Would a JUSTICE-type book work for MARVEL? Would you buy it?

[TimmyTony]

JUSTICE, written by Ross and Kruger and illustrated by Ross and Braithwaite has been a huge success for DC.
Now, it hasn't been as heavily hyped, buzzed about or cross-promoted as you would imagine this creative team merits, and the whole INfinity Crisis/Civil War/52 stampede basically stole whatever thunder it may had had, but make no mistake about it, Justice has been a solid hit:Every single issue except the last one, # 9, has been a top ten seller, and even # 9 landed at # 11, barely edged out by the fact that many CW tie-ins came out in December, an Illuminati book and 2 issues of JLA.

JUSTICE is a very simple basic superhero tale, that doesn't try to deconstruct anything, doesn't show any dystopian picture, doesn't try to be post-modern or "dark n edgy", just very straightforward superhero action, in what is basically a Super Friends versus Legion Of Doom scenario.
Now, this isn't a goofy, "funny", Saturday Morning Cartoon-type tale either, the threats are very real and serious and the action scenes are amazing, in huge part due to the fanatstically realistic painted art.
Oh, and I said "simple"...not simplistic.
The plot is clever and smart, but not impenetrable or heavy-handed.

Oh, and this is definitely set in a Silver-Age-kind of continuity, very faithful to the core elements and concepts of all the characters, from Giganta and Luthor, to Wonder Woman and Sinestro.
Anyways, I would love to see Marvel do something akin to this.

I know that Marvel's charcaters are more leaning towards realism and "feet of clay", but I think you can still have an amount of realism and still make exciting, cool stories set in that gone time in which Marvel superheroes had flaws and insecurities, but they were still hopeful, fun and iconically awesome, in a Marvel kinda way.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with Civil War, New Avengers and the current state of the MU.
I actually loved Millar's epic and I look forward to all the stories that are coming in this post-CW MU, but yeah, I would definitely love seeins Alex Ross creating something similar to JUSTICE, but with The Avengers, the X-Men or the Fantastic Four...

I can dream, anyway.

[StoneGold]

JUSTICE is a very simple basic superhero tale, that doesn't try to deconstruct anything, doesn't show any dystopian picture, doesn't try to be post-modern or "dark n edgy", just very straightforward superhero action, in what is basically a Super Friends versus Legion Of Doom scenario.

Yeah, if you want to ignore the whole Braniac/Aquaman thing. Or the whole "the heroes are going to destroy the world, and only the villains can stop them" thing.

[Dark Soul # 7]

When you describe it that way the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance seems like it is the closest thing to a Marvel Justice story.

[lightning]

I don't see why it wouldn't work. Part of the appeal of Justice is that it is a very (for the most part) "classic" take on the Justice League with a fairly straightforward good guys vs. bad guys scenario. That and the art is awesome.

It could work for Marvel - I wouldn't go the "Ultimate Alliance" route, simply because it has way too many characters, but a Fantastic Four vs. Dr Doom, X-Men vs. Magneto & the Brotherhood, Avengers vs. Kang/Red Skull/HYDRA story would all (to me) be good starting points.

So long as it got the right pairing of artist & writer, I think it could be done.

[Haunt]

no i wouldn't.

[spEEdy]

Of course it could work.
It would just have to be a great old fashioned heroes vs. villains kind of thing!
It would definitely have to have the right team...i mean c'mon..Alex Ross w/ Brathwaite (sp?) is one hell of a team.
So...if it happened..it would be a great core Avengers team vs. a great core Masters of Evil!
:evilangry

[CMBMOOL]

I would by a Justice type book on different Marvel Heroes. :D

[Karl H]

I honestly can't see it working... I love Justice and as I was saying on X-cres yesterday.. For me, Justice encapsulates the JLA to the core... It is also a book that only the DCU heroes could feature in. It feels so silver age that it's beautiful but I just don't see htat working in today's MU.

[DoctorDoom]

When you describe it that way the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance seems like it is the closest thing to a Marvel Justice story.
I agree with that.

[projectnrm]

I would love to see a classic Avengers team taking on the Masters of Evil in an Alex Ross-painted 12 issue maxiseries.

As intrigued as I am by this whole New/Mighty Avengers era, it could be good to escape to the good ole' days every once in a while.

[BoosterBronze]

When you describe it that way the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance seems like it is the closest thing to a Marvel Justice story.

If some a good writer and a good artist did a 12 part storyline that's more or less in line with Ultimate Alliance, it would be awesome!

[Sean Walsh]

I would by a Justice type book on different Marvel Heroes. :D

Isn't MYTHOS (in a roundabout way) kinda doing this?

[XPac]

Justice is a great book. But conceptually it's not exactly ground breaking.

In theory you could see a Justice type story in any on-going team book on any given month. Not necessarily of this quality, but it's really it's just a very well executed classic hero vs villian story.

I could see something like this easily occuring in say Mighty Avengers.

In fact, I consider it more likely now in the post-Initiative world.

The heroes are now this big organized army. If the villians want a shot at suceeding, they need to work together and organize themselves like what we saw with the villians in Justice.

[GRANDPA]

would be interesting

[Siddon]

I would rather see the X-men type maxi-series can you imagine Alex Ross drawing characters like Exodus, Apocalypse, Holocaust, and the Vanisher.

[phantom1592]

One of the great draws for Justice (at least for me) is the team. Its a CLASSIC team that many members are dead or grown up in the current timeline and its something that I never thought I'd see again. I LOVE that line up of the JLA.

Sadly the Avengers don't really "have" a CLASSIC line up that I've been missing for years. Many of the Teams "could" be brought back or have never broke up, and there is nothing stopping Marvel Justice from happening every month.

The closest I could see would be maybe the X-men. If they reassembled all the Giant-sized #1 team in their classic Costumes and personalities (i.e. give Cyclops a spine and make him the leader he's meant to be, and Wolverine the guy who gets his butt handed to him quite often, but doesn't EVER give up) then Yeah, I'd buy it.