Status
Available
Call number
Publication
DC Comics (2013), Edition: First Edition, 160 pages
Description
Earth's greatest heroes have defeated grave threats from Apokolips but not at a grave price. Left in their stead is a group of young, untrained hereoes who pick up the pieces in the dusty aftermath. The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and the Atom are humanity's nascent guardians, but not the ones we've all known and revered. These are different heroes, in a strange and foreign world with dangerous new villains. This is Earth-2. Award-winning writer James Robinson (Starman, Justice League) joins forces with artist Nicola Scott (Superman, Teen Titans) to remiagine the classic Justice Society of America.
User reviews
LibraryThing member elvendido
I wanted to like this book much more than I actually did. I thought the opening premise was ballsy, and had so much potential. Then in issue 2...
...they go to the trouble of making an established character gay, and immediately kill off his love interest, effectively neutering him.
The reimaginings
Normally I enjoy James Robinson's writing, and I thought Nicola Scott's art was fantastic. But I'm not sold on this series, and I'm not sure I'll continue reading.
The reimaginings
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of the Green and the Rot were interesting, but suffer from superhero over-exaggeration. Seriously, tone it down a notch? Not everything has to be cataclysmic to be entertaining.Normally I enjoy James Robinson's writing, and I thought Nicola Scott's art was fantastic. But I'm not sold on this series, and I'm not sure I'll continue reading.
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LibraryThing member fighterofevil
very different take on what's going on in the dcu and reintroducing the jsa. i am intrigued to read more.
LibraryThing member SESchend
Very intriguing reboot of the Earth-2 characters with some great shifts/changes to 70 year old characters. My biggest question was why the cover so prominently places DC's Big Three when they're all gone from the story after 20 pages. Still, with some reservations, I highly recommend this work from
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this promising start. Show Less
LibraryThing member ssimon2000
Excellent retelling of the alternate earth that isn't quite the same as the Earth-1 we're all familiar with. I especially liked the new origin stories of Golden Age Flash and Green Lantern, and how they worked in a new story for Hawkgirl and The Atom.
This is a writer's dream, being able to take
This is a writer's dream, being able to take
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known characters and changing things up, sometimes very drastically. It's almost like reading the old Elseworlds imprint DC used to publish back in the 90s. Show Less
LibraryThing member ragwaine
This started out really dark and then became about the gathering of a new Justice League on an alternate earth. Art was cool, characters were decent, looks like the line-up will probably be Green Lantern, Flash, Atom, and Hawkgirl, but they're not actually "together" yet.
LibraryThing member SESchend
Very intriguing reboot of the Earth-2 characters with some great shifts/changes to 70 year old characters. My biggest question was why the cover so prominently places DC's Big Three when they're all gone from the story after 20 pages. Still, with some reservations, I highly recommend this work from
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this promising start. Show Less
Awards
Excelsior Award (Shortlist — 2014)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
10.18 inches
ISBN
1401242812 / 9781401242817