Justice League of America (vol. 2) #58


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Issue Credits

Writer
James Robinson
Penciller
Daniel Sampere and Miguel Sepulveda
Inker
Wayne Faucher and Miguel Sepulveda
Colourist
Andrew Dalhouse
Letterer
Rob Leigh
Editor
Rex Ogle and Eddie Berganza
Cover Colourist
Andrew Dalhouse
Cover Penciller
Brett Booth
Cover Inker
Norm Rapmund
Variant Cover Artist
Aaron Lopresti
Variant Cover Colourist
Hi-Fi

Quotes

Atom: Big green-blue light says “follow me,” I follow.

Synopsis "Eclipso Rising Part Five: The Destined and the Dying"

Eclipso, the former spirit of vengeance, seeks to kill god by destroying the planet Earth. He has eclipsed a group of heroes and villains, each of whom has some power over shadows, and has led them in a successful assault on the Emerald City of the Starheart. Using the captured Starheart energy Eclipso summoned and apparently killed the Spectre. Then with power stolen in turn from the Spectre Eclipso cleaved the moon in two.
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Peter Milligan JL Dark interview at CBR

Justice League Dark writer Peter Milligan has given an interview to CBR about the upcoming book.

First, the name. It was one of those titles that for a while, I think we were all seeing it as a kind of working title. But the longer we used it, the harder it was to call the book anything else. And none of the other names we came up with described the book as well.

He also talks about Deadman’s position on the team and acknowledges that Constantine and Zatanna have prior history in the relationship department. The interview is fairly light, but interesting nevertheless. What makes it worth checking out is the fantastic artwork by JLD artist Mikel Janin.

I’m beginning to change my mind on this title. JLD is something that really hasn’t been done before, but its being done by a writer who know the characters. This may end up being the best of the three Justice League titles.

JL line up toon tumbled?

Is this our first look at the full post-Flashpoint Justice League?  Toon Tumblers are a merchandising company who produced DC and Marvel Comics branded glasses and pitchers. The above artwork was posted to their Facebook page as an SDCC exclusive. They’ll be producing a line of tumblers with a wrap around of the JL for SDCC.

The obvious guess would be that the figures to either side are other members of the JL. These include Deadman, Atom, an unknown woman, and Firestorm on the left and Green Arrow, Hawkman, a blond-haired woman, and Mera on the right. The blond could be Black Canary, but she looks like she’s not in a costume (she’s wearing a coat and scarf).

Jim Lee commented (somewhere I’ll have to dig it out and repost) that they were taking a slightly more corporate look on the Justice League costumes. You can see this with the collars on Aquaman, GL, Superman, and Batman, but also in the shape of the belts/waist detail on GL, Aquaman, WW, Superman, and the Flash. It’s not big stuff, but a lot of subtle stuff. The Batman look reminds me of that from Arkham Asylum and works well – he’s a guy who needs that type of protection – but I’m less sold on Superman’s segment look.

Updated to add that: female character on the left is identified online as Element Woman (DC Women Kick Ass) and the right-hand blond woman is possibly a character called Miranda Shrieve (Blog@Newsarama), both are Flashpoint characters.

[via: DC Women Kicking Ass]

Who is the August General In Iron?

I’ve noticed that we’re getting hits for searches on the “August General In Iron” so I’ve posted up a full profile on the character. He’s “China’s Captain America” and is due to become a member of Dan Jurgens’ post-Flashpoint Justice League International. I’ve been intrigued by the character ever since he first appeared in an early issue of 52. Writing this profile was a lot of fun as its involved reading around Chinese history and that isn’t something I was too familiar with beforehand. Continue reading →

Where will the old JL creators be in Sept’ 11?


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Before & After Table

Old Title Old Crew New Title New Crew
Justice League of America (vol. 2) James Robinson & Brett Booth Justice League (vol. 2) Geoff Johns & Jim Lee
Justice League: Generation Lost Judd Winick & Aaron Lopresti/Joe Bennett/Fernando Dagnino Justice League International (vol. 3) Dan Jurgens & Aaron Lopresti
Young Justice (vol. 2) Art Baltazar/Franco & Mike Norton (continues) Greg Weisman/Kevin Hopps & Christopher Jones
Justice League Dark Peter Milligan & Mikel Janin

Writers

  • According to Bleeding Cool Pre-Flashpoint JLA writer James Robinson, who is noticeably absent from the list of DC reboot writers, is already working on a new comics project with several issues already written. Robinson has previously said he has a Shade series in development and was in-line for the Hawkman series before it was given to Tony Daniel.
  • Pre-Flashpoint Justice League: Generation Lost writer Judd Winick will be writing Batwing (African’s Batman) and Catwoman.
  • Art Baltazar and Franco were the writers of the first six issues of Young Justice (YJ #6 ships in July). They continue to write Tiny Titans for DC’s Johnny DC line.

Artists

  • Pre-Flashpoint JLA artist Brett Booth becomes the post-Flashpoint artist on Teen Titans. His last JLA issue was #57 so one assumes he’s already moved onto those duties.
  • Pre-Flashpoint Generation Lost pencil and ink team Aaron Lopresti and Matt Ryan are moving over on to the new Justice League International title making them the only Justice League creators who are carried over after Flashpoint.
  • The other two Generation Lost pencillers Joe Bennett and Fernando Dagnino will respectively be moving on to Deathstroke and DnA’s Resurrection Man.
  • There is no word in the September listings of the inkers Jack Jadson and Raul Fernandez.
  • Mike Norton was the artist for Baltazar and Franco’s Youngo Justice run. He isn’t listed in DC’s September listings, but continues to pencil Fear Itself: Youth Revolt for Marvel Comics.

Young Justice (vol. 2) #4


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Issue Credits

Writer
Art Baltazar and Franco
Artist
Mike Norton
Colourist
Zac Atkinson
Letterer
Carlos M. Mangual
Editor
Jim Chadwick and Michael McCalister
Cover Artist
Mike Norton
Cover Colourist
Alex Sinclair

Quotes

Robin: You didn’t take my utility belt.
Hook: Wait… your what now?
Robin: You never took my utility belt. You know, the thing that lets us escape.

Synopsis "By Hook or By Web"

Previously: Batman had agreed to set up a new covert faction of the Justice League as a training ground for the next generation of heroes, but some of them couldn’t wait for their first mission. Aqualad and Kid Flash have joined Robin’s investigation into a series of assassinations at companies connected with the Cadmus Lab. They deduced that Farano Enterprises CEO Selena Gonzalez would be the next target, but their bungled attempt to protect her only served to get them captured by the would be assassins – the League of Shadows’s Hook and Black Spider.

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