"The family reunion from Hell":
Justice League International Returns in New DC Maxiseries
by Russell Burlingame
On the heels of the announcement yesterday that DC Entertainment has a biweekly Brightest Day maxiseries that will roll out of the conclusion of Blackest Night, they've got another biweekly announced today through The Source blog and Newsarama.
I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League co-writer Keith Giffen is being joined by professionally comics-wrecker Judd Winick to bring the Justice League International back to regularly-published comics again. Justice League: Generation Lost is the second consecutive biweekly maxiseries to be announced by DC this week. It will run for a full year, and be 26 issues long with writing by Giffen and Winick and art by a revolving cast. The series will launch in May and will feature, as Giffen told Newsarama, "Captain Atom, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, Ice, Rocket Red. It's like the family reunion from hell and I, for one, couldn't be happier."
The pair were evasive when asked whether the series would tie into other DC Universe events when talking to Newsarama-and talking to The Source they wouldn't say a word about the book, so it's hard to say whether Justice League: Generation Lost will play into Brightest Day or the War of the Supermen at all.
The Justice League International will be making appearances there, even if DeMatteis isn't co-writing Justice League: Generation Lost. DeMatteis told Comic Related, "given the time-travel arena and some top-secret story stuff rippling across the DCU, we'll be able to play with our JLI characters again. Lots of great ideas fermenting at the moment."
While Giffen admits to Newsarama that Winick is "no [J.M. DeMatteis]," he has revealed that he and DeMatteis, along with artist Chris Batista, will be taking over Booster Gold. More details on that, including interviews with DeMatteis and departing writer/artist Dan Jurgens, will be here at Comic Related and on my channel at the Newsarama Blog in the next day or so.
While no artists have yet been announced, the first cover or promotional image that DC has released is by painter Tony Harris.
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