scans_daily: Fun Times with the Super Buddies

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@ 2010-04-19 10:20 am UTC

Current mood:	nostalgic
Entry tags:	char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: elongated man/ralph dibny, char: fire/beatriz da costa, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: maxwell lord, char: sue dibny, creator: j. m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, creator: kevin maguire, publisher: dc comics

Fun Times with the Super Buddies

So some people were talking about old Max who I loved a lot. So I decided I'd post some scans mainly Max-centric from Formerly Known as the Justice League.

From Formerly Known as the Justice League #1 Max wants to get the old team together so the first one he tracks down that lovable robot L-Ron.

Max and L-Ron manage to convince, bribe, and manipulate them all into joining with Mary Marvel in her brothers place.

In Formerly Known as the Justice League #2 all the gangs together. Aw.

In Formerly Known as the Justice League #3 the team, except Max, L-Ron and Sue, gets kidnapped so Sue goes on a website to try to figure out who did it...

In Formerly Known as the Justice League #4 The team are taken to a fighting ring where Mary beats Captain Atom within an inch of his life, but they all break out. What could happen next you ask? Not an alien invasion certainly...

In Formerly Known as the Justice League #5 Manga Khan sends his robot J-Lo to go get L-Ron and bring him back. But they do have something to offer them in return...

There is always someone watching

I do like how the JLI seems to make Batman happy :)

Next in Formerly Known as the Justice League #6 first more batman funnies

Then Ted and Booster fight, and Booster goes to hit Ted who moves out of the way and so he hits a robot who knocks the rest of Manga Khan's robots down like dominoes...

And they all lived happily ever after? . . . :(

Suggested Tags: char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: elongated man/ralph dibny, char: fire/beatriz da costa, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: maxwell lord, char: sue dibny, creator: keith giffen, creator: kevin maguire, creator: j.m. dematteis, publisher: dc comics

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	no subject joasakura 2010-04-19 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, i loved this miniseries so, so much. (Reply to this)

	no subject sweettart1823 2010-04-19 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	I know me too. There was a lot I wanted to post but couldn't. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject irrelevant 2010-04-19 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Someone is always watching, and it's usually Bats. snicker Also, he enjoys not enjoying anything. Because he's Batman. (Reply to this)

	no subject goblinthebamf 2010-04-19 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	And they all lived happily ever after? . . . :( I believe you mean ... :( (Reply to this)

	no subject sweettart1823 2010-04-19 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Either way "... :(" would be at the end of it. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject thehefner 2010-04-19 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX If there was an emoticon between a grin and a sorrowful weep, I'd be emoticonnng it SO hard right now. Seriously, how? How could people just ruin a character like this? What joyless people really think he's better off as an eeeeeeeeeevil mastermind with X-TREME mind control powers? (Reply to this)

	no subject blake_reitz 2010-04-19 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Here's a question: If Max wiped himself of all evil deeds, in addition to the public, would he be a viable character again? (Reply to this)

	no subject neuhallidae 2010-04-19 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Motto all of this. I love this, but it's so sad knowing that happens later. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject sweettart1823 2010-04-19 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	I know I miss Max. :/ The Real Max. Not Other Max who I refuse to believe is Real Max. He's Max from mirror universe or something... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject badficwriter 2010-04-19 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	It is slightly interesting to reread all his interactions as an evil evil man who is terrified (and somehow envious) of superheroes. (Reply to this)

	no subject busterella 2010-04-19 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, there you are Max. Whereya been, buddy? BEST. Yup, DC. A bunch of cheap gore, death and angst sure was worth losing aaallllll this. Yup. (Reply to this)

	no subject sweettart1823 2010-04-19 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	He must be a REALLY good actor... Like he seriously should have gone to Hollywood instead... He could have been successful. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject mad 2010-04-19 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	I am in love with Kevin Maguire's ability to draw facial expressions so well. But it's also hilarious that you don't see Batman's face at all in these scans. (Reply to this)

	no subject acton 2010-04-19 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	Nice touch how you can't see Batman's face. Even though he is (totally not) cracking jokes he still maintains a strange, shadowy aloofness from the other characters. FUN. Must buy this. (Reply to this)

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flidgetjerome
2010-04-19 06:32 pm UTC (link)

The main reason they're veeeeeery insistent that Max is super-evil-bad now is Wonder Woman.

Diana can not be wrong to have snapped Max's neck, it's too major and drastic an action and she's too important a character for the DCU. I think that's why they're taking him out for another whirl, to try and hammer in that it was okay for her to have done so because holy crap, look how evil he is!

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	no subject flidgetjerome 2010-04-19 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	This is all glorious. However, does anyone have the scene where Boostle hide the chocos and J'onn finds out? Even though he's barely in it, that's probably my favourite Max scene. (Reply to this)

	no subject queendork56 2010-04-19 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	I think my favorite Max scene from Superbuddies is when he's talking about beating up that one guy and Sue tells him he hits like a girl and after her comment sinks in the panel of Max being all "I DO NOT HIT LIKE A GIRL" is like... my favorite thing ever and I don't really know why. /ramble (Reply to this)

	I heart Kevin Maguire nefrekeptah 2010-04-19 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	Keven Maguire could draw an entire issue of nothing but talking heads, and it would be more dynamic, fun, and entertaining than half the comics on the stands right now. He doesn't even exaggerate features like in anime, his drawings are all very lifelike! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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jaybee3
2010-04-19 07:01 pm UTC (link)

In my own little world (as Bob Ross of painting fame would say) this is still the JLI and everything from Identity Crisis on never happened. I just loved these books (and "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" was printed after Identity Crisis making the comparison all the more obvious..and sad).

Observations:
1. One of my pet theories about Countdown is that the writers on that series (McKeever, Beechan, Bedard, Palmiotti and Grey) a couple of which openly said they didn't know much about Mary Marvel only used THIS portrayal (which Giffen admitted was a caricature) of a naive ditz who doesn't even know J'onn is "really a Martian" despite her twin being in the JLI for years as a reference point for how they (horribly) wrote her and not the Power of Shazam series (where Mary was the most calm and level headed Marvel). It would also explain the high level of sexualization of the underage Mary in Countdown since Booster and Guy Gardner were constantly hitting on her and/or making inappropriate comments in this series (something that rarely happened when she interacted with super-heroes elsewhere).

2. I wish Batman was written more like this in his own books (as a man with a weird sense of humor) instead of as a jerk. And I wish it was highlighted more how different he is with this group (lighthearted like the original Robin) than he is with the "Big 7" JLA. Some personalities bring out the best in him.

3.Also I wish Kevin Maguire was as fast as Bagley. Nobody does facial expressions like him.

4. I miss Sue. She was cool. There was no one in the DCU like her (how many other non-powered spouses of C-List heroes were honorary members of the League - not even Iris or Lois have that honor).

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	no subject jaybee3 2010-04-19 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	All problems would be solved if they just made EVIL Max an inter-dimensional Skrull from the Marvel Universe seeking to infiltrate the DCU now that their invasion of the MU has failed. Actually I can actually see Giffen & DeMatteis use that theory if DC let them (without using the actual word "Skrull"). It would explain everything. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject perletwo 2010-04-19 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	Oh God. Real!Max/Sue Dibny is kinda my 'ship. :D (Reply to this)

	no subject perletwo 2010-04-19 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	Also, because it had to be done: (Reply to this)

	no subject foxhack 2010-04-19 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Or, you know. Evil Max from the alternate dimension in the sequel story... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject foxhack 2010-04-19 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Do you actually want to see Batman grinning? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject thokstar 2010-04-19 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's been posted. But that's actually not Giffen/Dematteis, but rather Ostrander imitating them (in MM 24.) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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