Justice League International #6 Preview & Discussion

RussBurlingame · **Joined:** January 25th, 2011, 9:17 am **Posts:** 151

Tomorrow, The Gold Exchange will go live at 9am EST. What will be in there? Well, here's a quick tease, hidden for those who haven't seen the book yet:

IX: The way Godiva gets bent out of shape when she's asked about Booster--after she's just been open and honest about everything else--that's a little off-putting. Should we read anything into that?

DJ: Yes.

You should.

IX: Assuming that any of Booster Gold, Volume II is still canon, Booster certainly has some secrets he'd rather keep and some people who would go to extraordinary lengths to find them out...!

DJ: That's quite an assumption.

But if it were canon, you'd be right. More or less.

Boosterrific · **Posted:** February 1st, 2012, 10:48 pm

Oh, you tease!

RussBurlingame · **Joined:** January 25th, 2011, 9:17 am **Posts:** 151

Also, as a bonus that I didn't know about when I posted that last tease, Dan did breakdowns on this issue for guest artist Marco Castiello and shares the first three pages of his sketches (he compares the process to Keith Giffen's role on "52") for the issue exclusively with our site.

Morgenstern · **Joined:** January 10th, 2011, 12:45 am **Posts:** 576

This issue (of what was there) was..okay. I like that there is some time for character development, but not that the team spents hardly any time as a whole and only chats in small groups. Yet, once more I could repeat my complains about the decompression. What makes this worse..a year ago we had up to 4 Booster-centric issues per months, now we are down to one. With this pace I can hardly see a point in buying the issues each month instead of the trades (besides being impatient, and losing the chance to talk about the comic while it is still new)

Boosterrific · **Posted:** February 3rd, 2012, 2:00 am

The decompression does seem to be growing worse. I need to find an objective metric to measure this.

Morgenstern · **Joined:** January 10th, 2011, 12:45 am **Posts:** 576

How About MegaJohns? The higher a Comic is on the MegaJohns scale, the more decrompressed it is. While, for example, the old JLI was a mere 0,1 Megajohns, his current comics like Aquaman are at 10 Megajohns and the modern JLI somewhere in the middle at around 5.

Boosterrific · **Posted:** February 4th, 2012, 10:15 pm

I will accept MegaJohns as a unit of measurement, but we still need an objective method of comparison. Perhaps we should see count how many pages it takes to tell a story. The fewer pages required, the more compressed. Secondary subplots should count as a multiplier. (Two stories in 20 pages must count as twice as good as a single story told over 20 pages, right? Three stories over the same space = 3x multiplier, etc.) Long-form background subplots that take many issues to pay off (far more common in comics of yesteryear) must be figured in somehow, too. Maybe a 1.5x multiplier if a long-term subplot is advanced in the story in addition to primary action?

When I have some more time, I'll have to come up with some real examples/comparison tests. (Maybe later in the week.)

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