Justice League International #9

Will this take place before OMAC has Kevin Kho's mind within it?

The last couple of issues has seen Justice League International exploded, attacked by a conspiracy of super villains, and then handily beaten down by OMAC. It's a pretty sad turn of events for a super hero group that has yet to accomplish a mission. Oh, sure, Booster Gold might believe they were successful on their first mission. But since they had actually been sent out to recover some scientists and the scientists were never heard from again, I'd say they failed. And even if you consider Peraxxus as their main threat, they didn't defeat him either. He just got tired of swatting bugs and decides Earth wasn't worth the cost.

In summary, Justice League International sucks. Perhaps this issue they'll have some kind of success! Although if they have to rely on Godiva to defeat OMAC, I'm already a little worried.

The four panels previous to this she was doing some heavy duty Grifter-style Narration Boxing. [Narration Boxing is when the character narrates the story from some weird perspective instead of actually thinking in the moment].

When I turn the page, I have one of those "Holy Shit Dan Jurgens You Didn't" moments. But he did. He fucking well did. Guess what? OMAC isn't against the Justice League International even though he just beat the fucking ovaries out of them. He's just looking for Batman!

If you take away fights between heroes started from poorly written miscommunication, Comic Book Writers would lose a third of their material.

OMAC appeared last issue falling from the sky and landing squarely on Guy Gardner's head. He then yelled, "No time to talk. Need doctor," and preceded to have plenty of time to get in a huge brawl. Now that a bunch of time has been wasted fighting with the JLI, he decides talking won't take that much time at all! But it's a bit late for the "Pardon me but can you lead me to the Batman?" speech when you've just spent the last few minutes pounding the shit out of August General in Iron lying helpless on the ground.

I should dig up my old Justice League International comics by Dan Jurgens and see if this is how he treated that team back then as well. I do remember a lot of unfortunate crap. I should see what else Dan Jurgens has written. Does he make ever protagonist go through hell?

OMAC then declares that the Justice League International is wasting his time since Batman isn't around and jumps over a building to get away. His leaping trajectory takes him right into the path of Booster Gold, Batwing, and Batman as they head back to gather the troops. Looks like the Eiffel Tower is under attack. No, not by Daemonites and an idiot with a red scarf on his face. Skeets has informed Booster that it looks similar to the recent attacks on the United Nations but not the Hall of Justice. Because the Hall of Justice was merely fire-bombed by rednecks.

OMAC finally finds Batman but then flips out again and tries to smash him. Am I supposed to assume that Kevin Kho can't totally control OMAC and that OMAC is filled with anger and rage like a certain Green Something From The Company That Shall Not Be Named? You know? Marvel! Because even though OMAC wants to find out if Batman can help him change back to normal old Kevin, he keeps fucking attacking everyone and destroying the streets of New York. No wonder people hate Super Heroes living in their city! This destruction has nothing to do with the safety of anyone and just OMAC trying to speak with Batman.

Batwing blows a hole in the street so that they drop in to the sewers. I don't know how that's supposed to be any better. The plan is to contain him but I figure if the fight continues, they're going to smash a lot of building's foundations down here. He does seem to calm down though and the rest of Justice League International joins them.

Actually, Wonder Woman just tried to hold a meeting with Hades and Poseidon just at the entrance to the London Sewers. If it's good enough for Greek Gods, right?!

Everyone in the sewers has a different agenda and Booster Gold looks to Batman for guidance. As long as Batman is around, Booster is never, ever going to step up and be leader of this team. But that's okay because Batman probably won't stick around for long. He'll probably become too embarrassed to associate with these losers. And then after pages of fighting, OMAC apologizes.

I just don't get it. Why the need to make OMAC appear hostile? Am I willfully being ignorant of the need for this? Was it just to have a surprise shock ending last issue? Because if that was the main reason, it just sucks because now we've wasted half of this issue dealing with a non-threat.

Oh yeah! That's why OMAC was hostile! I forgot about, hee hee, Intersek, hee hee hee. Intersek...well, I'll let Intersek, hee hee hee, explain.

Poor Kevin Kho gets Brother Eye out of the way but he still has to deal with every Super Villain that can force the monster to come to the surface.

This Anarchist Team of Super Villains (the ones with the destabilization plan I'm not totally against) teleport out of New York and into their Bunker, wherever that is. They'll probably be back terrorizing someone in an issue or two. But if it wasn't these guys terrorizing France, who was it? And why did Skeets feel it had similarities to the United Nations attack?

Oh. That's why! Breakdown's power was similar to a Firestorm's power.

Yay! Another cross-over! I wish DC would stop their "world-building" and just let the writers write stories without constantly forcing guest heroes and cross over story lines on them.

Justice League International Issue #9 Rating: -1 Ranking. So the OMAC thing was explained within the confines of the story. I'd forgotten about last issue when Intersek claimed they had "a wildcard ready to strike." But it still sucked. Guy Gardner even used the phrase, "Is that all you've got." That's very nearly an automatic fail on the review scale. I hope that they don't spend all of Firestorm Issue #9 fighting with the Firestorms only to finally realize that they're all on the same side.