As opposed to conversations with informational content, where the dialogue can often be placed in boxes over illustrations of what the conversation is about, conversations that have emotional content require an artist who is skilled at depicting the subtleties of human expression. A really good artist can create “invisible thought balloons” with facial expressions and body language.

[...] So many characters! But this is the first issue in a while that’s given me a sense of wonder about the 30th century. (Is that still when they are?) And it’s a pleasure to see them all doing so many different things (instead of the women standing around posing). [...]

A writer friend of mine has often told me that the worst thing a writer can do is bore his artist. That while it takes the writer minutes to type up a page, the artist will be working days on it.

With no interesting backgrounds, most of the 4 issues take place inside space ships, HQs and factories. Add in that a lot of the LSH current members have point or stare powers that aren’t visually interesting. I can understand an artist trying to do something to make the work interesting to draw, which might be drawing pretty girls.

Not saying its right or cool, but maybe Levitz’s might consider writing something that engages the artist’s creative juices in a different way.

http://www.comicbookreligion.com/?c=1687&Dart_Jill_August

The costumes aren’t really that different than what they wore back in the original Levitz run. The posing is kind of weird though, obviously someone’s taking from magazine poses somewhere.

I have felt the new 52 LSH story lines have been missing something. I really enjoyed Levitz’s return, but since the new start it just seems lacking of focus. I honestly couldn’t tell you what’s happened in the first 4 issues, something about fighting a Daxamite but that’s it.

I also don’t like he new characters, there’s enough LSH characters as there is. The draw of having Levitz writing is his take on that group he made so popular, yet every interview has said how he’s changing focus to those new characters and I think that’s a mistake.