Originally Published December 23, 2011
DC Comics recently relaunched their entire series, giving curious but uninitiated nerds a convenient entry point. Fellow blogger Patrick Ehlers and I are two such nerds, and we’ve decided to jump in with a handful of monthly titles. We really wanted to pull out all the nerd stops, so we’re also going to be writing about them here and on Patrick’s Blog (which you should all be reading anyway) every Friday. This week, I’m hosting the discussion of Justice League, while Patrick is hosting the discussion of Batman.
Drew: When we wrote about Justice League last month, my main point was that, while I saw a lot of potential for the title, I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I would like. This month’s issue reaches the tipping point, delivering just enough on that potential to get me genuinely excited for next month’s issue. For me, his kind of delayed satisfaction has become the defining characteristic of Geoff Johns’ titles — I’m perpetually convinced the next issue is going to be awesome. I mean part of that in a good way: Johns is pretty masterful with a good cliffhanger (though he seems to be relying pretty heavily on introducing a new character right at the end of an issue); and partly in a bad way: sometimes his stories seem to spin their wheels just so he can save the action for the next issue. In a way, waiting until the end of issue four to introduce Darkseid builds up his entrance, but in another way (like, in the way that acknowledges the existence of dramatic irony), the fact that Darkseid’s involvement was made clear in the first issue robs his arrival of any actual impact. Continue reading →
Today, Patrick and (guest writer) Zach Kastner are discussing Justice League 10, originally released June 27th, 2012.
Patrick: Sometimes when I’m working on a project under deadline, I find myself pissing away precious minutes wasting time. Usually on the internet – that damn internet! And sometimes that time wastery yields something interesting: I get ideas for unrelated projects or I catch up with an old friend or I learn something. So it’s hard to classify that time as “wasted,” but it certainly makes it harder to cram in all the work it takes to finish that project in time. Naturally, the project suffers as a result. That’s kind of how a feel about Justice League 10.
Retcon Punch 