Comments on: Teams vs. Team-Ups https://joykim.net/posts/teams-vs-team-ups/ Librarian. Book Reviewer. Coffee Addict. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Imitorar https://joykim.net/posts/teams-vs-team-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:36 +0000 http://joykim.net/?p=1410#comment-758 On the other hand, compare the current Justice League title to Geoff Johns’ own work on the Justice Society of America. The JSA was always written with an eye toward the team as a whole, which I think was a large factor in its success. It should also be noted that nobody in the JSA had a solo book, so there wasn’t any worry that developing the character one way in the team book would create problems in the solo book. The same could be said for Wolfman and Perez’s Teen Titans, or Giffen and DeMattheis’ Justice League International. Again, the team was written as a team, not just a collection of individuals, but there were no solo books to interfere, and nobody on the team had ever really been a solo character. Certainly not a very well-developed or prominent one.

But I think even the Justice League has been written as a team and not a team-up in the past. Look at the Morrison League, or the Englehart League. It’s not impossible to write a team of characters with solo books as a team, it’s just more difficult, and requires a certain writing ability as well as good coordination with the solo book staff to make sure no problems arise.

]]> By: Comics A.M. | Is Amazon planning its own brick-and-mortar chain? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment https://joykim.net/posts/teams-vs-team-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:57:22 +0000 http://joykim.net/?p=1410#comment-756 […] Commentary | Joy Kim ponders the difference between teams and team-ups. In a team story, such as the pirates of One Piece, the members work together and character development occurs in that context. “In contrast, in a team-up story, the individual characters always trump the idea of the team. While there’s a certain amount of entertainment value in watching the various members of the Justice League react to each other’s styles, that’s also often all there is to the story. The character-changing moments for the members happen, for the most part, within their own monthly titles, not in Justice League; even when they do happen outside the character’s main title (usually as part of some big crossover event), they are more about the character as an individual than about the team as a unit.” [Joy Kim] […]

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