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Aug. 14th, 2024

"You get these mind-ballads that are just, like, 200 panel pages with these different cosmic ideas on them. So I love that. I feel like a lot of what I do is trying to recreate the energy of the '70's at Marvel, where you've got a bunch of people who are exploring their own private trip and writing their own stuff out on the page, with the necessity of telling superhero stories almost as a secondary thing. I feel like most of what I've done for Marvel has been at least attempting to follow in that tradition. Because if you're writing about something, and it's not personal to you, then I don't really know how to make it interesting."
-- Al Ewing

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Geoff Johns' final story arc involves Black Adam (but of course), then there's something of a fill-in arc by Jerry Ordway. The Black Adam stuff... eh, it's fine. It's following up on 52, and of course one of the problems with 52 is that if you're just going a read-through of, say, Renee Montoya, then it's a bit of a time-sink to have her involved in a 52 issue anthology sorta series. Adam's also been in Countdown, Final Crisis, multiple minis... at this point, I have to ask, is he really that popular or was DC just trying again and again to have symmetry with the Rock movie that was in development hell forever?

Okay, point is (thanks Wikipedia), Adam has loved and lost and is desperate to resurrect Isis. He's also killed millions of people at this point, which makes the odd kid gloves treatment he receives for having a code of honor or whatevs seem ridiculous. Yeah, Captain Nazi is a prick and all, but even he hasn't killed a percentage point of the global population.

Anyway, Adam is dealt with and the status quo of the Rock of Eternity changes yet again. Then Ordway's story, which is about a Japanese supervillain who wants to get revenge on the JSA for the bombing of Hiroshima, complete with g-g-g-g-ghosts! Yeah. It all feels a bit overwritten and wordy, clunky in a way that, say, I don't recall Ordway's work on Shazam being. Like the editors didn't bother too much getting it up to snuff because it was a nostalgia play. I don't know, it didn't work for me, it didn't not work for me, it was kinda just there.

Lastly, here's Johns' final issue, which eschews any superhero plotting to just be about the Society celebrating Courtney's birthday.

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