First is the race factor, which is rather indirect, but still a point of concern. Like many people have noted, this is an all white league free of the editorial chains put on McDuffie's ragtag motley crew, but I don't see it as a problem. The real problem is from the bottom up as we saw the fervor of the DC fans at the elimination of the "racist" McDuffie team and the fanwanking around the new leader GL. With Hal as a significant group of fans' Great White Hope: a staunch authoritarian man's man of superheroes not like Kyle Rayner or that two bit black knockoff.
On the topic of Hal, his characterization is the most disturbing thing that noone's bringing up. His league seems to revolve an idea of being a hit squad to avenge the death of heroes who died in the line of duty rather than, you know, saving people, which isn't "proactive" enough. Busting bad guys before they do something is sketchy since they would have to do something to be "bad". This league seems to built on the premise of superheroes for superheroes above all else. It's almost synonymous with crooked cops only looking out for their careers and the fraternity of cops instead of being public servants. Throw in the torture of Killer Moth and you have a team mentality that smacks of preemptive strikes, and protection by "any means necessary." And people are loving it.
Now I know this is makebeleive but on the heels of recent events do you think the general consensus on Cry for Justice say something about race relations in the comic book community and the acceptable if not applauded hawkism over servitude for positions of power inside of comics and in the real world, just a bunch of fans looking for some old fashion super fights, or am I blowing this out of proportion?
