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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#1: Oct 14th 2011 at 4:07:34 PM

Now that the #2s are coming out, the "Justice League #1" thread is a bit obsolete. So here's a thread to discuss all current and past Justice Leagues (though with an emphasis on whatever issue just came out.)

As a topic starter, what was the Justice League story you first remember reading? For me, it was the first appearance of Doctor Destiny, and that weird mask he made Wonder Woman wear.

edited 15th Oct '11 4:39:57 PM by SKJAM

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Oct 14th 2011 at 5:29:21 PM

My first JL story (not counting the Super Friends cartoons) was a JLA/JSA crossover, where the villain was - a DC comics writer!? Yep, Cary Bates, turned evil by The Wizard after accidentally crossing Earths (thanks to Flash's cosmic treadmill). He actually KILLS the Justice Society and traps people inside "word ballons!" But then The Spectre asks God to revive the JSA, and he agrees, and everything gets solved very neatly. tongue

Actually that utterly goofy story was an anomaly, the League was much more serious by that time (still not 90's stuff but no longer Silver Age either.) More importantly, it introduced me to the Justice Society and the concept of parallel Earths. I always loved the JLA/JSA team ups since then.

edited 14th Oct '11 5:31:14 PM by Sijo

TheoneandonlyJoseph Since: Jul, 2011
#3: Oct 15th 2011 at 2:20:17 AM

First JL I read? JL #1, followed swiftly by JLI just last month. Awesome way to introduce new readers to the dc universe.

By the way, does this thread include international and dark?

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#4: Oct 15th 2011 at 4:37:44 PM

Yes. Also Task Force, Extreme, Elite, and any of the other Justice League flavors that have popped up over the years. Heck, let's stretch a point and include the Justice Society...at any time it crosses over with a League.

Yuoaman Since: Mar, 2010
#5: Oct 15th 2011 at 9:40:15 PM

I've actually only been reading comics for about five months now, so I've been trying to keep my comic reading in chronological order. So my first Justice League story was Justice League: Year One, which I still enjoy quite a bit.

Yuoaman Since: Mar, 2010
#6: Oct 15th 2011 at 11:55:32 PM

edited 15th Oct '11 11:56:01 PM by Yuoaman

JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
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#7: Oct 16th 2011 at 1:15:40 PM

I remember the JLA book were they get sucked into an Interplanetary War. It was pretty good without that preachy Iraq-comparisons a lot of shit fa;ll into.

Let's make a TCG!
andersonh1 Since: Apr, 2009
#8: Oct 17th 2011 at 12:47:57 PM

I jumped on board some time during the early days of the JLI run, back in the Giffen-De Mattis-Maguire days. I had to backtrack to read the first few issues, but I think it was around issue 12 or so.

edited 17th Oct '11 12:48:16 PM by andersonh1

Ronnie Respect the Red Right Hand from Surrounded by Idiots Since: Jan, 2001
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#9: Oct 21st 2011 at 4:37:53 PM

Unless 'I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League' counts, then my first JL comic was the first trade of the Justice League Unlimited tie-in.

angrytim Since: Sep, 2011
#10: Oct 24th 2011 at 2:15:47 PM

It was Volume one of Grant Morrisons JLA run that my local libary had in, the 4 issue arc with the white martians, and it was awsome grin

C0mraid from Here and there Since: Aug, 2010
#11: Nov 7th 2011 at 6:07:17 PM

The first bit of Justice League I ever read in an old comic which was compare of samples some of DC's then current titles. The last sample was the "one punch" scene from JLI. It really intrigued me but I nevertheless turned down my one chance to get backissues of it, I had to wait years until I could read any. Still the JLI is by far my favourite incarnation of the League

After that I didn't read any Justice League at all until the JLA/Avengers crossover.

edited 7th Nov '11 6:08:28 PM by C0mraid

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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#12: Nov 7th 2011 at 6:48:28 PM

Here's a look at Justice League Detroit, the first big reshuffle of the JLA concept.

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3249095.html

Malkavian What is this from madness Since: Jan, 2001
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#13: Nov 11th 2011 at 6:49:41 AM

Can I talk about the other Justice League books in this thread? Can I Can I Can I?

I'm gonna talk about the other Justice League books.

Justice League International: Hey remember when people were complaining that JL #1 didn't even have everyone on the cover on it and a lot of people said you couldn't have that many characters introduced with modern comic book story telling without feeling really compressed? WELL GUESS WHAT THIS BOOK DID?

It's far from perfect but it's a fun adventure comic done in a classic superhero style.

Justice League Dark: This one was also a little too slow for my tastes, but not to the point of Johns' Justice League, but all the characters have been established really quickly. I can also forgive a dark fantasy comic moving slowly a bit more. I also think de-aging John and making it a different John altogether (though hopefully more or less the same personality wise) was a good idea.

"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant Morrison
JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
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#14: Nov 11th 2011 at 11:25:52 AM

The DCAU tie-in books are reading well.

Let's make a TCG!
garystone10 Since: Aug, 2011
#15: Nov 18th 2011 at 12:56:13 AM

I just finished reading Warren Ellis' run on Justice League Classified which is probably now my favourite JL story.

JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
You complete me.
#16: Dec 24th 2011 at 1:09:38 PM

edited 24th Dec '11 1:09:48 PM by JusticeMan

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JusticeMan You complete me. from Maryland ! Since: Mar, 2011
SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#18: Sep 14th 2012 at 5:59:32 AM

Justice League international is done now, at least for this incarnation, and now we're getting a Justice League of America again for a while. Which includes the new Arab-American GL the government thinks is a terrorist. Thoughts?

andersonh1 Since: Apr, 2009
#19: Sep 14th 2012 at 7:29:35 AM

After a year of the New 52 version of the Justice League, I'm hard pressed to care about any of it, in all honesty. These aren't the characters I've been invested in for all these years. Meaning that even though we're getting a Justice League of America with Martian Manhunter, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Green Lantern as part of the roster, it doesn't grab me because they aren't really the same characters at all.

I had much the same problem with Justice League International. I enjoyed the first issue, but as the series went on it was difficult for me not to compare it with the old JLI series (which it clearly drew from in terms of inspiration, judging by the roster), and it just wasn't anywhere as entertaining or enjoyable.

Distortion00 Since: Nov, 2011
#20: Sep 14th 2012 at 8:43:04 AM

I like Jones but it feels like he's struggling to fit the characterization work he needs to be doing in a team book. Some examples: the Supes and Wonder Woman thing struck everyone as out of nowhere. There's plenty of way that could have been build up but I can't recall Jones really doing anything to do so.

We still don't know how Batman interacts with the league. Is his Tower of Babel personality around, is it reconned, did he develop from it?

Jones's WW doesn't really feel like Azzerello's WW. Azzerello's WW is a fairly manipulative character who spends more time with gods than mortals. Jones's WW has a naivete that doesn't seem present in Azzerllo's at all. It just feels inconsistent.

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