JLA: The Nail #2

[history79]

16 pages of 48

Comments

[locuatico]

I love that the Kents jump at the call when they are needed. In this universe, they never raised superman, they never got involved in the superhero community, they were just a regular couple with nothing at stake with the whole "metahuman witch hunt"... and they STILL decided to go and rescue heroes.

[lordultimus]

I'm with Ra's, that was a cool takedown of Amazo.

[razsolo]

I love how all of the JLA get a chance to shine in this series like Barry with his Amazo takedown...this was an awesome story :D

[janegray]

Aww, come on Diana, you were the Goddess of Truth in mainstream continuity, don't just jump to the comclusion that Batman was a criminal :(

Btw, is Bats really dead?

[obsidianwolf]

No he isn't IIRC shortly after the Alfred staring at the screen in shock page is the page where he gets back reduced to a virtually catatonic state. He got himself and Catwoman out of there on auto-pilot.

[janegray]

I'm glad. Thanks for the info.

[lordultimus]

Technically speaking, murdering a man (serial killer or otherwise) in front of a huge crowd makes him a criminal in the sense that the police more or less have to take him in for questioning at the very least.

[junipepper]

Technically speaking, that would make him a suspect. Innocent until proven guilty always applies, so no matter who witnessed the events in question, no one's a criminal until a court actually issues a conviction.
/didactism

:-)

[shadur]

May I just say I love how badass Lex is being here?

Think on it. He's likely been Starro's chief puppet for *decades* now, and he *still* manages to snag enough freedom to attempt to drop a clue in front of one of the world's best investigative reporters.

I'm pretty sure the sudden aneurysm is how Starro simultaneously shuts him down and punishes him for the attempt, but still, pretty hardcore.

[bruinsfan]

Starro?

[glprime]

Starro the Conqueror, the multi-limbed "thing" attacking J'onn at the end there.

[bruinsfan]

I know who Starro is, but he does not appear in The Nail. That silhouette was a misdirect.

[matrix_dragon]

So, I used to have part of this series somewhere. Sadly, I seem to have lost it in a move. So, I swung by Comixology and grabbed digital copies of the whole series. Man, what a good, fun comic it is.

[wizardru]

Okay, I stopped reading these scans when I realized I should read the whole thing. Off to Comixology for me!

[laughing_tree]

Hah. What point was the tipping one?

[tcampbell1000]

It's amazing how much typical "What If"/"Elseworlds" stories get wrong that this one gets right, but mostly it's how much characters get to be awesome here, rather than just falling like flies.

[bradygirl_12]

The Kents--AWESOME!!! They are the the foster parents for superheroes no matter when! :)

This whole world is creepy with authoritarian overtones. Scary, too, how easily the media can be manipulated.

I'm not surprised Bruce is catatonic. What he witnessed should traumatize him as badly as the night his parents were killed.

Love Lana as a deeply undercover rebel. Lois is not ready to take everything at face value. C'mon, Lois, you're the world's best reporter!

Poor J'onn.

Is Clark somewhere in this facility under quadruple lock-and-key?

[locuatico]

I'm going to give you a clue, we DID get to see the people who took Clark in this issue.

[bradygirl_12]

Awesome! I was curious what happened to him in this Elseworld.