![]() Peter David is himself not very excited about this collection and I can understand why it is, indeed, just a reprint of the previously-collected issues in David's Supergirl run. Supergirl by Peter David and Gary FrankĪnother I'll mention is Supergirl by Peter David and Gary Frank.I never expected these books to be collected, but it's great to see these issues get some collections love. Another important aspect is that, whereas now we think of Superman as the de facto leader of the Justice League ( "Owacle"), this was the first time post- Crisis that Superman had lead the League, and he was very unsure about his leadership abilities (coming off the end of the Panic in the Sky storyline, with similar themes). In twenty issues, especially with Superman dead for some of them, Jurgens doesn't get too deep into it, but there's some nice stories at the beginning that hearken back to the Silver Age Justice League, some material that deals with goings on in the Green Lantern/Guy Gardner issues of the time, and then of course how the team reacts to Superman's death. The result is a series of teammates who are friends (or friends with certain other teammates) with these cross-pair dramas. Jurgens followed JM DeMatteis, Keith Giffen, and Kevin Maguire's Justice League run, which is no small feat, with a trimmed down cast that, for me, represents the best of the "bwa-ha-ha era" of the Justice League without the "bwa-ha-ha." Jurgens's cast is Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, Superman, Fire and Ice (who's got a crush on Superman), Guy Gardner (chafing under Superman's leadership and also that Ice has eyes for Superman), and the Superman titles' Maxima, also infatuated with Superman. Speaking of 1990s nostalgia, I'm guessing that Superman and the Justice League America, with Dan Jurgens credited, must be twenty-ish (with annuals and specials) issue run on Justice League America, which included, among other things, the Justice League America portions of "Death of Superman." Though not overtly, with Jurgens writing both Superman and Justice League, the book became a kind of fifth week "Triangle Title" (and especially in the aforementioned "Death").Īnd this is my favorite era of the Justice League. Superman and the Justice League America.(Do I recall that there were different newsstand and comics shop versions of War of the Gods, and maybe each version contained a different character poster inside? And maybe I bought them all for the different posters? Ah, the 1990s.) Now I'd just like to see DC collect the gap between the end of the previously-collected George Perez Wonder Woman issues (ending about issue #25) and War of the Gods. I expect none of those to be included in this collection - I'm betting it's just the War of the Gods miniseries and maybe some Wonder Woman issues if we're lucky - but this is a wonderful piece of 1990s nostalgia and I'm thrilled to see a collection after all this time. Fate Inza Nelson and Hawkwoman Shayera Thal. ![]() War of the Gods marked the beginning of the end of George Perez's long and well-regarded stint on Wonder Woman it is not, by far, considered great, but at the same time there's a lot of the crossover issues that stand out to me - Superman versus Quetzalcoatl in Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove's Man of Steel Flash racing Hermes a pretty bloody issue of Suicide Squad a good Maxie Zeus story in Batman Lobo versus Captain Marvel in LEGION and then variously Wonder Woman versus Lobo and the Demon Etrigan a New Titans issue roundabouts "Titans Hunt" Pariah from Crisis on Infinite Earths Captain Atom and Hawk and Dove issues that ended both comics before Armageddon 2001 and Wonder Woman's budding friendships with Dr. War of the Gods was DC Comics's 1991 crossover event, the first in-titles crossover event DC had done since 1988's Invasion! (four-part miniseries plus regular series issues across DC's line, as opposed to the events-in-annuals that were also prevalent in the 1990s). Two that have me super-excited this morning are Wonder Woman: War of the Gods by George Perez and Superman and the Justice League America by Dan Jurgens. To that end, I'm posting these piecemeal announcements as titles are revealed that look interesting to me, and I'm sure we'll be looking at the big list not too long from now. It's about time for the mid-year solicitations list to pop, but it hasn't happened yet, and strangely this year DC Comics new titles are showing up a few at a time with the online vendors first prior to the catalog.
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