Finished reading Justice League Dark: Lost in Forever, bringing an end to the DC Comics series as writer J.M. DeMatters separates the team throughout time and space. The book opens with Zatanna and John Constantine in Paris when the two are teleported to the Houses of Mystery and Secrets respectively as the two houses plan to go to war with each other by using members past and present of the Justice League Dark to fight their battles. Once both factions of the team meet, the battle which turns out to be a ruse when the two houses merge together to become the House of Wonders. In order to defeat the House of Wonders Zatanna casts a spell which causes Constantine to forget his love for her which sends the team across time and space with Constantine finding himself back on Earth. The rest of the book deals with the team being seperated throughout time and space due to the destruction of the House of Wonders as Zatanna finds herself at the dawn of time while Nightmare Nurse, Swap Thing, Frankenstein and vampire Andrew Bennett are trapped at the end of time as Deadman, Black Orchid and Madame Xanadu find themselves in the Kingdom of Now, a place that exists outside of time and space. Overall this was a great book as it separates the team into smaller teams which allows writer J.M. DeMatters to tell more personal stories with characters like Nightmare Nurse and Madame Xanadu who narrate their section of the book giving them some great character development. The character interactions throughout the book are brilliant as there are some emotion filled scenes from Zatanna's interactions with Constantine and her father while the interactions between Madame Xanadu and Lord Arif of the Kingdom of Now are incredibly heart wrenching. The artwork throughout the book is great as the character and creature designs are extremely well detailed along with the emotions that are shown between characters. While all of the spells and location designs are all elevated by the inking and colours of whole art team of the book. 8.5/10.
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