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Title: JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice by Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, Carlos Pacheco ISBN: 1-4012-0040-0 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: 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: 3
Summary: Reviving a worthy tradition!
Comment: I'll admit that my review of this book is probably colored by the fact that I read the two volumes of "Crisis of Multiple Earths" back-to-back before reading this one. The two "Crisis" volumes collect the justly-classic JLA/JSA crossovers from 1960 to 1970 reminding younger readers about the annual events of the two groups meetings in the Silver Age. All that however, ended in 1985 with Crisis on Infinite Earths. This present volume by Geoff Johns, David Goyer, Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino attempts to revive that grand tradition.
The current members of both teams JLA and JSA decide to meet for Thanksgiving, they take down a villain together and end up in another meeting at the JSA Museum. This is where everything goes crazy! Team members started acting all weird... suffice to say, events take on a global-cataclysmic-level and the "still-normal" members of both teams are thrown all over the place (Limbo, Fate's Crossroads Tower, etc.). They then brought in all the "reserve members" like Black Canary, Green Arrow, Firestorm, Zatanna, etc. to save the day. So you can imagine the number of characters artists Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino have to draw! And boy did they do a bang-up job with the art. Detailed, yet clear. Clean-lines, realistic renderings of hair, clothing, wrinkles, etc. yet with a Byrne-like sense of cartooning fun. As for the writing, I would say that Goyer and Johns do far better-writing on their monthly JSA title than here. Sure, there are many "cool character-moments" and the threat here is big but nothing like the kind of energy you get from their monthly title. Like another reviewer mention, this story is good but not great. My advice, get it in softcover rather than hardcover. The paper quality in the softcover is very good (unlike the usually very-thin paper used in other DC collections). But GET it, nonetheless. This book marks a return to the great annual tradition of JLA/JSA meetings... and I say it's about time!
Rating: 4
Summary: A very good DC story
Comment: During a Thanksgiving Day celebratory get-together of the JLA and the JSA, chaos erupts when seven of the superheroes launch a surprise attack on the rest. With the JLA and JSA scattered and reeling, it's up to the others to find out who or what is behind all this. It's superhero versus superhero with no holds barred!
This is a very good DC story. Admittedly, the whole "entity takes over superhero's mind" has become a bit of a cliché, but I thought that the story was well written, with lots of action and adventure, and excellent illustration work. My ten-year-old son and I both loved this book, and highly recommend it to you.
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Title: JSA: Stealing Thunder (Book 5) by Geoff Johns, David S. Goyer, Leonard Kirk ISBN: 1563899949 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JSA: Fair Play (Book 4) by Geoff Johns ISBN: 1563899590 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JSA: Return of Hawkman (Book 3) by David S. Goyer, Geoff Johns, Stephen Sadowski ISBN: 1563899124 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: JLA: The Obsidian Age, Book Two by Joe Kelly ISBN: 1401200435 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: JSA: Justice Be Done (Book 1) by James Robinson, David S. Goyer, Steve Sadowski ISBN: 1563896206 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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