JLA: Year One #12
by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn & Barry Kitson
DC, color, $2.95
Rating: Neat-O
The first year of the (revised) Justice League wraps up neatly with this issue, and I'll be sorry to see it go, despite my occassional qualms about this not being the real Justice League of America. It may not have been quite what I wanted, but it was way more than I had any reason to expect given DC's current editorial direction. Using elements from the original series, Waid and Augustyn have formulated a updated, nineties version of comics' number one super-team, and unlike mostt updated, nineties versions of classics...it doesn't suck. Okay, that's damning with faint praise--it did far better than lack of suck: it rocked, if not ruled. Now that it's over, I'll have a hole in my comics-buying until the next Waid project (there's that Kingdom Event in December, which I wish I could be more enthusiastic about), but at least I can get my monthly fix over in Captain America and Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty. And Cap does rule. So there.