Justice League #8: Remember Last Time When We Let Somebody Join Our Team?

[superfangirl1]

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[eyz]

I miss a "fun" League.
Be it the BWAHAHAHA-one or the Morrison one (with guys like Steel, Huntress, Plastic Man or that angel guy on board...)

[q99]

I even liked the Dick/Donna/Congorilla/Starman league.

[eyz]

Yeah, same here!
As bad as the origin of that League was *cough*CryForJustice*cough*, it was at least an original roster with fun interactions.

[q99]

Exactly!

I've heard some people say it's a bit bland (and, granted, their first big arc was half-JLA story), but hey, I like the characters, and they're genuinely heroic. I'm in the middle of catching up with them now.

[arbre_rieur]

Ironically, Johns mentioned in interviews that he's going for a tone in-between those very two versions of the League: The Bwahaha era and the Morrison era.

[eyz]

Well, it doesn't feel like that. At all.

This much grittiness, fighting around, pointless Darkseid arc...feels more like what Rob Liefeld would come up than any thing...

[filthysize]

To be fair, I think it shows that he did try, by making Hal an idiot who babbles quips around Batman, and moments like Hal and Barry acting Booster/Beetle by drooling over Wonder Woman, etc.

But yeah, pretty much missing the mark. Instead of being funny and lovable, he made them sound like frat bros.

[eyz]

Yeah, that's the problem here!
It's a book featuring Frat Boys...

[majingojira]

The only times I really laughed/chuckled were when Hal was holding the Lasso of Truth.

[riddler13]

Not much Bwahaha there. Just a lot of Boohoho.

[darkknightjrk]

This might get me into trouble, but...I'm actually liking this JL more than the later Bwa-ha-ha Era.

[eyz]

Reaaaaaally??
....but...
Where's The Fun In That?

[darkknightjrk]

I always thought that era's best time was the first year or two, where it had a good balance of comedy and quality adventure. After a while, it diverged so far into comedy and devolved into such stock parodies of themselves that it just annoyed the shit out of me.

[eyz]

You're one of the serious ones, aren't you??

Since all late 80s-early 90s big teams books were all serious and gritty 'n' stuff, I say it was a nice change of pace.

[icon_uk]

I NEVER liked the Bwa-ha-ha era...

[shadowpsykie]

me either... but i did like the one just after that... the Doomsday era?

[darkknightjrk]

From what I read, the first year or so of it was decent enough--they had the melding of humor and adventure down pat. The problem came when they veered more into comedy than adventure. I like comedy as much as the next guy, but...that's not what I read Justice League for.