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Justice 3 by Jim Krueger, Alex Ross and Doug Braithwaite
02/02/2008 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Titan Books. 144 page graphic novel. Price: £12.99 (UK), $19.99 (US). ISBN: 978-0-4012-1467-8). Buy Justice 3 in the USA - or Buy Justice 3 in the UK  check out website: www.titanbooks.comand www.dccomics.com
Here it is. The third volume of 'Justice' containing the last four parts of the series. Alex Ross' introduction hints that this story probably is an off-shoot of regular DC reality. Shame really when you consider that all the endings are neatly tied at the end then it should be part of regular continuity.
Now how much to say without giving away the ending. As a final section, the JLA are now fighting back having lost one battle with the assorted super-villains. With the assistance of the Doom Patrol and Metal Men, Batman leads a plan that will have the super-villains fighting the wrong enemy, helped enormously by the fact that they all have to wear armour to protect themselves from an alien virus that will turn themselves on each other.
If anything, there is far too much going on and with so many characters that you really do have to concentrate to keep an eye on where everyone is let alone fighting who. In that respect, I do suspect penciller Doug Braithwaite gave Alex Ross far too much to paint that it can be easy to get a little punch-drunk here. When it get up close and personal with only a few characters, Ross comes back into his own. There are also cameos by the Green Lantern Corps and the Legion Of Super-Heroes. Will someone give Alex Ross an LSH story to perform painting duties on. Every time I've seen an LSH picture by him, it just begs for him to be let loose in the 30th Century.
In some respects, the emphasis in this story moves away from the original concept of why can the super-heroes do more to help the world although keeping the menaces at bay who will destroy it has to be seen as a somewhat full employment.
This is the kind of story that once read, you'll put away for a few months to catch your breath and then read it all over again. There's enough here to intrigue any comicbook reader with an interest in the denizens of the DC Universe.
GF Willmetts
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