Justice League of America Vol. 3: The Injustice League (Hardcover)

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Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (June 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401218024
• ISBN-13: 978-1401218027
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #148,141 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Outright Deceptive, September 26, 2008

By	Brad Dosland (Pacifica, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm amazed how lenient some reviewers have been with this offering. Sure, the outstanding art warrants a star and there are a few great moments of dialogue between characters (reminiscent of the classic Len Wein/Dick Dillin books of the 70s or Giffen/DeMattieis/MacGuire books of the 80s) which could be worth a second star but the absolute absence of any significant story makes this volume a mere trifle. And with the main story only occupying some 100 pages of the volume (the remaining pages being filled with a short Red Arrow standalone and the dangling start of a completely different story line, plus numerous black filler pages to keep the left/right orientation in place), this qualifies as an insignificant trifle. I'd guess the reason DC initially released this as a hardcover is that nobody would pay the $20 cover price for a 100-page comic book. And then there's the issue of major characters pictured on the cover who play no role whatsoever in the actual book. Where's Two Face? Where's Scarecrow? Where's Solomon Grundy? Where's Bizarro? Besides dangling right next to the cover logo, he's a no-show inside the actual book. The story conveniently omits the characters that would actually make the confrontation between the two forces intriguing, instead opting for shallow cop outs where heavy hitters such as Superman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are taken out with relative ease by villains way below their league. Then major league villains such as Deathstroke simply run away at the start of the big end battle. This is the sort of book that you might take all of 15-20 minutes to read and you'd still regret wasting that time afterwards.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disappointing, July 9, 2008

By	N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Dwayne McDuffie, one of the creative minds behind the great Justice League Unlimited animated series, begins his run on Justice League of America with The Injustice League, which is more of an ode to the Superfriends cartoons of old than anything else. Lex Luthor unites the super villains to form The Injustice League, consisting of heavy hitters including Joker, Bizarro, Killer Frost, and more besides; and they start systematically taking on the Justice League. While the idea is fun and enjoyable to a point, the storyarc as a whole just comes off as kind of boring. Not a whole lot happens in these pages, and things sadly don't develop well or go anywhere either. That being said, what saves The Injustice League from being comic fodder is the spectacular artwork from artists like Ed Benes and Mike McKone, whose work make The Injustice League worth checking out for alone. Other than that though, The Injustice League is worth a look for JLA devotees, and can be passed by pretty much everyone else.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Super Friends nostalgia, anyone?, November 9, 2008

By	Roochak - See all my reviews

Writer Dwayne McDuffie's love letter to the Legion of Doom isn't bad for a generic supervillain team up story, and if you're in the mood for a PG-13 homage to the TV series "Challenge of the Super Friends," this book fits the bill.

What's missing from McDuffie's story is a sense that the stakes particularly matter. The characters are just going through the motions until a better storyline comes along, but if you want to see how much creative mileage a more wildly imaginative writer can get from Lex Luthor's Injustice League, then pick up the JLA trade paperbacks JLA Vol. 3: Rock of Ages and JLA Vol. 6: World War III, both written by Grant Morrison, both escalating their seemingly straightforward supervillain team up stories into apocalyptic science fiction scenarios.

Returning to the present volume, two forgettable backup stories, about which the less said the better, allow this book to meet the minimum page count requirement.