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Supergirl confronts "Freddy," talking of how he was able to "save" the team from that explosion and kept pushing them to stay together to get to the JLA satellite. She then remembers hearing Freddy say "Shazam" without transforming. Freddy transforms to reveal he's been Prometheus all along. Armed with his helmet and weapons, Prometheus swiftly takes out each one of the heroes as he makes his way to the computer room. He's almost there when the Shade shows up, not in Prometheus' "hero" files and that delays the villain long enough for a wounded [[Donna Troy]] to take him down and beat him unconscious. Held captive, Prometheus reveals that this has all been about hurting the heroes: He's placed devices in each of their home cities that will teleport the cities through time and space, leaving the people alive but lost. He says he'll give up the location of each device if they let him free. When Green Arrow refuses to let him go, Prometheus reveals he's already started the countdown and [[Star City (comics)|Star City]] is the first target to activate.<ref name="Issue6">{{Cite comic|Writer = Robinson, James|Title = Justice League: Cry for Justice|Volume = 1|Issue = 6|Date = January 2010|Publisher = DC Comics}}</ref> |
Supergirl confronts "Freddy," talking of how he was able to "save" the team from that explosion and kept pushing them to stay together to get to the JLA satellite. She then remembers hearing Freddy say "Shazam" without transforming. Freddy transforms to reveal he's been Prometheus all along. Armed with his helmet and weapons, Prometheus swiftly takes out each one of the heroes as he makes his way to the computer room. He's almost there when the Shade shows up, not in Prometheus' "hero" files and that delays the villain long enough for a wounded [[Donna Troy]] to take him down and beat him unconscious. Held captive, Prometheus reveals that this has all been about hurting the heroes: He's placed devices in each of their home cities that will teleport the cities through time and space, leaving the people alive but lost. He says he'll give up the location of each device if they let him free. When Green Arrow refuses to let him go, Prometheus reveals he's already started the countdown and [[Star City (comics)|Star City]] is the first target to activate.<ref name="Issue6">{{Cite comic|Writer = Robinson, James|Title = Justice League: Cry for Justice|Volume = 1|Issue = 6|Date = January 2010|Publisher = DC Comics}}</ref> |
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Star City is in chaos as the heroes arrive, with Speedy failing to stop the Electrocutioner, who set off the device. In the ruins, Green Arrow finds the body of Lian, Roy Harper's daughter, crushed under a building. Prometheus admits the devices aren't working as expected, destroying the city rather than teleporting it but says the results are the same. Across the country, the various heroes are unable to get at the devices in [[Keystone City]], [[Opal City]] and St. Roch. [[Miss Martian]] tries to read Prometheus' mind but he's protected against her. The [[Bulleteer]] and [[Mr. Scarlet]] find the real Freddy Freeman tied up with his mouth wired shut and manage to free him. Freddy tries to use his magic to defuse the device in [[Fawcett City]] but it sets it off instead. With time running out, Green Arrow tells the heroes they have no choice but to let Prometheus go. Prometheus tells them how to defuse the devices and then teleports away, leaving ninety thousand dead in Star City. In his secret lair, Prometheus talks to the comatose Ira Quimby on how he can take advantage of the ''[[Blackest Night]]'' to strike at the heroes. Hearing a noise, he turns to see Green Arrow, who fires an arrow right through Prometheus' head. Green Arrow leaves the dead villain behind, saying one word: "Justice |
Star City is in chaos as the heroes arrive, with Speedy failing to stop the Electrocutioner, who set off the device. In the ruins, Green Arrow finds the body of Lian, Roy Harper's daughter, crushed under a building. Prometheus admits the devices aren't working as expected, destroying the city rather than teleporting it but says the results are the same. Across the country, the various heroes are unable to get at the devices in [[Keystone City]], [[Opal City]] and St. Roch. [[Miss Martian]] tries to read Prometheus' mind but he's protected against her. The [[Bulleteer]] and [[Mr. Scarlet]] find the real Freddy Freeman tied up with his mouth wired shut and manage to free him. Freddy tries to use his magic to defuse the device in [[Fawcett City]] but it sets it off instead. With time running out, Green Arrow tells the heroes they have no choice but to let Prometheus go. Prometheus tells them how to defuse the devices and then teleports away, leaving ninety thousand dead in Star City. In his secret lair, Prometheus talks to the comatose Ira Quimby on how he can take advantage of the ''[[Blackest Night]]'' to strike at the heroes. Hearing a noise, he turns to see Green Arrow, who fires an arrow right through Prometheus' head. Green Arrow leaves the dead villain behind, saying one word: "Justice."<ref name="Issue7">{{Cite comic|Writer = Robinson, James|Title = Justice League: Cry for Justice|Volume = 1|Issue = 7|Date = March 2010|Publisher = DC Comics}}</ref> |
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 Cover of Justice League: Cry for Justice 1 (September 2009), art by Mauro Cascioli | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | September 2009 – April 2010 |
| No. of issues | 7 |
| Main character(s) | Hal Jordan Oliver Queen Batwoman Ray Palmer Freddy Freeman Mikaal Tomas Congorilla Supergirl |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | James Robinson |
| Artist(s) | Mauro Cascioli (1-5) Scott Clark (5-6) |
| Letterer(s) | Steve Wands |
| Colorist(s) | Mauro Cascioli (1-5) Siya Oum (6) |
| Editor(s) | Eddie Berganza Adam Schlagman |
| Collected editions | |
| Hardcover | ISBN 1-4012-2567-5 |
Justice League: Cry for Justice is a seven-issue comic book limited-series, written by James Robinson and drawn by Mauro Cascioli and published by DC Comics in 2009. It follows the adventures of a spin-off Justice League, led by Justice League veterans Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Green Arrow and composed of Starman Mikaal Tomas, Congorilla, Freddy Freeman, Batwoman, Atom Ray Palmer and Supergirl seeking a more pro-active stand for seeking justice following the apparent deaths of long-standing Justice League members Batman[1] and Martian Manhunter[2] in Final Crisis.
Publication history
Announced at Wizard World LA 2008, James Robinson and Mauro Cascioli will be starting a new Justice League series known simply as Justice League. According to Robinson, this series will be about "justice and seeking justice, rather than responding to emergencies, letting the problems come to them, and being almost entirely reactive". The team will be brought together by a murder, and Robinson revealed that the series will be tied to Final Crisis.[3]
Robinson explained that "Hal Jordan decides that he wants a pro-active team. This team will go after the equivalent of the FBI's most wanted list, sometimes in different countries, sometimes through time. It's a nice eclectic team of established teams and some oddball characters I've thrown in." He also said that "The difference is, the Justice League of America is all about the League, it's a family. While this is about justice. It's all about bringing in the bad guys."[4]
It was later announced, in an interview with Robinson, that the planned on-going series got changed to a seven-issue mini-series, the first issue of which went on sale July 1, 2009.[5]
Foreshadowing
In Final Crisis: Requiem, Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen contemplate the implications of having J'onn's killer run free. Writer Peter Tomasi confirms this, explicitly saying that "J'onn's death will have repercussions...when the rage and anger is channeled by some of the big guns, especially Hal Jordan."[6]
In Justice League of America (Vol. 2) #32, Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen have a disagreement with Black Canary, the wife of Oliver Queen and current chairwoman of the Justice League, over the formation of the "new league".
Plot
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Hal Jordan makes a speech at the current Justice League Satellite about how they were not "seeking justice", citing the fact that the killer of Martian Manhunter is still free. It follows up with him and Oliver Queen leaving the Justice League to hunt for villains who were part of the Secret Society. Following storylines showed Ray Palmer teaming up with the new Atom Ryan Choi to beat Killer Moth for information. Killer Moth, who tortured the Atom's ally Dr. Hyatt to get information regarding the Time Pool, finally revealed that the person who hired him to gather the information was Prometheus. Mikaal Tomas gets distraught over the death of his boyfriend Tony, who died when a group of villains attacked S.T.A.R. Labs. In Africa, Congorilla mourns the loss of his tribe and the death of Freedom Beast.[7]
The Atoms team up with Hal and Ollie in Gotham City meeting up with Jason Bard to discuss the presence of Prometheus and a whole group of villains in Gotham. Starman and Congorilla meet and decide to team-up for a mutual cause to find Shade. In Central City, Jay Garrick meets up with Atom and Freddy Freeman to investigate the theft of Cosmic Treadmill technology from the Flash Museum. The issue ends with Hal and Ollie, shown with a group of defeated villains, who are shortly joined by Ray Palmer and Captain Marvel and, later, Supergirl.[8]
The team discusses whether or not Supergirl is a hero. Afterwards, the five of them decide to team up. Starman and Congorilla, who are on an airplane which gets attacked by robots, which they manage to defeat. Hal, Ollie, and Ray proceed to question Prometheus. However, it turns out that it wasn't Prometheus they caught, but a Clayface impersonating him. They realize it's a trap, just as a bomb goes off. The real Prometheus and I.Q. reveal that he has a bigger master plan in mind. He also revels in the fact that he killed members of the Global Guardians, Tasmanian Devil, Gloss and Sandstorm.[9]
Blinded and thinking they are dead, the team discovers that Freddy Freeman saved them from the Clayface bomb. The team tortures another villain when Oliver gets sick of what Hal and Ray are doing, he takes out a "Canary Cry" arrow and lets it go on the team. Jay Garrick races about to tell the heroes something is amiss and returns home to find the Shade waiting to speak to him. The team decides it needs help and goes to the Justice League of America.[10]
Congorilla and Starman seek out Animal Man for help. On the JLA satellite, the League has issues with Green Lantern and Green Arrow going out on their own as reports are coming in of villains attacking heroes across the country. Batwoman checks in to reveal she defeated Endless Winter but when she tried to question her, the woman was killed by remote control. The Guardian arrives with a device he recovered in Metropolis that the team discovers is a teleporter. Congrollia and Starman show up, the ape smelling something and going into hallways where he and Supergirl find Arsenal with his right arm ripped off. The others race to help with Green Arrow naturally upset. Meanwhile, Supergirl confronts his attacker, who's already knocked out Congorilla and the Flash: Freddy Freeman.[11]
Supergirl confronts "Freddy," talking of how he was able to "save" the team from that explosion and kept pushing them to stay together to get to the JLA satellite. She then remembers hearing Freddy say "Shazam" without transforming. Freddy transforms to reveal he's been Prometheus all along. Armed with his helmet and weapons, Prometheus swiftly takes out each one of the heroes as he makes his way to the computer room. He's almost there when the Shade shows up, not in Prometheus' "hero" files and that delays the villain long enough for a wounded Donna Troy to take him down and beat him unconscious. Held captive, Prometheus reveals that this has all been about hurting the heroes: He's placed devices in each of their home cities that will teleport the cities through time and space, leaving the people alive but lost. He says he'll give up the location of each device if they let him free. When Green Arrow refuses to let him go, Prometheus reveals he's already started the countdown and Star City is the first target to activate.[12]
Star City is in chaos as the heroes arrive, with Speedy failing to stop the Electrocutioner, who set off the device. In the ruins, Green Arrow finds the body of Lian, Roy Harper's daughter, crushed under a building. Prometheus admits the devices aren't working as expected, destroying the city rather than teleporting it but says the results are the same. Across the country, the various heroes are unable to get at the devices in Keystone City, Opal City and St. Roch. Miss Martian tries to read Prometheus' mind but he's protected against her. The Bulleteer and Mr. Scarlet find the real Freddy Freeman tied up with his mouth wired shut and manage to free him. Freddy tries to use his magic to defuse the device in Fawcett City but it sets it off instead. With time running out, Green Arrow tells the heroes they have no choice but to let Prometheus go. Prometheus tells them how to defuse the devices and then teleports away, leaving ninety thousand dead in Star City. In his secret lair, Prometheus talks to the comatose Ira Quimby on how he can take advantage of the Blackest Night to strike at the heroes. Hearing a noise, he turns to see Green Arrow, who fires an arrow right through Prometheus' head. Green Arrow leaves the dead villain behind, saying one word: "Justice."[13]
Follow-ups
The entire mini is said to be a herald towards James Robinson himself taking up writing in the regular Justice League of America title.[14]
Also a one-shot, Justice League: The Rise & Fall will hit in March of 2010, with a four-issue series called Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal.
A storyarc going from Green Arrow #31-36 called "The Fall of Green Arrow" will also show the ramifications.
Due to scheduling issues, the mini-series has yet to conclude despite the fact the regular Justice League of America title has already given away major plot developments, including the apparent end of the mini-series.
Collected editions
The series has been collected into a single volume:
- Justice League: Cry for Justice (232 pages, June 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2567-5)
Reception
Although the art was met with acclaim, reviewers criticize the writing of Robinson, especially the dialogue and characterization of the main characters.[15][16][17] The final issue however was met with primarily dislike, due in large part to the art and deaths of certain characters. [18]
Notes
- ^ Final Crisis 6
- ^ Final Crisis 1
- ^ Brady, Matt. "Robinson & DiDio on Justice League". Newsarama. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ Ching, Albert. "WWLA '08: DC's COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS PANEL". Newsarama. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ Renaud, Jeffrey. "James Robinson Cries for Justice". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ Brady, Matt. "Remembering the Martian: Tomasi on Final Crisis Requiem". Newsarama. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2009). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 2 (August 2009). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 3 (September 2009). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 2009). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 5 (November 2009). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 6 (January 2010). DC Comics.
- ^ Robinson, James (w). Justice League: Cry for Justice, vol. 1, no. 7 (March 2010). DC Comics.
- ^ Renaud, Jeffrey. "Robinson Talks Justice League of America". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
- ^ Zawisza, Doug. "Justice League Cry for Justice 1 Review". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ Callahan, Timothy. "Justice League Cry for Justice 2 Review". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- ^ McElhatton, Greg. "Justice League Cry for Justice 3 Review". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
- ^ Marston, George. "Justice League Cry for Justice 7 Review". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
References
- Justice League: Cry for Justice at the Grand Comics Database
- Justice League: Cry for Justice at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)