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First of, I freakin love the art to this book! The art to this book isn't groundbreaking or anything, but it has a classic comic book feel to it, with a modern take; it's just very pleasing to look at. The story on the otherhand is very forgettable. The basic idea is that the big three(Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman) are unable to have formed the original JLA due to the universal reboot from Crisis on Infinite Earths; so Green Lantern(Hal Jordan), Flash(Barry Allen), Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and Black Canary are the new founding members. The idea works, but the execution is a bit weird. To put things simply, the dialog goes from good and witty, to horrible and awkward. A lot of the scenarios that play out just leave a bad taste in your mouth. I don't really want to go into full detail, but they just don't seem like the writers had enough time to fully think out some of the side-stories for their character development. Because of this, Martian Manhunter and Black Canary come off as "not that interesting" but with great potential, and Aquaman is just completely obnoxious! And I love Aquaman! Though on the good side GL and Flash are very well written and are the highlight of the book. The art also tells a lot of the story, which is great, I can't stand it when writers keep writing exposition and over describing things when they can just give simple instructions to the artist and let them shine. The main badguys are kind of boring too, and there is a very awkward love side-storyline between Flash and Black Canary that goes absolutely nowhere and turns out to be completely pointless to do in the first place.

Overall this book has great art, and Hal and Barry are very well represented. But everything else is either "meh" or just plain bad. I wouldn't recommend this unless you are a big JLA collector; if you get the chance to read it for free though, i'd say defiantly go for it.


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JLA Year One JLA DC Comics Unnumbered Paperback Brian Augustyn Mark Waid Books Reviews

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"JLA Year One"
Written by Mark Waid
Illustrated by Barry Kitson, et al
(DC Comics, 2010)
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This lively retelling of the Justice League origin story is a bit different than the version of the early 1960s -- there's no Batman, no Superman, no Wonder Woman on the team -- and Mark Waid offers a mysterious new set of uber-baddies called the Locus who work behind the scenes and torment the new team from afar. But like many retcon projects, this is about nostalgia and the pleasures of seeing old favorites come back and be handled it new ways. This book is superhero comfort food -- mac'n'cheese, or perhaps a grilled cheese sandwich -- with humorous treatments of various founding members of the JLA, and tons of cameos from classic DC characters such as the Doom Patrol, the Blackhawks, Snapper Carr, and many JLA-ers-in-waiting such as Green Arrow and the aforementioned "trinity" of Bats, Supes and Princess Diana waiting in the wings. Fun stuff. A good read! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)
I am a huge fan of characterization and it’s an often overlooked aspect of writing in comics. In the books introduction Mark Waid writes, “No one remembers a plot.” He then challenges the reader to think of the plot of any James Bond film. I would be willing to take up that challenge even though the James Bond series doesn’t tend to be overly plot driven. To prove his point, Waid has written a story that is almost entirely character driven. It’s not like this hasn’t been done before with the JLA. Justice League International was almost entirely character driven but it was also quite funny. The problem is that a lot of the dialogue isn’t funny and some of the characterization is flat out weird. At one point, Black Canary is being helped out at her flower store by her mother when she suddenly flips out and uses her sonic scream to shatter the flower pot in her mother’s hands as well as all the pots in the vicinity. It’s a bizarre moment that makes Black Canary look unhinged and I don’t believe that was Waid’s intent.

JLA Year One is very highly regarded and I do consider Mark Waid to be a superior writer although there is a massive gap between his best and worst work. Mark Waid’s Kingdom Come was also dialogue heavy but it never got tedious. There are a few writers like Alan Moore who can write dialogue heavy stories and keep them exciting but Moore also would never claim that plot is unimportant. It feels like Waid saw what had been done with the JLI and decided to have his hand at a humorous JLA but it just gets tiresome. Even the JLI tended to grate after awhile. For whatever reason, humor seems to be REALLY hard to pull off in comic books. I can count the number of laugh out loud comics I can recall reading on one finger. Comic strips seem to be a better medium for humor.

I’m not sure if this story is intended to be in DC continuity or is an Elseworld story. I realize that after Crisis on Infinite Earths, Earth 1 and Earth 2 merged into a single Earth but did it also cause Black Canary to split into two people, a mother and daughter. I’ve never seen anywhere else where the JLA Canary was the daughter of some Golden Age Black Canary. The moments that suggest this might be a story out of continuity are few and I suspect that Waid did intend this to be the new legitimate origin of the JLA even if some of his ideas didn’t get carried on.

I’ve been a fan of the JLA since the 1970’s but there is SO much more bad JLA than good. I would say that Year One is a superior JLA story and it’s certainly not devoid of a plot even if the plot is just an afterthought. The second half of the book has a lot less goofy banter and some actual seriousness. We find out Black Canary’s mother had an affair with a married member of the JSA and J’onn J’onzz is suspected of being a traitor. This kind of writing seems more in Waid’s wheelhouse. The fact that JLA Year One makes it into a lot of top 10 lists may be more of an indictment of the quality of JLA stories than a testimonial to this tale. I’ll give it four stars because even with its flaws it has its moments and I don’t regret the time I spent reading it.
This is a good origion story, however there are a couple of characters missing and that seems to make this a collection of heros just trying to get along rather than a JSA story. The plot is good and the art is fine.
While I enjoyed reading this book, there were many times it was just to easy to put down.
Great origin
Excellent art and story here. This was a great attempt to connect the dots of the silver age. It's probably a bit dated now with all the silly reboots.
Perfect! Book arrived just as described!
First of, I freakin love the art to this book! The art to this book isn't groundbreaking or anything, but it has a classic comic book feel to it, with a modern take; it's just very pleasing to look at. The story on the otherhand is very forgettable. The basic idea is that the big three(Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman) are unable to have formed the original JLA due to the universal reboot from Crisis on Infinite Earths; so Green Lantern(Hal Jordan), Flash(Barry Allen), Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and Black Canary are the new founding members. The idea works, but the execution is a bit weird. To put things simply, the dialog goes from good and witty, to horrible and awkward. A lot of the scenarios that play out just leave a bad taste in your mouth. I don't really want to go into full detail, but they just don't seem like the writers had enough time to fully think out some of the side-stories for their character development. Because of this, Martian Manhunter and Black Canary come off as "not that interesting" but with great potential, and Aquaman is just completely obnoxious! And I love Aquaman! Though on the good side GL and Flash are very well written and are the highlight of the book. The art also tells a lot of the story, which is great, I can't stand it when writers keep writing exposition and over describing things when they can just give simple instructions to the artist and let them shine. The main badguys are kind of boring too, and there is a very awkward love side-storyline between Flash and Black Canary that goes absolutely nowhere and turns out to be completely pointless to do in the first place.

Overall this book has great art, and Hal and Barry are very well represented. But everything else is either "meh" or just plain bad. I wouldn't recommend this unless you are a big JLA collector; if you get the chance to read it for free though, i'd say defiantly go for it.