Jla: New World Order - Vol 01

by Grant Morrison

Book Overview

In a world where the forces of dark and evil gather to prey on the innocent, Earth's last best hope is the Justice League of America. Joining forces in the league are superheroes Superman, Batman,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156389369X
• ISBN13: 9781563893698
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

The World's Greatest Super-Heroes are back!

There's a reason why the JLA is the best super-team book of all-time: the icons. Only the JLA lives up to its name of being the 'world's greatest super-heroes'. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are recognizable names world-wide with over six decades of history. The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and even the Martian Manhunter have huge followings of their own and have been around almost as long. The individual status of these heroes is unparalleled and was best described by new GL, Kyle Raynor's comment that fighting side-by-side with the other JLA'ers is 'like playing with the Beatles'.After years of a somewhat successful run with a campy Justice League with second-rate characters, the JLA became a serious and respected book again with this relaunch. Although others will find fault with the art and the storyline, it delivers what it's intended to do: present a world-wide threat that only the combined might of the world's greatest super-heroes can defeat.In this initial story arc from JLA #1-5, the threat is a group of aliens with powers that rival the JLA. While the story is itself plays out well, the interaction between the iconic heroes is what makes this book great as this what has been sorely missed over the past few years. Grant Morrison does a great job of representing what makes each character unique and bringing it to the team concept. An excellent read for any JLA fan!

A New World Now The Seven Are Back

The magnificent seven: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern, united again to face the dangers too big for one sole superhero to fight.Before this story arc, it's pretty safe to say that the Justice League was in the dumps. Far from its glorious days of yesteryear, it had divided into things like Justice League Task Force and Justice League Europe, stripped of most, if not all its cool characters. None of the heavyweights were on the team until Grant Morrizon decided to inject new life into the series.They restarted it and this is the first arc.This is what defines the Justice League nowadays: world threatening danger, each bigger than the last, all put down by the world's mightiest superheros.The first time I read this, it blew my mind. It deals with the appearance of several alien superbeings of incredible goodness, who seem to surpass even our own heroes. But it doesn't take long to see that they are in fact staging an alien invasion. Once again, the heroes band together to form a new league: The Justice League America, JLA.There are limitless nuances to the characters, and this is where I fell in love with Batman. This is truly a guy who could take out Superman. The first in a great series. Don't miss it.

The Big Seven are back!

For several years, DC Comics allowed one of their most venerable and hallowed team books to languish. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, the last comic to tell the stories of DC's premiere super team, had become populated by castoffs, also-rans and never-will super heroes who would do much better sitting in the back issue bins than they would on the racks posing as Earth's mightiest defenders.Now, in JLA, DC has brought back the core seven: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter. Most of whom comprised the original Justice League way back in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #28 in the early Silver Age of Comics.Avant-garde comics writer, Grant Morrison takes the helm in this new JLA series and begins his run of wild, over-the-top, blockbuster epics featuring DC's mightiest. I don't want to spoil the secrets of this first tale, but suffice it to say there are some great twists and turns in the story. Morrison draws the reader in by pitting our heroes against a menace that seemingly can't be beaten because the public at large doesn't WANT them to! Anyone who's ever wanted to fly like Superman, worn a bath towel around his neck to play Batman or loved the DC heroes in any way shape or form will love this book. Morrison has an uncanny ability to pull the reader's strings with these characters. You find yourself rooting for them uncontrollably as they face down a menace that only THEY can see and understand even in the face of widespread disdain by the public. They're heroes because they choose to be. Not because of the fame or fortune, but because it's in their very being.Howard Porter, while not my favorite artist by any stretch of the imagination, is good at visually telling Morrison's epic story and great at conveying the personalities of each and every JLAer. If you missed out on this series when it came out, here's a cheap way to get the back issues (they're getting more expensive by the day!) and read one heckuva terrific comic story.

Neat stuff!!

With JLA, Morrison and Porter have made comics enjoyable and intelligent without being "gritty" (a trend that worked for Alan Moore and Frank Miller but turned into a marketing ploy). Since its incpetion 2 years ago, this latest JLA has consistnetly turned out suspenseful, exciting, beautifully drawn stories.

The Justice League Done Right!

I was, of course, apprehensive when I heard that Invisibles and Animal Man writer Grant Morrison was taking the reigns of JLA, and re-creating the team utilizing D.C.'s big 7 heroes: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, The Flash, and the Manhunter From Mars.But, I was more than pleasantly surprised by the first four issues of this title, now re-packaged in this great TPB. The team dynamics, and how the characters interact are great, but the action-packed story, and incredible plot developments are what make this story the best of the series so far. Finally, the JLA have surpassed all of their incarnations from its first in the 60s to the SuperFriends, to the lackluster Justice League America and Justice League Europe books.Highly Recommended