WorstThingUS
06-02-2009, 01:16 PM
So there's a preview of the James Robinson JLA spin-off series, which is now a mini-series, at Newsarama: http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=28366
I've never been one to be influenced by art, but the artwork almost makes me want to pick this up. However, Robinson's recent disappointing run on Superman puts me off as does the entire "amnesia" premise of this series, not to mention its incredibly poor origin depiction in JLA (though this does try to correct that horrific depiction of Hal, Ollie and Dinah as a bunch of immature teenagers rather than full grown adults who have literally been to hell and back). A pro-active JLA both under the JLA (JLA Task Force) and separate (JLA Elite) had been done and there's even been an independent team (The Outsiders under Nightwing), so why are they acting like this is even a remotely new or radical idea? Given that Hal is one of the JLA's founders why does he have to leave to do it? He has every right to steer the JLA in this direction or at the very least start up the Task Force again and it makes no sense that anyone would begrudge him this.
Sorry, but the very premise of this commits the cardinal sin of changing the characters to suit the story (something I'm seeing far too much of in Robinson's work) rather than the other way around, so I'll have to wait for another series to enjoy Cascioli's art.
How do others feel now having seen a bit of the actual book?
I've never been one to be influenced by art, but the artwork almost makes me want to pick this up. However, Robinson's recent disappointing run on Superman puts me off as does the entire "amnesia" premise of this series, not to mention its incredibly poor origin depiction in JLA (though this does try to correct that horrific depiction of Hal, Ollie and Dinah as a bunch of immature teenagers rather than full grown adults who have literally been to hell and back). A pro-active JLA both under the JLA (JLA Task Force) and separate (JLA Elite) had been done and there's even been an independent team (The Outsiders under Nightwing), so why are they acting like this is even a remotely new or radical idea? Given that Hal is one of the JLA's founders why does he have to leave to do it? He has every right to steer the JLA in this direction or at the very least start up the Task Force again and it makes no sense that anyone would begrudge him this.
Sorry, but the very premise of this commits the cardinal sin of changing the characters to suit the story (something I'm seeing far too much of in Robinson's work) rather than the other way around, so I'll have to wait for another series to enjoy Cascioli's art.
How do others feel now having seen a bit of the actual book?