Last Wednesday (or Thursday if you’re in the UK) saw the publication of the final issue of Dwayne McDuffie’s tenure on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. It was also the conclusion to his final arc, “Welcome to Sundown Town”, which featured the integration of the Milestone characters into the DC Universe. The inclusion was nicely folded in and acknowledged that the Milestone crew and their city use to be on a different Earth.
The remnants of the Justice League – Zatanna, Green Lantern John Stewart, Firestorm, Vixen – are joined by the Milestone heroes Icon and Hardware in a fight to save the mystic Dharma from an attack by the stellar vampire Starbreaker. Along for the ride are Doctor Light (the Japanese solar scientist, not the supervillain) and a gun slinging Bruce Wayne from an imaginary universe.
I rather liked this story arc, but the conclusion felt a little uneven. The storyline left like we leaking characters with each issue – as if the dwindling League was actually mirroring the behind the scene politics. I also felt the final story arc, “Welcome to Sundown Town”, was too long. It could have done with clear space between the Shadow Thief/Shadow Cabinet skirmish and the final confrontation with Starbreaker.
While JLA #34 was the last McDuffie issue it did feature the first fill-in pencil art by Adrian Syaf and according to his deviantART page its his first published DC work. Unfortunately it also featured five different inkers. Each of them is really good in their own right, but the switch from one style to another is noticeable in one or two places.
So, JLA #34. Not a bad issue to end a run on, but not the greatest.
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