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Summary: Very pretty, certainly. But let's face it: the script . . . wasn't
Review: I admit: the pencils through out this book are great and the colors are stunning. But let's be honest about the work as a whole. The story is muddled at best, confusing at worst. If you read it through, you'll see it jumps around, introduces characters without explanation, assumes knowledge of the entirety of DCU continuity, and absolutely advances or resolves nothing. Perhaps the most disappointing part of this graphic novel, if you can even call it a novel, is that it leaves out the only section of the story that could even be remotely interesting: the ordeals of the 20th century heroes. Why couldn't they include that here? It could have been interesting at least, unlike the drivel we are provided with. And where the hell did the Ressurrection Man story come from? Left field apparently. Overall, I expected much better from Grant Morrison. Unfortunately, this just proves my point about comics since the Image Revolution: there is too much emphasis on making books pretty and not enough on making them interesting reads. Style is nice, but substance makes the book work.
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Summary: Good artwork, No Story.
Review: If this was a gallery of comic book art only, it would be very good, but it's ruined by the complete lack of story in this novel. Even Batman looks bored by the whole story. This book had about as much depth as a Kevin Smith movie.
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Summary: Bleah!
Review: One can only hope that Mr. "Channeling Chekov" was being sarcastic; this is an incoherent mess that should never have been collected in its present form.
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Summary: Bleah!
Review: One can only hope that Mr. "Channeling Chekov" was being sarcastic; this is an incoherent mess that should never have been collected in its present form.
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Summary: Great story
Review: The story behind DC 1,000,000 is five star material. Morrison weaves a brilliant imaginative yarn about an intelligent star from the distant future, who envies our sun and wants to be the center of our solar system. This only scratches the surface of course, but I don't want to spoil it for you. Unfortunately this trade paperback doesn't re-print some of the vital corssovers making for a rather confusing plot at some points. The story is still largely comprehensable, and quite good, but I had to dock it a star for this.
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Summary: Great story
Review: The story behind DC 1,000,000 is five star material. Morrison weaves a brilliant imaginative yarn about an intelligent star from the distant future, who envies our sun and wants to be the center of our solar system. This only scratches the surface of course, but I don't want to spoil it for you. Unfortunately this trade paperback doesn't re-print some of the vital corssovers making for a rather confusing plot at some points. The story is still largely comprehensable, and quite good, but I had to dock it a star for this.
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Summary: The Future is Now
Review: The thing I like the most about this mini-series, artfully pulled together by Grant Morrison, is what it accomplishes. It makes Vandal Savage an enthralling villain, as he well should be. The Vandal Savage dialogue is enough alone for me, rife as it is with historical irony and the exacting precision of a very, very, very long lived being. The new possible distant future for the DC Universe is also fun, along with the open timeline policy established by the book Kingdom. Good stuff for fans of Superman, with its depiction of a long-lived Superman family dynasty, the likes of which boggle the imagination in its scope. Green Lantern fans will enjoy the padding Grant Morrison gives his overall plotline for his run of the JLA title by showing that Kyle Rayner has indeed come into his own. Ressurrection Man, a book DC never should have come close to canceling, is given a nice bookend here as we see where his life will go in the far flung future, and the resolution of his tale with Vandal Savage. Batman gets dragged kicking and screaming into this story, and that makes for some good stuff, too. Buy it if you love the possibilities the DC Universe holds. Shun it if you like characters to conform to very narrow definitions.
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Summary: Mind-Blowing Science Fiction Epic!
Review: This is a story that you either get or you don't. To fully appreciate every nuance of Morrison's craft would require that you be well versed in his views on neo-pagan sorcery and that you appreciate the assorted in-references in the book ranging from his allusions to the cosmologist Tippler to his use of time-travel paradoxes. This book, however, does not require you to be a scholar in these areas to attain a basic enjoyment of the work because it is not a quiet, scholarly book but rather the equivilant of a Tom Clancy-inspired action movie with shades of Sagan thrown in. It's boorishly simplistic and direct in telling its story, which I hold works to its benefit as an all-ages tale, while in the background can be seen a million detailed sagas playing out off-panel. The combat takes place off panel but just when you're convinced that Morrison is channeling the spirit of Anton Chekov, famous for off-stage action in his plays, Morrison pulls a startling reversal at the last minute and when the smoke of the summer blockbuster clears, it is clear that this is in fact a tale for the ages of icons and primordial conflict --- and that it was all along. Like Morrison's INVISIBLES, this book doesn't just sit on your shelf awaiting your return to its pages --- it requires a second reading. And a third. And a fourth.
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Summary: A Wonderful Gallery of artwork
Review: This is the best artwork I've seen in a long time and the plot is very good as you get to see what the reaction wuold be to the thought of the greatest heroes of all time travelling to the 853rd century and the betrayl of a superb character in the plot is amazing.It is also a mini-thriller when it comes to the hourman virus.All in all it has incredible art and the plot is excitng as well as thilling.
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