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Comic of the Week: Justice League #41

January 31, 2010

What the hell was that?

The line-up changes how often these days? Once in two months? And this month’s issue of Justice League feels just as useless as the last few issues. I saw so many things I didn’t like about it, and it could quite possibly be the worst issue of JL I’ve read in a while and the last storyarc was a huge shitfest.

Written by James Robinson
Brought to life by Mark Bagley (pencils), Rob Hunter, Marlo Alquiza, Walden Wong (inks) and Pete Pantazis (colors)

This entire issue just felt like it was a step back into the 90’s, and not the good shit of the 90’s, too. The really bad, dark and seedy parts of the 90’s - the parts where guys from 4chan come from, the parts where “Totally Radical!” was the catchphrase of the cool.

It was so 90’s that it introduced this guy through the most 90’s way possible:

The dialogue was rushed and unnatural, like it was played out to be a super powered soap opera in colorful tights. The plot seemed to be too contrived, too. “Oh hey, guys. We fucked up really bad with Prometheus and Star City. Wanna join the NEW Justice League? Awesome.”

The art is very 90’s, too, although I understand that it’s Bagley’s style, which is fine. I just found myself getting turned off from the entire issue because of the way it was written and the art complimented it, but not in a good way. It was like I travelled through some time machine and suddenly, it was 1994. Totally radical.

To call it a Saturday morning cartoon would be an insult to Saturday morning cartoons. Each hero was shown taking down some random super villain, like the way the DC Universe is under attack by some badly dressed bad guy every fucking week. And it just so happened that the recruiters, armed with their inspirational speeches, found the heroes right after fighting bad guys.

I was supposed to do Avengers #61 as the Comic of the Week, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. A good team book would give enough time to develop relationships between characters, to flesh them out and establish the dynamic. A good team book plays off the strengths of the characters involved. A good book wouldn’t read like a script for some kiddie show.

Justice League #41 gets one DCU Classics Superman out of 5. I thought of giving it .5 but I kinda thought Bagley’s art was cool.

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Fucking Robinson!

Posted by RJ at February 1, 2010, 1:10 am

yeah… jla seems to get suckier and suckier… by the issue…

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