Some thoughts about Justice League #59

The Justice League needs new blood.

Green Arrow believes the team doesn't do enough and to become more effective, they might need to recruit even former enemies.

Yet another brand new era of the Justice League has begun... and that era is handled by none other than Brian Bendis.

Yeaaaaah, as I mentioned before, if there is someone who could create a Justice League run even more pointless than Scott Snyder's, that's Brian Bendis. Bendis' work on DC Comics has not been the best to say the least with extremely mediocre runs on Superman, Young Justice and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Worst of all is that if you're familiar with Bendis' writing you know exactly what to expect, stilted and tedious dialogue trying to pass as "natural" and decompressed storytelling.

And you can bet that's all present here.

I mean, just from the first frikking page you can see a classic example of "Bendis talk" with Green Arrow being the victim of it and basically wasting a page with nothing since that same exact conversation is repeated later into the issue. Now we're into the topic too and as you might expect from me, I just don't like Bendis' Ollie, he just sounds too bland and derivative without even injecting that kind of Bendis' sense of humour that is so off for other characters but for some reason Bendis skips it on Ollie.

Black Adam is one of the most hyped new members and to be fair, I think Bendis handles him fine enough but this leads to the next problem, the decompressed writing because in each Bendis' chapter you get either pages with too much dialogue that doesn't really tell anything or pages with shallow action scenes that barely progress the plot. That formula is repeated here of course and not even the set-up for what's coming next is investing.

David Marquez' art is pretty solid though with very expressive characters and precise storytelling.

Much more successful is Ram V's segment about the Justice League Dark which is not particularly impressive but in comparison is just so much better since the narration actually gets to the point, creates engaging enough interactions between the cast and a much more exciting cliffhanger for the new threat. Xermanico's unique artstyle is also pretty fitting for the tone.

Pretty sure what to expect next and I don't like it, at least not for the main feature. Sad this is the only way to read Green Arrow right now.