„80 years“ is a fun read. The only drawback is that I now want a late 60s/early 70s Swan Supes collection even more!
I think the Joker being on all three spines is absolutely an accident. They asked Jones to create Batman artwork a bit wider than two pages and he just designed it like that, without really thinking about what would end up on the spine.
Last edited by LordJulius; 06-15-2018 at 04:18 AM.
Are the JSA omnibuses worth a blind buy or not? I haven't read anything about it and don't know much about DC. Want to jump into it somewhere.
Edit: I took the plunge and ordered them. Balakin said earlier that anything Geoff Johns wrote is good
Last edited by JPAR; 06-16-2018 at 07:03 AM.
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
ummm.... well...
For a newbie or relative newbie at least and I mostly meant his pre N52 stuff ( I did not care for his Justice League).
Also I have to add that first I've read JSA in trades and when I've reread the first omnibus there were a couple of issues that were not in the trades and I found them kind of just fillers.
Also also the first big storyarc is written by Robinson then the title is co written by Goyer and Johns and later it's only Johns. And I think you can tell because it gets better as it goes along.
3rd also: the 3rd omnibus has a trade's worth of material written by Levitz which is very skippable, doesn't add anything.
All that said: Johns, Robinson and Goyer does a great job of delivering old school capes and tights type of superhero adventures with high stakes, putting emphasis on the legacy aspect of the title, portraying the heroes as cool and highly competent characters even when they are wearing their silliest long johns (cause let's be honest, they aren't wearing the most badass costumes, but that's why I like them) and bringing new readers up to date with the sometimes convoluted continuity.
I believe any modern reader who is interested in JSA should read Starman by James Robinson and Sandman Mystery Theather by Matt Wagner. Both are fantastic.