The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck DC Comics 2008 TPB
Batman Supergirl Blue Beetle Green Lantern, Lobo and Legion of Super Heroes
This book has been lightly used and is in great shape!
DC's classic team-up title gets a reboot by a creative team that goes out of its way to pay homage to its extensive history.
The story tying together these six chapters sees our rotating team-ups of heroes chasing down the Book of Destiny, a powerful artifact that gives its reader perfect knowledge of the past and future. It has fallen into the wrong hands. But can they succeed to defeat an enemy who knows their every move in advance?
The chapters see Batman and Green Lantern team up first, to begin piecing together the mystery. The Green Lantern and Supergirl travel to Ventura, a planet-sized casino. Don't miss Supergirl's flirtatious teasing, and her battle in the wrestling ring, complete with innocent-little-school-girl outfit! Batman and Blue Beetle team up back on Earth, to chase down a related stolen weapon. This team up morphs into Batman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, as Batman gets merged into a cybernetic villain. Meanwhile Supergirl pairs with Lobo for a hilarious romp through interstellar space, All heroes converge at last in a showdown with the Lords of Luck. Can the Challengers of the Unknown save the day?
It is a wild romp, reminiscent of classic Silver Age storylines. Overall, the chapters are a little uneven, with the Supergirl ones standing out - author Mark Waid nails her 17-year-old flirty and cheeky attitude, as Green Lantern tries hard to stay focused on the task at hand - is his famous will power so easily distracted?
But what really lifts this collection to the next level are the many homages and Easter Eggs. Waid and legendary artist George Perez craft a beautiful tribute to past tales and characters. Capped by six pages of Waid's annotations, pointing out many of their deliberate choices to us readers who did not internalize these histories to nearly the same extent.
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