Justice League Elite Discussion

[Downfall]

Before I go spend 2.50 on this book again (read: waste. I'm still deciding.) Suppose somebody fills in some holes for me?
I've read this book like 8 times and I'm just not getting it.
Now, I get that somebody on the team killed Bhat, but they don't know who it was... dragging this out, aren't they? The killing happened in issue 2.

But what is all this stuff abot alien drugs and alien gangsters and stuff?

I mean, nothing gets explained. WHO is that blond-headed, blue-eyed guy (Aftermath? He looks kinda like Ares, God of War, but hey.)
WHAT does drugs that open up portals, btw, WHAT THE?!, have to do with the Whorlogog?
How did Manchester Black return? I mean, he did shoot himself in the head, last I heard that was pretty final.

I'm sorry, maybe I'm just a layman and not getting these "high concepts", but between this and Azzarello's Superman, I didn't think it was possible for a comic to lose me so completely.

[jonsnow]

Unlike the Azz and Lee run I have enjoyed this run from the start. For me this is one of the books I most eagerly await month to month. The killer on the team is still a mystery. Aftermath turns out to be much more than an intergalactic drugdealer. As for the whorlogog, my DC history is too shoddy to know the connection. But I've yet to be overly confused, and nothing a second read has not cured (unlike Azz and Lee). I know this title has been smacked around here, but for me it is one of the bests books out there.

[Blake Petit]

Can't help you. I threw a party when this stopped showing up in the DC advance packs. Sorry, Jon, but I hate this book. These characters have no business using the name Justice League.

[Fanatix]

yeah I agree, plus, to me it just seems really redundant. "Justice League" elite was set up as a hunting team, going after the bad guy before they acted. But wasn't that also the point of the outsiders? Even though outsiders haven't been doing a good job of that.

[Picard]

Ok, this is what I think happened :)

I put everything in spoiler, just incase


Manchester Black was Vera Black all along. How he came back hasn't been explained yet, but probably will in the next arc.
For some reason, he got a hold of the Worlogog, tried using it to change history (like killing and infant Superman) but the changes wouldn't stay permanent. Don't know why.
Manitou Raven died trying to stop Manchester Black, and Flash somehow saved the others by doing.......Well, I have no idea :)
Oh, and the killer on the team was revealed to be Coldcast.
I don't think it's true though, since I'm sure DC want to play out the romancecard between him and Batgirl.


Not many answers :)

[jonsnow]

I just read #9 and man did I love it. Different strokes for different fols I guess, but man this books rocks!

[Mark Blicharz]

I'm not a fan of the book. The Flash wouldn't join a group that would kill and the JLA wouldn't condone it.

[Downfall]

Ok, this is what I think happened :)

I put everything in spoiler, just incase


Manchester Black was Vera Black all along. How he came back hasn't been explained yet, but probably will in the next arc.
For some reason, he got a hold of the Worlogog, tried using it to change history (like killing and infant Superman) but the changes wouldn't stay permanent. Don't know why.
Manitou Raven died trying to stop Manchester Black, and Flash somehow saved the others by doing.......Well, I have no idea :)
Oh, and the killer on the team was revealed to be Coldcast.
I don't think it's true though, since I'm sure DC want to play out the romancecard between him and Batgirl.


Not many answers :)

What the f--?! That just raises further questions!!

And why are Green Arrow and Flash with them anyway. They are heroes, and the Elite are scum.

[Cardiac]

I'm not a fan of the book. The Flash wouldn't join a group that would kill and the JLA wouldn't condone it.

It depends really. The Flash recently explained to Wonder Woman that he, like Barry, was an advocate of the death penalty in certain situations, but he did say only when the killer was psychotic and couldn't be contained.

[Blake Petit]

There's a far cry from advocating the death penalty and then going out and acting as judge, jury and executioner. Wally can do one without condoning the other, and that's how I think he's written in-character.