Justice League Unlimited Volume 1: United They Stand

Justice League Unlimited #1

by Adam Beechen, Paul D. Storrie, Ethen Beavers (Illustrator)

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League battle a collection of intergalactic villains.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens

102 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2004

About the author

For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bee...

Writer Adam Beechen is the author of several comic books, including Robin and Justice League Unlimited . Adam also writes for tv on such shows as Teen Titans, The Batman and is the story editor on HiHi Puffy Ami Yumi for Cartoon Network.

Reviews

[Kori Watson · Rating 2 out of 5]

it’s literally just screenshots of the episodes with some of the subtitles in speech bubbles and if that’s all this was I wouldn’t really care but the execution is horrendous. The added text is somehow higher resolution than the really mediocre screenshots, loads of unused space to pad this two episode book, some of the images look stretched, no creativity or practicality in the panel layout this looks like it was made on the terrible licences superhero software you sometimes find in charity shops. Literally like look up tumblr images of DCAU exchanges from random episodes on your phone and you’ll probably get larger and higher quality images.

These aren’t “high-quality screen captures” even for the time.

[C. John Kerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally getting a review done of this one. The four stories in this book are reprinted from the Justice League Unlimited animated series. The art style certainly is reminiscent of television animation, at least one style of it anyway. The stories themselves are somewhat on the light side. There are no heavy themes, more or less just good guys versus bad guys. I am thinking this May have been meant for a younger audience than the average issue of the Justice League of America. Still a good book. The stories are fun to read, and do have a certain amount of action to them. The second story was funny as it shows the Justice League enjoying themselves playing poker. All in all a most pleasent way to kill some time.

[Brannigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of short adventures. If you’re a fan of the cartoon TV show you’ll enjoy it.

[Dovile · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the DC animated universe and the JLU series on which this book is based, but I rate this book only 2 stars, because it's just a graphic novelization of two episodes from the JLU animated series (rather small screen captures with dialogue bubbles added). If you watched the series, you can skip this, there are original comic stories in the DCAU available. I'd recommend this book for kids only.

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overtly aimed at kids, which is more obvious in the first few stories, but there's good stuff here for all ages - particularly the final story in the collection with Blue Beetle. (Weird note - the first story has Hawkgirl as a member of the "Unlimited" version of the team, and thus was clearly written before the events of Starcrossed.) (B)

[Ubalstecha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice collection of original stories based on the Cartoon Network show, meaning fans of the show can read these stories. Which is not true of much of the Justice League cannon. The artwork too calls back to the cartoon, making this a satisfying book for the JLU fan.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sadly not as good as the series it replaced....