Apokolips Wow! -- Guy Swears. And this issue wraps up the JLI's issue with Apokolips -- FOR NOW!
Hawkman doesn't like it when Guy uses curse words. Hell, hot damn ... I am surprised that the Comics Code allows that... Hawkman really doesn't want to be here. Complaining about swearing, bantering, fighting. I don't think Hawkman is long for this JLI.
Barda has transported everyone to Apokolips. Batman provides some narration to tell us what Apokolips is. Of course, the group is immediately attacked by parademons. Guy loves this, Hawkman wonders who Scot Free and Barda are, and Lobo follows Barda off to find the JLI members he is supposed to be killing. Then there is Oberon. He's just the PR guy (I guess?), and he is just trying to stay out of the way. In the process, he is knocked into some kind of grate. This can't be good!
Meanwhile, Manga Kanhn is under house arrest, and he turns into an energy form. Hmmmm. I wouldn't have predicted that. He proceeds to escape through the vents, but is sad that he can't make pronouncements. If he is simply an energy form, that certainly explains why he likes to talk so much when he is in his "containment suit". He floats in to where Scott Free is being held.
We see that Martian Manhunter and Gnort have been captured, and are being hauled away unconscious by parademons, when Lobo catches up with Barda. They start a fight in the corridor, ending up with all the JLI members conveniently making their way to the same point.
We flash back to Oberon, and find that he has ended up in Darkseid's apartment. (They know each other. I guess Oberon is from "The New Gods" too. Note: ask Mark about Oberon.) What will happen? Well, Darkseid doesn't want any of them there, so he boom tubes everyone back to JLI headquarters (not Lobo -- Lobo finds that Manga Khan is canceling that contact).
Wow, this issue was packed with action. Lots of fighting, lots of quips, lots of story. I kept thinking it would stop and continue in the next issue, but it got wrapped up right and tight, even to J'onn wanting to eat Oreos when he got home. And nobody telling Captain Atom what happened.
I really liked the cover of this one, too. I ove Fire's legs sticking up out of the pile of parademons, and the reference to Beetle and Booster as Abbot and Costello.
Sigh. I love you, Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis.