Hal Jordan got his green ring back (though him saying he “went through hell” to get it back in the Injustice 2 game seems like a stretch now that we know what actually happened.) But, even with it laying the ground work for all of these things, it still feels as though so much was wasted. While Hal's arc was substantial, the groundwork laid for Brainiac didn't work very well. In fact, in the seventy-two issue run, there were only a handful of panels dedicated to both the hacking of Brother Eye and partnership with Grodd. The rest didn't matter factor into the game at all and, as far as I can tell, could have never happened at all - but more on that later.

So, let’s take a look at the important moments that happened within the comic, but were left out of the games story entirely. We have the resurrection of Alfred, the revelation that Bruce Wayne has a daughter, Aqua-lad becoming a terrorist, Conner Kent becoming the new Superman, a giant Star Fish coming to destroy Earth.. and there's still so much more. And yet, none of these things are mentioned in the Injustice 2 game, even though each of them have ramifications to the world of Injustice. Granted, there’s plenty that happens in the original Gods Among Us comic that didn’t factor into the games’ story, but it, at least, used each year of that comic served to explain why certain characters were behaving the way that they were, as well as why other characters weren’t present in the story. This comic may serve to do the latter (sort of) but it doesn’t tackle the former at all. For example, Conner Kent and Cassie Sandsmark are taken by the Legion of Superheroes and Batman is never shown to have so much as searched for them. It seems as though that should have come up at some point - especially given the fact that Conner was the new Superman - and yet, instead of devoting resources to finding the good Superman, Batman instead decides to put his faith in the evil Superman.