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January 31, 2006
Subway Reading: JLA CLasssified
JLA Classified #16 - Legendary penciller Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez returns to the Justice League in this issue and the results, inked by Klaus Janson, are nothing short of spectacular. The page layouts are some of the most dynamic and inventive that I've seen in a corporate superhero book in a long time. Garcia-Lopez shows complete disregard for the sanctity of his panel borders; on the rare occasions when the borders appear, characters break through them. Despite this chaos, the storytelling flows like gravy. At one point, a figure rises out of his spot in the bottom panel, overlapping not just the panel above but the panel above that. Thanks to strategically-placed lettering and expert page design, though, there's no question as to where the reader's eye should go when. Meanwhile, Klaus Janson proves for the umpteenth time that he's the most distinctive inker in the biz. I defy you to name 3 other finishers whose styles are as readily identifiable as Janson's loose, expressive, angular inks. Each panel is a primer in the power of line weight variation. Gail Simone's script is solid if unspectacular, touching on that old chestnut of what if the JLA started getting involved in global politics, but the real star here is the visual work by Garcia-Lopez and Janson.
Posted by jdonelson_nyc at January 31, 2006 10:32 AM