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10:12 pm
[perletwo]
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Batman/Green Lantern SHOWDOWN!
Long ago (back on Apr. 17 in fact) ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scannertastic requested scans of the epic confrontation between Batman and Green Lantern. I just realized those pages are in the JLI trade I just got a week or two ago, and it's the perfect chance to try out the scan function on my new(ish) all-in-one. Soooo, from Justice League International #5, Sept. 1987, 3 pages plus preview image.
Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: black canary/dinah lance, char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz, char: mr. miracle/scott free, creator: al gordon, creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, creator: kevin maguire, group: justice league of america, in-joke: one punch, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league international
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05:32 pm
[runespoor7]
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A Kryptonian, a billionaire, and an undercover Martian walk into a bar...
JLA 27 - 3 pages
Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz, char: superman/clark kent, creator: mark millar, group: justice league of america, publisher: dc comics
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10:15 pm
[peur_evol]
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THE JLA: Just Little Americans
Here's something you don't see everyday...
A Christmas one-shot from 1984 featuring some characters you've never seen before, and haven't seen since. And from a hundred page DC digest*, as well....
*The digest series was usually always reprint material*
Tags: genre: parody, group: justice league of america, publisher: dc comics
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10:13 pm
[volksjager]
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How do you know when a character needs a re-boot ?????
er... what the hell kind of Batman said that ???? Break out the bat pom-poms and lead a cheer !
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Current Location: Umbagog
Current Music: Aga Agaht " I'm not NOT licking frogs"
Tags: char: anti-monitor, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: captain america/steve rogers, char: green lantern/hal jordan, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: superman/clark kent, char: wasp/janet van dyne, creator: george perez, creator: marv wolfman, group: justice league of america, group: legion of super-heroes, publisher: dc comics, publisher: marvel comics, theme: retcon politics, title: avengers/jla, title: crisis on infinite earths
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07:58 pm
[batcookies]
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Justice League of America 32, and some comments from the writer
While looking for responses to the latest issue of JLA, I came across a compilation of Dwayne McDuffie's quotes.
Tags: char: green lantern/john stewart, char: vixen/mari jiwe mccabe, creator: dwayne mcduffie, group: justice league of america, title: justice league of america
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05:13 am
[bluefall]
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The Comic You Pretend to Buy for Nonexistent Younger Relatives #14
So between ORACLE and GA/BC and the lack of any of my normal standout titles, this was a pretty bad week for comics. And that would ordinarily be pretty disheartening, and cast a bit of a pallor over the whole Wednesday LCS experience.
Except for the other comic that came out this Wednesday, which is pure distilled awesome that somebody cut with liquid joy and pressed into ink and paper form.
Tags: group: justice league of america, title: super friends
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10:15 pm
[sailorlibra]
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Grant Morrison does Wonder Woman
Only not in that way. I know y'all have nasty minds.
A few examples of Wonder Woman as portrayed by Grant Morrison from JLA to Final Crisis. Ok, not a few. This thing ain't dial-up safe, sorry.
Tags: char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: darkseid, char: flash/kid flash/wally west, char: green lantern/kyle rayner, char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: steve trevor, char: superman/clark kent, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, group: justice league of america
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12:33 pm
[volksjager]
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The SSoSV pulls the old swicharoo: Part1
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Tags: group: justice league of america, group: secret society of supervillains, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league of america
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10:10 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 16 (Rules of Engagement)
For this chapter, we go back to JLA and Kelly again, who still writes a very good Diana. You know, the Morrison-Waid-Kelly sequence really was some of the best the JLA has ever been. Years of solid gold, there, occasional bizarre missteps aside. Anyway, this isn't a Wondy story, just a short little post-"Obsidian Age" arc about the JLA beating up some aliens, but it hits some fabulous Diana character notes and is just generally fun, so it merits posting.
Next time: Rucka!
What, you seriously need more than that? Fine. Dr. Psycho! People getting humiliated on national television! Riots outside the embassy! Minotaur chefs! Greg fucking Rucka!
Tags: char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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03:56 pm
[wonderwomanhero]
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Speed Doesn't Work That Way
I have a request...if anyone would take it. Does anyone have any scans they could post of the Atlantian Sorceress Gamemnae, the blonde chick who captured Aquaman and died by the hand of Manitou Raven? I'd appreciate it.
Tags: char: flash/barry allen, group: justice league of america, in-joke: crack, in-joke: science doesn't work that way, in-joke: wtf
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11:07 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 14 (Golden Perfect)
Thus far, I've mostly been showing Diana at her best; her defining moments of triumph and growth and victory. Diana being who she is, that is most of the picture; heroes are heroes because they get it right, unlike the rest of us. But even Diana fucks up sometimes, and, like Clark or Hal or Babs or anyone with that kind of crazy power, her fuck-ups can be catastrophic.
But entertaining!
So, let us observe one of these fuck-ups, by moving into the year 2002 and the Kelly era of JLA vol 3. It seems to me that Joe Kelly is very fond of Diana; he writes her in the forefront of the team and generally pretty well, with the exception of the idiotic Bruce/Diana romance (which is not only inappropriate on its own terms, but often causes him to diminish her for the sake of Bruce's masculinity). That comes later in his run, though, and we're here to look at his fabulous first arc, "Golden Perfect."
Next time: Nessie Kapatelis returns, like you've never seen her before! Cassie is cool, for possibly the second to last time, enjoy it while you can! Secret and Empress cameo! Kon bitches about being an armadillo! Not one panel of Trevor-Sue Barnes! And I try very hard to present a Jimenez arc and remain unbiased! Everything is better with exclamation points!
Tags: char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: doug mahnke, creator: joe kelly, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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02:52 am
[ebailey140]
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When Wondy was... Dakota Fanning?
Some highlights from one of my favorite JLU episodes, "Kid Stuff", in which Diana, Clark, Bruce, John... and Etrigan are tranformed into children, with Dakota Fanning voicing Diana.
And, the last three pages of Wonder Woman V2 #62, which ended the Perez run. The War of the Gods is over, though not everyone survived. Perez's final issue was about the characters closing chapters of their lives and beginning new ones, including the Amazons, Steve, Etta, and Ed, with Diana trying to figure out what she should do, next. Nessie, meanwhile, is graduating Junior High, and we conclude with a little meta and Fourth Wall breaking.
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Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: etrigan/jason blood, char: green lantern/john stewart, char: julia kapatelis, char: morgaine le fey, char: silver swan/vanessa kapatelis, char: superman/clark kent, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: george perez, group: justice league of america, medium: videos, publisher: dc comics
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12:19 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 13 (Amazon Queen)
Back in the summer of 2001, DC kicked off one of their many epic, universe-spanning Crossover Events with an issue of SUPERMAN in which Pluto goes missing. Yes, Pluto, the planet astral body. This Crossover Event was "Our Worlds at War," and it was not particularly well-received by fandom. Which makes sense; the plot was needlessly byzantine and, as ever, there was a lot of c-list fodder happening, particularly with women, surprise surprise. I find it fairly mediocre standard crossover fare myself, but '01 was quite a while before ICk and Shamazons, so I don't know if that's just a calibration issue and maybe it was pretty bad for the time.
But I will say this for it: despite being, ostensibly, Superman's crossover (his badguys, mostly his book, his long-term plot threads), the impact on and contribution from Diana and her corner of the DCU was significant, which is something you don't usually see - major impact on Diana's obviously not unheard of, but contribution in proportion to that impact is much rarer and worthy of note and approbation - and it had one of the greater Wondy moments on record, which is what we'll be looking at today.
Next time: The League is imperialist and Diana pretty much singlehandedly justifies every statement Clark or Bruce have ever made about hating magic.
Tags: char: darkseid, char: hippolyta of themyscira, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: phil jimenez, event: our worlds at war, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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10:19 pm
[arbre_rieur]
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Two pages from Justice League of America 31, and the story behind them
In the latest issue of JLA, there's a short scene between Red Arrow and Black Canary. Those pages have an interesting behind-the-scenes story to them, as Dwayne McDuffie revealed on a message board some time back.
( Interesting choice of locales for a romantic walk... )
Tags: char: black canary/dinah lance, char: speedy/red arrow/roy harper, creator: dwayne mcduffie, group: justice league of america, title: justice league of america
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09:38 am
[volksjager]
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Love is in the air at the annual JLA/ JSA crossover...
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Current Location: Inverness
Current Music: Capt. Crunch "Jutland blues"
Tags: char: huntress/helena wayne, char: mister terrific/terry sloane, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, genre: crossover, group: justice league of america, group: justice society of america, in-joke: batcest, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league of america, title: justice society of america
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11:44 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 12 (Against the Id)
Well, we've seen a lot of Diana beating up her friends with our last couple arcs, so let's go back to JLA proper for a bit and watch her save all her friends instead. We're into February of 2001 here (continuity-wise, contemporary with or perhaps a little after Hiketeia, though few years shy of that story by publish date), during the Waid run of JLA v3, and the glory years of the Big Seven League.
Now, despite being one of the strongest JLA writers I've read, Waid has done Diana an injustice or two in his day. (And he wrote "Fairy Tales," which I am not inclined to ever forgive him for). But by the time we get to this point in the JLA, Waid was well past his Kingdom Come foibles and hitting some very good notes with her character - such as during the "Id" arc that I bring today. In which there actually isn't much Diana, but when she is, it's damn well worth noting.
Next time: Diana faces down Darkseid in an OW@W interlude, with pretty, pretty Jimenez art.
Tags: char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: bryan hitch, creator: mark waid, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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04:57 pm
[volksjager]
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Crime syndicate make their stunning debut !
Justice society vs. The Crime Syndicate
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Current Music: Insekt 5 " Green indicates Irony"
Tags: char: power ring, genre: crossover, group: crime syndicate of amerika, group: justice league of america, group: justice society of america
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03:34 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 11 (League of One)
A few posts back, it came up in the comments that meaningful guest arcs by Diana in other titles are relatively rare compared to, say, Bruce or Clark, her theoretical equals in DCU importance. By that same token, Wonder Woman one-shots - the minis and hardcovers and self-contained trade-only specials that stand alone outside any given series - are even rarer. In fact, if you want to find them, you've got to be willing to look in places you wouldn't expect.
For example, today's chapter. See, about eight years ago, DC published what was ostensibly a Justice League book; a hundred-odd page special written and painted by Christopher Moeller called JLA: A League of One. It's not really a Justice League story, though. It's a Wonder Woman story, and one of her best.
Next time: An actual Wondy one-shot. Or I should say, rather, the Wondy One-Shot, and the eternal paladin conundrum of Ethics vs Morals, the Law versus the Right, and whether or not to punch your friends in the face for great justice.
Tags: char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: christopher moeller, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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12:36 pm
[mysteryfan]
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Leaguers on the Loose
( And mingling right on in. 1 scan, under the cut. )
Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: superman/clark kent, era: bronze age, group: justice league of america
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06:37 pm
[bluefall]
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When Wondy was Awesome, part 8 (Hawks and Half-Breeds)
Diana's no Batman, with five different books devoted to her adventures at any one time. She's not even a franchise like Green Lantern, despite how awesome a regular title devoted to Artemis or Nu'bia could be*. But she is and has been an occasional guest in setting books like Action and a staple of team books like Justice League in many incarnations, and many of her better stories are from those titles rather than her own.
* Well, if it wasn't written by WML. Now let's never speak of Requiem again.
This one's from 1995, during the Era of Three Hundred Justice Leagues. Diana was head of the JLA and had been for some time - a position she is supremely suited to by nature, but was only intermittently suited to by portrayal, given that writer turnover was worse than League membership turnover at the time, and many of her authors simply didn't get Diana. And by that I mean either her personality or the fact that she could beat her entire League at once with one hand tied behind her back (well, maybe she'd need both hands for Flash), and how that needed to be reflected in group combat.
Unfortunately Gerard Jones was among them, and he was on JLA duty during this arc. But this story is a crossover event, and the other two writers involved - Beau Smith on Warrior and Messner-Loebs on Hawkman - had a better idea what they were doing. Overall I wasn't sure whether to include it, because it's not really a Wondy story, but there are a couple of moments here that I truly love, so here we go, once again, into outer space.
( 90s Image-influenced art warning. Prepare your goggles now. )
Next time: Artemis finally becomes a likeable character, and we get to see Cassie when she still was. Plus Etrigan rhyming, Neron gloating, and Byrne killing Diana off. (Spoiler: It doesn't stick.)
Tags: char: green lantern/warrior/guy gardner, char: hawkman/carter hall, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: william messner-loebs, group: justice league of america, series: when wondy was awesome, series: world of wondy
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