Justice League Generation Lost 1-5, A Cautionary Tale

Two things about this comic were immediately apparent.

First, although a necessary set up for the plot, it was painful to read almost the entire DCU blow off the JLI as crazy.

And second, these artists really like to do Jaime Reyes crotch shots, Nightwing-style. This was made more blatant by the fact I was reading it on an iPod one panel at a time. Fight scene, fight scene BLUE BEETLE ATTACK CROTCH!

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Reading Justice League: Generation Lost on an iPod

I'm the target audience for Justice League: Generation Lost on the iPod. I like the JLI characters, and I particularly enjoy Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. There's something about genuinely competent heroes who know at heart that they'll never fully be respected for their work, but do it anyway and have a good time doing it. I also really enjoy Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle - when he isn't being taken for a spin by writers who don't get him and therefore write him as a clueless Captain Ethnic, that is. (Ay caramba indeed.) I like Giffen's work and I even think Judd Winick's writing is pretty keen when his work doesn't devolve into PSAs and soap opera. So a giant epic JLI + Jaime Reyes vs. Max Lord fight to the finish? Sign me up. I also think the option of buying comics in a digital format is an inherently good idea. Convenient and you aren't buried under a mountain of paper!

I was psyched.

And yet

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