Justice League of America #0...
Jul. 20th, 2006 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shankie...or, another reminder of just how awesome the Big Three are together.
And had art from pretty much every awesome DC artist behind a story that Brad Meltzer makes work in a very surreal way.
It's not a new story. It's the story of the Big Three.
The art shifts? Perfect. Swapping back and forth through history, and using a different style to express the changes in the League.
And the fourth page? Where Bruce & Clark are shaking hands and being all chummy, then Diana walks into the cave, and they both blurt out "I invited her" at the same time? Yes. The win, in fact. The past views are awesome, especially showing Bruce being all proud of that punch he threw Guy Gardner back in the day, with Diana and Clark laughing over a photo of his unconscious body.
We need more human interaction between these guys, and I feel much better now that I've had some. Even if many of the flashbacks were of the sad or angry sort.
Diana comforting Bruce in the cave after Clark's death... wicked touching. (And makes me even more sure I'm writing grieving Bruce right.)
That they peek into the future here is... interesting.
Bruce & Ollie getting married, plus Diana giving up her immortality for love? Bruce being there to support Clark with Diana when Jonathan Kent passes? And even allusions to how Bruce will finally end his career that sound suspiciously Frank Miller-esque... I mean, I know DC does the future all the time, but with their ability to retcon the past drastically at every Crisis, I doubt that these events will ever actually be in the comics.
Bruce will be 36 forever, Diana will always be immortal, Jonathan Kent will outlive dozens of superheroes and be around long after this new incarnation of the JLA finally falls apart, and a new one is built.
But to see Clark telling Diana that Bruce went down fighting, and to see Diana smile at it, to know that's what he would want? Only in an Elseworlds would you get something like that. But it's canon now, and somehow I know that's what she'd do. That, just maybe, that is what he'd want.
This issue may be a little testy for some... but I enjoyed it. I liked how it managed to sum up the relationship between these three perfectly. Sometimes they're at odds, but they're comrades, damn it. Fighting the good fight side by side. Celebrating their victories, mourning their defeats, together.
Thank you, DC. This almost makes up for Infinite Crisis. Almost.
A post of scans from this issue in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
scans_daily
And had art from pretty much every awesome DC artist behind a story that Brad Meltzer makes work in a very surreal way.
It's not a new story. It's the story of the Big Three.
The art shifts? Perfect. Swapping back and forth through history, and using a different style to express the changes in the League.
And the fourth page? Where Bruce & Clark are shaking hands and being all chummy, then Diana walks into the cave, and they both blurt out "I invited her" at the same time? Yes. The win, in fact. The past views are awesome, especially showing Bruce being all proud of that punch he threw Guy Gardner back in the day, with Diana and Clark laughing over a photo of his unconscious body.
We need more human interaction between these guys, and I feel much better now that I've had some. Even if many of the flashbacks were of the sad or angry sort.
Diana comforting Bruce in the cave after Clark's death... wicked touching. (And makes me even more sure I'm writing grieving Bruce right.)
That they peek into the future here is... interesting.
Bruce & Ollie getting married, plus Diana giving up her immortality for love? Bruce being there to support Clark with Diana when Jonathan Kent passes? And even allusions to how Bruce will finally end his career that sound suspiciously Frank Miller-esque... I mean, I know DC does the future all the time, but with their ability to retcon the past drastically at every Crisis, I doubt that these events will ever actually be in the comics.
Bruce will be 36 forever, Diana will always be immortal, Jonathan Kent will outlive dozens of superheroes and be around long after this new incarnation of the JLA finally falls apart, and a new one is built.
But to see Clark telling Diana that Bruce went down fighting, and to see Diana smile at it, to know that's what he would want? Only in an Elseworlds would you get something like that. But it's canon now, and somehow I know that's what she'd do. That, just maybe, that is what he'd want.
This issue may be a little testy for some... but I enjoyed it. I liked how it managed to sum up the relationship between these three perfectly. Sometimes they're at odds, but they're comrades, damn it. Fighting the good fight side by side. Celebrating their victories, mourning their defeats, together.
Thank you, DC. This almost makes up for Infinite Crisis. Almost.
A post of scans from this issue in
scans_daily
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on 2006-07-20 10:54 pm (UTC)Lol, Batman just snatching a book and saying, "I'm gong to borrow this," is funny!
And aww, Bats knows Supes isn't dead!! Just like the cartoon!
Damn, Clark in the second to the last page sounds a lot like the one I've got in my head! Hm, at least I got that aspect of him right.
Sorry for typing up so much. Was bored...
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on 2006-07-20 11:49 pm (UTC)>>Bruce & Ollie getting married
Brain: TO EACH OTHER??? In Star City? Was Lian the flower girl??
>>Bruce & Ollie getting married, plus Diana giving up her immortality for love
Brain: ...Star City is allowing threesome marriages now?? Was Clark feeling left out? Was Lian the flower girl?!?
You see, you're not supposed to write Ollie, Bruce and Diana AND married in the same sentence. You break me.
/goes to see the scans
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on 2006-07-20 11:59 pm (UTC)I refuse to reword it. Especially if I can trigger those kinds of explosions, haha
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on 2006-07-21 12:03 am (UTC)Lian and Helena were the flower girls, of course. Ibn was the ring bearer. Hal was the best man, and Clark the maid of honor. :)
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on 2006-07-21 12:11 am (UTC)Clark: *sob* I always cry at weddings!
Wally: You didn't cry at Donna's
Hal: Or at mine!
Lois: Or at ours!
Clark: ...well, did I give any of you a kryptonite ring, eh? did I?
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on 2006-07-21 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-07-21 12:17 am (UTC)I have to add that I almost squeed on page one, when Bruce said that the League couldn't match what he, Clark, and Dick have. Can everybody say "Dick has two daddies"?