JLA - The Tenth Circle
May. 13th, 2009 05:46 pmI have this list of stuff I'd put on scans_daily over the years (well, the two years) and some of it really is just awesome or terrible enough that it really needs to see the light of day. This is one of those stories.
JLA #94 - #99. In which the Justice League fights vampires.
It's very pretty, see, and because it's the same writer/artist team as the stories that got me into DC in the first place, you'd think I'd love it. Well, I don't. I do, but in that "so bad it's hilarious" sense of things. Flash spends half the time being a table ornament for Batman, Superman spends nearly all the book as the mindless slave of this really creepy-in-a-pedo-way vampire Crucifer getting felt up, and Wonder Woman just gets beaten on. I'll never deny that Byrne stories have an issue with women... as you'll see if you venture further.
( I'm sorry, what? )
Batman's jokes: either you almost miss them, or they make everyone in the room look absolutely horrified. Except John, apparently. Heh.
Seriously, though, the Bat-smirk was the best possible way to end this travesty of nonsense and thinly-to-thickly veiled sexual innuendo. It's very, very hard not to read through this thing and start seeing it on pretty much every page in one form or another... or maybe it's just me. But I'm pretty sure it's not. For the most part.
JLA #94 - #99. In which the Justice League fights vampires.
It's very pretty, see, and because it's the same writer/artist team as the stories that got me into DC in the first place, you'd think I'd love it. Well, I don't. I do, but in that "so bad it's hilarious" sense of things. Flash spends half the time being a table ornament for Batman, Superman spends nearly all the book as the mindless slave of this really creepy-in-a-pedo-way vampire Crucifer getting felt up, and Wonder Woman just gets beaten on. I'll never deny that Byrne stories have an issue with women... as you'll see if you venture further.
( I'm sorry, what? )
Batman's jokes: either you almost miss them, or they make everyone in the room look absolutely horrified. Except John, apparently. Heh.
Seriously, though, the Bat-smirk was the best possible way to end this travesty of nonsense and thinly-to-thickly veiled sexual innuendo. It's very, very hard not to read through this thing and start seeing it on pretty much every page in one form or another... or maybe it's just me. But I'm pretty sure it's not. For the most part.
