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A review by tabman678
Justice League of America, Vol. 1: The Tornado's Path by Brad Meltzer
4.0
Justice League of America vol 1: The Tornado's path is a reboot of Justice League after the events of things like Infinite Crisis, Identity Crisis, and 52.
Now here's the thing about relaunches that renumber the book, it's almost always sales driven right? Well part of the magic of this one is it does not feel like that. It doesn't feel arbitrary or done just for a bump in sales. A large chunk of that I think goes to the writer Brad Meltzer who has a love of the entire DC universe deep within these comics.
The focus is on the trinity as they're picking new people to invite to the league and various other characters like namely Red Tornado, Black Lightning, Vixen, Arsenal, Hal Jordan, and Black Canary. Red Tornado moves into a human body, but a shadowy villain is manipulating these events from the shadows. And Red Tornado doesn't have what he thinks he does. Vixen loses her sense of self. All while the trinity pick and choose. I think it has a good balance between the multiple plot threads. The weakest element for me is the pace, and the fact that the League isn't formed until the last issue in the collection (collects issues 1-7 for anyone keeping track).
Other than the pace I think this is a very good first volume for the Justice League, besides being weighed down by all the continuity of Infinite Crisis and 52.
The pencils by Ed Benes are good at the particular style he's doing. Very comic booky, big muscles and big boobs. It's drawn well but every guy looks the same and nearly every woman does too. It does the job but beyond being well articulated in it's style I'm not going to sing any further praises.
Alex Sinclair on colors does a fine job though, he keeps it grounded in that the color style isn't over inflated and kept to the "realism" of the images. Sandra Hope's inks are the part that stand out though. And are the feature that had me going "damn" at how the images of theses heroes stood out.
4 stars. Good relaunch and I enjoyed the story. I look forward to the next volume when I get to it.
Now here's the thing about relaunches that renumber the book, it's almost always sales driven right? Well part of the magic of this one is it does not feel like that. It doesn't feel arbitrary or done just for a bump in sales. A large chunk of that I think goes to the writer Brad Meltzer who has a love of the entire DC universe deep within these comics.
The focus is on the trinity as they're picking new people to invite to the league and various other characters like namely Red Tornado, Black Lightning, Vixen, Arsenal, Hal Jordan, and Black Canary. Red Tornado moves into a human body, but a shadowy villain is manipulating these events from the shadows. And Red Tornado doesn't have what he thinks he does. Vixen loses her sense of self. All while the trinity pick and choose. I think it has a good balance between the multiple plot threads. The weakest element for me is the pace, and the fact that the League isn't formed until the last issue in the collection (collects issues 1-7 for anyone keeping track).
Other than the pace I think this is a very good first volume for the Justice League, besides being weighed down by all the continuity of Infinite Crisis and 52.
The pencils by Ed Benes are good at the particular style he's doing. Very comic booky, big muscles and big boobs. It's drawn well but every guy looks the same and nearly every woman does too. It does the job but beyond being well articulated in it's style I'm not going to sing any further praises.
Alex Sinclair on colors does a fine job though, he keeps it grounded in that the color style isn't over inflated and kept to the "realism" of the images. Sandra Hope's inks are the part that stand out though. And are the feature that had me going "damn" at how the images of theses heroes stood out.
4 stars. Good relaunch and I enjoyed the story. I look forward to the next volume when I get to it.