Get ready for a Bwhaha good time! Tomorrow the JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL Omnibus Volume 1 hits shelves.
This is the 1987 team that brought a wonderful sense of relationships and comedy to the comic book world, thanks to Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire (and many others along the way). The writing was sharp, the characterizations were interesting and deeper in spite of all the jokes, and the art work was revolutionary!
Characters that were mostly discarded by DC, found new life and a home in this title. Booster Gold and Blue Beetle had not lived up to the high hopes of their solo books, which lasted about 2 years each. Guy Gardner was the loud mouth jerk of the Green Lantern Corps and was the perfect Frank Burns to Booster and Beetle as the Hawkeye and Trapper/BJ of the team. J'onn Jones was great as the moral core of the team, and additions of Fire and Ice as well as Mister Miracle and Big Barda gave the team some interesting dynamics. A rotating cast that included Dr Fate, Batman, Black Canary, Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Captain Atom and more, kept it interesting. And who can forget Maxwell Lord?
But the core team were what made this book work.
The Omnibus collects around 30 plus issues of the main book, annuals, and the spin off Justice League Europe (which featured The Flash, Powergirl, Elongated man among its core). It is over 1000 pages of content in high quality! I love that DC and Marvel are rolling out these massive tomes (I have Legion of Super Heroes Silver Age Vol 1, Marvel's Star Wars and am getting some John Byrne Fantastic Four soon!)
Amazon has it for around $66 now (I paid $55 by pre-ordering it and getting the lowest price while waiting for release, which is a great way to save big $$).
https://www.amazon.com/Justice-League-International-Omnibus-Vol/dp/1401273866/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508186286&sr=8-1&keywords=justice+league+international+omnibus
With any luck, we will get Volume 2 sooner than later, which should contain a big chunk of JLE as well as the debut of Adama Hughes as the JL artist who would follow best in Maguire's footsteps.
One of the best books of the mid-80s (which was full of greatness all around), this collection is a must for fans of great storytelling!
Bwhahaha indeed!
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