Tuesday, January 22, 2008

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA

In 2007, a new JSA series began with the longer title seen above. Written again by Geoff Jones, with art by Dale Eaglesham. Alex Ross came to this project as a full-time cover artist and costume designer. I've got to say it, this series ROCKS! I love it more and more every month. It takes some of the old and forgotten DC heroes and makes them cool again, the writing is so superb that you start caring for these unknown characters and then they get killed!. Plus Alex's Starman from Kingdom Come is featured as a member of the team and he's the wackiest, most hilarious character you've ever read. Above left to right: Issue #1 with the entire team on the cover and its interior art of the Kingdom Come Superman, Issue #2 with Starman on the cover and its last page featuring this hero on a Kingdom Come background.

Left to Right: The covers to issues 3 to 5 featuring the characters Cyclone, Wildcat & son and Sandman, respectively. No interior art by Alex Ross on these issues.


Left to Right: Issue #6 featuring Damage on the cover and its interior art featuring Starman and other Kingdom Come Heroes and the covers to issues #7 and #8 with Citizen Steel and Liberty Belle on their respective covers.



A very important thing to note here is that, starting with issue 9, Alex Ross became the co-plotter along with Geoff Jones and they are doing a storyarc featuring the Kingdom Come Superman and the KC world created by Ross and Mark Waid all those years ago. Above left to Right: Issue #9 cover with Power Girl and issue 10 with the Kingdom Come Superman on the cover as well as 2 pieces of interior art by Alex Ross one of them is a gorgeous double-page spread(below).


Left to Right: The covers to issues 11 - 13 plus the interior art from #13 in which Superman remembers a very sad moment from Kingdom Come.

I will continue updating this post as this is an ongoing series.

IN MY COLLECTION: Issues 1-13

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You ROCK! I had no idea Alex Ross was contributing panels - figured he was only doing cover art, like with the Superman title. And those tidbits of the storyline look good. Now I've gotta go find back issues. :)