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perletwo (perletwo) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-05 14:43:00

Entry tags:

char: batman/bruce wayne, char: big barda/barda free, char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: gypsy/cynthia reynolds, char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz, char: maxwell lord, char: superman/clark kent, creator: adam hughes, creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, group: justice league of america, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league of america

Mr. Miracle's funeral, Justice League America #40
I had a request in an earlier JLI post I did for a page of Superman and Batman talking after Mr. Miracle's funeral. Naturally, I can't just do the one page, because the whole funeral is so awesome. Six pages of a 22-page comic, plus preview (plus a few non-comic images), not my scans.

So yeah, starts out with big fight with Despero, which J'onn ends...

Never let it be said that the JLI doesn't know how to behave itself at a funeral...

The requested post-funeral page, and its aftermath...

The issue ends with Orion visiting Scott's grave, and musing that he'll have to look up this Justice League. :-)

BTW, this seems as good a post as any to throw this out there. It didn't strike me back in the 80s because I hadn't seen the movie, but now that I've got both the first JLI trade and the Omen series box set, I'm wondering if deMatteis modeled his Max Lord on Sam Neill as the adult Damien Thorn? Check it out:

What say you, s_d? Do we have a match?

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	foxhack 2009-07-05 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	That's really odd. Max Lord didn't look like that in the early issues. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-05 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't - check out this partial page from issue 2 of the Giffen/deMatteis run, then called justice league of america: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-07-05 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I won't deny the fact that his design is VERY inspired by Sam Neill, as posted here. I never noticed this until it was pointed out. :) Edit: In fact, going back and imagining Max as Sam Neill during his heel turn before the recent Crisis... makes him a teensy bit more badass. Sam Neill can act like a bastard if he wants to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-05 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	He really can - around the same time I got the Omen box set, I got a copy off eBay of a weird little movie called Possession he was in with Isabelle Adjani in which he goes homicidally mad, made the same year as Omen 3 - it was a good year for Sam Neill bastardly roles, I guess! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-05 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	I always thought it was at least supposed to be Neill, and I'd guessed Damien. So good I'm not the only one to have thought that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thebat_man 2009-07-07 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	Sam Neill is definitely a dead ringer for Max. I didn't realize that. Great find. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-07-05 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, to the mods, I'd like to suggest a new tag: "Who does that character look like?", which should be used in cases like these, when a character looks a lot like a real person. :D (Reply to this)

schala_kid
2009-07-05 07:48 pm UTC (link)

"You don't know me you never will"

And then they became BFF but it kind of sucks that even after Bruce warmed up to him and after all that they have gone through and after his "death" that Clark still thinks that Bruce doesn't like him ("he barely tolerated me" he says in JLofA #31 and Wonder Woman tells him otherwise).

Bruce has done a lot for Clark and he's one of the few people who he jokes with about things, I wonder why Clark thinks that? and I am pretty sure Bruce doesn't know he thinks that way either.

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	schala_kid 2009-07-05 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Also man oh man how many funerals have the League gone through with the suppose decease coming back! Also I just noticed Highfather hiding in the tree there. And lol at Barda hitting Max. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-05 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	I figured that was probably Highfather. But what gives with the tiger-tail? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-07-05 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	... That's his cane. Shadowed by the tree's leaves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-05 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	... ...OK, now i see it. But I swear the way those leaves are stippled, I still get 'tiger tail' off it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schala_kid 2009-07-05 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	You're not the only one I had to do a triple take to get it in my head that it was a staff and not a tail. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-07-05 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Yup. I was watching Riley Ace of spies about a month ago and couldn't believe how young Sam was. (Reply to this)

	mysteryfan 2009-07-06 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Agreed on the match. Who wrote the post-funeral page? Do you know around what year? I am fascinated by the level of extreme Bat-Dickery towards Superman. (Reply to this) (Thread)

perletwo
2009-07-06 02:14 am UTC (link)

The issue is July 1990, and the story credits are Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis.

It may simply be that Bats, being our overcontrolling Bats, is blaming himself for Scott's "death" and the Big Blue Boy Scout, in his guileless way, is hitting on every guilty nerve pointing out that more of them could die ~~and there's not a thing you can do about it, Brucie!~~.

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	runespoor7 2009-07-06 06:33 am UTC (link)
	more of them could die ~~And especially because you care about them, Brucie!~~ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	superfan1 2009-07-06 06:55 am UTC (link)
	Even though there is tension between them, it sweet how superman wants confines in batman about his concerned about the jl. (Reply to this)

	faile_neume 2009-07-06 09:57 am UTC (link)
	I can't work out who it is that leads Barda away after punching Max? Especially seeing as their hair colour seems to change. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-06 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Hard to say for sure, but possibly Booster? His looks long in back like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	faile_neume 2009-07-07 06:29 am UTC (link)
	He has what looks like brown hair initially though. I think it's the person that is standing on Barda's right when they are all around the coffin. And Booster is standing opposite her. I'm not really familiar with the League at this time so I don't know who it could be. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bruinsfan 2009-07-06 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	I recall thinking at the time this was published that Hughes was definitely using Sam Neil as his photo reference to base Max on. Didn't really pick up on the resemblance when Kevin Maguire was doing the art earlier, though. (Reply to this)

	thebat_man 2009-07-07 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! I love this issue. (Reply to this)

	thebat_man 2009-07-07 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Another Justice League request: Justice League International #19 where Guy fights Lobo, Batman meets Lobo, Batman recruits Superman, Beetle and Booster tries to recruit Flash and Batman recruits Hawkman and Hawkwoman. (Reply to this)