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How To Put The Whole Team In The Book
Sep. 2nd, 2011 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aaron_bourqueNote to self, Batman, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's new Justice League of America #1 was just . . . not very good.
Here's a good intro to the JLA: from JLA Secret Files & Origins #1, Star Seed!
( 7 pages out of a 21 page story )
This wasn't actually the first appearance of this iteration of the Justice League, it had shown up first a year before in Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare as well as the JLA monthly title by Morrison and Porter. But this was an excellent jumping on point for readers. It introduces the whole league, pits them against a world- and even universe-spanning threat, dire straits, epic stakes, break-neck pace . . . everyone (except Aquaman, sorry) has at least something to do, even if it's only contributing an idea (yeah, okay, Batman steals the show, but hey, it's Batman! I'm totally fine with that.) And all in 21 pages! No decompression! The whole league pretty much working together, plus special guest star the Spectre!
Note to self, Geoff Johns, that's how you do a good team book introduction.
Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; no, I'm not gonna let that little grammar slip-up go, not without a fight.
Here's a good intro to the JLA: from JLA Secret Files & Origins #1, Star Seed!
( 7 pages out of a 21 page story )
This wasn't actually the first appearance of this iteration of the Justice League, it had shown up first a year before in Justice League: A Midsummer's Nightmare as well as the JLA monthly title by Morrison and Porter. But this was an excellent jumping on point for readers. It introduces the whole league, pits them against a world- and even universe-spanning threat, dire straits, epic stakes, break-neck pace . . . everyone (except Aquaman, sorry) has at least something to do, even if it's only contributing an idea (yeah, okay, Batman steals the show, but hey, it's Batman! I'm totally fine with that.) And all in 21 pages! No decompression! The whole league pretty much working together, plus special guest star the Spectre!
Note to self, Geoff Johns, that's how you do a good team book introduction.
Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; no, I'm not gonna let that little grammar slip-up go, not without a fight.
Tags:
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: green lantern/kyle rayner,
- char: kid flash/flash/wally west,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: spectre,
- char: starror the conqueror,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- creator: grant morrison,
- creator: howard porter
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