liberty's Justice League America #69 - Down for the Count review

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    Awesome.

    Please Humor me and read this personal story about this issue.

    I have almost every appearance of Guy Gardner.  Even his first appearance. (Two Copies).  Guy is the only reason I read comics today.  I was in the store buying the Death of Superman graphic novel for a present for my brother.  When I bought it I was telling my girlfriend who was with me what a dork my brother was and how stupid comics were but in the boredom of the car ride home I started reading the book.  
     
    Being open minded I did not let my initial feelings cloud my enjoyment.  The hero that I thought was cool was Guy.  He didn't wear a mask.  He didn't have an alias.  He had a "skater cut" and wore an Eisenhower leather jacket.  He talked back to the other heroes and, acted fast.  He was just plain Guy F-in Gardner.  It was what he did in this issue that I liked so much.  Two quotes I loved were.   

    "Too late, bug! One soon-to-be corpse coming up." --Guy Gardner
    "Take you pick! Burial or cremation" -- Guy Gardner

    After reading the TPB I remembered that I saw Guy's first comic on the shelf when I was looking for the the TPB.  So I went back the next day and bought the first three or four issues of Guy Gardner.  A read them and loved them so much I started buying Justice League comics because he was a team member.
     
    Then I found and bought every back issue I could find of the Justice League or anything that had Guy in it.  After reading these books I started to really like Booster Gold and Blue Beetle as well.  So, I started to find all of their regular series issues.  As well or anything with those three characters.  The character list increased and this started a cycle. 

    1. The more I read the more characters I liked
    2. The more characters I like the more comics I bought.
    3. The more comics I bought the more comics I read (back to the top)
     

    The Review

     Doomsday Attacks
     Doomsday Attacks
    This book was really good but despite it being the catalyst to my reading comics it does have some goofy moments.  Like a wild deer walking up to Doomsday.  What kind of dumb deer was this.  How can I feel sorry for a deer walking up to Doomsday.  Has anyone ever got a deer to walk up to them?  I mean come on.  That was just silly and there was also a lot of exposition that made it worse.  This didn't bother me so much the first time I read it but know that I have reread it after reading thousands of books and I am also a lot wiser, I found it annoying.  
     
    Lastly, I thought the Justice League was done a disservice by the book.  Doomsday took the team out easier than he should have.  Guy is impulsive and gets taken out before he ever really gets to use his ring.  The rest are also knocked around.  This is really annoying for two reasons  Not only should Guy have done more than he did, you also have...
    and Maxima.  That is two superheros that are suppose to be a strong as Superman.  The one in the spoiler warning hits him with all his strength and does nothing and Maxima doesn't even attack him at all.  Next both of these character have a psychic ability that they don't even use.  In other-words there had to be a perfect series of screw-ups in order for this to actually work and the characters had to be dumb enough to act in a certain way to make Doomsday more powerful than he was suppose to be at the time.
     
    I like this book because it has a special place in my heart and so I inflated the ranking I gave it.  I couldn't help myself.   If I was more detached I might have only given it a three-and-a-half rather than four-and-a-half.  I also love Dan Jurgens work.  He was my favorite artist for years and I even got ribbing for that for a long time.  Going back and rereading his stuff up to reading his stuff now I have noticed how he actually gets better as an artist and he is still one of my all time favorites.  This is all beside the point for my raking of the book because I don't take art into consideration.  I would recommend this book to anyone who can get.  I want to thank you for reading my reviews.  Especially this one as it is rather long.

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