JLA: Terror Incognita (Book 9)
by Mark Waid,
Bryan Hitch
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November 1st 2002
by DC Comics
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| binding
| Paperback |
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1563899361
(isbn13: 9781563899362)
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| pages
| 144 |
| date added
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03-24-07
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Read in January, 2008
What a crock of crap. It's probably nostalgia to some part, but every time I try to get back into the Justice League books they invariably fail on a spectacular level. I suspect that this is something that happens after you read several years of good Justice League stories. Having fallen in love with the team back in the Giffen days, this incarnation has been nothing but trouble. While I really like all the lead characters, them as a team is just uninteresting. I despised the early Morrison book...more
What a crock of crap. It's probably nostalgia to some part, but every time I try to get back into the Justice League books they invariably fail on a spectacular level. I suspect that this is something that happens after you read several years of good Justice League stories. Having fallen in love with the team back in the Giffen days, this incarnation has been nothing but trouble. While I really like all the lead characters, them as a team is just uninteresting. I despised the early Morrison books as they just felt like he didn't get what a team book should be like. Mark Waid hasn't been much better and I typically really like both authors. Morrison more for his Vertigo work and Waid for his beautiful run on the Flash years ago.
This volume of JLA really just didn't do anything for me. The main story was one that I had little connection to as it brought out the White Martians who were re-awakened after J'onn screwed up and removed their conditioning. Their nefarious plan involves fixing the atmosphere of the planet so that fire won't hurt them and they've been using their mad skills to stay hidden, ready minds and shapeshift so they can set up properly. The pacing of the story is pretty shoddy, background is minimal and they drag in tons of other heroes for quick cameos to fight off what is a rather large scale invasion of the planet. It didn't affect any other books I believe during its original run which just weakens it.
The follow-up stories, standalone pieces, were worse. Chuck Dixon has a story that just drops out of nowhere after the White Martian story - not even a page break to really signal a story change. It feels like it belonged somewhere else as it dealt with a Joker infection with people and other villains and kept its focus on Doctor Polaris who is even more nuts than usual because of being Jokerized. The storytelling is so slipshod that it was very easy to lose interest after several panels. Yet even that was better than the "classic" Christmas tale that Plastic Man relates to a child about how Santa Claus is a member of the JLA and how he had been abducted by a gingerbread man and sent to hell.
That story made me want to slap Mark Waid for writing it. Between these issues and his terrible overall stint on the Legion of Super-Heroes, he's really sinking in stature with me.
As a team superhero book, there really isn't anything here that works. The characters have been shown to work well over the years under better writers and more cohesive scripts. What we get here really feels little better than poorly paced filler issues. It makes me glad I got it as part of a big 50% off binge I was on a year or so ago. It doesn't make me glad that I have several more of these to wade though, though I hold out hope for some better material somewhere.
It amazes me that there is a segment of fans that think these are good issues. Everything I've read in this incarnation of the JLA has been subpar, right from the start. I really wish they'd go back to the Giffen books and put those in trade paperback form. This is just rubbish....less
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Read in May, 2007
The White Martians come back and try to destroy the Justice League and the earth. Do they succeed?
Mark Waid’s almost as good at Grant Morrison at writing earth-shattering JLA stories, and there are some nice bits in this one, especially how the Martians take oxygen out of Earth’s atmosphere. Martian Manhunter got a lot of good scenes, but on the whole it wasn’t an amazing story. ...more
The White Martians come back and try to destroy the Justice League and the earth. Do they succeed?
Mark Waid’s almost as good at Grant Morrison at writing earth-shattering JLA stories, and there are some nice bits in this one, especially how the Martians take oxygen out of Earth’s atmosphere. Martian Manhunter got a lot of good scenes, but on the whole it wasn’t an amazing story. I think I’ve finally decided that the JLA is better than the Avengers.
There’s also a filler Christmas issue that I wasn’t too impressed with....less
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