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JLA Year One #1 (of 12) by [Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Barry Kitson]

JLA Year One #1 (of 12) Kindle & comiXology

by Mark Waid (Author), Brian Augustyn (Author), Barry Kitson (Cover Art, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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Learn how the five founding members of the JLA--the Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman--were able to pull together as a team, earning the respect of the public and defeating foes like Vandal Savage, scientist T.O. Morrow and the Brotherhood of Evil!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JJ7LRBG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC (December 31, 1997)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 1997
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Superhero comfort food

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2012

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"JLA: Year One"
Written by Mark Waid
Illustrated by Barry Kitson, et al
(DC Comics, 2010)
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This lively retelling of the Justice League origin story is a bit different than the version of the early 1960s -- there's no Batman, no Superman, no Wonder Woman on the team -- and Mark Waid offers a mysterious new set of uber-baddies called the Locus who work behind the scenes and torment the new team from afar. But like many retcon projects, this is about nostalgia and the pleasures of seeing old favorites come back and be handled it new ways. This book is superhero comfort food -- mac'n'cheese, or perhaps a grilled cheese sandwich -- with humorous treatments of various founding members of the JLA, and tons of cameos from classic DC characters such as the Doom Patrol, the Blackhawks, Snapper Carr, and many JLA-ers-in-waiting such as Green Arrow and the aforementioned "trinity" of Bats, Supes and Princess Diana waiting in the wings. Fun stuff. A good read! (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)

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Dan Middleton

Far from Waid's best work

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2012

Mark Waid is better represented than any other writer on my comics shelf. I have very rarely been disappointed by his work. Sadly, JLA: Year One (get the title right, Amazon) is one of those times.

I don't feel that I need to waste much time summarizing the basic premise here. This is a book which covers the origin of the Justice League of America - not the origin stories of the individual members, mind you, but how they first came to join forces and some of their early adventures. The main plot arc of the book is the JLA battling a shadowy survivalist-geneticist cartel called the Locus and their alien allies/puppetmasters.

The first thing which may catch your attention upon picking this book up is that unlike virtually every other Justice League book ever made, it does not feature Superman or Batman on the cover. In fact, the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader are relegated to a place on the back cover of the wraparound design. In fact, Supes and Bats are not League members during the events depicted in JLA: Year One. There is always a danger of those two overshadowing their teammates in any Justice League story, and while an author skilled in writing team books can overcome this difficulty, Waid and his collaborators deserve some credit for taking the bold step of setting the League's two best-known members aside almost entirely so that the League's other members can take the spotlight.

If only there were a more finely-honed story for them to take center stage in. The majority of Year One comes across as disjointed. None of the fights and adventures the League is involved in leading up to the story's climax are particularly interesting, nor do they do much in the way of building tension or offering us hints or glimpses at the villainous master plan behind them. As villains, the Locus are a pretty generic evil techno-scientific cabal with their apocalyptic survivalist overtones as the only thing making them unique, and even they give way in the end to a completely unremarkable stock alien invasion force for the book's climax. Oh, Vandal Savage shows up too, first allying with the aliens and then turning on them to pursue his own ends, but his page time is very limited and nothing he does ever really has much impact on the story.

Of course there are an array of subplots, such as Aquaman's difficulties fitting in among surface-dwellers generally and his new teammates in particular (good for a couple minor chuckles at best), the brash Green Lantern's dubious abilities as de facto League leader (ho-hum), and Batman taking a jaundiced view of the "garish band of well-meaning amateurs" (introduced on one page, literally never brought up again), the League's efforts to recruit Superman as a member (they finally ask, he declines, and why is never really explained), and the League's predictable difficulties learning to function as a team. The most important one is the revelation that one League member is secretly spying on the rest of the team and collecting intelligence on them and other heroes which is later used against them by the invaders. The best that can be said about this is that it apparently served as a sort of prototype for the storyline of Waid's later JLA story "Tower of Babel," which is a much better read all-around than Year One.

Character development of the main cast is moderate at best and the enemy is almost totally uninteresting. Waid and his co-creators did not help matters by inserting cameo appearances from other classic comic superhero and adventuring teams throughout the book and recruiting them all to fight alongside the League in the worldwide showdown against the aliens at the end of the book. Golden Age comics fans may get some momentary pleasure out of seeing characters like the Blackhawks and Doom Patrol, but the time devoted to them would have been better spent tightening up more key aspects of the book, and readers may become fatigued by the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach which was apparently taken to cramming them into the book. These cameos also contribute to the odd ambiguity about exactly what time period the story is set in which permeates the book - this ambiguity was doubtless intentional to some extent, but it leads to some odd incongruities: newsrooms have computers at every desk, but the Blackhawks are still flying their World War II-era propeller-driven fighter planes (even though the team already had more modern jets in the later years of their own Golden/Silver Age series), and none of the previous-generation heroes who appear (such as the members of the Justice Society of America) look noticeably older than the young guns of the JLA.

I try to limit my comments about artwork in my comic reviews because I have no technical art knowledge whatsoever. I know when I like the look of something and when I don't, but I'm generally not very picky. The artwork in JLA: Year One by Barry Kitson, et al, is highly competent. It has a somewhat old-school style to it which might actually enhance the story if it weren't for the aforementioned dissonance about just what year it's supposed to be, anyway, it communicates the action well enough, and it's never distracting. However, it's definitely not a reason to get the book and in of itself, either.

JLA: Year One could have been an enjoyable (if not exactly necessary) look at The World's Greatest Superheroes in their fledgling adventures as a team. Unfortunately, it suffers from disjointed and half-baked plotting, generic antagonists, and mediocre character development. Mark Waid had done much better before this, and has done much better since, but I guess everyone has to have an occasional letdown. Not recommended, unless perhaps you are a hardcore completionist JLA fan.

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dregj

modernises the old original justice league origin has its charm but can get a bit boring in places

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 4, 2013

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clearly not meant to be read all in one go.its a series of stories about the early days of the justice league,there early adventures,struggles to get on and build trust etc .some of the stories are quite good .Overall though despite liking the book i was left with the feeling it was overly long could have done with a tighter arc and the last story (where ALL the other heros are captured "off page" and its soley up to the league to save us) was the worst of the bunch.After all that i would still recommend it to league fans, now that your expectations have been apropriately lowered,go buy

WH

Probably the best comic book I have ever read

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This is a great comic book, I have been reading comics for over 10 years now, and this in my opinion is the best comic book I have ever read, Yes even better then Watchmen and Dark Knight, While those two are great books, they have a hatred for superheroes, this book is a celebration of the superhero genre.

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