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.
Left to Right: Covers to issues 14 and 15, also interior art from #15 a full-page panel, a half-page panel and a panel of a preview of JSA's next year's stories featuring Magog!
Left to Right: Issue 16 along with a two-page spread telling the story of Gog and a panel on page 18.
Left to Right: Covers to issues 17, Annual 1, 18 and 19.
Left to Right: Covers to issue 20, the 3 Kingdom Come Specials (Superman, Magog and The Kingdom) and issue 21. Note that the Superman special is fully written and illustrated by Alex Ross. Now I won't post the whole issue here for bandwith reasons but you can download it here.
Issue 22 is the last chapter in the saga of the Kingdom Come Superman and half of it contains panels or fully-painted pages by Alex. This closes the story of Kingdom Come as Alex Ross intended to tell. Below are the pages of interior art done by Ross.
Later, a shorter story arc came after the kingdom come events, one that dealt with Black Adam. Left to right: Issues 23, 24 and 25
Finally, Alex ended his run on this wonderful title with 3 interlocking covers to issue 26, which feature all the Justice Society of America in a kick-ass poster truly worthy of being in any superheroes headquarters.IN MY COLLECTION: Issues 1-14
3 comments:
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. :)
Hey,
Que maravilla.
¡Felicidades por el estupendo trabajo!
Amo el final de KC en JSA #22.
Those last pages from Issue 22 deserve to be printed large. Absolutely gorgeous. I hope Alex gets a chance to describe them in detail, because you can tell a lot of thought went into them.
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