JLA: The Secret Society of Super-Heroes #1-2 (of 2)

The Justice League has never become public but instead exists as a secret organisation, the Kryptic. There are only vague rumors about their existence, a possibility followed doggedly by tabloid reporter Lois Lane. Meanwhile, FBI profiler Bruce Wayne is pursuing reports of criminals — hundreds of them — who’ve gone missing. The Secret Society of Super-Heroes feels no accountability to society. They catch the criminals and they themselves also serve as judge and jury. Rifts are appearing in the Kryptic, however... Published in two parts — and easily deserving at least four — this Elseworlds scenario, from the creative team of Howard Chaykin and David Tischman is spot on.

Elseworlds is the publication imprint for a group of comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon. According to its tagline: "In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow." Unlike its Marvel Comics counterpart , which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters. --

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