I picked it up today, and was quite schocked (well..surpised) at the amount of visible gore in this issue. I liked it, as it made it more human and scary, but I thought the Comic Code thing was really strict?

Anyone hae a similar reaction?

It was tame compared to the last two issues of 52. I think they dropped the Comics Code a while back. The very least they could do was put the teen/mature warning label on there.

52 bothered me so much that I will be writing DC to complain about it. Kids do read these books and what happened in jla6 and 52 was not even necessary.

I know that Marvel dropped the comics code a while ago, I'm not sure about DC. I just don't think that these comics are meant to appeal to little kids anymore...*sigh*... I miss the old days when not everything was a "major event" and the characters were fun. I'm not saying it should be all sunshine and rainbows, but it seems that days of typical superhero vs supervillian stories are gone, someone needs to die in every issue now, or something needs to be called a "comics event." This is why I like the early Invincible comics.

What happened in 52 and JLA that was so shocking? Now I'm curious. Please PM.

it was all hideous. All the bad guys and all the good guys got together and had it out by playing checkers against each other. Oddly enough, Ace the Bat hound was the final victor.

How early are we talking because those scenes where Omni-Man slaughters his team weren't exactly tame.

I am a huge fan also .... but you remember they left Alan as a head right?

And Mark beat Armstrong Levey to death.

Not sure it's that tame in comparison.... maybe you missed those issues

PM'd ya the gory details...

Hey TC, this isn't directed at you per se, but it's something I've noticed on a few threads and I would like to point it out.
When I click onto a thread with a title like this one's, or ones that ask what happened in a certain issue, it's often out of curiosity. I don't have enough time in my schedule to read through every comic out there, and sometimes I wait for the trade, but only if the trade is telling a story that's interesting.
However, by going into a thread that is talking about a specific issue, I've already foregone my statute of spoiler limitations. I want it to be spoiled at this point.
So really, if you're going to go through the trouble of writing up gory details, go ahead and post it in the general chat.

It only talks about JLA6 and not 52. I don't want to spoil it for folks without permission. Or the title of the thread with the *spoiler* tag in it.

I'll send you the details and you can start a thread about it.

Thanks for the heads up. (Makes sense.) I'll keep in it mind for the future.

I was quite shocked at the terrible editing and writing, much less the gore. I expected a lot from this new Incarnation of the League and so far I have been let down. JLoA or JLA whatever, is my grail of comics as LoSH is to Rokk. I feel as a hardcore fan that this first arc was not as exciting as it should have been. Oh crud who gives a darn about Reddy becoming a real boy, that Pinocchio plot has been played out one to many times with android characters, yawn. Not too crazy about someof the team choices, Black Lightning and Hawkgirl. Like Red Arrow and Vixen and whole heartedly like the old school JLA'rs. Despite the interesting spin on Grundy it was lacking in any substantial worth of being a series starter, now JSA that is some good writing and the first arc kicks arse over the JLA's. As for editing, well 52 has yet to play out, Buddy may still actually die, again, but maybe for good and Neron and Faust may escape from Ralph's trap. Also there were some inconsistency's in some of the scrub villians that appeared too.

I know all about Omni man killing his teammates. I was more referring to Invincible that isn't totally serious. Not every story arc is a major event nor does a character (that people actually have an attachment to) get killed in every issue. While maybe it's not meant for kiddies, it's not a super serious book. It seems to me that comics are beginning to define themselves by the misery that the characters go through. The same might be said of human beings, but if the latter is true, why bother reading the comics in the first place?

while everyone Is pming the details to each other, can anyone pm them to me please, i'd like to know what happened, but can't afford to pick the issues up, as i am subscribed to so may titles already, and I would feel bad if I read the issues in the store, so yeah,

In JLoA #6 Grundy ripped Reddy's forearm off and ate it

In 52 Sobek ate a de-powered Osirus and then bragged about it in the next issue, said he was stringy and was still stuck in his teeth.

I am sooooo glad I quit reading JLA at issue #1 when I realized that the "new" JLA was basically the same as the "old" JLA and that the events of Crisis really had no meaningful or lasting impact.