Mr. Miracle's funeral, Justice League America #40

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

I had a request in an earlier JLI post I did for a page of Superman and Batman talking after Mr. Miracle's funeral. Naturally, I can't just do the one page, because the whole funeral is so awesome. Six pages of a 22-page comic, plus preview (plus a few non-comic images), not my scans.

So yeah, starts out with big fight with Despero, which J'onn ends...

Never let it be said that the JLI doesn't know how to behave itself at a funeral...





The requested post-funeral page, and its aftermath...





The issue ends with Orion visiting Scott's grave, and musing that he'll have to look up this Justice League. :-)

BTW, this seems as good a post as any to throw this out there. It didn't strike me back in the 80s because I hadn't seen the movie, but now that I've got both the first JLI trade and the Omen series box set, I'm wondering if deMatteis modeled his Max Lord on Sam Neill as the adult Damien Thorn? Check it out:

What say you, s_d? Do we have a match?

Comments

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't - check out this partial page from issue 2 of the Giffen/deMatteis run, then called justice league of america:

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Well, I won't deny the fact that his design is VERY inspired by Sam Neill, as posted here. I never noticed this until it was pointed out. :)

Edit:
In fact, going back and imagining Max as Sam Neill during his heel turn before the recent Crisis... makes him a teensy bit more badass. Sam Neill can act like a bastard if he wants to.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

He really can - around the same time I got the Omen box set, I got a copy off eBay of a weird little movie called Possession (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082933/) he was in with Isabelle Adjani in which he goes homicidally mad, made the same year as Omen 3 - it was a good year for Sam Neill bastardly roles, I guess!

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

I always thought it was at least supposed to be Neill, and I'd guessed Damien. So good I'm not the only one to have thought that.

[thebat_man.insanejournal.com]

Sam Neill is definitely a dead ringer for Max. I didn't realize that. Great find.