I'm not counting every JLI appearance as a "JLI story." (If I did, I'd probably start missing stuff around this point.) Can't skip this, though: J'Onn J'Onzz is central to the JLI, and what happens in this mini is central to J'Onn's later development. It's also one of the most effective and beautiful stories of J.M. DeMatteis' long career, so I'll do this with minimal snark.

There’s a lot of ugliness too, however: warnings for disease, mass death, frightening hallucinations, discussion of suicide, and child murder. Oh, and for strobe FX at the end of the accompanying video.

( It's the ol' 'everything you know is wrong' revisionist origin, except GOOD. )

Warning for a vaguely 9/11ish scene, presented as harmless, cartoonish action thirteen years earlier.

Last time we saw Maxwell Lord, he was bleeding out and likely already dead, and his killer was receiving instant karma from Max's digital ally:



What could be a more disturbing sight to find in Max's office than that? Well, this comes pretty close:

( I half expected to see her Borgified, SUPERMAN III-style. )