After all this time, I still love the Justice League International. The Annual wasn’t the best, and the Suicide Squad crossover was a bit lacking, but in its regular schedule, this book is just perfect. Not even the Millennium event made it bad, haha!Interaction is perfect and it makes for a fun sitcom/superhero match.

This is the good stuff.

Delightful. I had forgotten how good these stories were. There is no doom and gloom nor darkness that today's comic stories convey. Great writing, gorgeous art and fun characters make for some really great stories.

What a shame. I feel like the creative staff had really gotten a handle on the characterization and tone they wanted to go with for the series, and it could have been really good. Unfortunately, it got snared in crossovers (something about Manhunters, I don't even know) and team-ups (Suicide Squad, which ok) and couldn't really be its own book. That said, reading the characters reacting to the events is still quite entertaining. A super nitpicky side note: this collection includes the '87 annual...

This one is stifled by a terrible event and a poorly placed (but otherwise decent) annual. Comedy is, unfortunately, not center place and the central plot revolves around the event and its wake. The author also saw fit to have Batman quit like an ungrateful child.

Reprints Justice League (1) Annual #1, Justice League International (1) #8-13, and Suicide Squad (1) #13 (June 1987- May 1988).  The threat of the Manhunters has come to Earth and the Justice League finds itself teamed with heroes and Green Lanterns to stop the Manhunters’ plans.  Maxwell Lord’s origins are revealed as the JLI questions who is pulling their strings.  Plus, a political prisoner situation in the Soviet Union has Waller’s Suicide Squad going head-to-head with Lord’s JLA.Written by

Well...the story is...interesting to say the least, and less cliched and one-dimensional than I'd expected from a mainstream comic from 1987 (back when I was just a toddler!)(1) Captain Marvel isn't here anymore! OMG the injustice!!!!!(2) A lot of Green Lanterns flying around! I wonder what they are doing here. You know, space mission really isn't my thing!(3) I wonder when and how Guy Gardner had managed to piss off the Russians. XD(4) The older-version of the Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller! I...

Ted was really embarrassing. Dinah looked awesome and put up with so much shit (read: Ted Kord). Ted and Booster went on a date in Paris. Everything about Batman was lampshaded; Bruce Wayne, go to therapy challenge. Martian Manhunter-focused annual admittedly made me emotional about Martian Manhunter, a seeming impossibility. It was incredibly funny. Did I mention that Ted was embarrassing? Oh, and Dinah is just. UGH. DINAH. DINAH!!!That is my full review. God bless the JLI.

Meh. Did not care for this one. Terrible banter and boring art.

Issues #8-12 in this volume are the finale to the first year of JLI, answering the secrets of Maxwell Lord. There's definitely too much tell and not enough show, but Lord still gets some drama that helps to redeem his character. Meanwhile, the rest of the League has increasingly funny adventures, because Giffen and DeMatteis have really honed their art of being witty and clever in their dialogue. The big problem with this volume is the unfortunate Millennium crossover, which really sets back the...

poor stories. just not that interesting.

There’s a lot going on this volume: new members, event tie-ins, a Suicide Squad crossover, Maxwell Lord’s origin, and a flashback story. As a result, it doesn’t read as well as the streamlined superheroics and team building of the first 7 issues. The fun factor is still there, just not as upfront as before. Welcome to modern comics, where events and crossovers are guaranteed to mess with your favorite titles! That said, I actually enjoyed the Suicide Squad crossover - I’ve been meaning to read t...

I wish they're done a better job with the printing. For a nifty hardcover, some of the lettering is unclear, or even unfinished, and though I prefer a flat-paper to the current glossy stuff, the pages here are positively brittle.Still, great stories. Bruce, Ted, Michael and Beatriz going undercover in Bialya is a great arc, balanced nicely by the fun cosmic adventure of J'Onn, G'nort, Red and Barda chasing Scott across the cosmos. Vol. 2's Max Lord stories, issues 11 and 12, are still among the

The second volume ups the amount of jokes to the perfect quantity, I'd argue. It's still not overwhelming the adventure narrative to its detriment, but makes you chuckle quite often. This is the one that features the infamous One Punch scene, too. Guy Gardner gets it from Batman and combined with later events, this transforms him into a pretty much Shazam clone. Golly, that's swell for multiple reasons. One is that it increases team cohesion drastically. New Lantern is much more controllable tha...

Definitely a letdown after the awesome first volume. This story jumped around a bit. They provided a little catch-up synopsis on the Millenium events and the struggles with the Manhunters, but without knowning that storyline very well it was difficult to invest in the little snippets that involved the JLI. The opening story was fun, but after that it suffered from the starts and stops. Not great, hopefully volume 3 will get us back on track.I had the chance to interview co-author J.M. DeMatteis

Tho interrupted by tie-in this is a foundation block in one of the great comics of the 1986-1987 season and the most under rated. Comedy, characterisation, adventure and intrigue, I'm glad I chose this as the topic for my podcast, 'Justice League 1987 - Reinventing Superheroes', because re reading this was a joy.

Bumping my estimation up a star this time around, as this is the volume where the JLI we came to love really starts to manifest. There is a slight unevenness caused by the interpolation of bits of the Millienium storyline and the Suicide Squad guest appearance, not to mention the absence of Kevin Maguire, which is probably why I marked it down before, but it marks the first appearance of 'Did I just say that?' among other delights.

Justice League gets better going Justice League International. New Members Captain Atom and Red Rocket join up. Something's going on with Maxwell Lord, and Guy continues to have a pleasant demeanor which shocks the rest of the team. Lots of laughs and intrigue.

Not as good as Vol 1 but still great. Just one of the best runs to read off on its own from DC in this era.

Based on Sesana's warning, I immediately flipped to the back of the trade to read the Annual *first*, rather than last. Ultimately, even that didn't save this chum bucket.First question: has Booster Gold always been such a non-egalitarian? This probably sounded normal in the 80's, but shouldn't a 25th-century dude be way more progressive?Second question: did I *really* think this was the pinnacle of humourous when I was a teenager reading this for the first time? Man this shit's hilarious:Third