60 WEEKS WITH THE JUSTICE LEAGUE: Week 19

Justice League International #19
Nov. ‘88
“No More Mr. Nice-Guy!”
Keith Giffen: plot & breakdowns
J.M. DeMatteis: script
Kevin Maguire: pencils
Joe Rubinstein: inks
Bob Lappan: letters
Gene D’Angelo: colors
Little Andy Helfer: distraught & beleaguered editor


Picking up right where issue #18 left off, this book starts with a five-page brawl between Guy and Lobo outside of the JLI’s New York embassy. The debris finally settles when Booster traps Guy in a force-field bubble, at which point Lobo begins to ingratiate himself with the rest of the League, figuring he can sit tight on killing the space-faring members until they return home and walk right into his gun sights.


The better part of the second half of the book is dedicated to the League’s new membership drive, in which individual members cold call other heroes, most of whom aren’t home or aren’t interested in joining.


At the end of the day, this issue’s pretty talky, and not much happens in it. (Although Green Flame and Ice Maiden officially change their names to Fire and Ice, respectively, and it's finally settled, once and for all, within the pages of the story proper that Black Canary is out of the League.) However, it sets up what will hopefully be some high-stakes shenanigans on Apokolips, and Maguire’s art (now with Joe Rubinstein’s inks) is in top form.



The complete 60 Weeks with the Justice League on The Danger Digest:
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25/1, #26/2, #27/3, #28/4, #29/5, #30/6, #31/7, #32/8, #33/9, #34/10, #35/11, #36/12, #37/13, #38/14, #39/15, #40/16, #41/17, #42/18, #43/19, #44/20, #45/21, #46/22, #47/23, #48/24, #49/25, #50/26, #51/27, #52/28, #53/29, #54/30, #55/31, #56/32, #57/33, #58/34, #59/35, #60/36


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