The ideal starting point would be Justice League International Volume 1, by the creative team that made them into fan favorites starting back in 1987: co-writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis and artist Kevin Maguire:
http://www.amazon.com/Justi…
DC published six of these volumes, but lost interest before fully…

I always wished the superhero movie trend could have kicked off earlier so we could have gotten Redford and Newman as elder statesmen Alan Scott and Jay Garrick.

As a HUGE JLI/A/E fan from back in the day, I found "Formerly Known" and "I Can't Believe It's Not" a little disappointing. Not sure why. I'm sure it says more about me than the creators involved, or even the characters.

Booster Gold is essentially a kinder, gentler Captain Hammer anyway, so Fillion is a good fit. (Joel McHale is how I always saw him, considering Jeff Winger on the first three seasons of Community had a very similar character arc to Booster.)

I always envisioned Adam Scott as Blue Beetle and Joel McHale as Booster Gold. But now I can come around to seeing Scott or Alan Tudyk as Beetle and Fillion as Booster.

Why not Justice League International? Hell, they could call it Super-Buddies!

Non was General Zod's bearded, hulking, nonverbal companion in Superman 2.

That's the moral model of disability theory!

There are four TPBs that cover the entire Fraction Hawkeye series. The fourth was delayed for a long time, but it just came out two weeks ago.

Alan Tudyk was my choice to play MCU Hawkeye from the beginning. Even before the brilliant Fraction/Aja series, I always thought of Clint as more of an abrasive but well-intentioned hothead overcompensating for an inferiority complex, rather than a stoic special ops sort of guy. Tudyk has worked a lot with Whedon,…

THAT'S NOT HER NAME!

I loved Ellis' Thunderbolts too. I wish Tommy Lee Jones hadn't been in Captain America 1 (which I'm sure everyone else forgot), so he could play a maniacal Norman Osborn as the big bad of the MCU and the Sony Spider-Man movies from here on out.

And Bob Harras, responsible for some of Marvel's biggest creative misfires of the '90s, is DC's Editor in Chief.

Robinson Starman, Giffen/DeMatteis JLI/JLA/JLE, Morrison JLA, Snyder Batman, Johns Flash, Johns JSA…

CCH Pounder (in the DCAU), Pam Grier (on Smallville), Angela Bassett (in Green Lantern), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (on Arrow), and now Viola Davis.

It all starts on the last page of JL 3000 #11, and Beetle and Booster are the main stars of #12.

He's not dead and recurring in Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League 3000/3001, although it picks up right where "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" left off, ignoring his death and subsequent reappearances entirely.

The Giffen/DeMatteis JLI and Ostrander's Suicide Squad were almost 15 years ahead of their time — these huge ensemble casts of mostly B- and C-listers, combining character development and comic relief and occasionally shaking up the status quo with shocking deaths, back before we shrugged those off.

I'm a lifelong JLI fan (seriously, it debuted when I was in elementary school, and I've loved those comics ever since), and Ted Kord is my all-time favorite superhero. But I can't hate Countdown to Infinite Crisis because it made people care about Ted for the first time in years — or ever — and he went out like a…

That was a terrific movie!