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In hindsight it was a fairly obvious move. Once Dwayne McDuffie was fired from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA there was of course still one other writer at DC who was working on a JLA book. James Robinson’s CRY OF JUSTICE mini-series was originally to have been on ongoing project, but was turned into a limited series. Now DC’s The Source has announced that Robinson will be taking over the main ongoing JLA title.
“It’s a thrill to be given the reins of DC’s flagship team book and to know that my partner in crime(fighting) will be the esteemed Mark Bagley who’s dynamic storytelling skills I intend to make full use of. It’s further exciting/gratifying for me that I can dove-tail the events of Cry For Justice into the main book where post-Blackest Night will emerge a new team and a new exciting direction as they get caught up in the next wave of events building throughout the DCU.”
It’ll be interesting to see how Robinson preforms, but he’s no stranger to Justice League teams. Least we forget that it was James Robinson who created a version of Justice League Europe in STARMAN just so he could have them all assassinated by the Mist. Hopefully the Leaguers left over from McDuffie’s run will avoid that fate.
Joining James Robinson with be Mark Bagley who moved from Marvel to work on DC’s weekly TRINITY title. Kurt Busiek’s scripts gave Mark almost every single character in the DC Universe to draw so a JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA should be quite relaxing for him. In a recent CBR interview he noted that,
I occasionally wanted to strangle Kurt [Busiek] when I’d get the [Trinity] plots involving the entire DC Universe. I wish I could have been faster so [inker] Art Thibert and [colorist] Pete Pantazis would have had more time to do their jobs. They are both terrific, but I know we were all a bit compromised by the speed we had to work. Also I wish Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman had been in their “normal” forms for more of the story but that wasn’t what the story dictated.
Well it now look’s like he’ll get his chance with Justice League – providing DC can actually let Robinson and Bagley have the big guns back.
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