Justice League #16 Discussion/Spoilers

[Aquacatlungfish]

The Graves issues were good? LOL. One wonders what your definations of piss and turds are. Like I say, each to his own.

I liked the first issue and then it went waaaaay downhill from there. Graves has the worst motivation for a villain ever.

So...one scene where Superman simply suggests that she wears glasses to dinner is her being a "moron who needs to be schooled by Superman"?????

You, sir (like the majority of comic book fans) are reading way too much into the smallest, most unimportant things.

Wonder Woman has done nothing for Superman except be an inconstantly written idiot casually switching between brutal uninteresting warrior and idiotic school girl.

[Zoch]

I thought this was a good issue so far I been enjoying throne of atlantis and the atlanteans seem really strong now Aquaman able send Superman flying and Orm laid out both Wonder Woman and Superman with whole magic lightning overall thought was a good issue.

[protege]

I liked this issue; I'm more and more curious with what Arthur's standing with Atlantis will be after this. And as to the new recruits; Still no Lady luck? I'm beginning to think we'll never see her. Instead we get Goldrush. And i wonder how the JL is going to feel about JLA poaching their recruits. That being said- why couldn't Vixen and Firestorm still sign up?

[Jabare]

I like how everyone here has a problem with Superman being koed by magical lightening...

But noone seems to mention that Wonder Woman, a demigod, the daughter of ZEUS got koed by magical lightening.

If anything it was Wonder Woman who jobed to Ocean Master not Superman.

Wonder Woman has always been extremely resistant to magic.

It was sustained so i Have no Problem. If it was just a shot of it she would have been able to shake it off but he kept raining it down on them till they were out.
Wonder Woman has always been extremely resistant to magic.

If only WW's bracelets were STILL working like that below:





"The special Amazon metal in my bracelets acts as a lightning rod - - attracting lightning without harm to me".

Oh well...



WW must be thinking during that sustained magical lightning:
"...forgot...to use...m-m-my...bracelets..."
OR
"...being...Zeus'...daughter?... U-u-useless..."

just came across this on youtube.

Also on Wonder Woman getting shocked. Isn't she getting shot by an Atlantean soldier in the previous panel, so she's already stunned before Orm unleashes his massive lightning attack?

[President Kang]

So I just read, like, a lot of Justice League books, like about 10 issues worth, that had been sitting around for a few months (guess I trade-waited, heh.) and I do enjoy the more comic-booky vibe of them all (hell of a lot crammed into all those panels, though), I thought the Graves issues were alright, mostly because of the art, and the Cheetah two-parter had a nice twist at the end. The big, crazy spectacle is what I enjoy about the book and he does toss in some good character moments, and what I really enjoy is seeing the different combos of leaguers pair off for a moment or two. the Shazam backup has gotten consistently better after that 0 issue and now it's really starting to get a roll on. As for this Throne of Atlantis crossover, I don't read Aquaman and I'm not going to buy the tie-ins, although it's less of a tie in than a straight line continuing narrative, so I just finished issue #15 and Aquaman's angry brother is rising out of the sea, then issue #16 Aquaman is beating up Batman so I definitely missed something in between, but the (heavy) expository dialogue caught me up. And I kinda dig just reading disconnecting pieces of it like I said, it adds to the more comic-book-y vibe if I have to just play catch-up in the next issue of JI. This crossover is bound to finish in Aquaman, isn't it, though? Hurm. Ah well, maybe Johns will be nice enough in the next issue of JI to fill me in on what happened.

[dupersuper]

have you been reading Aquaman?

Black Manta's got a full on Deathstroke vibe going

So? Deathstroke is nothing to Superman.

Superman's still Superman but if you remember Rags Morales talking about a year ago in regards to Action Comics you'll remember he said they scaled his powers down. This is still the same Superman that got taken out by a train, and hurt by an electric chair.

That was over 5 years ago. This is supposed to be the same Superman who bench presses the weight of the Earth.

Johns has just lessened the gap between the heroes a little bit. Kind of like Bruce Timm did in Justice League

Leading to JL season 1...