BB Review Group week 88 - Justice League of America #0 (spoilers)

[Thudpucker]

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This week we are reading: Justice League of America #0 (DC) by Brad Meltzer and various artists, chosen by Inferiority

Next week we will be reading: Batman #655 (DC) by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert, chosen by SteveZegers



Our reviewers this week are:

Thudpucker - 1
Jono - 2
Daryl Densmore - 9
Evan The Shaggy - 2
BaronS - 9
Phil E - 7
Pat(sadly)NotLoika - 4.5
Ben SIMPSON - 8
Blandy - 8
TheTravis! - 8
xanderharris - 8
guy hetue - 9.5
Kefky - 5
TIP - 9
Adam Witt - 8.5
Mr. Ryan Hoffman - 4
Corwin S. Gibson - 3
Vonn Hennigar - 7
adamgreenberger - 6
Kirbys corpse - 1.2
Jef UK - 9
NickT - 5
Ray Goldfield - 9
Taxman - 2
STOLTMAN - 6
dougmac - 8.5
Doug - 8
I'm With ItsDLEVY - 6.5
ToddKearns - 10
Freeway - 6.5
JABSEN - 6.5
Sy-Klone - 7
ds9 - 8
Howlett - 7
Inferiority - 7
Andreas - 8
SteveZegers - 8
PoWerSurge - 8
J. R. Scherer - 8.5
Richard Lawson - 7.5
dEnny - 7.5







Our Previous 16 weeks of reviews (scores lost during the Image Board crash)

Week 1 - 11/17/04 – Captain America #1
Week 2 - 11/24/04 – Flash #216
Week 3 - 12/01/04 – Darkness Vol. 2 #17 (av grade 3.7)
Week 4 - 12/08/04 – Demo #12
Week 5 - 12/15/04 - Plastic Man #13
Week 6 - 12/22/04 – Goon #10
Week 7 - 12/29/04 - Legion of Super Heroes #1
Week 8 - 01/05/05 – Flaming Carrot #1
Week 9 - 01/12/05 – Majestic #1
Week 10 - 01/19/05 – Human Target #18
Week 11 - 01/26/05 – Conan #12 (av grade 8.3)
Week 12 - 02/02/05 – Black Panther #1
Week 13 - 02/09/05 – Young Avengers #1
Week 14 - 02/16/05 – Ex Machina #8 (av grade 8.4)
Week 15 - 02/23/05 – X-Men #167
Week 16 - 03/02/05 – Ultimate Iron Man #1


Week 17 pick - Shining Knight #1 (Morrison & Bianchi) av grade - 7.8
Week 18 pick - Invincible #21 (Kirkman and Ottley) av grade - 6.3
Week 19 pick - Expatriate #1 (Moore and Latour) av grade - 5.4
Week 20 pick - Temporary #2 (Hurd & Smith) av grade - 7.4
Week 21 pick - GLA #1 (Slott and Pelletier) av grade - 6.8
Week 22 pick - Nightwing #107 (Grayson and Hester) av grade - 5.8
Week 23 pick - Iron Ghost #1 (Dixon and Cariello) av grade - 4.9
Week 24 pick - City Of Tomorrow (Howard Chaykin) av grade - 6.2
Week 25 pick - Villains United #1 (Simone and Eaglesham) av grade - 5.7
Week 26 pick - Desolation Jones #1 (Ellis and Williams III) av grade - 8.9
Week 27 pick - Guardian #2 (Morrison and Stewart) av grade - 6.1
Week 28 pick - Adv. Of Superman #640 (Rucka and Kerschl) av - 6.1
Week 29 pick - Son Of Vulcan #1 (Beatty and Grant) av grade - 3.7
Week 30 pick - JLA #115 (Johns, Heinberg, Batista) av grade - 6.9
Week 31 pick - Wildsiderz #0 (Campbell and Hartnell) av grade - 2.9
Week 32 pick - Astro City: The Dark Age #1 av grade - 7.3
Week 33 pick - Albion #1 (Moore and Oakley) av grade - 5.0
Week 34 pick - Gotham Central #33 (Rucka, Brubaker, Kano) av - 8.5
Week 35 pick - Mutopia X (Hine and Medina) av grade - 5.2
Week 36 pick - Athiest #2 (Hester and McCrea) av grade - 6.9
Week 37 pick - JLA: Classified #10 (Ellis and Guise) av grade - 6.9
Week 38 pick - Justice #1 (Ross, Krueger & Braithwaite) av grade 7.9
Week 39 pick - The Winter Men #1 (Lewis and Leon) av grade 5.3
Week 40 pick - Batman: Journey into Knight #1 (Helfer & Huat) av - 4.4
Week 41 pick - Jack Cross #1 (Ellis and Erskine) av grade 6.1
Week 42 pick - Runaways #7 (Vaughan & Miyazawa) av grade 7.8
Week 43 pick - Ghost Rider #1 (Ennis and Crain) av grade 6.4
Week 44 pick - Thor: Blood Oath #1 (Oeming and Kolins) av grade 7.1
Week 45 pick - Wolverine #32 (Millar and Andrews) av grade 8.2
Week 46 pick - Losers #28 (Diggle and Wilson) av grade 7.4
Week 47 pick - FF/I M : Big In Japan #1 (Wells & Fisher) av grade 5.6
Week 48 pick - F N Spider-Man #1 (David and Wieringo) av grade 7.3
Week 49 pick - Fin Fang Four #1 (Langridge & Grey) av grade 8.8
Week 50 pick - Book Of Lost Souls #1 (JMS & Doran) av grade 5.6
Week 51 pick - Hero At Large #2 (Hogan and Treece) av grade 6.3
Week 52 pick - DMZ #1 (Brain Wood) av grade 7.7
Week 53 pick - The Thing #1 (Slott and DiVito) av grade 7.5
Week 54 pick - Walking Dead #24 (Kirkman & Adlard) av grade 8.4
Week 55 pick - Generation M #1 (Jenkins and Bachs) av grade 7.3
Week 56 pick - Marvel Team-Up #15 (Kirkman & Medina) av grade 6.0
Week 57 pick - Amazing Joy Buzzards 2 #3 (Smith and Hipp) av grade 5.1
Week 58 pick - Testament #1 (Rushkoff and Sharp) av grade 7.4
Week 59 pick - New Avengers #14 (Bendis and Cho) av grade 7.6
Week 60 pick - Sable & Fortune #1 (Cahill and Burns) av grade 4.4
Week 61 pick - Ares #1 (Oeming and Foreman) av grade 8.2
Week 62 pick - SGT. ROCK: THE PROPHECY #1 (Joe Kubert) - av grade 7.7
Week 63 pick - Nextwave #1 (Ellis and Immonen) av grade 9.1
Week 64 pick - Betty and Veronica Digest #163 av grade 4.2
Week 65 pick - Fables #46 (Willingham and Fern) av grade 7.5
Week 66 pick - Daredevil #82 (Brubaker and Lark) av grade 9.6
Week 67 pick - Ast. X-Men #13 (Whedon & Cassaday) av grade 8.5
Week 68 pick - Ms. Marvel #1 (Reed and de la Torre) av grade 7.3
Week 69 pick - American Virgin #1 (Seagle & Cloonan) av grade 7.1
Week 70 pick - Annihilation Prologue (Giffen & Kolins) av grade 6.3
Week 71 pick - Hawkgirl #50 (Simonson and Chaykin) av grade 5.0
Week 72 pick - Savage Dragon # 124 (Erik Larson) av grade 7.2
Week 73 pick - Moon Knight #1 (Huston & Finch) av grade 7.4
Week 74 pick - Firestorm #24 (Moore and Igle) av grade 4.6
Week 75 pick - Squadron Supreme #2 (JMS & Frank) av grade 6.3
Week 76 pick - Incredible Hulk #94 (Pak and Pagulayan) av grade 8.9
Week 77 pick - Civil War #1 (Millar and McNiven) av grade 7.4
Week 78 pick - She-Hulk #7 (Slott and Round) av grade 6.6
Week 79 pick - 100 Bullets #72 (Azzarello and Risso) av grade 8.0
Week 80 pick - Secret Six #1 (Simone and Walker) av grade 6.8
Week 81 pick - My Inner Bimbo #1 (Sam Kieth) av grade 8.8
Week 82 pick - Wonder Woman #1 (Heinberg and Dodson's) av grade 7.2
Week 83 pick - Ms Marvel #4 (Reed and De La Torre) av grade 5.8
Week 84 pick - Eternals #1 (Gaiman and JR JR) av grade 7.5
Week 85 pick - DC: Brave New World (various) av grade 4.8
Week 86 pick - The Beyond #1 (McDuffie & Kolins) av grade 5.5
Week 87 pick - The Escapists #1 (BKV, Bond & Barreto) av grade 8.6





Our higest average grade so far was for Daredevil #82 with 9.6
Our lowest average grade so for is Wildsiderz #0 with 2.9


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[Thudpucker]

This was one giant waste of paper (and 3 dollars).

So the big three kiss and make up (gee, who'd 'ave thunk?) and we get a recap of "where they all stand now (which apparently is just the same old place they've always stood) Any forming of the JLA going on here? Nope.

The art was distracting, all the shifts between artists and the attempts to merge nostalgia and the past with the present. And to be honest I really couldn't give 2 shits about the stuff being summarized.

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[Vonn Hennigar]

I was on the fence with this one. After reading that review now i'm really not sure. On the other hand i love ripping Bad books so i'm in.

Damn it better not be god Thud

[Ray G.]

All New Jersey comics shops are getting books on Thursday because of the storm.

Fuck.

[Jef UK]

All New Jersey comics shops are getting books on Thursday because of the storm.

Fuck.

Super sucky.

[Philip J Eaves]

Wow, Thudpucker, what a dissapointing review. I loved Identity Crisis, so it will really be sad to know that this is crap.
However, it is #0, which seems superfluous to begin with. Maybe #1 will redeem it.

[Deej]

All New Jersey comics shops are getting books on Thursday because of the storm.

Fuck.

Drive to NYC or LI!!!!

[Ray G.]

Drive to NYC or LI!!!!

I don't have a car, and it's too late in the day to take public transport and have time to do all I have to do today. So I'm boned. And on one of the best weeks in months, too.....

Oh, well. Reviews will come. Just one day late.

[Jef UK]

Wow, Thudpucker, what a dissapointing review. I loved Identity Crisis, so it will really be sad to know that this is crap.
However, it is #0, which seems superfluous to begin with. Maybe #1 will redeem it.

That's what I'm thinking. I never trust #0's. This should have been a quarter or something (although I haven't read it yet).

[Jono]

This seems like they stretched a gimmick for an 8 page preview into a full issue. It didn't really work, and as Thud mentioned the art/time period changes were jarring and took away from the story.

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