A review by marimoose
Justice League, Vol. 1: Origin by Geoff Johns
4.0
SUPERFICIALITY ALERT: I picked this volume up because yes, gasp, oh my, I thought the artwork was frellin' pretty.
I read a lot of comics (and thensome), though usually not of the superheroes on a grand scale. And with the amount of pages and volumes superhero comics can fill, I don't really have time to rehash past history and stories, and what I've read about the characters I read through profiles I find online. And I play the games and watch the movies, obviously.
That said, I am not one to shy away from things that strike me as interesting. Say what you will about the New-52 reboots and low story quality, but when I inadvertently stumbled into my first Comic Con panel unleashing this DC Comics overhaul, I was undeniably intrigued. It helped that I really liked the artwork.
UNSUPERFICIALITY ALERT: The New-52 is not perfect, and it tries a bit harder to appeal to the younger generation, and there's, as usual, a severe lack of empowered women in the reintroduction of these superheroes.
I suppose there's Wonder Woman. I can forgive Wonder Woman her fight-whatever-evil-is-out-there mentality (and thank the divine heavens that she's competent), but here's hoping the writers wise up and give her, you know, something more than just that carnal need to smash and swipe things. I mean, come on, she's supposed to be imbued with Athena's wisdom. Would it have been too much to ask that she had been trained by the goddess of war herself, and not Ares as these storylines are suggesting?
All that said, the most general gripe I seem to be seeing in reviews is that the story doesn't pan out very well to the old fans. It probably doesn't. Heck, I wished there had been more development per character, and more pages to see them exchange introductions. And the writing may not have been the best in the DC historical universe, but to me, the volume gave me an introduction of some of the major players of the rebooted DC universe. That in itself did the trick.
I read a lot of comics (and thensome), though usually not of the superheroes on a grand scale. And with the amount of pages and volumes superhero comics can fill, I don't really have time to rehash past history and stories, and what I've read about the characters I read through profiles I find online. And I play the games and watch the movies, obviously.
That said, I am not one to shy away from things that strike me as interesting. Say what you will about the New-52 reboots and low story quality, but when I inadvertently stumbled into my first Comic Con panel unleashing this DC Comics overhaul, I was undeniably intrigued. It helped that I really liked the artwork.
UNSUPERFICIALITY ALERT: The New-52 is not perfect, and it tries a bit harder to appeal to the younger generation, and there's, as usual, a severe lack of empowered women in the reintroduction of these superheroes.
I suppose there's Wonder Woman. I can forgive Wonder Woman her fight-whatever-evil-is-out-there mentality (and thank the divine heavens that she's competent), but here's hoping the writers wise up and give her, you know, something more than just that carnal need to smash and swipe things. I mean, come on, she's supposed to be imbued with Athena's wisdom. Would it have been too much to ask that she had been trained by the goddess of war herself, and not Ares as these storylines are suggesting?
All that said, the most general gripe I seem to be seeing in reviews is that the story doesn't pan out very well to the old fans. It probably doesn't. Heck, I wished there had been more development per character, and more pages to see them exchange introductions. And the writing may not have been the best in the DC historical universe, but to me, the volume gave me an introduction of some of the major players of the rebooted DC universe. That in itself did the trick.