The JL8 webcomic, which can be found at http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/, is a resetting of the justice league and associated villians in the third grade. It’s adorable.
However, I can’t identify one of the villians. It’s the one named Lenny (who features in the recent run of strips). He’s hanging out with Solomon Grundy and Lex Luther, and wears a blue parka and shades wherever he goes. Anybody know who he’s supposed to represent?
That strip is fantastic. It works better than the adult version because their problems are so much realer to them than alien invasions. Real characters have real problems. Even that Neil guy probably knows that.
That’s really cool. I went back to the first one to read them in order, in the first strip Alfred tells Bruce he has to go to school or “no Gray Ghost tonight” - a cute reference to the Beware the Gray Ghost episode of “Batman: the Animated Series” where adult Bruce meets the actor from his favorite childhood TV show “The Gray Ghost,” voiced by Adam West.
I’ll spoiler it in case you want to keep guessing:
Tall pale kid - Solomon Grundy
Red haired kid in suit - Lex Luthor
Kid with toys - Toyman
Kid in red hoodie - Joker (“Red Hood” is the Joker’s pre-Joker identity)
Lenny in blue hood and weird glasses - Captain Cold
Girl in green outfit with flowers - Poison Ivy
Girl with fur coat and cat ears - Cheetah
Subtle, right? There are little jokes and references all through it. There’s one on #136 where Hal, Barry and J’onn are talking about a story with a “super powerful robot guy” that I feel like is probably a reference I’m missing.
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about the Avengers movies.
Barry’s psyched for the second because the villain will be Ultron, the super-awesome robot. Hal’s confused because the first one ended with a stinger suggesting it was going to be Thanos. J’onn still hasn’t seen it.