Impulse Gamer Home


JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST #24 Comic Review - www.impulsegamer.com -
JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST #24
Story: Judd Winick/Art: Aaron Lopresti

 

Review Information

Reviewer: Lee Stone
Review Date: May 2011

Comic Information

Publisher: DC Comics

9.0

out of 10

 

 "It All Comes Down To This!" opens with a quick explanation of how Maxwell Lord created the new Omac Prime, which takes the concept of Amazo one step further. What follows is an action-packed finish to the title that brought the Justice League International team back together. 

 In the old days, JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL was THE book by DC Comics. For five years, Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis gave us a more light-hearted and fun look at super-heroes that highly contrasted with the dark and grim tales that had become the standard for comics at the time. 

 After being together for so long, the main characters of Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Guy Gardner, Martian Manhunter, Fire, Ice and Mister Miracle became more of a family than a team. Much like the Fantastic Four or New Teen Titans, this group would forever become tied to one another and worked better together than as individuals. Seeing any one of them apart from the rest made them seem out of context. 

 Over the last several years they have been taken down different roads. Ice and Blue Beetle were killed off, Fire went back to her roots as a spy, Guy Gardner answered a higher calling with the Green Lantern Corps, Booster Gold has been busy trying to re-write history and Martian Manhunter recently went through a rebirth. 

 Following the actions of Maxwell Lord (which began way back in Infinite Crisis) most of the group has come back together to prevent Lord from killing Wonder Woman (the one hero who had previously killed him and posed him the most risk). In return, he's convinced the rest of the world with his mind-controlling powers that he doesn't exist and that the JLI are outlaws. 

 Our heroes are taken for a roller-coaster ride that comes to a satisfying finish. While part of me thought that the solution was a sort of deus ex machina, coming out of nowhere, it did serve as the most logical resolution to the fight.  

 It could be said that Judd Winick doesn't have the history with the characters that Giffen and DeMatteis have but I think he came up to the plate and delivered a nice story that re-establishes the team in the current DC Universe. While Wonder Woman could have used a little more activity than "helpless victim", he did a good job handling the rest of the cast. 

 Aaron Lopresti's art was some of the best you could ask for here. His work is very solid and full of energy. This is the best I've seen these characters look in some time. His Booster Gold is second probably only to Dan Jurgens. However, readers of the Jurgens JLA that followed the Giffen and DeMatteis run will see that Lopresti's rendition of the group is more fluid. Meanwhile, he doesn't slack off on the backgrounds, either, as there is plenty of detail to enrich the setting. 

 With a new JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL title looming on the horizon, GENERATION LOST would be a great introduction to the team for new readers. And old fans will rejoice at seeing these familiar heroes rising back to prominence.






 
 



   Games
   PlayStation 4
   XBox One
   PlayStation 3
   XBox 360
   PC
   PS Vita
   Wii U
   Wii
   3DS
   DS
   PSP
   Apple
   Casual
   Android
   Classics

  Movies
   Movies & IMAX
   Blu-ray
   Action
   Anime
   Comedy
   Crime & Thrillers
   Documentaries
   Drama
   Family
   Horror
   Kids
   Lifestyle
   Music
   Romance
   Sci-fi
   Sport

   IT
   PC
   Apple
   Hardware

   Information & Fun
   News
   Interviews
   Articles

   Tara's G-Spot
   Loren's Level
   Comics
   Books
   Mind & Body
   Music
   Competitions
   Community
 








 
 




Impulse Gamer is your source for the
latest Reviews and News on Video Games,
Entertainment, Pop Culture, Hardware &
More!

 


© 2001 - 2021 Impulse Gamer
 

 

About Us | Contact Us