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seawolf10 (seawolf10) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-31 22:36:00

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char: bo "bibbo" bibbowski, char: cyclone/maxine hunkel, char: mr. bones, char: nuklon/atom smasher/al rothstein, char: stargirl/courtney whitmore, creator: jerry ordway, group: infinity inc., publisher: dc comics, title: justice society of america

JSA #27
So, it looks like Jerry Ordway's going to be doing at least one JSA arc (writing and art both, possibly -- definitely for this first issue) before Willingham takes over.

GOOD.

The mere beginnings of the plot that we see in this issue still appear to be of much higher quality than what Geoff Johns produced in his final throes on the title.

I'm just going to post the first 4 pages, because the rest are so intertwined that cherry-picking anything from them would require tons of explanation that I don't have time to write up.

So, I avoided Final Crisis as much as possible -- is this Global Peace Agency (presumably that's the word, given the acronym) a plot element that came out of that, or is it something Ordway just came up with for his JSA run?

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thokstar
2009-05-31 09:54 pm UTC (link)

So, I avoided Final Crisis as much as possible -- is this Global Peace Agency (presumably that's the word, given the acronym) a plot element that came out of that, or is it something Ordway just came up with for his JSA run?

Yeah. It seems to be a kind of sort of replacement for Checkmate, for whatever reason Morrison thinks that is necessary. Theoretically, Final Crisis: Escape will explain more about it, but it's also doing the Prisoner thing.

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	seawolf10 2009-05-31 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	A Morrison creation. huge sigh Oh, joy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

bluefall
2009-05-31 10:17 pm UTC (link)

for whatever reason Morrison thinks that is necessary

I can't speculate as to Morrison's reasoning, but "Checkmate" says to me, "spy agency with its own concerns, probably trying to do mostly the right thing with a certain amount of self-serving agenda and an MO fairly dependent on who's in charge," while "Global Peace Agency" sort of screams "hoshit it's Big Brother these guys will do HORRIBLE THINGS for YOUR OWN GOOD." The first is asking for a sensible, evenhanded treatment. The second is begging to become a boilerplate creepy, evil spider-in-the-shadows. You might have been able to get away with a cheerfully forthright statement of benevolence like putting "global peace" in your actual name back in the Silver Age, but in the modern age it's begging for trouble. So at a guess, Morrison was either trying for that Silver Age simplicity, or more likely, setting up for an oh-so-clever subversion.

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	thokstar 2009-05-31 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	Wikipedia actually claims that the GPA dates back to the Kirby OMAC series, so it could also just be Morrison's Kirby fetish (and which also suggests the tone the group will take.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-05-31 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	OH GOD OH GOD MOTHAFUCKIN' MR. BONES IS ALIVE FUCK YEAH!!!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-05-31 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Also, haha, halo thar Mistar Bibbowski! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-05-31 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	Hah, I wondered if it was that same guy who I vaguely remembered befriending Superman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: I feel the same. icon_uk 2009-06-01 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Apart from the rhyming... (Reply to this) (Parent)