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(2) | Keine | This 1990s epic tells a story set in the 1950s starring the world's first super-hero team, the Justice Society of America. "Beware the savage skies! The end is near!" It's the 1950s- Truman is in the White House, television sets are coming to every American household...and the Justice Society of America is in an all-out war against the cosmos! Living constellations have descended on the Earth in the form of terrifying glowing titans. The Flash, Black Canary, Hawkman, and Green Lantern fight to keep the destruction to a minimum while, unbeknownst to them, Starman has already been taken prisoner. Who has summonded the colossal star-being's and why? And what is their connection to TV, the nation's new favorite pasttime? In these stories set at the close of the Golden Age, Len Strazewski pits the Justice Society against their greatest foes, with art from Grant Miehm, Mike Parobeck, Tom Artis, and Rick Burchett. Collects the full eight-issue Justice Society of America miniseries (1991) along with two bonus JSA stories from Adventure Comics #466 (1979) and All-Star Comics #57 (1951).… (mehr) |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen This 1990s epic tells a story set in the 1950s starring the world's first super-hero team, the Justice Society of America. "Beware the savage skies! The end is near!" It's the 1950s- Truman is in the White House, television sets are coming to every American household...and the Justice Society of America is in an all-out war against the cosmos! Living constellations have descended on the Earth in the form of terrifying glowing titans. The Flash, Black Canary, Hawkman, and Green Lantern fight to keep the destruction to a minimum while, unbeknownst to them, Starman has already been taken prisoner. Who has summonded the colossal star-being's and why? And what is their connection to TV, the nation's new favorite pasttime? In these stories set at the close of the Golden Age, Len Strazewski pits the Justice Society against their greatest foes, with art from Grant Miehm, Mike Parobeck, Tom Artis, and Rick Burchett. Collects the full eight-issue Justice Society of America miniseries (1991) along with two bonus JSA stories from Adventure Comics #466 (1979) and All-Star Comics #57 (1951). ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Justice Society of America vol. 1 was an eight-issue miniseries consisting of Vengeance from the Stars!, a story set during the Golden Age. Just this year, in a bit of fortuitous timing for me, it was collected in a nice hardcover edition under the title The Demise of Justice, along with two extra stories, both "final" adventures for the JSA: their last Golden Age appearance from 1951's All Star Comics #57 and the retconned story of their disbanding from 1979's Adventure Comics #466. Justice Society #8 actually sets up Adventure #466, and Adventure #466 mentions All Star #57, so the whole thing reads pretty well. (The book also contains a foreword by Mark Waid, where he gives exposition on ten JSA members... six of whom do not actually appear in the main story... but doesn't give any background on one who does... the woman one... hmmmm...)
Vengeance from the Stars! is a great little story, using its somewhat broader canvas to good effect. The first four issues focus on, in turn, the Flash, Black Canary, Green Lantern, and Hawkman, each reacting to a crisis as America's power grid is dismantled by a shadowy figure, and as they come under attack by living constellations. Then #5 is a Flash and Hawkman team-up, #6 is a Black Canary and Green Lantern team-up, and #7-8 bring together all four characters along with Starman. It's a really pleasing structure, ensuring that each JSA member gets some great moments in the spotlight, and also giving you the fun of them teaming up together; it feels triumphant when all five of them come together at the end because the anticipation has been building for six issues.
I didn't think I'd ever read anything by Len Strazewski before (I just checked, and it looks like only his Phantom Lady feature in Action Comics Weekly), but this shows him to be a solid, un-pretentious writer. The story takes the sensibilities of the Golden Age JSA and updates them without losing what made them charming to begin with. There are a lot of fight scenes, which in the hands of a lesser writer would annoy me, but each issue's fight is distinct, and there's a lot of focus on how each member of the JSA thinks their way out of the problem using their unique abilities. The eight issues give each encounter space to breathe. There are a lot of nice touches here, like Hawkman's Native American archaeologist friend or the way Solomon Grundy is woven into the story. Strazewski has a great handle on Black Canary, who's my favorite of the five characters spotlighted here.
I was a bit worried by the fact that the eight issues feature four different pencillers and three different inkers, but there are no hasty fill-ins here. Each artist does a great job of capturing character and action, and the style is the late 1980s/early 1990s, pre-computer coloring one that is my favorite. If all comics looked like this I wouldn't complain!
After this, Strazewksi, along with Parobeck (who pencilled #3 and 5), put out a short-lived Justice Society ongoing, and on the basis of this, I am looking forward to reading it. It did strike me that I don't think there are any references to any post-Crisis retcons; this could be set on pre-Crisis Earth-Two without any issues.
The bonus issues are nice. All Star #57 is dumb, of course, like most Golden Age JSA stories, but I appreciate its inclusion. The JSA put on a detective exhibition (!?) featuring the world's four greatest detectives; a villain kidnaps them right from under the JSA's noses, and so the JSA has to substitute for them back in their home countries. Adventure #466 has a frame set in the then-present featuring Huntress and Power Girl; I skipped the frame (I had read it before, in Only Legends Live Forever) so that I was immersed in the 1950s for my reading experience.
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