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Jan 15, 2018

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1055: GLA #2, July 2005

https://www.comics.org/issue/229713/

Just about 22 pages of different ways that superheroes can say no to the Great Lakes Avengers. There's literally a couple of pages that are head shots of various characters, most of them Z-list or lower, just saying "No." Until the team runs into Squirrel Girl, who says "Yes," but them regrets it? The GLA are not the most stable of teams, and Squirrel Girl is wise to be picking up on that.

I think that this is simply not my kind of humour. When Doorman has a knife thrown at his head, and he lets it pass through him, like a door, it flies straight into the head of the Grasshopper, who has just joined the team. And then someone makes a joke about a new record for shortest membership in the team. I think the vibe I'm getting is what if you wrote an Inferior Five story but treated the rest of the world seriously. How would characters like that actually fit into the DCU? How does the GLA actually fit into the Marvel U?

To be continued.

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