Favourite JLA era?

[Adam Chapman]

Of all the varied eras of the JLA, which has been your favourite, and why?

[demon]

Morrison- it's the one I grew up with and it has Kyle Rayner and Wally West (I find them much more enjoyable that their old counterparts)

plus the dialouge is up with the times :D

Great thread idea, by the way!

[Duodenum]

I guess you cats just aint hip to snapper carr like yours truly :cool:

[Sasquatch]

i grew up with the cave/satellite era ones, so i prefer the morrison take lol
simple perfection, nothing else to add. i still thank god for having brought grant to comics!

[Justin Byrd]

Morrison era...with Batgod. :LOL:

[Justice Blues]

i grew up with the cave/satellite era ones, so i prefer the morrison take lol
simple perfection, nothing else to add. i still thank god for having brought grant to comics!
Yeah, pretty much my opinion too. I liked the Earth 1/Earth 2 crossovers, and really loved the early JLI stuff, but Morrison put it together just right.

[Six_Winged]

Morrison era for the same reasons.

[Octopus Nine]

Morrison reintroduced awe and shock to comics. His issues were the first comics which i could buy without even flipping through it in the store. The last pages were always mind-boggling! I liked Howard Porter since JLX but his run on JLA made me fall in love with his style. He really came into his own as an artist & refined his craft here.

...and the villians! the White Martians, Asmodel, Prometheus, Darkseid (actually scary during Rock of Ages, and defeated by Connor Hawke & the Atom... Awesome!), Ivo & T. O. Morrow (to this day Tomorrow Woman is one of my favorite characters).

For a long while i wasn't reading comics & this is the book that brought me back.

[JSaint25]

I got into JLA kind of late(meaning in TPB form). Which poll choice up there would reflect the Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and Tom Nguyen run? That'd be my choice.

[Fanatix]

I got into JLA kind of late(meaning in TPB form). Which poll choice up there would reflect the Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and Tom Nguyen run? That'd be my choice.

Thats not actually up there. Kelly took over after a small run by waid who followed morrisons approx 45 issue run.

And it doesn't deserve to be up there. Kelly did a COUPLE of decent things and one or two interesting stories. But really his depictions of the characters were just hollow shells of their real selves.
Morrison spent some time, whether through action, inaction, or conversation building up these characters and what they were capable of. What superman is capable of is obvious, but kyle, connor, and plastic man became big time guys because morrison wrote them spectacularly. There adventures were awesome. I've gone back and read a couple of different JLA runs, and while some were funny and wonderful, others were constant and some were very real. Very few of them had the scope that almost all of morrisons run had.

[JSaint25]

Thats not actually up there. Kelly took over after a small run by waid who followed morrisons approx 45 issue run.

And it doesn't deserve to be up there. Kelly did a COUPLE of decent things and one or two interesting stories. But really his depictions of the characters were just hollow shells of their real selves.
Morrison spent some time, whether through action, inaction, or conversation building up these characters and what they were capable of. What superman is capable of is obvious, but kyle, connor, and plastic man became big time guys because morrison wrote them spectacularly. There adventures were awesome. I've gone back and read a couple of different JLA runs, and while some were funny and wonderful, others were constant and some were very real. Very few of them had the scope that almost all of morrisons run had.


Ok, I just asked which poll choice would reflect mine, but it's cool, I respect your opinion. I'm sticking by mine, that I liked Joe Kelly's work on JLA. I found the story arcs to be fun, enjoyable reads. Considering that I didn't have a lot of JLA knowledge(outside of the animated JLA and JLU) before picking up his run but still enjoyed reading it, means that there was some measure of success to his stories.

If it wasn't for his run, I wouldn't have started picking up DC at all. That's the main reason why that run is my favorite. I was a strict Spidey only guy then I decided one day to pick up the Golden Perfect trade and liked it and I branched from there onto solo character books.

A common complaint in comics in general that I've read around(in forums, articles, etc. around the 'net) is that some writers forget about the good things Morrison has done for characters/series when they take over after him. So Plastic Man became big b/c of what Morrison did...awesome. I ended up having newfound respect for the character during Kelly's run. So what? Kelly doesn't get any respect for building on what Morrison started?

When money allows, I'll go back and get trades of the runs I've missed. Then I'll decide for myself whether it deserves to be up there or not. Everybody's got their favorites for one reason or another.

[Bigby Wolf]

I got into JLA kind of late(meaning in TPB form). Which poll choice up there would reflect the Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and Tom Nguyen run? That'd be my choice.
Definitly Morrison's run. I liked every issue he did, though I haven't read World War 3. I especially liked the first four with the White Martians (and mullet Superman), sweet villians. Batman was awesome in the White Martian story too. Morrison also made Conner into a great Green Arrow, worthy of his fathers legacy.

But onto the reason I quoted JSaint25. I am in the same boat as JS, well, that Joe Kelly's JLA got me started with DC. My first DC book I bout was JLA 66, I think 2 issues prior to the start of the Obsidian Age, or the Hunt for Aquaman. That story got me into DC comics.

[Picard]

Easily Morrisons run.

[Fanatix]

Ok, I just asked which poll choice would reflect mine, but it's cool, I respect your opinion. I'm sticking by mine, that I liked Joe Kelly's work on JLA. I found the story arcs to be fun, enjoyable reads. Considering that I didn't have a lot of JLA knowledge(outside of the animated JLA and JLU) before picking up his run but still enjoyed reading it, means that there was some measure of success to his stories.


Dude, I wasn't really bashing your opinion. Well, I suppose I was a little bit.

Really, the point of my post was to get you to go back and read morrisons arcs. If you liked Kelly, I can't imagine that you'd dislike "new world order", "rock of ages", "world war three", "crisis in time" and the other awesome arcs that have been put into tpb.

[Duodenum]

The results of this poll are dissapointmentsville *snap* *snap* *snap*

[JSaint25]

Dude, I wasn't really bashing your opinion. Well, I suppose I was a little bit.

Really, the point of my post was to get you to go back and read morrisons arcs. If you liked Kelly, I can't imagine that you'd dislike "new world order", "rock of ages", "world war three", "crisis in time" and the other awesome arcs that have been put into tpb.

All good. I had read stuff about Morrison's run before in many places, but the fact that so many people around here like it so much makes it more imperative for me to check it out. The people on CX haven't lead me astray on good books yet. The only problem is $$$.

[Jim Wright]

Dangit I made the wrong choice...

I wanted Satellite Era...
can't beat old school JLA/JSA team ups...
and Dick Dillon (RIP) art was just so cool...

[ttp585]

I'll say this for the JLI era... ONE PUNCH! Classic, Batman lays out Guy Gardner with one fist to the face. All Blue Beetle could say was "One punch!". Those were good times indeed.