Waller throws together a group of heroes she thinks can defeat the original Justice League if needed. Okay sure it makes sense, you never know if these "heroes" are gonna get out of control. But it's almost like she WANTS it to happen. And really most of these heroes are B or C level people who have never trained together, so it seems unlikely that they could beat the original Justice League. ALSO some of them are friends with members of the original Justice League.

So it doesn't make a lot of sense, it wasn't terrible, especially with all this really evil, foreboding stuff going on and the heroes seeming to just dig themselves deeper and deeper into a hole. ( )

3 stats for the first few issues, then we get into Trinity Wars and get several issues of that (which I read in the Trinity Wars collection) followed by some random Martian Manhunter shorts. ( )

I feel like this volume required some pre-reading because a lot of what was going on was not familiar to me. This completely defeats the purpose of New 52 in my opinion, so this is definitely not one of the best titles to be reading out of the DC reboot event. ( )

Okay, New 52 JLA... Now, not being a huge DC guy before the beginning of New 52, this book probably won't affect me the same as a long time DC reader. I divide my review into 2 parts : Origins and Trinity War tie in.
In the "Origins" part, we see the team being gathered together by Director Waller and Colonel Trevor (who seem to have their non-superpowered hands in WAY TOO much of DC i.e. all 3 Justice League books, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, etc) as a team to be a fail-safe against the Justice League, should they go rogue at anytime. The members are picked based on their "opposing powers" to the members of JL, but they all seem very untrained. As a reader of Green Lantern and Catwoman, I am familiar with both of them quite well, but even Simon Baz seems diminished here. The others I have heard of (and now want to read Savage Hawkman to learn more of him) but again, very much an origin story here, having them get together and then do a fight together. Standard comic stuff. We see the origin of a new character, Dr. Light, at the end of JLA #5. Then..... (SPOILERS AHEAD)
WTF? With JLA #6 the first page says that Dr. Light is dead. WHAT? OH wait.... this is Trinity War #2 also? Ugh..... This is the reason why I gave the book 3 stars. Comic crossovers are amazing, but for people that pick and choose their titles rather than read the whole universe of books, including Trinity War #2 and #4 here is a bit off-putting. Luckily, I have an ARC of Justice League Vol. 4 from Netgalley. Allow me to go to that..... (see review for that)
Ultimately, I will continue with JLA, though I expect the Trinity War and Forever Evil events will alter the team structure and dynamic, possibly making it better than it originally started off to be. ( )

By the end not much has really been accomplished. The new Green Lantern was barely in it at all. ( )