I have a friend that I’ve known all my life. He got married the weekend of April 16th in Philadelphia (another post about that as it pertains to books coming up soon) and I was his Best Man. As customary, I received a Best Man’s gift from the soon to be married couple.
Absolute Justice
I hadn’t read Justice when it was coming out as a series, and since I collect the Absolute Editions, it was a great gift. Not to mention the Absolute Dark Knight has some great extras in it, so on the whole, a great WIN for me.
Justice is a limited series, out of continuity, by Jim Krueger, Doug Braithwaite and Alex Ross. It is a huge story filled with pretty much all the major leaguers in the DC Universe, both hero and villain. As usual Ross’s paints are just stunning. Over Briathwaite’s pencils it gives Ross’s painting a bit more of a harder edge than when Ross tends to pencil his own art. Which is a good thing.
, which are the pinnacle of the format. This is a four volume set and well worth the price of all four. The comics are recolored with plenty of extras in each volume. I also have 
, which is slightly less spectacular but still bound well and includes great extras. 
(great story by the way) we are introduced to the rainbow of Ring Flavors ranging from Purple to Black and many in between.
, Blackest Night, then Brightest Day, we have a long running quadrilogy concerning the intergalactic police force of the Green Lanterns. Normally these multi-year crossovers tend to get weighted down with their own intricacies and I tend to lose interest much like when I was reading DC’s Countdown and Final Crises and dont’ get me started on how Marvel is milking the Civil War/Dark Reign/Age of Heroes event. I understand why they do it but so far none have done it without bloating the story and manufacturing events of major importance with minor characters we haven’t seen since the Super Friends were getting good ratings on Saturday morning.