JLA: Year One

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I am a huge fan of characterization and it’s an often overlooked aspect of writing in comics. In the books introduction Mark Waid writes, “No one remembers a plot.” He then challenges the reader to think of the plot of any James Bond film. I would be willing to take up that challenge even though the James Bond series doesn’t tend to be overly plot driven. To prove his point, Waid has written a story that is almost entirely character driven. It’s not like this hasn’t been done before with the JLA. Justice League International was almost entirely character driven but it was also quite funny. The problem is that a lot of the dialogue isn’t funny and some of the characterization is flat out weird. At one point, Black Canary is being helped out at her flower store by her mother when she suddenly flips out and uses her sonic scream to shatter the flower pot in her mother’s hands as well as all the pots in the vicinity. It’s a bizarre moment that makes Black Canary look unhinged and I don’t believe that was Waid’s intent.JLA Year One is very highly regarded and I do consider Mark Waid to be a superior writer although there is a massive gap between his best and worst work. Mark Waid’s Kingdom Come was also dialogue heavy but it never got tedious. There are a few writers like Alan Moore who can write dialogue heavy stories and keep them exciting but Moore also would never claim that plot is unimportant. It feels like Waid saw what had been done with the JLI and decided to have his hand at a humorous JLA but it just gets tiresome. Even the JLI tended to grate after awhile. For whatever reason, humor seems to be REALLY hard to pull off in comic books. I can count the number of laugh out loud comics I can recall reading on one finger. Comic strips seem to be a better medium for humor.I’m not sure if this story is intended to be in DC continuity or is an Elseworld story. I realize that after Crisis on Infinite Earths, Earth 1 and Earth 2 merged into a single Earth but did it also cause Black Canary to split into two people, a mother and daughter. I’ve never seen anywhere else where the JLA Canary was the daughter of some Golden Age Black Canary. The moments that suggest this might be a story out of continuity are few and I suspect that Waid did intend this to be the new legitimate origin of the JLA even if some of his ideas didn’t get carried on.I’ve been a fan of the JLA since the 1970’s but there is SO much more bad JLA than good. I would say that Year One is a superior JLA story and it’s certainly not devoid of a plot even if the plot is just an afterthought. The second half of the book has a lot less goofy banter and some actual seriousness. We find out Black Canary’s mother had an affair with a married member of the JSA and J’onn J’onzz is suspected of being a traitor. This kind of writing seems more in Waid’s wheelhouse. The fact that JLA Year One makes it into a lot of top 10 lists may be more of an indictment of the quality of JLA stories than a testimonial to this tale. I’ll give it four stars because even with its flaws it has its moments and I don’t regret the time I spent reading it.

Great origin

This is a good origion story, however there are a couple of characters missing and that seems to make this a collection of heros just trying to get along rather than a JSA story. The plot is good and the art is fine.While I enjoyed reading this book, there were many times it was just to easy to put down.

IT was the poorest year 1 origin story I have ever readEVER...bad...bad...bad.And the problem is that IT all goes awayWith a new crisis.

I have always heard really good things about this series but finally getting to read it I wasn't thrilled. First, I should say that Barry Kitson's art was spot on old school art. It fit perfectly and still looked contemporary. Waid and Augustyn's plot and dialogue is where the problems lied. Its one thing to try to evoke nostalgia but here the writers just seemed to copy ancient dialogue. The plot while large seemed so scattered its hard to imagine these heroes acting the way they did. Overall, this series added almost nothing to the legacies of these heroic staples.

This is a fairly forgettable origin story for the JLA that did very little wrong, to me. It was just lacking some sort of something to elevate it to something more special. There was nothing to point to in either the writing or art as being bad, just all fairly by the numbers.

I bought this graphic novel for just 15p - so excellent value for money!Even though second hand, it's in good quality.This portrays one version of the origins and formation of the Justice League. The story is interesting, and the artwork is solid.I have quite a collection of DC graphic novels, and this is one of the better ones. It's not easy offering a story that involves so many characters, but this was done well.If you're a fan of the Justice League, you'll probably like this graphic novel.

Mit JLA YEAR ONE haben Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn und Barry Kitson eine Liebeserklärung an die Superheldencomics des Golden- und Silver-Age geschaffen, die ihresgleichen sucht.1960 musste die Justice League gegen ihren ersten Gegner Kämpfen, Starro, ein riesiges Seestern-Alien, das die Erde erobern wollte. Damals, vor fast 60 Jahren, ging so etwas noch, und erstaunlicher Weise gelingt es den Autoren, die zugegebenermaßen etwas "alberne" Ursprungsgeschichte so aufzupeppen, dass sie zeitgemäß und spannend ist. Vor allem aber wird mit Humor und der bereits erwähnten Sympathie erzählt, und genau diese Mischung macht den Band zu einem Fest für Comic-Liebhaber.Im Zentrum steht vor allem die Teamfindung. Anders als zumeist Marvels Avengers kämpft die JLA nicht gegen-, sondern miteinander. Dazu bedarf es Vertrauen und Taktik, beides muss das neu gegründete Team erst erwerben.Als sich schließlich herausstellt, dass der Gegner übermächtig ist und von der JLA nicht bezwungen werden kann, kommt es zu einem großartigen Team Up mit den "alten" DC-Helden des Golden Age. Nach diesem Wiedersehensfest möchte man am liebsten all die alten Comics aus einer Zeit ausgraben, als die Guten einfach gut und die Bösen schlecht waren. Ach, was waren das für Zeiten...

Conseguí a buen precio, nuevo y sellado, bastante recomendable para conocer la era post crisis de Dc