80s Suicide Squad vs 80s Justice League International

I haven't read suicide squad - have them on the iPad and excited to catch up.

"Ram the building, Scott."

JLI at a certain point (maybe around #45 or so?) lost the plot

#46 is where the General Glory storyline starts, which is a different tone to the series prior, but interesting to see how early they thought a corrective backlash to grim & gritty was required - before 1963, before Big Bang Comics, before the Busiek Spider-Man series, almost ten years before America's Best Comics... #50 has the Kyle Baker story about how JLI is written, which is fantastic, and then #51 was the final Adam Hughes issue, a straight sitcom and one of the best issues ever. In my filing, I have all the spinoffs and annuals and JLEs mixed in together in chronological reading order, but I've stopped re-reads at #51 more than once.

#52 is the start of Breakdowns, which was tragic to read as a kid who'd rolled his eyes at the morons writing in to this comedy book with heartfelt characters -- "You should do more crossovers!" "You should bring back (x) so they have a real threat to face!" "This should stop being funny, superheroes are serious!" "Why don't you have more people die?" -- and Giffen & Helfer decided to leave the stage by giving that audience exactly what they'd been bleating for.

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i love them both but i guess it has to be jli to me since "identity crisis" was the point where i said "you know what, dc comics? fuck you."

The last issue of Breakdowns with Maguire is very good - a perfect ending, really (although undone a week later by the next issue of JLE )

Need to dig out my old JLE/JLI collection out, in storage at my mom's. Admittedly it's been a few years.

Breakdowns WAS great, as I remember it, though there were stronger moments preceding it - when the series pulled away from the chuckles and went dark it was a sucker punch for sure. Thinking of the first appearance of Despero in this run - which, oh my fucking God - and also Beetle vs Guy.

(Really struggling to remember the twists and turns in JLE and losing track.)

I'm hoping to get to Cerebus sometime in the near future, thanks for the reminder, sic!

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Ha!

A draw!

fair