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JLA/The 99

JLA/The 99 #2

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By Jason Kirk / 17 December 2010 / Features, Recent Comic Book Series / 0 Comments

Issue Credits

Writer
Fabian Nicieza, Stuart Moore
Artist
Tom Derenick, Drew Geraci
Colourist
Allen Passalaqua
Letterer
Rob Leigh
Associate Editor
Rachel Gluckstern
Editor
Mike Carlin, Marie Javins, Naif Al-Mutawa (Consulting)
Cover Artist
Felipe Massafera

Quotes

Batman: In fact, there’s too much happening simultaneously for all of this to be unrelated.Green Lantern: Really? I’d call it a typical Wednesday.

Synopsis “Stars of Tomorrow”

Previously: The City of the Future was meant to be a shining beacon of cooperation built in the deserts of the Arabian peninsula. Members of the JLA and The 99 had gathered for its dedication, but the crowd suddenly rioted and Superman was uncharacteristically unhelpful. The JLA and the 99 were also collaborated to find out why Darr, one of the 99 with the power to project waves of pain, could not control his powers. Investigating an earthquake in South America leads Hawkman to meet another trio from the 99 who tell him that worldwide the geological upheavals are being caused by a newly activated Noor Stone.

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Jim Lee JLA variant cover sketches

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By Jason Kirk / 26 September 2010 / Art Showcase / 0 Comments

As part of their 75th Anniversary DC Comics have been producing a series of special variant covers  that pay homage to their greatest, most iconic covers from decades past. The one for JLA hasn’t appeared yet and reason is that Jim Lee has only just started drawing it.

Lee shared several photos of his working pencils on Twitter including this photo:

However, that wasn’t the end of the composition and he remarked…

The background was going to be a city in ruin with skyscrapers being knocked back. Destruction galore. But I felt the negative space was too empty. That the composition now felt more like a panel than a cover and that it didn’t homage enough. But I felt the negative space was too empty. That the composition now felt more like a panel than a cover and that it didn’t homage enough.

The variant cover I am doing is part of the 75th anniversary DC homage cvrs http://twitpic.com/2rxuxc. So I went back to original layout…looked at the composition and changed it up as if I were drawing this cvr as I had “imagined” it…

Unfortunately we didn’t get to see the final version. I guess we’ll just have to watch for the 2011 solicitations.

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JLA and The-99 crossover cover

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

There are times that the glacial lead time in comic book publicity really appears silly. Case in point, as part of their pre-San Diego 2010 publicity DC have just released the cover for The-99/JLA crossover. “The what?” I hear you cry. It’s a crossover between an Islamic superhero team called The 99 (written by Naif Al-Mutawa) and DC’s JLA.

This above is the aforementioned cover to The 99/JLA #1 (written by Fabian Nicieza, art by Tom Derenick, out in October) and it looks really cool – and by the way, isn’t that the first time we’ve seen the new Wonder Woman alongside Superman and Batman. The cover also features Jabber, Noora, and Samda of The 99 and from the look of that shadow I’d say they were about to face Starro.

Its existence was actually was announced a full year ago in the pre-San Diego 2009 publicity. However, it’s taken that year to write, draw, colour, and edit. Not unusual for a comic-book series, but a killer in terms of buzz. I actually had to stop and think about whether it hadn’t already that been and gone. It’s the mentality that announces a product as soon as a the deal to develop that product is signed and not waiting for it to be fully developed and realised. Nevertheless, this could be a really interesting mini-series.

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Mattel Starro set unboxing video

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By Jason Kirk / 12 July 2010 / Merchandise & Action Figures / 2 Comments

This video from the official Matty Collector site shows an unboxing of Mattel’s Starro vs. the Justice League boxed set.

I’m not normally interested in merchandise and action figures – ergo their usual absence from this blog – but that Starro set is really rather cool. Not only does the contents look fabulous, but there is also a special narration button that triggers short descriptions of the characters recorded by Batman: the Animated Series‘s Kevin Conroy.

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Mattel SDCC Exclusive Starro Figure

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By Jason Kirk / 18 April 2010 / Merchandise & Action Figures / 2 Comments

There is a long tradition of producing exclusive comics or action figures for sale just at conventions. Mattel have just released details of their exclusive products for San Diego 2010 and there are a couple of Justice League related figures in there. The biggest one is an exclusive Starro figure – complete with Kevin Conroy recording. However, they’ve are also giving away free 6″ figure scale Starro face huggers that can be attached to your other DCU figures (an oddly inspired concept).

What is possibly surprising is that there are no SDCC exclusives for the old Justice League Unlimited line.

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I’ve always had a soft spot for nuclear powered starfish

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By Jason Kirk / 05 September 2009 / JLA Weblog / 0 Comments

I’ve always had a soft spot for nuclear powered starfish. (Which I must admit isn’t a phrase I thought I’d be typing any time soon.)

Starro is the THE original Justice League enemy. As we all know the League exploded upon the Silver Age with BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28 wherein they fought said alien starfish without even the slightest hint of an origin story for either him or them. The Justice League didn’t need an excuse or a plot to bring them together, they were the World’s Greatest Superheroes, that’s all the justification they had and indeed have ever needed. Sure, we’ve seen the Martian, Appellax, and Triumph origin variants, but the JLA has never needed a defining origin – they are individually the best at what they do, therefore they fight crime together.

Likewise I don’t think that all Starro needs an origin or even a personality as such. I read the short REBELS preview in the latest round of DC comics with some trepidation. Turing Starro into just another biped warlord seems to rob him of something special – beyond his the other three legs I mean. I really hope there is a twist in the story.  We know what he is immediately,  the concept of the “face huggers” is  brilliantly simple (yeah I know it’s a later introduction), and even the title “Conqueror” tells you all you need to know. There is no need to explain why he’s conquering – alien, nuclear starfish don’t need a harrowing personal tragedy to motive them.

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