Justice League: The World's Greatest Superheroes by Alex Ross & Paul Dini

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If you don’t know much about Zatanna, Martian Manhunter, Captain Marvel, or Red Tornado then you definitely need to do your homework before you start reading.

Batman learns The Riddler has ransacked the databases of Wayne Enterprises and is armed with dossiers on every Leaguer.The Joker has never felt more superfluous, Hawkman and Hakwgirl are boring and unnecessary, Plastic Man adds nothing to the story, there are some cool visuals with Wonder Woman but its her lasso that does all the work in the main scheme of things, and then there’s a laundry list of C-list heroes who show up and I don’t even know most of their names. The story felt a little like one we've seen before, with some pretty hand-wavy resolution at the end sknaht ot annataZ but I enjoyed the journey and, if seeing that art on a tiny smartphone screen was this epic I can only imagine what checking out a nice glossy hardcover copy would feel like. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

I should say it wouldn’t have been as cluttered if the story was longer– it’s already almost 400 pages which is quite big for a 12-part book but there are so many heroes and so many villains and so much happening at one time that the third act becomes a mess. From there, they warn Hawkman and Hawkwoman, who had defeated Toyman, that his hideout is located in Midway City, where they find out that he is building robotic bodies for Brainiac, and have the Phantom Stranger rescue Green Lantern.

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