Reviews
Great stuff. Such a good start. From now on anyone who wants to start reading JLA this is what I'm going to recommend if they ask me. THAT good. Read so nice, the whole volume, so fast.. didn't even realise it was ending towards the end. Great artwork too, of course. Amazing Jim Lee! Justice League Origin. That's what's happening here. There's a threat. The team is slowly assembling throughout the volume, there's lots of action, great moments, funny moments and the whole thing is just a well-written story. It feels good being satisfied by this, since the first 2 volumes of the New52 Superman I read was a complete disaster. The ONLY negative here is Wonder Woman, they didn't do her Justice (get it? SHUTUP it was GOOD). Like, nope, this wasn't WW at ALL. But, other than that, it was really good. I hope the series continue that way. Definitely recommend it!
Justice League: Origin is a delightful package of everything wrong with the new52 reboot. In this case, the writing is passable, but it feels utterly unconnected to the other comics in the DC universe. In this volume, it is some undetermined time after all the superheroes decided to do their thing (which is around five years according to editorial) and all our favourite characters are meeting each other for the first time as they investigate a mysterious alien object. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The Green Lantern even comments that he didn't believe The Batman was real. I guess newspapers don't exist in this world except for the one Superman works at... So somehow these superheroes are still relatively unknown (except by the military and science labs), and have never crossed paths before. Okay, I'll accept the hand-waved logic. Not acceptable, however, is the fact that the heroes are substantially off compared to their own books. Wonder Woman is the worst example. I have been harsh on the main Wonder Woman title, but I appreciated that the WW of that book was worldly and far from naive. WW in the Justice League, however, has gone back to the whole "new to man's world!" stitck, and has far too much love for punching things and her sword. She's far from a diplomat and completely different in personality from her main title. Green Lantern is seemingly a Lantern again despite being depowered in his own book, Batman reveals his identity when one of his teammates has a bit of sad, and Superman is a punch the humans first type of hero. Thus, while the dialogue in this book was quite funny (though I will point out that not everyone can be an egotistical a-hole, so I hope that changes), I am baffled as to how it fits in with the DC universe. What version of the character is the right version, and how does this even fit into the canon that's been set? Does DC care or are we going to stick with punching things forever? Most likely punching!
Talk about getting tossed into the deep end. Is Hal always such an asshole? I’ve been considering reading the Green Lantern books but...
