I loved reading through it years ago when it was being story timed here. There was a moment you can tell that it must have gotten popular at the time because Wonder Woman and Superman started showing up a ton. Then sadly they started kicking out the characters that made the book fun to read to make it just another JL book like before.
>Batman
Really only showed up for the initial team and was one of the first to leave (I don't recall if Dr. Fate left earlier). >Wonder Woman
Don't remember seeing her in JLI or JLE. >the Flash
Wally was not popular at the time and also didn't show up until JLE (where he stayed) >less-popular Green Latnern
Yes.
Yeah that cover was once it started getting popular and they were adding people in to the team. The book just started as JL and then became JLI and then eventually added JLE.
Are you sure? If this is the 'second anniversary issue' it was probably around the time that JLE was first introduced and both teams didn't have any real starpower until much later.
I picked up the two volume omnibus of JLI and reread it for the first time in probably over a decade. I'm right around the Extermist plotline of JLE (with the villains from Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress' universe showing up) and Scott Free just 'died'. That's a good year, maybe two, after OP issue and no A-Listers have had a meaningful presence since Batman left.
I might be miss remembering JLE and JLX then. I thought it was once WW and Supes came in they moved a bunch to JLE. I just remember the more big names came in the less the core group was seen. But I may also just need to reread all of it, it has been a while.
This is JLI not JL/JLA. The JL for most of its history want a “let’s push the characters that can’t sustain solos” book. It was a “let’s use all the characters that can sustain solos” book.
Modern writers can’t do natural humor (comedy comes from the characters) they just do joss whedon snarky shit or meta humor
That being said I wouldn’t mind a second JL book of B listers. Just make it some minor league type of situation >inb4 JLI wasn’t just comedy
Yes I know they had actual adventure
JLI was lightning in a bottle that only happened because Giffen was denied everyone except Batman because O'Neil took pity on him for having to do a Justice League book with no A-listers because they hadn't been properly defined yet in the post-crisis. The titles slid into irrelevance once the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire run ended, and Morrison's "let's finally just do the Big Seven" was the shot in the arm it needed to become DC's best selling title.
Yes. The A Listers already have a shit ton of books. They need to give to characters who don't have any series at the moment.
JLI is the antithesis to the Teen Titans and I love it because of it.
>JLI is the antithesis to the Teen Titans
that sounds kind of interesting, could you elaborate?
Oh, so that it turns into a title nobody cares about?
Nobody cares about the regular JL anymore.
>turns into
Never forget this was the most popular version among fans
Yeah, by accident. The previous and subsequent lineups with b-listers all were unpopular.
I loved reading through it years ago when it was being story timed here. There was a moment you can tell that it must have gotten popular at the time because Wonder Woman and Superman started showing up a ton. Then sadly they started kicking out the characters that made the book fun to read to make it just another JL book like before.
>Justice League needs to go back to being about B and C listers.
Like Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and a less-popular Green Lantern?
Wonder Woman has always been a C-lister masquerading as an A.
>Batman
Really only showed up for the initial team and was one of the first to leave (I don't recall if Dr. Fate left earlier).
>Wonder Woman
Don't remember seeing her in JLI or JLE.
>the Flash
Wally was not popular at the time and also didn't show up until JLE (where he stayed)
>less-popular Green Latnern
Yes.
Yeah that cover was once it started getting popular and they were adding people in to the team. The book just started as JL and then became JLI and then eventually added JLE.
Are you sure? If this is the 'second anniversary issue' it was probably around the time that JLE was first introduced and both teams didn't have any real starpower until much later.
I picked up the two volume omnibus of JLI and reread it for the first time in probably over a decade. I'm right around the Extermist plotline of JLE (with the villains from Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress' universe showing up) and Scott Free just 'died'. That's a good year, maybe two, after OP issue and no A-Listers have had a meaningful presence since Batman left.
I might be miss remembering JLE and JLX then. I thought it was once WW and Supes came in they moved a bunch to JLE. I just remember the more big names came in the less the core group was seen. But I may also just need to reread all of it, it has been a while.
Even better solution: capeshit needs to die.
Justice League Irrelevant
And thank God for that.
"Important" superhero stories are so often utter shit
Why is DC so weird
are they?
Aside from Batman yes. Compared to marvel this shit is incomprehensible.
I must confess, I don't really see it. I don't think most of it is incomprehensible, or that Batman's generally easier to understand than it
or you know, compared to Marvel for that matter
How so? I guess if you're a secondary and you rely on movies yeah Marvel makes more sense.
This is JLI not JL/JLA. The JL for most of its history want a “let’s push the characters that can’t sustain solos” book. It was a “let’s use all the characters that can sustain solos” book.
JLI was both JL, and JLA for most of its run.
Modern writers can’t do natural humor (comedy comes from the characters) they just do joss whedon snarky shit or meta humor
That being said I wouldn’t mind a second JL book of B listers. Just make it some minor league type of situation
>inb4 JLI wasn’t just comedy
Yes I know they had actual adventure
Gunn will make a JLI movie, and for synergy the comics will fix Maxwell Lord.
I like an ensemble JL.
>Fire without Ice
It hurts.
Who is that above Blue Beetle? Waaaaay in the back.
Karate Kid.
Why would a Legionnaire join an inferior team?
maybe he's slumming
Directly above Beetle is Ice and above her, all the way in the back, is Rocket Red.
>https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Rocket_Red
>tfw you didn't know who anon was talking about cause you couldn't find Ted Kord anywhere in the picture
Yes, but always keep two or three big names on the roaster to keep constant sales.
JLI was lightning in a bottle that only happened because Giffen was denied everyone except Batman because O'Neil took pity on him for having to do a Justice League book with no A-listers because they hadn't been properly defined yet in the post-crisis. The titles slid into irrelevance once the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire run ended, and Morrison's "let's finally just do the Big Seven" was the shot in the arm it needed to become DC's best selling title.
As much as I love that run, the JLA are supposed to be an all-star team. There's a reason why Justice League Detroit failed.
But the JLI run is the best run.
Beside the point. Make a separate team book then. Let the JLA be the Big 7.
Agreed
I hate team books so much it's unreal.