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squidbag's review
5.0
Oh, you forget how amusing this era was until you go back and read it. The first "funny" Justice League in my memory, and this one comes with a little foreword by Giffen to explain the lightning in a bottle that took place to make this roll forward. The team is utterly unique and completely 80s, so there are the same failings as of a lot of things in this period, but it's still a great story, well-paced, hilarious, and features the legendary smack down of Guy Gardner's GL by Batman. Maguire's faces are the most expressive in comics, maybe, and little details (like Blue Beetle rubbing his eyes inside his mask, or the mirror held up to 1980s geopolitics) make this a classic worth reading.
I'm kind of doing a thing where I collect volumes to hand my kids to say, "Yes, but read THIS story." They don't have to be perfect (comics often are not) or sometimes even good, but they have to be worthwhile. This is a couple of those things.
I'm kind of doing a thing where I collect volumes to hand my kids to say, "Yes, but read THIS story." They don't have to be perfect (comics often are not) or sometimes even good, but they have to be worthwhile. This is a couple of those things.
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