The World's Greatest Super-Heroes
by Alex Ross, Paul Dini
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Author: Alex Ross, Paul DiniEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-06
ISBN: 1401202543
Number of pages: 396
Publisher: DC Comics
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Book Review: If you love the DC Universe and/or JLA this is a must have!
Summary: 5 Stars
As the title says this book is a must have if you are a fan of the staple DC heroes at all.
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes is part comic, part encyclopedia giving you a good story as well as the background on some of the oldest super-heroes in the industry.
If you haven't yet seen the book in person let me make sure one thing is abundanlt clear: It...is...big. It comes in a hard-cover sleeve (the same sort of system you get full season TV shows on DVD) that measures in at 9.5" x 13". This information is readily available but people may still be in for a shock when they receive the book.
Once you pull the book from it's housing you will find a fantastic hard-cover book with an artistic sleeve over it. Why do I bother commenting about he artistic sleeve? Well, because it is painted by Alex Ross, a man who I think should be heralded as one of the "World's Greatest Comic Artits".
My first fun in with Alex's work was the Kingdom Come series. If you have ever picked up and read a comic in your life then you know the medium (style and materials of art) has changed over the last century. Modern comics are actually computer shaded and coloured for the most part. Before that was the great days of the sketch artist, inker, colour artist system. Jump way, way back and we had the basic sketch artist to colour-dot print colouring system.
Well, Alex Ross doesn't use a single one of those systems. No, the man uses oil paints. Having as many artists around me as I do in my life I can appreciate the skill required for this sort of work. In fact, I have watched Alex paint real-time on a few television shots. He brings the comic book, which is really a hard set of words to use when it comes to Ross' work, characters to a new photo-realistic quality. Seriously, if you are reading this and you have never seen a single piece of Alex's work stop reading and Google the man. You just might be impressed.
It's funny, I own over 700 comic books myself, some 40+ years old. I was a Marvel fanatic when I was younger, but I find as I age that the DC universe actually holds more for me. I blame this partly on Alex Ross, Paul Dini, Marv Wolfman, and Mark Waid for bringing me such deep stories with true emotion then presenting them in brilliant form. I know I have harped on Alex Ross' work but the authors mentioned above should be lauded for their work as well (with the respective works being The World's Greatest Super Heroes, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and Kingdom Come).
Either way, if you love anything DC you should own this book.
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Summary of The World's Greatest Super-Heroes
This oversized hardcover edition collects six stories by Paul Dini, the Emmy Award-winning producer of Batman Beyond and The New Batman/Superman Adventures, and superstar illustrator Alex Ross. These classic works feature Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman in a unique storytelling format that combines aspects of both comics and picture books. Plus, the entire Justice League, which includes those four iconic heroes plus others like Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Hawkman, is featured in a full-length story created in a traditional comics format. Also included are several pages of promotional art, sketches, art done for DC Direct product, and much more!Superheroes Books
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