Jla: One Million

Rating:
Summary: Give me a break
Review: I collected 3 or 4 of the "one million D.C." comics but missed out on a few key issues (namely the last 3) so when I saw this I had to get it to see how it ended. Yes this book did fill in the gaps, but it did NOT collect all of the one million line. True some of the stories not collected were not crucial to the main plot but they were excellent none the less. I would recomend this book to anyone but after reading it i would also incurage you to try to find the "missing" stories.

Rating:
Summary: Very interesting, but a bit "weird just to be weird".
Review: This book is a collection of the DC One Million "event" from DC Comics several years ago. Like the first six or so collections of the JLA series, it was written (primarily) by Grant Morrison, who rejuvinated his career with his JLA run through stories that were equal parts Silver Age imagination and outlandish Vertigo-style twists, done up for an all-ages audience.

This book is no exception, but the central idea of another JLA existing "one million months into the future" (the original comics were published monthly, after all...) allows Morrison to go just a wee bit too far to the bizarre side of the ledger. It's still all very interesting, and it stands as probably the third or fourth best Morrison JLA story, but it's not as tightly plotted or as LINEAR as it needed to be for true excellence. Maybe the detached feel of the story was necessary to capture the wild expanses of imagination in the story (things you won't see in any other comic, I guarantee you). Perhaps the story worked against itself in some ways.

But still, I DID give it 4 out of 5. You will find better reads, but this one is still uppper-echelon.

Rating:
Summary: Very interesting, but a bit "weird just to be weird".
Review: This book is a collection of the DC One Million "event" from DC Comics several years ago. Like the first six or so collections of the JLA series, it was written (primarily) by Grant Morrison, who rejuvinated his career with his JLA run through stories that were equal parts Silver Age imagination and outlandish Vertigo-style twists, done up for an all-ages audience.

This book is no exception, but the central idea of another JLA existing "one million months into the future" (the original comics were published monthly, after all...) allows Morrison to go just a wee bit too far to the bizarre side of the ledger. It's still all very interesting, and it stands as probably the third or fourth best Morrison JLA story, but it's not as tightly plotted or as LINEAR as it needed to be for true excellence. Maybe the detached feel of the story was necessary to capture the wild expanses of imagination in the story (things you won't see in any other comic, I guarantee you). Perhaps the story worked against itself in some ways.

But still, I DID give it 4 out of 5. You will find better reads, but this one is still uppper-echelon.