Absolute Justice by Jim Krueger

Absolute Justice Reviews

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  Anne

  First of all, even if Jim Krueger completely shit the bed with the story (and he didn't!), Alex Ross' artwork is enough of a reason for anyone to pick this one up.
  Look at it - stunning!
  Ok, and I didn't realize Doug Braithwaite was an illustrator on this, as well. That guy is AMAZING and I need to find more of his stuff.
  
  
  
  The gist is that the Legion of Doom is trying to take out the Justice League.
  There's nothing remarkable about that, but this time around they kind of think they're doing the right thing for humanity. And between Luthor and Brainiac, they've managed to gather up all the random Rogues and set them on a path to take over save the world.
  With the help of Good Deeds & Evil Nanobots.
  
  
  
  Anyway, the bad guys are all having the same dream, where there's some sort of apocalyptic thing that ends the world and no one (except Superman) survives. And the reason the world dies is because...dun, dun, dunnn...we've relied on the Justice League to save us too often.
  Spoilery things happen, villainous plots are revealed, and good triumphs over evil.
  Duh.
  
  
  
  I don't know when this is set, to be honest. I mean, are these considered the Golden Age heroes or the Silver Age heroes?
  Let's put it this way, Wonder Woman is still made out of clay. But at any rate, they seem a bit sweeter and less jaded, a bit more self-sacrificing and heroic. It was nice to read, even if I don't think I'd enjoy that saccharine aftertaste all the time.
  
  
  
  It's a great book and I enjoyed Krueger's writing very much, but it really is the art that tips the scale and turns this into a 5 star story worth owning.
  Recommended.
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  Jeff

  This volume is another example of the Justice-League-almost-wiped-out-by-a-gang-of-evil-thugs-but-comes-back-and-kicks-ass-because-Batman-devises-a-plan-because-well-he’s-Batman story line. The difference here is the artwork by Alex Ross.
  
  
  
  After having a really bad Ben and Jerry’s/anchovie pizza induced collective dream where the Justice League drops the ball and the Earth explodes…
  
  
  
  …a band of evil doers band together and led by Lex Luthor and Brainiac, sucker punch core Justice Leaguers.
  
  
  
  It’s nice to see some of the second stringers get some moments, including Zatanna (Abbuh! Abbuh!), The Metal Men, The Doom Patrol and the stretchy dudes.
  
  
  
  Hey, and props for giving Aquaman something to do except drip sea water all over the shag carpeting in the Watchtower. Yo, Red Tornado, get the Shop-Vac out and clean this mess up!!!
  
  Bottom Line : This is a more realized collaboration between Alex Ross and Jim Krueger than Marvel’s Earth X (ugh!). That said, as much as Krueger tries to circle the plot around to a sort of logic, the story can be somewhat of a chore to follow; however, the pictures are pretty and saves this book from mediocrity.
  
  
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  Gianfranco Mancini

  Vote: ☆☆☆1/2
  
  Storyline: ☆☆
  
  Story synopsis: Super Villains unite, beat the League and take their place in the heart of people doing good stuff without nobody thinking they are bad guys and up to something, reserve heroes save the day and JLA triumphs again deleting info about their secret identities from villain minds... Plot was like a bit too long episode of Super Friends Tv Show and I really missed at all the sense of Joker sub-plot. Meh :/
  
  
  
  Artworks: ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
  
  Alex Ross paintings over Dough Braithwaite drawings are just off-scale *Breathless*
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chad

  Justice is like a 2 hour movie based on the Challenge of the Super-Friends.
  
  
  
  Ross's painted art over Doug Braithwaite's pencils is sublime. They give this book a great Silver Age vibe.
  
  
  
  The premise is that the Legion of Doom start all having the same dream about the Justice League failing to stop the destruction of Earth. So they start using their powers to help people while taking out the League in secret. That's all you really need to know. If you're a fan of Silver Age comics or gorgeous looking books, you should give this a whirl.
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  Sam Quixote

  There’s a lotta spoilers in this review so if that’s an issue for you, so long!
  
  Justice is so bad. Does every comic Alex Ross does the main art for suck so completely? It encapsulates everything I hate about books in general, but especially superhero comics: it’s boring, overcomplicated, excessive, stupid, repetitive, overlong, and extremely pointless.
  
  I’m jumping the gun and I’ll circle back to these points later but first let’s get this semi-positive critique that I’ve seen in EVERY review of this book out of the way so the rest of this can be pure venting: Alex Ross’ art. I’m not a fan - at least, not a big one.
  
  I think Ross’ art is fine for covers but for page after page of regular storytelling? It’s wearying. It’s also very flat, static, and stiff to look at AND he makes Superman, Batman, Aquaman, nearly every dude, look really fat. I really don’t like fat Superman. But I can appreciate the skill, as well as Doug Braithwaite’s pencils, that went into it though I won’t give this book a pass purely because of the art.
  
  Alright, the story: Legion of Doom defeat Justice League of America until JLA defeat Legion of Doom. That’s it.
  
  Alright, the venting:
  
  “Justice”? Could Ross/Jim Krueger have come up with a less memorable title for this bloated “epic”? And I’m going to include Ross in the problems with the storytelling because he’s co-credited with the story though Krueger wrote the script.
  
  The villains all have this shared dream where they see nukes dropping across the globe and the superheroes failing to save everyone. They decide the superheroes need to go because they’re “ineffective” and they’re the ones to save the planet. Few problems with this one: don’t the villains already see themselves as the saviours and the superheroes as the enemy of humanity? That’s certainly how Lex Luthor sees Superman and I’m pretty sure a lot of the others feel the same way. So why do they need a dream at all to give them this viewpoint? And isn’t the bigger message about the nukes? Shouldn’t the conclusion be, “we need to get rid of these catastrophic weapons so the planet doesn’t die because even Superman can’t save us?” And also maybe wonder who fired all the nukes because the answer would be a villain, not the heroes.
  
  After decades of supervillains doing evil things, plan after scheme after plot, why does everyone take their unexpected positive gestures at face value? Captain Cold brings ice to the desert and turns a part of it into a fertile oasis. Poison Ivy brings fruit trees to a starving region of the globe. Toyman builds prosthetics for people who have lost limbs. Fine - but does no-one think “hey, maybe they’re up to something? This has to be an angle they’re working!” (which is correct). Why does everyone instantly side with the villains and turn on the heroes? Is everyone gullible and stupid?
  
  The main thesis of the superheroes’ bad PR is that they’re not using their powers to full effect. Superman could depose tyrants around the world, Batman could use his tech to terraform regions, etc. I like to think the reason why they don’t isn’t purely because real world and superhero comics are a disastrous combo and are best left unsaid, but because Superman and co. don’t want to nanny humanity and would prefer us as a race to better ourselves. And who’s to say that the superheroes’ actions won’t turn out to be worse in the long term?
  
  Once more, Batman turns out to be the biggest threat to the JLA, more so than any of the villains. Mark Waid’s Tower of Babel storyline, where Batman’s intel on each JLA member’s weaknesses is used against them, is trotted out tediously again. By the way, there are no consequences for Batman at the end. Nobody says “dude, seriously - enough with this paranoid info gathering, you’re going to get us all nearly killed! At least find a foolproof way of safeguarding it!” - so this could all happen again someday (and probably will).
  
  What is the point of the Joker in this story? There isn’t one. He’s an irrelevant part of it who’s just there because everyone loves the Joker. He blows up some buildings for no reason and then cosplays as Dracula because he’s whacky. What a pointless addition to an already overlong book.
  
  So let’s address that: this book is nearly 400 pages long for a story that could’ve been told in a third of that space. Scores of characters are assembled for the cast, so many that it’s near impossible to follow for such a relatively straightforward story. And who’s the main character? There isn’t one. The JLA, I suppose, but that’s not a character, it’s a group with dozens of members.
  
  But, like the Joker’s inclusion, so much of the book is pointless padding. Hal Jordan’s sent to some nether region of space he can’t escape from for no reason except to keep him out of the story. We keep cutting back to him as he floats aimlessly, page after page after page - is he going to die? Of course not. And then when he’s floated there long enough the Phantom Stranger pops up and pings him back to Earth in an instant - my, how convenient!
  
  Why was Aquaman being lobotomised - what purpose did that serve? None! But we’ve got page after page of this - you get the idea. Same with Flash - why couldn’t he stop running? Why were the villains targeting the heroes and only half-assing it, leaving before killing them? Superman was done for but they screwed it up and he survived. Ditto Green Arrow and Black Canary. Why is there a pointless scene between Elongated Man and Plastic Man arguing over who’s the more important stretchy superhero? Why bother targeting the superheroes’ loved ones if you’re going to do nothing with them? Padding! And possibly to stroke Alex Ross’ ego because he doesn’t do small books, he works on EPIC books so they have to be EPIC-long regardless of whether or not the length is required.
  
  There’s also no tension in a story you know the conclusion to already. The villains have the superheroes on the ropes until they’ve got to lose which they do. So predictable and such a chore to have to trudge through with no surprises. Nobody dies, nobody changes, it’s all so pointless.
  
  Brainiac - supposedly a genius many times over - is an idiot in this book. Everyone in this story is basically his puppet except for a handful of characters thanks to microscopic nanobots (I know, what a shit answer to the question of why the good guys are being controlled). His motivation behind everything? To manufacture some company. He wants a race of robots to be his buddy so he won’t be alone. He does this in his overcomplicated way by having Toyman make prosthetics for people which slowly turn them into robots. But later it’s revealed that Toyman can just make tons of lifelike robots anyway. So why not have Toyman do this for Brainiac in the first place? It’d be so much easier!
  
  Brainiac’s also got these black orbs that are cities for some of his chosen few to survive after the Earth dies. They shrink and expand because it’s neat? So, nobody on Earth was like “what, you’re just leaving the rest of us to die?! You suck!!!” Instead everyone’s still pretty much on the villains’ side even though that plot point ceased to be important long before halfway through this tripe.
  
  We finally reach the third act and the superheroes’ response to Brainiac’s brainwashing nanotech is to have special armour made up so it can’t get through to their bodies. Even though, as a crucial part of the plan, Green Arrow and Black Canary don’t get special armour but don’t get brainwashed anyway – no reason why that is. It also turns out that Green Lantern’s power ring purges everyone of the nanotech anyway so every single storyline involving scores of characters leading up to the finale was pointless - the only one who mattered was Hal Jordan. PADDING!!!!
  
  Zatanna gets way overused in the final fight - ANIHCAM XE SUED x 30! John Stewart gets Hal’s ring but later it turns out he had a Green Lantern ring anyway so not sure what happened there. And, like Batman continuing to collect dangerous info ripe for any villain to steal and use against the heroes again, Brainiac is locked up so he can one day escape and try all of this once more when he inevitably escapes. Nobody learns anything because everyone is stupid. Very, very weak ending.
  
  I think Kingdom Come (another overrated “classic”) is remembered so fondly that DC decided to try for a sequel of sorts in Justice (even though it is in no way a sequel) because of the Alex Ross art which is why Ross’ name features so prominently above the title and Jim Krueger’s is way down the bottom. But this was in every way an ordinary tale that was inflated to an epic scope for no real reason beyond trying to get readers to compare it to another Alex Ross “epic”, Kingdom Come.
  
  Justice’s story was sorely lacking in execution. There were far too many characters, far too many chapters, and far too little coherence with everything that happened to make it even a halfway decent comic. It went from ordinary to tedious to maddeningly convoluted and BORING OH MY GOD IT’S SO BORING to charity bin donation.
  
  Justice is just awful!
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  Robert

  No artist does Deluxe like Alex Ross.
  
  
  
  The story felt a little like one we've seen before, with some pretty hand-wavy resolution at the end sknaht ot annataZ but I enjoyed the journey and, if seeing that art on a tiny smartphone screen was this epic I can only imagine what checking out a nice glossy hardcover copy would feel like.
  
  
  
  Highly recommended!
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  Timothy Boyd

  Most comics are a good solid 3 star read to me, a few stand out and get 4 stars. This series with it's incredible art and beautiful Silver age feel to the story stands out above and beyond the rest. If you are a fan of the Silver age of DC comics then read this it will take you back in time to those stories. Highly recommended
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  Keith

  So this is the sort of thing that like, A) will be totally irrelevant to most people, B) will be a head-nodder for some, and C) will be a head-shaker for the rest, but like, I'm never really gotten the Justice League.
  
  I get Batman, you know, because I love Batman, and so I figure that if people can love other superheroes the way I love Batman, then sure, it makes sense for people to be big fans of Superman flying around having Superman adventures and Wonder Woman having Wonder Woman adventures and all the rest, in their own micro-universes, each with their own flavor and tone and fan bases. All that makes sense.
  
  But the Justice League, instead of feeling like a celebration of all things superheroic by having a giant team-up book, has always seemed to me like a dilution of what was good about each character. Basically Batman comes in and is a Debbie Downer but everyone respects him because he sells more books, and Superman grapples with his power and Wonder Woman wants to fight and complains about mortal men and shit. I mean like, we are dealing with characters that are easy to one-dimensionalize in the first place, you know? And then you put them all in the same room and everyone needs to have a line of dialogue and somehow have that dialogue reflect their character or whatever and it all gets a little, you know, sad, and overblown, and kind of every bad stereotype about superhero comics gets played out in horrible, exacting detail.
  
  So yeah, I've never gotten the Justice League, but I really like Alex Ross' art, and Alex Ross loves him some Justice League, mmmm boy. So I finally decided to buy JUSTICE, the big-overblown-Alex-Ross-Justice-League-Book (or series, as it were -- I picked up the three-volume paperback set) just because during my most recent journey to the comic book store it kind of looked, well, sort of awesome.
  
  And here's the thing. I am really dumb.
  
  A while back I reviewed
  All Star Superman, and the basic gist was that the book’s significance lies in its ability to channel the pure exuberance that results when the apeshit insanity of superhero comics meets the open-minded incredulity of childhood, transforming the silly hamfistedness of pulp into something goofy and joyful, the kind of imaginative lunacy that I think any adult writer (or reader, even) is always trying to add to his or her bag of tricks. It is in this way, this tapped vein of manic creative energy, that I think comics have the potential for a sort of Secret Knowledge separate (and yet completely tied to) the cognitive associations that happen when language and visuals mix on the page, or whatever other high-falutin’ way you like to spin it when explaining to your high-falutin’ friends why you genuinely think comics are cool (as opposed to when you think comics are cool just because the NY Times or the Huffington Post has told you to think so.)
  
  And like, way to make a totally salient point and then miss the friggin’ point completely when a book like JUSTICE comes along.
  
  The point of a team-up storyline like Justice League is not that it’s subtle, or nuanced. It’s more like when you broke out all the toys in your toybox as a kid and spread them out on the living room floor and created a multi-generational epic spanning time and space, ending only when Mr. T and Jem rode on Teddy Ruxpin’s back into the sunset. And if you’re a little sick of all the wide-eyed childhood references, then substitute your favorite adult preoccupation because seriously? We all still spread out all our toys sometimes.
  
  And I guess, well, a book like JUSTICE is really the kind of thing that sends this home. It’s a relatively random conglomeration of heroes and villains in a free-for-all that’s really not random at all -- it’s beautifully orchestrated chaos, with a perfect spotlight on each costume, each monster, each skirmish. It’s a gorgeous piece of work, and there’s not a word I could write that would expand its audience past the devoted masses that have already snapped it up.
  
  But the thing is, see, that I am not writing this for them. I am writing this because I have figured out something for me, something that I want to give to you. I don't care about helping them celebrate the things they already like, for reasons they wouldn't care about anyway. I care about convincing you that these cartoons and ideas you think are silly are, in fact, not -- that the corners in which you push the very funnypages that helped popularize the medium you only cursorily enjoy can, in fact, clue you into something great, if you'll let them.
  
  But hell! Even I almost missed this one. There's no way I can count on anyone else to pick it up because of my claptrap.
  
  And that, as I have said before (and will no doubt say again), is a damned shame.
  
  
  
  
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  Shannon

  MINI REVIEW: I started by reading this in parts and then saw it was all in one volume so I started over to get the full experience. The JLA opponents believe the world is doomed unless they take over which includes eliminating the JLA members. They proceed to do so but don't take into account the reserve JLA members who participate in making sure it doesn't fully happen (come on you expect the JLA to be wiped out no way this is a spoiler). Aquaman finally gets some nice scenes as do a few other supporting members. The artwork by Alex Ross is quite amazing: colorful, vibrant and sometimes mesmerizing. What is equally impressive is the ability to juggle the cast on both sides, as well as some other characters, and not fall on their faces.
  
  OVERALL GRADE: B to B plus.
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  Subham

  This was a long read.
  
  Wow what a story.
  
  Justice tells the tale of the time when all the villains united and started being problem solvers and well going after the heroes and taking them down after learning their secret identity or controlling them in one form or another and when the main JL is down, the reserves come in and we see rescues happening and all that and I love the multi character explanation and everything of their troubles particularly Hal and Arthur and then them finding the villains plans of control being led by Brainiac and his supposed plans for domination and thus all the heroes of the DCU must unite to take down this villain and save humanity and also personal mission for Arthur to save his son and big challenges for Diana and even Clark and Bruce and what not.
  
  Its such a mammoth read and feels like watching a movie albeit each page being so gorgeous and it shows Ross love for the silver age of DC and the gem it was and he gives amazing moment to Hal showing his sacrifice and Arthur showing a fathers love for his son but most importantly Brainiac and making him one of the most fearsome villains in the DCU and changing the heroes forever. Amazing read and no compliments will be enough for it. A MUST RECOMMENDATION!
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  Jedi JC Daquis

  Justice is a volume I bought primarily because of Alex Ross. The story is nothing I haven't heard of so there is nothing really astonishing about it. But having drawn by Alex Ross, well that makes a very, very big difference. So basically the super-villains teamed up to become pseudo-altruistic while carefully pushing the superheroes out of the future. Turns out, they really had some twisted sense of goodness but you know, our good guys are on the far good of the spectrum, so they fought the bad guys and eventually won. Pretty generic.
  
  Buy this because it is an Alex Ross artwork. Now let me go back to my tasks and enough of this barrage of comic book reviews.
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  Cale

  Alex Ross does some amazing artwork, and this book is no different. Unfortunately, the story doesn't stand up as well as Marvels or Kingdom Come, or and of his Retro City work. The story is weird, in that it manages to not seem as epic when reading it as the story intends to be. It's huge, spanning most old and new Justice League characters, and numerous villains. But it doesn't pull together like it should, and the last issue or two in particular seem very muddy and unfocused. It has some great ideas that don't follow through to the end beyond a lip service epilogue. It's ultimately beautiful but shallow.
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  Dan

  I think the amazing art by Alex Ross helped make a slightly above average story better. I'm glad I read this in one volume versus the three smaller ones.
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  Rob Ryan

  A gift from the heavens.
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  Michael

  291119: epic collection. i think this probably uses all the 'dc' comics characters, so i have a better understanding of who is who, though again primarily through the movies. i am surprised at how many i know of. focus of course on superman and batman, though i have no idea how to reconcile the opposing civic visions of meropolis and gotham city... interested in wonder woman arc, intrigued by green lantern arc- seems most like a god but then they all are in some way...
  
  'modern mythology': i wonder about relative values of ancient mythic characters vs comic book characters, it is not like the are necessarily any more complex, compelling, believable? the settings are ordinary then fantastic, the conflicts and motivations very human, the only consistent interaction is violence in words and body... so the stories, though interwoven, delayed, suspenseful-(ish), are not really exciting to me. am i asking for more than myths usually offer...?
  
  art is good, some very good, of somewhat professional-looking illustrative representative sort. what is often called 'realism'. modelling, volume, texture etc is smooth painterly style. colors, shadows, highlights all depicted 'correctly'. typical extreme superhero-hypertrophy (muscles) vs supervillain bodies mostly too thin/one too fat... and somehow everyone has jutting jaw and sculpted cheekbones. not too many word balloons, action clear... sequential art does its job but not necessarily what i would look at more than once, then again who are these people who read books/look at art more than once...?
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  Quentin Wallace

  Think of this as the definitive Super Friends story. We basically have the Justice League vs. The Legion of Doom with Alex Ross art. Great stuff, and a must for Justice League fans.
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  Joshua Adam Bain

  So that was a hefty read. Might need to sit down and contemplate life now.
  
  The first time I read Alex Ross' Kingdom Come I was somewhat disappointed. I didn't hate it, but I also didn't understand why it was so revered as a classic. It wasn't until I read it or a second time that I fell head over heels for it. For some reason all the subtle moments in the story were lost on me the first time round. And if I'm being completely honest, this will be the case here as well. It's not that I thought this was overrated upon my first read, in fact I absolutely loved reading the first half of the book, it was the second half that threw me a bit. I mean it wasn't that it turned to shit, because it didn't. I think it just got really full on with who was doing what that made it all so overwhelming. So I believe a second read will clear this issue up for me, well I can hope anyway.
  
  The overall story itself simple put; the bad guys get together to take down the Justice League. The way this is done though is much more interesting than the premise. There were many twists and turns, betrayals and revelations that kept this from being the same old story we've seen a hundred times already. There are so many characters in this mammoth of a book as well, which can at times be confusing when your trying to follow 5 different scenarios in one fight. Because of the sheer length of this book I found a lot of moments and interactions with side characters pointless as it added nothing to the story. I felt it only got added to get more characters into the story.
  
  Now let's get to the main draw point of the book, the art. I don't know anyone who would pick this up for anything other than Alex Ross' beautiful spreads. I mean that's the whole point of this book isn't it? To build a story to showcase his amazing talent? Either way I love, love, love his work. The way the story boards are displayed are awesome and the expressions are amazing. I especially enjoyed the way he draws Bruce/Batman, seeing his pupils adds so much humanity to his character in my opinion. The only sections I found a bit difficult were the big battle scenes. I would get lost for a little bit and have to back track to who was fighting who as what was going down. This was my only issue with the overall art though, and even then it's not much of an issue.
  
  I can't wait to re read this book. I have a feeling it will give me a whole new appreciation of its greatness. If your a fan of Kingdom Come, then definitely give this a read!
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  Hakim

  Justice makes me think of rock bands that are comprised of very good musicians and whose singers are bad enough to compromise the quality of their work.
  The aesthetics of Justice are absolutely gorgeous, a real treat for the eyes. Alex Ross and Dougie Braithwaite captured the essence of the characters in the most impressive manner. On the other hand, the story was not nearly as good as I was hoping it to be. Some parts of the plot had a lot of potential (Hal Jordan being transported to the farthest reaches of physical reality) but I lost interest long before the multiple storylines started to weave together. The fight scenes were too condensed and forced and the writers' attempt to humanize the heroes fell flat.
  A shame to see such a great premise so poorly executed.
  5 stars for the artwork, 2 for the plot.
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  Patrick

  Alex ross's artwork is one of, if not the best artwork You'll see in a graphic novel.
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  Jesse A

  Fine volume with obviously great art. Only complaint is that it went on perhaps a bit too long.
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  Cosmin Leucuța

  Povestea e faină, deși trenează prea mult și e foarte încărcată cu personaje și fire narative secundare (Jokerul, de exemplu, apare doar de dragul de a apărea, nu adaugă absolut nimic poveștii).
  Grafica... well, vorbim de Alex Ross, deci n-o să găsiți ceva mai bun nici peste o mie de ani.
  Recomand.
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  B. P. Rinehart

  April 2020:
  I recently reread this book and I think it is still the best "Legion of Doom" story in comic books. There is periodically storylines in DC Comics of the villains all teaming-up against the heroes which I call "Legion of Doom" stories after the gathering place of the villains of in the old Superfriends cartoon. T hadn't read too many of these stories before I read Justice, but I now have read a few more and I still think this one is the best, but not by a wide margin. This story uses the
  bronze age of comics iterations of the Justice League and the Legion of Doom and is one of the best example of how stories from that era tended to be like (when they weren't using social commentary).
  
  January 2014:
  I have often heard this book described as a "spiritual successor" to
  Kingdom Come. This is mostly because both books share the same principle artist-
  Alex Ross. I disagree with this, but that does not mean I think this is not a good story on its own.
  
  This story concerns the Justice League facing down a very puzzling problem. The Legion of Doom has become very active across the world...doing humanitarian work and being generally helpful. At first the JLA is at first bewildered by it, but soon enough, things start to become much clearer. I do not want to reveal too much, but this a very good story with some outstanding artwork. This is a good stand-alone graphic novel for any one who just wants to enjoy a good superhero story.
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  Aysha

  Normally, I almost can't flip through pages fast enough when I read comics. I'm way too eager to see what happens next. But the stunning art here forced me to slow down and savor every panel.
  
  The plot was intricate and thought-provoking, but ultimately bummed me out. There's something depressing about seeing superheroes fighting for their OWN survival rather than fighting to save others. Waging a PR campaign to rehab their image feels like a bit of a let-down.
  
  That said, I had a lot of fun getting to know the dizzying roster of superheroes here, many of which were new to me.
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  Amanda

  The first time I read this I didn't truly appreciate how brilliant this is. This was so much better the second time.. the story is fantastic and the art is amazing. This deserves to be recognized (and it is) as one of the best DC graphic novels of all time.
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  Jaleesa

  I felt like it sorta dragged at times but I still really enjoyed it over-all. The artwork is absolutely stunning!
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  aLejandRø

  “Justice” es el sentido homenaje de Alex Ross a una de las series preferidas de su infancia, “Los Súper Amigos” de Hanna-Barbera, aquella que miramos todos.
  
  Ross participa en guiones junto a Jim Krueger y por supuesto en el apartado artístico con la colaboración de Doug Braithwaite.
  Me parece acertada la decisión de no incluir un personaje encargado de “contarnos” la historia como ocurre en otros trabajos (Marvels); en estos 12 números cada protagonista tiene sus momentos narrativos y así transcurre y avanza la historia.
  Más allá de que exija cierto conocimiento previo debido a la gran cantidad de personajes/habilidades/poderes utilizados por los guionistas, que de cierta forma es un guiño a lectores veteranos, esta obra puede servir perfectamente a novatos como introductoria al Universo DC.
  Es muy claro quienes son los “buenos” y quienes los “malos” en una suerte de vuelta a los orígenes del comic superheroico, ya que así como tenemos a los “Súper Amigos” (entre otros) también aparece la “Legión del Mal” y los principales exponentes de cada bando están perfectamente caracterizados.
  
  Es ya clásico en las obras de Alex Ross la subordinación del guión frente al dibujo y esta no es la excepción, pero creo que el aporte de Braithwaite acerca su estilo a la espectacularidad y colorido del comic de superhéroes alejándolo del estatismo pictórico Rockwelliano que lo caracteriza.
  
  Deberían existir más de estos Macroeventos Multitudinarios Autoconclusivos que nos permiten concentrarnos en una “obra artística total” y no obligan al lector a manejar 15 series paralelas para comprender los hechos.
  
  Dramática y nostálgica, entretenida y fabulosa, crítica y espectacular.
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  James De León

  A few super villains unite and devise a plan to take on the Justice League. This time, the reason they’re doing it is because they believe the world is doomed unless they remove the Justice League out of the picture. Also, this time, they’re led by Brainiac.
  
  However, they fail to take into account the reserve JL members…
  
  
  
  The story is nothing we haven’t seen before – heck, it feels like a long episode of Super Friends mixed with some Golden and Silver Age Justice League. The artwork by Alex Ross is what gets talked about most about this book. While the package doesn’t necessarily fall flat, it still left me wanting more. Maybe I have some Ross fatigue at this point or maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, but it didn’t live up to the hype :/
  
  Overall, a solid 6/10 for the story and 8/10 for the art.
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  Kieran McAndrew

  Will the League Stand When the World No Longer Needs Them?
  
  A dream given form by the world's greatest villains sees the sick being healed of fatal illnesses and incurable disabilities and marvellous cities being created from nothing. When Lex Luthor addresses global media, he asks the question the world deserves the answer to: if the villains of the world have done this for the benefit of mankind, why were the superheroes willing to let them live as they have until now.
  
  With Ross and Braithwaite's superb, dynamic artwork and Krueger's thought provoking plot, this is a wonderful collection that merits close and multiple readings.
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  Rylan

  Justice is a love letter to the silver age Justice League and DC as a whole. Alex Ross is a legend he perfectly captures the feel that these superheroes and villains are icons. The story is great too, it was nice seeing all the silver age versions of these characters in a modern style story. Justice is a must read for anyone who’s a fan of the Justice League or DC in general.
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  Ulysses

  The story was good but not great, the art by Alex Ross is amazing as usual. It’s not Kingdom come level but hey it’s good for me 8/10. I even bought it in Absolute, are to find it these days