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Justice League of America (2nd volume)
File:JusticeLeagueofAmerica1.jpg Promotional image for the cover to Justice League of America #1 (August 2006) Art by Ed Benes.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Main character(s)	Justice League
Creative team
Written by	Brad Meltzer
Penciller(s)	Ed Benes
Inker(s)	Sandra Hope
Colorist(s)	Alex Sinclair

Justice League of America (Vol. 2) is a monthy on-going comic book series published by DC Comics. The series features the Justice League of America, the DC Universe's foremost superhero team. Written by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer, the series' first issue, JLA #0, was released July 2006.

JLA #0

The "first" issue of the series, numbered Issue #0 and titled "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", explored the relationship of what has been dubbed "the Trinity" or "the Big Three" of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman through a series of flashbacks to major events in the DC Universe, which are indicated by the descriptor "Yesterday", and possible futures, which are indicated by the descriptor "Tomorrow".

Flashbacks

Each of the eleven flashbacks shows one canonical meeting between Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and are depicted in chronological order.

• Batman and Superman acknowledging the need for a Justice League, and Wonder Woman joining them to create it.
• Red Tornado's sacrifice to defeat Iron Hand.
• Donna Troy's wedding.
• The founding of Justice League Detroit.
• Batman discussing his new partner, Jason Todd, with Superman and Wonder Woman.
• Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman discussing Batman's one-punch knockout of Guy Gardner (a legendary moment among comic book fans), from the Justice League International era.
• The Death of Superman: Wonder Woman and Batman's initial reactions, in the Fortress of Solitude.
• Superman and Wonder Woman arguing with Batman after his secret files are used by Ra's al Ghul to defeat the Justice League. This sequence takes place immediately after the "Tower of Babel" storyline.
• The last flashback page is a collage of three separate incidents:
  • Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman's confrontation on the moon from Infinite Crisis #1.
  • The founding of the Justice League.
  • The last part of Infinite Crisis #7, shortly before the events of 52.

Future Scenes

Alternating with the flashback scenes are six future scenes, each showing a potential and possible future for the DC Universe. Although each possible future scene is by definition non-canon, Brad Meltzer has commented that when he took the ideas to DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio for approval, he told Meltzer that one of the futures was something that the DC Editorial staff had already planned.

• Hal Jordan's Wedding (Illustrated by Tony Harris) shows the Big Three in Coast City at the wedding of Hal Jordan. In this future, Wonder Woman jokes that there was a betting pool about who would be the last "one of them" to get married, which hints that both Batman and Wonder Woman have gotten married. It is also hinted that "Ollie" (presumably Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow) has married as well by then. Brad Meltzer has stated that he "knows who's under that veil" but refused to reveal who she is.
• Lex Luthor versus the Big Three (Illustrated by J.H. Williams III) is a splash page of Luthor fighting Wonder Woman (whose Lasso of Truth is wrapped around his neck), Superman (unconscious from the radiation of Luthor's Kryptonite ring) and Batman (who is on the receiving end of a left hook by Luthor). Luthor is shouting, "He. Was. My. SON!", a possible reference to Superboy, who died during Infinite Crisis.
• The Death of Pa Kent (Illustrated by Gene Ha) depicts Batman and Wonder Woman, both out of costume, at the Kent family home in Smallville after Jonathan Kent's funeral. The scene, one of the most emotionally powerful in the issue, is similar to the TV and movie versions of Superman. In both Smallville and Superman: The Movie, Jonathan dies of a heart attack. Also notable is Martha Kent's knowledge of the identities of Batman and Wonder Woman, which, as indicated by her response "I bet Batman never does this for his parents" in Identity Crisis #1, is not known in the current canon.
• The Engagement of Wonder Woman (Illustrated by Ethan Van Scriver) takes place on Paradise Island, which was erased during Infinite Crisis yet still somehow appears in the "future", after Wonder Woman has become engaged to an unknown character. In this possible future, Batman has also already married and like the other future scenes in the issue, his spouse is unknown.
• Superman Alone (Illustrated by Adam Kubert) is the most ambiguous of the future scenes, with few hints as to what led to the possible future. Superman, on an empty or possibly deserted New Satellite, seems to suggest that the rift was caused by the death of a character, although the identity of the deceased is not revealed.
• Earth-2 Redux? (Illustrated by Jim Lee) shows Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman standing over a diagram of two Earths, side by side. This future raises the possibility that Earth-2, which was erased during the Crisis on Infinite Earths series only to be brought back in Infinite Crisis #4 and re-erased in Infinite Crisis #6, might still have survived. The group picture depicts a few characters in older costumes (Martian Manhunter, in his original bare-chested costume, and Aquaman in his Superfriends costume), as well as the deceased Hawkman of Earth-2 and an unknown Flash.
• Batman Dead? (Illustrated by Andy Kubert), described by Brad Meltzer as "my ending to Dark Knight Returns", shows Superman and Wonder Woman in Crime Alley after Batman's death, with Superman lamenting how much Batman had truly hated him in the end and telling Wonder Woman that he (Batman) "went down fighting".