Justice League Antarctica
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beccaelizabethRereading old stuff can be a bit of a :-(
like everyone is more sexist than you remember, and more racist than you remember, and it may have been years and everyone on the page seems to be white, and that's... not the happy place good bits version you remember.
Justice League Antarctica was funny because the Injustice League, the bad guys, try and be good guys, get sent to guard Antarctica, and get qttacked by killer penguin-piranhas.
And win. Major Disaster saves rhe day and steps up to be a hero. That was cool.
Unfortunarely every gag on the page relies on making fun of characters for being learning disabled and mentally ill.
Big Sir is said to have the mind of an eight year old, and this is funny because...?
Multi man has mood swings he can predict but not control, so he goes from innapropriately cheerful to utterly depressed and back again several times, and this is funny because ...?
Even Clock King is just a running gag that he's way too precise about time, and then there's a panel explaining that's how he reacted to being told he had months to live. So it's an anxiety thing. And it's funny because...?
The bad guys failing so hard at being bad guys that they give up and be good guys, that's a fun story.
But none of the parts are fun, because what are we meant to be laughing at? Not their choices or anything they have control over. Just them existing like this.
Not funny.
Plus a bunch of pages are just the league laughing at them. If you can't find a way to make your page count, dont fill it out with the comics equivalent of a laugh track.
So I did not like this section. Which is :-(
The recurring theme of assorted heroes and villains only doing what they do in pursuit of a steady pay check, that I like.
Also how it swings between super serious (by comics standards) huge fighting and funny bits. People living their lives. Makes them people shaped.
But everyone is meaner than I remember and that's no fun.
like everyone is more sexist than you remember, and more racist than you remember, and it may have been years and everyone on the page seems to be white, and that's... not the happy place good bits version you remember.
Justice League Antarctica was funny because the Injustice League, the bad guys, try and be good guys, get sent to guard Antarctica, and get qttacked by killer penguin-piranhas.
And win. Major Disaster saves rhe day and steps up to be a hero. That was cool.
Unfortunarely every gag on the page relies on making fun of characters for being learning disabled and mentally ill.
Big Sir is said to have the mind of an eight year old, and this is funny because...?
Multi man has mood swings he can predict but not control, so he goes from innapropriately cheerful to utterly depressed and back again several times, and this is funny because ...?
Even Clock King is just a running gag that he's way too precise about time, and then there's a panel explaining that's how he reacted to being told he had months to live. So it's an anxiety thing. And it's funny because...?
The bad guys failing so hard at being bad guys that they give up and be good guys, that's a fun story.
But none of the parts are fun, because what are we meant to be laughing at? Not their choices or anything they have control over. Just them existing like this.
Not funny.
Plus a bunch of pages are just the league laughing at them. If you can't find a way to make your page count, dont fill it out with the comics equivalent of a laugh track.
So I did not like this section. Which is :-(
The recurring theme of assorted heroes and villains only doing what they do in pursuit of a steady pay check, that I like.
Also how it swings between super serious (by comics standards) huge fighting and funny bits. People living their lives. Makes them people shaped.
But everyone is meaner than I remember and that's no fun.
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