Justice #9: A VERY Short Review
lclough
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Tim Turnip
>It's not getting better. How long is this going to go on?
Until the final issue #12 or until you stop buying it, whichever comes
first.
badth...@yahoo.com
lclough wrote:
> It's not getting better. How long is this going to go on?
>
> Brenda
>
Actually I thought it was going along great until this very issue. The
whole "heroes begin to come back" was utterly undone by that last page
that they were still being manipulated.
swintronix
parts. And The armor is kind of 90's, whereas the title in general has been
solid 60's to 70's.
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Jinx
swintronix wrote:
> I've been enjoying it. But this newest issue was a little hard to follow in
> parts. And The armor is kind of 90's, whereas the title in general has been
> solid 60's to 70's.
I like the classic feel of the series overall (style, lineup, villains
etc). Each issue has been enjoyable on its own even though I have
found the plot arc a bit hard to penetrate. It probably bears a closer
reading than it has been given. The quality is quite high IMO.
As for what DC titles are currently well written?
Birds Of Prey by Simone
All Star Superman by Morrison
52 (with only a couple of weak issues so far) by the 52 committee
Justice League of America by Johns
Connor Hawke by Dixon
Robin by Beechen
Detective Comics by Dini
lclough
> swintronix wrote:
>
>>I've been enjoying it. But this newest issue was a little hard to follow in
>>parts. And The armor is kind of 90's, whereas the title in general has been
>>solid 60's to 70's.
>
>
>
> I like the classic feel of the series overall (style, lineup, villains
> etc). Each issue has been enjoyable on its own even though I have
> found the plot arc a bit hard to penetrate. It probably bears a closer
> reading than it has been given. The quality is quite high IMO.
>
What I should do, but am not really motivated to, is to sit down
and reread the entire series. Maybe when all the issues are
out. <yawn>
Denny Colt
I think you mean Justice SOCIETY of America by Johns.
And I agree about Conner Hawke - I've been enjoting this series,
actually. And I like Robin, too, althought I don't really understand
why the artist draws him looking like he's ten years old.
I would add all the Superman stuff by Busiek, as well as Aquaman: Sword
of Atlantis - I just read the first volume TPB and I thought it was
fantastic.
badth...@yahoo.com
lclough wrote:
> Jinx wrote:
>
> > swintronix wrote:
> >
> >>I've been enjoying it. But this newest issue was a little hard to follow in
> >>parts. And The armor is kind of 90's, whereas the title in general has been
> >>solid 60's to 70's.
> >
> >
> >
> > I like the classic feel of the series overall (style, lineup, villains
> > etc). Each issue has been enjoyable on its own even though I have
> > found the plot arc a bit hard to penetrate. It probably bears a closer
> > reading than it has been given. The quality is quite high IMO.
> >
>
>
> What I should do, but am not really motivated to, is to sit down
> and reread the entire series. Maybe when all the issues are
> out. <yawn>
>
showing the inevitable superhero comeback---which it then torpedoed on
the last page and after 18 frigging months, I simply have no patience
for it.
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
> I thought it did a nice job of building up a sense of dread then
> showing the inevitable superhero comeback---which it then torpedoed on
> the last page and after 18 frigging months, I simply have no patience
> for it.
>
unfettered "comeback" now, it's going to make for six months of pretty
undramatic reading. Basic dramatic structure suggests that there still
*needs* to be at least one more major setback of this sort.
Shannon
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plausible prose man
> I've been enjoying it. But this newest issue was a little hard to follow in
> parts.
The bimonthly format sure doesn't help my sense of what's going on and
why, that's for sure. Still, it's been remarkably on-schedule for a
high-profile book, and that's without Steve Ditko phoning it in or
Alfredo Alcala's heavy foot on it, which some one pointed out to me was
how they made the books come out on time back when the books came out
on time.
> And The armor is kind of 90's,
Mostly I just see that as something Alex Ross likes to do, superhero
apotheosis by way of battle armor, with extra Batmobile touches for
Bruce
> whereas the title in general has been
> solid 60's to 70's.
I can see where you think that, what with Metamorpho and the Doom
Patrol and the Metal Men and a pre-Marv Wolfman Teen Titans, and of
course Barry is the Flash and Iris is alive and Hal's GL, but on the
other hand Batman is a mean, scary bastard and Clark seems to have
leapt out of a Fleischer brothers cartoon and Diana's mythological
origins and S&M overtones are brought out, and most of that stuff was
missing from those characters in the silver and bronze age, and then
there's the "Challenge of the Superfriends" stuff. Come to think of it,
wasn't there an episode of CotS where the earth died screaming thanks
to Superfriend hubris?
So my only real complaint is its coming out too slowly.
spiznet
I think its great!! More Ross, more Kingdom Come!!
More futuristic/silver age painted stuff!!
-Spiznet