In the latest installment of the trainwreck that is the Justice Society of America relaunch, writer Geoff "Off the Rails" Johns gives us a rare insight into what it means to be a superhero in these kooky modern times....
Super-strength and x-ray vision are fine and all, but nothing can top the power of some judiciously applied hush money. I'd like to point out that the incident referred to in the above panel occured in a pediatric ward. Because when you're dealing with a disoriented individual (the crotch-pondering Citizen Steel) with post-traumatic stress and uncontrollable strength, it makes perfect sense to bring him within arm's reach of sick children...
(Then again, this is the team that includes a whimsically wacky mential patient with the cosmic ability to manipulate mass on its roster... The comic's depiction of mental health institutions is, how you say, "completely fucked up.")
With great power comes great responsibility...unless you're rich, then all bets are off.
Rubella Ballet - Money Talks (from At the End of the Rainbow, 1990)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Vacation: Interlude - Art Imitates Life
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This is exactly why I gave up reading comics a few years back, especially when the storeis stopped being larger than life and explodey, and started being "comix with a conscience." The last thing I want to read is SUPERHEROES WITH PERSONAL ISSUES. Well, Batman's the exception--he's just a whackjob--but other than that...
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