Justice League of America - Issue 11
Featuring the twin menaces of The Demons Three and misattributed credit
The Justice League (aka the Justice League of America, aka the JLA, aka Justice League International, aka Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)) is a collection of the DC Universe's greatest heroes (and also Green Arrow).
I talked about why I love the JLA in this piece here. Now I’m breaking down each and every issue of the comic book, from their very first appearance, with Atom-sized summaries. Enjoy!
Following on immediately from the previous issue, the Lord of Time tries once more to be the main villain of this issue, only to again be outshone by more interesting antagonists (this time, the returning Demons Three - Abnegazar, Rath and Ghast), and discarded eight pages into the story. The Demons Three then lock the Justice League in gourds for some reason and set about performing magical mischief on the world (stealing the moon, turning back time, programming elevators to stop at every floor, etc). Fortunately, our heroes escape and come up with the purportedly brilliant idea to disguise themselves as one another and fake each other’s powers for reasons that mostly eluded me, but which nevertheless, work.
Fun With Comics!
MVP
Look at this jackass, Green Lantern, trying to take credit for Wonder Woman’s escape from the mystical gourds of imprisonment. Not fooling me, GL. Wonder Woman is the MVP of this issue, as emphasised by her contempt for even the prospect of Hal saving the day. (‘How could you possibly have done it?’)
Top Panel
Diana’s not just content with putting GL in his place. She’s also sensibly giving silly old Snapper Carr some mindless busy work while the proper members of the team (and Green Arrow) head into the future to sort out this tedious Lord of Time character.
Villain Cryptic Crossword Clue
Eleventh issue villains (Abnegazar, Rath and Ghast) improbably redeems tenth? Oh! (3, 6, 5)