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The Justice League reboot
I decided to pick it up because Johns can be a good writer when he's not overcome with the desire to get on his knees and suck off his favorite characters and the art being by Jim Lee at least mean that the art would pay for the book.
Honestly, the thing that bugs me about the book is how... unsurprisingly bland it is. Outside of one really dumb thing I'll talk about in about, it's a really generic uninspired reboot. The action is great, and the introduction of Cyborg has some nice emotional moments but otherwise it's middling Johns with way too slow pacing. (though stuff actually happens which is more than I can give Bendis' Avengers) It's really beautiful plodding set up. Superman looks way too young also, but eh.
Then there's the really stupid thing that happens halfway through when Batman and Green Lantern meet.
Batman.
Palms.
Green Latern's ring.
WHILE HE'S WEARING IT!
Now I love Batman as much as anyone with the social skills necessary to hang out on the internet, but seriously that's a semi-sentient piece of super-technology that's fixated on Hal for life. There's no way that should be able to happen. I'd normally chalk this up to people propping up Batman more than he should be, but Batman is one of the few characters Johns can't stand. My only theory is that he wanted to continue his path of making Batman a raging dick in every comic he writes, but instead it just made Hal look really incompetent.
I'll give another few issues to get a groove, but for newcomers I'd wait for Morrison's action comics and Snyder's Batman.
Comments
Jesus, I would shit blood if that happened.
^No, not Green Lantern. The writer, Geoff Johns. Whenever he writes Batman he always portrays him as a vindictive dick ("The last time you inspired anyone, Superman, was when you were dead!" Way to talk to your best friend, buddy.) and has repeatedly stated he thinks Bats is 'overrated'.
When written by most other writers Bats and GL are cool.
You should do the same for Batman :3c
And I've noticed a lot of people like Batman as a raging near-sociopath, probably for wish fulfillment reasons.
Fan interpretations of him being a dick are better anyways.
OH HAY MALK LIKES GRANT MORRISON WHAT A TWEEST!