Art's good, the dialogue is just so stilted and strange sounding. JUSTICE!
Second issue was exponentially better than the first, and I like Robinson, so I'm gonna ride it out and probably decide by the fourth or fifth whether to stick with it.
It seems that Robinson has difficulties finding the characters' dialogue and storyline's pace at first but, the more he writes the characters his writing improves (you can see this on his work on Superman especially).
So while I still dislike this series, the 2nd issue was better than the first one (which doesn't say much) but hopefully he'll get his rythm right by the time he starts writing the JLA on-going.
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“Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom. The freedom to leave.”
Man... this issue was just, shockingly, viciously bad.
Robinson SHOULD be better than this, is the problem. I mean, his writing is more or less always extraordinarily heavy-handed and turgid, but generally, his ideas, themes, and plots are excellent.
I’m beginning to wonder if this is some whole symbolic thing about the nature of comic books, like that one storyline where Superman fought the Authority knock-offs. Hal and his team of torture buddies are going to make a terrible mistake because of their actions, and this is going to lead into Robinson’s run on the regular JLA title, which will be all about superheroes and nobility.
Even IF that’s the plan, though, it’s still a little sickening to read this and have no one in the book say a damn thing about it.
Seriously, though... Ray Palmer torturing a dude in the same way his wife killed someone? Cold, man.
And Green Arrow, the "common man liberal" hero of the DCU- one of my favorite characters, and practically the only progressive in the Justice League... is like... "Hal... is this... like, torture, or something?"
Dude normally makes up his mind before he even knows whats going on. Ugh.
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