"We're gettin' the band back together, man." Short of Guy Gardner, Crimson Fox, and of course Batman, the original JLI line up has been set for Justice League: Generation Lost. One of the great things about this is that Judd Winick took his time doing it. Too often at the beginning of a "Team Oriented" comic series the characters who will form the team are just thrown together haphazardly or just happen on to one another randomly. I have never heard of it taking 18 issues for a team to be set. Winick obviously has planed ahead here. The member to join this issue was Power Girl. She has been a fixture in this series so far but only as the outsider looking in. Trying to discover the motivations of her fugitive former teammates. She has also been in Captain Atom's "Flash Forwards" when he is blasted forward in time by absorbing too much radiation. Something that has happened twice so far in this run. In this issue Power Girl finally joins the team. Albeit at the end of the issue and after doing battle with her former team. She had been subjugated by Max Lord's mind control. Again Generation Lost balances an action packed issue with plenty of plot that makes this story so compelling. One of the aspects I love about this team building exercise is that it is being orchestrated by Max Lord, the villain of the story. Everything is going along according to his plan. While discussing this issue with one of the Owners of JP Comics and Games I realized that of the two "Brightest Day" bi-weekly series one deals with 12 of the resurrected characters. The other deals with only one. That may be the main reason why Brightest Day comes off as so disjointed while Generation Lost moves smoothly from issue to issue. Max Lord was a master manipulator with out using his mind control powers so now that he is unleashed how much more deadly is he. While the team fought Power Girl, Lord was busy secreted away in the bowels of Checkmate, an international spy agency he recently took over, torturing and experimenting the Blue Beetle. He sees himself working for a greater good of some sort. What that is remains to be seen but his actions show that the belief that the ends justify the means can lead to great evil even with the best of intentions. Max Lord's means are truly evil. It remains to be seen what his ends are.
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