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From the Pile Episode 7: JLA 66 by Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke, and Tom Nguyen


How could I let Justice League Week end without doing a Justice League specific episode of From The Pile?

And in going though the Pile over the weekend, JLA #66 from July 2002 stuck out. First of all, it was issue 66, which in esoteric math equals exactly two Mother Boxes. Then the cover was pretty intriguing, and finally, I put it on top of the pile so I must have intended to do it!
JLA 66: A Storm of Crows
This issue is weird and I would expect nothing less from issue or episode 66 of any entertainment property. This issue is very dream-like from the start with the Justice League playing poker on their downtime with Wally West quizzing Green Lantern Kyle Rayner on what it means to be Ion. Who's Ion? It doesn't really matter that much for this issue.

Kyle takes a break from Wally's third degree by going to the fridge but when he opens it, the ocean pours in.

But then we find out it is just a dream and Kyle is cluing Wally in while they stand in front of a seafood restaurant while whales and squids littler the shore? What the heck is going on!
Kyle sees something under the bleeding carcass of a whale and the story gets into full swing.
This story features Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Martian Manhunter as well as the aforementioned Wally West Flash and Kyle Rayner Green Lantern.

This is the beginning of a storyline entitled The Destroyers but as the cover states, it does, indeed, include a Storm of Crows.

Just like with From the Pile 1 (Avengers 219), this is a story I would like to follow up on. I have no idea what is going on. It's confusing but interesting. I don't know anything about Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke or Tom Nguyen but I want to look up other works they did.

While I would love a Darkseid War movie, if we must have confusing Justice League films, I want them to be this! JLA 66 is awesome in ways I cannot even begin to fathom!
JLA 67: Should I seek it out?
Have you read this book? What did you think? Is it worth pursuing?

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