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DC One Million Reprint Coming Soon!

15:16 / 20.01.04

for those who asked for it (me and a handful of others here
on the Comics forum were discussion this a while back):

(from Comics Continuum's DC solicits)

JLA: ONE MILLION TP -- NEW PRINTING

Written by Grant Morrison and various; art by Val Semeiks, Prentis Rollins and various; cover by Semeiks and Rollins.

The event that brought the JLA face to face with their 853rd century successors is collected in a new printing of the mammoth trade paperback. Telling the story of the JLA's first meeting with Justice Legion A -- an encounter that nearly became their doom -- the JLA: One Million collection reprints issues #1-4 of the popular DC One Million mini-series. Also included are the #1,000,000th issues of JLA and Starman in their entirety, along with portions of the tie-in issues of Detective Comics, Green Lantern, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow, and Resurrection Man. This collection was previously issued as DC One Million.

208 pages, $19.95, in stores on April 21.

--- the single tie-in issues weren't that great, but the mini was pretty good and fun. Look for Grant's Sunshine Superman concept from Animal Man to be more fleshed-out as the Ultimate Supes.

"nearly became their doom"? What silly copy

Our Lady Has Left the Building

16:21 / 20.01.04

Is this just a reprint of the original trade paperback? Because I saw that and it was frankly shit, it didn't even have the tie-ins from regular series that mattered to the plot (you get things like one page saying "Oh yeah, and Batman had to run this assault course thing but he got through it and back to the story". It would be nice if they did it in 'Reign of the Superman' stylee and do a huge TPB.

18:34 / 20.01.04

As you it says above, this new printing will include two entire tie-in issues (JLA and Starman) plus 'portions' of several other tie-in issues. Presumably the more relevant ones.

19:20 / 20.01.04

It's the same trade as before - nothing new is included in it.

I have every DC 1,000,000 issue in digital format, if anyone

All you really miss out on is some really bad art, Superman from the 853rd Century meeting Lois Lane, and Chronos stealing John Fox's teleport gauntlets. A lot of it's really bad - the trade does a good job of streamlining, but could probably have stood a few more pages from the other isssues.

If anyone wants a glance at them, toss me a PM, or I can put them up on an ftp - it's fun for a glance, but I gained new respect for the TP after reading it all.

19:25 / 20.01.04

Stupid waking-up-in-the-late-afternoon posts that don't finish sentences.

Above should have read -

I have every DC 1,000,000 issue in digital format - if anyone wants a glance at them, toss me a PM, or I can put them up on an ftp.

Blargh.

20:42 / 20.01.04

I bought this a few years back when I finally got around to reading Morrison's JLA in trades. With all the missing material and skimpy half-page summaries of said missing material tying chapters together, the page-to-page narrative only just barely makes sense. The overall point is easy enough to get, though, and as a chapter of the overall JLA run it's ok, albeit somewhat annoying to read. Can't say I'd recommend it as a standalone, though.

05:34 / 21.01.04

Really, really liked One Million, and managed to track down every issue. As mentioned above, there are some crap books (Azrael, Supergirl, Lobo and Creeper off the top of my head) which have nothing to do with the overarching story anyway. Others are pretty good like Chronos, Starman, Chase and Hitman (Hitman in particular has nothing at all to do with the One Million story, just that he's brought to the future. Still good and f'ing funny.)

I've seen the original TPB and yes it is shit. If you're planning on picking this up, track down the original issues instead. Reads much better that way, even thoguh it might be a bit more of a hassle. Basically pick up the mini and the main tie-ins (like the JLA characters own books). Yes there are a coulple of crap Supes and Bats stories, on the whole they're not bad, and do add to the story because you know what they're doing rather than the aformentioned 'meanwhile' page.

I'm planning on re-reading Morrison's JLA soon, so if anyone is interested in what's worth reading/getting just let me know. It shouldn't be that hard to come by this stuff on Ebay or online at Mile High Comics.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:06 / 26.01.04

While we're on Morrison's JLA, where did the future Hourman disappear to? Who replaced Wally West briefly as Flash and why? And where did Flash disappear to for most of World War III (or did Grant just send him off to find The Tick or whatever his name was without bothering to explain to us where he went?)

"JLA Reservists, onward!"

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

07:59 / 26.01.04

JLA and Starman are probably the only 'must have' crossover issues.

'Nice to have' issues include the Superman ones, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and Resurrection Man.

All these issues together make a nice pretty-much-complete story.

10:23 / 26.01.04

I dunno, I thought the Martian Manhunter issue really spoiled the surprise at the end of the Resurrection Man issue and at the whole climax of the 4th DC 1,000,000 issue.

And to answer Our Lady's questions:

The future Hourman ended up traveling permanently back to the 853rd Century after 25 issues of his own series fiddling around w/ Snapper Carr when he decided he was screwing things up too much in the present and that he was sort of in love w/ Amazo (his arch-nemesis), who secretly harbors great good in his evil robot heart. He quit the JSA, went on a time-traveling vacation, then disappeared from the DC Universe. If you can, look for Tom Peyer's Hourman series - it's a seriously fantastic and complete read at only 25 issues - one of the more rewarding back-issue-bin-hunts I've gone on.

The Flash who briefly replaced Wally West actually was Wally West from a broken future where Vandal Savage was in charge of something and Barry Allen was in a wheelchair. It was the big, convoluted send-off for Mark Waid's Flash run - I don't exactly remember what happened, but there you go.

The Flash was running around exploring during the early issues of World War III - I don't remember whether it had to do w/ a Flash story at the time or if it was just Grant's plot convenience, but it IS mentioned in the WWIII issues - something about him being unreachable while he explored the star systems. He finds the Glimmer somewhere (the last remnant of the forces of Wonderworld) and brings him back to help out.

I love Morrison's JLA more than many parents love their own children. I love how easily he weaved in continuity from other books and just made it seem like it was just another extra off-hand insane things that was happening to spice things up.

14:21 / 22.04.04

This paperback came out yesterday. Sure, a lot of it is junk, but the Morrison-written stuff is really good, fun and intelligent, and made me pine for the days when I could go to the comic store once a month and pick up a shiny brand-new copy of Morrison's JLA.

The bit with the golden Superman-prime winking warmly and mischevously at the audience at the end was terrific. Just great Morrison JLA fun.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

16:30 / 22.04.04

Yeah. Love this book. The big reveal of the big reveal is one of the things I'll remember most about 20th Century Comics. This did come out in the 90's right? Either way, I really loved this story. Completely silly in premise at the start (A Super-Lympics! Wheee!) and then ends as the greatest future Super-Story ever. Love.

17:41 / 04.11.05

Maybe we'll see the 1 Million characters show up briefly in Infinite Crisis...? Probably not, but would be fun.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

19:27 / 04.11.05

It was the big, convoluted send-off for Mark Waid's Flash run - I don't exactly remember what happened, but there you go.

The most interesting bit about that was that the broken Flash ended up in Earth-Prime (our world) at the end of it.

The other Flash who replaced Wally was John Fox who after his stint as Flash in our time ended up going wayyyy into the future and becoming the Flash of Justice Legion A.

20:09 / 04.11.05

I just remember loving Solaris as the villain and the Golden (not Golden Age, but literally Golden) Superman winking at us at the end, reunited with his lost love Lois. And the cool version of his "S" chest logo that Golden Supes wore.

20:34 / 04.11.05

It reminded me a lot of the sort of comics or superhero-stories you cobble together as a kid. Aquaman made out of water, or re-rocking Wonder Woman from her golem-esque origins to a crystal form. Super-Olympic Challenges! Batman's psychic-octopus martial arts. Superman lives in the sun in the 853rd century!
And it fulfilled a lot of things Morrison had brought up, in comics and in interviews, during his JLA run. The costuming of the Justic Legion, in particular, reminded me of his statement that he wanted to redo all the JLA costumes, to remove the sense of spandex, give them all glossy futuristic hyperfabrics and remove the strongman leotard aspects. He did it with little tweaks to a few minor characters, but DC wasn't letting Superman's logo and boots get changed. Enter future-Supes. Enter several future Supes. And the myriad of readily identifiable and very cool logo iterations and different designs. Yay!
'My Greenest Adventure' goes supergreen and very, very cool!
And remember how much that 'on the first/second/third day' stuff worked up the average online fanboy? They were in a rage. It was too complicated, too bizzare, too... it's three damned days and its a time travel story, what the hell? Making the uber-repressed fonaboys froth and panic elevates any work, in my opinion.

Keith, like a scientist

20:39 / 04.11.05

the whole 'oh no, it's kryptonite....wait, no, it's Green Lantern's ring!" thing was really well done. and the Solaris/Savage team-up beats Luthor/Joker anyday.

21:11 / 04.11.05

I don't see how Luthor and Joker ever managed to team up...polar opposites. Luthor usually tries plan things down to freaking binary, and Joker just always wants to laugh or kill. Or quite often both. At the same time. Don't get me wrong, I like when they team up, but I think I'll look into this Solaris/Savage bit...

09:52 / 05.11.05

Luthor usually tries plan things down to freaking binary, and Joker just always wants to laugh or kill. Or quite often both

Forgive me, Odd, but this kind of thinking is a real bugbear of mine. The Joker and Luthor are not real people, it is important to remember this. They are fictional characters, and, as such, if the story is well written then the team up will make sense.