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JLA: Act of God is an Elseworlds story where all of the superheroes of the DC Universe mysteriously lose their powers, and must deal with the fallout. Never miss an episode by subscribing today! bit.ly/2WYvgkt #jla #justiceleague
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@comicpop Год назад

Buy JLA: Act of God along a few other weird tales in this collection! amzn.to/3KYiL3e

@gabrielt.harris8885 Год назад

Is Justice League: Cry for Justice next?

@spoogtastic Год назад

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@elliottroses Год назад

One hundred percent, even on bad weeks I know I have something to look forward to

@leonardomaranhao2861 Год назад

Yeah, they are life savers

@shreyanshdas7481 Год назад

So true. They're like my virtual friends.

@nigelflood7074 Год назад

100% legends

@MutantsInDisguise 8 месяцев назад

Are you asking a question, or just forgetting interrogation signs

@caliph95 Год назад

"Pain I've never felt such pain" - Superman who once gotten beaten to death by doomsday and regularly gets beat up by Darkseid and others

@comixproviderftw_02 Год назад

Superman: Hey! The water was… Really cold!

@seand7042 Год назад

Nagato would be proud

@Zxzero36 Год назад

@@darthekul1 Yeah I think he's either trained by batman, or knows Kryptonian martial arts.

@1111-e4p Год назад

Ah but you see this is an Elseworlds story, so we can just say that the multiple villains that are still capable of inflicting pain on a fully powered Superman don’t exist in this world. Also he’s never been exposed to kryptonite before. God this story is stupid.

@NeutralGuyDoubleZero Год назад

@@1111-e4preally exemplifies some of the absolute worst an elseworld story can be. It can be such an interesting and fun format for stories, but sometimes it's also the writers garbage dump sadly.

@scoobers90 Год назад

Superman: *Struggles to open a jar of pickles.* Batman: "That's how it feels!"

@LogantheSloth Год назад

All I think about is this Superman quote from Morrison's JLA "We have no powers. There are millions of them and there's a child who needs us to save the world. Lets go." That's Superman to me, not whatever he is in this

@rayvenkman2087 Год назад

It’s such a shame that a brilliant concept is sandbagged by bad character writing.

@abrashio Год назад

This feels like a hit piece on Superman by a Batman fanboy.

@KianaWolf Год назад

@@abrashio Not just Superman, but yeah, he takes the brunt of it. A kernel of a good idea, utterly wasted on a terribly written, out of character mess.

@ForrestFox626 Год назад

Which issue was that?

@jamjars865 Год назад

@@abrashio thats most of dc. A bunch of batman d#ckriders who worship batman. Would be great if they left

@comixproviderftw_02 Год назад

Tiffany: Wonder Woman and Shazam powers shouldn’t be gone, they’re God-Based. Sal: Well, but not the RIGHT God. Tiffany: *scoffs* 😂😂😂

@GodzillaRex100 Год назад

Welcome to the book

@nirman423 Год назад

Tiffany mentioned that Ethan was supposed to be here for this episode but her reaction to Wonder Woman turning Christian was priceless

@warriordemon1 Год назад

Poor Tiffany, she was so broken afterward. 😂

@GeminiTasiri Год назад

Tiffany got so shellshocked by the reveal, oh no :'D

@sevensvn5391 Год назад

1:04:30

@rebornkusabi7264 Год назад

I read this comic as a teenager! This comic might as well have been renamed “JLA: That’s Not How Their Powers Work”. Like… there is a FANTASTIC story here. In a better story, no sorry, Wonder Woman would still be a threat! She can use swords! Superman would still have (at this time STILL CANON) fight training from Batman- he’s still shredded >_>

@Zxzero36 Год назад

That and superman's powers are genetic.

@langleymneely Год назад

Besides the idea not being utilized well it’s terribly executed too! It’s flabbergastingly dumb.

@oldfan4049 Год назад

@@langleymneely to be honest though, watching all the things happening around the world for the past 30+ years of my life (and even more so, considering the experience of people existed before me), if the God is indeed exists, he is the same as the God from this comicbook - doing stupid horrible nonsense with his children and not showing up in person.

@langleymneely Год назад

@@oldfan4049 Amen to that! Lol

@infernaldisdain8051 Год назад

@@oldfan4049 Disagree. If the world wasn’t this horrible I might believe you but I believe the randomness of the universe and the fault of everyday evil to be the fault. Scripture says God just gave this world to us; from how people have reacted if God was any more hands-on people world say He’s a tyrant because we can’t exercise free will.

@bthsr7113 Год назад

"Does Doug Moench hate the heroes?" I genuinely think he does. Except Batman.

@thelittlehomie658 8 месяцев назад

Looking back at it, this kinda makes his contribution in creating Moon Knight a lot clearer now.

@kidroyale5936 Год назад

Shouldn’t Kyle’s costume have disappeared as soon as the ring stopped working. How did he still have it???😭

@amead78 Год назад

Only if you have a functioning brain and know how his powers work.

@pickedceasar1216 Год назад

I mean sometimes they don't lose the suit with the ring. It happened to guy once when he was essentially fired from the corps. But yeah usually the rings make a costume that you want. They're a construct technically

@anonomit8229 Год назад

@@pickedceasar1216 Guy was a special case. He wasn't wearing a costume, he just was wearing normal clothes.

@sephirothii13 Год назад

ok Tiffany's reaction to the Wonder Woman "Plot twist", ok character assassin is priceless and needs to be a gif and a meme and... the shear pain, disgust and hate for that is glorious

@sariellakingdom1878 Год назад

So Wonder Woman. Who, aside from her Gods provided powers is canonically pretty much at a physical peak anyway, and she is TRAINED as a a weapons-master and martial artist par excellence (note that in Tower of Babel - its her fighting ability Batman uses against her) and who has an incredible will. Oh and who has been separated from her gods more than once (once giving up her powers in the process if you want to look at her wider history) Becomes a suicidal Woobie, Seems Legit🙄

@dn22pkkdd476 Год назад

38:10 Tiffany used the god damn Speed Force to grab that comic when she heard Supes and Wondy were gettin it on.

@blackphoenix77 Год назад

Why would Kyle Rayner's ring stop working? Isn't it technology?? Also, I really like Linda Danvers' Phoenix Group costume.

@fictionarch Год назад

Don't use your brain for anything other then for how cool Batman is.

@MrTheblock24 Год назад

Yep it is. And Red Tornado should actually stop working as he's an android with some kind of magical tempest inside him. Superman shouldn't lose his powers either really as it's being a kryptonian on a planet with a yellow sun that powers him which is biological. Terrible story but kinda funny.

@kylesousa2051 Год назад

God hates him personally

@abrashio Год назад

Not only that but if it did stop working he would not be in costume as his costume is a construct of the ring... God this comic is stupid

@flashtheshapeshafter Год назад

Why does he even still have his costume if the rings not working

@caliph95 Год назад

Also since Wonder Woman is magic shouldn't she disappear like the other magic guys or like turn into a statue

@gameb9oy Год назад

Wait, is this that comic series that makes Wonder Woman, the Amazon warrior with powers reliant on the Greek Gods, a Catholic?

@taylorscrews2284 Год назад

It makes no sense because like…….in that world the gods exist. She just lost her powers.

@JoshWolabaugh Год назад

I love that this ends on a "damn it."

@xxmunkiexx Год назад

lol and so abruptly.

@oldfan4049 Год назад

yeah, with the excessive boo-ing right before it XDDDD

@CozmicEmbyrs Год назад

Okay so I'm only at the part where Green Lantern gets his ass kicked by Sonar II and... SHOULDN'T HE *ALSO* STILL HAVE HIS POWERS? The Green Lantern ring is ALSO Tech-Based! Like yeah it's alien tech, but it's still tech!

@caliph95 Год назад

If booster gold Future tech works so should green lantern ring

@DavidPeoplesTV Год назад

I don’t know how you’d pull it off, Sal, but I would kill to see you explain Alan Moore’s Twilight of the Superhero’s pitch fully to the gang. I think there’s just enough detail there in what he outlined as his plans for it to be talked about.

@KindlyCryptid Год назад

Stories like this make you appreciate writers like Tomasi and Tom Taylor, whose love for and understanding of these characters come out in every line of dialogue.

@ForrestFox626 Год назад

I don't know about Taylor

@ArmandoUlloa Год назад

Idk about Tom taylor, if you mean wanking off batman characters you are right. Everyone else, uhhh.

@Dorkyboi-1218 Год назад

Honestly the thing with Superman’s senses should have been inverted. Like instead of I can hear the agony in my vicinity if should be that he can’t hear his parents’ or Lois’s heartbeats so he’s terrified that if he’s not on the phone with them 24/7 they will just drop and he won’t know about it.

@MWhaleK Год назад

Agreed and well put!

@springsaber 8 месяцев назад

Sorry but there's one problem here you're thinking logically

@chrisdaily2077 Год назад

To quote Ethan, "That's not how that would work."

@AREJAYMOP Год назад

55:32 Red Sun mood lighting would solve most of Lois and Superman’s problems

@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache Год назад

Superman stopped living in Antarctica and started living in Spain. Without the "S".

@joeyphelps7135 Год назад

Hey do you like fitness

@michaellabonte6390 Год назад

Its the north pole but ya

@Ducaso Год назад

Heh.

@oldfan4049 Год назад

Noice 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

@michaellabonte6390 Год назад

@@Hammerheadcomedy breh. U think I'm falling for that

@cullenn2100 Год назад

In this universe, when Superman and Wonder Woman have a baby, he's Franklin Richards

@zakfrisch2997 Год назад

Bruh, this author did Diana so dirty 😂 I don't think I've ever seen an iteration of her so off-base. Wall Street? Unaliving herself? Losing her mind without Kent? Lmao the absolute audacity.

@T-Jex Год назад

Injustice comes very close

@ajdaking507 Год назад

@@T-Jexat least injustice sounds like something wonder woman would actually do because she's always been that way in stories like that. This just doesn't even sound like anything wonderwoman would or even should be be involved in at all

@JarrenHunt Год назад

My life wouldn’t be the same without this show lol

@HollowGolem Год назад

5:37 Boy, does Ben go on a roller-coaster of emotions, and take us with him there. Well-played, Sal.

@nathanhall9345 Год назад

21:10 The perfect reaction to this entire story.

@Filip97X Год назад

If Aquaman lost his powers despite that not being his powers but genetic ability to breath under the water, currently had his whole city of Atlantis die from drowning. Poor man couldn't catch a break in this era

@bthsr7113 Год назад

Yeah, If this was God, this was a freaking genocide.

@bensneb360 Год назад

This story can be summed up as… and then everyone was sad… or became a Batman lol

@thesuperiorhobgoblin9048 Год назад

It would have been cooler if wally had instead incorporated multiple weapons and gadgets from his villains and just went by the rogue

@mr.protagonist5639 Год назад

That actually sounds pretty cool.

@MWhaleK Год назад

True.

@ricarlab.967 11 месяцев назад

I would think that Clark would resume journalist work or go back to Smallville and take up Farming instead of angsting and spiraling down into alcoholism over losing his powers.

@springsaber 8 месяцев назад

Major problem your thinking

@carloscarmona1523 Год назад

Oh, I've been hoping for years that you guys would do this book and day and the episode did not disappoint. Everyone was on their A game today. I loved Tiffany's reaction to WW going to church.

@pleffman Год назад

The minor existential crisis you see tiffany go through over the concept of Hawkman having hollow bones while the guys keep talking was great

@Oniri Год назад

I think the problem with this book is that it really hard to have a cut-off point for powers. Most of the cast are aliens or other species, so technically their powers are natural to them. You could limit it to granted powers but that would only take out like two heros. All in all, kinda doomed from the start.

@greatstoneplanet Год назад

"You'll graduate to nightwings (...if you survive)."

@unclemetal8774 Год назад

This should be called "JLA It doesn't come up".

@themaninblack9377 Год назад

I’ve been waiting for you guys to review this one ever since I first saw Linkara’s review on JLA: Act of God.

@comixproviderftw_02 Год назад

I love how both Linkara and Ben point out the obvious in Wonder Woman. She has met Gods!

@flashtheshapeshafter Год назад

Joel's rant about this book on Elseworlds Exchange always made me hope this day would come. Edit: Tiffany's reaction to Christian Wonder Woman is SOOOOO worth it XD

@mttylerdurden9 Год назад

Which episode was that?

@Confussed-Oddish Год назад

Superman would probably just shrug and be a reporter full time. Also did no one think of using super science to contact space?

@rayvenkman2087 Год назад

“Finally. I can handle that G2 Slingshot without it exploding in my hands from the slightest pressure.” - Clark

@connorpalmer6454 Год назад

Maybe a comfortable bang session with Lois? I'm sure both of them wouldn't mind that lol

@gabrielt.harris8885 Год назад

So close after Marvill. Really hitting the all time worst comic books one after another.

@rayvenkman2087 Год назад

In the early 2000’s no less. It’s like the first five years was home to some real mighty stinkers including Chuck Austin’s X-Men and Superman runs.

@jacobwilliams1223 Год назад

This is basically publicized Batman fanfiction that solely exists to show how much cooler he is than the other "cheating" heroes in the DC Universe, with little regard for how OOC everyone else is or the circumstances that let Batman stand "tall."

@KenByrneNL Год назад

I got to the new names for the phoenix group and just started laughing

@ChanceDraws Год назад

Hahaha, I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything when Ben yelled "Ma Kent...!"

@xanderreimers4445 Год назад

Calling Martian man hunter “green man” is actually amazing. Because the only thing I can picture is Charlie in a morph suit from it’s always sunny

@ninja1man4u Год назад

Oh no this book. Well thankfully at4w has prepared me for the ridiculousness of the plot and how dirty this book does dianna so let the madness begin Also Sal teasing that eventually he'll cover cry for justice is so amazing....lol I hope that "together we can be JUSTICE".

@TrackMaster844 Год назад

Ugh, no. The longer those books stay forgotten, the better. Especially their follow ups Xp

@comixproviderftw_02 Год назад

I’m Ray Palmer, welcome to pain!

@ninja1man4u Год назад

@@comixproviderftw_02 rofl

@KianaWolf Год назад

@@TrackMaster844 Case in point: I was unaware that there were followups. My day is now officially a little worse for having learned they exist.

@metaknight7117 Год назад

54:52 Ben relazing this is the opportunity of Jon Kent being born XD

@taylorscrews2284 Год назад

I remember hearing about this book back in the day. Or at least the concept before it actually came out. I think they talked about it in wizard. Anyway at the time I thought, “the superheroes without powers? That sounds cool.” I didn’t realize THIS was gonna be the execution.

@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038 Год назад

This episode was so funny! I'm dying! Which earth is this one? Loser earth? Superman is the worst "Krypto-lite" I'm crying laughing!!

@critical_thinker0668 Год назад

Oh boy, this comic. The one where Kyle Rayner sacrifices his life to stop a bank robbery.

@TupocalypseShakur Год назад

1:04:31 I knew this was coming but it still floors me

@spheremode3271 Год назад

Oh, God, I really needed this upload. I look forward to Back Issues like people in ancient times looked forward to their favorite show coming on on TV.

@gigamantisman Год назад

"There's two stories we have to talk about with Prometheus in them" Oh god, I think im gonna cry....for justice lol

@mr.person4lity906 Год назад

“Ma Kent would slap the fuck out of him” Best Ben quote of 2023

@Plyrrrr Год назад

The way Ben says "DNA EVIDENCE! YOU SONOFABITCH"

@Sicod79 Год назад

Grant Morrison tricked me. I bought this book back in the day because I thought JLA was awesome thanks to them.

@dylansmith5206 Год назад

Why is everyone referring to Morrison as them? Morrison is basically one man and not multiple people. Assuming this is some Agent Smith shit where Morrison has multiple clones of himself. But what do I know?

@zshunterjaden Год назад

@@dylansmith5206 Grant Morrison prefers they/them pronouns

@mr.goblin6039 Год назад

@@dylansmith5206 Morrison goes by they/them pronouns.

@CosmicNerdStudios Год назад

@@zshunterjaden that and I wouldn't be surprised if there is a council of multiversal grant Morrison's somewhere

@JohnClark-tt2bl Год назад

You all realize that Morrison didn't ask anyone to refer to him that way, right? The trans community just started doing it because that's what they thought he should use. He never asked anyone to. Morrison comes from a generation before all this, he doesn't think of himself that way.

@MrCeratix Год назад

I'm heading to sleep, but you can be damn sure the first thing I'm doing tomorrow is watching THIS episode

@23Gaunt Год назад

Here's another missed opportunity this book could have used, giving every de-powered hero a set of power armor like steel had. The JLA has both the financial backing and resources to do this and no one even thinks about it.

@rayvenkman2087 Год назад

The almighty power of Idiot Plot.

@Zxzero36 Год назад

It's because batman dosnt wear any armor and everyone has to follow that rule.

@caliph95 Год назад

Writer forgot that the Green Lantern ring is alien tech not magic or something

@bthsr7113 Год назад

They also forgot that Guy's Warrior powers were also tech based.

@arlibrarian Год назад

The problem is that every superhero gets a "I've lost my powers!" story at one time or another. So most of these characters probably have better individual stories handling this concept. I thought Marvel's "Powerless" was a better idea, reimagining the Marvel characters as people in the "Real world," without powers. Daredevil is just a blind lawyer trying to get the Kingpin behind bars, Peter Parker is just a nerd who got a shriveled arm from being bitten by a spider, etc. Only problem is the Logan story ventured into spy noir which was interesting but sort of pushed the limit of things being realistic.

@RaleighSmithRoboboboarlo Год назад

Gotta love Sals lo-key HomeStar Runner ref😂😂😂

@somecanadiangirl1 Год назад

"Hey we're gonna write a story about the Justice League losing their powers" "Cool let's sit down and set out clear criteria for what powers go away and why" "....."

@Depthcharge2030 Год назад

You know, thinking about this the book kind of was 52 before 52. Its a world without the trinity and the Justice League. But yeah, Wonder Woman getting knee deep into god was strange.

@davidblank420 Год назад

Man-O-Pod.

@NovastarDoughnut Год назад

See, like... in my head If Superman lost his powers, he wouldn't just get mad that he lost his powers and that ne was now a weak mortal. I like to imagine Clark would be super happy, struggling to open a jar of pickles, and getting out of breath on a morning run would be things he would value and treasure. Sure, I think some part would miss the superpowers... but I dont think he would just give up and become a drunk. He would become a volentarily fire fighter or would go to star labs or steel amd have them work on appropriations of hid power

@samuellemos7306 Год назад

It's so funny to see Ben so much excited about Superman and Lois finally able to bang and have a baby, hahahahaaha.

@IHADTHECAKE Год назад

"we'll put some bellows in him and ask him what he wants" best line of the episode

@codystork3008 Год назад

That's Kryptonian divorce also the male keeps everything in a Kryptonian divorce but the symbol of our marriage. Unfortunatly nobody can open the door to double check that with my spacedad.

@charliewilliams8639 Год назад

Tiffany almost breaks her fingers snatching the comic from Sal when he mentions Superman and Wonder Woman fucking 😂 38:08

@DCPatrol 11 месяцев назад

I think this may be the best episode yet. I mean booing doesn't just happen. It's earned. Well told Sal! Well responded Tiffany and Ben.

@johnb3919 2 месяца назад

This story hurts to hear because you all have so many good angles for a better one. The potential for a banger is there.

@matthewpopow6647 Год назад

Imagine if this "event" determined that the ability to process oxygen was a super power.

@bthsr7113 Год назад

For Atlanteans, it basically did.

@pipedreamer9781 Год назад

Why is it that all the worst stories have Superman and Wonder Woman shacking up?

@Bobbybillybillbob Год назад

Would love a Justice League series where it's just a world of the non powered characters on the team, Ala Batman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Katana, Cyborg, Wildcat, Huntress, Catwoman etc

@andrewbarone3781 4 месяца назад

Cyborg DOES have powers, dummy.

@andreware2039 Год назад

This sounds like something written by someone with no understanding of the DC universe at all right down to the basic concepts of the characters within it.

@GreenChillZone Год назад

6:23 The system is down. The system is down. Dance Revolution.

@loribernardisunwell9663 Год назад

She is right about WW. She would still be a superior human being due to all her earned fighting skills and intelligence, just like Batman. The take on WW is beyond ignorant of the character and typical of the crappy writing associated with her. She should be taken from DC and given to people who will be consistent, knowledgable and intelligible with the character.

@darkman452 Год назад

Then you have Tom king

@DepletedWisdom Год назад

As far as the Superman/wonder woman story, I would have had Lois die in a normal everyday situation, Clark unable to help her starts his downward spiral. Wonder woman struggling with her normal everyday life and no longer being near immortal ends up bonding with Clark and starting a relationship. Where they both start the others recovery.

@comixproviderftw_02 Год назад

Clark in this story is like the equivalent of what’s going on with Peter Parker nowadays, only way more sad and pathetic.

@job8021 Год назад

"You cannot slow down exaculates!" got me good

@fragile4408 Год назад

36:48 Ben with the best moment in the video.

@Yetiboy34 Год назад

But God is literally real in DC, theres lucifer morning star and the specter is Gods vengeance 😂

@HomeNuke Год назад

Please change the title to "Wonder Woman Finds Jesus". That is down right insane

@christopherb501 Год назад

"Batman's like 'Welcome to my world, bitches!'" About that...

@what8294 Год назад

another great ep from the fab four! really liked that Wes Anderson short from the other day. very cute and a great teaser for today's episode!

@FusionFullForce Год назад

Because it was brought up in the episode, "Red Sun" Radiation can make him human esque so he and Lois can bang. Doesn't hurt Superman, just cancels his powers.

@michaelrodriguez1676 Год назад

"Hey, how come nobody make me my chicken nuggies?" 🤣

@ironscomics5484 Год назад

We honestly need a whole elseworlds month for back issues!

@DrDoom333 Год назад

Week 6 of demanding Infamous Iron Man on Back Issues. None DISOBEY DOOM!!!

@justinmitchell2577 Год назад

The uniform at Guy’s bar should be the vest, right? Like, either the Green Lantern one or his “Guy Gardner” one, or both

@Kekkersboy Год назад

Superman doesn't supersplooge, if he didn't did he could never use the bathroom

@CptCrash21 Год назад

I don't know why but Tiffany's "Weee." at 4:05 had me laughing harder than it should.

@GambeTama Год назад

I am so glad that this happened. Explaining this story to anyone is such a trip! I always point to this story as the best image of DC's Batman worship, but it kind of collapses when I have to get into the rest of the context XD

@TheGreatDevlin Год назад

I think that's the rare time Sal grossed Ben out and not the other way around lol. New show on ComicPop Returns: Ben's Blacklight.

@daraghokane4236 Год назад

The rouges should be badass in this timeline. Mirror master is now the most dangerous guy on earth , Steel is weak to him

@ChristopherZubin Год назад

Oh cowardly Rayner, you don't need courage, after all, who needs courage when you have....a gun!

@rayvenkman2087 Год назад

*Persona 3’s Weapon of Mass Destruction intensifies*

@bZman Год назад

YES! I have been dying for you guys to review this!

@idongesitusen5764 Год назад

I love Tiffany’s reactions to the wasted potential.

@Grand_Theft_Autobot Год назад

At some point partway through this video, I hit on what I think would have been a neat idea: Instead of being smushed by Toyman's lame robot, Steel survives and goes on to become some kind of inventor helping the former heroes simulate their lost powers through his tech, sort of like a benevolent Tinkerer from Marvel comics. Also, Superman's reaction reminds me of Super Dave Osborne after attempting and failing to perform some kind of silly stunt that totally wrecks him while he 's yelling "NEW PAIN! RECORD PAIN!" And, I don't know f you know about this, but chances are, you do, but I'll just mention it anyway just in case one of your other subscribers reads this and is interested: In about 1969, Larry Niven wrote an essay involving the difficulties pre-Crisis Superman might have engaging in sexual activities with a human woman (named "LL" in the essay) called "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." I found it an amusing read.