To be honest, this was a pretty decent superhero war comic. It really read like the old war comics from DC's past, and actually kind of combined the B-Movie alien invasion aesthetic that was popular in film at the same time that war comics flourished. Not sure if that's a calculated move on Mr. Giffen's part, but it works quite nicely.
On the other hand, it's fairly propagandistic, really. Somehow North America is the only continent to avoid catastrophic damage, forcing the rest of the world to rely on America. Again, this echoes the war comics of old, but it rings pretty hollow in the Reagan-era Cold War. I think by this point in time, people were becoming a lot more suspect about the glories of war. This one doesn't really address the horrors that, in the background, appear to have been perpetuated.
In terms of comparison with the Arrowverse crossover, this is the big superhero throw-down that the CW just couldn't afford to do. First, they don't have nearly enough heroes, and second I don't imagine they have the budget for large-scale space warfare effects. Though the Dominators' reason for attacking Earth remains the same, the emergence of high-power metahumans, their methods are decidedly different on screen. A pity, but an understandable one.
More to follow.
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