Justice League: A New Beginning written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis, Pencils by Kevin Maguire, Inks by Terry Austin (Ch.1) and Al Gordon (Ch. 2-7), Letters by Bob Lappan, Colors by Gene D’Angelo and Daniel Vozzo
“A New Beginning” marks the start of the Giffen/DeMatteis run on Justice League of America aka The Justice League International era aka The Bwahaha League. The last because even during serious and dramatic story-lines it still wouldn’t take things totally seriously. Even the dourest of Detectives or emoest of Martians would crack wise or at least crack a smile. It’s an era that introduced the perfect team-up of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. And of course its the volume of One Punch…
While the original soft trade is now out-of-print thats mostly because DC is slowly releasing the entire run in a series of fairly affordable hard-back editions. An excellent addition to fans of capes and the DCU ones especially. The books should also be appealing to those whose main introduction to the DCU is from the Justice League and JLU cartoons.
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1 thark // Mar 2, 2009 at 6:46 am
Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League is the greatest thing ever.
Also, don’t forget to check out their more recent revisit miniserieses, Formerly Known As The Justice League and I Can’t Believe It’s Not The Justice League. Fantastic stuff.
Kind of interesting to compare this to the same Keith Giffen’s run on Legion of Superheroes–which was daaaaark.
2 LurkerWithout // Mar 2, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I’ve got both trades for the Superbuddies stuff, and volume 4 of the JLI trades should be arriving sometime this month from Amazon…
I wish they’d reprint his “Great Darkness Saga” trade though. I’ve seen bits of it and I’d love to get a hold of it. I’ve only got one LoSH trade otherwise, the McGraw, Peyer and Waid “The Beginning of Tomorrow” one. Which I think is the start of the 2nd reboot. I know whatever the status quo after Johns finishes FC: Legion of Three Worlds will be 4Boot…
3 Aron Head // Mar 3, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I loved Justice League. Something about the Martian Manhunter’s addiction to Oreos, I think.
We have a DeMatteis interview coming up over on ideologyofmadness.com.
4 Zak // Mar 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Ohh, I’ve got the first two volumes in hardcover. The first volume just recently came out in paperback, too.
I’ve enjoyed these so much. They’re fun, and I like that Giffen doesn’t take it too seriously. It’s a great change (even though it was the 80′s, but let’s think of the now, and when it’s being re-released) and is a relief from the sea of ‘serious’ comics out there right now.
Good pick!
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