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Guys.
Explain to me why, in my four years at SCAD, not one of my grew-up-on-the-classics professors, nor any of my delving-into-our-roots friends put a copy of Justice League International in my hands and said, "Read."
This is probably the best superhero comic I've ever read. Heck, it doesn't even feel like a superhero comic. I didn't know you could make Captain Marvel relevant to today (well, to the 80's, but still. And okay, Jeff Smith did, but that was supposed to be retro). But seriously. I don't think I've laughed so hard and so much at anything in awhile. Well, maybe some of the panels. But this is just...this is brilliant.
Man, I can't wait to share this thing with you, Cat. And Molly. Mo', I think you're gonna love this book. I am definitely going back for the second. And then, I guess, it'll get tricky, and I'll have to figure out how twenty-year-old comic chronology goes, and that'll be a headache as well. But it's telling that the only 1 star rating for this on Amazon is some jerk who says the stories and all are brilliant, but wah, they reprinted it on matte instead of glossy. (Why would you want glossy? I miss the days when comics looked this simple.)
This is a thing of beauty, and I love every single one of them. Even Guy. Maybe especially Guy. He makes Bender look like a considerate, caring, rational being.
Explain to me why, in my four years at SCAD, not one of my grew-up-on-the-classics professors, nor any of my delving-into-our-roots friends put a copy of Justice League International in my hands and said, "Read."
This is probably the best superhero comic I've ever read. Heck, it doesn't even feel like a superhero comic. I didn't know you could make Captain Marvel relevant to today (well, to the 80's, but still. And okay, Jeff Smith did, but that was supposed to be retro). But seriously. I don't think I've laughed so hard and so much at anything in awhile. Well, maybe some of the panels. But this is just...this is brilliant.
Man, I can't wait to share this thing with you, Cat. And Molly. Mo', I think you're gonna love this book. I am definitely going back for the second. And then, I guess, it'll get tricky, and I'll have to figure out how twenty-year-old comic chronology goes, and that'll be a headache as well. But it's telling that the only 1 star rating for this on Amazon is some jerk who says the stories and all are brilliant, but wah, they reprinted it on matte instead of glossy. (Why would you want glossy? I miss the days when comics looked this simple.)
This is a thing of beauty, and I love every single one of them. Even Guy. Maybe especially Guy. He makes Bender look like a considerate, caring, rational being.