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Title: JLA: New World Order (Book 1) by Grant Morrison ISBN: 1-56389-369-X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (28 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A disappointment -- Morrision is capable of so much more!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: great beginning
Comment: It was a great begining to the JLA series and all that I have to say is that the JLA could woop the Avengers or X-mens sorry butts any day.
Rating: 4
Summary: DC'S BIG GUNS RE-LOADED
Comment: 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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Title: JLA: American Dreams (Book 2) by Grant Morrison, John Dell, Howard Porter ISBN: 1563893940 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: JLA: Rock of Ages (Book 3) by Grant Morrison, John Dell, Howard Porter ISBN: 1563894165 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 18 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JLA: Strength in Numbers (Book 4) by Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Christopher Priest, Howard Porter ISBN: 1563894351 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JLA: Tower of Babel (Book 7) by Mark Waid ISBN: 156389727X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: JLA: Justice For All (Book 5) by Grant Morrison ISBN: 1563895110 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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