OK people today's review is for the First volume of the Morrison JLA run "New World Order"
This book is Written By the Sober Grant Morrison and drawn by Howard Porter.
The art is great but a little early 90's. That makes sense being that this is when this book came out (well 1997 but its still the 90's right). All the superheroes are a little bulky and muscular and everything is a little over the top. That being said it is still very pretty to look at and it is done better then some that were famous for this style did it.
The writing is a little different then the Morrison then I'm used to. Very straight forward. Not anything like Animal man or definitely nothing like the Invisibles (but i don't think my brain can take another invisibles). But man can Morrison right superheroes. His batman is great and his Martian Manhunter is amazing (and i hate the martian manhunter so that is saying something). The only thing that killed this volume for me was the version of supes being used and this is more art then writing. Whoever decided to give superman a mullet should be shot.
This story centers around the formation of the new Justice league and there first mission together. A new superhero group is on earth and is giving the people what they want; death to super villains. Supes tries to explain that death is not always the way to do things but the human culture doesn't want to hear it. We learn more and more about the back history of these new "hero's" and what they really are (how's that for not spilling the beans on anything.) The beauty of Morrison's writing is that he gets who is who in the group and you can tell it by the first four issue arc. He has Batman as the brains and he is the one who first figures out who everyone is. you can tell by this initial story the love that Grant has for this character.
If you like the JLA then i would definitely suggest giving the Morrison run a whirl. If you are a Morrison fan then this may not be for you. like said before this is not Morrison's normal writing style and it straightforwardness may be a little of putting. I find that after reading a lot on his stuff, when you are reading him, you are constantly trying to find the meaning behind things. There is no meaning behind this stuff. Just a good old fashioned superhero story. Morrison for beginners is what I like to call it and I found it fantastic.
Talk to y'all later,
TJ
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