I have to say . . when I picked up this book, I was a little worried about what I was gonna' say . . or how I was going to feel about it. I loved Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham's run here. I thought it was near perfect. So . . as much as I admire Bill Willingham's talent, along with Matthew Sturges and Jesus Merino . . I just didn't see how it had a chance of standing up to what we've come to expect from this book. Boy was I wrong. They start out there run on this book in full throttle. First of all, something is seriously wrong with Obsidian. He's degraded to an egg-like state, and Jay and Michael are both confounded by what to do about it . . let alone what's wrong with him in the first place. Anyways, Wildcat is called out by a d-list villain named Tapeworm. But the Society decides to play it safe anyways and send everyone out to meet him. However, upon arrival, they find out that the whole thing was an ambush. There's a league of villains waiting for them and they all seem to have specific targets as to who they should fight. They've trained and planned for this attack. But, we don't know why yet. We also get 2 new recruits this issue. It seems that Mr America had a teen sidekick during WWII. The original All-American Kid was killed during the war. But when this new kid . . the original All-American Kid's great nephew . . finds out that he could become a legacy hero, he decides to train himself to become Mr America's new sidekick. And his roommate is another new hero . . King, King Chimera. He's very pompous and arrogant, as he comes from royalty, but with his powers he can manipulate light and sound to create illusions. When the rest of the team goes out to face Tapeworm, the new kids stay behind with Mr Terrific. Which may have been a mistake because now Michael doesn't have anyone to watch is back. It appears that there's some mental manipulation going on and someone gains control of the new All-American Kid. He has to 'obey', and is led down into Michael's lab where he stabs him repeatedly. This is the first issue with our new 'talent', and right now we don't know who is going to survive to reach the next one. Overall I thought it was a great issue. Bill and Matthew did a great job with the characters, and I really, really like Jesus' art for this issue. He does his own inks, and it looked really sharp. I started out this issue worried, but it ended in eager anticipation for the next. I can't wait to see where we go from here. And what about Magog?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Justice Society of America #29 - DC
I have to say . . when I picked up this book, I was a little worried about what I was gonna' say . . or how I was going to feel about it. I loved Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham's run here. I thought it was near perfect. So . . as much as I admire Bill Willingham's talent, along with Matthew Sturges and Jesus Merino . . I just didn't see how it had a chance of standing up to what we've come to expect from this book. Boy was I wrong. They start out there run on this book in full throttle. First of all, something is seriously wrong with Obsidian. He's degraded to an egg-like state, and Jay and Michael are both confounded by what to do about it . . let alone what's wrong with him in the first place. Anyways, Wildcat is called out by a d-list villain named Tapeworm. But the Society decides to play it safe anyways and send everyone out to meet him. However, upon arrival, they find out that the whole thing was an ambush. There's a league of villains waiting for them and they all seem to have specific targets as to who they should fight. They've trained and planned for this attack. But, we don't know why yet. We also get 2 new recruits this issue. It seems that Mr America had a teen sidekick during WWII. The original All-American Kid was killed during the war. But when this new kid . . the original All-American Kid's great nephew . . finds out that he could become a legacy hero, he decides to train himself to become Mr America's new sidekick. And his roommate is another new hero . . King, King Chimera. He's very pompous and arrogant, as he comes from royalty, but with his powers he can manipulate light and sound to create illusions. When the rest of the team goes out to face Tapeworm, the new kids stay behind with Mr Terrific. Which may have been a mistake because now Michael doesn't have anyone to watch is back. It appears that there's some mental manipulation going on and someone gains control of the new All-American Kid. He has to 'obey', and is led down into Michael's lab where he stabs him repeatedly. This is the first issue with our new 'talent', and right now we don't know who is going to survive to reach the next one. Overall I thought it was a great issue. Bill and Matthew did a great job with the characters, and I really, really like Jesus' art for this issue. He does his own inks, and it looked really sharp. I started out this issue worried, but it ended in eager anticipation for the next. I can't wait to see where we go from here. And what about Magog?
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They're going to be given the Avengers treatment to the 2 books. Splitting the teams - JSA All Stars and the regular JSA book. Guess which one will get cancelled in 12-18 months. All-Stars obviously. History has pretty much more or less sealed that fate even before DiDio joined DC as editor and Marvel was doing this good in the market.
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