Justice League Detroit: The End IV

[mrosa]

The conclusion of the storyline that ended the first volume of Justice League of America, before it was rebooted as the hilarious Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League International.

The issue opens with Professor Ivo:



And it's obvious he's bat-shit crazy!

Meanwhile Vixen has discovered Ivo's hideout and breaks into it alone. The professor advises her to give up and politely offers her a drink:






J'onn totally destroys all the androids and Vixen goes after Ivo. She kills him, but it's just another android:



The real Ivo had become so mentally disturbed, his creations felt embarrassed by him and locked him up in a padded cell. What a nice twist.

Vixen and J'onn return to the JLA HQ, where they say goodbye as the team is officially over.



And then Batman punched Guy Gardner and a bright new age started!

Comments

[icon_uk]

It's a little sad, given her reasons for leaving the JLA, that Vixen's next team, which she joined sort of reluctantly, was the Suicide Squad

[philippos42]

Yeah, she was pretty messed up when she took that job. I haven't read this story before, but it's pretty clear where her PTSD in Suicide Squad came from. (And I wonder if she was on that book because it was also drawn by Luke McDonnell.)

I was a kid when this came out. I remember seeing ads for the reboot, and being annoyed at DC for tossing what was then the current JLA in favor of a bunch of old characters--like blowing up your ballteam to bring back a bunch of retired players.

Superhero comics are weird like that.

[insolent_one]

So not only did Ivo go utterly insane, but the android intended to mimic him gradually did as well... That is some kind of crazy.

[silverhammerman]

That's a pretty neat twist, though in retrospect, one that people should have seen coming. Weird that this leads to the wacky comedy JLA though, talk about mood whiplash.

[the_blue_padre]

Although, to their credit, Giffen and Dematteis didn't start the Bwah-ha ha-ing right away. Sure, there were funny lines in the first issue, but there were definitely some homages to the previous run as well.

[philippos42]

The Giffen League wasn't all wacky hijinks, really. It had some very dark episodes, just with a lot of silliness in between. Sort of like real life.

[silicondream]

The mass destruction of androids in this arc is pretty disturbing, especially when there's so much emphasis on how complex and humanlike their minds are. Same with Doombots.