I cannot tell a lie: it was really hard for me to pick my favorite page in Justice League Quarterly #8. Booster appears in two of four stories in the issue, but they both have their problems.

The second, "Yesterday's News" is written by accomplished Bronze Age Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin, but it looks like a new artist tryout piece with exceptionally amateurish results. Booster plays only an ancillary role. If I had to pick a favorite among its pages, I'd choose the last. That page has real structural problems, but at least it means the story is over.

Fortunately, the first story, "Double Trouble," gives me plenty of pages to choose from. Too many, in fact, but mostly because not one of them is perfect. I don't know if the problem is Mark Waid's script or Rod Whigham's art, but the pacing irritates me. Instead of having each page complete a single idea or scene, punchlines and consequences often require the turn of a page, disrupting the flow. (I assume the goal of this approach was to allow the page turn to build suspense, but the art and dialogue just aren't tight enough to make that work here.)

Which is not to say that it's not an enjoyable story. In fact, I quite like how Waid works the pre-Crisis Crime Syndicate into the post-Crisis DCU. Waid successfully evokes the satirical tone of the corporate environment that Giffen and DeMatteis established around the Justice League International era while adding an additional layer of Battle of the Network Stars meets American Gladiators. It's superhero fun in the classic Brave and the Bold tradition.

But since I cannot tell a lie, honestly, the reason that I picked page 11 is because of the signs in the crowd in panel 2. Specifically, this sign:

Yeah. I've been to a lot of stadiums. We definitely need more of *that* sign in the world.

Honorable mention goes to page 4, with its series of panels straight out of Hero Hotline of D-list heroes interviewing for membership in the Conglomerate. Specifically this guy:

Quality stuff.

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