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JLA: Heaven's Ladder was written by Mark Waid, a comics mainstay responsible for acclaimed runs on comics like The Flash and JLA, but is best known for writing the seminal Kingdom Come, a genre-defining epic in the vein of The Watchmen that used the DC Comics heroes to tell the biblical story of Revelation. When reading that epic story, the words 'magnificent,' 'gorgeous,' and 'brilliant' frequently come to mind. Conversely, the words 'incoherent,' 'pretentious,' and 'awful' frequently come to mind when reading this one-shot novel he wrote during his run on Justice League of America. Like the worst of famous filmmakers like Shyamalan and Zemeckis, Heaven's Ladder strikes me as a misfire only a talented writer like Mark Waid could make, or at least someone who recently had a big hit, desperately trying to recapture lightning-in-a-bottle for a more mainstream readership. The result is one of the most poorly written, laughably bad graphic novels I've ever had the displeasure of

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