This story arc is absolutely the best comics have to offer. If you are new to comics, have been thinking of giving them a try, or haven't been exposed to much DC stuff, this is a great place to begin. But you need to give the whole arc a try. It is a big investment, but try digital comics (free DC app), it is well worth it. It all starts with the Justice Society recruiting new heroes for this sort of school they are starting. They are focusing on "legacies", heroes related to classic heroes from older periods either by blood, costume, or power.
As the book goes on, they start dealing with the aftermath of an inter-dimensional disaster that has reshaped the DC 'universe'. This includes visits to, and from, alternative universes in the DC canon. This culminates in the addition to the Society of an alternate-world Superman, who warns of an impending disaster from the avatar of a false god named Gog, which led to the near-destruction of all heroes back in his own home dimension (ostensibly parallelling the events told in Ross's KINGDOM COME).
As the heroes battle the forces rising in the name of this being, including members of the Society itself converted to its cause, individual heroes struggle with issues of faith and reason, and what the actions and character of an actual God would really be like. Verses and imagery from The Book of Revelation permeate the story, and one particular Bible passage seems to be the theme of it all:
1 Corinthians 8:4-6- 'So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.'
So check out the THY KINGDOM COME storyline, it is something else!
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