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Summary: Back to the Basics
Review: After comics of Blue Beetle, Metamorpho, and Booster Gold, the fans demanded and got the "real" Justice League, the big guns of the DC Universe. Everybody who's everybody is here, the only member without his own regular monthly series is the Martian Manhunter. This trade paperback is great b/c it collects the hard-to-find (and expensive) first 4 issues at a very reasonable price. Grant Morrison's storylines are fast-paced, and Howard Porter's art is stunning. Morrison has set personas for each of the characters. Everybody looks up to Superman and everybody's scared of Batman. Green Lantern is the rookie and bickers with the Flash. Aquaman is perpetually grumpy. All in all, a great find! If you like this one, you'll want to pick up the rest of the trade paperbacks, as well as the regular monthly series.
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Summary: A Return to Greatness for the JLA
Review: After years of teams filled with B-League Justice Leaguers this book returns the heavy hitters to the Justice League of America. While the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold were great Justice Leaguers they just don't compare to a League full of the likes of Superman, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern and Batman. This book reprints the first four issues of the new JLA series as the League goes to battle the Hyperclan. Truly an exciting story and it defines the direction of the New League. Definitely recomended to fans of all the heros listed above and any superheroes ever. Great Story and Great Art.
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Summary: A disappointment -- Morrision is capable of so much more!
Review: As a huge Grant Morrison fan, it really saddens me to have to say this: "JLA: New World Order" is nothing special. I think that the poor quality of the stories from the preceding JLA creative team made Morrison's arrival on the title seem much better than it actually was. The best thing I can say about it is that he keeps things going at a brisk pace.Howard Porter's art is a distorted "super-heroic" comic art style more at home in a 90's X-Men book (maybe that's a plus for some readers); it just doesn't seem right to me for DC flagship characters. Morrison seems to have fun writing Batman, Superman, Flash and Green Lantern in this storyline, but doesn't seems to have grip on the rest of the team. Aquaman, Wonder Woman and the Martian Manhunter's characterizations are utterly generic and interchangeable. My real problem here though is with Morrison's plot and storytelling. I love his work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol; both proving he has an extraordinary talent for injecting fresh plots and intelligence into the superhero genre. Here I swear to you it reads like he's doing comics by the numbers, simply earning the paycheck without going beyond the minimum requirements for the job. I haven't read any of the subsequent Morrison JLA stories, although I'm sure I will eventually. Here's hoping he decided to start writing up to his own highly enjoyable standards later in the run.
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Summary: A disappointment -- Morrision is capable of so much more!
Review: As a huge Grant Morrison fan, it really saddens me to have to say this: "JLA: New World Order" is nothing special. I think that the poor quality of the stories from the preceding JLA creative team made Morrison's arrival on the title seem much better than it actually was. The best thing I can say about it is that he keeps things going at a brisk pace. Howard Porter's art is a distorted "super-heroic" comic art style more at home in a 90's X-Men book (maybe that's a plus for some readers); it just doesn't seem right to me for DC flagship characters. Morrison seems to have fun writing Batman, Superman, Flash and Green Lantern in this storyline, but doesn't seems to have grip on the rest of the team. Aquaman, Wonder Woman and the Martian Manhunter's characterizations are utterly generic and interchangeable. My real problem here though is with Morrison's plot and storytelling. I love his work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol; both proving he has an extraordinary talent for injecting fresh plots and intelligence into the superhero genre. Here I swear to you it reads like he's doing comics by the numbers, simply earning the paycheck without going beyond the minimum requirements for the job. I haven't read any of the subsequent Morrison JLA stories, although I'm sure I will eventually. Here's hoping he decided to start writing up to his own highly enjoyable standards later in the run.
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Summary: The rebirth of the JLA
Review: First off, I've never been much of a super-team fan. Chalk it up to the Superfriends, the old Fantastic Four cartoons. I always thought that the entire team scenerio seriously limited character development and intensity. They all had near identical personalities and you always knew that the heores were gonna come out on top no matter what. And after beating all the villains they would stand around in poses saying something corny. I harbored the same feelings regarding the JLA reincarnation that was headed by Grant Morrison, Howard porter and John Dell.
Was I wrong.
The new JLA had everything that the old super-teams didn't have. Character development, near end-of-the world situtations and they didn't really get along with each other. New World Order is the story that set the entire wheel in motion to the rebirth of one of the greatest superhero teams in comics. The story begins with the arrival of a fleet of aliens calling themselves the Hypercla. They all have superpowers that are equal to or rival those of the JLA's and they manage to sway the public in their favor in a few days. They are hell bent on taking down the league and manage to capture everyone except the Batman. Morrison shows that even without any superpowers Batman is one of the most formidable opponents for any super-being any day of the week. He alone takes out 2/3 of the Hyperclan by himself by exploiting their secret identity. I won't post any spoilers regarding the ending because it's well worth reading it and figuring it out yourself. And regarding character development, there is a lot of that in this book also. Superman is the poster boy for the JLA, the martian manhunter is uneasy in the team and even at one point betrays them to the hyperclan. And Batman doesn't seem to like anybody. He is shown as a guy who without any super-powers has got the largest ego in the JLA. That's the way the Batman should always be written.
I highly recommend this. And FYI, this arc was recently picked by Wizard to be the cream of the crop w/ respect to JLA stories. Get this book, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Don't Mess With The Best
Review: For me the Justice League has always been an excuse for a bunch of super-powered wusses to take down some dopey villian. Well Grant Morrison has proven me wrong. This time the JLA is pretty much obliterated by a group of so-called heroes calling themselves the Hyperclan. Superman is forced to call in some of the Big Guns to deal with this problem. Now usually individual characters are lost to serve that whole "team-player" idea one usually finds in the JL-fill-in-the-blank books but this time EACH character is realized. A note to Batman fans: if you are sick of Batman reduced to a guy in a cape with nothing to contribute when fighting aliens then READ THIS BOOK because Morrison wrote Batman exactly as he is. Superman himself doesn't come off as just the Big Blue Boy Scout Who Comes In to Save The Day. He's the one they all (Well except Batman) look to for leadership and you'll see why. Green Latern and the Flash are both the most human characters and it's fun to see them interact like two best buds. The villians have a major twist that I won't give away here. Wonder Woman doesn't exhibit that same ball-busting attitude I thought she would but she proves that she can pull far more than her own weight without missing a breath(you'll get that punch-line at the end of the story). But I've said enough so just read the book.
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Summary: The Big Seven are back!
Review: For several years, DC Comics allowed one of their most venerable and hallowed team books to languish. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, the last comic to tell the stories of DC's premiere super team, had become populated by castoffs, also-rans and never-will super heroes who would do much better sitting in the back issue bins than they would on the racks posing as Earth's mightiest defenders. Now, in JLA, DC has brought back the core seven: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter. Most of whom comprised the original Justice League way back in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28 in the early Silver Age of Comics. Avant-garde comics writer, Grant Morrison takes the helm in this new JLA series and begins his run of wild, over-the-top, blockbuster epics featuring DC's mightiest. I don't want to spoil the secrets of this first tale, but suffice it to say there are some great twists and turns in the story. Morrison draws the reader in by pitting our heroes against a menace that seemingly can't be beaten because the public at large doesn't WANT them to! Anyone who's ever wanted to fly like Superman, worn a bath towel around his neck to play Batman or loved the DC heroes in any way shape or form will love this book. Morrison has an uncanny ability to pull the reader's strings with these characters. You find yourself rooting for them uncontrollably as they face down a menace that only THEY can see and understand even in the face of widespread disdain by the public. They're heroes because they choose to be. Not because of the fame or fortune, but because it's in their very being. Howard Porter, while not my favorite artist by any stretch of the imagination, is good at visually telling Morrison's epic story and great at conveying the personalities of each and every JLAer. If you missed out on this series when it came out, here's a cheap way to get the back issues (they're getting more expensive by the day!) and read one heckuva terrific comic story.
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Summary: A wonderful and enjoyable superhero story
Review: Grant Morrison and Howard Porter have created one of the mostenjoyable comic book series this decade. "New World Order" sets the appropriate tone for this non-stop exciting series and proves why the JLA is the top superhero team in comics today next to Marvel's "Avengers."
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Summary: The first storyline in one of the greatest comic books!
Review: Grant Morrison has created the best JLA ever! Character interaction is great and I love it when Batman saves the rest of the team! This comic just keeps on getting better & better, I recomend that you pick up this comic monthly!
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Summary: great beginning
Review: Grant Morrison's "New World Order" revives the Justice League of America with style, wit, and lots of eye-popping action (the latter courtesy of some outstanding artwork by artist Howard Porter). When the mysterious Hyperclan, a team of nomadic superhumans who evidently want nothing more nor less than to turn earth into a Utopia, touch down over the White House only DC's greatest superheroes have a chance when they step out of line. Morrison's script does a lot with limited space, and with a few deft touches turn some of the comics world's most polished icons into flesh-and-blood super *people*. These are DC's big-leaguers: Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman, and they are indeed the JLA as it was always meant to be. Having said that, the Justice Society of America actually came first and by all rights might even be more powerful than the JLA, but it is indeed the JLA that has been DC's standard-bearer since the Silver Age. And stories like "New World Order"--adventure, excitement, great interraction between disparate but unified heroes, and a world to save--are why.
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