tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547677475518970227.post3525550544933376486..comments2022-03-24T13:23:46.436-04:00Comments on justice league of america: Justice League of America #102 - Oct. 1972rob!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17556471244882205031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547677475518970227.post-71581978897666468232009-12-09T00:37:26.329-05:002009-12-09T00:37:26.329-05:00This story always put me off a bit because Wing wa...This story always put me off a bit because Wing was a horribly racist 1940's caricature, not even deemed fit enough to count as a Soldier of Victory. You gotta wonder if being the trivia answer that saved the day in JLA #102 really offset the fact that he was portrayed pretty poorly, as far as i can tell, back in the day.Earth-2 Rev. Nørbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6547677475518970227.post-63204579015200606672008-02-29T15:06:00.000-05:002008-02-29T15:06:00.000-05:00LOL at your cover interpretation! I always liked ...LOL at your cover interpretation! <BR/><BR/>I always liked Wein's subtle use of character history in the scene with Black Canary and Johnny Thunder. You didn't need to know their background for the scene to work...but if you did, it had an extra bit of resonance. <BR/><BR/>Since no one else mentioned it here, and it's kind of a specialist subject of mine, I'll be the one to point out that Grant Morrison leaned pretty heavily on this story in writing his <I>JLA Classified</I> arc and <I>Seven Soldiers</I> miniseries. Three decades later, Grant provided an origin and context for Oracle and Nebula Man and the Iron Hand explaining what the whole deal was. Even allowing for pre- and post-Crisis jiggery-pokery, the retrofitted origins and story-behind-the-story totally work. You can read Morrison's stories then go back to this one and it makes much more sense knowing who Oracle was and why he pops up so suddenly here. This is always hard to do...but far from being a letdown, GM actually makes this story <I>better</I> with his explanation.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com