This Comic is Good - Justice League: A New Beginning
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear that Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire are teaming up to do a mini-series (and if this does well, an ongoing!) about the Defenders.
I lurv these guys.
So much so that the classic trade that I am recommending today is Justice League: A New Beginning, by the same creative team.
This trade, collecting the first 7 issues of the Justice League comic book (before it was retitled Justice League International) is just an excellent blend of humor and action.
Yes, Captain Marvel is probably portrayed as being a bit too dumb.
Yes, Blue Beetle's maturity level is lowered a bit (and the guy had had a DC Comic for, like, a year at this point).
But everything else is note perfect.
The art, by newcomer Maguire, was excellent.
The plots from Giffen were inspired, and the dialogue from DeMatteis was miles and miles better than anything DeMatteis had ever done in the past.
Forgetting the fact that this particular approach to a major superhero team really had never been attempted before, these issues are just plain good reads.
Highly recommended.
I lurv these guys.
So much so that the classic trade that I am recommending today is Justice League: A New Beginning, by the same creative team.
This trade, collecting the first 7 issues of the Justice League comic book (before it was retitled Justice League International) is just an excellent blend of humor and action.
Yes, Captain Marvel is probably portrayed as being a bit too dumb.
Yes, Blue Beetle's maturity level is lowered a bit (and the guy had had a DC Comic for, like, a year at this point).
But everything else is note perfect.
The art, by newcomer Maguire, was excellent.
The plots from Giffen were inspired, and the dialogue from DeMatteis was miles and miles better than anything DeMatteis had ever done in the past.
Forgetting the fact that this particular approach to a major superhero team really had never been attempted before, these issues are just plain good reads.
Highly recommended.
posted by Brian Cronin at 12/28/2004 11:23:00 PM
5 Comments:
I would recommend you to then try the NEXT trade, in order, Justice League International: The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord...but it is long out of print, and you'd probably be able to find the actual issues for the same price as the trade.
I read this trade when it was reprinted and I must say...I agree. Lots of fun. It still stands up as funny (for the most part) after all these years and that's impressive.
Yeah, this was pretty amazing stuff, mistreatment of Cap or no. The thing that the original run had that "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" didn't have was a balance of drama and humor. In an ongoing, it was much easier to have both. In a mini, you kind of have to pick a tone and run with it.
Yeah, Eliot, I should have mentioned that in the review (in fact, I have half a mind to go back and edit it in), but that is one of the more impressive things about the run, I think, is that the humor holds up...which is often rare.
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