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I love great stories and i don't mind a little humor in it.Art in a book is also what i look for so... if that entices you, get this!
This book has is what JLA should be....and to this day this is the only DC team book i own. I wish more of today's comics would follow this example.Great story, Great art and a touch of humor. Just a touch. Awesome DC comic!
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Plenty has been said about DC's choice of paper. After reading reviews and their discussions I've decided I just don't know anything about paper and so I won't review the medium of the book but rather the substance.
I kept counting pages. So much story telling was taking place on so few pages without the writing or the art suffering I was amazed. About half way into the first chapter I thought "man this is cool!"
I read parts of this series when I was very young but not these early issues and not in order like this. Wonderful stuff. The introduction by Keith Giffen talks about Kevin Maguire's amazing talent for facial expressions, and boy was he right. Everyone looks fantastic. So much story telling is done with a head shot of Max Lord or a profile of Batman. It's awesome.
Then there's the whole 80's charm. The nostalgia is great. Guy says to Black Canary: "Hey, Babe--This is the Eighties. Alan Alda's out.. Sylvester Stallone is in."
I already care about all these characters and I'm interested in what events are to come. I'm hooked.
I think some modern super-hero team writers could learn a lot from what's on these pages.
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An excellent new beginning for one of the oldest super-teams in comics. This line-up of heroes is unexpectedly well formed together.
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I won't go into too much on what the other reviews have already said regarding the actual stories. The material is excellent, and in my opinion, can now be regarded as a classic. I'm just wondering why DC decided to print it on lesser quality paper than most modern TPBs or hardcovers. It's not exactly newsprint paper, but it's not glossy or at least white paper.
My preference would have been to have it in an oversized format, like JLA Deluxe or Ex-Machina Deluxe (going Absolute would have been overkill). It would have made Maguire's trademark facial expressions that much better.
Still, it was an upgrade over my old TPBs, which were getting worn out, and we do get a hard cover with it. And this is the only format it's now available in, as the TPB is now out of print. This book is still worth the cash because of the great stories, if not because of the presentation.
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I saw the reviews that said that the paper was inadequate, but still I believed in DC - They put out great books like the Crisis TPBs with nice glossy paper and such. Unfortunately, they decided to be cheap here since the paper is exactly like my old comics (without the smell of age).
BUT, this is still the preeminent run of the Justice League that gave us a Guy Gardner that could be loved yet repulsed by as well as the Justice League Antarctica. This volume was a little more serious than later issues since it was working hard to get more fan appeal during the post Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Overall, if DC would just print this on a slicker paper, it would leap out at readers with the excitement that we felt back in the late 1980's. This is the book series you need to read because you will enjoy it. Give it a shot - you will see Giffen/DeMatteis/MaGuire et al at their peak!
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