Posted in Comics, SFW on 02/16/2010 07:45 pm by fanboi
The launch of this new roster of the JLA is such a SNAFU. They revealed the end of Cry For Justice ahead of time (Prometheus destroys Star City). We’ve seen Starfire and Donna on the team before they were supposed to have accepted and now they want us to wonder if Dick Grayson will stay in its ranks? REALLY? James Robinson was a god while writing Starman back in the day so why does this smell bad? I’m SO tired of writers “dissasembling” a beloved team title. JLA needed focus, a purpose and better characterization NOT an influx of new blood. I think this title will be lost with this line-up and don’t see it lasting more than a few months unless something really interesting and surprising happens.
James Robinson and artist Mark Bagley present a team reeling from the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE, as a member is tended to after the horrific events of the mini-series. And, will the new Batman join the ranks of the team? Or does he have more pressing issues in Gotham?
Looks like a pissed off Ollie is hooking up with villain-turned hero The Shade and is out for bloody fucking vengeance. The Shade is not a nice man, in fact he’s not really a man anymore at all, so I wouldn’t want to be on his bad side. This must be that dark road that we hear Green Arrow is taking now that Roy has been maimed.
I’m kind of all for the original kid sidekicks finally getting moved up the the big leagues, but it has to be logical and this just seems forced at best and downright unnatural at worst. Is it just me? I’m worried. Also who the hell are the sixth stringers on the cover? I think I recognize Dr. Impossible, BUT WHO ARE THE OTHER 2? And why bother bringing back a LAME RIPOFF character designed just so Ed Benes could show his mom an action figure of his creations?
via TheSource
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Posted in Comics on 11/28/2009 06:46 pm by fanboi
Looks like SOMEONE at DC was reading the buzz about Zatanna’s costume as seen in Cry For Justice #4, because although #5 opens moments after #4 ended, Zatanna is looking considerably less skanky. She must have looked down between panels and realized that she was wearing an actual teddy and not her costume and switched costumes magically.
Thankfully no change in Red Tornado’s HUGE package though!
OK that said, I just don’t really get what this is about. The cover to #5 has a big ol smooch between Supergirl and Captain Marvel that isn’t even remotely part of the story (the two barely exchange 2 words much less a romantic moment). I also have problems with the storytelling – one moment Supergirl and Congorilla find Roy unable to clap, cauterize his wound and roar for help. But then they run off (before help arrives for Roy?) to find who did this and next we see an enraged Kara and Freddy fighting each other and Congorilla and Wally are unconscious. If Robinson wasn’t going to be our JLA scribe, i wouldn’t care enough to figure out what’s happening, but that looming fact unfortunately has me paying attention to this dreck.
One more point – they have a master villain running around manipulating lesser villains to do his bidding. One of those villains is defeated and they confiscate a strange teleporter and bring it RIGHT into the JLA HQ to study it without first seeing if it perhaps has any OTHER functions? I still remain thoroughly unimpressed with this miniseries.
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Posted in Comics, SFW on 10/08/2009 07:45 pm by fanboi
I suppose if you are making a man, why not do it right. I wonder what T.O. Morrow REALLY had planned for “John Smith” a.k.a. Red Tornado.
Thanks to reader and regular commenter Xanadude whose mention of it reminded me I meant to share this – I was just so blinded with rage about that whoribble slutty Zatanna outfit that I forgot about Reddy sporting a pornworthy cock.
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Posted in Comics, SFW on 09/02/2009 09:00 pm by fanboi
I’m about to crack open issue 3 of Cry for Justice. Let’s see if writer James Robinson can come up with something more offensive than Hal Jordan’s BoP threeway or more convenient than this team randomly coming together.
The team welcomes two new members as Supergirl and Shazam join the roster! And it’s just in time, too, because when Prometheus is finally caught and his evil machinations are revealed, the League finds out they may be unable to stop him.
OK, I know they want to establish Prometheus as the bad ass anti-Batman. They gave him the reverse origin and everything. OK fine – set him against the Global Guardians – they’ve always been fodder anyway. But with so few gay characters around – did you HAVE to kill Tasmanian Devil and treat the body is such a disrespectful manner? Not sure if it’s as offensive as the 3way comment last issue – but he’s staying in the ballpark.
I’m glad some of the supporting cast from Robinson’s Starman run are showing up. Charity O’Dare (who mentions husband Mason), Bobo Bennetti and the Shade.
via CBR
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Posted in Comics, Preview, Review, SFW on 08/06/2009 07:20 pm by fanboi
The team continues its proactive hunt for justice as the trail leads to an army of Super-Villains. But the big bad may be deadlier than all of the new team combined…
OK, is it just me or does this “hey we all have suffered a recent loss that MUST BE AVENGED” thing seem hokey (I keep waiting for someone to bring up Grabthar’s hammer or the sons of Worvan), unnecessary (with the myriad of baddies present when Martian Manhunter died there was already a natural reason to bring together a group) and lazy (it’s all so convenient to have them all on different trails that happen to coincide).
I’m not sure I like the exchange between Hal and Ollie about (I believe) a 3way with Huntress and Lady Blackhawk? #1 I don’t buy it. I know Zinda can “drink her liquor like a gentleman,” hangs out in bars and in general is about as ladylike as Wolverine, but Helena Bertinelli is a good Catholic schoolteacher (well OK her family was mobbed up, but oh never mind I knew some good Catholic girls back in my day). It just seems like an odd thing to throw out there. As random an inappropriate as if Ollie and Hal had been reminiscing about “that time they double-teamed Star Sapphire“. Superhero 3ways?!?! AND THEY BALK AT SEEING A LOVING GAY KISS!?!?!
I expected a little more of writer James Robinson after his phenomenal work on Starman. Mauro Casciolli’s artwork is breathtaking so I’ll keep picking it up (also it likley sets the stage for Robinson’s upcoming run on the JLA) to see where they are going with this. What is Prometheus up to? Is he trying to draw this specific group into a trap? He is the anti-Batman so I don’t see him being unaware of the trail our heroes are following.
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Posted in Comics, Preview, SFW on 07/29/2009 02:20 pm by fanboi
JLA should be a flagship DCU title – and lately it just isn’t.
The JLA seems poised on the brink. For a long time, this title has been plagued with limitations imposed upon it by DCU-wide crossover events as well as the solo titles of each of the bigger names in the roster. The biggest weakness of the JLA as a title is also its strength. It was conceived as a single title where the reader can get a story with all his favorite characters. The JLA was strongest as a team AND a book back when it was all about the big 7 – Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. I fear this title is heading down the road to something like JLA Detroit.
The cards are stacked against the remnants of the Justice League! And those cards are the Royal Flush Gang! Can even Superman and Wonder Woman save a team whose luck has run out? Featuring the deadly return of an old foe.
The Royal Flush Gang? REALLY? Is it 1966? I know we need to revisit the greatness, but do we have to go THAT far back?
I’m hoping James Robinson will be able to do something compelling with Justice League of America – but Cry For Justice isn’t impressing me that much thus far – the tragic events that send his disparate team members crying for justice seemed forced and cheap – I’ll give it a complete read, but I expected more after his Starman series.
UPDATE: reading it now – apparently Firestorm agrees with me on the threat level of the Royal Flush Gang. And the return of Roulette and Amos Fortune? Again, big deal.
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Posted in Comics, Preview, SFW on 06/01/2009 02:25 pm by fanboi
I’m really looking forward to this book. It makes sense that Green Lantern would not take the recent losses during Final Crisis well and put together a more proactive team. The line-up is a bit odd (c’mon you can’t tell me you weren’t a bit surprised to see Congorilla, the bisexual blue Starman and Batwoman on the team). I’m all for it – we certainly need more heroic inclusion and we’ve never had 2 openly LGBT characters on a JLA team before. Previously we’d seen some cover art and a few random pages, but Newsarama showed us some real penciled pages from the book which is due in July.
What brings a team together? Justice! Batman and Martian Manhunter have been slaughtered. But he’s not the only hero to fall at the hands of villains. The murder has to stop, and it’s time to take the fight to the bad guys! Heroes have fallen and Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Batwoman, Atom, Shazam, Congorilla (REALLY?) and Starman unite in a cry for justice!
This 6-part miniseries from James Robinson (STARMAN, SUPERMAN) and rising star artist Mauro Cascioli (TRIALS OF SHAZAM) pushes our heroes to the brink and beyond as evil can no longer be tolerated to win. But when Prometheus plans his revenge on not only the heroes, but on the very places they call home, will this new team be ready to pay the cost for the justice they seek? This time it’s personal – and it’ll only get more bloody before it’s over!
I WILL be interested to see what events unfold that result in this disparate group pulling together. I’m also curious how it is going to impact the main JLA title – especially now that it seems to be floundering as a supposedly flagship title that has been reduced to something that TRIES to tell a story or two in between crossovers.
via Newsarama
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Posted in Comics, Preview, SFW on 05/18/2009 02:48 am by fanboi
I’m really interested in seeing what Eisner Award-winning creator James Robinson (Starman) has in store for this oddly disparate group of heroes. I’m excited to see Batwoman making some connections in the DCU meta community, and overjoyed to see Mikaal Tomas back in the limelight again (I DO wonder how they will handle his alien bisexuality).
Driven by the deaths of Batman and Martian Manhunter during “Final Crisis,” Green Lantern and Green Arrow assemble a proactive Justice League including Supergirl, Batwoman, The Atom (Ray Palmer), Freddy Freeman, Congorilla and Starman (Mikaal Tomas). The team is poised to finally wipe the smiles of the faces of evil operating within the DC Universe. And Prometheus’ face is one of the evilest.
Originally announced as an ongoing series in March of 2008, the project became a mini-series in order to enable the author to work out a true ending for the story which features painted art and covers by The Trials of Shazam artist, Mauro Cascioli.
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Posted in Comics, Preview, SFW on 04/07/2009 01:57 pm by fanboi
The line-up for this Green Lantern led spinnoff team of the Justice League due in July from the minds of writer James Robinson and artist Mauro Cascioli is already old news. But this art is the first glimpse of the art. With a lesbian (Batwoman) and a bisexual alien (Starman – Mikaal Thomas), this is the most GLBT inclusive team the JLA has ever seen.
The villains in the background look like shades of the bad ol’ Legion of Doom. This will be worth checking out, if only for the continuing drama of Black Canary’s anguish at having Green Lantern start up his own team because the one she led was ineffectual. It wasn’t her fault – It’s not like she had advance warning that Evil Gods were planning Final Crisis. Hell we had advance warning and I still don’t know what the hell happened there.
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Posted in Comics, Gay News, LGBT in Comics on 05/27/2008 08:59 pm by fanboi
Refresh my memory. Have we ever had a gay member of the JLA? (not just an ally or guest star, or someone whose sexuality is hinted at or sensationalized but a out proud card carrying member who dates). If so, please refresh my memory. But regardless, I bet there was never a team of 8 with TWO gay members! And we’ve got a lesbian in Batwoman and a bisexual with blue alien Starman, Mikaal Thomas. That 25% much better than that measly Kinsey 10% we’re usually given. Too bad they left that tidbit out of the CBR article… I wonder why? It seems significant detail to me.
While talking with CBR, James Dale Robinson let slip a few details about plans for his “Justice League” series: Green Lantern will “slip out from under the shadow of the Trinity” to lead the team (about time, even Aquaman had his own lineup – and he just talks to fish), the disparate lineup will all come together naturally due to a course of events, not by some super powered triumvirate sorting through dossiers, and finally that this team will have a “purpose that was different from the Justice League of America.”
James Dale Robinson’s Justice League Lineup includes: Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Green Arrow, The Atom (Ray Palmer), Shazam (Freddy Freeman), Supergirl, Batwoman, Starman (Mikaal Thomas, former ally of Starmen Jack and Ted Knight) and last and least… Congorilla??? (A.K.A. ongo Bill – a seven-foot tall, 90 year old, magical golden gorilla with the intelligence and the sophistication of a big game hunter).
“Justice League” #1 will feature artwork by Mauro Cascioli (“The Trials of Shazam”), but has yet to be solicited. “I think we are waiting for Mauro to finish some more, so probably the end of the summer,” said Robinson. “But what’s he done so far, especially with his colors, is beautiful.”
I’m really curious what kind of event will bring these 8 due to a natural confluence of events…
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