Over the course of the first few issues, we'll watch various members of the Justice League meet one another for the first time. That's our first clue that DC is setting out to tell the story of its iconic team of heroes before it became iconic. 'Five Years Ago,' reads a caption on page one. Yep yep and what am I, Kreskin, over here? So is Justice League #1 any good? Accessible to newbies? Will it boost slack sales and save the industry? They're also making some tweaks to their standing roster of pale male heroes to make it look a scosh less like the syllabus to a Harold Bloom survey course. (DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee talked about all of this today with Melissa Block on All Things Considered.)Īt the same time, DC is attempting to diversify its offerings, rounding out the capes-and-cowls comics with horror comics, war comics, western comics, etc. Over the next few weeks, the publisher will roll out the rest of its line of 52 different titles, all of which will begin with issue #1 - new (or slightly altered) versions of both iconic and little-known characters, new (or slightly altered) costumes ( Wonder Woman Sartorial Update: Jeggings OUT, Star-spangled short-shorts BACK IN), new storylines. We discussed this move when DC first announced it, but briefly: So, it's the first title of DC Comics' grand narrative experiment: An attempt to secure new readers by completely clearing the superhero slate and starting anew. (It arrives on web servers as well, but we'll get to that in a bit.) Today, Justice League #1 arrives in comics shops. For more about the DC Comics reboot, check out Melissa Block's discussion with DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee from All Things Considered.

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