Get Fury #3

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A Year In The JSA: 2007 (issues 1-4)

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A reboot of the team post-Infinite Crisis, Justice Society of America has Geoff Johns still on as writer, but a new line-up after One Year Later. The first story arc left me a little cold. It's mostly a jumping-on point kinda storyline, getting the band back together and introducing the new kids that we'll be following on this incarnation of the team. The actual plot is... there are Nazis and they're killing people and the superheroes have to stop them. It's kinda thin. Might just be me, but when the villain with the most characterization is Captain Nazi and that's just because he's shown up in other comics that give him character development... Otherwise, they're just here to back Vandal Savage's play and commit awful atrocities against women and children, which of course they greatly enjoy because they're such bad people.

It makes for a bit of a tonal clash when you're introducing a bunch of fun new characters who are 'joining the family.'

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West Coast Avengers (1984) #1

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As part of his plot to take over the world, the Vision sends Hawkeye to California to establish a new branch of the Avengers.

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Batman '89: Echoes #3

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X-Force #9

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled dose of 90’s nonsense.

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Uncanny X-Men #165

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Paul Smith takes over art duties just in time for Storm to have a funny turn.

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A Year In The JSA: 2007 (issues 5-6)

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This is The Lightning Saga, a crossover with Brad Meltzer's Justice League that also involves the Legion of Superheroes. (Not the then-current reboot by Mark Waid, but rather the 'classic' version)

I found it... a bunch of sound and fury, signifying very little. There's a lot going on. Three separate superteams, time travel, amnesia, resurrection, sparring, random encounters, random encounters that are really illusions, and callbacks callbacks CALLBACKS!

But at the end of the day, it struck me as borderline incoherent, leaving me having a hard time being able to say what happened, what the characters were trying to accomplish, what was getting in their way, why they were trying to accomplish it in the way they went about it...

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