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Justice by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Dougie Braithwaite
Requirements: CBR Reader, 215 MB.
Overview: A twelve-issue maxi-series written by Jim Krueger and Alex Ross who also provides art with Doug Braithwaite.

The story begins as dozens of missiles simultaneously strike the Earth. The members of the Justice League of America independently fail to rescue humanity. Throughout the sequence, an unseen narrator laments the human race’s idolization of and reliance on superheroes which has led to the destruction of Earth and all of its inhabitants except Superman, who flies into space at the last moment. The sequence is revealed to be a nightmare shared by several supervillains.

The story shifts to Aquaman who, after his own sleepless night, reveals to his wife Mera that he senses the presence of something in the oceans that does not belong there. A school of sharks arrive and lead him to the object, a massive city-sized black sphere. Aquaman is attacked by Black Manta and his henchmen and rendered unconscious. Aquaman is conveyed into the sphere and delivered to Lex Luthor, who is revealed as the issue’s narrator.

"You have never seen an epic more beautifully crafted than this one, both visually and structurally."

“That’s just the begining… The huge cast, the smart dialogue and the complex and detailed plot are really to admire.”

“This book is worth owning for the artwork alone, but the story is pretty good too.”

Genre: Comics, Superhero, Artwork.

Justice

Alex Ross

Dougie Braithwaite

Jim Krueger

Todd Klein

Joey Cavalieri, Michael Wright, Stephanie Buscema

DC Comics, 2005-2007.

Coming off their previous project, Earth X from Marvel Comics, Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and Doug Braithwaite started on Justice, a 12-issue bi-monthly series. Ross described the series as a full-on superhero war, the Super Friends versus the Legion of Doom, to the death. In many ways, Justice is a follow-up to Ross’ and Paul Dini’s The World’s Greatest Super-Heroes.

Ross had stated that, following Kingdom Come, he wanted to break away from the 1990s fixation with superhuman wars, and focused on The World’s Greatest Super-Heroes. It was only following that that he could return to the war stories he is known for, like Kingdom Come.

Justice takes place outside of the regular DC Universe continuity, with most of the characters featured in the story being modern day incarnations of their Silver Age of comic books counterparts. The series heavily draws upon the 1970s Super Friends animated series, most notably the Challenge of the Super Friends incarnation, which featured the Legion of Doom as regular characters.

In an interview, Alex Ross jokingly compared the series to the All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder and All-Star Superman, two comics which like Justice take place outside the existing DC Universe. All three titles launched within the same time period as part of a wave of continuity-free incarnations of popular DC Universe properties, though Justice did not feature the "All-Star" labeling.

Bad Dreams, Reviewed by Dark Noldor on April 16, 2011.

Like a moth who´s drawn to a flame I´ve become a faithful follower of this spectacular creative team of Krueger, Ross and Braithwaite, not only because of the cutting edge and impressive art work and beautiful colors, but also due to the great dialogues and aproach of characters that Krueger and Ross usually do. The writing team often does a tremendous job in the characterization, the particular details that make a character unique and this was bullseye all the way, no doubt about it. They write Superman capturing all the things that moves and terrifies him, like not being able to save everyone from danger, a Superman who fails isn´t a commom thing to happen, I think it´s difficult to portrait, and when you put the entire Justice League in that same position, the tension and the shame of failure just transpires through all the heroes´pores, just like the scene where Superman is bursting with tears. This is also another feat that amazed me from first page to the last, the large quantity of details, so if you´re an Alex Ross´fan, you won´t be disapointed, this is truly one of his best works. I really enjoyed the idea behind this plot, of the villains trying – in their perverted way – to save the planet from the "aliens" or super powered people and the narrative is very catchy and interesting, but I couldn´t shake the feeling that this was a Kingdom Come kind of idea, there´s some similarity with both series. I loved the dialogues – especially the ones with Superman and his Justice League´s companions – but definitely the best thing here is the art: the combined efforts of Ross and Braithwaite resulted in one of the best art that I´ve ever seen, I was completely overthrown by the art, page after page I just wished the end wouldn´t come. this was a great first issue. I don´t know if the long run will pay off, if the art will continue to be this good (it´s a hard level) or if the plot will turn out to be dull and boring, but evaluating this issue only this gave me high hopes about "Justice"!

Highly Recommended! 5 out 5.

Justice was served, Reviewed by Dark Noldor on April 17, 2011.

I honestly feel that this was the best series that I´ve ever read in my life, better than Marvels, Kingdom Come, Identity Crisis, Infinity Gauntlet, Earth X, Second Coming, Messiah Complex, better than anything I can think of, because this was so excitting, entertaining and presented a great production. The story keep up with the art all the way throught it and despite Ross having used digital coloring this doesn´t stain or compromise the brilliantism of the artists (though I think he used both techiniques).But why this was such a great comic book series? Because all of it is awesome, from the concept (a catastrophe uniting all the villains because the heroes can´t save the planet), the twist (Brainiac betraying everybody), the characters constructions (Superman, Captain Marvel, Flash, Green Arrow, even Wonder Woman, the only one that I really didn´t like was Aquaman), the dialogues and the incredible art, this was the best art of Doug and Alex in their lifes, I have no doubt about it that this is a landmark, something that will stand for years to come, at least I feel this way. I was enchanted by reading this series and I loved the plot of how Brainiac used everyone to achieve his goal, I lived how the JLA discovered Brainiac´s plans (issues # 7 and 8 ), I loved Batman´s involvement – both for bad and good, he´s so full of ideas (issues # 5 to 11), I loved Metal Men´s part in the JLA´s plans to bring Brainiac and Luthor down (issues # 10 to 12), I loved all the nano stuff that Brainiac used to achieve his goals (especially Batman venting in Nigma in issue # 11 and Atom unlocking their secrets in issue # 9/10), I loved how Hal Jordan played his way throught the story, to defeat fear and trully become the best Green Lantern ever (issues # 8 to 12, especially his one on one with Sinestro in issue # 11), I loved Hawkman and Hawkgirl kicking ass (issues # 7 to 12), I loved Batman interrogating Cold (issue # 8 ), I loved the characterizations of Brainiac, Grodd and Luthor (especially in their toast in issue # 10), I loved Superman confronting Toyman (issues # 11 and 12), all the action in issues # 10 to 12 (excellent battle scenes, amazing pages), the discussion between Plastic Man and Elongated Man (issue # 9), the list goes on and on. Sure there were some bad things, like Aquaman´s constant cry for saving Arthur Jr., his dialogues with Black Manta, some scenes with Diana, but these are just minor details that don´t have the power to diminish the greatness of this work. This series really impressed me a lot, elevating the bar of perfection to a new whole level, I guess reading comic books after this won´t be as fun as it used to be. This is trully a divisor in my life as a comic book fan, and I speak honestly about this. Well, reading 12 issues in just one day and a half of this magnificent work of art was marvelous and I highly recommend everyone that haven´t read this to immediatly go to your comic shop or digg in the internet (check out this site you´ll find all of it in very reasonable prices http://www.milehighcomics.com or buy the trade if you prefer), but please, read this, you won´t regret at all.

5 out 5? (No way this is Ad Infinitum)

The Beauty is in the Execution, Reviewed by worldwearytraveler on September 4, 2012.

This is a story that you have heard many times before: bad guys pretend to be good, people fall for it, bad guys beat up good guys, good guys regroup and beat the crap out of the bad guys. As anyone who has read their fair share of comic books, this is not a unique plot. However, as with most anything, the real beauty of this book, and where it ultimately rises to the level of classic, is in the execution.

First, the art is glorious. Alex Ross is a phenonemonal painter, and his lush and detailed colors flourish over Doug Braithwaite’s realistic and stylized pencils. The emotions are excellently represented, characters who change their appearance do so in ways that are different from each other, and the fight scenes are very well choreographed and executed.

of course, I have always been a proponent of the idea that great art, no matter how beautiful, cannot save a bad story; it’s the main reason why I will not buy Batman Noel. Luckily, the story here not only holds steady with the art, it downright excells. The characterization is stunning to behold simply because of the scope: there are over TWENTY-FIVE main characters in this story, and each are masterfully given their own unique voice and character traits. In fact, my absolute favorite moment in the book is a three-page spotlight on the Martian Manhunter, where his inner monologue revealed a shocking amount of information that I had never even thought about with regards to his character, like how he views his own natural abilites that we call ‘superpowers’. It was an amazing bit of work, and the rest of the book is just like that.

Overall, this is my absolute favorite Justice League story, beating out Tower of Babel be a thin margin. It’s big, it’s sweeping, it’s epic, it’s JUSTICE.

Note: See also by Alex Ross:

Marvels: Eye of the Camera.

Project Superpowers

Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross

The World’s Greatest Super-Heroes