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There is something odd about the listings for JLA on the DC Comics website. The listing for JLA #34 says it is being written by Len Wein, not a big deal as we know he’s writing a fill-in block. However, news that Dwayne McDuffie had been fired came at the same time that JLA #33 hit the stands and that issue concluded with a cliff-hanger. The listing for JLA #35 and JLA #36 also list Wein as the writer.
All the Wein issues feature a Royal Flush Gang story so what’s happened to the conclusion to McDuffie’s last tale? Well, McDuffie wrote a script for the conclusion, and there is an oddity with the description of Wein’s stories. JLA #34 is described as,
“The cards are against the remnants of the Justice League! And those cards are the Royal Flush Gang! Can even Superman and Wonder Woman save a team whose luck has run out? Featuring the deadly return of an old foe in part 1 of a 2-part story.”
JLA #35 is described as,
“The cards are stacked against the remnants of the Justice League! And those cards are the Royal Flush Gang! Can even Superman and Wonder Woman save a team whose luck has run out? Featuring the deadly return of an old foe.”
and JLA #36 is described as,
“In part 2 of the 3-part “Royal Flush” arc, it’s the Justice Society of America villain Roulette vs. the JLA’s old foe, Amos Fortune. And the stakes are high as the two baddies pit the JLA against itself!”
The most consistent reading of those blurbs is that the originally solicited JLA #34 story actually starts in JLA #35 and is now three parts rather than two (more breathing room for DC?). That would then leave JLA #34 free for the last part of McDuffie’s story to be published in sequence.
Updated to add: Well Ed Benes has certainly done a cover for JLA #34 that looks like its the conclusion to McDuffie’s story.
Updated once again: Apparently, DC have released a corrected version of the listing for JLA #34, they just haven’t made it widely known and neither have they updated their own website:
In Justice League of America #34, written by Dwayne McDuffie with art by Eddy Barrows and Ruy Jose, the “Starbreaker” will conclude as the universe is once again threatened as a cosmic vampire shows his true self.
The story originally solicited for #34 will now appear in #35.
From the Comics Continuum. Nice to know those guys still get the scoop once in a while.
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