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The dialogue in that last panel: WTF?

As a comic book reader, I am dismayed by this series. I demand JUSTICE!!!

Re. that embarrassing last panel and Jordan’s burning question: It’s long been clear that whoever’s managing the Supergirl account over at DC believes that you can’t spell ‘hero’ without spelling ‘ho.’

I demand boobies.

Er.

I mean justice………..

Even Mystique wanted Justice.

Did Cascioli and Simone Bianchi go to the same school because they share a “let no inch go not overdone” philosophy.

Why has no one searched for the real James Robinson? How long will this impostor get away with identity theft?

“I was a hero, Green Lantern, but now the world shall tremble before… Hair-Face Lass!”

@Conor E

No one has searched for him because he is writing more than Cry For Justice. Some of his Superman stuff got pretty great after the first few arcs which read a lot like Cry For Justice.

Man, I’m curious to know if you’re right kwaku because I did not last long on that title.

Superman: What all art thou doing, Senor Hal Jordano?
Hal: Scopin out Lois’s fly ass tittays! I’d tap that!
Superman: K, cool bro. Metropolis seems indubitably to be under attack. I believe this gent’s powers pertain to super strength. Bloody ‘ell, gov’na. I shall see you at the close of the seventeen issue span it takes to despatch him.
Hal: Cool story. Bai.

Amazing in that last panel how the wind manages to blow Captain Marvel and GL’s hair in the opposite direction of Supergirls’s.

I’m pretty sure Batwoman and/or Captain Marvel said they were there seeking JUSTICE in issue 2.

I think that last panel is simple miscommunication between the artist and writer. Probably because of Robinson’s British accent. He told the artist “I want Justice” and the artist thought he said “I want just tits.” Simple mistake to make.

I want justice for James Robinson’s talent. Hollywood clearly did something horrible to it.

@Trebbers- Duh! It’s because they’re facing each other! Like in a mirror!

Oh, man. That dialogue on the “boobs of steel” page is even worse than the framing.

Man, Supergirl is surprisingly untoned for a superhero.

Scott Harris wins the internet today!

“Man, Supergirl is surprisingly untoned for a superhero.”

That actually kinda makes sense for a Kyptonian, being so naturally powerful. If I was that strong, I wouldn’t ever work out, either.

…Is that a female version of Crazy Quilt bleeding on the ground?? 0_o

Okay, all you guys still reading this thing THREE ISSUES IN are clearly masochists. You do all understand DC still gets to keep the money? That it still counts as a sale? Are you TRYING to encourage more of this?

“Just S” in the last panel, and I’ll be happy.

“Okay, all you guys still reading this thing THREE ISSUES IN are clearly masochists. You do all understand DC still gets to keep the money? That it still counts as a sale? Are you TRYING to encourage more of this?”

Don’t look at me. I’m just making fun of the stuff that gets uploaded to the Internet.

When did Smax join the Justice league?

Okay, all you guys still reading this thing THREE ISSUES IN are clearly masochists. You do all understand DC still gets to keep the money? That it still counts as a sale? Are you TRYING to encourage more of this?

I can’t help it. “Gay For Justice” still makes me laugh.

Gonna get me some JUSTICE! Yeah, hot JUSTICE! Sweet Christmas! I mean, JUSTICE!

That dialogue on the “boobs of steel” page is even worse than the framing.

“Are you here now as a hero … (dramatic pause) … or a villain?”

Didn’t I read somewhere today that Cry for Justice sold out at the distributor level?

Or was that a horrible, horrible nightmare?

The female Crazy Quilt was seen in Gail Simone’s Villains United and Secret Six stuff. Apparently she’s the Society’s replacement version.

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Superman: What all art thou doing, Senor Hal Jordano?
Hal: Scopin out Lois’s fly ass tittays! I’d tap that!
Superman: K, cool bro. Metropolis seems indubitably to be under attack. I believe this gent’s powers pertain to super strength. Bloody ‘ell, gov’na. I shall see you at the close of the seventeen issue span it takes to despatch him.
Hal: Cool story. Bai.

Shwa?
You talking about the opening arc?
The arc itself was crap – one wonders if Robinson actually re-read his story before writing the introduction of the trade… and noticed that all he did was write a fight scene with a mystical deus ex machina and not the sotry he thinks he wrote – but the conversation with Hal was nowhere near that bad!
(He saved the that bad a Hal dialouge for Cry For Justice).
IF anything, I thought Superman’s dilaogue was a little to everyday guy.

Yeah I also laughed when I saw the wind somehow blew in opposite directions in teh background and foreground of the last panel

Looks like this is Robinson’s Children of Dune, only much, much worse.

What’s with Supergirl being a villian?

I’ve only really read her in Legion OF Superheroes, Busiek’s Superman and Brave And The Bold.

When Waid and Busiek writer her she’s a fun character – basically less mature Superman with a sense of humour, but a good heart.
When Wolfman wrote her, and in that page there, she seems to be a bitch and a possible villain.

What have I missed?

Scott Harris got me to laugh out loud. Well done.

I shed a tear when I saw this.
Take that however you will.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this going to become the jumping off point for the regular JLA title?

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this going to become the jumping off point for the regular JLA title?

Hang on, between Metzler having people sit around talking to decide who could make the team, McDuffie never getting to finish a storyline or character arc the way he wanted, and a bunch of fill ins… there was ever enough of a jumping on point for this book to have an audeince to jump off the book?

justice should be given to the readers and to Dan Dido for actully letting this series happen and htought dc stated no more being able to see super girls assets of any kind the book needs to die now

I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead (Robinson’s talent), but that is some hilarious dialogue. I hope Hal goes around now asking everyone he encounters if they’re a hero…or a villain. And I hope all the villains lie to him and punch him in the back of the head when he turns around.

@Funky: It has to do with the recent New Krypton stories in the Superman books. Supergirl sided with her parents against Earth, so they by and large no longer trust her.

t has to do with the recent New Krypton stories in the Superman books. Supergirl sided with her parents against Earth, so they by and large no longer trust her.

So that’s the Gay For Justice one… what about her being a total Bitch who is scared of her father in B&B?

I just realised that the body of Crazy Quilt is twisted so as to make both T and A visible. This is the page is the gift that just keeps giving.

I actually dropped B&B after the first part of that Supergirl/Raven story, so I don’t really remember it. But “bitch” was pretty much the personality set for her by Jeph Loeb and Joe Kelly, so I imagine Wolfman was just following that.

By writing her well, Waid and Busiek were–technically–writing her out of character.

The Brave and the Bold storyline was set at a time when Supergirl thought her father was dead. Recently, it was revealed that a large number of Kryptonians had been captured by Brainiac years and years ago, including her parents.

Superman freed them, but now they’re not exactly trusted by the people of Earth (and her father was actually murdered by an Earth operative), so she is in a weird situation where she has ties to both Earth AND her people (specifically her mother).

The letterer is doing a bad job, running words together. It’s so hot in Metropolis, they all want…

JUST ICE!

Was just thinking, as they all keep going on about Justice, but actually seem to want revenge, is Cry For Justice the Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Ironic’ of comics?
She sang a whole song about Irony, but seemed to totally miss the meaning of Irony (which was infact the only Ironic thing about the song), where as Robinson has written a whole series about Justice, without any signs of any actual Justice being in it, but has instead left all the readers crying out for justice.
Robinson is Morrisette, Cry For Justice is Ironic.

Does that make Paul Smith Uncle Joey?

But “bitch” was pretty much the personality set for her by Jeph Loeb and Joe Kelly, so I imagine Wolfman was just following that.

Total bitch you can’t stand level of bitch?

Really?

By writing her well, Waid and Busiek were–technically–writing her out of character.

But they made her a character that was pretty cool… I figured they’d be better at writing her than most, I just didn’t realise how much they had changed her/how much better they are than most.

The Brave and the Bold storyline was set at a time when Supergirl thought her father was dead. Recently, it was revealed that a large number of Kryptonians had been captured by Brainiac years and years ago, including her parents.

Jeez, didn’t realise Brave And The Bold collections were that far behind… DC’s trades are doing my head in (as the Brainiac and first New Krypton hardcovers came out months ago…

But, was there are reason before the B&B story for her to be having nightmares that her Dad wanted her to kill Clark, because that seemed pretty random to me.

I messed that whole quote thing up again…

Total bitch you can’t stand level of bitch?

Really?

Hand to God.

But, was there are reason before the B&B story for her to be having nightmares that her Dad wanted her to kill Clark, because that seemed pretty random to me.

There was a reason, but luckily it is one that has essentialy been erased from continuity.

Hand to God.

That’s bizarre.

Why would anyone want to read that?

And why would they go back to that after she’d been written better?

I say from now on, only Waid, Busiek and Palmiotti can write her!

How bizarre that I could have read quite a few comics with her in it, but always assumed she had a different personality to the one she’s actually got.
I thought Wolfman was basing it on old continuity or something – having an old man moment.
Figured he started out writing about college protesters challenging the man, and his mind slipped back to how the character appeared in the decade the last time students seized a building.
Does explain the end of the first B&B arc though, was wondering why Hal felt the need to comment on her being a good hero after all (as she had been the entire time, once she got over her crush.
I’d almost been tempted to pick up the SG book from time to time – those odd occasions it doesn’t look like something I’d want to carry out of the shop in a brown paper bag…

Not that it matters much but ever since he managed to have Superman taken out of the Superman comic it’s been really great. I haven’t even been reading this. It seems too depressing as a Robinson fan by far.

On the other hand, I’m looking forward to Justice Titans, despite myself.

I thought Justice was a C-list Marvel useta-be Avenger? Why do all these DC heroes want him?

@Funky: My comment about the dialogue wasn’t specifically geared toward that first conversation w/ Hal, though I do remember there being an inappropriately raunchy comment somewhere in there (who makes raunchy comments in front of Superman?!) and Superman speaking in some absurd cant. Mostly, I was satirizing the wildly inconsistent mish mosh of dialogue quirks throughout that arc and the fact that it was four issue arc about a guy w/ big muscles fighting Superman and then getting magicked away at the end.

“All right Supergirl, here you are, and you saved my life – much appreciated by the way.”

That dialogue gives me a headache. I still haven’t read Starman, but it’s dropping further and further down the list with each cry for justice.

Man, I’m curious to know if you’re right kwaku because I did not last long on that title.

Superman: What all art thou doing, Senor Hal Jordano?
Hal: Scopin out Lois’s fly ass tittays! I’d tap that!
Superman: K, cool bro. Metropolis seems indubitably to be under attack. I believe this gent’s powers pertain to super strength. Bloody ‘ell, gov’na. I shall see you at the close of the seventeen issue span it takes to despatch him.
Hal: Cool story. Bai.

Oh man, that is hilarious.

Is there a reason Hal’s team is going after young Mr. Astrovik? He doesn’t even work for the same company.

Is there anyone out there that thinks Supergirl is there as a villain, considering that she was announced as a member of the team months and months ago? This is supposed to count as a cliffhanger how?

This is supposed to count as a cliffhanger how?

She’s a Skrull. She’s actually “Dark Wolverine.”

But seriously, folks, I’m guessing that the other heroes are a little trepiditious (sp) because Kryptonians don’t have the best reputation on Earth right now.

@BDaly: No matter how shitty Cry for Justice becomes you must read Starman. It is the single greatest extended work in the comic medium.

I’m glad DC’s heroes have finally taken a stand for JUSTICE. This is better than whatever they were fighting for before.

who makes raunchy comments in front of Superman?!

I think it was Superman trying to make raunchy comments to Hal – about Alan Scott’s daughter!

It was an odd scene, but I don’t think the dialogue was off in it – guys do chat that way.

It’s just odd to see Superman doing it.

(Although maybe it is meant to be odd as Superman wants to been as cool in front of Hal ‘Space Playa Number One’ Jordan, and Hal’s like ‘yeah whatever nerd, I’m not comfortable discussing this with you’.

the fact that it was four issue arc about a guy w/ big muscles fighting Superman and then getting magicked away at the end.

Go read the introduction to the trade – Robinson talks about his plans to make Atlas a character we’ll fall in love with… I don’t think he actually sees that he wrote a fight scene with a cop out ending.

(I think it was fun and new for him, because he was writing it, but when you’re reading it, it’s just Superman fighting a guy).

I still haven’t read Starman, but it’s dropping further and further down the list with each cry for justice.

Well, people wouldn’t be so shocked by this if Starman wasn’t so good.

You’d be silly not to check out The Beatles because you heard Double Fantasy first, and this is a bit like that.

What a terrible comic book. I feel sorry for people who actually buy this crap. Great point on the last panel about everyone’s hair blowing different directions.

about supergirl being toned.. It’s quite funny, you see all the guys are flexing for her and she just doesn’t give a rats behind enough to waste the effort.

I’ve actually been really liking the obscure DC characters that had only appeared once before that Robinson has been digging up for his Superman run, like Codename: Assassin and Kirby’s Atlas (both from the 1970s 1st Issue Special series, where Mikaal Tomas first appeared as well). Now I’m on the lookout for Joe Simon’s Outsiders, the Dingbats of Danger Street, Lady Cop and the Green Team.

Cry for Justice, on the other hand, really is just terrible.

My favorite Supergirl is Laurel Gand from Giffen’s Legion. And Palmiotti wrote a decent year-one Supergirl at that Maelstrom mini.

Big props to Scott Harris. I just laughed out loud too. His line is so funny, it bears a repeat (and as Bart Simpson would say, “It’s funny because it’s true”):

I think that last panel is simple miscommunication between the artist and writer. Probably because of Robinson’s British accent. He told the artist “I want Justice” and the artist thought he said “I want just tits.”