Green Arrow is still a horndog ...

... that's why he's joining Hal Jordan's new Justice League ...


... so they can ogle more chicks!

(because his wife is chairwoman of the current League, and damn if he'll be able to get away with it!)

hey, i didn't make that up; Newsarama did!!


(btw, the censored parts of that DC Memo were "retcon", "Final Crisis" and "Batman R.I.P.")

JLUnleashed

ever read your comics using a widescreen big-ass monitor? would you ever go back to your puny 14" screen? hell, no!!!

especially if the reading material is about big-ass fights. slap around the Justice league, will ya? be prepared to be whupped.


if we don't reconfigure the size, Batman will be even larger than life.

okay, it ain't HD and it ain't video. but it'll save your eyes and make you drool (i'm not worried about power consumption as this monitor is located in the - cough, cough - office).

was there any doubt that the League would stay down for long? actually, they really need a bunch of nastier villains to clean their clocks. Luthor has been doing this shtick for awhile now and he hasn't won anything.

there goes another empty promise. i dare ya, Diana.

since all of these happens just before the Black Canary/Green Arrow wedding (yes, we know - continuity sucks), team leader Dinah knows she has to finish this quickly so they can continue the bridal shower (hey. those studs cost a lot of money ok?).

Dwayne McDuffie is building something here, with Vixen's fluctuating powers and a manipulative third party. kissing Superman? is Lois watching this?

speaking of the Big Blue Boy Scout - what does he do when he gets his powers back? why, punch the bald asshole, of course. but you know he held back - he still doesn't want to kill Lex after all the crap Lex puts him through year after year. wuss.

oh-ho! and who comes to pick up the anti-League? Amanda Waller? really? i smell something fishy ... like a bigger Injustice League (and she's saving Luthor's ass for her own ends).

fresh off his run on the Fantastic Four, where he made T'Challa the baddest brother in the universe, the same undercurrent flows through here, with a much-fleshed out Vixen, Black Lightning, and now Firestorm.

o, Bat-God, please give me a widescreen monitor like this for Christmas.
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Justice League of America #15
Dwayne McDuffie/Ed Benes/Sandra Hope

have gun, will shoot rival

cheating is bad, even it happens in a potential timeline in the future yet to be realized.

and Reed Richards has the best solution for it.


Namor, T'Challa and Victor Von Doom travel from the future to warn Richards about disastrous consequences of his plan (one of his hundreds of mathematical posits) to save mankind. it was all civil enough until the knowledge that Sue would leave him for Namor comes to light.

i am loving this Dwayne McDuffie run of the FF.

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Fantastic Four #551

doomsday

children of the 80's, feast your eyes! looks familiar to you?

yes, its none other than the Hall of Doom, and who else would be inside except our favorite DC assholes.

of course, Lex Luthor tried this schtick before but give him style points and an A for effort(s).

this time around, he may have momentum on his side as in this issue alone, the Injustice League almost kills the new Firestorm, injures Hawkgirl, takes down Geo-Force, Arsenal, Batman (yeah him!!) and Wonder Woman (yeah her!!), and more importantly, causes Green Arrow's bachelor party to come to a grinding halt. you know our heroes still had to pay the strippers (dressed as rival publishing houses' female characters, no less) the full amount!

this issue also has one of the best exchanges and is already a classic. too bad you can't use it on your friends.

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Justice League of America Wedding Special

the cat's meow

Fantastic Four #546
Dwayne McDuffie/Paul Pelletier/Rick Magyar/Scott Hanna
Marvel

hands down ... the Black Panther is the best strategist this side of Batman!

Tony Stark may be the best inventor and futurist, but his ego could be his downfall. Reed Richards may have a better scientific mind than Tony, but he lacks Tony's charm and social skills (plus he's pussywhipped right now - see below). Hank Pym may have the drive and brains to rival those two but his morals are even shakier (showing you the Exhibits could take all day; just one word: Ultron). and these guys just put Captain America on the crosshairs of a sniper.


among the heroes who never bowed down to the Superhero Registration Act, King T'Challa seems best suited to lead the rebels. he has superhero cred, and he has street cred. he's royalty, he's insanely rich, and he's also a genius. he's sneakier than the best chess grandmaster. plus, he's bangin' a weather goddess. never has an African nation been so proud.

here in FF#546, up against Galactus and the Silver Surfer, what can a mere mortal do? why, run away of course. but only to grab a few things, like two brass amphibians that shift time and space. i betcha Stark didn't know he had that!


back in the fight, the Black Panther uses cosmic power-siphoning armor to get the Silver Surfer to his own level. i mean, that's fighting dirty. and T'Challa has no problem with that. i bet just like Batman, he has devices and contingency plans ready to take down every super-powered being in the known universe. or even the DC Universe.


the Black Panther levels out the playing field, and the FF save the day. like they always do. Reed would be proud to have brought the Panther in as a stand-in. outstanding writing from Mr. McDuffie. too bad Gravity didn't want to be the Protector of the Universe. i guess that venerable and powerful entity just couldn't be a kid from Wisconsin.


so for all you life noobs (e.g., fresh graduates) out there, make sure you're adequately armed to go into the battlefield that is the rat race. here are some words of wisdom from the wise king himself:

if that is so, who would be the mother? just asking, your highness.


jokes aside, o wise king - about Darfur ...