These old DC comics are just exercises in dream logic. As you read them you just kind of accept that things happen, but when you stop for half a second, you realize it’s complete nonsense. And that’s the ethos of this website! So here we go, as all great adventures begin, with the ads:
This is how you know Diana’s the one in charge: hers is the only one in the list here with her own logo.
Millennials, this is how the 60s regarded those who colored their hair. Your great-grandparents walked so you could run.
Okay, THIS is what I was talking about. At first glance, you’re all “Diana saved the Statue of Liberty, yay!” Then you think “Wait, a lightning bolt wouldn’t have destroyed–” but your brain interrupts THAT thought with “Her plane didn’t NEED to ‘match the speed of that lightning bolt’ because it wasn’t getting in the way of–” and THEN it interrupts AGAIN with “Moving the Statue like that would ABSOLUTELY destroy it!”
So yeah, welcome to the JLA.
In this issue of the Justice League of America, the role of Despero will be played by one of those frilled lizards that makes me laugh when I watch it run across the desert on its hind legs.
The hell you gonna do with a signet ring? Also, is there only ONE? Is that why you have to “be first”?
I’m way more invested in this story than in whatever the JLA’s up to. Also, the writer invested far too much verisimilitude into the character of the mom by having her fumble for the term ‘hot rod’.
Here’s another example of nonsense. They go out of their way to remind you how stupid Green Lantern’s weakness against YELLOW is, and in the very next panel, make a point of explaining this yellow machine’s geostationary position, which has NO BEARING on this stupid story. Ahem.
Imagine if a weirdly-dressed alien being abducted you and your entire neighborhood, placed you on a weird solar machine, and forced you to urinate all over it before flinging you haphazardly back in your neighborhood’s general direction.
Welp, guys, the jig is up. Green Lantern and Aquaman know what you all get up to when they’re away from the Hall of Justice.
Surely these two know each other well enough for Batman just to call him J’onn?
Also, in this panel, the role of J’onn J’onzz is played by Ted Knight.
Thus was Rick Jones saved from the Alien NAMBLA. What, too soon?
And that’s it for the first issue of JLA. There was some kind of ‘resolution’, but whatever. I know what you’re really here for: THE ADS
Oh, he’s not going to show you how to HAVE a hot bod, he’s just going to spend a quarter of an hour PROVING it to you.
12 70-year-old cheerleaders
4 retired Washington Generals
8 ballboys
9 1/2 weeks
10 Horatio Hornblower cosplayers
12 Chads
12 Vaguely threatening Eastern European guys
3 Fifth Beatles
And that’s it for today’s Comics Breakdown! Tomorrow… more dreck!
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