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.
via CBR
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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.
via The Source
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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…
via ComicBookResources
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