52, Week 29
	Story Title: 'Name Calling' Writer: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid Art Breakdowns by: Keith Giffen Penciller: Chris Batista Inker: Jack Jadson Colorist: Alex Sinclair Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher Editors: Stephan Wacker & Michael Siglain Cover by: J.G. Jones & Alex Sinclair
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

This week’s issue (for me) is a dichotomy of sorts. On one hand I welcome any chance to see more of the JSA, especially the founding trio, DC’s original Trinity, Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Flash (Jay Garrick) and WildCat (Ted Grant), as also more of Dr. Magnus. At the same time, I am beyond tired, let alone caring, for the while Luthor ‘Everyman Project’ and have very little interest remaining in the mad scientist plotline and how it ties into Intergang and that is without taking into account that Silver Age joke, Egg Fu.

Day 1: No Day 1 this time either. Hmm, two weeks in a row, they really need to stop Grant Morrison from overextending his weekend benders.

Day 2: As already mentioned (and seen on the cover), this day has Alan, Jay and Ted getting together, not for any ‘official’ meeting but for something more familial. A tradition in the JSA (as also the JLA), Thanksgiving has usually been a time when everyone got together to…well, to chow down on turkey and just hang out. In the year after the Crisis (the one that everyone remembers i.e. IC), this is not the case. What we have instead is yet another instance of a fight involving Luthor’s Infinity Inc. and not in the good-against-bad sense. At this juncture these blowouts have gone beyond tired and clichéd, at least for me they have.

Day 2 (Elsewhere): As if the Infinity Binc. weren’t enough of an exercise in cliché-dom, here we have the Oolong freaks getting their Thanksgiving on. However, as with events at New York, this too is another instance for Egg Fu-Fu to roll up and show what a bad egg he is. Yeah, right. The day I start finding a freakin’ egg even remotely threatening is the day I read my last comic. Even the main outcome from this day, Will Magnus finally having his medications taken away is something that has been so long in the coming that it did not seem all that...evil. Thankfully enough, Egg Fu was shown using some sort of laser/gun built into his stilts and not some sort of ‘yolk’ that he squirted.

Day 3: This time it is Metropolis and onto Steel and his ‘team’ to unmask Luthor. Starting as one of the big players of 52, John Henry has faded (initially slowly and then rather rapidly) into the background, until he became nothing more than a poor man’s antithesis to Luthor’s ‘establishment’. When 52 started, this character and his story was the one that I was looking forward to most. Hope that the events of this week help in shedding some much-needed attention back on him.

Day 4-7: They went they way of the Dodo, or maybe everyone just decided to close up midweek and join Grant.

Conclusion: Yay, no ‘waste of space’ Origin this week and double yay for next week’s issue and the Bat-clan showing up in it…with a small nay on Ms. Dead Weight Bat (Batwoman) weighing them down.

RATING: 8/10