[brydeemer]

Who loves Guy Gardner?

Bry

[matchkitjohn]

This should be a good one. I got the first 7 or 8 issues at a flea market this summer. I would have gotten more but I didn't know it became JLI after a few issues. Doh! You guys are cranking these suckers out.

[mguy1977]

I have 15 issues & Annual 1 of this JL/JLI just before the dang HC was announced.  

Matthew

[Peter]

The cover to #1. An instant classic!




And for a whole slew of homages to this cover, check out my blog posting:
http://peterjohnrios.blogspot.com/2008/10/...in-maguire.html

[deathincalabria]

and some great homages:

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

Really enjoyed this episode.....

The Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League (and it's sister title, Justice League Europe) was a book that I read religiously. I literally equate it with my high school days....if I remember correctly, I purchased the first two or three issues as they were being published during the summer break between my 7th and 8th grade year.....and one of the very vivid memories I have of my senior year was purchasing #60 (the final issue of the run) two or three days prior to my high school graduation. I was even one of those dedicated fans that completely dropped the title after the Giffen/DeMatteis team left (oh,...I tried two or three issues afterwards, but it felt dry). I didn't pick up a JLA book again (with a few exceptions....I know I bought the Doomsday tie-in and I think I picked up #0 and tried that team line-up for a few issues, which I seem to remember consisted of Wonder Woman, Flash, Obsidian, Nuklon, Crimson Fox....and wasn't Blue Devil in there?) until Morrison's book.

IMO, in hindsight, the book reads like a really good sitcom from #1 to #60. It's fairly fresh (or was) for the first year or two, and really peaked during the third (to me, the best it was ever gonna get was around the mid 30s...during the Kooey-Kooey-Kooey "Blue and Gold" resort scam, art-wise: Adam Hughes and script). It kinda jumped the shark somewhere midway in the fourth year (the General Glory stuff), yet found a way to wrap things up nicely and end gracefully with "Breakdowns". #60 even reads like a really good final episode of sitcom....


The Giffen/DeMatteis/ Maguire creative team was the reason for my purchasing of one of the three Marvel books I was buying within the last five years prior to my complete boycott of the publisher: the five issue Defenders mini-series they collaborated on, which is an excellent read for anyone who hasn't sought it out...basically them giving the "Bwa-ha-ha-ha" treatment to Marvel's "Non-Team"

[Poozer71]

What a great episode on great run of the Justice League. I eagerly bought every issue of this, Europe and International.

And I'm drunk on Oreos. *hiccup*

[David Akers]

I notice that the episodes don't have the usual CGS cover art, so why not use the cover of the issue you are footnoting instead? You've made reference to the covers in most, if not all, of the episodes anyway, so having the cover handy would be a nice treat.

-David

[Peter]

I notice that the episodes don't have the usual CGS cover art, so why not use the cover of the issue you are footnoting instead? You've made reference to the covers in most, if not all, of the episodes anyway, so having the cover handy would be a nice treat.

-David

On the episodes page? The image is there.

[Calib@n]

[David Akers]

On the episodes page? The image is there.

No, I meant in the ID3 stuff on the audio file. Bryan, I'm sure, knows how to add the cover to show as the episode art when it displays in iTunes or on an iPod.

-David

[Shane Kelly]

That is BRILLIANT!!!! Thanks very much and very very cool. I have to print that one out and keep it.

[Peter]

Not to hijack the thread but there are all kinds of CGS photo manips here:
http://www.comicspace.com/comicgeekspeak/c...;comic_id=14481

[Darth Kramer]

Good episode. I just hope you guys don't fall into the trap that was the reason that Tom Katers decided to not continue with Justice League. Justice League is a great book, and hope you guys don't just have to explain jokes for 15-20 minutes as this book progresses.

[luckymustard]

i picked up 11 total of the various justice issues that were giffen & dematteis, a few more giffens (usually with someone else) and then some gerard jones and others - for a total of about 60 books - all for free from my lcs a week or two ago. of all my old back issues that i've gotten in the past few months, they are at the top of my pile. i might have to find the original giffen & dematteis trade and start it proper.

[billydx24]

I picked up the Volume 1 harcover on a whim. Wow, this is a great book! Like someone else said, a sitcom with superheroes. I find myself laughing out loud. It should be corny, but it isn't.

My question: I see that there are 3 hardcovers out now, are they all this good? I'd like to continue picking up the series if so

[mdaddio]

What a great episode on great run of the Justice League. I eagerly bought every issue of this, Europe and International.

And I'm drunk on Oreos. *hiccup*

Yeah i had all of these first run, and really enjoyed the humor. I remember my brother buying me #7 for like a 1.50 for my bday when i was 13, and that was when a buck fifty was worth something.

[Paul]

When they put Captain Marvel in Justice League, they had Roy Thomas and Tom Mandrake do a Shazam miniseries. A lot of people don't like it, but I enjoyed it. Roy was the one who decided to go with the mind of a kid in the body of an adult. That was a really great angle on the character and, as Peter said, helped to differentiate The Big Red Cheese from Superman.

When that miniseries wasn't well received, Billy was removed from the League, for a proposed Byrne reboot, which ultimately fell apart (there's a great story on this in Back Issue #12 from TwoMorrows), the project went to Jerry Ordway, who did a great job with the character in The Power of Shazam.

[rebis]

Picked up the series with issue 31 (that I bought at my local 7-11 - good times!)

and then immediatly started buying my way back to issue #1.

At the time I was just getting back into comics and was only reading Morrison's Animal Man & Doom Patrol. The art and the tone of the book really appealed to me. One of the best runs in all of comics.