Comments on: Back Issue #22

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By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:30:29 +0000

Given your opinions, you might appreciate these articles even more, since they talk about the points you raise.

By: Michael Rawdon

Michael Rawdon — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:04:30 +0000

Heh. We have rather different outlooks on the contents of this issue. (I haven’t read the issue, but I’m familiar with the subject matter you describe.)

I grew up watching Robin grow up from a teenager to a man, so I have a fondness for those days. I also very much enjoyed the early Tim Drake stories (before the regular series started).

On the other hand, the Levitz/Giffen Legion has always been in my mind the run which wrecked the Legion, changing the characters around for no good reason, given them some truly awful uniforms, and some really haphazard stories. While the run also gave us (eventually) Steve Lightle (one of my fave artists), that feels like scant consolation these days. Give me the Cockrum, Grell, Sherman, or – heck – even the Jimmy Janes Legion over this run any day. Naturaly I don’t consider the Levitz/Giffen Legion “classic”.

I’ve tried to read Zot! but was never able to get into it. I’ve heard the last stuff is the best, but I couldn’t wade through the early stuff to reach it; it just felt frivolous, and the art was nothing special.

And lastly, I couldn’t stand the Giffen Justice League. The earliest issues had a few decent bits (mostly Kevin Maguire’s artwork), but it was dreadfully un-funny, and after the JLI formed what little storytelling there was evaporated right quick. Yick.