Where to start with this issue.....so many problems:

1) James Robinson hates world landmarks. If you read 'War of the Supermen' you saw the Sphinx (among others) randomly destroyed even though no part of the story took part in Egypt - he just had to show you THIS WAS A BIG DEAL! Here we see the Kremlin, Big Ben and the British parliament being destroyed even though the story is taking place on the moon just so you know THIS IS A BIG DEAL! Mr Robinson, please stop destroying world landmarks, it's the storytelling equivalent of shouting, and no one wants to talk to the guy that's always shouting.

2) The dialog is awful. Dick Grayson shouting out "Onward, Team!" really ? I'm sorry Dick Grayson doesn't talk like that. Admittedly, by the end of the issue you find out the frontal assault was a bit of a feint, so the fact that the team's tactician is shouting out the battle strategy as he leads the charge seems less wrong - but even so, Dick Grayson would be a better actor than that.

3) Incredible plot devices abound. Suddenly the Atom appears. Hey, the Atom can fix people's brains by running around in them and he can take someone along for the ride ? Donna Troy has yet another new poorly explained power/attribute ? Well, then we're set! No hint of either of these things at the end of the last issue and now this issue hangs on them. I can accept that when I'm reading Axe Cop, but JLA should be better than this.

4) Robinson suddenly builds up Donna Troy, whose character has been little more than "I want to hit things" for his JLA run, just so he can have Eclipso gut her. That's freaking great. Girlfriend in a fridge, anyone ?

5) The solicit for this book said art by Brett Booth & Norm Rapmund - instead we got Daniel Sampere & Miguel Spulveda. It's inconsistent, some pages are ok but some are definitely sub-average.

What can I say, reading this book left me angry and not in any way intended by the author. James Robinson is on the DCnU MIA list ? I think I see the reason for that.