Pages Tagged “Justice League”
Reviews
- Dark Knights: Metal
★★★☆☆
Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion
The art is great, and the scope is ambitious, but the story follows the same beats as Final Crisis. - Final Crisis (Audio and Graphic Novel)
- Final Crisis: Revisiting the Tie-Ins Superman Beyond is essential. Submit and Reqiuem show the street-level perspective. Rogues Revenge is not a good as I remember.
- Flash: Stop Motion (Audio)
The concepts are intriguing, the characters are handled well, and the full cast and sound effects make up for the lack of visuals in superhero novels. - Good Time Travel Comics ★★★★★ Some DC stories I can recommend include DC One Million, JLA: Rock of Ages, Time Masters, and Chronos.
- Justice League: The New Frontier (Movie) ★★★★☆ Cooke’s drawing style and the 1950s retro look to the artwork both translate well to the screen. A bit disjointed at first, but settles into a solid story about hope and trust.
Blog Posts
- Bringing Back the 80s: Super Powers 25th
In 1984, Kenner launched a line of DC super-hero action figures under the name Super Powers. The toys were tied to the Super Friends cartoon, and each had an action: If you squeezed Superman’s legs, he would throw a punch. If you squeezed the Flash’s arms, he would run. Each figure also came with a […]
- Next for Geoff and Ethan: Vibe: Rebirth!
Apparently preliminary buzz is so good on Flash: Rebirth that DC has already announced the next character getting the Rebirth treatment: Vibe from the 1980s “Detroit-era” Justice League. After Flash, It’s Vibe: Rebirth Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver talk âVibe: Rebirthâ From the first link, Dan Didio explains: It was really a melding of […]
- Review of Justice League: The New Frontier
One of the highlights of WonderCon this weekend was the premiere of Justice League: The New Frontier. I really liked Darwyn Cooke’s original mini-series, DC: The New Frontier, and I’d been looking forward to the animated adaptation. Overall, I’d say the film succeeds. The story links the dawn of the Silver Age of comics, and […]
- Identity Crisis Conclusion (spoilers)
I went out at lunch and picked up Identity Crisis #7. Looking back at the series, it was very satisfying dramatically, though of course there were many things happening in it that I didn’t like. Even the revelation of the killer’s ID didn’t feel like a cheat. There was no sense of an Armageddon 2001-style […]
- Pinning down Identity Crisis
With the Top‘s history featuring prominently in the current Flash tie-in to Identity Crisis, I realized it’s possible to narrow down just when the flashbacks in IC take place. I’m not very familiar with the satellite-era Justice League, but I have tracked down, read and, yes, catalogued the entire Barry Allen run of The Flash. […]
- Iced mochas for the Amazons
I recently rented two of the Justice League DVDs. So far I’ve gotten through the opening 3-parter, “Secret Origins,” and the 2-part “Paradise Lost.” I have no idea how far into the series the second disc is. A scene that stuck in my mind was the newly-formed League looking around their headquarters. As the heroes […]
- Two places at once
Well, I picked up JLA Secret Files 2004 today. Not because I read JLA, or even Justice League Elite (I read the first two issues, but it hasn’t really grabbed me), but because I figured there’d be a good image to scan of the Flash’s alternate costume for JLE. (It’s odd to be using that […]