My Top Five List of Alternative Comics To Read Post#2 ” Justice ”

Good Evening Everyone.

One of last year’s bet­ter series ( which lasted all year ) was DC Comics sto­ry­line fea­tur­ing the orig­i­nal lineup of the Jus­tice League of America.

Writ­ten and Drawn by comic leg­end Alex Ross, Jus­tice was DC Comics EVENT of the moment, and what an event it was.

Cap­tur­ing the feel of the Sil­ver Age Jus­tice League, Ross weaves a tale of intri­ca­cies revolv­ing around the dreams ( or just maybe night­mares ) of sev­eral char­ac­ters in the DC Universe…the prob­lem is these dreams aren’t com­ing to ordi­nary peo­ple, or even to the heroes involved in this story…the dreams are the night­mares of the villains…people who are usu­ally the ones who are not only able to have these night­mares, but are usu­ally the ones respon­si­ble for them!

Some of the vil­lains involved are some of the worst in the DCU, includ­ing Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grodd, and the Black Manta, and maybe the most cal­cu­lat­ing vil­lain ( who in my opin­ion is still one of the most evil ) is Brainiac

The real crux of the story is global destruc­tion, how the heroes deal with real world events, all the while being attacked by the vil­lains, who in their own way ques­tion why the heroes have not been able to pro­tect the world from all of these calami­ties, and even these ques­tions are just another layer to the story and fur­ther pro­pel the rea­son behind why the vil­lains have banded together in another attempt to take con­trol of the world.

Some peo­ple have loved this story, while I have read the reviews of oth­ers who just were not sat­is­fied with it on some level, whether because they felt that Ross’s paints were lim­ited by Braithwaite’s pen­cils or they just felt that the story itself lacked any real ( I guess the term would be ) substance.

For me, the story had every­thing that I was look­ing for, a grand scale story, top notch art, major heavy­weight vil­lains, and the major play­ers of the JLA, in a dif­fer­ent time and place, which in some ways ( for an old guy like me ) made the story fresh and relevant.

Imag­ine, being able to find a story fresh and rel­e­vant in todays comics, which doesn’t taught itself as a major event that would change the DC Uni­verse or any uni­verse for that mat­ter forever.