Not saying that was a good thing. Just a different flavour of suck.

4. Catwoman's Deus Ex Cameo should be #1, IMHO. It made no sense, came out of left field. I agree that it should have been Lois with a stick. At least her presence was foreshadowed.

Of course, I also have trouble with the idea that someone capable of defeating the JLA would go down to a low blow in the first place. Is it really too much to ask that the Deus Ex Machina is clever?

3. I don't remember this? I wonder if this came after I had to cut back, or if I purged it from my memory?

2. I have to admit that I thought that the old JLA quit. But, I can't tell you now why I thought that.

1. And, this I took to be a guard duty thing, not a dis on Flash and GL's part.

For the other bits in the comments, I loved that Batman acted, and was treated, as omnipotent, but he was often defeated. I liked that a lot better than Orion getting beat up, actually, because I knew Batman better than Orion, and it made more sense that something Batman wasn't prepared for for defeat him, and that his defeat alone would alarm the rest of the cast.

I think that in fairness, you should do a Top Five things that you liked about the same run. My #1 (and, please correct me if I'm misattributing this) would be when Atom went through the phone lines to see Oracle during an emergency and was shocked to find a woman on the other end. When Barbara asked him what he expected to find he said something along the lines of, "I honestly thought you were an artificial intelligence Batman created and then lied to us about."

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On the previous Justice League getting kicked out: in JLA #1 we see Metamorpho, Nuklon and Icemaiden (I think) in the satellite and Metamorpho makes a comment about them making room or there not being enough room for the egos that will be clashing. That seems to speak to the idea that the old league was being cleared out for the Big 7

You're right - I never spotted that the first time around. I didn't read A Midsummer Nightmare until a couple of years later so at the time I thought the new JLA was formed in that first issue.

Porter? Not so much.

the most annoying thing? Despite some cool moments, i still dont understand rock of ages.

And Joe kellys story where they had to die in order to be resurrected to defeat the bad guy. isnt that kind of a big risk to take?

My number one thing in Grant Morrison’s JLA run that annoyed me?

That he wrote JLA–

Sorry guys, I’m just not a Grant Morrison fan.
If you like him, great.

Phew! I can finally stop holding my breath!

But even if he didn't leave because of that, he was still deprived of the characters on his later issues (check them out! Of THAT I'm quite sure!), which was annoying.

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Morrison was clashing with his editor over how to portray Orion. Said editor wanted “Mad Dog” Orion and was actually rewriting some of Morrison’s dialog.

Excellent, if true. I'd love to be able to blame someone other than Morrison.

Triumph was an idiot. While I always liked C. Priest works, Triumph was always an idiot.

He was indeed an idiot. Which in no way disqualifies him from being an interesting character.

Morrison was clashing with his editor over how to portray Orion. Said editor wanted “Mad Dog” Orion and was actually rewriting some of Morrison’s dialog.

I've heard (I believe in a comments thread here) the same about Plastic Man - that the characterization was editorially mandated.\

And the two of them were my big pet peeve. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG!

Also Crisis Times Five. I read it a bunch and I think I see what M. was getting at... But that was some muddlybad writing right there.

Aztek, Orion, & Barda were underused.

The Crisis X5 & Ultramarines arcs were weak.

Other than that, Morrison's JLA remains one of my favorite comics. "Rock of Ages" is my favorite JLA story.

That he wrote JLA--

Sorry guys, I'm just not a Grant Morrison fan.
If you like him, great.

And I always thought Lois should have baseball-batted Prometheus, but that's just little Lois-fan me.