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Justice League of America Vol. 2: The Lightning Saga
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List Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9781401216528
ISBN: 1401216528
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2008-02-13
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: 2008-02-13
Studio: DC Comics
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Number-one bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer joins forces with top comics writer Geoff Johns for this incredible graphic novel bringing together the DC Universes top super-teams! Two of DCs biggest super-teamsthe Justice League of America, featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more, and the Justice Society of America, including Hawkman, Wildcat and othersjoin forces in this stunning hardcover volume! The JLA has discovered that several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes from the 31st century are in the present. With the help of the JSA, Superman and his team must track down all seven Legionnaires to discover why these heroes of the future have traveled back in time!
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Summary: Buy one issues, save the collection
Comment: I really try to enjoy Brad's work as a comic writer. For one, I really liked Identy Crisis and the implications it brought. Its not that "The Lightning Saga" is bad, its just that it could be done in fewer pages, with fewer characters. Johns segments are way better but really don't save the book in my view.
Now, if you flip to Red Arrow's and Vixen's underground tale, well, what a treat. Will Eisner would be proud of the way diagrams, borders and even the margins of this comic are used for storytelling purposes.
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Summary: Sound & Fury
Comment: For all the hard work that Brad Meltzer, Geoff Johns, and half a dozen pencillers and inkers have put into the title story of this collection, "The Lightning Saga" reads like an evening of Dungeons & Dragons enacted by characters who think they're in a Jacobean revenge tragedy. The reader is urged repeatedly to consider the pain of betrayal as one explanation for the characters' actions, yet by the end there doesn't seem to be anyone responsible for having done the alleged betraying. This is a story without a villain, despite walk-on roles for four of DC's bad guys; what we're left with, not to give too much away, is a story about a handful of 31st century heroes who've been sent back in time on a rather goofy suicide mission. Conveniently amnesiac on arrival, they succeed mostly in making nuisances of themselves.
If "The Lightning Saga" is all sound and fury, things improve drastically in the standalone story, "Walls." Red Arrow and Vixen, both seriously injured, have to rescue themselves from a collapsing building. The panels, on pitch black pages, get narrower and more claustrophobically oppressive as the heroes find themselves running out of time, space, oxygen, and hope. It's a virtuoso piece of visual storytelling by Meltzer and artist Gene Ha, easily the one must-read story in this collection.
The last two stories are more typical of Meltzer's comics writing in that they're both elegant fantasias on decades of Justice League history. "Monitor Duty" views the League as an extended family, a collection of soul mates, confidants, lovers, near-siblings, quasi-in laws, and real and virtual sons and daughters; it's all about the prickly love that makes a family a family. "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," drawn by 23 artists, is a behind-the-scenes look at the friendship of DC's Holy Trinity: Superman, Batman, and Woman Wonder. Drawing on a dizzying archive of old comics and recent graphic novels, we watch the bond between these three extraordinary, difficult individuals fraying over the years towards a (possible) future in which they'll barely be on speaking terms; for now, they're the indivisible core of the Justice League, friends whose philosophical differences are implicit in their efforts to see the League in the context of a bigger picture. What's that old saw about good intentions?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nothing Happens
Comment: The reboot of the JLA starting off with Meltzer's run and into McDuffies has just been dry.
The growth of the Red Tornado was cool for the first few issues, but it hasn't gone anywhere and it has flip-flopped so many times in 25 issues that I am just confused and don't care anymore.
Everything was right going in...
Batman, Superman, and Wonderwoman on the same page - check.
Promoting fan favorites - Check.
Bringing in some under-rated characters - check.
Cultural diversity - check.
The elements in the story were all there, the fault was in the execution.
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Summary: The Best of the New Justice League Series
Comment: After the slow "Tornado's Path" storyline, Meltzer steps it up here with the fast-paced "Lightning Saga." The majority of the best scenes occur in Geoff Johns's "Justice Society" segments, collected here in order (although no mention is made of the Justice Society on the front cover). This is one of the better JLA stories in years.
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Summary: Not quite as good as Tornado's Path...but a good Solid Read!
Comment: Hey there back again for another review. Like my other reviews no SPOILERS...I think a review can be helpful and knowledgeable without giving away the butler did it.
Anyway moving on to the THE LIGHTING SAGA. First off like my title suggests, this collection is nowhere near what we got with The Tornado's Path which was the first Justice League collection...which is amazing and I gave it 5 stars...if you don't have it yet...go throw it in your shopping cart right now! I'll wait for you...go ahead. You got it...ok, good we can continue. Anyway saying this book isn't as good as the first is sort of a backhand compliment, because it's still really an incredible read. It's kind like me saying a Porsche isn't a fast as a Ferrari...when they both are pretty damn fast....Well faster then my mini-van anyway. Well getting back to my review....That's why I'm giving it four stars out of five. This story arc includes issues of both Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America....and the story crosses over between issues...which sometimes doesn't always mesh well. In this case however it does....and it does it extremely well. The writing from Brad Meltzer and Geoff Johns is top notch and will engross the reader immediately from page one. The only problem I had is where Ed Benes art shines...it makes the other artist in the book fall a little flat. The story does make up for that in a huge way. This collection has one of those moments where the writers pull the rug right out from underneath us....because just when we think we see where Johns and Meltzer are talking us...they pull a really hard 90 degree left turn...and leave us speechless. Yeah so do yourself a favor...go ahead and put this in your shopping cart next to volume #1. Oh and when you wife or spouse gives you grief cause you are reading 'Comics' or 'Funny Books'....tell them they are GRAPHIC NOVELS....the same thing works on when they might say something is a 'Doll' or 'Toy'....you can correct them and let them know it's not...it's a COLLECTIBLE or ACTION FIGURE. See how this works? Anyway do yourself a favor pick up The Lighting Saga...it will be a wonderful addition to your collection.
Thanks for reading!
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