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Grimm said:
How would you know, Dave, since you've never actually read anything he's written, but in your own words, merely glanced across it?

You're pre-judging work without having read it, meaning your opinion is as relevant as anything Mota has to say.



En garde.

I have a copy of JLA/JSA Virtue and Vice. Read it several times now.

I think its utter crap.

Plot problems: I still don't understand the significance of Captain Atom going forward in time - I thought that was a cheap plot device just to demonstrate he could do it. Hourman's broken arm was pointless - another example of Johns simply displaying a character's powers. If Despero was a disembodied ghost possessing Luthor's body, how is it at the end there was a naked Luthor and a comatose Despero lying next to him? And there were no clever tricks in defeating their foes - it was just simply a pile-on of characters.

Dialogue: I thought the dialogue was stilted and often indistinguishable for some of the characters. You could have interchanged the dialogue for the Atom, Jay Garrick, Superman and Hourman on several occasions.

The concept: In the back feature of a Gen 13 comic I read years ago, a paradoy of a team up between Gen 13 and WildCATS had the leaders shakes hands and offer to have a team up one day with a case of mistaken identity so they could fight each other and then be friends. Group team ups are often focussed on pitting one team against the other, or parts thereof. Johns didn't see any need to break this tiresome stereotype.

I actually bought this comic with great expectations - I thought I would be seeing a new version of the old JLA/JSA team ups I enjoyed as a kid, as well as hearing great things about Johns from various people. I was seriously let down on both fronts.

I have since read several issues of JSA, without buying them. One of them was with Atomsmasher destroying a JSA jet. Another recent one had Johns engaging in blatant and stupid retconning in substituting one Hourman for another in a fight to the death with Extant because "Hourman will die" and it didn't matter which one - and it didn't matter that the android Hourman died anyway because they could rebuild him. Hack writing - it really is on the same level as fan fiction.

Riposte, et touche.

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