GLA Misassembled

Last week, Marvel finished GLA Misassembled miniseries (four issues), written by Dan Slott and drawn by Paul Pelletier.

The comic is about Great Lake Avengers - a "superteam", whose members powers are either useless or politically incorrect. The team consists of Flatman - who is as thin as paper, Mr. Immortal - who can die but not stay dead, Doorman - who can teleport stuff about two meters trough his "black hole" body, Dinah Soar, who looks like some flying dinosaur (and can fly, but not talk), and Big Bertha - really goodlooking anorectic woman, who has the ability to become superstrong (and superfat) superhero. She disposes her weight by thowing up. Works as supermodel in her civilian identity.

The story centers around quest for new members. You see, GLA members have this annoying habit of dying (Mr. Immortal dosent count). So they need to recry new members. But everyone knows GLA, and nobody wants to join. The second tread of the story is about Mr. Immortal, and why he cant die (they illustrate his suicide attempts really well).

The comic is all about humour. The first issue is about the history of Mr. Immortal and GLA, the second issue is for the quest for new members, third issue is about the villain attack, and in number four it all ties back together.

The comic is fun - nothing is funnier that squirrel named "Monkey Joe" giving good tips for life ("Friends dont let friends play the Magnolia soundtrack", "please dont do what you see Mr. Immortal doing in this issue.."). On the other hand, its also sad - the GLA members are really sympathic punch, and when the comic is about destroying the team... Good reading, though.

Its different from Giffen/DeMatteis JLA-stories, to whose fans this comic was obviously intented, considering the logo-design, and nearly equally good with the best of JLA-stories of the era. Expect, of course, this is more sad, and dosent potrait always the heroes in so positive light as JLA did (they were, after all, the premiere superteam of their world).

Recommended.