¡Las cosas se ponen difíciles para los dos equipos dedicados a proteger el planeta! En Estados Unidos, la Liga América se enfrenta al implacable Despero, ¡y no todos los miembros salen con vida de la batalla! Y mientras tanto, en Europa, el temible grupo de villanos conocido como los Extremistas hacen acto de presencia. Ya destruyeron un mundo y a sus héroes, ¡y ahora lo harán otra vez!
Keith Giffen y J.M. DeMatteis toman un giro dramático en su épica etapa a cargo de la Liga de la Justicia Internacional, incluyendo el regreso de los Guardianes Globales y la primera aparición del Conglomerado, ¡un nuevo equipo de héroes liderados por Booster Gold!
Recopila: Justice League of America #37-41, Justice League Europe #13-19, Justice League Europe Annual #1, Justice League Quarterly #1.
Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
Un muy buen tomo de las ligas. En este libro, que contiene muchos números, encontramos dos tramas completas, de cada equipo y una trama que es transversal y casi anecdótica, la aparición de un gato callejero que se mete en el equipo. Las tramas de los extremistas con la JLE es buenísima, los villanos son versiones copias de los villanos más conocidos de Marvel y están re bien usados, Por otro lado, el enfrentamiento entre Despero y la JLA es hermoso, dibujado como los dioses y con una gran resolución. Uno de los mejores momentos de la liga, sin dudas. Los anuales tienen como protagonistas a los guardianes globales, y cierran tramas que se habían lanzado desde que empezó la liga europea, y en el otro, la aparición del conglomerado, un equipo que no prosperó y que tenía bastante potencial.