Excellent premise and story telling.

I am writing this review after reading the entire series up to issue #29. The artwork is very good in issue #1. The character development held some promise for the series but the flaws seen throughout the series started here: premises that are countered by reality, forced personal conflicts, and new villains that are off-the-wall. On the very first page, Batman states that "People need to see heroes are human" and that "the JLA will show them that". First, I don't know why people need to see heroes as human and, second, the most noticeable and powerful member, Lobo, is a freakin' huge alien biker dude - far from human. Batman makes this statement a few time early in the series which bothered me every time. And going further with Lobo: he could provide a very interesting dynamic, but it never made sense why control-freak Batman wanted an erratic Lobo on the team and why self-serving, homicidal Lobo agreed to be on the team. Just some of the types of things that bothered me with this series.

I am writing this review after reading the entire JLA series to the last issue #29. The art by Ivan Reis is great and what gets most of my rating on issue #12. The story takes the JLA into the Microverse, and unfortunately, the rest of the series will spend a lot of time there - Kronos will somehow be there towards the end of the series. My engineering background has a hard time resolving the Microverse with physics. I envision that the Microverse is a super-small universe contained in our universe - it is located in a specific space in our universe. Since the JLA shrinks to get to the Multiverse where Ray Palmer is located, it must amazingly be located in JLA headquarters; that is a hell of a coincidence without any explanation. In addition, the Microverse is a complex universe with lush worlds. Seems cool at first, but this means that the Microverse would require gazillions of complex molecules; not possible since the entire Microverse must be about the size of one atom. When reading comic books, disbelief must be suspended to a large extent but this bothered me.

The go-to-hell to save someone's soul storyline may work for supernatural titles, but not Nightwing. This jumped-the-shark.