Personally, I liked this issue a lot. For the bootleg JLA stuff if nothing else. It might have been the most "fun" issue of 52 thus far, the only real comp being the mad scientist intro last week.

Especially Ambush Bug. His "This Shirt's a Clue" t-shirt on the cover? "Send up a plot and three pages of dialogue! The weekly grind is tearing me apart! Fifty-Two!" And in Firebird's line of J'onn, and the segue into where indeed he was. It was all brilliant stuff.

And, not for nothing, I'd read a mini-series with this configuration fo the JLA. Sure, it'd be like a blatant rip-off of Nextwave, but sometimes the scrubs are more interesting.

Back to Martian Manhunter, they explained his abscence in a way that made sense, and showing that 1) Ted Kord is not forgotten 2) not everyone thought Booster Gold was a bozo.

I was highly satisfied. And yes, Black Adam has to stop being such a whipped wuss.