![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to drawing all the members of the Justice League, you also get to see Hitch and company draw a series of planetscapes, a number of different aliens, and all the accompanying landscapes and ships. This is a story, first of all, which takes place in "the vastness of space," after the earth has been abducted and joins a series of other planets, adrift in a mammoth alien spaceship. ![]() The stories don't necessary need a "widescreen canvas." But Ross' two-page splash montages and the detail of his artwork really well on the larger format volume.īryan Hitch's art (with Paul Neary inking and Laura DePuy coloring) benefits from this format. Why bother with such a large format book, unless the story and art benefited from it? The Alex Ross books that come out every Christmas-time benefit from Alex Ross' art. The one big test this book needed to pass was a reason for being. ![]() It's a gag I use on an obscenely regular basis that very few people ever pick up on. (Not only does Plastic Man, for one, come across as a lovable and funny goofball in this story, but he also blatantly inserts a reference to Douglas Adam's HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY that you can't miss if you've read the books. ![]()
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