JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #18

Review by: Jazzlawyer

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Comparing the Avengers’ titles to the Justice League of America is a useful way to determine exactly how the two major comics companies are working right now.  By contrasting the two titles and how their publishers are treating them, it becomes clear why we just can not get a good JLA story going in recent years.

Avengers is being written by Marvel’s most celebrated writer, and the events occuring in the two titles are shaping up to be the central story for the entire universe over the next year with Secret Invasion being the story that almost all of Marvel is building towards. 

The Justice League of America book has become a tie-in book.  It should be the crown jewel in DC’s roster of titles, but instead after a few confunding arcs by Brad Meltzer that nobody really understood, we get story after story that seems to be written simply to tie into other stories going on elsewhere.  While the JLA should reflect events in the DCU (if Superman dies he should not still be bopping about in the JLA) it should stand on its own and above the other titles.  DC’s centre-piece book should not be an advertising gimick for Salvation Run.  A shared universe is great, but I want a JLA story here and not an unofficial chapter of a story I’m not going to read.

Maybe Meltzer made DC scared to trust any one writer with the title, and that’s why it feels like the book’s being written by editorial, but I think the title needs a Bendis type figure to reinvent it.  Maybe Geoff Johns has a take on the book, but someone with some clout needs to get in there and start writing the big Justice League stories because right now it feels like I’m reading a Previews ad for other books.

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 4 - Very Good

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