Justice League International 2: Breakdown

This book has some great moments between characters. Booster and Guy are the big names, but the least interesting on the team.Spoiler alert: OMAC arrives.Spoiler alert: Somebody dies.

Really happy with this one but am glad I knew it had been cancelled before I started or I would have been upset. While I'd heard of Booster Gold he was a new character for me and I really like him. Four new superheroes are added to the team whom I also had never heard of except one, though I know nothing about any of them and this one volume certainly wasn't enough to form an opinion on them yet. Blue Beetle, Olympian, Batwing and O.M.A.C. are the new guys. For most of the book they are fighting a team of bad guys who are really cool, especially the leader, Breakdown. I really enjoyed this story, though I did get pretty confused with the "Fury of Firestorm" crossover issue as I was once again in totally new waters with the character. There was a final ending of sorts that laid this chapter of JLI to rest but these guys are not down for the count. At the very end Booster Gold is visited by his future self and told to visit the JLA and talk to Steve Trevor. Now JLI may be at an end but the stoy has been tied into the whole Justice League universe and I'm hoping to see some of these guys again.

Good way to see some up and comers. It is a great book if you are looking for a fun read with fresh faces.

Great product.

This volume collects issues 7-12 of Justice League International, The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men 9, and Justice League International Annual 1. This is the last volume of Justice League International as it was cancelled after the Annual.The U. N. backed Justice League International is attacked right on the steps of the Hall of Justice by a terrorist cell. The cell is an angry group of meta-humans led by Breakdown. Booster Gold and his League members are demoralized and wanting revenge as innocent bystanders are hurt and killed and they even suffer loses of their own. The team now consists of Booster Gold, Batman, Green Lantern: Guy Gardner, August General In Iron, and Godiva, as well as newcomers, Batwing and O.M.A.C. They go on the trail of Breakdown's terror group to find themselves pretty terrorized of what is out there. Justice League International Vol.1: The Signal Masters (The New 52)  had a sense of fun with it, which really drops off here. This book gets darker with deadly acts of terrorism with crippling effects for the teams own members (3 of the 4 members that are out are female but all 4 are non-American, really taking the diversity and International take on this book out of it). Again, the first volume had a playful vibe to it that is sorely missing from the New 52 altogether. The massive load of characters (which is still a problem here) would banter with each other while fighting the threat was an appeal of this book. Not in this volume. The jokes come less and less and with less and less impact. Each character sounds like the same overly driven stunned by the horrible events as the previous. August General In Iron at least breaks that trend as the one who as actually been to war. Batman only seems to be here as a selling tool and to keep reminding Booster of what a good job he is doing despite all this death and destruction. Not Booster's fault, and it is confusing as to why he keeps getting the blame for everything that goes wrong, but it takes five issues, and side tour/crossover with Firestorm, before this league finally stops the threat. It really drags with no character development.Issue 12 was a decent epilogue as a funeral for one deceased character and send off to the series. It made the reader want to like this group of superheroes but the previous story did not cut it. Whether writer Dan Jurgens was given too many characters to write or this was just something he could not handle is beside the point. He did not write a very good comic series in it its last stretch.The annual is written by Geoff Johns and Dan Didio. It opens with Booster and what is left of the team going over their new headquarters and becomes an attack from within that really is teasing for bigger things to come in the DCU. The characters are still pretty flat here. What is wrong with everyone?! Booster Gold is supposed to be a goofball, not a tightly wound leader. The teases are pretty cool and leave one excited for what is probably set up for DC's long hyped "Trinity War".The art is really solid. Aaron Lopresti and crew illustrate a really nice superhero book. Jason Fabok does the Annual and really makes it look nice.What started out as fun adventure series that might have become a corner of the DCU for some more light hearted superhero yarns did not work out. Instead it tried to get bogged down in getting grittier and darker with making international terrorism the subject of the book, depressing it's characters and making them just about all bland copies of each other. It did not need to be as wacky as the JLI from the late 80's early 90's but it certainly did not need to become this either.

Collects Justice League International issues #7-12, and Justice League International Annual #1This volume started out better than Volume 1, than quickly went downhill. Then, it got so bad, and I was so uninterested, that I said out loud, "I can't do this anymore."I started flipping through the pages, reading a few words here and there and looking at the pictures to get the gist of what was happening.Then, just when I was prepared to give this a 1-star rating and call it a day, the last few pages redeemed the book slightly.FROM HERE ON OUT, I'M DOING ALL SPOILERS.PLEASE DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ABOUT THE NEW 52 UNIVERSE OR THIS BOOK:OK, here we go. Full spoiler talk. As I type this, the "Futures End" story is in full swing, and I know that Brother Eye is a main villain in that story. Was what we saw at the end of this book the inciting incident for "Futures End?" Bruce Wayne helped create Brother Eye, not knowing it would turn bad, but who is his new programmer? Is it someone from Prime Earth or Earth 2. Earth 2 kind of makes sense because I think the upcoming "Worlds End" story is supposed to feature a war between these two Earths. Maybe Earth 2 turned Brother Eye bad. The only reason I chose to read both of these volumes of JLI is because they feature the only appearances of Booster Gold (that I know of) in the New 52. He will be back in September 2014 for "Futures End," so I wanted to see what else was going on with him prior to that event. The time travel stuff with him and his future self at the end of this book was fun, and I'm hoping this story will be continued in "Futures End." Booster disappeared (probably into the time stream), and I don't think he has appeared since. Also, Blue Beetle got sucked through a portal to the home world of his armor. The past versions of the Reach that I've seen haven't been good, so that's not good for Beetle. Is the fact that Superman and Wonder Woman are dating going to lead to something super bad, or are we (the readers) just being misled. It seems like Future Booster is trying to get current Booster to contact Steve Trevor and the JLA in order to stop this relationship. Future Booster is a member of A.R.G.U.S., and again, I'm not sure what to make of that. Future Booster tells current Booster that the remaining members of the JLI are going to disband, but eventually form a team called the Global Guardians. I won't be reading that book.

Really happy with this one but am glad I knew it had been cancelled before I started or I would have been upset. While I'd heard of Booster Gold he was a new character for me and I really like him. Four new superheroes are added to the team whom I also had never heard of except one, though I know nothing about any of them and this one volume certainly wasn't enough to form an opinion on them yet. Blue Beetle, Olympian, Batwing and O.M.A.C. are the new guys. For most of the book they are fighting a team of bad guys who are really cool, especially the leader, Breakdown. I really enjoyed this story, though I did get pretty confused with the "Fury of Firestorm" crossover issue as I was once again in totally new waters with the character. There was a final ending of sorts that laid this chapter of JLI to rest but these guys are not down for the count. At the very end Booster Gold is visited by his future self and told to visit the JLA and talk to Steve Trevor. Now JLI may be at an end but the stoy has been tied into the whole Justice League universe and I'm hoping to see some of these guys again.

c'est un volume assez efficace qui jette les bases de la future série hebdo de DC, quelqu'un prend le contrôle de brother eye , Jurgens scelle le destin de l'actuel OMAC et Batman prend une place preponderante dans la serie.

Justice League International Volume 2 Breakdown is a great addition to any comic book fan's collection with amazing artworks, fantastic storylines as well as some old favourites Justice Leaguers alongside some new ones to, 100% well worth purchasing

Why they cancelled this, I'll never know.

Arrived safely. Thank you!