JSA Classified #28 - DC

I liked this book. But . . . I had a hard time with it because it seemed more like a Justice League Unlimited story. You know . . . from the Johnny DC line. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But . . . I expect better stories from this title. The Steve Yu art was pretty cool. And it's nice to see his take on these characters. Though, all we really saw was Green Lantern and Stargirl. Well . . . Jakeem Williams also. He's the one that this story was about. I mean . . . it was interesting. It's just . . . it was predictable. Jakeem is wondering why Johnny Thunder can't do more to help the people of the world. He sees a tenement building burn down. Witness' all the people that are homeless because of it. And starts to ask himself, "Why couldn't I make them a new building?" Green Lantern tries to give him some advice about the use of power and the responsibility that it entails. But, since he's an adult and Jakeem is a teenager . . . he thinks he knows better. So he decides he going to start granting wishes. He figures he can help more people out this way. But essentially . . . people are greedy. He starts doing big wishes, but it's not long before people are asking him for trivial stuff. And then they start getting mad when he won't, or can't do it. Like I said, basically you knew what was going to happen. He has a heart to heart with Allen, and even though he doesn't agree with it, in fact he thinks it's pretty unfair, he still understands the point that Allen was trying to get across to him. " . . . it's about balance. Magic used against magic becomes it's own natural balance . . . but when used on physical reality, it could affect the delicate balance regulating the new laws of magic." Basically, for someone to get something, someone has to lose something. ". . . just to balance some big cosmic scales? That's not fair!" So he doesn't agree with it, but he does see the wisdom in it. I don't know. Pretty basic story. At least maybe we could've had some more interaction between Jakeem and Courtney or something. Basically . . I just thought it was pretty dry.