Justice League: Generation Lost #1 Review

Justice League: Generation Lost #1

Welcome to our first review of the new series “Justice League: Generation Lost”, part of DC’s current Brightest Day company wide storyline. This series follows Booster Gold, Ice, Fire and Captain Atom as they search for newly-resurrected Maxwell Lord. The beginning of the issue features a worldwide manhunt that forces Booster Gold to play the detective role and find Lord, resulting in Lord performing his mind control on the entire world, except the four previously mentioned heroes, and erasing their memories of him. Personally, I really liked this issue and I’m highly anticipating the next one. Anyway, I guess I’ll start reviewing now!

This series is being written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. As you most likely know, this series is basically a sequel to the Justice League International series from the ’80s, which was also written by Giffen, so he obviously knows the characters and has a good grasp on how they should be handled.  Giffen and Winick teaming up may not seem that big at first, but the proof is on the paper. These two know how to write comics and the story they are crafting here is going to be an amazing tale of what it’s like to chase an incredibly dangerous person while no one believes you. I really hope we get to see more JLI members like Guy Gardner, Martian Manhunter and Black Canary. The only thing I don’t like about the issue is that the Batman showed looks and talks a lot like Bruce Wayne, and I’m pretty sure Bruce hasn’t returned yet in-continuity.

Pencils on this issue are done by Aaron Lopresti, Inks are done by Matt Ryan, and Hi-Fi takes the coloring. I think Lopresti was placed on the series because his work is similar to Kevin Maguire’s, who drew the JLI series, and it was a good idea to do the series in that fashion. Lopresti’s lines are uniform and detailed, but still convey the emotion and meanings behind it. Matt Ryan’s inks are beautiful, all the shading looks natural and all the art comes together brilliantly. I won’t lie, I am a huge fan of Hi-Fi, I think the books they color each week stand out even when they’re just sitting on the rack. All the colors are clear and distinct yet fluid and smooth. I have absolutely no complaints about the art in this book.

Overall, the pencils are detailed and meaningful, the writing is down to earth and informative and the only thing I don’t like is the Bruce-looking-Batman and the exclusion of quite a few JLI members. I understand they can’t use all of them but they should use more than 4. Anyway, here’s my rating:

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–moyermason@yahoo.com

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