Jla : The Tenth Circle

JLA (Original Trades)

by John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Jerry Ordway (Illustrator)

The legendary creative team of John Byrne and Chris Claremont — reunited! This trade paperback collects the red-hot storyline from JLA #94-99, in which the JLA investigates a rash of child disappearances — but soon begin to disappear themselves!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book, Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2004

About the author

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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.

Reviews

[William Thomas · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is a prime example of a once great writer who refuses to evolve. Claremont may have been fantastic in the 80's (his X-Men will always be classic) but 20 years later he still uses Silver Age styled storytelling which comes off hokey and stillborn. "He's so strong! And fast! He's dodging all my blows!" really Chris? We couldn't see that for ourselves in the art. Let the art speak, you nitwit. Let it tell it's part of the story. This isn't 1977 anymore. We don't need everything spelled out by the writer. It's infuriating. There is absolutely nothing redeeming in this book.

Grade: F

[Virginia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am tempted to give this four stars only because of the closing line by Batman. Hilarious. Also, I found the numerous pop culture references amusing. :)

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Tenth Circle (JLA #94-99). A JLA by Chris Claremont (with John Byrne) could have been great, perhaps should have, but this unfortunately shows off the worst excesses of the authors and doesn't feel much different than their writing in the '80s. Claremont loves mind-control, particularly mind-controlling women, and he's already done the Lord of the Vampires back in X-Men, but here, we have all those tropes again (though to be fair, there are more mind-controlled men than women). Byrne seems to like mind control too, because he famously had a mind-controlled Superman and Wonder Woman shoot a porno back in the late '80s. There's no porno here, but Superman is certainly hypnotized for the entire volume. Overall, there's just not much interesting as the JLA fights vampires. (And as for the New, New, New Doom Patrol, the less said the better.) [2+/5].

[Tomás Sendarrubias García · Rating 3 out of 5]

Después del final de la etapa Kelly en JLA, llegaba el momento de los clásicos. Y en el tomo El Décimo Círculo vamos a encontrar muchos nombres clásicos. El primero, Dennis O'Neil, se encargaría de un arco corto de tres partes llamado Extinción, acompañado por los lápices de Tang Eng Huat (que a mi me gusta lo justo, básicamente nada). Dennis O'Neil es una de las figuras más importantes del cómic de los años setenta, innovador al incluir en sus colecciones (estuvo a cargo de Green Lantern/Green Arrow, por ejemplo) temas sociales y políticos, y llegó a JLA con ese mismo espíritu, innovador a pesar de los años, y con carga social, sobre toco ecológica. En Extinción, una inteligencia extraterrestre que responde al nombre de Peppy (en fin...), llega a la Tierra esperando encontrar que esta, según se había escrito milenios atrás en su libro sagrado, el libro de Lol, estaría bajo el dominio de los monos de máscara plateada. Sorprendido, Peppy, en compañía de la Liga de la Justicia, asiste al dominio de la especie humana, a todo lo que esta está haciendo en el planeta... y al hecho de ser el último de su especie, elemento que comparte con J'onn J'onnz y con el propio Superman. Con un dibujo que no le hace justicia, Dennis O'Neil consigue una historia muy clásica e interesante...

Que da paso a uno de los tándem creativos más importantes del mundo del cómic. De todas las eras, da igual Cuando uno habla de Chris Claremont y John Byrne (y encima les ayuda Gerry Conway) estamos hablando de historia. Las sagas más épicas de la Patrulla-X fueron obra de este tándem, podríamos decir que juntos o por separado han participado de toda la historia de Marvel: La Patrulla-X, los Cuatro Fantásticos, los Vengadores, Alpha Flight... Todo. Y Byrne se había encargado también de Superman después de Crisis en Tierras Infinitas, reformulando todo el mundo del primer superhéroe, desde Krypton a su primer encuentro con Batman, sus relaciones, Smallville... Todo. Y volvieron a reunirse para El Décimo Círculo, un arco que cubriría la última media docena de números antes del 100 de la nueva encarnación de la JLA. En El Décimo Círculo, la JLA y la nueva encarnación de la Patrulla Condenada, tienen que hacer frente a una historia clásica de vampiros y sectas, donde el enemigo es una criatura poderosa conocida como El Crucificador, un vampiro clásico, de los de cruces y estacas, que consigue hacerse con el control de pesos pesados, como Superman o Fe. Byrne y Claremont (y Conway) hacen un trabajo clásico: épico, lleno de diálogos, de pensamientos, en el mejor estilo de los ochenta, y sabiendo que Claremont es un monstruo de la continuidad, hubiera sido muy interesante verle en una distancia larga, con más posibilidades para trabajar con todos estos personajes...

Pero llegaba el número 100, y para él, volvían Joe Kelly y Doug Mahnke, con un número especial en el que recuperaban a un viejo grupo que había hecho frente a Superman en las páginas de Action Cómic, creación del propio Joe Kelly: la Élite. En Action Cómics habíamos conocido a este equipo, formado por Manchester Black, Menagerie, The Hat y Coldcast, y con él, Kelly había planteado un conflicto entre dos formas de ver el heroísmo: el clásico, encabezado por Superman, y la "nueva actitud" que había llegado en los 90, con héroes duros, capaces de soluciones duras. Dirigidos por la hermana de Manchester Black, Vera Black, la Élite se enfrentaba a la Liga de la Justicia en unas condiciones parecidas, como dos formas de ver el heroísmo, pero este número 100 servía sobre todo como lanzamiento de una nueva colección de Liga de la Justicia, Justice League: Elite, donde Joe Kelly y Joe Mahnke se llevarían a algunas de sus incorporaciones (Fe, Mayor Desastre, los Cuervo) junto a los miembros de la Élite, y Flash, así que el número 100 acababa con una ominosa frase de Superman.

La Liga de la Justicia había cambiado para siempre.

[Richard Schaefer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chris Claremont and John Byrne reunited, with the great Jerry Ordway inking (and, based on the look of the art, his contributions leave a strong stylistic mark, and I mean that as a compliment, because these JLA issues look a lot better than much of Byrne’s post-Superman work. Does the story live up to the legendary names involved? Absolutely not. But if you think of it more like a decent reunion album from a band well past their prime, you’ll have fun with it. The biggest issue is that the story, a vaguely interesting adventure that involves a vampire named Crucifer trying to take over the world, doesn’t feel like it was written for the JLA. They’re a fairly generic part of the equation; Claremont and Byrne seem more interested in their new creations, such as the stupidly named Nudge and Grunt, and the newly re-emerged Doom Patrol. And I love the Doom Patrol as much as the next weirdo, but I kind of wanted more Justice League from this Justice League comic.
But all that said, the art is good (and the reason for 4 stars vs. 3), the writing is fun, and the story moves along at a good clip.

[Kris Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! I had heard rumblings about the Chris Claremont/ John Byrne "reunion" arc over at DC, but never bothered looking into it until May. After a quick search of the Trade Paperback List, I discovered that a trade already existed! Man, this is some good stuff! Claremont's writing is flawless, Byrne turns in some of his best-ever artwork, Jerry Ordway's inks are a perfect complement to Byrne's pencils, David Baron makes excellent use of computer coloring (which, like CGI, is a hit or miss artform), and Tom Orzechowski's hand lettering is as pleasing to they eye as ever. In fact, if I could get a Word font for his and Artie Simek's 1970-on lettering, I would be ecstatic. Seriously people, I hate to gush, but this is as good as it gets. I would love to Claremont and Byrne work together again in any capacity, and would read whatever they did. Westerns, Jungle, I would take any genre, no matter how uninteresting it may be to me. Those two are like Lennon and McCartney: the fans love what they do together, but it is Hell for the creators involved. Why does the creative dynamic have to be like that? Creative people seemed to be wired differently than normal folk.

[Omar Gómez · Rating 3 out of 5]

JLA: The Tenth Circle
Libro de John Byrne, Chris Claremont y Jerry Ordway.

JLA #94-99 The Tenth Circle calificación 3/5 estrellas.

Se uso de villanos a Vampiros y su culto dirigido por Crucifer ya que no son rivales para los metahumanos, como Claremont había usado vampiros como Drácula en su carrera de The Uncanny X-Men en dos ocasiones, John Byrne metió al vampiro Crucifer como una burla y el control mental sobre los personajes, esto es un cliché de Claremont.

Así los fans pensaron que era trama de Claremont que siempre se llevó los créditos sobre Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Loise Simmonson, Frank Miller etc

Toda la historia y el arte fue de John Byrne qué enemistado por el trato que tuvo en su carrera de The Uncanny X-Men con Claremont no tuvo contacto con Chris Claremont, este se encargó solo de los diálogos.

  Luego se encargargo Byrne de Doom Patrol, la chica Mi-Sun Kwon/Nudge y el gorila de cuatro brazos su relación era lo que tenía en mente con Kitty Pryde y Caliban antes de su partida de The Uncanny X-Men.

[Tom Malinowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Claremont and Byrne reunited but for DC. Creepy bad guys from another dimension that were banished by the Amazons want to come back to this world. The JLA uncovers clues to figure out how to stop them and gain new, weird allies - the Doom Patrol. Yeah, not bad. This was a precursor to set up the Doom Patrol series, and it made sense to use the JLA to deliver them. Batman's last line is priceless!

[Randy Bowen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun to see all the hallmarks of Claremont used in a Justice League story, but it wasn't the best. Usually JLA is strongest when the world is at stake. This is a much smaller situation which can work when the stakes are more personal. Still enjoyed Byrne's classic art style.

[Pencil Fights · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn't stomach these two far past their prime. The X-Men logo only added to the cheese of these two. Vampires are not a good mixture with Supes and the JLA. Dull.

[mayleh · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐️3.5

[Dan Prestwich · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was going to say that JLA fighting vampires is exactly the kind of stupid plot I can get behind, but then I remembered DC Vs Vampires and got kind of angry again so I dunno. This one has a big ape monster guy so I think that's maybe what gives it the edge. Also, Batman tells the world's greatest dad joke at the very end and I'm still smiling about it.

B-

[Fizzgig76 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reprints JLA #94-99 (May 2004-July 2004). Children are disappearing all over the United States, and the JLA have decided to investigate. When Manitou Raven is attacked and Superman disappears, the danger seems greater than the JLA even suspected. The JLA’s only hope could be a girl named Nudge and a four-armed gorilla named Grunt who hold the key to Crucifer and his army known as the Tenth Circle. The JLA are about to discover that someone else is investigating the Tenth Circle as well…and is the “Doom Patrol” friend or foe?

Written by John Byrne and Chris Claremont and illustrated by John Byrne, JLA Volume 15: The Tenth Circle follows JLA Volume 14: Trial by Fire. The collection does not include JLA #90-93 nor does it include JLA #100 which were not included in the original trade paperback collections. The issues contained in this volume were also reprinted as JLA—Volume 8.

I loved John Byrne and Chris Claremont’s run on Uncanny X-Men which helped shape my comic book reading. I also love Doom Patrol which was one of DC’s more “Marvel” series. The combination of the two should have been magic…instead it was pretty weak.

Like the X-Men, Doom Patrol was always kind of a family for freaks and people who didn’t fit in with society. I thought that Byrne and Claremont would do swimmingly with this, but the issues ended up being a real hodgepodge of events and circled around the new characters of Grunt and Nudge (and Vortex) who pretty much act as a substitute for Beast Boy. Claremont and Byrne did away with the past of Doom Patrol and erased their history in the DC Universe with one six issue story…it was pretty disrespectful to some great characters.

The story’s core about Crucifer is also rather poor. The basic concepts of the story seem pretty garbled and I think instead of prolonging why Crucifer was doing what he was doing, it would have better been served if the early issues had an origin story for him. You get a rather generic vampire doing a lot of stuff that isn’t clear until the end…and by then you don’t care.

This collection served as a launching point for Byrne’s Doom Patrol which was poorly received. The series fortunately only lasted a year and a half and was reconned back to the traditional Doom Patrol’s history by Infinite Crisis. JLA at this point feel pretty shoved together and for a series that started out so strong and contains all of DC’s heavy hitters, it doesn’t seem to be developed enough. JLA 15: The Tenth Circle was followed by JLA 16: Pain of the Gods.

[Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Kevin Mann · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a big fan of Claremont/Byrne's XMEN, Iron Fist, Spider-man Marvel Team up collaborations, i came into this with a lifetime of their work in my brain, most of it life-changing. Their Uncanny Xmen run is STILL everything to me, since i happened on it by accident as a child in the late 1970s. After recent rereads, It still resonates for me. So you can see i definetly wanted to love this.....Uh....it wasnt quite as bad as i feared, but not much beyond average fare really. Claremont still over-writes everything to tedium and has characters thinking what they are doing while they are doing it, which kind of disappeared as an industry motif, long ago....and while the Byrne-Ordway art isnt horrible, it has something about it that is "off" ...i think the inking is too light & the book coloring, plus the lack of background visuals, in these issues is just plain ugly to the eyes. Nothing pops. Again, this faint, watercolored coloring job the worst offense, it is just deadly dull. Lifeless.....And even a re-emergence of one of my favorites, The Doom Patrol, couldnt salvage this. If you did not know these 3 big names were attached to this work, you would have no idea they produced it , after reading it. Which is sad. Nothing here is essential. This arc, in the old days, would have been 2 issues....to stretch it out to 6 was absolute torture. I mean, vampires? Cmon.... 6 issues? Note : I read this in single issue form, but am using the TPB entry for reviewing purposes.

[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'll keep it short and sweet: this "graphic novel" sucked.

Ever read a comic book, and suddenly been embarrassed because you've suddenly realized that the writer(s) obviously never got the memo (released to the industry after Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns) that comic books are supposed to actually be intelligent, and that they're now written for adults and not for particularly dim-witted teens? Ever suddenly felt ashamed and amazed that you were actually READING a piece of sophomoric trash?

Then you know exactly what I went through with this one. A painfully stupid and cheesy vampire enemy confounds the good guys. And apart from the bad writing, I have to say that the art was rather pathetic, too. The lead vampire looked like something from a third-rate comic in the early 1970s, by an untalented artist who had recently seen Nosferatu.

Avoid.

[The_Mad_Swede · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume collects JLA # 94–99 which featured an arc by the reunited comics team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne (most famous for their joint run on the X-Men in the late 70s). Now, let me start by saying that if you are looking for a modern day, deconstructive (or otherwise) take on the superhero genre, move along, this one is probably not for you. However, if you are open to read a very classic and old school superhero tale, this might just be the thing the doctor ordered. It is a very good and well told story involving an evil breed of vampires trying to take over the world and naturally the JLA needs to step up to save the day. The volume also re-introduces the Doom Patrol for the first time ever (again!), and basically serves as the starting point for Byrne's 18 issues run on the revamped Doom Patrol title from 2004 to 2006 (not collected, as of yet, but also highly recommended).

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

There was all kinds of excitement when Byrne/ Clarmont reteamed to do this story, then a bit of 'That' it?" from the fanboy population.

Which means a lot of people missed out on a good, old school style JLA story. Which I was thrilled to get, because the regular JLA series was crap at the time this came out. There's a big menace, lots of action and everybody on the team gets to do something.

There are a few clunky bits, as it feels like they had a list of rules to follow from editorial and let's face it, that indian character was pretty lame, so even Byrne and Claramont couldn't do more than make him mildly interesting. Plus, the story was being used to introduce the new Doom Patrol so there was a lot to juggle.

Not a perfect story, but the kind that reminds you the JLA can and should larger than life and fun.
Plus, Byrne still draws a pretty cool looking JLA and the Atom got to help save the day while wearing his classic costume!

[Devero · Rating 3 out of 5]

Claremont e Byrne si riuniscono per questa saga in sei parti che ha come scopo il semplice riportare in pista la Doom Patrol originale. Lo fanno tramite la JLA e lo scontro con un vampiro letteralmente senza cuore.
A livello di disegni Byrne, chinato da Ordway, è veramnete molto godibile e certamente all'altezza degli anni '80. La storia architettata da Claremont sta in piedi e si legge bene, ma è l'avversario e il modo di scrivere ad essere un poco fuori tempo.
Da un lato, se la si confronta alle run che i due autori hanno condotto assieme in passato, sia su X-Men, sia su i serial di Iron-Fist o su Marvel Team-up, questa saga appare chiaramente imbarazzante.
Ma se la consideriamo per quello che ci sta prima su JLA e su quello che immediatamente segue, siamo a livelli certamente buoni sia per testi che per disegni.

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Other than a bit too much of the old style, "Getting weaker ... must .. use ... random ... super power ... too ... kick ... bad ... guys ... ass ... quick."

Or "Oh my, the building is falling on those people, need to hurry up and finish this sentence so I can rush to their aid". This was pretty cool.

Everytime I read JLA it always makes me think of how iconic the big three (ww, batman, superman) are and it makes me wonder if there will ever be new "icons" added. It's kinda like bands, will any of these newer bands have the staying power of the classic bands like Metallica or Guns and Roses or even older stuff like Sabbath or Led Zepplin.

I mean will the guys from My Chemical Romance or Three Days Grace be playing out when their 60 like Aerosmith?

Sorry got off topic.

[Erik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Claremont doesn't really seem to get these characters. The personalities of the newer characters don't line up with what Joe Kelly was doing right before this and reads too much like his classic X-Men comics. Byrne's art is pretty good but he did better work on previous DC comics. Also makes for a terrible intro to the retconned Doom Patrol's introduction. They're hardly envolved and completely uninteresting when they are.

[Juan Jose]

This one was a good story and a nice chance to introduce the Doom Patrol. The combination of Claremont and Byrne was quite good. The inks by Ordway are quite beautiful, until you see the original pencils.

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is easily the worst out of all the JLA book I've read. I didn't even like Vol. 3: Rock of Ages but would rather read that again than this boring and predictable entry.

Basically the JLA fight a vampire. That's about it.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mish-mosh story, but with enough exposition to establish the unfamiliar and new characters so that it is still enjoyable for a casual fan.

[Justin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Easily the worst JLA arc I've read, and the art wasn't up to part either.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

JLa vs Vampires, need I say more?

[Trang · Rating 2 out of 5]

Batman's pun at the end though

[Joe Vincent Iscala · Rating 3 out of 5]

fair, was ok enough

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. An interesting vampire story. Also a lot of unanswered things throughout. Not bad though.

[Declan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible book. So disapppointing.