Justice League Unlimited #5
Story: Adam Beechen
Art: Carlo Barberi & Walden Wong
My monthly order often contains comics that I probably wouldn't buy if my only option was retail. Effectively, it works because I have an option to select Title X and Related Issues. Assuming that a Son of Title X mini series is produced, I would automatically receive it without needing to update my order.
This generally works pretty well, but it does produce oddities like this one.
Justice League Unlimited is obviously aimed at a younger audience, tying in as it does with an animated series (which I've never seen).
Predictably, for me to regard it as a top notch comic, I would probably ask for a little more depth, although as I'm sure we'll find out, this may not always be forthcoming.
Nonetheless, I started reading comics as a child, so I'm looking at this issue and wondering if this would have captured my imagination as a wee young thing.
You know, I don't think this was too bad. This is ostensibly a Blue Beetle solo outing, as we share his boredom during monitor duty at the JLA HQ.
There's a couple of jokey pages that I'm sure would've had mini-me chuckling away. Today, they at least made me smile. Not bad.
The Beetle checks in with his colleagues, only to find them with their hands full dealing with various emergencies.
Of course, it's not too long before our hero has his own hands full, being confronted with a pretty generic baddy. I'm not too sure if this is a baddy with a track record, or if he was created especially for the occasion. In fact, he is probably the most disappointing thing about this issue, being a bit generic even for my imaginary 10 year old taste. (Hell, when I was 10, I had Dr. Doom) . His incessant military schtick gets a bit much as well.
Realising that he's out gunned, the Beetle calls for help, which duly arrives in the form of the Green Lantern. Unfortunately, the Lantern is knocked out of the game almost immediately, causing a hasty rethink.
The Beetle quickly realises that brawn alone will not suffice and concocts a way to defeat his opponent by out-thinking him.
Post brawl he realises that perhaps an uneventful monitor duty is not so bad.
As I say, I fully realise that I am not target audience. That being said, this is pretty solid stuff. The script works, and for me, Barberi's art remains just the right side of cartoony to do the job in hand, particularly given the aforementioned audience.
A slightly jaded 4 out of 10 from me.
An enjoyable 7 out of 10 from mini-me
Art: Carlo Barberi & Walden Wong
My monthly order often contains comics that I probably wouldn't buy if my only option was retail. Effectively, it works because I have an option to select Title X and Related Issues. Assuming that a Son of Title X mini series is produced, I would automatically receive it without needing to update my order.
This generally works pretty well, but it does produce oddities like this one.
Justice League Unlimited is obviously aimed at a younger audience, tying in as it does with an animated series (which I've never seen).
Predictably, for me to regard it as a top notch comic, I would probably ask for a little more depth, although as I'm sure we'll find out, this may not always be forthcoming.
Nonetheless, I started reading comics as a child, so I'm looking at this issue and wondering if this would have captured my imagination as a wee young thing.
You know, I don't think this was too bad. This is ostensibly a Blue Beetle solo outing, as we share his boredom during monitor duty at the JLA HQ.
There's a couple of jokey pages that I'm sure would've had mini-me chuckling away. Today, they at least made me smile. Not bad.
The Beetle checks in with his colleagues, only to find them with their hands full dealing with various emergencies.
Of course, it's not too long before our hero has his own hands full, being confronted with a pretty generic baddy. I'm not too sure if this is a baddy with a track record, or if he was created especially for the occasion. In fact, he is probably the most disappointing thing about this issue, being a bit generic even for my imaginary 10 year old taste. (Hell, when I was 10, I had Dr. Doom) . His incessant military schtick gets a bit much as well.
Realising that he's out gunned, the Beetle calls for help, which duly arrives in the form of the Green Lantern. Unfortunately, the Lantern is knocked out of the game almost immediately, causing a hasty rethink.
The Beetle quickly realises that brawn alone will not suffice and concocts a way to defeat his opponent by out-thinking him.
Post brawl he realises that perhaps an uneventful monitor duty is not so bad.
As I say, I fully realise that I am not target audience. That being said, this is pretty solid stuff. The script works, and for me, Barberi's art remains just the right side of cartoony to do the job in hand, particularly given the aforementioned audience.
A slightly jaded 4 out of 10 from me.
An enjoyable 7 out of 10 from mini-me
posted by Geeflax at 8:41 PM
1 Comments:
I find it really intreiging to read that someone who lists 'Oscar and Lucinda' as one of their favorite reads is also a classic comic fan :)
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