DC has high hopes for Steve Orlando. They gave him two high profile books (this and Supergirl) to write with the Rebirth initiative. So far, he's falling slightly short for me. And I don't know why. I love love love love love his Midnighter work. It's been one of my favorite books from DC in a long time. But dealing with mainstream DC stuff, it's just not clicking with me yet.
This books has two stories. The first is the modern day reintroduction of the Extremists. Lord Havok and his bunch. While the story itself wasn't bad, reading it all in one fell swoop didn't do it much justice (pardon the pun). The timeline of the entire story is unbelievable to me. Things happened entirely too fast for them to seem (even in comic books) plausible.
I am enjoying the interpersonal exchanges between the characters and look forward to a lot more of that going forward. It's an interesting line up for a team and I'm anxious to see it succeed.
The second story was my least favorite of the two. It felt like the team was dealing with a Maxie Zeus knock off. Yawn.
Justice League Of America Vol 1: The Extremists
Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist: Ivan Reis, Felipe Watanabe, Diogenes Neves, Andy MacDonald, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Julio Ferreira, Scott Hanna, Ruy Jose, Marc Deering
DC Comics
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