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by **LOLtron** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:22 pm

The United States enters the battle against Atlantis, setting in motion the creation of the Justice League of America!

Source: Newsarama

• “THRONE OF ATLANTIS” continues!

• Aquaman can barely hold on against Ocean Master even with the League by his side!

• More on the Superman/Wonder Woman alliance!

• Plus: In the backup story, the origin of SHAZAM! continues!

Written by: Geoff Johns

Art by: Ivan Reis, Joe Prado

Backup Art by: Gary Frank

Cover by: Ivan Reis, Joe Prado

Variant Covers by: Langdon Foss, Ivan Reis Joe Prado

40 pages

$3.99 (U.S.)

On Sale: January 23, 2013

Written or Contributed by IvCNuB4

READ THIS ARTICLE ON THE FRONT PAGE, HUMANS!

by **BatWatch** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:09 pm

Looks awesome. Nice to see Auqaman get some respect.

by **Log-Man** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:35 pm

That Foss cover is terrible. It looks like a MAD Magazine parody :lol:

by **Drcharles** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:25 pm

Im enjoying this crossover with Aquaman, but the ongoing series of the league didnt impress me

by **Amoebas** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:43 pm

Log-Man wrote:That Foss cover is terrible. It looks like a MAD Magazine parody

It truly is pathetic for a cover (even a variant) for a top ten book.

Now if there's was announcement about DC letting fan art be their variants that I never heard, I will respectfully withdraw my above comment (but until then - it really is awful).

by **IvCNuB4** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:21 pm

I never heard of Langdon Foss before this. I had to Google him to find out who he is and what he's done before.

http://www.vertigocomics.com/tags/langdon-foss

http://www.lllama.com/galleries/comics/

by **BatWatch** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:57 pm

Amoebas wrote:It truly is pathetic for a cover (even a variant) for a top ten book.

Now if there's was announcement about DC letting fan art be their variants that I never heard, I will respectfully withdraw my above comment (but until then - it really is awful).

I guess I am somehow missing the variant cover you are talking about, but DC did say they will be doing some Mad style variant covers for DC, so...maybe it really is done by Mad.

by **IvCNuB4** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:56 am

It's the 2nd cover in the preview above with Aquaman and Batman in the foreground

by **holtom2000** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:39 pm

Drcharles wrote:Im enjoying this crossover with Aquaman, but the ongoing series of the league didnt impress me

I agree. Maybe Morrison can give johns some tips? Or maybe johns can go read his old jsa issues. It does seem better but that's not saying much

by **BatWatch** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:52 pm

IvCNuB4 wrote:It's the 2nd cover in the preview above with Aquaman and Batman in the foreground

Oh, yeah. That is rough. I just kind of glanced at it at first, but when you really look at it...hmmm. Not pretty.

by **IvCNuB4** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:25 pm

Whatever slump Johns has been in he's clearly broken out of it. There are a lot of good moments in this issue. Listed some of my faves in the spoiler space below. Too bad the Shazam back-up story takes up pages that could be devoted to more in this story. And Reis does some amazing art in this issue as well :smt023

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand

Tula makes a cameo.
The League vs Aquaman vs Orm.
Orm makes great use of lightning and all that water.
T.O. Morrow wanting to bring his weather machine on-line: gotta be Red Tornado. The mention of the Monitor Machine and tech from another dimension must be them viewing Earth 2 and that female Red Tornado.
Cyborg activates the back-up team recruits.

I'm sure I'll get called a gushing DC fan-boy for this :lol:

by **PinkDaddy** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:39 pm

It was so good that I didn't miss Green Lantern.

by **Grayson** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:51 pm

Since I will not be buying this issue but I will buy Aquaman next week, is there any way we can get a few more detailed spoilers so I won't be lost when I read Aquaman?

by **IvCNuB4** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:38 am

Other comments at Comic Book Movie as well

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand

Because of Dr Chin's research of Atlantis and Arthur, Vic goes in search of Dr Chin and battles 3 Atlantean soldiers, including one called Tula.
Meanwhile Arthur tries to keep the League at bay, resulting in several big punches between him Superman and Diana.
Orms ground-forces rise from the water as Vic and Chin boom-tube up to the JL Watchtower.

Orm reveals that his helmet controls the oceans while his trident controls storms. (Unexplained strange storms were hinted at way back in an Aquaman issue, IIRC).
Orm subdues WW, Superman and Arthur by electrocuting them with lightning while they are in the water.

Up in the Watchtower, Vulko tells Vic that Orm has taken WW, Superman and Arthur prisoner.
Meanwhile in Detroit at STAR Labs TO Morrow tries to convince Vic's dad that they need to activate Morrow's android "weather machine", referred to as "he", to combat the Atlantean storms.
Vic booms in and asks dad to install the Environmental Mode to his cybernetics however this procedure will hours so Vic sends out a distress call to the League reinforcements.

by **chap22** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:44 am

1) Element Woman is a stupid, stupid name, and a worthless waste of a spot that could be used on a much cooler character, namely Metamorpho

2) nice roster...wonder which gold...errrr...redshirt is gonna die before this is all over? hmmmmm...... :roll: