TALES FROM THE KRYPTONIAN: Not done with Justice League Month yet !

Friday, April 04, 2025

Not done with Justice League Month yet !

That's right, before finally closing the door on JUSTICE LEAGUE MONTH there is a special issue that I need to post. And it's not even an issue of any incarnation of THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA but rather an issue of the post INFINITE CRISIS series of JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA that crosses over with the Justice League and features everybody's favourite super - heroes from exactly 1,000 years in the future as special guests.

So yes, I am talking about part four of THE LIGHTNING SAGA called Three Worlds - at least I think it does because my interlac is a rusty - written by Geoff Johns ( back when he was a terrific writer no pun intended ), pencilled by Dale Eaglesahm and inked by Ruy Jose. And yes, that is the infamous cover to JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 10 where the late, great Michael turner got a bit too enthusiastic let's say about Power Girl's big power girls and had to decrease them in size a few times before the guys at DC Comics gave the green light. I bet that's one problem Michael did not have on his own books where he could draw women's breasts as big as he wanted although I do not think there were any especially busty women in FATHOM or any of the other series Michael Turner published.

As for the picture above I know that it's not the first version because in the collection where I got it from there is the published cover with the logo and stuff and Power Girl's chest is considerably smaller there. I just don't know if this is the first version or if this was already toned down.

Speaking of Dale Eaglesham, he is an artist I thoroughly enjoy - even if it can be difficult to follow the series he is working on - so I want to do a little public service announcement just for my readers in Spain. At the moment the first volume of the FANTASTIC FOUR BY JONATHAN HICKMAN omnibus hardcover is offered at amazon Spain for 65 Euros - including package and shipping - which is a steal compared to the regular price of between 100 and 108 EUROS. This is the second time it is offered at this price since the last two weeks it had risen to 75 Euros. I thought about ordering it the first time when it hit the 65 Euros mark but I hesitated too long so this is my second chance to get it cheap. Now the reason why I hesitated was that not all the issues of FANTASTIC FOUR in this volume are drawn by Dale Eaglesham. Granted, some are drawn by the great Steve Epting ( about whom I have written quite a number of posts on this very blog ) who is just phenomenal but some are drawn by an artist who tries - and very unsuccessfully at that - to copy Brian Hitch's style.

Which I find a bit funny because as some of my visitors who have been here longer might remember when Brian Hitch did his run on FANTASTIC FOUR he had adapted a new art style that helped him draw quicker so he could keep the deadlines and this new art style did not go over too well with the readers. I wrote about this and if I can find this post I will put the link right here . As for the quality of the story by Jonathan Hickman I have to say that I am not always a fan of his big ideas like on AVENGERS where he clearly neither understood the assignment nor the team and what makes the Avengers tick but FANTASTIC FOUR is the book where everybody can agree on that he hit it out of the ball park with this one.

So if some of my spanish fans want to check out a good FANTASTIC FOUR run and are one of the few people left on the planet who have not read this yet now is your chance to get the book at an excellent price. Plus I gather that with the upcoming THE FANTASTIC FOUR movie ( for which I haven't seen any trailers yet because I don't want to know anything before seeing it ) this sucker will only go up in price. Man, I just hope that with the movie FANTASTIC FOUR gets a bit of an attention boost with general audiences because it is a - pun intended - fantastic series.

Okay, now that we are done with our good deed for the day let's finally get to our issue of JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA that is part four of The Lightning Saga, the reintroduction of the Legion of Super - Heroes into the post Infinite Crisis DC universe. As the member of the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America find out in this issue the visiting Legion of Super - Heroes members have not been one hundred percent truthful about their real reasons to travel exactly 1,000 years to the past as they plan to partake in a special ceremony with which Legion of Super - Hero afficionados and Superman are just too familiar with and it all has to do with the mysterious yellow rods they brought with them.

And that's all I am going to say about that issue so better get ready for the clash of not two but three super hero teams and more legionnaires that you can shake a life restoring lightning rod at. Long live the Legion !