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JLA Classified #1

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Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

14:31 / 13.11.04

*Also, I just love the hypersigilesque power of a 'cosmic keyboard' that re-writes and "edits" reality like film editing + fiction writing.*

Funnily enough, these are the same powers given to "the Writer" back in Ostrander's Suicide Squad. Bascily, Ostrander, joking that DC now owned the copyright on Grant morrison after he appeared as himself in ANIMAL MAN, wrote him into SUICIDE SQUAD as a moody, pale, scotsman who can re-shape reality through writing.

It's also worth nothing that Post the crappy Our Worlds at War crossover, Pluto is actually a disguised Warwolrd. Mongol's old artificial battleplanet was shut down and used to replace the blown up Pluto, by the JLA. Which leads us to...

when the Legion of Super Heroes tried to reactivate Warworld a thousand years in the future and has to fight... JLA simulacrums left there by Batman.

And I think that as someone mentioned, the Boom Tube gauntlet is an artifact of COSMIC ODESSEY.

In otherwords, the book most slammed by internet fanboys for ignoring continuity these past few weeks is actually the one that is dripping with obscure and well-researched refrences.

23:21 / 13.11.04

Actually, Pluto's still Pluto. It was hidden during the Imperiex War, then when it first reappeared it was Warworld in disguise, but then Warworld revealed itself, Braniac BECAME Warworld, and Superman sent all of Warworld back into the big bang/dawn of creation.

The real Pluto showed up again a little later.

01:24 / 14.11.04

Dare I ask where the evil people (or whoever did it) "hid" Pluto...?

>> when the Legion of Super Heroes tried to reactivate Warworld a thousand years in the future and has to fight... JLA simulacrums left there by Batman.

Cool - when was this?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:46 / 14.11.04

During the war with Robotica and all of that, near the beginning of the just-rebooted latest run of Legion. It wasn't bad, but sort of bland - just an excuse to have the teenaged Legionnaires fight the JLA.

22:50 / 23.11.04

Funny, I thought this was the weakest Morrison comic I've read since some bits from the first half of his NXM run (I'm not counting the first Invisibles trade yet, as, really, I know I desperately need to read more of that to really get it), but now you've all got me wanting to love the book. I mean... Goraiko. Bones of bad monkeys. Jet apes. Little planes. Cosmic keyboards. Superbia. "We're getting a JLA Classified match." The Batphone. Sci-fi closets. Flying sauchers. Boom Tube gloves. Neh-Buh-Loh the Huntsman. Secret Pluto bases. Superhumans as weapons of terrorism. Infant universes. "Goldfish man." JLA robots. And my favorite bit, Batman saying "Hih," just like in Grant's *last* JLA #1.

This thing is just dripping with ideas, really. I need to reread this, now... It's big and pop and joycore, it is. The art was very very good, as well, although the page with the cubed panels looked better and fuller in pencils than in color.

Wish the comic guy had put the JLA-covered version in me box rather than the Ultramarines-covered one, tho. Alas...

01:09 / 24.11.04

Sounds like you convinced yerself, Bill.

And... no way. Ultramarines cover is best. I had the choice, and that was my choice.

01:10 / 24.11.04

'Where are the Justice League?'

Behind the letters, man. It's just stupid.

02:47 / 24.11.04

Do you feel the same way about missing children advertised on milk cartons? The JLA cover rocks.

03:44 / 24.11.04

The JLA are not children. They are superpowered, fictional adults.

Here, I feel, your analogy flounders.

05:03 / 24.11.04

The fact that they are superpowered fictional adults only makes their disappearance all the more disturbing. (Cue the creepy music...)

Anyone know when #2 comes out?

14:38 / 24.11.04

I can't wait to see Grant M. writing the "new" Aquaman (now with short hair, orange & green "classic" costume and WATER HAND!!!) and John Stewart.

Seriously. I hope they get some screen time and nice featured moments...

20:21 / 24.11.04

Damn, I *did* convince myself. As is my curse.

And dangit, I wanna see Grant writing Aquaman, too. Hell, give him the guy's series. Put Allred on art. Mmm...

miss wonderstarr

21:13 / 24.11.04

And my favorite bit, Batman saying "Hih," just like in Grant's *last* JLA #1.

I thought it was always "Hh" before. "Hih" doesn't make sense, does it? "Hi!"

Not very Dark Knight. "Hh" is more like a quick expulsion of breath.

00:11 / 25.11.04

'Hih' is a subdued chuckle, to my reading.

Can't remember which he does this time; I do remember the first un.

12:08 / 25.11.04

It was always the two-letters before(Hh.), a quick animal noise, I always took it as, quick grunt or laugh to himself. A very nice character tick that's never been used outside his writing (a bit by Joe Kelly, but not much).

I took the 'Hih' in classified as a specifically chuckle-grunt.

Hm. Chucklegrunt.

20:37 / 25.11.04

It's 'hih', you fuckers.

I like it, it's part of Grodd's ongoing love with phonetics. I would also like 'hah' or 'ha'. But those are a bit too boistrous. 'Heh' is for 90s slacker fucks.

20:45 / 25.11.04

This is all wonderfully informative. Perhaps someone might want to put together a print-out-and-keep key? I could use it as a bookmark, and never again misunderstand the precise meaning of Batman’s grunts.

06:37 / 26.11.04

I think number two comes out 15th of December (that date's stuck in my head for some reason). I'm really enjoying it. And then, of course, after this story we get to see I can't believe it's not the Justice League! There is a preview on the dc website, it looks so nice.

The Natural Way

10:40 / 26.11.04

Two hands and both legs up for the Ultramarines cover. It rocks very, very hard.

The "Hih" was a Bats thing, Triplets. No one was talking about Grodd.

Jesus! Get it right, you fool. Idiocy!

13:30 / 26.11.04

DC lists the date as the 22nd. See page 2 or 3 of this thread.

15:25 / 26.11.04

Yeah, 15th stuck in my head as that's when Identity Crisis comes out.

Oh and I picked the Ultramarines cover.

14:26 / 29.11.04

Grant Morrison - the man who made Batman's exhalations & grunts cool.

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