Rating: 
Summary: Good but not great...
Review: This story, featuring a much-desired crossover between the post-Crisis JSA and JLA, would have definitely benefitted from an extra 40 or so pages. It's fairly complex, packing the two super-teams and several villains into one 96-page hardcover.
I always have mixed feelings about these hardcovers, as they usually have too much story for such little space. The action moves along lickety-split with huge amounts of plot and exposition left to the reader's imagination. Scenes change with almost no order, and the progression is very rushed. As a result, you end up with a book that can be finished fairly quickly, not living up to the cover price. The premise is interesting to me, particularly because it involves the Shazam mythos to a large degree, and I guess Goyer does a serviceable job with the space he was given. The trip into Dr. Fate's Tower and the return of the JSA to Limbo were well-done. Plus, there are several good bits of humor, such as the confrontation between Firestorm and Johnny Sorrow. And even though Plastic Man's modern interpretation annoys me, he is written fairly well. Pacheco's artwork is beautiful as always, and I love seeing him try his hand at illustrating these two teams. In short, this easily could have been a limited series, expanding on the story and providing more detail (plus more Pacheco artwork... oh well).
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: When I finished this book, I was disappointed. Do not get me wrong, It is a great book. But it raised my expectations too high. Carlos Pacheco's art is first class. The villians are powerful. There is a nice twist. I just was looking for more of the Vice League.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: When I finished this book, I was disappointed. Do not get me wrong, It is a great book. But it raised my expectations too high. Carlos Pacheco's art is first class. The villians are powerful. There is a nice twist. I just was looking for more of the Vice League.
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