I'm not sure if these JSA specials are better suited for Bizarro World than The Kingdom.  Last week, I was pleasantly surprised at Alex Ross' writing efforts, and this week I was somewhat underwhelmed by Tomasi's work here.  Clearly, the world has gone topsy-turvy.  I don't want to be too hard on this book, because nothing was really -bad-.  It's just that I'm used to such strong characterization from Tomasi, and here we get a rather cliche backstory of a sick kid turned Marine turned (anti?) hero with clunky dialogue and narration.  And oh what a wealth of narration there is in this one.  More than once I looked at a page and though "Wow... that's a lot of words".  What Tomasi does stay true to here is his expected affinity for a bit of blood and gore.  But really, not much is gained from this story other than wondering where the left turn (which we all know this storyline has to take) is going to come from, since Magog, though somewhat brutal, doesn't exactly seem to be a bad guy.  The backup wasn't bad either, though I don't care much for Legion, and it all really just made me miss crazy Starman.