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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spacey Superheroey Action, July 27, 2002
And by "spacey" I don't only mean happening in outer space. This is also one of Grant Morrison's strangest tales. It starts as a pretty straighforward adventure of the JLA against Lex Luthor and his Injustice Gang. What the superheros of the JLA, including Superman and Wonder Woman, don't know is that the choices they make in defeating the Lex Luthor might endanger the whole planet and leave it open for an invasion by Darkseid.Then things get weird. This story arc is hailed as Morrison's best in his long run on JLA and I recommend it fully.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too Much Stuff Going On!, July 30, 1999
By A Customer
Somewhere in here there are about a dozen great ideas. Trouble is, Grant Morrison uses all of them. At once! A new, dangerous threat to the JLA is mixed with an alternate future story that didn't deserve to be linked to any other tale. Morrison loves these heroes, but he needs to slow down, just once.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"The only way we're gonna serve you is medium rare.", August 15, 2003
This story is Morrison, arguably at the top of his form, writing a runaway train of a story with so much complexity that it takes several re-readings to understand everything. While the writing gets the book its five stars, there are a couple of sequences near the end of the book that are illustrated by artists who are not so much inferior to Howard Porter as they are jarringly different. Porter is a big, splashy superhero artist, and some of the art in the final chapter is a lot less showy. Usually, I'm all for that, but if I'm watching Charlie's Angels, let's please not have it intercut with clips from My Left Foot. That said, Porter's visions of the future JLA are really cool looking, and the final showdown with Darksied is worth the price of the book all by itself. One more caveat: this book does indeed feature the horribly designed, conceived, written, advertised, and promoted Super-electricity-man, representing perhaps the single most shameful "let's make a buck" moment in the history of DC Comics, so while the smart, funny writing and blockbuster art make the story fun, you can't turn a page without going, "Oh yeah, that costume." Be warned, but read it anyway.
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