It was one of the most anticipated upcoming DC releases: “Justice League 3000” by Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire! Set in the future, starring re-imagined versions of your favorite characters and promising humor, action and heart in the way we’d come to know from these prolific DC creators.
But, as Bleeding Cool picked up on:
I think I was just fired
— Kevin Maguire (@maguirekevin) August 8, 2013
Which was, understandably, met with lots of confusion and sadness from fans and pros a like.
And is a huge, huge, huge shame. So much for that “stable creative teams” promise.
Should this be the case, that DC is junking the series to start from scratch, I’d wager that most people would agree to it being an extremely unwise decision. You get the impression that maybe something about the book didn’t seem marketable enough (I’d have guessed the “Justice League” brand would’ve done just fine…), but Maguire, DeMatteis and Giffen are classic comics of the DC variety. Entire generations of fans come from their work on “Justice League International” (the original iteration, not the recent one) and the bwa-ha-ha they brought to it. It’s easily one of the best comics DC ever published, and the reprinted hardcovers of the series sold out quick and became hard to find even quicker.
Not going with one of the most famous creative teams in DC would be like me deciding not to breathe air in the morning or some other silly analogy.
Although, it does beg the question of what it was that saw Maguire removed from the book? An all-star artist like Maguire is money in the bank as far as I’m concerned. Heck, I honestly don’t even read more than two DC superhero books these days and even I was willing to plop down $2.99 for a book from the “JLI” team.
In conclusion, I will defer to Ryan Higgins for the most hilarious/brilliant thought on the matter:
Wondering if this whole "Bob Harras is a Marvel plant" theory might be more accurate than we thought…
— Ryan Higgins (@RyanHigginsRyan) August 8, 2013
