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JLA: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 6 by Doug Mahnke, Joe Kelly
3.0

So after Grant Morrison and Mark Waid, joe Kelly comes in to try his hand at the JLA.

What first starts off as a Wonder Woman arc, we go into solo one shots which are the best of the bunch in this collection, and then a major arc where the Justice league are killed off and a new team has to take over. Which is interesting since that is currently what is about to happen in 2022 as well.

Anyway this secondary team lead by Nightwing is actually the most fun part of the book and my favorite part. I also really liked how this mission and "death" really effected everyone internally and they don't just get back up and everything is great again.

But the storyline itself, the plotting, is overly long and complicated for really zero reason. We all knew everyone would come back. And nothing actually felt scary or gave us interesting villains.

So yeah a solid collection but nothing special in the end.

A 3 out of 5.