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Post by starfoxxx on Feb 1, 2009 16:06:56 GMT -5
This is the only DC title on my pull-list, but if #29 is indicative of the future issues, it won't be for long.
WTF? happened. This book has been consistently entertaining, not the greatest, but consistently OK.
This issue was Horrible, and the art was worse. I hope this was just a lame fill-in issue.
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Post by Doctor Doom on Feb 1, 2009 16:31:40 GMT -5
Dropped it around 21. After 12 issues of Meltzer rubbish and then 9 issues of McDuffie being forced to tie into every other story in the DCU, and with no signs of the latter ending, I just couldn't stick it.
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Post by goldenfist on Feb 3, 2009 17:56:51 GMT -5
The big three of the team are leaving so there's going to be anot
her change for the JLA.
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Post by freedomfighter on Feb 5, 2009 0:49:51 GMT -5
Dropped it around 21. After 12 issues of Meltzer rubbish and then 9 issues of McDuffie being forced to tie into every other story in the DCU, and with no signs of the latter ending, I just couldn't stick it. haha! Doom old boy, I agree about meltzer. Wholly overrated. However to complain about McDuffie being forced to do tie-ins when virtually every issue of Avengers lately has been nothing but tie-ins and didn't feature the Avengers as a team does seem a bit unfair. Or have you been slamming the Mighty and New books with their overt tie-ins to events? And ugh, did you read Final Crisis 7? there may be a new worst book I've read in years... And as a late add-on edit, I'm not the only one who didn't like FC #7 www.craveonline.com/articles/comics/04652880/final_crisis_7.html |
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Post by Doctor Doom on Feb 5, 2009 7:23:57 GMT -5
haha! Doom old boy, I agree about meltzer. Wholly overrated. However to complain about McDuffie being forced to do tie-ins when virtually every issue of Avengers lately has been nothing but tie-ins and didn't feature the Avengers as a team does seem a bit unfair. Or have you been slamming the Mighty and New books with their overt tie-ins to events? Big difference there though. The Avengers books were written by the author of the crossover, always planned to be part of the crossover, and the crossover was a big part of the overall Avengers direction. The crossover is a natural part of the ongoing story. With JLA, on the other hand, the writer is unable to tell any ongoing story because he's being forced to tie into OTHER people's stories non-stop, which are far from natural. I'm in the tiny, tiny minority in that Final Crisis is my favourite comic series of the last few years.  It was confusingly promoted, and I understand why lots of people found it an incoherent mess, but I adored it. Though in this case, I can absolutely see why lots of people hated it. |
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Post by freedomfighter on Feb 5, 2009 10:20:10 GMT -5
haha! Doom old boy, I agree about meltzer. Wholly overrated. However to complain about McDuffie being forced to do tie-ins when virtually every issue of Avengers lately has been nothing but tie-ins and didn't feature the Avengers as a team does seem a bit unfair. Or have you been slamming the Mighty and New books with their overt tie-ins to events? Big difference there though. The Avengers books were written by the author of the crossover, always planned to be part of the crossover, and the crossover was a big part of the overall Avengers direction. The crossover is a natural part of the ongoing story. With JLA, on the other hand, the writer is unable to tell any ongoing story because he's being forced to tie into OTHER people's stories non-stop, which are far from natural. I'm in the tiny, tiny minority in that Final Crisis is my favourite comic series of the last few years. It was confusingly promoted, and I understand why lots of people found it an incoherent mess, but I adored it. Though in this case, I can absolutely see why lots of people hated it. Bendis didn't author Civil War, yet NA was a big part of the crossovers. Plus McDuffie was just playing along which happens to a lot of titles in the MU too. I thought he managed to do some good character stuff and tell a decent story from time to time. In this era of giant crossovers titles get swept up in the tide on both sides of the spectrum. As to FC, I don't mind ambition and I know Morrison was trying to tell a mythic story that used bigger themes, in his meta "We are the teller of stories" fashion, but he so arrogantly defies basic storytelling and commits cardinal sins (the villains of the piece aren't even really in FC, but in a crossover book), creating a mystery around the identity of Libra (which was... he was Libra), killing Martian Manhunter off panel, bringing back Aquaman in one panel, bringing back Barry Allen in a story that didn't really need him...aargh! There was no emotion, little interaction and too many themes that Morrison used in his JLA run. I find emotion, pacing, humor, adventure are essential in an epic of this nature and I look for them. If someone wants to break the rules, they'd better do an awesome job and even many defenders of the book tend to say Morrison didn't do that. |
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Post by goldenfist on Feb 5, 2009 11:51:28 GMT -5
The reason why Barry is back is because the Barry Allen fans wan
ted him come back ever since Barry died in Crisis on Infinite Earth
s.
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Post by Tana Nile on Feb 11, 2009 12:06:23 GMT -5
I've been buying JLA but have just taken it off my pull list - something I should have done many issues before. It has just been a boring mess. What really ticked me off was the last issue, which had nothing to do with the issue prior to it and interrupted the Milestone crossover. And now I hear it will be rebooted soon. I couldn't care less.
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Post by goldenfist on Feb 13, 2009 15:54:12 GMT -5
I think they will be making a new team that Hal Jordan will lead.
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