By: Grant Morrison, John Dell, Howard Porter Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: January 01, 1998 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: January 01, 1998
Fair, but it's because of DC's direction in this era The stories in this volume are about as good as you could get with this era's DC heroes. DC had some goofy stuff going on then. Superman no longer had a mullet, now he was electric blue and looked ridiculous. Green Lantern was a manga fan who made goofy rock-em sock-em robots with his ring. Speedy was Green Arrow, and so much more. That I don't blame on JLA, that's what DC was up to with these previously iconic characters.
So, take a bunch of characters that were being seriously screwed up and put them in a pretty decent couple of story lines and that is what you have here. If you're a JLA fan and need this to complete your set, then buy it. If you are wanting to dabble into some good DC stories... well... there are a lot better ones than this to do it with.
Moving in the right direction So I can basically separate this volume into three different stories. The first starts off with the recruitment of a new member to the JLA and centers on new member Tomorrow Woman. It's an OK self contained story, but doesn't have any huge impact on the series or characters.
The next story is 2 parter, Heaven on Earth, which introduces us to a new character Zauriel, an angel made mortal who is being pursued by Asmodel a king angel and his army of heaven. It's a pretty epic story and Zauuriel is a cool character but that's about it.
The final 2 part story features the return of The Key. This is by far the best story, mostly because its the only one that features Batman and it gives us a cool elseworld look at Batman in the future. We also get to see the new Green Arrow in action.
It is better than Vol. 1, but I still feel this series could be better. Hopefully Morrison is just warming up and leading to something much bigger. The artwork by Porter is fine, but by the time Jimenez takes over on the final story, I much prefer it.
Cool comic... This isn't my favorite Grant Morrison JLA collection, (check out World War III, Earth-2, and JLA One Million for the best) but there's a lot in here a I enjoyed. There's an excellent stand-alone story at the beginning, and I love what Morrison does with Zaurial and the young Green Arrow. Entertaining read, as usual. And yeah, Superman is blue, but you don't have to know anything about that story to enjoy this collection.
Great read. I've been collecting the TPB series for JLA for a while now. This is just one more notch to add to that belt. Thanks for a great addition to my collection.
Graphic SF Reader A collection of stories as the recruiting of Zauriel has brought down the wrath of a really big rogue angel and monster upon them.
Professor Ivo is still plotting, and this lands them with the android Tomorrow Woman. The worst part is likely the return of the Key, though, as far as the league is concerned.
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