Justice #1

Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's twelve-issue maxiseries kicks off here with a cover that immediately signals its ambitions: Ross's painted artwork assembles a soaring cavalcade of DC's finest, with Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman surging forward against a crackling electric-blue sky. The composition draws the eye from Aquaman's golden scaled form in the foreground all the way up through the streaking figures above, giving the whole image a sweeping, almost cinematic momentum. With Doug Braithwaite on interior art and Ross bringing his distinctive painted color sense to the covers, Justice announced itself in 2005 as a series with real visual ambition from the very first issue.