JUSTICE LEAGUE #23

Review by: ghostmann

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Story by Geoff Johns
Art by Ivan Reis & Joe Prado
Cover by Doug Mahnke, Mikel Janin, & Doug Mahnke

Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99

Hi boys and girls its time once again for “Read Along with Ghostmann!”

This weeks episode: Justice League #23 -“Three, it’s the magic number!”

PAGE 1: It all started five years ago – actually it all started 2 years ago with Justice League #1 and the launch of the New 52. This page sure does bring back fond memories of simpler times doesn’t it? Back when Heroes were hunted, Green Lantern referred to himself in the 3rd person, and Woman Woman just wanted to fight and eat ice cream. Good times.

PAGE 2 and 3: You know whats funny, these two pages are are better then the all of the previous 5 parts of the Trinity War. Damn, couldn’t they have just ditched the war and made 5 kick ass comics with no “EVENT TITLE”? Just have them be regular old issues that seemed to have something “bigger” going on underneath? Oh no, Geoff Johns won’t stand for that. You gotta have massive epics and tie-ins and other bullshit that just raises everyone’s expectations of the comic and then when you don’t deliver on the HUGE promise of WARS and whatnot people say, “Yeah, this Trinity War is kind of a let down”.

Just imagine if there was no heralded event shouted from the mountain tops by DC, and this 6 part EVENT was just normal issues of the Justice League books? I mean, nobody would be expecting anything – and I bet you a million bucks that those of us that panned the Trinity War issues would have been all like, “Oh man, this issue of Justice League Dark was the shit!” And dudes, when the the big reveal happened we would have NEVER saw it coming and it would blown us away. But no, it didn’t happen that way, shit got overblown and spoiled at every turn and this event turned into a “non-event-leading-up-to-other-huge-event-that-we-will-no-doubt-buy-and-complain-about”.

FUCK! Does Geoff Johns read iFanboy reviews? Hey Geoff, STOP IT MAN! Just write cool shit without massive PARTS to it and we will like you better for it. Remember back in the days when you wrote Green Lantern and that whole war with the Sinestro Corps? Yeah that was awesome and the way it crept up on everyone reading was way cooler then then this shit. There was no huge fanfare or You Tube videos of you and your coffee mug and a book of matches spoiling shit – it was just good comic book writing and drawing and you know what? It made for some fucking good comic book reading!

FUCK MAN, I’ve fucking pissed myself off so much that I can’t even go on any further with this page by page review. Fuck it, I’m done!

p.s Ivan Ries could draw a 2 page spread of a turd floating in truck stop restroom and it would STILL be phenomenal!

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Story: 3 - Good
Art: 5 - Excellent

Comments

  1. hmmm, I used Shit five times and made reference to a turd.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fecalpheliac

    I need help. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    • Wow, I’m surprised the book got a 3. I think Johns is trying to ramp up attention on his books tho, since he’s writing JL and Marvel is getting all this attention. Or he’s overworked, IDK. That said, this was fun. I look forward to another “Read Along with Ghostmann!โ€.

    • Well, the story this issue was “good” I gotta admit – I did like the Earth 3 reveal

    • Admitting the problem is the first step. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      And I agree that they should put their stuff out with less fanfare. It would have made the Earth-3 reveal cooler than it was by them spoiling it.

  2. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over poopโ€”that our lives had become stinky.

    Speaking of comics getting spolied – it seems these days with the internet / Facebook / Twitter and other social media outlets it’s near impossible to escape spoilers these days (just look to the current death of Damian to illustrate my point) , but there have been some truly memorable moments in comics that have taken me by surprise…

    CUE TOP 5 LIST

    Top 5 Shocking Moments I’ve Read in Comics That Didn’t Get Spoiled and Surprised the Hell Out Of Me!

    5. Thunderbolts revealed to be The Masters of Evil
    4. The Hyperclan revealed to be White Martians in Grant Morrison’s JLA
    3. Colossus is alive! From Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men
    2. Swamp Thing wasn’t Alec Holland all along – from Anatomy Lesson Swamp Thing #21
    1. “I did it 35 minutes ago” – Ozymandias, Watchmen

    • I was astonished by the Swamp Thing twist and honestly laughed when I first read Adrian say that. Priceless moments.

      And most of those happened before social media exploded. That is part of the problem…

      I’ll tell you how I avoid it: I don’t use facebook or twitter.

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