Or, the single greatest modern mainstream comic book.
I actually had to read and laugh and think and wait. The pacing was beautiful, wonderful, rewarding. It’s not just that it’s funny or that Kevin Maguire’s art is so damn good. Or even that all the little conversations between characters both relate to their existing relationships and develop them further... It’s all that and more. It effects me--if though I’ve only read the previous reunion series (though I do have most of the issues in a box somewhere).
It made me laugh out loud and it made tears come to my eyes.
It ends--and it’s a definite end as “The New DC,” with its kid-friendly logo, doesn’t like to feature these characters unless they’re murdering or being murdered, raping or being raped--hopefully for the characters. It never invalidates their losses, their journey, it respects them. It’s a completely different Keith Giffen then I read earlier today, but it’s the Keith Giffen that’ll keep me buying his new stuff.
He and DeMatteis are continuing on at Boom! Studios, which is good. I Can’t Believe It’s Not the Justice League certainly shows that they’ve good human stories to tell. Human stories featuring people who fly. And it doesn’t matter, because the stories of these people are quite beautiful. Worthwhile. And I need to stop writing because I’ve both run out of ways to rearrange compliments and it’s difficult to think about this story without thinking of DC’s idiotic handling of it....
Makes you wish the FCC regulated comic books. I’d like nothing better than seeing Dan Didio and Paul Levitz get sued for hawking nine year-olds comic books filled with graphic rape scenes.
(yep, I’m done now).