I was expecting disappointment after I didn't stick with Young Justice and Legion of Superheroes (man, that book had a lot of talking) however the first arc was OK especially with the Justice League Dark add-ons. Got boring at around #63.
I love it!! Bendis still is the best
It was acceptable but he has better works.
Intrascendent, nobody will remember it in two years
Mediocre, how can this be published?
Keep Bendis away from any DC title, please.
I was expecting disappointment after I didn't stick with Young Justice and Legion of Superheroes (man, that book had a lot of talking) however the first arc was OK especially with the Justice League Dark add-ons. Got boring at around #63.
"Cable was right!"
Bad, but it doesn't offend me, like Jason Aaron's Avengers for example.
Yes, but Giffen and Dematteis' Justice League used them in one issue, for a very specific motive. Bendis streched their presence for three and the most interesting things happened as background scenes. I think he tried to give them some relevance, but I don't believe he was successful on that.
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"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
I mean, his Avengers run was garbage, so I had very little faith he’d fare any better on this book.
Last edited by Shadowcat; 03-16-2022 at 01:22 PM.
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If it was anything like his Young Justice, it was far too decompressed for a team book.
Pulls: Batman, Detective Comics, SiKtC, Catwoman, Nightwing, Titans, Godzilla, Wonder Woman, Batman & Robin, Brave and the Bold, No/One, Kill your Darlings, and Deviant.
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I have never been more nonplussed by any JL run. That was a bunch of annoying nothing. From Cry for Justice to Bryan Hitch's unforgivably boring run, Bendis' run has the distinction of being the absolute worst of all time.
I've only read Bendis' DC stuff but I don't get all the 'he's great at street level' stuff. Maybe he was good at that stuff once but his Leviathan and Checkmate were based on detectives of the DCU--a very street level thing--and each was brutally bad.
This happens to writers. Robinson's Starman was one of the greatest DC series' of all time but when he came back after a break he couldn't write his way out of a paper bag.
But nobody is a better example of a writer that was once considered great becoming an utterly horrid writer. He can't be gone from DC soon enough.
In the issue where Superman introduced him as a potential member, there were about 100 times characters said "Black Adam?!?!?!" and about zero times that any other thing happened at all. I generally love character moments, so much more than action or any other thing really, but the character moments in the Bendis run were like nails on a chalkboard.
Batman literally gushed as he thanked Barry Allen for all the times he'd saved his life. WTAF?