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Hello and welcome to Judgment Calls. As it turns out, I wasnt dead, and
as I understand it, there was a pool going about that. Whoever won I
expect my cut of the winnings, ANYWAY. As for why Ive been M.I.A.
since the beginning of the year is a long story...remodeling, computer crashes,
power outages, school, and other things got in the way, and it always
seemed to hit the last week of the month, usually when I get all my stuff
together for my column. Anyway, Im back, if anyone cares.
A lot happened while I was away that I could neither rant about nor
praise; The new Spectre series, the new Green Arrow series, uh other
things, but I dont feel like talking about those now. Instead ,I feel like
ranting incessantly about something thats pissing me off.
WHAT THE HELL IS WITH ALL THESE DAMN JLA SPECIALS?
JLA vs. Predator, JLA:Black Baptism, JLA: Incarnations, JLA: Gods and
Monsters, JLA/Witchblade, JLA: Our Worlds at War, JLA: Act of God,
JLA Secret Files... Its too damn much, way too much, and this is only up to
April. Do you realize how much more garbage theyll cram at us by the
end of the year? This is sheer over exposure, trying to drain every last cent
out of the comicbook geek public. This is ridiculous, this is akin to the
early nineties variant covers craze...you remember, when there were at
least 8 covers for any remotely (and many non) important issue of any comic,
even if it wasnt doing well. At least there are different stories
in this, but still, this is nuts. I am a JLA fan sure, but still my comics
budget is limited. Its not the ONLY title I read, and I dont appreciate
having all these damn specials out at basically the same time. I
havent read half of them, and Im not interested in reading them, either.
Its not for skimming through and not liking it, its just too damn much
JLA. They have a normal title... USE IT, make it bi-monthly or something
if you have this many stories to tell, but jeez, cut down on the freaking
specials.
Oh, I am enjoying the normal JLA title, its damn good, but when at
the comicbook store seeing it in the rack immediately followed by two
columns of special JLA comics its getting a little out of hand. Tis is reminding me of
the X-men, which in my opinion has too many things going on too, thats
why I stopped reading it awhile ago. JLA has now become X-Men like
which I dont like, i.e. TOO MUCH STUFF, a new special out every week. Pretty
soon it will probably have rotating creative teams every three damn
months, as now as I understand it, Mark Waid is leaving JLA for Cross
Gen. Great. Just when I was getting into HIS JLA.
Im serious when I say if JLA continues the way it is, I will drop the
title... this is getting fucking out of hand... And its not just the
fact that the JLA have this many specials, theyre everywhere, in the
normal titles of other characters I constantly see while walking through
my local comicbook store guest staring the JLA! Yeah whoopee do,
cant one hero save the damn universe without the JLA anymore? I can
remember so many things in comics that were killed by over exposure (Punisher,
and Ghost Rider come to mind, which took near 5 years to recover from
their over exposure). Im getting sick of the JLA.
Oh and yet another JLA special is on the way, the comicbook geeks
wet dream JLA/Avengers. Which at this point, Im not even sure if I
care.
Patrick Dunning
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