Comments on: Justice League Of America #20

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:25:12 +0000

Almost two years of this title and we’ve only had about 2 or 3 really good issues. If this was Bendis on Avengers, we’d be screaming from the hills…

I prefer to think of my bitching as constructive. :) Bendis takes forever to get places, but his decompression is much more successful than Meltzer meandering nothingness. The first 7 issues of this book are pretty much incomprehensible.

By: nu

nu — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:32:08 +0000

im pumped about the upcoming issue about red tornado. so far everything that we have learned about him has been interesting. i hope they talk about the red inferno (mentioned in 52) and the red volcano (as seen in DCU #0) sometime soon.

By: Brother129

Brother129 — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:55:56 +0000

Almost two years of this title and we’ve only had about 2 or 3 really good issues. If this was Bendis on Avengers, we’d be screaming from the hills…

By: Ransom

Ransom — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:57:36 +0000

Am I the only one that noticed that this whole “Reroute the fire with oxygen-drawing and then Wonder Woman intervenes” happened in Diana’s own book? The last time this happened, she was talking about how Wally was going against nature. What gives?

By: Mark I.

Mark I. — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:59:26 +0000

Infinity: I think it was an ill-communicated joke on McDuffie’s part, as in “What did you expect her name to be…Courtney?”

Which could have been a funny joke, it just wasn’t structured properly. Oh well, better a badly-done joke in a well-done issue than the other way around…

By: Infinity13307

Infinity13307 — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:16:32 +0000

I have a question about this issue that I haven’t found the answer to yet. At one point towards the end of the issue, a caption box gives the impression that Wally is relating this story to someone else, explaining who Zazzala is and asks “What did you expect, Courtney?” I expected this issue to end on a shot of Wally recounting the story to the JSA or at least Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore) and maybe Jay Garrick (to justify why Stargirl was around), but there was no such ending of course. Do you have any explanation for this?

By: Stacy B.

Stacy B. — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:08:12 +0000

The issue that I took with this book was the way they portrayed Wally. WW pretty much told him that he was a disappointment and was not living up to his obligations, and Wally rolled over and took it. She essentially treated him like he was a child and had missed a homework assignement.

In my opinion, I think that Flash should have been allowed to say what he would have said in his own book, my family comes first. As it is, it is as if they are trying to set Wally up for his Kingdom Come persona, being everywhere at once.

To me? A fill in story when one wasn’t needed. With the limited amount of time these writers have now to tell their stories, I would think that every little line would be used to advance a larger arc, not to let a confirmed bachelorette tell a family man that he isn’t living up to his obligations.

For the record, McDuffie is one of my favorite writers. Milestone was one of the greats of it’s day and I rarely find fault with his writing.

Now, if it is shown that this issue ties in to a larger story, I may change my mind, but until then…

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:20:02 +0000

“another run which somehow managed to make the greatest heroes of the DCU fighting their greatest villains dreary”
Couldn’t agree more. McDuffie has yet to impress me on the book and I was getting worried since I really like his stuff in the animated and comic form, especially the FF run he just finished. This issue looks like a step in the right direction and hopefully will continue.

By: Yuta

Yuta — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:50:27 +0000

I’m surprised that no mention was made of the fact that: a) Neither of them were ever captured and b) Neither of them were ever covered in honey as the cover illustrates. I know covers often don’t depict accurately what happens on the inside but I would have loved to see Flash and Wonder Woman giving Queen Bee a honey swirly and it would have been a little closer to story.