Justice Leagues

[auggie18]

IconUK recently mentioned the old Justice League of Arkham, which got me thinking about the other Justice Leagues from that storyline. (Get ready for a copy and paste explanation.)

"Justice Leagues" was a storyline which ran through six one-shot comics published in 2001 by DC Comics, which introduced a revamped Justice League of America. In the arc, alien invaders, working through a human-seeming agent known as the "Advance Man", used Hector Hammond, a telepathic supervillain, to cause the world to forget the existence of the Justice League of America. When Hammond discovered the Advance Man's true motives, he attempted to reverse the process, but was only able to transmit the partial phrase "Justice League of A--" before being incapacitated by the alien emissary.[1] It was found that the individual members of the Justice League were instinctively creating new crime-fighting organizations beginning with the "Justice League of A" to fill the void. Each issue was supposedly the first of a new series featuring one of the alternate teams, although they were just one-offs.

Given that they're forming a bunch of new Justice Leagues now, apparently, it seemed appropriate to look at some of the old alternates.


THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMAZONS!



Lady team. Neat. Very Birds of Prey.



Oh, right. Cheesecake. Sigh.

THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF ATLANTIS!



This was back when Power Girl was an Atlantian. Remember that? Yeah.


Karen's like Wolverine, apparently. All the teams want her.

THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF ALIENS



Oh, right. Guy Gardner was an alien for, like, fifteen seconds.



That's our Guy!

*laugh track*

And, some others.

Anarchy...



Air...



Adventure...



Apostles...



Of course, Arkham had one too...
 

Comments

[silverhammerman]

Is.... Is the Justice League of Air just a group of characters that can fly? Is that like the only qualification? That's pretty weak.

[q99]

Yea, seriously. I mean, you've got Tornado and Condor, but a lot of those people's flight *isn't even air based*.

[icon_uk]

It's a good enough definition for the Air Force, no?

[namey]

Hmmm.

Alliteration
Amphibians
Aerosol
Australia
Antipathy

[blunderbuss]

I would adore an Australian Justice League, I'm not kidding. I even sketched up a few characters ages ago just for fun.

[darkknightjrk]

Is it bad that my first thought was, "One of them would have to be a talking kangaroo?"

[philippos42]

Yes, yes it is.

Looking at Eel's team:

[philippos42]

'Mazing Man? Seriously?

What's he going to do, read his magazines at criminals?

Re: Looking at Eel's team:

[icon_uk]

Worth a try, surely? Moonstone once convinced Graviton to stop a massive assault by asking him what he REALLY wanted out of life.

[q99]

Adventure seems pretty awesome!

[thezmage]

Yeah, that's the only team here tht really seems to have legs, if you ask me. And nobody did

[q99]

Definitely the best. Though Aliens could do an Annihilators-like comic, and Amazons is full of characters I like (and one I utterly don't recognize).

[icon_uk]

Amazons is - Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Big Barda, Power Girl, Huntress, Zatanna and Neil Gaiman's Vertigo take on Black Orchid

[q99]

Yea, Black Orchid's the one that kinda stands out as less familiar there :)

Anyway, it'd be a pretty good team.

[icon_uk]

I recognise Flash and Mr Miracle, but who are the others?

[thezmage]

The Atom, Beast Boy, and I believe Black Canary.

[crinos]

You forgot the Justice League of Arkham.

Yes, Batman thought that he protected the world with a team made up of himself, and a bunch of his enemies from Artkham.

Including the Joker IIRC.

Yes, he was that stupid.

EDIT: Okay, looking it up on the Batman wiki, the team consisted of Batman, Nightwing, Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Scarface/The Ventriloquist, and Poison Ivy.

Which, if you ignore the Joker being there, is not that bad. I mean Riddler is one of the less deadly of the Bat rogues, and I believe he has gone legit a few times, and Poison Ivy is sometimes portrayed as a somewhat sympathetic character (Granted most of those times involve her being with Harley), Heck, I could even by The Ventriloquist if Bats somehow gave him the confidence to control Scarface. But really? The Joker?

[auggie18]

I didn't forget, I mentioned it at the bottom. Figured someone might want to do a more complete post on 'em.

Poison Ivy and the Riddler have both done stints on the side of the angels. Honestly, the Joker is the only one who throws me.

[q99]

I'd swap out Joker for Two-Face, and Scarface for Penguin.

[akodo_rokku]

And yet somehow.

Someway.

The missed out on the opportunity.

For the Justice League.

Of.

AWESOME.

[rdfox]

The 90s had just ended. Do you REALLY want to know what sort of team that would end up being?

[akodo_rokku]

Yes? How is this even a question.

[rdfox]

Ohhh, boy. Send in 90s Kid!

[icon_uk]

Justice League Alfred (The latest incarnation of "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman's Gentlemen")

[bradygirl_12]

All of these are pretty cool. I do have a fondness for the Amazons, though. :)

[arbre_rieur]

I love that glimpse of the Justice League of Anarchy. They look so happy!