tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post103618954229809143..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Justice League International Vol. 2: Breakdown trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-27316136021035442472013-03-20T02:19:05.520-05:002013-03-20T02:19:05.520-05:00I liked this volume, as I did the last one. Of cou...I liked this volume, as I did the last one. Of course, it wasn't as good as Winick's generation lost or Jurgens' Booster Gold, but all in all I liked it.<br />Hopefully, Jurgens will get another gig at DC soon, where he can stay on for a while and build something like he did with Booster.Spookyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370993300280714554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-9330079249229344792013-03-07T17:03:48.211-06:002013-03-07T17:03:48.211-06:00I had not read the article until you posted the li...I had not read the article until you posted the link CE. While I sympathize with Mr. Ordway's plight, I have to disagree with him. DC comics does not owe any creator more than what they are contractually obligated to. DC comics is making comics to make profit. They will put creators on the books that they feel will help them do that (unless you are Bob Harras, and then you hire your friends and supporters from when you worked at Marvel in the 90's). Work for hire is a tough business. You are competing with a lot of other artists/writers for a chance to work on a finite number of books. If DC or Marvel felt that the Jerry Ordway name/brand would help them sell comic books then he would be working. Lots of writers/artists disappear from the comics scene in a much shorter time then Mr. Ordway. His longevity is the exception and not the rule in the comic book industry. Nikosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-81278352640190064932013-03-07T16:08:44.268-06:002013-03-07T16:08:44.268-06:00I did, as a matter of fact, give a thought to the ...I did, as a matter of fact, give a thought to the <a href="http://ordstersrandomthoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/life-over-fifty.html" rel="nofollow">recent column by Jerry Ordway</a> on how creators of a certain vintage or tenure struggle to get work, as I wrote this review. I really like a long spread of Dan Jurgen's work, and the man himself is far from an "old" creator, but this volume of JLI did strike me as something that would better sell in 1990, dropped with a thud in the 2011s. <br /><br />I agree wholeheartedly that DC owes these creators -- Jurgens, Ordway, Perez, etc. -- a debt, but in general the work has to grow with the times, too. Keith Giffen is surely a good example -- his work was big in the 1980s, but he equally wrote an edgy, bang-up Doom Patrol just a couple years ago.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-91455374191803811952013-03-07T14:11:05.957-06:002013-03-07T14:11:05.957-06:00Jurgens is part of the problem, not the solution. ...Jurgens is part of the problem, not the solution. DC needs to stop putting retreads like Lobdell, Nocenti, Nicezia, Jurgens, Perez etc on their books. They need to look at new and fresh creators. Look at their best books and see who the creative teams are. They aren't people left over from the 80's and early-mid 90's. There's a reason these guys are not being offered jobs at Marvel.Nikosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-24838003218258476292013-03-07T11:13:56.529-06:002013-03-07T11:13:56.529-06:00The fact that DC cancelled this series after only ...The fact that DC cancelled this series after only 12 issues, even though it had decent sales and was nowhere near the "cancellation threshold", was very strange. I guess they just didn't want an UN-sponsored Justice League co-existing with a US government-sponsored version.<br /><br />I feel sorry for Jurgens, though, because DC has really been jerking him around over the past few years. In addition to having this book cancelled in spite of its good sales, he was removed from Green Arrow after just 6 issues, did 6 issues of Superman before getting replaced by Lobdell and Rocafort and then got the thankless task of trying to save Firestorm, which just got cancelled, too. I hope he isn't plagued by the same fate as Jerry Ordway.shagamuhttp://mbbforum.com/mbbnoreply@blogger.com