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drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-08 00:47:00

Entry tags:

char: arak, char: congorilla/congo bill, char: penny dreadful, char: starman/mikaal tomas, creator: james robinson, group: helix, in-joke: gay for justice, publisher: dc comics, title: cry for justice

Justice League: Cry For Justice #4

Mikaal convinces Congorilla to stop, saying he realized Tony wouldn't want blood being spilled in his name, and that vengeance isn't justice.

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	shadowpsykie 2009-10-08 04:53 am UTC (link)
	ah, finally, the Heroes are thinking (Reply to this)

	queenursula 2009-10-08 04:55 am UTC (link)
	Is Penny usually this bloodthirsty? It looks like Robinson just picked out two obscure villains to serve as cannon fodder. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shanejayell 2009-10-08 04:57 am UTC (link)
	And wasn't Arak a hero? Or am I thinking of someone else? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-10-08 05:00 am UTC (link)
	You're thinking of another Arak. This Arak was a member of Helix (from Infinity Inc; you can see him in Doop's Mr. Bones posts). But they weren't that bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shanejayell 2009-10-08 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Right, duh. And now that I KNOW who these characters are they seem even more OOC. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-10-08 11:39 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. Baby Boom, maybe, but not the others. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cainofdreaming 2009-10-08 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	And, just going from the scans posted here, the defining thing for the Helixers was always loyalty to each other. So them turning on each other like this... it just doesn't compute. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-10-08 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	She's evil, ergo there is no lengths she won't go to prove that. And because Arrow and Lantern are heroes, they get to torture people willy nilly. Isn't it great how DC has made things so black and white? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	drsevarius 2009-10-08 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	Even she was horrified when she thought Carcharo had killed Kritter. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-10-11 05:32 am UTC (link)

I think they're having Robinson take out the trash here. Getting rid of various remnants of the past 10 years, gearing up for whatever they have planned after BLACKEST NIGHT. Pretty much anything introduced during 52 or Countdown is probably on the chopping block, for instance.

That's the only explanation I can find for this feckless writing, incomprehensible motivations of the characters(seriously, there really is no plan to what Hal or Ray are doing and I can barely figure out just where the hell the Bill plot is going), and general meandering viciousness of the thing. And the dialogue. "We can be JUSTICE!"(sounds like a Japanese t-shirt) "Yeah...JUSTICE!" "This isn't JUSTICE!" And so forth. The Shade scene is the only one that breathes, and that's because it's safe ground--Robinson would never violate his own character, and Shade is now just as much his as Swamp Thing became Alan Moore's.

He does a nice craftsman's job every month with the Superman stuff. Here he sucks. I wonder why. Purty art, I will admit.

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	shanejayell 2009-10-08 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Nice art, story remains kinda sucky. (Reply to this)

	foxhack 2009-10-08 05:39 am UTC (link)
	Whoa wait, wasn't this Starman... just retired? Nooooooooooooooooo D: (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-08 05:51 am UTC (link)
	I think you're thinking of Jack Knight, Ted's son, the one who wore casual clothes and goggles instead of a costume. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-10-08 05:58 am UTC (link)
	No, I'm thinking of the blue guy who ended up falling in love with a guy in Jack Knight's title. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-10-08 06:04 am UTC (link)
	His boyfriend got killed, so he's teaming up with Congorilla for justice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	interrobamf 2009-10-08 06:12 am UTC (link)
	You mean... JUSTICE! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	queenanthai 2009-10-08 06:16 am UTC (link)
	See? It IS Gay For Justice! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yotsuba123 2009-10-08 11:07 am UTC (link)
	They killed him off? NO! :( (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dr_hermes 2009-10-08 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Those layouts might benefit from being more linear. (Reply to this)

	daningram 2009-10-08 11:30 am UTC (link)
	And DC's predetermination obsession strikes again. Mother fuckers... (Reply to this)

	scottyquick 2009-10-08 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	So where's Kate? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kenn_el 2009-10-08 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Hovering in the background. To her credit, I wouldn't want to mix with the dreck either. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	osteofight 2009-10-08 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	That's one heckuva boob on the second to last page. Also, same page, it looks like Mikaal is shooting it. Ouch! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	l_arlesienne 2009-10-09 09:20 am UTC (link)
	That's one heckuva boob on the second to last page. It looks rather like a grapefruit in a stocking @_@ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-10-08 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	In this issue: Moar dead Z-Listers!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-10-08 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	THIS STORY IS RELEVANT DAMMIT (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-10-08 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	While this wasn't awful, it's still not interesting enough to warrant picking up. (Reply to this)