Justice League America #38 – “Spy” – Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis/Adam Hughes/Joe Rubinstein
This one starts with a tabloid story about the Justice League by the guy who was digging through their garbage last issue (Wally Tortolini). Naturally, the story isn’t very flattering, but Tortolini is quite proud of it. He’s stunned when his editor refuses to run it and storms out. We see the editor talking to Vivian D’aramis (aka Crimson Fox), who distributes the tabloid in Europe and who apparently pressured him into killing the story. Elsewhere, Despero makes landfall, looking to get revenge on the League
for defeating him in JLA 254. But when he finds Steel all mangled up and hooked to a life-support machine (which Despero pulls him out of), Despero is pissed off that he didn’t get to kill Steel himself. He obviously doesn’t know the League that beat him has disbanded, so he uses his alien instincts to seek out someone else from that team. In Manhattan, we see Booster Gold making some kind of publicity deal at a restaurant. Out in suburbia, Despero arrives at the home of the Reynolds family and wastes them. When Gypsy (aka Cindy 
Reynolds) gets home she’s shocked to find her parents dead and Despero waiting to kill her. She takes off and Despero chases her, causing destruction as he tries to catch her. She uses her invisibility powers to make it to a train, but when Despero threatens the other passengers, she reveals herself. Before Despero can kill her, J’onn J’onzz shows up.
Justice League Europe #14 – “You Oughtta Be in Pictures” – Keith Giffen, Gerard Jones/Linda Medley/Jose Marzan Jr.
This one starts seven years ago with an unnamed nebbish getting a shock from his VCR and finding himself with the ability to inhabit the characters on his TV. In the present, we see him trying to make a living as a celebrity impersonator, but not having an easy time. (We see him as Woody Allen, which is ironic considering the writer of this issue.) He sees Flint Clintwood (obviously based on Clint Eastwood) hanging out with some hot babes in Cannes and gets an idea. But Flint’ not the only celebrity in
Cannes for the film festival; we see Wally (Flash) West, Ralph (Elongated Man) Dibny and his wife Sue, and Power Girl hanging out there as a publicity move for the European branch of the League. They run into Fire and Ice and Fire decks Ralph when he startles her. Meanwhile, our goofy film fan has become Flint Clintwood to impress some French women, but the hotel manager realizes he’s a fake and calls the cops. On the way to the police station, the film fanatic sees Godzilla on a movie screen and becomes the monster (made of rubber, naturally), climbing down into the street and freaking everyone out. The Leaguers tackle him and he runs into a nearby theatre. 
Unfortunately, it’s showing a slasher flick and he becomes Leatherface and ends up reluctantly fighting the JLE again. He flees to a different theatre and becomes a dog (looking a bit like Benji) to escape. The Leaguers wonder where the hell he went as he tries to get back to his own body so he can go home. Ironically, he ends up on the same flight as Ralph, Sue, Wally, and Power Girl and hopes like hell there’s no in-flight movie. At the Russian Embassy, The Ambassador is shocked when Blue Jay shows up at the door asking for help.