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This is a great book to get. Not only is the artwork of Alex Ross excellent, they have a great story as well. At times it gets a little cheesy but that's something you get with all super hero tales. This book is really like watching a well-done movie on the Justice League. The artwork is simply great and it should redefine the way comics are created today. There's no reason super heroes can't be portrayed realistically, rather than the Saturday-cartoon style that we are used to. This book was very enjoyable and well worth the money.
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What sets Liberty and Justice apart from the other over-sized Dini and Ross collaborations is that the story is no longer focussing on a single character (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc). We are treated to seeing the major players from the Justice League of America, all of whom have their own distinct personalities. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are the same beloved characters that we've seen Ross render before, but the inclusions of Flash, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Atom are welcome additions. We even see some of the lesser known League members (Zatana and Plastic Man to name but two), each of whom add a new element of "superheroism" to the story. The artwork is fabulous, as one would expect from Ross... probably his best work since Kingdom Come. Dini provides us with a strong story as well, serving up a compliment of character driven conversations and larger than life action. The plot provides a threat large enough to require a full compliment of Earth's mightiest heroes, but is focussed enough to give us a little peak into each character's mind. Excellent stuff. I highly recommend Liberty and Justice for fans of Ross and Dini's other works or for comic book fans in general.
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All of the Dini/Ross DC collaborations are worth getting just for Alex Ross's beautiful artwork, but at times the stories have tended to be a bit on the dull side with no supervillains (usually just social ills the hero or heroine is facing) and a little too much moralizing. But here Dini gets it just about right with a fine story centering upon a deadly virus attacking the central Congo, and the Leaguers' attempts not just to contain and eliminate the virus but to deal with the chaos the virus creates over the world and the resulting fear and mistrust generated when the Leaguers in effect have to establish a kind of martial law very briefly to prevent panic and looting. The complex and grand ethical issues Dini is interested in considering are still, but you don;t feel this time you're being preached to.
The art is spectacular. Not only does the story concern the "Magnificent Seven" that have present from the League's beginning (Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, Aquaman, Superman, and the Martian Manhunter) but many of the other Leaguers whom people have come to adore over hte years: Zatanna, Hawkman and Hawkwoman, the Atom, the Red Tornado, etc. And it's lovely to see Ross have the chance to draw some of the characters from the heroes' supporting casts: Mera, Pieface, Iris Allen West. This is confident work superbly executed and superbly judged, and its to the core of what people have loved about the idea of a Justice League over the past fifty years.
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I am a dyed-in-the-wool, comic book loving fool and the Justice League has long been my favorite team/book so this purchase was a no-brainer. Enough has been written about the talent of Alex Ross that I don't need to prattle on about the art (okay, it's exactly what you'd expect from Ross--amazing). The story by Paul Dini is nothing revolutionary but it's solid and shows great respect for the history of the characters, individually and as a team. Appearances by many "second-tier" Leaguers--Atom, Black Canary, Red Freakin' Tornado (!) to name just a few--are a bonus for any big time DC fan (like me). Of the five "tabloid" books on which Ross & Dini collaborated, this one is my favorite.
When I ordered mine from Amazon, I was a little concerned about the condition the book would be in when it arrived. I was quite pleased that it arrived shrink-wrapped to a good stiff piece of cardboard inside the box. The book is in absolutely pristine condition.
Great stuff all the way around.
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Alex Ross artwork is wonderful!
It takes me back to when I used to watch the Superfriends cartoon when I was a kid... You remember, the Legion of Doom, right?
Anyway, the story is just enough info to keep a stong pace while you share some time with the world's greatest Super heroes...
It is well worth the money... Also check out Ross and Dini's other books.
Superman Batman and Wonder Woman, too. You'll LOVE em!
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