Can't wait for issue #2! Read Full Review

Justice League #1 is a strong issue, and certainly not the failure that so many nay-sayers have been decrying. Read Full Review

They have a great creative team, the right cast, and loads of potential. Time will tell if they can live up to it. Read Full Review

It's well paced, it's a clean book to be sure and it lets us see just who these two guys are while slowly bringing in a couple of more. With the opening arc at the least, Justice League will be one of my same-day digital books even at the $3.99 price simply because of how slick and appealing it looks here and the way these guys already feel something like titans even though it's just the start. There's a real presence to them here, and even with the general darkness of it all in the story, a sense of hope and promise to it as well. It's only served to ramp up my interest in the relaunch overall. Read Full Review

OK, first things first. I really enjoyed this issue. It was a great introduction to Batman and Green Lantern with good teases for Cyborg and Batman. The artwork is crystal clear throughout and we get to have a really good look at the outfits and armour for the three established heroes. Johns and Lee were the perfect choice for this book, as Johns writes the different characters as clearly as Lee illustrates them. If the rest of the New DCU is up to this standard, then I'll be sticking around for a long time to come. Read Full Review

If you want to be in from the beginning, and follow this launch of the new DCU as the issues are released...by all means, this is the place to get in. But if you're just looking for a solid story, of this new take on the Justice League, I almost hate to say it...but what doesn't work for me in this being a single issue will probably be part of a really fun collected volume when the story arc is complete. Read Full Review

The "New 52" is off to a great start. As it's meant to be, this book kicks off the relaunch of everything in the DC Universe. Who are the characters? Where do they stand with each other and the world? What is the big threat that brings them together? These questions are answered or touched on in a subtle way that makes it easy for new and old readers to follow. Read Full Review

Justice League #1 is fun, no doubt about it. There is a certain sense of feeling underwhelmed after reading it, simply because it's been hammered into our brains that this book represents the ushering of the single biggest comic book industry initiative in years. It's gained a whole lot of external weight. But when you strip all that excess media hype away, you're left with a perfectly entertaining " if somewhat safe " glimpse into a universe we're only just beginning to understand. Read Full Review

Here's my fresh-eyed, baby-faced impression. It may capture my interest enough to keep me following the title, in a "wait and see" kind of way, but it doesn't quite succeed in me to empty my wallet for the slew of new titles and characters very soon to come. Read Full Review

The comic book moves on the tandem velocity brought by the upcomer characteristics and the chase on an unknown meta-ability possessing entity. Action forces the drama, which props up volleys of superhero fare - the story told in the superheroes search for the unknown, for their dealing with each other, for interactions that will somehow affect their agendas. Read Full Review

This new JL series takes a different approach by re-introducing the heroes to each other for the first time. Im curious to see where this is going. Written by Geoff Johns (Green Lantern, Aquaman) whos definitely one of my favourite DC writers. Illustrated by the one and only Jim Lee (X-Men, Batman : Hush). Looks amazing! Read Full Review

I wanted to fall head over heels for Justice League #1. I wanted to love it more than pie. Instead I merely liked it a lot. But that's way more than I've been able to truly say about a Justice League book in a long, long time. Read Full Review

Overall? Justice League #1 does its job in a workmanlike manner rather than with any spectacular flair that we may have hoped for. It sets up a new world where nobody knows each other, it lays the groundwork for a big sinister alien plot as well as an origin story for Cyborg, it gives us decent superhero banter and it has Batman in it. It's not enough to blow us away, but it's just about enough to make us want a little more before we decide whether or not we're down with this whole New 52 thing. Read Full Review

So, under the weight of all that expectation, Justice League #1 might not quite match up. But if you cast aside that expectation, and take it just as a Justice League comic, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee give us a first issue that offers much to like. I think that a lot of people who picked this up will be back for issue #2. Read Full Review

But those nitpicks aside, I'd say go pick this book up"well, if you can still find it anywhere. I'm sure it's on like a 3rd or 4th printing at this point. The 2nd printing cover was my favorite. Issue #2 will be on shelves this week. Read Full Review

Johns' script isn't exactly cutting edge. The issue is made up of mostly standard super-hero genre fare, but it's executed capably. But what the script does offer is the best of both worlds in terms of reaching its audience. It's thoroughly accessible, using appropriate shortcuts (such as giving the audience credit for knowing Batman's deal), incorporating exposition into the dialogue (such as GL's explanation to Batman about the Green Lantern Corps) and offering a grounded introduction and complete origin for a lesser-known character. At the same time, Johns offers something to the longtime DC reader, and that's discovering the small and big ways in which he's tweaked these iconic heroes. Johns and Lee don't reinvent comics here (as has been suggested by all of the hyperbole leading up to the New 52), but they do offer some fun comics. Read Full Review

I had my issues with Justice League #1, sure. It felt a bit rushed yet overly decompressed, a lot has to happen here and yet, when it was all said and done, all we got were hints of what will be. In Silver Age hands, the team would've been assembled, the day done and the cause won. Justice League #1 is a sign that a new age truly has dawned. On the strength of this issue, I find myself growing OK with that. Read Full Review

The end of the issue gives us the first appearance of Superman, who aside from looking far too young, is saddled with one of the more questionable costume alterations of the new DCU. Story wise this first issue, set in a world where people are afraid and uncertain of super-heroes, works well. I'm still not sold on the character designs, but it's good enough to bring me back for another issue. Worth a look. Read Full Review

I like Lee's art (and looking at "Justice League" is a reminder that while some of Lee's redesigns don't look so good when drawn by other artists, they're strong under his pencil), and John's script is just average. As the big launch title for the new DC Comics, though? "Justice League" should have been much better than average. There's a lot of interest and potential goodwill around this title, and I fear that DC may have just given some of that away in the very first issue. Read Full Review

Justice League #1 was a failure as a debut issue of a new team title and a failure as the debut of the DC Re-launch. DC simply overpromised and under delivered with the flagship title of the DCnU. As the flagship title and the banner holder for the DCnU, Justice League #1 had a heavy burden and it simply failed to live up to its mission or the hype surrounding its midnight release. Read Full Review

Is this the standard by which DC will hold the rest of its new line? Let's hope not. Our respective pull-lists are about to become much shorter. Read Full Review

The Batman and GL aspect of the story gives it kind of a meta touch. They are the only two franchises that are maintaining their histories and they're currently the two DC characters with the most public exposure in the mainstream media. If the idea is for DC to reset the universe so that all of their other franchises will do as well as the Batman and GL books, then starting the first issue of the relaunch with those two characters is a nice little nod to that plan. In this new DCU market, everything must stem from the two characters that don't have the stink of failure on them (well, aside from GL's movie, but that doesn't count here). Read Full Review

This first issue is simply that: a first issue. The new initiative, with its day and date release of digital books alongside the printed copies, hasn't changed much when it comes to presenting stories for an eventual collected edition down the road. I had hoped for something different, but it appears that hope was a little misplaced. I'll give this series another look with issue #2, but if that doesn't offer some serious changes to the roster and pace of the story, I might just have to resort to trade-waiting. Wishing for more than I received on this issue, I'm looking towards the other fifty-one debuts with tempered expectations. Read Full Review

Overall, this thing is a waste of 3 dollars and 99 cents. It makes me sad to think that there might be people coming to comic stores and grabbing this book to see what the big reboot fuss is about. Those people are going to read it once, throw it on their coffee table and never have the desire to read a comic book again. And thats a shame. Some of the other reboot titles actually look and sound really interesting, so it puzzles me that DC decided to lead with this one. Oh well. Ill still pick up Action Comics #1 which, by all accounts, is actually worth reading. Read Full Review

Jim Lee is an amazing artist, although too detail-oriented. I expected more from the writing, it is just plain simple and predictable.

There is much to expect from one of DC's top-selling books, yet this issue failed to deliver on all counts. The story, much like the art, was everywhere and it was tough the follow. The art was too detailed and the overall issue looked messy. Green Lantern has to be one of the most annoying characters I've encountered in comics - apart from that joke about Batman's deep voice - and it was a highlight of the issue to see him manhandled by Superman.

It mustn't be easy for anyone to start a whole new superhero narrative universe, but Geoff Johns seems to me like the least advisable DC writer to do that. I don't have much sympathy for his mediocre scripting, and with this book he doesn't disappoint. For God's sake, the #1 issue of the New 52 should be something incredible the team had worked on for months, and instead we have this somewhat funny and yet very ordinary League adventure. The ending was the icing on the cake with the so original Batman vs. Superman thing. Let's just say that I hope that the premiere of the new DC Universe won't correspond to its overall quality. Jim Lee was actually pretty solid, with his powerful figures fitting the context.