Dive in to a Justice League and Aquaman crossover. DC Comics shared the previews and covers of the December event. In Throne of Atlantis can the Justice League rally to save Aquaman’s undersea kingdom? Justice League #15 features the new art team of Ivan Reis and Joe Prado and a backup story in which Shazam meets Black Adam. Jim Lee created this amazing cover with Aquaman leading the charge with trident ready!
Aquaman #15 courtesy DC Comics
Throne of Atlantis continues in Aquaman #15 by Geoff Johns and Adrian Syaf. This cover is by Eddy Burrows.
Come for the kiss. Stay for the drama. Justice League #12 features the much hyped kiss between Superman and Wonder Woman but this issue packs a ton of other great moments and leaves me wanting more.
Most non-comic book readers have been upset about Lois Lane getting ditched. Most of them don’t know about the rebooted New 52 continuity. Wonder Woman’s great love gets a world of hurt in this story. League government liaison Steve Trevor is the poor guy who gets dumped then fired by the Amazon princess.
This story may be remembered as the issue that brought Clark and Diana together but the team nearly rips apart. The new villain Graves uses his powers to torment the League with ghosts of their pasts.
The aftermath of the battle is the best part of the story. One member quits. One member makes a play for leadership. All of them are under fire from the country they’re trying to protect thanks to the villain’s manipulations.
Jim Lee is acclaimed for his beautiful art, muscled heroes, gorgeous heroines and big screen action. I have to point out the heartbreaking anguish of Diana, the battered Steve Trevor and Superman’s desperate fear when he thinks he might lose Diana.
The best part of the story is after the great showdown with the new villain. The fallout of the fight is one standout moment after another. Lee draws the hell out of big fight sequences but his best work in this issue is when he’s showing the emotionally beaten Diana leave Steve for Superman.
The final pages show the New 52 debut of a character with her own agenda for the Justice League, the threat of Graves is not over and the fractures within the team will shake out into huge conflicts in upcoming issues. I came for the super kiss. Johns and Lee have me seduced by what’s next.
AvX Vs. #5 One of Marvel’s most iconic power couples is shattered. See the extended battle that led to the breakup of Storm and the Black Panther. Plus, Hawkeye takes aim at Angel. Two huge fights from the Avengers vs. X-Men mega series in this “all fights” series.
Captain Marvel #3 Carol is trapped in World War II with a team of female pilots under siege. Is this time twisting part of a NASA experiment gone wrong?
Justice League #12 Superman and Wonder Woman in love! Have you seen the super kiss? There’s more to romance in this action packed issue as the heroes are tested while fighting their new foe.
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #4 courtesy IDW Publishing
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who Assimilation2 #3 The Borg and Cybermen are attacking the Federation. Why an alliance of the Time Lord and Captain Picard may be more dangerous than the CyberBorg. What will Guinan reveal to the Doctor?
Winter Soldier #9 Marvel’s hottest superspies and lovers turned against each other. Black Widow’s tragic past has taken hold of her. Can Bucky save her?
Update: Representatives for the actor/director have denied reports that Ben Affleck will direct the Justice League movie according to Deadline.
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The man who played Marvel’s Daredevil may be directing DC’s Justice League movie. Ben Affleck has been approached by Warner Brothers to helm the big screen film starring DC’s biggest heroes according to Variety.
The writer/director/star of The Town and upcoming Argo is the only director who’s seen the script by Will Beall and is meeting the studio’s top brass this week according to the story.
Is this a smart move? Marvel tapped comedy actor/director Jon Favreau for the first Iron Man and the rest is pop culture history.
Ben Affleck is the lead in all the films he directed so would be play a member of the Justice League? Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash? The man has the build and face of a superhero. Affleck played George Reeves (the first actor to play Superman on television) in Hollywoodland.
Maxwell Lord in The Omac Project courtesy DC Comics
I’d love to see Afflect portray supervillain Maxwell Lord. I don’t know if he’s the foe in the script but that’s the character that jumped to my mind when I saw Affleck’s potential involvement.
Greg Rucka’s OMAC Project, a prelude to the Infinite Crisis event, is a gripping story that demonstrating why Max Lord is a perfect villain. This story dramatically changed the relationships between Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman. This epic with just DC’s Big Three would make a powerhouse movie.
Who is Maxwell Lord? A human entrepreneur who created the Justice League that he ran like a company. Later Lord developed mind control abilities and joined the covert espionage agency Checkmate. All that time working as an ally of the JL Lord was gathering information (weaknesses) on the world’s heroes in a plot to wipe them off the planet. Imagine Superman under the control of a warped criminal mind? The Man of Steel actually was compelled to beat Batman to death until…well just read the Omac Project!
Flash is front and center with his fellow heroes in the palm of a bad guy’s hand! DC Comics revealed Jim Lee’s variant cover to Justice League #11 as the iconic heroes battle Element Woman in part three of The Villain’s Journey.
The Geoff Johns penned issue also continues the back story origin of Shazam with Gary Frank on art. The issue arrives July 18.
Jim Lee revealed an early design of a new mystery villain coming in Justice League #9 on The Source. Lee will rejoin writer Geoff Johns on the series with that issue. This week’s issue was a prologue for the next arc The Villain’s Journey.
I wonder if this mystery man is connected to the hooded woman known as Pandora, Darkseid’s daughter?
Is the DC Comics The New 52 Justice League is allowing a new member to join? DC revealed this variant cover to Justice League #8 by Mike Choi and this quote:
“We all know what happened when we let someone ELSE in to the Justice League. It ended very badly.”
– Batman, Justice League#8
This cover inspires me to share a great Emerald City Comicon memory. Mike Choi is more than an amazing artist. At Emerald City Comicon 2008 I was in a line of hopeful geeks hoping to get an autograph and a sketch. Some of the sketch requests took a little longer and time was getting away. Lights were being turned out but Mike kept signing and sketching until the last moment and so all of us didn’t leave empty-handed after the long wait that was so worth it. Thanks again Mike!
Justice League #6 variant cover courtesy DC Comics
DC’s greatest heroes united only to be blasted by Darkseid! Can the team regroup to stop the ultimate villain? Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League #6 arrives this week.
USA Today has an exclusive preview images of the climatic battle and interviews wth the creators.
“You really see Batman’s superpower is elevating the others around him,” said Johns. “Other than being a great tactician and a great fighter, he does know how to motivate people in the right way and crack into them like a safe.”
“Every character steps up and does something important in taking down Darkseid and saving the day. That’s the trick to any team book facing one ultimate bad guy is how do you get every character doing something meaningful, and the story delivers on that,” adds Lee.
This issue has a backup story setting the stage for the next arc in issue 7 and brings the Justice League 5 years forward into present day DC Comics New 52 continuity. Thanks to The Source.
Johns and Lee have succeeded beautifully at creating a new origin for these iconic characters. It’s been a thrill ride with action, humor and drama. I have to agree with Johns that Batman has this power to inspire. Bruce Wayne and Hal Jordan’s interaction has been a favorite part of this arc. I can’t wait for the big throwdown this week!
