What a fantastic book . . and series. And what an incredible ending. First of all . . Mauro Cascioli returns for some of the art this issue. Unfortunately . . it's only a couple of pages in the front and back of the book. But the pages he did . . look fantastic. Hopefully we'll see him on another book before to long. The rest of the art was filled in by Scott Clark and Ibraim Roberson. It looked pretty good too. I don't want to diminish either of these guy's talent, but . . Mauro's stuff was especially dramatic. He also did the cover so . . he seems to be especially adept at the action scenes. Anyways, James Robinson just turned in an incredible story for this final issue. We ended last issue with Prometheus captured by the Justice League, but . . he threatened that if they didn't let him go that he would start destroying their cities. And just to make sure they took him serious . . he started with Star City . . Green Arrow's stomping ground. And he started 5 minutes before he gave them their warning. Luckily Prometheus' devices don't work exactly as they're supposed to. He wanted to displace the cities in time and space so that it would drive the home-town heroes insane trying to find them . . and the inhabitants. But the technology that he's absconded with . . and Professor IQ helped him put together . . it isn't working exactly as planned. The cities are being destroyed, but it's more like they're being swallowed up than being displaced or transported. And that's not necessarily good news, because there's still massive destruction. A couple things of note are the way that Prometheus used the surroundings, and environment, around each of his devices to work as a fail-safe or a trigger. He also put in safety's against the various powers that the heroes would use to try to turn them off or move them away. Everything the Justice League tries just makes matters worse. Eventually they're left with no other choice than to let Prometheus go so that he'll give them the codes to shut everything down. Even though they stop the destruction . . there's still an awful lot of property and lives that have been lost. Including . . to add insult to injury . . not only did Prometheus maim Roy by taking his arm . . he also inadvertantly killed Lian, his daughter, in the initial wave. Despite this . . Ollie does hold it together for most of this issue. He's instrumental in getting everybody focused on saving the survivors, and keeping everybody motivated. But apparently he was just biding his time. At the end of the issue, Prometheus is in his inter-dimensional hideout, bantering with a lobotomized Professor IQ, when . . Ollie shows up unexpectedly and shoots Prometheus right in the head with an arrow. This story will lead right into the big storyline for Ollie and company . . the Rise and Fall of Green Arrow. I have a feeling that this is going to be a hell of a story. I thought James was especially good with this story at drawing out the emotion. You can really feel the frustration in all of these characters, but . . especially with Ollie. And you can just see that even though he's being the voice of reason . . he's torn up and conflicted under the surface on how to get 'Justice'. But in the end . . he does. Or has he just made matters worse? I can't wait to read next weeks Rise and Fall Special to see how the story proceeds from here. This was a fantastic series. If you get a chance pick up the TPB and read it through. You won't be disappointed.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Justice League - Cry for Justice #7 - DC
What a fantastic book . . and series. And what an incredible ending. First of all . . Mauro Cascioli returns for some of the art this issue. Unfortunately . . it's only a couple of pages in the front and back of the book. But the pages he did . . look fantastic. Hopefully we'll see him on another book before to long. The rest of the art was filled in by Scott Clark and Ibraim Roberson. It looked pretty good too. I don't want to diminish either of these guy's talent, but . . Mauro's stuff was especially dramatic. He also did the cover so . . he seems to be especially adept at the action scenes. Anyways, James Robinson just turned in an incredible story for this final issue. We ended last issue with Prometheus captured by the Justice League, but . . he threatened that if they didn't let him go that he would start destroying their cities. And just to make sure they took him serious . . he started with Star City . . Green Arrow's stomping ground. And he started 5 minutes before he gave them their warning. Luckily Prometheus' devices don't work exactly as they're supposed to. He wanted to displace the cities in time and space so that it would drive the home-town heroes insane trying to find them . . and the inhabitants. But the technology that he's absconded with . . and Professor IQ helped him put together . . it isn't working exactly as planned. The cities are being destroyed, but it's more like they're being swallowed up than being displaced or transported. And that's not necessarily good news, because there's still massive destruction. A couple things of note are the way that Prometheus used the surroundings, and environment, around each of his devices to work as a fail-safe or a trigger. He also put in safety's against the various powers that the heroes would use to try to turn them off or move them away. Everything the Justice League tries just makes matters worse. Eventually they're left with no other choice than to let Prometheus go so that he'll give them the codes to shut everything down. Even though they stop the destruction . . there's still an awful lot of property and lives that have been lost. Including . . to add insult to injury . . not only did Prometheus maim Roy by taking his arm . . he also inadvertantly killed Lian, his daughter, in the initial wave. Despite this . . Ollie does hold it together for most of this issue. He's instrumental in getting everybody focused on saving the survivors, and keeping everybody motivated. But apparently he was just biding his time. At the end of the issue, Prometheus is in his inter-dimensional hideout, bantering with a lobotomized Professor IQ, when . . Ollie shows up unexpectedly and shoots Prometheus right in the head with an arrow. This story will lead right into the big storyline for Ollie and company . . the Rise and Fall of Green Arrow. I have a feeling that this is going to be a hell of a story. I thought James was especially good with this story at drawing out the emotion. You can really feel the frustration in all of these characters, but . . especially with Ollie. And you can just see that even though he's being the voice of reason . . he's torn up and conflicted under the surface on how to get 'Justice'. But in the end . . he does. Or has he just made matters worse? I can't wait to read next weeks Rise and Fall Special to see how the story proceeds from here. This was a fantastic series. If you get a chance pick up the TPB and read it through. You won't be disappointed.
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