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That's horrible....and Scott Kolins art doesn't help matters any....I don't even know why DC is still publishing JSA anyway....it's pretty much been sputtering and floundering since Geoff Johns left the book....
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Absolutely horrible...the Golden Age GL is my favorite character and this...bah! I expect him to start singing about how he needs a heart from the Wizard!
I agree the JSA has been terrible since Johns leeft - the Willingham stuff was cr@p, the Robinson crossover with JLA ridiculous, now the abominable art of scott Kolins. I've collected JSA books forever, but I'm not buying the poorly done All-Stars book, and I think the main title may be headed to the dumper as well. When I decide I need 'em to keep up the numbering, I'm positive I'll find them all in the quarter bins.
looks like Dan Didio's plan to revive every lame-***** storyline from the '80s & 90s might just be getting around to the Death of the JSA event.
Oh, and please kill off the stupid lightning bolt girl.Comment
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Meh... not impressed at all. It looks awkward, and offers nothing new. CTC summed it up well. He doesn't even look like he can turn his head."Steel-like jaws clacked away, each bite slashing flesh from my body - I used my knife and my hands, and when they were gone, my bloody stumps - and yet the turtles came."Comment
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In JLA he was in it because of the Starheart thing. He was back in the old suit in the first issue of the latest JSA arc, when he was beat down and paralyzed. Haven't read past the first issue of the arc.
Almost wish they would just retire the JSA. The book had a nice run under Johns and Goyer, but it's gotten weaker and weaker since Infinite Crisis.
The Superhero city idea just sounds dumb to me. Too many mutants mucked up the X-Men for me. It's kind of the same here.Comment
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The team is too large now IMO and is unmanageable.....I can understand the idea of the "legacy" hero but in the case of the JSA you have characters that have been around since the 40s...retire them and carry on with the younger heroes, keeping the old guard as advisors. It just seems ridiculous to me that guys that should be in their late 80s-early 90s by now are continously kept young through magic or some nonsense. I know this is comic books but it really pushes the envelope for me. I'm as big a fan of the JSA as the next guy but it really does these characters an injustice by keeping them around in this form.Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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Heck, I could even buy the magic mumbojumbo — they don't have to mention the ties to WW II all the time — if the stories were good, but it just seems like DC can't find anyone who can make the series work. I liked Willingham's arc but it really read more like an elseworld story. Non-JSA characters were as essential to the story as the JSA.
Robinson's JSA-JLA team-up wasn't terrible, but it was nothing to get excited about either.
The JSA All-Stars book started off poorly to me so I dropped it.
Honestly, I would like to see either period JSA stories from the 1940s or a JSA book picking up where the stories left off on Earth II prior to Crisis. Not Infinity Inc, but JSA, starring Huntress and Powegirl, Robin and whoever else. It could be done now under the 52 universe umbrella.
Huntress was a far better character as Batman's daughter and Power Girl's always going to be a third-fiddle character on an earth with Superman and Supergirl.
Why bring the multiverse back if they're not going to use it or only let Morrison use it for some long-delayed miniseries that will likely never see the light of day with all the editorial shakeups that are happening.Comment
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Aw, come on! Golden AGE GL is one of my favorite characters. It was bad enough when they made him Sentinel for awhile but this is an abomination. I had planned on dropping JSA with issue #50 as it's just not as good as it was.
Travesty!
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well...that cover may have just sealed my fate with the JSA title....and I LOVE!!! those golden age characters. You knew it was going to come around to DC screwing with tried and true characters. One more title to cancel off of my list for the new year."When not too many people can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears,
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity".
- "Isn't It A Pity"
By George Harrison
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I had to double-check to see if it looked as stupid as I thought the first time....Yup....It does.Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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The costume's bad. No way around it, but maybe under a different artist's pencil and ink it might look better. Never been a big fan of Collins. Muddy, thick lines. Reminds me of Al Milgrom's heavy inks for Marvel back in the 1980s.Comment
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One of the worst makeovers in comics history. Truly a horrendous design.
I know a few people mentioned Kingdom Come, but it was never established that GL in that book was in fact Alan Scott. I always assumed until I noticed at the end in the boardroom he represented New Oa. He's never had any connection to them so maybe it's actually Jordan. Maybe I missed something?
Bottom line, this is a sickening turn with the change of costume.
ScottI almost had a psychic girlfriend but she dumped me before we met.
If anyone here believes in psychokinesis, please raise my hand.Comment
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Alex Ross actually confirmed that Green Lantern in Kingdom Come was in fact Alan Scott.
And as for that abomination of a costume... well, all I can say is, if folks can't even stay dead in the DC Universe, changing clothes will not be an issue. Give it 6 months if that, and he'll be back in his old suit.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From the chin up it looks Batman's cowl with the scalp cut offComment
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