scans_daily: Justice League International #6 And Justice League International #7

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@ 2012-03-08 06:27 pm UTC

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creator: aaron lopresti, creator: dan jurgens, creator: matt ryan, title: justice league international

Justice League International #6 And Justice League International #7

Justice League International #6

Justice League International #7

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shadowpsykie
2012-03-09 04:24 pm UTC (link)

Batgirl seems really fun, as does Birds Of Prey, and the Huntress (sex trafficing aside) was a fun read. and surprising, Teen Titans, despite being on the run from a evil shadow government organization is very funny... though, i suppose you are right, none of these are "pure enjoyment" books, even Huntress has the sex trafficing theme that isn't exactly light...

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icon_uk
2012-03-09 04:27 pm UTC (link)

Not sure I saw that as specific, so much as intentional, since the villain was a sick little bugger IIRC.

Claremont has many such cases, most notably, off the top of my head, Worm of the Savage Land Mutates, who coats his targets in a slime he produces from his hands, which basically leaves the person aware, but their bodies are under Worm's mental control.

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quatoria
2012-03-09 05:23 pm UTC (link)

I wanted to like Batgirl, but as a disabled person, the maudlin retreading of Babs story was just pushing way too many buttons for me. It was literally damaging to good mental health, so that had to be tabled for a while. I will admit, with a cooler temper now, the end of Huntress did look actually fun and amazing - but it's leading in to the super dark and depressing Earth 2 stuff, so that's kind of tainted too.

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shadowpsykie
2012-03-09 05:40 pm UTC (link)

but it's leading in to the super dark and depressing Earth 2 stuff, so that's kind of tainted too.

well technically it's leading into World's Finest, Earth 2 is how they got here. You could technically read Huntress then World's finest and ignore Earth 2 except for what gets posted on here by Aeka (you know she will post anything relating to her :D

i for one will read it, with reservations (hoping it is not as bad as i think it might be)

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	no subject beyondthefringe 2012-03-09 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	Or that characters from JMS' Rising Stars, who had telekinetic control of very very small things. Which was enough for her to become a secret agent and assassin, since she could constrict blood vessels and things like that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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icon_uk
2012-03-09 06:49 pm UTC (link)

Reminds me of Gypsy Moth from Spider-Woman (and later of the Thunderbolts, using the name "Skein"), she was telekinetic, but found that she could only work with materials that felt "soft" (one of the few examples where there was elaboration of some degree of biofeedback from telekinesis) which meant she could work with fabrics and threads... and then (similar to your example) realised she could also pinch blood vessels closed, her rich, elderly husband died of a heart attack shortly thereafter...

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	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-09 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Even if she was shielded from the concussive force of the blast by the General's body, wouldn't the intense heat of being at ground zero of an explosion cause her to "bake" to death anyway? You know what, never mind and see my previous comment about proper hair conditioner. :P (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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atom_punk
2012-03-09 07:46 pm UTC (link)

-shudder- Stuff like that reminds me how fragile human beings really are.

A little air bubble in your veins, a clamped blood vessel, an electrical imbalance in the brain, and -poof- you're worm food.

Babylon 5 actually touched on that I think. Many alien races as well as humans had telepaths (which are highly prized) and a fraction of those telepaths are also telekinetics.

But the problem is that even the most powerful telekinetics can only move, say a penny with their mind. So for ages everyone wants to use drugs or genetic enhancement or cybernetics to increase the raw power of a telekinetic's abilities.

Then someone realizes with the same amount of force used to push a penny, you could seal a vital blood vessel, cause neurons to misfire, and so on and assassinate anyone without leaving any physical evidence.

Scary stuff.

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	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-09 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	Twenty quid on three years. No later. XD (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-03-09 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	A word from our sponsors (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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arbre_rieur
2012-03-09 08:11 pm UTC (link)

I'd also classify OMAC, ACTION COMICS, and FLASH as fun books. And there's the upcoming SUPERMAN FAMILY, along with the rest of DC's kid's line. (No, they're not in continuity, but so what? Nobody should let a non-issue like that get in the way of enjoyable stories.)

Also, I could be off, since I haven't been reading the book, but hasn't JLI itself, up until the most recent issue, been another example of such a book? That's the impression I got from everything I've seen. The book seemed to be about fighting giant robots and banter between the diverse personalities that make up the team. Lots of fans talk about wanting more balance, but when they're the same folks operating under some comic book one-drop rule, where one issue of angst retroactively renders the previous half a year's issues the same, who exactly is the one who has a problem understanding balance?

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atom_punk
2012-03-09 08:17 pm UTC (link)

We're everywhere....

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...for your convenience

Welp. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!

Seriously though. Those commercials scared the business out of me. That and the censored news-caster for ISN that was just a political mouth piece for the dictatorship that took over Earth.

Ancient alien galactic superpowers feuding for control and blowing up planets? YES PLEASE!

It's the human element that struck home, because propaganda is so prevalent as a tool, even (or rather especially) today. I think it really hit me because I'm Korean and I know that this is the kind of brainwashing people in North Korea are constantly subjected to, taught to trust and even worship their leaders.

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	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-09 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Danke! Grew up in the nineties, Saturday morning cartoons and whatnot. Guess it shows :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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leikomgwtfbbq
2012-03-09 08:52 pm UTC (link)

I love that kind of thing, too. Whenever I write about characters with superpowers, I almost never go for cool powers like Superman's or Jean Grey's. It's always something ridiculous, because that's always incredibly fun. My favorites were the dude who sweated a corrosive acid (he was a star escape artist because he could easily get rid of ropes or chains) and the lady who had a "psychic GPS" power (which enabled her to naturally know how to get anywhere she wanted to go--she used it to find lost people and things).

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	no subject lascoden 2012-03-10 12:30 am UTC (link)
	It just zapped his eyes, so I'm thinking more along the lines of him getting his brain scanned and copied, or that that's not the real Gavril. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject crinos 2012-03-10 06:36 am UTC (link)
	And let me guess: Next issue, some threat attacks the very people who forbade them from being a team, and then the JLU swoop in and save them anyways cause that's what heroes do. My God, a SUNSET is less predictable. (Reply to this)

	no subject salad_barbarian 2012-03-10 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	I base this on absolutely nothing but maybe the chairwoman is bluffing? She has no way of actually suing either Booster or any of the others but none of them are knowledgeable enough about how the UN works that they don't know that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-11 12:46 am UTC (link)
	-reads comic- "Hmmm, politicians opposed to superheroes immediately start begging for help when a crisis directly threatens them. Meh. Must be a day ending with Y" :P -looks out window, sees sun setting- "My god! That's new!!!!" D: (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-11 12:49 am UTC (link)
	lol. Possible. -Booster goes home. Goes to wikipedia.- "Hey wait a minute, there's no way the UN can su- Oh that cheating little b#@$%!!!" >:( Then Booster Gold, Rip Hunter, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, and Ambush Bug travel thru time and space to make this reboot non-canon. -sigh- if only (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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halloweenjack
2012-03-11 06:41 pm UTC (link)

There are different levels of stupidity, which may work in context.
There's the Idiot Ball, where one person does something stupid that sets off a chain of events, that can be plausible simply because not everyone's on their A-game every single day. (It also works better in sitcoms--Hank Azaria coined the term when working on Mad About You--because they're less dependent on airtight plotting.)

Then there's the Idiot Plot, which requires everybody, or at least the main characters, to act stupidly. In this case, the UN security team, an organization that really exists and deals with exactly this sort of potential non-super-powered threat every single day, didn't think to double-check for a bomb at the public event of a group that had just had its HQ destroyed by a bomb. Right.

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