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Justice League of Canada is Coming in 2014

Blame Canada. Or blame Jeff Lemire. Maybe even the villains in FOREVER EVIL. Either way, the JLA is going north.

This weekend FanExpo is happening in Toronto and some fitting news is coming from DC. In 2014, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA will be renamed and feature a new Canadian character alongside the heroes we know, according to the Toronto Star.

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Who better to write a Canadian Justice League team than Canadian writer extraordinaire, Jeff Lemire? (Now it makes sense why he's leaving JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK).

Lemire told the Star this was a dream job as well as the following:

"I do want to create a cool, rural Northern Ontario headquarters for Justice League Canada, and I don’t want to spoil it yet. And it’s not a hockey rink, I promise. Although, of course, it did cross my mind."

Lemire mentions it won't be exactly like Marvel's ALPHA FLIGHT as most of those characters are clichés. It will still be the Justice League in their universe. Some of the big named heroes will be there, only they'll now be in Canada. Could this mean the return of Booster Gold since he became Canadian in the New 52?

All this will happen after Trinity War and Forever Evil.

“As a result of that, without spoiling any of that story, there will be major changes in the Justice Leagues, and in the spring, the current Justice League of America team goes through a dramatic change and some of the pieces that are left behind will evolve into this new Justice League Canada team.”

Lemire also said he plans on bringing Adam Strange into the New 52. Of course, he'll be Canadian as well.

The full roster has not been revealed yet but Lemire calls it a "dream team" of A-list characters as well as some of his favorite "oddball and more obscure" heroes. Lemire will continue to write GREEN ARROW as well as writing and painting TRILLIUM.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF CANADA will be drawn by Mike McKone.

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Wait..... Canada is a thing in the DCU?

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What I find interesting as how little a role Canada has played in all the history of the Dc Multi-verse, shouldn't Canada have Fable-Cities too. like Stone City, or Glass City maybe Tower City.

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@g_man: Lucky,you have the money for all that stuff......I'm especially envious of your December ventures :-) ......me> =(

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Serving justice the Canadian way eh

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My best guess to who will be on this team including the already confirmed Adam Stranges is...Booster Gold (canadian),Green Arrow (because he doesn't have a place to go and still accused of murder),Martian Manhunter (he will not back to the main Justice League so soon) and Baz (Hal Jordan is going back to Earth next year and probably they don't want 2 GL in the same country).

Lemire stated in an interview that Booster wont be in the book.

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@kilowog52: They won't changed that,but Adam Strange will be a member, but their participation will be like Superman and Batman at the beginning of the Justice League in 60s, appearing on a few occasions and who knows they do not have space missions?

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@matchesmalone21: You know what. I don' think Adam Strange will actually be part of the team. I think he'll be a guest star. He has always operated out of the planet Rann. At least I hope the New 52 doesn't change that too. I further believe that Booster won't be returning so soon. I'm sure the powers that be at DC have some grand plan for him after arranging his disappearance in Justice League International Annual #1. On top of that, I agree that the other three characters you mentioned might be part of the team. Green Arrow, in the New 52, operates out of Seattle, which is relatively close to Canada. Similarly, Simon Baz is from Michigan. Lastly, J'onn is a Martian, so he really doesn't need to have one country to call home, and therefore would be an ideal choice for JLC.

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My best guess to who will be on this team including the already confirmed Adam Stranges is...Booster Gold (canadian),Green Arrow (because he doesn't have a place to go and still accused of murder),Martian Manhunter (he will not back to the main Justice League so soon) and Baz (Hal Jordan is going back to Earth next year and probably they don't want 2 GL in the same country).

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@jldoom: I that case nearly all of my complaints are moot and I should wait and see.

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I lived in Canada for a bit and do not remember it fondly. So I don't want my heroes to move there, at all. However, it's Jeff Lemire (I didn't even know he was Canadian) and he has definitely proved his writing abilities with his runs on Green Arrow and JLD, so I'll probably continue to pull this title after the change. I'm sure it'll be good, but still, hopefully this only lasts an arc or two then the original title is restored. I'm sure this is just some way to grant Lemire a chance to express his nationalistic values.

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@maurdakar: That's not the actual cover, it's an edited version of the cover of JLA 1.

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Soooo. The best they can do is recreate the pose of a famous American flag raising but replace the flag with a Canadian one? And then have American superheros be doing this?

Ya as a Canadian, no thanks. Also, it looks like the story will be about a bunch of Americans just walking across the border and setting up? Are they going to go through customs or something, are they implying Americans can just walk north into their northern state? Does Canada even want a Canadian Justice League, made up of Americans? Are they going to be enforcing Canadian law now. Maybe there will be a couple Canadian super heroes? I don't see any. I'm sorry, but this isn't flattering at all, it seems really arrogant and subtly imperialistic.

Now I apologize if someone feels I am coming off as antagonistic, this cover doesn't represent anything but the creators feelings, and I don't mean to imply my disgust of this idea translates into disgust of other American individuals. I suppose the most reasonable reaction is to wait and see, but since this cover is being sold as the summation of D.C.s plans I have to say: fuck off, I have no interest in being treated like the 51st state.

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sounds okay.

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@ianprime said:

ITS TIME FOR TIMMIES, BEER, KRAFT DINNER, AND HOCKEY FIGHTS!

Don't forget igloos, dog sleds and ice fishing...

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@longbowhunter: Really?!?! wow way to go out with a bang that was a really good issue. He will be missed!

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There's going to be a Justice League Canada and Bearded Justice was not invited to be on the team?!? OUTRAGE

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If Adam Strange is in it then I'm excited to see what happens

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it would have been cool IF it was a whole new team of canadian super heroes but nope only americans can be seen as heroes who have to save everyone whatevs. give me alpha flight and justice league international

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I'm Canadian and I cant wait :D

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@longbowhunter: ooooo ok! Well I'll see how it goes when he starts writing it! Least Lemire will be on it for awhile til Spring

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Can you say cheap ploy... knew you could.

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Interesting....Definitely picking this up.

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@nightwing128: J.M. DeMatteis is currently writing Phantom Stranger. I best know him for his work on the Justice League books from the 80's and 90's with Keith Giffen. Which still stands as my favorite run on the series.

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Why Canada of all places? Why not a Justice League of Britain or a Justice League of Japan?

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JUSTICE LEAGUE WEST COAST!

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they might as well call it Justice League of America Jr.

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@nightwing128: Jeff Lemire is currently writing Green Arrow, Animal Man and just came off a year long stint on JLD. He also wrote Frankenstein Agent of SHADE at the start of the New 52. Also a number of projects for Vertigo and Top Shelf.

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@longbowhunter: hmmm do you know what series he's worked on before? Sounds familiar but i can't remember what he's written...

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When I read the title of the article I thought the JLA movie was going to be in Canada. I would of flipped shit if that was true.

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In Lemire we trust...and hope this doesn't go bust. Seriously though, couldn't they have just done a separate JLC book?

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So is every country getting there own justice league ?

how about Justice League Afghanistan ?

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y does canada need a justice league and is it the same roster from JLA

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I hope DC will reveal that this and Ben Afflec is just one big early April Fool's joke

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McKone - REALLY?!?!

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Martian Manhunter better join up with the main League after JLA is over.

Fraid not. Lemire says he has plans for J'onn in 2014 so I believe MM will be staying on to join the JLC once Lemire takes over the title.

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I just wanna find out who all is on the roster. We know Adam Strange and a new unknown native Canadian character. Plus Lemire says 3 of the existing JLA members will stick around to make the move north. I'm hoping for Green Arrow, Baz and J'onn.

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At first I didn't know if they were restarting JLA as JLC, changing the name of JLA to JLC without restarting or if JLC was a new book that would be sold in Canada. After reading the article though, apparently it's the second one and while I'm not one to get mad because it's not Murica, it seems like such a strange move instead of just making a new team.

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Do I get canadain bacon with a JLC purchase?

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@maccyd said:

I'm always in favour of the comicverse showing that there's a world outside America!

Now give me Justice League Europe!!!

Here Ya Go :P
Here Ya Go :P