Oh-kay…before I get into my well-thought-out critique, I’ll start with my top ten pop culture quotes that fit my feelings toward this unveiling today:
1. Dom DeLuise as the film director in ‘Blazing Saddles’: “WROOONG!!!”
2. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s ‘I Can’t Watch This’: “It sucks, and that’s-no-lie, it’s about as much fun as watching paint dry…”
3. Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman in “The Critic”: “It STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!”
4. The Sea Captain in an episode of ‘The Simpsons’:”Y’arr, she blows!”
5. Marge Simpson in one episode: “Those fudruckers!”
6. Grandpa Simpson in a flashback in the episode ‘Mother Simpson’: “Booooo!!! Bring on Sha-Na-Naaaa!!!”
7. Brian Griffin in the Family Guy episode ‘April in Quahog’: “Those DICKS!”
8. The Who’s ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
9. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s parody ‘Won’t Eat Prunes Again’: “Eat the new sauce, same as the old sauce.”
10. Pretty much everybody: “What the heck is this?!?!?!?!?”
Now, my formal critique:
This, people, is NOT the Justice League. It may resemble the Justice League. It may have members from a classic lineup; it may have some new people; but this gaggle of redesigned super-people bears more of a resemblance to a group of late-teen to twenty-something pop idols garbed in the (now seam-crazy) colors of our childhood heroes and heroines–either that, or the cast of “The OC” at a masquerade. This League is nothing more than a mere shell of its former self. Most of the costume choices reek of a decade almost everyone wants to forget (the 1990′s, of course), the lineup apparently is bereft of the supposed “diversity” DC claims to be committing to, and Superman greatly looks as if he sold out because of the lawsuit that seeks to undermine his status as an icon of popular culture. I will say that adding Deadman and Mera is intriguing, but simply displacing the Martian Manhunter is an unwise move. Why they decided to add (if that mysterious woman is indeed Miranda Shrieve) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and an imitator of Metamorpho is beyond me. This is a team that would work in a feature film; this is not a team for comic books. It’s as if they were redesigned in order to sell a line of clothing, a young adult book series, or a toy series…a toy series where every character comes with an action feature that sacrificed poseabilitity or playability. This is not the Justice League; this is a poorly-designed costume party on Halloween night, whose wearers have no idea of the history behind each of the characters they dress as.
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