This is a feature called "Nothing is Better." I have a feature called "Reason to Get Excited," where I spotlight aspects of current comic books that have particularly impressed me. I had started to expand it to older comics, but it just didn't feel right. I really think "Reason to Get Excited" should be reserved for current comic books. Therefore, this is the equivalent column for older comic books, "Nothing is Better," where I spotlight aspects of classic comic books that have particularly impressed me.

I continue a month of "Nothing is Better" by spotlighting a classic example of the humor of Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis' Justice League International, specifically the time that most of Justice League Europe ended up in French class with the Injustice League in Justice League Europe #6 (by Giffen, DeMatteis, Bart Sears and Pablo Marcos).

The gist of the issue is as follows. Justice League International recently opened up a separate branch of the Justice League in Europe. However, almost all of the team members are American, so that causes a bit of a problem when they find themselves headquartered in France. So the members of the team who don't speak French go to a night school to learn the language. Meanwhile, the comically inept Injustice League are in Europe (with the theory being that there are less superheroes there), but they, too, find themselves in a jam when they can't rob banks effectively without knowing the language, so they, too, end up in French class - the same French class as the JLE, naturally!

This is the intro of the scene...

and here we see things play themselves to a fever pitch, as the tension just keeps ratcheting up until it explodes when the teacher intercepts a note...

After a hilarious fight between the two groups, everything is halted when the teacher tells them to stop!

In a fun twist, the other students in the class all turn out to be undercover operatives for various governments reporting on the new team to their superiors (all of them think that the JLE are morons, but most of them agree that they are harmless morons).

If this is the sort of humor you're into, then Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League is for you!

Okay, folks, this is a feature that is a BIT less conducive to suggestions (as it really is about stories that spoke to me, ya know?), but hey, feel free to still send suggestions in to brianc@cbr.com! Maybe you and I have the same take on things and I'll use your idea! Also, I have to fill a month of these, so it would probably help to have some extra ideas!