“SURGICAL STRIKE” part two! Joined by the precognitive villain Afterthought, Prometheus brings the fight directly to the JLA’s Secret Sanctuary in Happy Harbor! With her team on the ropes, Vixen goes toe-to-toe with Prometheus, whose demands are simple: destroy the Tantu Totem before the whole world and submit to chaos, or watch everyone in Happy Harbor die!
A special anniversary issue! The Justice League battles the Justice League as the seven original JLA members fall prey to mind control. It's up to the rest of the League to stop them from reassembling the Appellax meteorites!
Written by rising star Steve Orlando (BATMAN, MIDNIGHTER) and illustrated by a league of superstar artists including Ivan Reis (GREEN LANTERN) and Andy MacDonald (DETECTIVE COMICS), this JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD spin-off is a JLA for a whole new era--exploding from the pages of the blockbuster DC Rebirth event! The Justice League and the Suicide Squad„the WorldÍs Greatest Heroes and its worst„went to war. A team unlike any other rose from the ashes. Batman. Black Canary. Vixen. The Atom. The Ray. Killer Frost. Lobo. Some are heroes, some are villains and some exist in the gray area in between. But the Caped Crusader sees the potential in all of them to show everyday people that their superhuman guardians are just like them: capable of fighting for justice despite their flaws. Batman had better be right, because Earth is about to be invaded by a threat from beyond our universe. The tyrant called Lord Havok and his army of Extremists are out to make the planet safe again„by destroying the free will of all its inhabitants. Can this untested new Justice League help America fend off the ExtremistsÍ agenda? And can the Dark Knight contain the Main Man„the living weapon of mass destruction known as Lobo? Discover the answers in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL. 1: THE EXTREMISTS! Collects issues #1-6 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: REBIRTH #1.
Exploding from the blockbuster DC Rebirth event and the smash-hit miniseries JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE ROAD TO REBIRTH puts you on the right path. New heroes. New villains. New challenges. The DC Universe has been reborn…and its most legendary team is about to follow suit. Backed by Batman, there’s a new Justice League of America-and it’s a diverse team that proves heroism can look like anything and anyone. THE ATOM: Physics student Ryan Choi is gifted with a brilliant mind-and cursed with crippling allergies and anxiety. But his first day at Ivy University will be his first step on a journey to the heart of the DCU… VIXEN: Business giant, fashion icon, social justice warrior-Mari McCabe is all these things and more. But her incredible powers aren’t all that have changed her life from what it once was… THE RAY: Imprisoned in darkness, Ray Terrill has been taught to believe he’s a dangerous freak. But he’s about to accept his true self and take his first step into the light… KILLER FROST: Caitlin Snow joined the Suicide Squad and lived to tell the tale. But joining the JLA won’t be easy with Amanda Waller blocking her path to justice… Along with new members Black Canary and the Main Man himself, Lobo, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: ROAD TO REBIRTH is a must-have prelude to the all-new series from writers Steve Orlando (MIDNIGHTER) and Jody Houser (MOTHER PANIC). JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE ROAD TO REBIRTH is a great starting-point graphic novel! Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: REBIRTH #1, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: ATOM - REBIRTH #1, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: VIXEN - REBIRTH #1, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: RAY - REBIRTH #1 and JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: KILLER FROST - REBIRTH #1.
Batman, Black Canary, Killer Frost, the Ray, Vixen, the Atom, andÉLobo?! Spinning directly out of the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD, join the sensational team of writer Steve Orlando and artists Ivan Reis and Joe Prado and discover how Batman assembled the roughest, toughest Justice League of all time!
"Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family; Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston"
Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with “bad girls” he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown? Combining psychological theory with the latest in psychological research, Batman and Psychology takes you on an unprecedented journey behind the mask and into the dark mind of your favorite Caped Crusader and his never-ending war on crime.
America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus. Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations every year. Courts have enabled these rulemakers to expand their powers beyond those authorized by law—and have constrained executive efforts to rein in the bureaucratic behemoth. No ordinary citizen can know what is legal and what is not. There are some 300,000 federal crimes, 98 percent of which were created by administrative action. The proliferation of rules gives enormous discretion to unelected enforcers, and the severity of sanctions can be ruinous to citizens who unwittingly violate a regulation. Outside the bureaucracy, private attorneys regulate our conduct through lawsuits. Most of the legal theories underlying these suits were never voted upon by our elected representatives. A combination of historical accident, decisions by judges and law professors, and self-interested advocacy by litigators has built an onerous and expensive legal regime. Finally, state and local officials may be accountable to their own voters, but some reach further afield, pursuing agendas to dictate the terms of national commerce. These new antifederalists are subjecting the citizens of Wyoming and Mississippi to the whims of the electorates of New York and San Francisco—contrary to the constitutional design. In these ways, the unelected have assumed substantial control of the American republic, upended the rule of law, given the United States the world’s costliest legal system, and inverted the Constitution’s federalism. Copland caps off his account with ideas for charting a corrective course back to democratic accountability.
