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New JLI title?

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By Jason Kirk / 26 April 2011 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

It is the project that cannot be spoken about, but for a couple of conventions now we’ve had comments from Judd Winick that he absolutely, definitely cannot talk about what happens next in terms of the JLI characters. Well Bleeding Cool had taken a punt at the Bleeding Obvious and have put up a rumour that there will be a new Justice League International title.

Whether it’s by Generation Lost writer Judd Winick, or the classic team of DeMatteis and Giffen, I don’t know. And those pesky Non Disclosure Agreements that DC creators are currently all signing are doing everything to prevent me for finding out.

But I am intrigued. And it’s not the only exciting Justice League book I hear has been scheduled. More soon…

Unfortunately they don’t give any other details so we’re no further forward than we had been before.

We do, however, have some idea of how long we’ll have to wait. Judd Winick (who has to be the front-runner for the writer position) has recorded a Don’t Miss podcast for iFanboy where he talks about this weeks Justice League: Generation Lost #24 and in that he speculates that we should hear something (one way or another) in about a month.

What did interest me more than the “confirmation” of the rumour was Rich’s comments about the old JLI title:

It was the book that stopped me being a Marvel zombie in my tracks and opened the door fully, for me, to the DC Universe.

His co-writer Mark Seifert expands on that:

Rich is completely right about Justice League by Giffen and DeMatteis being a gateway into the DCU for a lot of people. Sure, we all read DKR, and Watchmen (and GA: Longbow Hunters, and so on), but this was the book that drew us in on a regular basis and got us to branch out into other titles.

I was always a DC fan, but the comments ring true.

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Judd Winick talking at WonderCon

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By Jason Kirk / 08 April 2011 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

The above video is a Comics Vine interview with Judd Winick where he discusses the experience of working on Justice League: Generation Lost.

Going in lock-step with Brightest Day was this fun roller-coaster where we did have not time to rethink things, but we did all the time. Quick changes. Lots of moves. Cliffhangers, cliffhangers,cliffhangers!

He goes on to say that, while some things are left open, the book does have a definitive ending. And when commenting on whether he’ll be sticking around with these characters Winick, with a knowing smile, teases “I can’t talk about that, at all”

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Winick reflects on Generation Lost at CBR

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By Jason Kirk / 23 February 2011 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

CBR’s Josie Campbell has interviewed Justice League: Generation Lost writer Judd Winick about his time on the book and the changes that he’s had to make to his story over the last twenty-issues. While coy on the fate of Jaime Reyes, the current Blue Beetle, but Winick did comment on the general thrust of the next few issues and where he’s going with Maxwell Lord:

I think for a lot of our longer readers, myself included, Max just went bad for the sake of going bad. I actually wanted to explain who Max is, where he comes from, why and what brought him here today — a monster to some, but a guy who’s trying to save the world, in his head. A lot of people, including internally, talked about it, that as much as this arc is about the current incarnation of Justice League International, this has really been about the story of Max Lord. So in these final issues, especially these couple coming up right now, we’ll be getting into how these guys tick. But the action is going to amp up in a ridiculous way in these last couple of issues. The big fight at the end takes place over a couple of issues.

He also describes how he’s learnt to make lemonade from other people’s plot lemons:

I was saddled with that [JMS's Wonder Woman reboot] suddenly, and I was like, OK, there’s a major thing coming up with Wonder Woman because she killed Max Lord! And [when] I sat down, I was like, oh, this is good! This is actually good! This is going to be really, really fun, this is going to make Max crazy that suddenly the whole world has forgotten Wonder Woman — just like he made the whole world forget him! Oh, my God! It’s great! That was not by my design at all, I wasn’t doing this to Wonder Woman, but it was coming from an outside source, and I just made lemonade. Really, it’s one of my favorite issues, because when Max finds out that the world has forgotten — I like how angry it makes him. He’s tossing stuff around and he’s screaming, “What the fuck do you mean, you don’t know who Wonder Woman is?” [Laughs]

It’s a quite a good interview, but Judd is very careful not to spoil any endings or any possible continuing stories.

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Judd Winick flies solo on Generation Lost.

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By Jason Kirk / 10 August 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

Judd Winick has revealed that he has taken over sole writing responsibility for Justice League: Generation Lost during an interview with Newsarama. Keith Giffen had already shifted from co-plotter and breakdowns, to just breakdowns, and now makes an exit to concentrate on other unannounced projects. Winick summed up the current state of the series,

Winick: This is the end of the first act. I’ve broken it up into a three-act process, and Issue #6 was the conclusion of Act I, where the team has been brought together. The Captain Atom issue is sort of a dénouement. The team is brought together and we learn what the stakes really are. Now, moving forward, the team is going to be incredibly proactive, as Booster’s laid down the gauntlet. Before, they’ve been chasing signals and hemming and hawing about this or that.

Now there’s an entirely different attitude. It’s like, screw it — we’re going after him. We’re going to scour the Earth and take him down. He can’t manipulate us. He’s brought us together, so fine — we’re going to turn it on him. He’s made it clear that he wants us together, but not going after him. We’re going to take him down and destroy him.

So in these upcoming issues are some very action-packed issues. There is a whole lot of superhero fighting going on. Just as Booster and Atom are gung ho about going after Max, and upon finding out that he’s at Checkmate — and I don’t think I’m giving too much away by saying they’re going to break into Checkmate. That, of course, doesn’t go so well, to begin with. But it will lead to someplace else.

Right here in the middle of our movie is where the action gets ratcheted up.

Issue #13 is the conclusion of Act II, which takes us into Act III as it revs up for the end.

He also talks about the revelation about Maxwell Lord in Brightest Day #7, the fan reaction to the new Rocket Red and how Generation Lost impacts on Power Girl (which he is also writing).

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Justice League comic-book at SDCC 2010

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By Jason Kirk / 26 July 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

All the attention, in terms of Justice League news from SDCC, has so far been on Young Justice with the news of its preview, casting, and that Peter David will be writing episodes. That isn’t to say that there hasn’t been JLA and Generation Lost news coming out from DC’s panels, but those titles have established writers and are running quite nicely with their long-term storylines.

From the DC Universe panel  (CBR, Newsarama) we learnt that for Judd Winick Generation Lost is “pretty much all I’m doing.” Which raises the question of when he finds time to write Power Girl. There is an arc devoted to Ice coming up and Captain Atom gets come more screen time. Aaron Lopresti will be drawing an issue that features “22 pages of the JLI fighting the Metal Men, wall-to-wall. ”

At the DC Universe panel James Robinson described his up-coming plans for the Justice League of America.

“This is going to be the team for quite some time,” Robinson said. “They’ve grown, and they are the Justice League.” They’ll be taking on the Crime Syndicate, with Supergirl taking on Ultraman, Jesse Quick against Johnny Quick, Batman vs. Owlman. “You’re actually going to see Superman and Hal Jordan being unable to help them,” Robinson said, adding that Superman is going to be confident in their chances of success. After this, an “interplanetary” event.

Newsarama’s Albert Ching, quoting James Robinson

The DC Teams panel covered so many books that there wasn’t much different announced there (possibly even less).

A far more substantive Justice League preview was delivered by  AICN Comics’s pre-SDCC interview with James Robinson which included his philosophy to interaction with editorial fiat.

The JLA is a book that must always allow for the events of the DCU proper that are going on around it. Yes, I did have the rug pulled out from under me, by having this mass exodus of characters happen due to events in other books. I confess I hated losing Mon-El. But in the end I think the book is better for it now, with the team having a better core group and I get to use Supergirl who I’m having a lot of fun with. You can bitch and moan about these kind of things, or you can get on with it and try to work with what you have.

Basically, business as usual on Justice League and Generation Lost.

“This is going to be the team for quite some time,” Robinson said. “They’ve grown, and they are the Justice League.” They’ll be taking on the Crime Syndicate, with Supergirl taking on Ultraman, Jesse Quick against Johnny Quick, Batman vs. Owlman. “You’re actually going to see Superman and Hal Jordan being unable to help them,” Robinson said, adding that Superman is going to be confident in their chances of success. After this, an “interplanetary” event.
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Short Review: Power Girl #13

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By Jason Kirk / 01 July 2010 / Short Reviews / 0 Comments

Credits: Written by Judd Winick, art by Sami Basri, coloured by Sunny Gho, lettered by John J. Hill. The associate editor was Rachel Gluckstern and the editor was Mike Carlin.

Synopsis: Power Girl, in her civilian identity as Karen Starr owner and CEO of Starrware Industries, has had her hands full with corporate matters. One of her scientists, Nicholas, who is trying to get her to approve an increase in lab space for his Nanobyte processing units, gives her a pair of ear rings that include a miniaturised cell phone. Her Head of Finance has vanished and the bank is sending in four executive finance officers to investigate. However, before she can act on that Superman announces that Maxwell Lord, the JLI’s rogue ex-director, is still alive. Power Girl’s plan to ambush a group of mercenaries at the JLI’s Moscow Embassy is scuppered when Booster Gold suddenly appears and starts a fire fight with them. The exasperated Power Girl then follows up a second lead on her own. She encounters a warehouse of OMACs in Northern China, but they break off from the fight when Maxwell Lord makes a global telepathic broadcast and erases everybody’s, including Power Girl’s. knowledge of his existence. She returns to New York, but in her absence the banks’ officers have revealed that Starrware’s accounts have been cleaned-out by her missing Head of Finance.

Continuity: This issue takes place concurrently with Justice League: Generation Lost #1.

Opinion: This is Judd Winick and Sam Basri’s first issue and so far they’re doing a pretty good job. There is definitely a more serious tone to the issue than during Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Amanda Conner’s amazing run, but the jump isn’t so great that you feel like you are reading another book entirely. The strength of the old art team was Amanda Conner’s excellent linework. While Basri’s linework isn’t as good as Conner’s linework, it combines with Sunny Gho’s colours to create a visual style that is just as strong. I love the old-school concentric circles mind-control motif that is used when Max actually makes his broadcast. The integration with Justice League: Generation Lost, which Winick also writes, is very tight. So tight in fact that you suspect that Maxwell Lord is behind Starrware’s money troubles (especially as the next part is trailed as “The Lord Hath Taken Away”). He did the same thing to Kord Industries, but the subsequent investigation cost Ted Kord (alias the Blue Beetle) his life . The subplot of the Nanobytes is interesting because in Generation Lost #4 Max talks to a scientist about Nanobyte genetics research. It may just be one of Judd Winick’s favourite buzz words, but the connection could play out.

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Judd Winick interviewed by USA Today

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By Jason Kirk / 14 May 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

Justice League: Generation Lost co-writer Judd Winick has been interviewed by USA Today. He talks about the original JLI and how those characters stand today.

So far, Winick says he and Giffen have already fallen into a nice, biweekly groove writing Generation Lost, focusing more on one big serialized tale than story arcs. “It’s 24 chapters of trying to do The Da Vinci Code and end every last page with a cool cliffhanger to get us to the next one.”

The two have put a major focus on coming up with the right tone for the book, balancing the quirkiness of the original JLI with the seriousness at hand. But Winick insists that the first one wasn’t a comedy book, and Generation Lost won’t be, either.

“It was ‘meta’ before there was even an expression. Everybody in the comic was enormously self-aware that they were superheroes. If you look back at Max Lord, he’s sort of the epitome of what that tone was: He was a businessman trying to put together a superteam. It was kind of ahead of its time in the idea that they are completely aware of what they do and their place in the world,” Winick says.

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Judd Winick on the return of Maxwell Lord

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By Jason Kirk / 13 April 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

In all those Generation Lost interviews he did Judd Winick was unable to actually say what the incident was that prompted the Justice League International heroes to reform as a group. Well, Winick has now done yet another interview with Newsarama to talk about what he couldn’t talk about before.

Post-Blackest Night #8 we now know that Maxwell Lord – the former JLI executive and the murderer of Ted Kord – has been resurrected. Lord distinctive telepathic power (which causes the nosebleed) was in evidence in the final pages of BN ’8 when he prevented guy from recognising him (shown above). However, it looks like Guy wasn’t the only person he has targeted.

Nrama: Last time we spoke, you had talked about an “inciting incident” in the first issue. Can you now reveal what that incident is?

Winick: In the first issue, we learn that Max has used his mind control ability to its upmost, to wipe out the memory of his existence from everybody on Earth.

Nrama: So all the heroes in the DCU – Superman and even Wonder Woman – they don’t even know Max existed?

Winick: There was never any Max Lord. Nobody remembers that Max Lord exists or that he ever did – except four members of Justice League International. Booster Gold, Captain Atom, Fire and Ice are the only ones who remember him. And it’s up to them to find out what he’s planning, why he did this, and to try to make it so that the world can remember.

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Nrama: You mentioned that Max is dangerous. What makes him so dangerous?

Winick: It’s a combination of that ability to literally control people combined with the fact that he’s not insane. He has clear plans. He’s not one of those villains who just does evil for evil’s sake. He has a method and he has means and he has experience.

And in this case, he’s figured out a master plan that allows him to hide in plain sight. That’s what Max does more than anyone else. He hides in plain sight. He’s not the masked man stirring around in the shadows. He’s rather bold. He’s very smart. And he knows people. He understands people. That comes from being first a high-powered businessman, then working within the superhero community.

He’s a master manipulator, and now he’s literally manipulated the entire world.

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Judd Winick on Generation Lost (updated)

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By Jason Kirk / 29 March 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

Justice League: Generation Lost co-writer Judd Winick has been interviewed by Jeffrey Renaud at Comic Book Resources. The first part of the two-part interview is about Winick’s work on the up-coming Batman: Under The Red Hood DVD-feature, but he does outline the rest of his current projects and mentions Generation Lost.

“Justice League: Generation Lost” is bi-weekly and it’s a very specific story that’s like a map. It’s very much one foot in front of another. It’s very, very episodic. It’s one of the things that I think will be a draw to the book. We’re not doing arcs. Each full issue is a wrap-up storyline. Every issue, you get a full story – beginning, middle and end but it is truly an ongoing. It’s a 26-issue adventure. So that makes one kind of story.

The second part of the interview appears tomorrow and should cover Generation Lost in more detail.

Updated Tuesday 30th March: Meanwhile, over at Newsarama, Judd Winick has an interview about his work on Power Girl as the replacement writer for Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. He mentioned that Power Girl would tie into Generation Lost via Power Girl’s established connection to Justice League Europe and International.

The inciting incident of Generation Lost is something that will directly affect Power Girl, whereas other titles are not directly affected. She gets hit in the face with it. So she is going to have to deal with it head on.

I finished the first issue, and I can’t talk much about it except there’s going to be a major upheaval in her life. The story will be coming off the events of Justice League: Generation Lost. I wish I could share more, but we’re trying to keep wraps on the Justice League: Generation Lost.

Updated Wednesday 31st March: The second part of Judd Winick’s CRB interview (third if you include the Newsarama piece) focuses on Generation Lost. There isn’t a huge amount he can say about the actual plot, but he does discuss working with Keith Giffen and what it’s like to write comedy.

He also talks about his approach to the individual characters and how he intends to broaden Ice’s character.

For Fire and Ice, they did not interest me in such a grand way before we started. But as we got into it, it was about finding the voices of these characters. Over the years, Fire has been developed and Ice has been underdeveloped. She died. She came back and what not. But who is Ice? Who is Tora? Now Fire and Ice are two of my favorite characters, and I look forward to the direction that we’re taking them.

He also addresses whether Generation Lost will tie into other books beyond Power Girl (as mentioned in the Newsarama piece).

Will events that occur in the bi-weekly be touched on in other series?

Yeah, probably. This won’t be a bi-weekly that sort of threads throughout the DCU. “Brightest Day” involves the Green Lantern books, “Justice League of America” and “Flash,” but as of now, we’re staying here for the most part.

Our inciting incident that happens in “Generation Lost” appears in “Brightest Day.” So for those reading “Brightest Day,” something very major will happen in that title which will be picked up in ours.

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The Justice League International is back

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By Jason Kirk / 12 January 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels, Features / 2 Comments

The Justice League International are returning. Marvel may have tried to bury the news with their Spider-Man woes, but they can’t hold back the most important comics announcement of the year: the return of the Justice League International.

Hot on the tails of yesterday’s announcement of a bi-weekly Brightest Day series by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, DC have just announced a second bi-weekly series called Justice League: Generation Lost to be written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. Justice League: Generation Lost will run on alternate weeks to Brightest Day. The preview cover to JL: Generation Lost (above) is by Tony Harris. Not only that, he tweeted that he and his colourist JD Mettler will be the cover artists of Generation Lost throughout 2010.

The JLI was a seminal Justice League run from the late 1980s, from the time we normally associate with grim-and-gritty comics. The JLI was a rejection of that ethos and focused more on character than angst. Yes, at times it did wander into sitcom or slap-stick territory, but mostly it delivered character-driven action with a sharp line in smart, witty dialogue. The JLI series was plotted by Keith Giffen and scripted by J.M. DeMatteis. For this revival DeMatteis is succeeded by Judd Winick. However, Giffen and DeMatteis and will be collaborating as the new writers on the Booster Gold book.

Giffen and Winick were interviewed by Vaneta Rogers for Newsarama. Giffen related that he was attached to the story first and that over time is morphed from Generation Lost into Justice League: Generation Lost.

Giffen: [DC Executive Editor] Dan [DiDio] and [editor] Mike Siglain shanghaied me onto this project about six months or so ago, well before it had the Justice League heading. Back then it was just plain Generation Lost and I was the only firmly committed writer on board. Six nerve racking months, and more than a few co-writer misfires, later I found out Judd had drawn the short straw and drawn it just days before the writers summit that was to kick off the project.

Keep in mind that Justice League was not on the table at this point so it’s not like Judd signed on for the project’s (alleged) cache’. Oh, and if there’s anything funnier than a jet-lagged Judd Winick, I’ve yet to find it.

And if anybody needed confirmation about what the title will actually be about:

Nrama: Wait a second, this comic will be about the Justice League International?

Giffen: Captain Atom, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, Ice, Rocket Red. It’s like the family reunion from hell and I, for one, couldn’t be happier.

Winick: Me either. I get to write JLI with Keith Giffen. It’s one of the greatest assignments I’ve ever had. Swear to God.

The question then becomes which Blue Beetle and which Rocket Red. The JLI Blue Beetle was killed by Maxwell Lord back before Infinite Crisis and a new Blue Beetle title was launched (with Giffen as co-creator). The JLI Rocket Red is also dead. Both have been seen in Blackest Night as Black Lanterns, but all bets are off post-Blackest Night. That blacked out figure at the centre of the preview cover above looks like the Martian Manhunter – another character who is running around as a Black Lantern.

I’m rather looking forward to this. The various JLI characters have individually made something of a come back over the last 5-years or so. Ice was returned to life in Birds of Prey. Guy Gardner returned to GL status in GL: Rebirth and is the co-lead in Green Lantern Corps. Booster Gold has his own book. Captain Atom – post Countdown – is back in the silver and is a co-feature in Action Comics. Fire resurfaced as an agent for Checkmate. The Martian Manhunter, Rocket Red, and Blue Beetle are dead, but we’ll see how that plays out post Blackest Night. Big Barda and Mister Miracle are presumably off with the rest of the New Gods on Earth-Kirby post-Final Crisis. Even Doctor Light (Kimiyo) has got a lot of screen time in the current Justice League.

And for the record:

Bwah-ha-ha-ha!!!

(sorry)

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