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JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #23


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iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 1.4%

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  1. Avatar photo JonSamuelson says:
    January 26, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    I effin’ love Black Adam, and I pray that John’s swansong story line kicks @$$ with the character.

  2. Anonymous says:
    January 26, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Do you guys think I could pick this up even if I have not read JSA since the single digits?

  3. Avatar photo rayclark says:
    January 26, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    thank god we are back to black adam i missed him and i cant wait!!

  4. Avatar photo TehDave says:
    January 26, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    now THAT is a cover.

  5. Avatar photo JonSamuelson says:
    January 26, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    @Cadgers

    It’s hard to say.  The previous storyline "Thy Kingdome Come" seems well and over, so my guess is that you’ll probably be fine.  The only possible confusion is that (I’m guessing) there are a LOT of new characters from when you were reading it last.

  6. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 26, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    Geoff Johns + Black Adam= Gold!

  7. Avatar photo VisionGX says:
    January 26, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Lets see what Black Adam bring to the table

  8. Templar says:
    January 26, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    This could easily be my pick of the week.  It has everything I love.

  9. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    January 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    A new story arc in JSA???? Didn’t think I’d live to see the day …

  10. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 26, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    @Wade:

    (strokes beard and sits in rocking chair) I remember back in 19-Dickiety-89. That’s when Part one of the Gog story came out.

  11. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    January 27, 2009 at 12:30 am

    lol Yeah, JSA without Gog is gunna feel like the internet without porn.

    It looks like this will be one of the few Faces Of Evil books that lives up to the promise & actually focuses on the villain & not just a regular issue with a pretty cover & banner slapped on it. I hope so anyway, because after 52 & the Black Adam mini, he has become one of my favourite characters in all of comics.

    The solicit sounds like it’s a sequal to that mini, but DC solicits have been wrong a lot of the time recently, so I’ll believe it when I read it.

  12. Avatar photo WinTheWonderboy says:
    January 27, 2009 at 2:09 am

    Johns has done wonders with Black Adam over the years. Can’t wait for this!!!

  13. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 27, 2009 at 2:27 am

    Is Alex Ross leaving this title once Johns/Eaglesham leaves?

    I will seriously give my salary to Ross if he could stay….oh please dont go!!

  14. Avatar photo MastaP says:
    January 27, 2009 at 9:13 am

    So now that KC supes is gone, does this mean the book can become readable again?

  15. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    January 27, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    Ooh, I love me some badass Black Adam, can’t wait!

  16. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    January 27, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    I’m pulling this for the first time because all the hype.  Yes, I’m new to comics (well new to the comics of this decade anyway) and that means I jump on bandwagons at the worst possible times.  Do you think I’ll have to pay $99.99 to buy all the back issues off of Ebay to understand what the hell is going on?

  17. Avatar photo Kory says:
    January 28, 2009 at 9:48 am

    I jumped on with issue #16, smack dab in the middle of a year long story arc, and I wasn’t lost at all.  So I say jump onboard.

  18. Avatar photo Ruo21 says:
    January 28, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    Don’t leave me Johns.

  19. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    January 28, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Fantastic issue, I thought. And great Pencils by Ordway. Always nice to see him shining on characters his art is perfectly suited for. Highlights of the issue for me include Billy Batson and his big news for the team, Stargirl being treated as a respected member of the team (i know she’s Johns favorite for various reasons, but still!) and Atom Smasher possibly coming back. All good times.

    I’ll miss the laughably and implausbily large roster from Kingdom Come, but this simpler, "JSA"-feeling roster may be what’s need for the obvious "sequel" to the Black Reign storyline from a few years ago.

  20. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 28, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    My LCS didnt get the shipment, got lost in the snow…..Why does God forsaken me!?

  21. Avatar photo DenverDave says:
    January 29, 2009 at 2:39 am

    So-so. I miss Englesmith and Gog. Not horrible though. 3 stars and enough to keep me on the book at least another month.

  22. Avatar photo Kory says:
    January 29, 2009 at 9:29 am

    This was quite good.  I loved the parts where they were trying to decide who to kick off the team.

  23. Avatar photo Ruo21 says:
    January 29, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    I really needed more meat in this issue.

  24. Avatar photo adrian says:
    January 29, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Can DC stop messing with Mary Marvel please?  I originally liked the idea that they were going to do more with her, but I’m not enjoying how they ran her into the ground in Final Crisis and I fear this will be more of the same.

  25. Avatar photo TehDave says:
    January 30, 2009 at 7:55 am

    hey, at least mary marvel matters nowadays – better to mess with than to ignore, i suppose.

    ordway draws a fine black adam.

  26. Handsaw says:
    January 30, 2009 at 8:23 am

    I say do what ever it takes to keep her in the black suit.  Is it wrong for me to think a comic character is sexy?

  27. Avatar photo JonSamuelson says:
    January 30, 2009 at 9:03 am

    @Handsaw

    Yes, it is.  But hey, we’ve all been there.

  28. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    January 30, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    This issue was great. 

     

    Spoiler

    Isis ripping off Felix’s little Faust?  Pretty hardcore for JSA!  VERY cool though! 

  29. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    January 30, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    @Crippler: You’re talking about a book that had super powered Nazis fly THROUGH little kids.

  30. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    January 30, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    @Conor – I only started JSA with issue 6, so, I think I missed that particular scene… BUT…  as we all know, it’s not violence alone but sex and violence that raises eyebrows (hence Law & Order SVU because murder alone is not special enough!).  So, rape and then castration FTW. 

    One more thing…. are we all in agreement now that the rule (at least in DC) is: "If you want someone to be REALLY evil, make them rape someone?" 

  31. Avatar photo evil09 says:
    January 31, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Cool cover it’s Black Adam Captain Marvel’s archenemy Justice Society of America rocks forever.

  32. Avatar photo Ragu73 says:
    February 1, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    This comic was great.  Just the scene where Hawkman leaves and they vote on who to stay in.  Ted Grant is the man.  He takes zero crap.

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