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Summary: Get this book!
Review: When the Justice League flies out to rescue a crashing airplane, they are shocked to find all of the passengers already dead. Even more strange, when they begin to examine the passengers, they find that they are carrying dollar bills bearing the picture of the first president of America: Benedict Arnold! When they confront Lex Luthor, the Justice League is in for another surprise. He is not the Alexander Luthor they know, but one from a parallel Earth; an Earth where good is evil and evil good. He wants them to come to his reality and help to straighten everything out. Will they do it? Of course...but, there may be unintended consequences and unforeseen players.This is quite an exciting story. The authors bring the Justice League into a fascinating story, where things are not merely opposite, but forming a consistent reality based on a different outlook. My son and I both loved this book, and think that you will too. Get this book!
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Summary: One of the best Graphic Novels ever...seriously
Review: Yes, it's a comic book.
More specifically, it's what those in the know like to call a "graphic novel". It's hardcover, it's longer than your average comic book, and it's usually a self-contained story or story arc from a series. This is one of the former types of GNs, and likely one of the best GNs I've ever read. It's so good, non-comic book readers who venture to pick it up will likely find themselves drawn quickly and uncontrollably to the story and characters. And why not? Anybody who's been living on Earth for the past 50 years already knows these characters: The Justice League of America, specifically Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. You know, the Super Friends. This graphic novel actually takes off from an idea from one of te old "Super Friends" cartoons and runs with it like an Olympian quarterhorse: what would happen if there was an anti-matter version of our own world, where things that were good are bad? What would happen if beings from these alternate dimensions found their way to their counterpart realities? Think of that old "Star Trek" episode "Mirror Mirror", where the Federation was a pirate outfit and Mr. Spock had a goatee.
Now think if Batman killed cops, Superman fried citizens who questioned him with x-ray vision and Wonder Woman was a sex-craved vixen with super strength. White Boy Kevin said, "wow". The story starts off with an interesting twist right off the bat: Lex Luthor is the only GOOD person on this alternate Earth and breaks through the dimensional anti-mater barrier to get to our Earth to recruit the JLA to come back to his world and fix things. They go, and mayhem ensues on both sides of the barrier (don't want to give anything juicy away), as the worlds slowly start a collision course that could mean the extinction of both realities.
Powerful, epic stuff here, folks, and filled with intelligence, humor and characters you don't want to see go away, even if they are evil.
Thanks to the deft writing of Grant Morrison (living legend in comic writing who wrote the first 20 or so issues of the new JLA book that's hot now), you are as equally drawn to the evil characters as you are your favorite icons. Especially when you see OwlMan and Super Woman (you match them up; it's fun) necking behind every corner of the villain clubhouse, and Ultraman (Superman-minus) using his x-ray vision to fry citizens and cats in trees. Quitely's art is phenomenal, and his style, which lends all kinds of interesting depth to his regular "The Authority" series, literally pumps up the volume of the characters in JLA: Earyth 2. Superman LOOKS like a super man, and Super Woman (the evil Wonder Woman) changing from her alter-ego to her villain persona is, well, downright sexy. Muscles ripple, buildings explode, and heroes look like heroes. Anyone who thinks comic books are for kids and are immature fare haven't the faintest clue as to what's going on in that medium anymore. Comics are filled with incredible stories, lessons and are ten times more mature work more times than not than the average movie that no one seems inclined to dismiss as juvenile (unless it's animated, of course, which flies in the face of logic when "Shrek", "Akira" and "Ghost In The Shell" totally slam most contemporary films in scope, story and sense). Pick it up. You WON'T be sorry. If the price makes you balk (tip: don't buy it at a comic store; they'll charge you cover. Go to Media Play), pick it up at your local library. Then, if you really got balls, pick up some "Hellblazer".
Rating:
Summary: One of the best Graphic Novels ever...seriously
Review: Yes, it's a comic book.
More specifically, it's what those in the know like to call a "graphic novel". It's hardcover, it's longer than your average comic book, and it's usually a self-contained story or story arc from a series. This is one of the former types of GNs, and likely one of the best GNs I've ever read. It's so good, non-comic book readers who venture to pick it up will likely find themselves drawn quickly and uncontrollably to the story and characters. And why not? Anybody who's been living on Earth for the past 50 years already knows these characters: The Justice League of America, specifically Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. You know, the Super Friends. This graphic novel actually takes off from an idea from one of te old "Super Friends" cartoons and runs with it like an Olympian quarterhorse: what would happen if there was an anti-matter version of our own world, where things that were good are bad? What would happen if beings from these alternate dimensions found their way to their counterpart realities? Think of that old "Star Trek" episode "Mirror Mirror", where the Federation was a pirate outfit and Mr. Spock had a goatee.
Now think if Batman killed cops, Superman fried citizens who questioned him with x-ray vision and Wonder Woman was a sex-craved vixen with super strength. White Boy Kevin said, "wow". The story starts off with an interesting twist right off the bat: Lex Luthor is the only GOOD person on this alternate Earth and breaks through the dimensional anti-mater barrier to get to our Earth to recruit the JLA to come back to his world and fix things. They go, and mayhem ensues on both sides of the barrier (don't want to give anything juicy away), as the worlds slowly start a collision course that could mean the extinction of both realities.
Powerful, epic stuff here, folks, and filled with intelligence, humor and characters you don't want to see go away, even if they are evil.
Thanks to the deft writing of Grant Morrison (living legend in comic writing who wrote the first 20 or so issues of the new JLA book that's hot now), you are as equally drawn to the evil characters as you are your favorite icons. Especially when you see OwlMan and Super Woman (you match them up; it's fun) necking behind every corner of the villain clubhouse, and Ultraman (Superman-minus) using his x-ray vision to fry citizens and cats in trees. Quitely's art is phenomenal, and his style, which lends all kinds of interesting depth to his regular "The Authority" series, literally pumps up the volume of the characters in JLA: Earyth 2. Superman LOOKS like a super man, and Super Woman (the evil Wonder Woman) changing from her alter-ego to her villain persona is, well, downright sexy. Muscles ripple, buildings explode, and heroes look like heroes. Anyone who thinks comic books are for kids and are immature fare haven't the faintest clue as to what's going on in that medium anymore. Comics are filled with incredible stories, lessons and are ten times more mature work more times than not than the average movie that no one seems inclined to dismiss as juvenile (unless it's animated, of course, which flies in the face of logic when "Shrek", "Akira" and "Ghost In The Shell" totally slam most contemporary films in scope, story and sense). Pick it up. You WON'T be sorry. If the price makes you balk (tip: don't buy it at a comic store; they'll charge you cover. Go to Media Play), pick it up at your local library. Then, if you really got balls, pick up some "Hellblazer".
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