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Some characters get all the love, all the fan art. Jesse isn’t one of those so Mike Collymore decided to redress the balance with this fabulous piece.
[Source: Deviant Art]
Tag: Jesse Quick
Discuss thisJustice League of America (vol. 2) #48
Credits
- Writer
- James Robinson
- Penciller
- Pow Rodrix, Robson Rocha
- Inker
- Rob Hunter, Norm Rapmund, Don Ho, Derek Fridolfs, Rich Perrotta
- Colourist
- Ulises Arreola, Zarathus
- Letterer
- Rob Leigh
- Assistant Editor
- Rex Ogle
- Associate Editor
- Adam Schlagman
- Editor
- Eddie Berganza
- Cover Penciller
- Mark Bagley
- Cover Inker
- Jesus Merino
- Cover Colourist
- Nei Ruffino
- Variant Cover Artist
- Ryan Sook, Fernando Pasarin, Joel Gomez
- Variant Cover Colourist
- Randy Mayor, Carrie Strachnan
Quotes
The JSA All-Star’s Tomcat to the JSA’s Wildcat after seeing the JLA’s Congorilla: Dad, does very team have a talking animal?
Congorilla: I’ve looked at some of the Charlies who’ve been in the J.L.A. before us and you know what?… we’re not so bad.
Synopsis “The Dark Things Part Five”
The Starheart’s possession of Green Lantern Alan Scott and his children Jade and Obsidian has brought the massed forces of the JLA, JSA, and JSA All-Star’s to the Starheart’s lunar fortress. Even together they are hard pressed to counter the sheer power and multitude of the Starheart’s constructs. Now the siblings Jade and Obsidian have merged into a gestalt entity that expresses the Starheart’s unique power of darkness and light.
Justice League of America (vol. 2) #46
Credits
- Writer
- James Robinson
- Penciller, Cover Penciller
- Mark Bagley
- Inker
- Rob Hunter, Norm Rapmund
- Colourist
- Ulises Arreola
- Letterer
- Rob Leigh
- Assistant Editor
- Rex Ogle
- Editor
- Eddie Berganza
- Cover Inker
- Jesus Merino
- Cover Colourist
- Nei Ruffino
- Variant Cover Artist
- Francis Manapul
- Variant Cover Colourist
- Brain Buccellato
Quotes
Congorilla: Funny though, your father said much the same thing to me once.Jesse Quick: Wait, you knew my dad?Congorilla: For a short time.Jesse Quick: An adventure back in the day?Congorilla: Back in the day, absolutely. Adventure? Not quite. We made a travel documentary about Africa. 1953, as I recall.
Donna Troy: Wow, he was tough. I’ve taken on Robot Baba Yagas that weren’t as hard to beat. Actually that’s a live. I’ve never met a Baba Yaga, robot or not, let alone fought one. I just thought it’d be cool to say.
Synopsis: “The Dark Things Part One”
Previously in JLA #44 and JLA #45: The Starheart – the vessel created by the Guardians of the Universe to hold the wild and chaotic magic left over from the early universe – is approaching the Earth. A part of its power originally flowed through Alan Scott’s Green Lantern battery and ring and through the birth mark of his daughter Jade. Her resurrection during the Brightest Day awoken the Starheart and it has brought her to Earth. The Justice League and Society have teamed up to help her, but Alan Scott and her brother Obsidian (Todd Rice) have already been possessed by the Starheart’s magical/chaotic energies.
JLA/JSA Preview and Bagley Interview
DC’s Source Blog has posed up a five-page preview of next week’s JLA/JSA crossover including a great Liberty Belle/Jesse Quick cover. The interior artwork looks fantastic and I like the way the Supergirl and Nightwing’s Batman’s monologs play off each other. There are two double-page spreads that DC had posted as individual pages. I’ve pasted them back together and have included them below.
To coincide with the start of the crossover Newsarama has interviewed Mark Bagley, the JLA artist who is pulling double duty on the JLA and JSA chapters. He talks about meeting Alan Scott’s original aritst,
Green Lantern is fun to draw because I knew Marty Nodell [the character's co-creator], and hung out with him and his wife a lot over the years. They both passed recently, and it was fun to know them. I can see me doing that in 10 or 15 years, just doing convention after convention and just hanging out with fans and doing sketches and stuff.
and about the differences in his inkers styles,
I’ve got two inkers anyway. JLA is 30 pages a month. I think we might be going back to 22 in the future, but for now, we’re splitting it up between Rob Hunter and Norm Rapmund. Norm is doing 10 pages out of 30, and Rob is doing 20. Rob didn’t think he could do 30 and do a quality job. He likes to have a life, whereas, I don’t have a life, so that works out well. I think during the crossover, Norm is inking the JSA issues and Rob is inking the JLA issues.
They have similar styles. Norm’s a little more controlled than Rob is. And Rob’s a little more expressive with his inks. It actually doesn’t look bad next to each other. Aside from that, they have similar sensibilities when inking a page. So I don’t mind having two inkers as much as I normally would.
It’s harder to ink than you’d think. Inking isn’t tracing. And when you bring as much to the book as these guys do… especially Rob, who I recently talked to about even pulling back on some of the detail, some of the really strong inking that he does. Sometimes less is more. He’s really working hard at it and it looks amazing. I think he’s becoming an even better inker.
It’s a nice interview and Mark scotches earlier rumours by saying he’s having a blast on JLA and is on the book for the foreseeable future.
Robinson interviewed about JLA/JSA crossover
Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers has interviewed JLA writer James Robinson about his upcoming JLA/JSA crossover. He talks about how Jade’s return heralds the arrival of the full Starheart – the source of her and her father’s powers.
Alan Scott derives his Green Lantern powers from a different source than the Guardians of the Universe’s Green Lantern Corps (GLC). As part of their foundation of the GLC the Guardians gathered the remaining wild magic in the Universe together into a single orb called the Starheart (so-called because it was hidden within a star). A fragment of that orb made its way to Earth where – via some sort of strange resonant sympathy with the GLC – it caused itself to become a mystic duplicate of a GLC Lantern battery and Power Ring. It’s that magical ring that Alan Scott uses in his adventures as Green Lantern. It’s also the power that Jade has inherited.
Robinson described to Newsarama the troubles that the Starheart’s approach to Earth causes,
What her [Jade's] resurrection does, as you saw in Issue #44, is it brings the whole Starheart to Earth, which in turn affects the world. It affects every meta with magic or elemental powers, which are two of the main energies that are within the Starheart. It’s also causing the Earth to have terrible natural disasters of various kinds. And most specifically, it affects Alan Scott, Obsidian and Jade.
It’s all basically the Starheart, which has the mind of an infant, having fun as it learns about the planet. It needs to be controlled. That’s always what it wants. And Alan Scott had the ability and the will to do that, to control it…at least when it was a small amount of the Starheart that was on Earth. But once it’s all of the Starheart, it’s about finding a way to control that.
He also talks about coming back to the Justice Society after relaunching it with Geoff Johns a decade ago. There are also the standard questions we’ve heard at the last couple of conventions “What about Batman”, but it’s a nice promo interview that recaps a lot of what he’s been reported as telling convention audiences lately.
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