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Title: JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison ISBN: 1563896311 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best Graphic Novels ever...seriously
Comment: 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: 4
Summary: Ah..the joys of super-heroin
Comment: This book is quite frankly the single best work i've ever seen from Frank Quitely. A story about explosions,and sex,and drug abuse, and masochism, and overthrowing the government's of the world to make Earth a better place...hold on... is this the Authority i'm reviewing...no... it's still JLA, albiet a strikingly different JLA. Grant Morrison's story is from the beginning what appears to be a late 90's throwback to late 50's- to-early-60's-style "Wheee! I just discovered the joys of mind altering suubstances" comics, where reality was as subjective on paper as it was in a mental patient's head. Whereelse do you get to see an evil Batman, a drug-addicted Flash, a dominatrix-superpowered Lois Lane, and a masochist anarchist,evil totalitarian Superman with Jack Hawksmoors haircut)? Well...the Authority... but if you want it told from the actual JLA's viewpoint... be warned. Bad is Good, and Big Brother is watching you with laser vision.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting return for the Crime Syndicate
Comment: I haven't been a regular comics reader I was a teen (in the mid to late 80's). Only recently, thanks to the various places carrying these graphic novels, I have gotten back into reading comics a little bit.
The reason I got this "comic" because it was the return of the Crime Syndicate of America. I only knew of the CSA for a brief time in the 80's because the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" wiped them away in issue #1.
I won't go into the plot much as others have given an overview. But the plot is pretty intereting overall and I thought the art was just fine.
I think those who remember the CSA from the old days will like this story. Those new to the CSA will also like it, but you may want to go online or a comic shop and find some of the older comics deaturing the "old CSA".
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Title: JLA: Tower of Babel (Book 7) by Mark Waid ISBN: 156389727X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: JLA: Divided We Fall (Book 8) by Mark Waid, Bryan Hitch, J. H., III Williams, Phil Jimenez, Paul Neary ISBN: 1563897938 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: JLA: World War III (Book 6) by Grant Morrison, J. M. Dematteis, Howard Porter, Mark Pajarillo ISBN: 1563896184 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JLA: New World Order (Book 1) by Grant Morrison ISBN: 156389369X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Jla/ Titans: Technis Imperat- Ive (D C Comics Graphic Novel by P. Devin K./Jimenez Grayson ISBN: 1563895633 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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