Writer: Dan Jurgens
Artist: Aaron Lopresti
To begin with, this book is a huge dissappointment. It's poorly written by a writer I was expecting better of and falls flat in numerous areas. The art is good, but let's face it, he's not illustrating Shakespeare here.
First there's a lot of characters in the book and most are one dimenisonal. Booster Gold is the only one in the book that seems multifaceted, probably becomes Jurgens created him. We don't know most of their powers, expect the obvious stuff like fire or ice powers. I don't even have a clue as to what Godiva's (blonde chick) powers are. Does she move her hair? Does she have telekinesis and love to move her hair? Gah. What use is someone who moves their hair?
August General in Iron (real name) and Rocket Red are so stereotypical is almost ridiculous. Rocket Red talks like Borat, which is not supposed to be funny. August General is Chinese I guess, so Rocket Red doesn't like him. Less said about these folks the best.
Guy Gardner is in the issue just to be a jerk. Seriously he's a jerk and justleaves. At least in the old JLI he was a jerk that stayed around, then Batman punched him. Speaking of Batman, he seems to be the only sane one of the group that doesn't fill a stereotype or instantly hate everyone else. Cause he's Batman, and is there only to move sales.
So it's pretty much a quamire of a story. The UN forms the JLI because they need superheroes or something. UN scientists are being kidnapped (who cares?) and the team is sent to find them. The story is weak, the dialogue also lame. Just because all the characters share the same panel doesn't mean they all should have something to say Jurgens.
So overall I would barely recommend this to someone who wants to read all of the #1s. Otherwise I see this in the dollar bins. I hope this book gets better, only because it carries a great legacy of the JLI from the late 80's and early 90's.
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