Seven Soldiers Of Victory
Graphic Novel Summary: Written by Grant Morrison Art by J.H. Williams III, Simone Bianchi, Cameron Stewart, Ryan Sook & Mick Gray and Frazer Irving Cover by Bianchi One of the most creative minds in comics, Grant Morrison (ALL STAR SUPERMAN, THE INVISIBLES, JLA, ANIMAL MAN) delivers his most groundbreaking and ambitious project yet: SEVEN SOLDIERS! Comprising seven different 4-issue miniseries and two bookend Specials, this colossal 30-part tale of death, betrayal, failure, joy, loss, romance, triumph and redemption is now collected in a 4-volume series of trade paperbacks! This first volume reprints (in original release order): SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY #0, SEVEN SOLDIERS: SHINING KNIGHT #1-2, SEVEN SOLDIERS: THE GUARDIAN #1-2, SEVEN SOLDIERS: ZATANNA #1-2 and SEVEN SOLDIERS: KLARION #1. Independently, each of these characters are featured in a story arc of their own that redefines their purpose in the DCU. But their stories also interweave with the other Soldiers' tales, forming a grander story of a devastating global threat to mankind - with the ties between them becoming more evident in each new volume. Together these reluctant champions must arise and somehow work together to save the world...without ever meeting one another!
Codes: 76194125222300111 7.62E+016 SEP070779 NOV050281 DEC070813 JAN080777 FEB080827 MAR080779 APR080233 MAY080823 JUN080870 JUL080801 AUG080819
- Price:
$14.99$11.99- Author:
- Grant Morrison
- Cover Artist:
- Bianchi
- Artist:
- J H Williams
- Artist:
- Various
- Cover Artist:
- Simone Bianchi
- Estimated Ship Date:
- August 22, 2008
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- Superhero
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Customer Reviews
This is a hard story to really review effectively in pieces, since it’s so sweeping and large, yet the individual bits are also designed to stand well on their own, which they do. So maybe the first bit of credit should go to Grant Morrison for being able to construct a story that’s intricate and complex, but doesn’t feel overwhelming at any given moment.
There’s so much going on here in the way of metacommentary on the superhero genre that it would take a far sharper mind than mine a couple of academic-style conference papers just to skim the surface. I won’t even bother to touch on it; instead, let’s just talk story and character and art, you know how we do.
JH Williams III contributes pencils to the first story in this collection, the #0 issue that launches the event, and it is masterful, as his work always is. I cannot get enough of this man’s page layouts; I just wish he was fast enough and willing to do a monthly title, preferably a Bat-title, since his talents are so wonderful yet so rarely doled out onto us unwashed superhero nerds.
On the whole, Morrison gets lucky with the artist draw, and there’s not a single bum note in the bunch on this first volume. Every miniseries has its own unique style, and yet the styles all coexist well together in the collection. If I could sound one single bum note, it’s that Simone Bianchi’s work would benefit from a little more clarity in the action-tracking department; I found myself rereading several of his pages just to figure out what had happened. But then, that could be Morrison’s fault as well, since one of his big writerly flaws is that he sometimes skips over essential story and plot beats in his enthusiasm to get you to the next big whacked-out idea.
The ground Morrison and his compatriots cover in this first volume is pretty damned impressive, and it’s only the first book of four, so it’s pretty awesome to imagine this thing even exists, let alone that it’s really, really good. That’s Morrison for ya.
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