Justice: v. 3 (Justice League of America)

by Alex Ross and Jim Krueger

Book Overview

After the villains of the Legion of Doom -- led by Lex Luthor and Brainiac -- band together to save the world after a shares dream that seems to be a vision of the Earth's demise. They are confronted... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845766318
• ISBN13: 9781845766313
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Justice for all

I'm not going to spoil the ending for those who haven't finished the series yet. (That would be incredibly cruel and jerkish.) What I will do is tell you what changed for me by the time I finished reading the last word. First, I came to appreciate the point made in the intro to volume one; that point being, "The difference between the villain and the hero is this. The villain fights to save himself. The hero fights to save the villain from himself." This is crucial. It is so easy to go the Punisher route in many of the comics today. More blood, more sex. Ya, Frank Miller did it, but Frank Miller knew what he was doing. Most of the writers out there don't. The hero clings to the "old ways" that may seem very campy in today's world of blood and gore (hell let's face it, the world beginning in the 80's), but THERE IS A REASON. Alex Ross and Jim Krueger show that reason in a powerful and moving way. It's not for the hero's sake, but for the villains. It is to show that though the world may be blood and war and death, it DOES NOT HAVE TO BE. There is the way the world is, and there is the way the world can be. And this is made clear by the end of the series. Second, I saw how the Super Friends (A and B team, and let's face it C team) can truly work. Let me explain what I mean. Though I always loved the TV show, as I grew older I grew tired of the massive amount of superheroes that seemed to be lumped together piecemeal. Ross and Krueger show how integral each member is and at no point does it seem artificial, forced, or arbitrary. Third, (and this is something I would have never predicted) I gained a new and profound respect for Hal Jordan and the entire Green Lantern mythology. Before "Justice" the entire Green Lantern mythology seemed to me, to be quite honest, ridiculous (this coming from someone who reads about superheroes). I guess it goes back to Coleridge and our ability to "suspend disbelief." The Green Lantern storyline simply snapped that thread suspending my disbelief (I can think of nothing dumber than a weakness of the color yellow . . . well, the concept of the Captain Cold character might be just a little dumber). While Geoff Johns has rethreaded my string with his current run on the Green Lantern Corps (actually it's got belay like strength now cause of him), I would have never even been interested to go back to that series if not for Ross and Krueger. They gave me a profoundly strong respect for Hal Jordan, as well as the relationship between him and Sinestro (mirror images in a sense). They also showed me the serious flaws of a character with no fear and the way to remedy these flaws (Geoff Johns expands MUCH more on this). Out of the literally scores of characters in the Justice series, Hal Jordan was, by far, my favorite. As I said earlier, I would have NEVER thought I would say that going into the series especially since every character gave amazing performances (hell, even Elastic Man had his moment i

Fabulous work

Rating: Fabulous to breathtaking. In my opinion, today's comics wouldn't be worth a hill of duck dung if it weren't for great teams like Ross and Braithwaite, who breathe authentic yet contemporary life into time-honored characters and produce true, legitimate art (as opposed to pitiful Manga-wannabe drivel). I wholeheartedly recommend the entire Justice series and can only wish this penciler/painter duo would take over the entire comics industry.

Excellence

My goodness, what a finale! This Ross series is amazing. From Art to Writing to Characterization. Truly amazing and highly recommended. It's easy to get into this story because it's self contained. Meaning, if you buy Volume one and Volume two, you'll follow and Volume 3 will be a satisfying finale. Much can be said about such "elseworlds" stories, but the story is what matters and the story in JUSTICE is truly magnificent. Highly recommended

Concluding Chapter To One Of DC's Best Epics

Reprinting Nos. 9-12 of the semi-Elseworlds (i.e. non-continuity) epic "Justice", Volume 3 of the saga is a conclusion that lives up to everything promised by events in the first two collections. It's pretty much impossible to discuss this without going into the previous events, so I'm just going to assume that people reading this will be familiar with Volumes 1 and 2. Which in a way makes a review or endorsement superfluous; it's hard to imagine that anyone who read both previous collections (or all 8 previous issues, whichever the case may be) won't want to be around for the finale. If one is hesitant that the series won't be able to satisfactorily resolve itself, there's nothing to worry about here - the quality established before doesn't drop off one bit. It's seemed apparant from the beginning that there was going to have to be a mammoth battle between the superheroes and their legion of A-List adversaries, and although there are more angles in the final chapters than just that titanic confrontation, the battle itself does come. And pays off in spades, delivering one of the greatest head-on clashes in comics history. Meanwhile, revelations as to true objectives, clashes between former allies, and shifting loyalties as certain of the bad guys aren't sure they want to go all the way with this once certain facts come out, provide other facets of the climax to co-exist with the big showdown. The first two volumes posed some big questions. On the question of why, in a world with Superman-level beings, the world still has the problems it does, isn't definitively answered (and I suspect that the point may be that a definitive answer for something like that is pretty elusive in any world) but it certainly comes off seeming a lot more complicated than when Luthor first posed the question, seeming to argue that if the Justice League really wanted to, they could wipe out the world's ills overnight. I don't want to say too much about the resolution, and it's easy to talk around it because a lot of things are left open to interpretation, but in places it seems like the answer might in part be, in fact, Luthor and those like him. Back in writing about Volume 1 I said that I'd always assumed the supervillains and other mega-threats provide such a counter-balance to the JLA and their peers that it gets in the way of solving the bigger problems: every time Superman delivers an emergency aid shipment or overnight carves out irrigation tunnels for some drought-stricken part of the world, an Imperiex probe (or some similar threat) crashes down somewhere else and creates the same problem over again, so the net change isn't as great as it could otherwise have been. One is left to wonder: did any of the 'villains' actually believe the lines Lex had them delivering in Volume 1, and what would their inner reaction be to the idea that the superheroes might actually be able to pull off so much more for the world if it wasn't for exactly the kind of scheme

Justice comes to a satisfying and fitting end.

This volume is the third in the Justice trilogy written by Jim Krueger and illustrated by Alex Ross and Doug Braithwaite. It picks up right where volume 2 left off with the good guys and the bad guys priming their forces for the final showdown and I have gotta say that it does not dissapoint. Going into the story, the readers (for the most part) know how the story will end...the good guys will undoubtedly win and kick the bad guys' collective butt. But knowing that fact doesn't detract from the story and half the fun of the story is seeing the heroes get to that point. The highlights in this book (in my humble opinion, of course) are the awesome fight scenes. In the first opening chapter, you have Captain Marvel has going up against Black Adam and a brain-washed duo of Mary Marvel and Capt. Marvel Jr. Capt. Marvel tries to pull his punches and the emotion he feels for his family clearly shows through. Thanks to Ross and Braitwaite, saying "Shazam" never looked so good. Another highlight in the fight scene between a very gruesome looking Wonder Womand and Cheetah. There are many more fight scenes, rescue attempts, double crosses, near fatalities but thanks to our intrepid heroes, they do not come to fruition. I have said it in my reviews of the previous volumes and I will say it again, this is one of the best told JLA stories in recent years and will be enjoyed by fans of both Silver Age and Modern Age comics. And finally, for those who are still doubting the awesomeness of this comics, I have 2 words: "Vampire Joker". 'Nuff said.