Writer

Dan Jurgens

Penciller

Aaron Lopresti

Inker

Matt Ryan

Letterer

Travis Lanham

Colourist

Hi-Fi

Assitant Editor

Darren Shan

Associate Editor

Harvey Richards and Brian Smith

Editor

Mike Marts

Cover Penciller

David Finch

Cover Inker

Richard Friend

Cover Colourist

Peter Steigerwald

Booster Gold

But the JLI needs–

Batman

Wake up, Booster. With everything that’s happened today, the JLI we knew is done for. But our work isn’t. Justice calls. 

Previously: The Justice League International was the UN’s idea of a transparent, public superhero team answerable to the people and their politicians. Booster Gold’s team had been thrown in at the deep end against the Signal Men before they won a messy victory. The UN’s Security Group was narrowly convinced to continue their sponsorship and a massive press event was organised to unveil the JLI to the world. However, their entrance was immediately followed by a massive explosion.

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Writer

Dan Jurgens

Breakdowns

Dan Jurgens

Penciller

Marco Castiello (guest)

Inker

Vincenzo Acunzo

Letterer

Travis Lanham

Colourist

Hi-Fi

Assitant Editor

Darren Shan

Associate Editor

Harvey Richards

Editor

Mike Marts

Cover Penciller

David Finch

Cover Inker

Rich Friend

Cover Colourist

Peter Steigerwald

Booster Gold

There will be a Justice League International. Whether you want it or not.

Previously: The Justice League International was formed by the United Nations as their own transparent and very public version of the Justice League. However, they created a team that had not trained together and handed then straight over to Booster Gold to lead. The new team survived a world saving adventure against the Signal Men and achieved a messy victory against Peraxxus, the mastermind behind them. However, the UN was less than impressed with their performance.

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Writer

Dan Jurgens

Penciller

Aaron Lopresti

Inker

Matt Ryan

Letterer

Travis Lanham

Colourist

Hi-Fi

Editor

Rex Ogle

Cover Penciller

David Finch

Cover Inker

Rich Friend

Cover Colourist

Peter Steigerwald

Guy Gardner

Not only do I feel like I got hit by a bus — feels like it backed over me and did it again.

Booster Gold

Uh-oh. The merry midgets of murderville are back.

Previously: The UN Head of Intelligence, Andre Biggs, sought to form a new incarnation of the Justice League using sanctioned international superheroes with known public identities. He put Booster Gold in charge of his manufactured group, but the JLI were forced to retreat from their first mission in disarray. They had been investigating the first of four “Signal Men”, gigantic statue like robots scattered around the work. They split into smaller groups to investigate the caverns beneath each robot, but each team was over run by the rock-creatures what maintained the cavern’s equipment. Meanwhile, Green Lantern Guy Gardner was rendered unconscious by the passenger of a starship which appears to be linked to the giants.

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Writer

Kevin Hopps and Greg Weisman

Artist

Christopher Jones

Colourist

Zac Atkinson

Letterer

Dezi Sienty

Assistant Editor

Sarah Gaydos

Editor

Jim Chadwick

Cover Artist

Christopher Jones

Cover Colourist

Zac Atkinson

King Nanaue Sha’ark

Careful, Earther! Come between a shark and his meal, and you become the meal!

Sept 4th – Topo, Aqualad’s squid headed friend, is caught by hooded cultists. The following day on the surface, Aqualad decides to return to Atlantis a week after he helped defend it from Black Manta’s attack (“Downtime”). This time he chooses to take his friends along. Normal humans could not deal with the pressures at depth so he only asks Superboy and Miss Martian. Superboy has to use a breathing mask underwater, but Miss Martian’s shape-shifting allows her to grow gills. The three of them first visit Aqualad’s parents in his home city Shayeris and then proceed to an audience with Queen Mera (Aquaman’s pregnant wife) in Poseidonis. Both his father and Prince Orm (Aquaman’s brother) warn Aqualad that there have been rumours of unrest in the capital.

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Writer

Peter Milligan

Artist

Admira Wijaya (pages 1-8) and Daniel Sampere (pages 9-20)

Colourist

Admira Wijaya

Letterer

Rob Leigh

Associate Editor

Chris Conroy

Editor

Matt Idelson

Cover Artist

Ryan Sook

John Constantine

Do you know that you’ve got something growing out of your head?

Batgirl

No, but sing it and I’ll whistle along.

Previously in I, Vampire #1-6:

Batman once observed that Andrew Bennett’s “name appears throughout the public records… I’ve seen sketches that date back to the renaissance, and clothing aside, he hasn’t aged a day.” The truth is that Andrew Bennett is a six-hundred year old vampire, one of the oldest on record. He has mellowed with age and can now resit the blood hunger that drives most vampires to kill people. He devotes his time to hunting down those of his kind who give into that hunger, it’s a war that he appeared to be winning.

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Writer

Peter Milligan

Artist

Mikel Janin

Colourist

Ulises Arreola

Letterer

Rob Leigh

Associate Editor

Chris Conroy

Editor

Matt Idelson

Cover Artist

Mikel Janin

Madame Xanadu

What you’ve been experiencing… are not, strictly speaking, nightmares… They are glimpses of the future that would have come to be had… I not brought you all together to fight Enchantress. They are also a hint of what new futures might transpire… if you go your separate ways… this might be hard to accept… but our greatest enemy… them most dangerous adversary we will face… is ourselves.

Dreams plague the magicians that faced down the Enchantress. John Constantine sees London destroyed when a fake demon summoning spell really works, Zatanna is pursued by corpses that are immune to her magic, and Rac Shade is hunted by a monster created by his attempts to recreate his dead lover. Even the ghostly Deadman has a waking nightmare of his ex-lover Dawn being killed due to his actions. However, he recognises his dream for what it is and blames his attempt to possess John Constantine’s filthy body.

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Writer

Peter Milligan

Artist

Mikel Janin

Colourist

Ulises Arreola

Letterer

Rob Leigh

Editor

Rex Ogle

Cover Artist

Ryan Sook

Rac Shade

You’re not Boston Brand. You don’t look dead at all.

Zatanna

Oh god, I’ve landed in a mad house.

Previously: June Moon has somehow become separated from the Enchantress, the witch entity which usually possesses her. This has driven the Enchantress insane causing her to lash out at other magic users. Madame Xanadu is manipulating her in the hope of drawing them together as a group, but their own damaged personalities may be their greatest threat. Zatanna has already been saved once from the Enchantress by John Constantine, but he is now tracking Rac Shade. After failing to contact Deadman Xanadu sends Shade to recruit the psychotic Mindwarp. Deadman has found June Moon, but they have now come under attack by the Enchantress.

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Writer

Greg Weisman

Penciller

Christopher Jones

Inker

Dan Davis

Colourist

Zac Akinson

Letterer

Dezi Sienty

Assistant Editor

Sarah Gaydos

Editor

Jim Chadwick

Cover Artist

Christopher Jones

Cover Colourist

Zac Akinson

Ra’s Al Ghul

NO…

Robin

Why do the bad guys always say “NO”? They see me standing here with the thing, and still they say no.

Aug 19th – While the rest of his Team hunt for a missing hero (Kent Nelson, the events of “Denial”), Robin is playing dynamic duo with Batman at Cape Canaveral. Ra’s Al Ghul’s League of Shadows have hijacked the launch of the new ozone layer monitoring satellite. Launch controller Carol Ferris cannot shut down the launch sequence so Batman and Robin are fighting their way through waves of Ra’s Shadows in order to get to the rocket. Robin helps Batman get past Ubu, Ra’s bodyguard, but they are then met by Talia, Ra’s daughter and Batman’s no-again/off-again lover.

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Writer

Geoff Johns

Artist (guest, main-story)

Gene Ha

Colourist (guest, main-story)

Art Lyon

Letterer

Patrick Brosseau

Assistant Editor

Darren Shan

Editor

Brian Cunningham

Cover Penciller

Jim Lee

Cover Inker

Scott Williams

Cover Colourist

Alex Sinclair

Variant Cover Artist

Gary Frank

Variant Cover Colourist

Brad Anderson

Green Lantern

How mad was Batman?

Flash

Why do you love love poking his bear so much?

Green Lantern

Because he’s so cuddly.

Steve Trevor (to Congress)

So I’ll go tell the League you don’t trust them. Which means, they might not trust you. And I can’t wait to see what a quick sweep of your offices with x-ray vision might reveal.

Main Story “The Villain’s Journey Prolog” (22-pages)

Through pouring rain in Baltimore, Maryland a crowd of terror-stricken people run. Behind them is hoard of pint-sized monsters (all mouth, teeth, and claws, but no eyes or much of a body). Steve Trevor’s A.R.G.U.S. (Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-humans) troops hold back the monsters, but the crowd only relaxes when the familiar “BOOM” of a Boom Tube signals the arrival of the Justice League. Cyborg‘s intel identifies the sources of the creatures (“Seeds”) as a new super-villain called Spore. He was Samuel Street, a military biologist who was delivering the a super-virus to A.R.G.U.S. for safe-keeping. However, he became infected after he was attacked by an intruder at A.R.G.U.S. headquarters.

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Writer

Geoff Johns

Penciller

Jim Lee

Inker

Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Batt, and Mark Irwin

Artist

Carlos D'Anda (back-up story)

Colourist

Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Hi-Fi, and Gabe Eltaeb (back-up story)

Letterer

Patrick Brosseau and Sal Cipriano (back-up story)

Assistant Editor

Darren Shan

Editor

Brian Cunningham

Cover Penciller

Jim Lee

Cover Inker

Scott Williams

Cover Colourist

Alex Sinclair

Variant Cover Penciller

Ivan Reis

Variant Cover Inker

Joe Prado

Variant Cover Colourist

Rod Reis

Steppenwolf

Do not acknowledge pleasure, Desaad. It is forbidden.

Superman (weakly)

The images they pumped into my brain. The death and torture Darkseid’s spread across a… Multiverse. I think I saw… me.

Shadowy figure 1

They’re calling them super heroes.

Shadowy figure 2

Well, then. I guess they’ll call us super villains.

Pandora

You’re a walking dead man who’s given up.

Phantom Stranger

And you are a foolish girl whose curiosity cursed the world.

Main Story: “Justice League — Part Six” (24-pages)

Previously: Five years ago, the Earth had been invaded by hoards of Para-Demons from the planet Apokolips. The demons appeared out of a network of Boom Tube gateways to seize innocent people and carrying them back to a Hive fortress in Metropolis harbour. A group of seven super-humans and heroes — Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the newly forged Cyborg — came together to fight the invasion. They came face-to-face with the invasion’s leader, a towering figure called Darkseid. He threw them around, defeated Superman, and broke Green Lantern’s arm. Batman followed the captive Superman into the Para-Demon Hive and found himself on Darkseid’s Apokolips.

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