And There Was Much Ambivalence
Kurt
Busiek and Ron Garney are the new regular team on JLA. Or
they will be, once another rotating creative team's arc is over
(following Busiek and Garney's own upcoming arc featuring the Crime
Syndicate of Amerika). I'll admit I have mixed feelings about the
news. I'm generally a fan of Busiek's work, but some of his stuff
leaves me cold, including his
Avengers run, as well as
his
JLA/Avengers mini, which the Crime Syndicate of
Amerika storyline is
spinning exploding
out of. (And before you suggest that I should just avoid Busiek
on superhero team comics, I liked his
Power Company and
Thunderbolts.)
I'm also skeptical that Busiek can do a proper Morrisonesque take on
the CSA, even if Busiek is working from a pile of character notes from
Morrison himself. Finally, has Garney been able to maintain a
regular schedule on a monthly book recently?
So while I can imagine half a dozen ways this could go wrong, I'm still
curious enough to check it out. Plus, I can always hope that Kurt
will have some of his
Power Company cast join or interact with
his JLA. (Between this and the
upcoming
Manhunter series, I figure there's a pretty good
chance of seeing the
Kirk
DePaul character again.)
(I am wondering what will become of the JLA arc by Gail Simone and
José Luis Garcia-Lopez, but it sounds as though there might be a
"Legends"-type spin-off for JLA in the works, so presumably that's
where the arc would see print.)
