Witty. Disjointed, but witty. I suppose I couldn't expect any less from the late great Dwayne McDuffie. I do think some of the stories were carried by the clever puns more than the plot though.

This volume collects the last issues form Dwayne McDuffies' Justice League of America run, and it shares the same strengths and weknesses that plagues it from the begginning. However, by this volume, the weaknesses are outweighting the positives, and its a very dull read.As I've writen in reviews of previous volumes, he is good at writing character interactions and how the members of the JLA work as a team, but these usually serve a plot that is often either too slight, or too metaphysical, with...

As is so often the case with certain series, the longer they run the more they tail off. Someone should really do a graph :)

At this point it is pretty well know the difficulties that McDuffie had on his Justice League run, but I thought this was by far the best collection. I enjoyed meeting the Milestone Heroes (the only one I do know is Static, who does not appear here), and I thought that the interactions with the League were entertaining (esp. the stuff with Icon and Supes). Hardware was probably the MVP here just for being such a smartass about everything. Again, the story is slightly uneven, and I did not really...

Starts off strong with the Milestone heroes showing up for some unknown reason to give Dr. Light her powers back. They fight the Justice League just because they don't want to tell them what's going on. (Yeah, it's a dumb reason.) Then Final Crisis and Justice League: Cry for Justice suck the winds out of this story. Half the team leaves and the story is half-assed finished by this B-team. You could tell McDuffie's heart was no longer in the story.

This barely got three stars, and whether he likes hearing it or not it is because of writer Dwayne McDuffie. McDuffie blames the quality of the stories and his removal from the title on DC editorial, but I think at much of the problem is that McDuffie has not learned how to write for today's market. He writes fine for a one-two issues, but today's market calls for a writer who can string together enough over 5-6 issues to make it worthwhile for the publisher to collect in a trade paperback. Ther...

Taking place around the events of Final Crisis, we see the Milestone universe come in contact with the DC universe. The first time I read this I had no idea who any of the Milestone characters were, and wasn’t too fond of this story arc. I’m still not overly familiar with them, but seeing the Shadow Cabinet face off with and then team up with the JLA is still a fun time. Starbreaker and Shadow Thief made for interesting villains, and seeing the mental manipulations they had on our heroes was mor...

While I loved seeing the milestone characters finally brought into the dc universe, I thought the characters could be better utilized: both dc and milestone. I did like explaining the overlapping of the universes as well as tying the story into final crisis. I just feel that the dc's introduction of thee characters would yield more character moments.

Eh. Not sure if this is a must-read, but certainly not the worst thing I've ever picked up, either. Black Canary is struggling to keep the Justice League together without Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman on the active roster. Batman is dead, and Superman and Wonder Woman have other things to deal with, so all of the cool kids are jumping ship and heading over to Hal's new team. The rest of the story is about a mish-mosh of characters that I knew little to nothing about, but maybe at some point

This was an unfortunate melding of two universes for no reason. Added to that is that all the team drama is from things that happened in other books. Justice League Of America should be a premier book and this run hasn't been. The art has been very good but couldn't do much for this overly complicated tale involving waaaaaaaaay too many characters.

I really appreciate that this book has some of my favorite heroes in it but I was disappointed that it did not focus on the league more than it did, although it did focus on some of the issues they had when Black Canary had taken the role of leader of the league and tried to do what had to be done even though she was at odds with everyone and everything else. It really is a shame that the book isn't longer though it is very fast paced when the league fights Shadow Thief and finds starkiller. Jus...

Moments of fun spread between a lot of dull, uninspiring storylines. So this is when two worlds collide. Yes, I don't blame Dwayne for too much at fault here. A lot of shit was happening at the same time world wide in the universe such as Final Crisis and Fall and Rise storyline. So it's not all on him but man oh man he could have made the villains or evil doers more...interesting? So the Shadowking dude comes in, and Dr. Light is there to face off, with the other leaguers and honestly every iss...

Starts off strong but things get tedious fast. The team is thrown into disarray following the events of Final Crisis and the end result is a bunch of heroes standing around, trying to decide who should be on what roster. There just isn't much to care about here.

"I'm not convinced that this is particularly good JLA, especially not with the second-string team, but it's nonetheless a fair read, and a great chance to see McDuffie writing Milestone again and explaining their interactions with the current DC universe."

Story was a bit dusjointed. One and half stars.

I have always enjoyed the JLA, in all it's various incarnations through the decades. This new modern JLA is a very enjoyable read. Great art and plot make this JLA a great read for an older fan or a perfect place for a new fan. Very recommended

Dwayne McDuffie made GREAT comics!

I liked this one! I am looking forward to reading another Justice League comic.

Gentlemen, we’ve been had.The crossover that put Milestone Comics on the radar... temporarily! Initially, I read about this on Black Superheroes earlier this year. Has the JLA met their match? 😱Forget Batman V. Superman!🤔 Why 3 stars?•The story plays like an action movie, starts great, slows down and finally ends on a high note. I think the members of the Shadow Cabinet lacked backstory.•Donner and Blitzen were named after 2 of Santa’s reindeers!😁•Icon and Hardware are African-American versions...

Dwayne McDuffie did is darnedest here in 2009 to integrate his Milestone characters into the mainstream DCU, bringing in his Shadow Cabinet characters to square off against the JLA. Ably assisted on art by Ed Benes and Rags Morales, he did a good job of this, and this team-vs-team, team-with-team collection suffers only from (1) a break in the issue sequence while some other DC event was going on (the book collects JLA 27-28, 30-34),(2) the only partly-on-screen conflict between Black Canary as