New TEEN TITANS and JUSTICE LEAGUE (w/ Spoilers)

[Hand of Vecna]

I vaguely recall having read a story some years ago that featured AMAZO, and he had the ability to mimic the powers of any member of the Justice League. Wave after wave of JL members were sent after him, and he just kept copying more and more powers, until Superman, realizing the android's parameters, announced that the Justice League was disbanded. With no Justice League, there were no Justice League members; with no Justice League members, there was no one to copy powers from, so AMAZO lost all the powers it had gained, and was stuck solely with its own measely abilities. It was quickly taken out afterwards.

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, that crazy-wonky logic was the work of Joe Kelly in JLA (ugh... Obsidian Age traumas resurfacing...). It was Ray Palmer (The Atom) who suggested that to Superman.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Only recently did they gove "adaptation" powers to Amazo (although he still looks corny, with the pointy ears and skullcap).

I believe it was early in Morrison's JLA in a story which didn't feature
Amazo except in the first couple of pages.

(Crisis Times Five, perhaps?)

 

[Klaus]

Quite possible. I missed the first two parts of Crisis Times Five... (boy, was that confusing!)

Y'know, I'm *this* close to selling my JLA, Nightwing, JSA and Titans collections...

 

[Viking Bastard]

Why?

 

[Nightfall]

Vecna,

I did mean Dormammu. I just can't spell ole Match Head's name.

Anyway we got a new thread folks. Talk there.

 

[Klaus]

Why?

1) They take too much space;

2) I lost the habit of rereading old comics;

3) Obsidian Age, Wally West joining the Elite, the new Leaguers (Faith, Major Disaster, "Apache Chief") are dreadfull, John Stewart is totally uncharacteristic, Batman and Wonder Woman having a thing...

4) Being totally underwhelmed by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahke...

 

[Chun-tzu]

4) Being totally underwhelmed by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahke...

But you know Kurt Busiek (writer of the Avengers vs JLA mini) takes over with #107, right? Most JLA fans are looking forward to it, I think.

BTW, I like Manitou Raven. Not that he's necessarily JLA material, but he's got potential.

 

[Viking Bastard]

1) They take too much space;

2) I lost the habit of rereading old comics;

For the moment, perhaps, but in a couple of years?

3) Obsidian Age, Wally West joining the Elite, the new Leaguers (Faith, Major Disaster, "Apache Chief") are dreadfull, John Stewart is totally uncharacteristic, Batman and Wonder Woman having a thing...

Well, I automatically assumed you didn't buy Kelly's run. That also isn't
something you sell, it's something you throw away.

Plus, I was more interested in why your could sell something as fantastic
as, say, JSA. Now, I myself am not liking Johns' Titans much and I can
understand people well not liking the current stories in Nightwing (even
though I'm liking 'em a lot). But JSA? The most consistantly good classic
style superhero action title on the market?

4) Being totally underwhelmed by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahke...

I wasn't as much underwhelmed as bored out of my wits.

But lighten up. Kurt Busiek is taking over. w00t! I just hope he doesn't
fall into the soap opera pit too much (as he sometimes does).

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, Kurt Busiek *is* a keen writer.

Now, of only they'd snag Bryan Hitch away from Ultimates...

Currently I'm starting to read the brazilian editions of Teen Titans and Outsiders (they're about to release issues #3 here).

The thing with JSA is that I thought it was amazing, but it became increasingly hard to track down issues...

I wonder if DC could start a membership program like CrossGen's ComicsOnTheWeb ($12 annual fee and you could read every CG comic in online format).

Back in the day I collected the brazilian editions of DC comics. They were half-sized, but each comic had 4-6 stories into them. I had comics dating back to pre-Crisis era (1983 comic where Superman and Supergirl battled WarWorld, J'onn J'onnz and the Spectre!) all they way down to the Brainiac 13 storyline when Ed McGuiness started taking over. But I was moving out of my parents' place and I had to sell my collection...