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JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #43
Following the decision that occurred in JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE and the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE RISE AND FALL SPECIAL #1, the World’s Greatest Heroes must come to terms with who they are and what they represent. Meanwhile, an all-new danger threatens the existence of everything past and present in the exciting finale of “Team History.”
Written by JAMES ROBINSONArt and Cover by MARK BAGLEY and ROB HUNTER
Variant Cover by MIKE MAYHEW
Price: $3.99
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the preview for this has me really jazzed that we’re on the right track finally
Should I be ok having not read any of the other ‘rise and fall’ stuff?
@mikeandzod21 I’d think you’d be fine. Quick summary, Red Arrow’s daughter died, Green Arrow killed Prometheus, and is still hunting the Electrocutioner who helped destroy Star City. I think that should be all the story connected with Rise and Fall.
@owlyfan Thanks
did anyone see the line in the preview"jonn and arthur it hurts to even think about them" are you telling me were not getting aquaman and martian manhunter back to life 🙁
@anthonydrum I have a feeling that Brightest Day will be dealing with that. Geoff Johns referred to it as DCU: Rebirth, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the series has a focus on heroes coming back to life in the aftermath of Blackest Night. I’m guessing we’ll also get some answers about what will be happening when Blackest Night wraps up this week. Eek, this week already?
I hope you are right about that. Yea hard to believe its over, 9 months of our lives. I use it as a time reference, "remember when so and so was born? that was right after blackest night 2 rigfht?" hahaha
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Was that a couple of pages from a JSA issue accidentally inserted into this comic or was that supposed to be part of the story? It seems like a rather bad sign that I can’t tell. I loved the last two pages of this issue, but got very little out of the others. I like the role Dick could play in this series, but only if they are careful to keep his characterization different enough from Bruce’s to make him interesting. The art felt very inconsistent. Some pages were excellent while others felt sloppy.
Oh this was a mess. Just did not enjoy it. Inconsistent writing/characterization and some really off art in places. I expect better from the caliber of creators involved on this. 2/5.
@stuclach Those two pages seemed like a deliberate but very bizarre insertion, just to get a Brightest Day teaser in there. But maybe it is a production error.. I cant tell either!
I don’t follow JLA but I picked this up to follow the Green Arrow/Rise and Fall storyline. This issue feels very jumpy and tangential to the main characters and themes of Rise and Fall.
Despite that, I’m really intrigued by the last page….
I really hope this doesn’t end up somehow messing with Multiversity but if it does Morrison will probably just ignore it.
Okay, did I misunderstand this or are Kory and Vic off the team now?
I’m off this book again. Someone call me when there is some stability.
So, I’m confused. Do you think Robinson planned it this way or do you think that DC told him " You can’t have Guardian or M’onel because they need them in the Superman books. Oh, and you need to have some of the heroes react to what Green Arrow did." I just don’t understand why Kory would be so affected by "The revelations of the last few days". Does that make sense to anyone?
@Zattaric Considering Robinson is writing the Guardian and Mon-El in the SUPERMAN book, I doubt that’s the case.
@synapse – I would like to think it was deliberate, but the fact that we are discussing it is troubling.
@Praxjarvin Mmmm…good point. Don’t read Superman books so I forgot about that.
After Cry for Justice, The JLA issues so far, and about 50% of his Superman work, why is Robbinson considered such a good writer?
He had Starman, but that should only be able to carry you so far before he would need to produce something else worthwhile to maintain his stance as a high calibre writer.
Regardless of the editorial mandates placed upon him, he is not making it work.
This was a mess. I think the extra pages (used to justify the higher price) just muddy an already murky plot. This reminds me alot of what I heard about the Justice League Detroit from Tom vs. The JLA. I was hoping to get the kind of big adventure/ action I used to get from the JLA but this has been alot of people thinking while fighting pretty nondescript villains. Also, the pacing in this issue is really off. Parts apparently take place before Cry for Justice while others take place after. This was just a mess. Time to blow it up and start over.
Is it just me, or is Chair clearly modeled off of Bendis?
I want to like this book, I think Robinson is a good choice for it. However, the abrupt shifts in the story aren’t helping. Exactly why did some of those characters leave? I accept that maybe since I’m not reading the other ‘Rise and Fall’ books I may have missed something, but the motivations were confusing. And that sketchy fast style of Bagley’s artwork is not helping matters at all. Drop the page count to 22 pages and have him refine some of that (the faces are routinely unpleasant) or just get a new artist. I gave up on Robinson’s Superman books because of the pedestrian art, and I’d like to read something current written by him. I’m hoping this will be the book.
@RonDev
You didn’t miss anything.
@Slockhart, RonDev. Chair seems to be modeled off Kong from Ultimate Spider-Man who is modeled off Bendis. So in short, yes. It’s been a complaint of mine since Bagley came to Marvel – it seems like his character models haven’t changed at all! Wonder Woman & Donna Troy both have Ult. Gwen Stacey face. Over in TRINITY, Two-Face looked like Ult. Norman Osborne, The Riddler like Peter Parker, etc. etc. I really like Bagley’s art, and I think it works in the DCU, but I do wish we could get some slightly different character faces.
Now that I’ve finally read Blackest Night, I’m wondering if maybe Johns was setting something up a Morrison-esque reboot for this book in the near future, what with bringing back Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman and all. I would love me some Johns JLA, and you’d really think there’d be more than (apparently) only five issues.
So… I have no idea what happened near the end of this issue. The JSA pages confused me. The team wasn’t clear to me .. when people "left" to go do other things, I didn’t really get why. Maybe it’s that I’m not a big DC fan or don’t really know all the characters. I have no idea. I’m certain I’m not getting #44.