Comments on: Justice League of America #12

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:35:12 +0000

I, for one, am still waiting on the official word on whether or not Black Canary was present during the founding of the League, as established post-Crisis in Secret Origins #32 (1989) and reinforced in Waid’s outstanding JLA: Year One limited series. I know that so much of the League’s history has suffered from retcon upon retcon, but it would be nice to know once and for all where Dinah stands in this post-post-Crisis DCU. Because didn’t a recent back-up feature in a certain weekly comic book reiterate that Dinah is still, indeed, considered a founder (which contradicts with Meltzer’s recent flashbacks)?

Thoughts, anyone?

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:55:30 +0000

Sean: The Aquaman that appeared at the beginning of the story is the original Aquaman told in a flashback. The Aquaman at the end of the issue? Well maybe it is the original A.C. and not the redux guy from OYL. Perhaps Rip Hunter’s Lab holds more clues.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:28:51 +0000

I’m confused about what’s up with Aquaman, so if someone could clear this up for me that would be awesome. I thought there is a brand new Aquaman running around… er swimming around… now since the OYL jump. One who has no past connections to the JLA and the old Aquaman who was in the league was missing. So who is the Aquaman we’re seeing in this issue? Is the old one back and there two Aquaman’s around now? Or did Meltzer not get the memo about the new Aquaman and just did whatever he wanted?

By: Joseph Jones

Joseph Jones — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:35:18 +0000

“Stand around and talk” was a pretty poor direction to take the JLA in but I wouldn’t have minded as much if the character development had actually been good.

Unfortunately, Brad Meltzer’s character work was pretty glib (for example, Roy Harper dealing with his druggy past…gee, we’ve never seen that storyline before) and his dialogue abyssmal.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:10:35 +0000

Oh yeah…

…Red Arrow…groan…

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:05:34 +0000

I second that.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:11:20 +0000

Hawkgirl having a daughter: wasn’t that covered/revealed in JSA or one of the mini-series that were released (Michael Chabon did the Mr. Terrific issue)? I could’ve sworn that was revealed a while ago, and that the daughter wasn’t dead, but with foster parents.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:04:16 +0000

I can see what Meltzer is going for here: the story behind the story, and that’s a cool idea. The problem I had with this issue is that there’s nothing really at stake. There’s no real conflict. I enjoyed the last issue of JLA more because Meltzer combined the character moments with some real conflict (being trapped in a sinking building counts, I think). I agree with Matthew’s review that while Meltzer has a good sense of the characters, some of his plots have been uninspiring. I don’t know his novels but aren’t they thrillers? So that’s a little unexpected…. This issue felt very much like the JLA #0 where the Big 3 runs through the history of the league and comments on it now.

And what’s with the switching color-coded narration?

By: Maximus Rift

Maximus Rift — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:49:10 +0000

You know, an official timeline would be nice for both and Marvel. They could put it on the webpage of make one at the end of the year.

By: jman

jman — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:15:07 +0000

My thing with decompression, I think the editor(s) should place some timelines on how many issues it takes to complete a story arc. I hate feeling they’re just doing arificial extenstion in order to keep the reader BUYING instead of enjoying what you read…But it’s all about money, so what if it can be summed up in 3 or four issues instead of 7, such as with the Solomon Grundy arc.