Justice League America #41 – “Maximum Force” – Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis/Mike McKone/Bruce Patterson
This one starts with Maxwell Lord telling J’onn J’onzz about his power to influence minds, which he got from the gene-bomb during the Invasion. J’onn promises to keep Max’s power a secret, but reminds him about the moral implications of tampering with people’s minds, even quoting Spider-Man’s “with great power comes great responsibility” maxim. Max agrees, but we see him using his power pretty casually to make a cabbie agree with him. At a fancy party, Max spots a hot redhead (she looks a bit like Mary Jane Watson, although her name is Wanda so maybe she’s more
like Scarlet Witch) and uses his power again to make her want to talk to him. He doesn’t want to use his power to make her bang him—I guess he wants to earn it—but he’s so nervous talking to her that he gets a little drunk. When they head back to his place, he falls down but soon forgets his embarrassment when he’s confronted by Lord Evil, a stereotypical villain wanting the secrets of the Justice League. Max uses his powers to make Lord Evil jump out the window and reveals to Wanda that he’s actually a superhero named Maximum Force. He heads out to fight crime, forcing a mugger to kill himself, compelling some drug dealers to waste each other, and making a supervillain pummel himself. He even gets King Kong to fling himself off the Empire State 
Building. (Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is an imaginary story.) Max heads to the Embassy, where he makes the League’s archnemesis (Massivtron) just by telling him to. Instead of hailing him as a hero, the League gives him shit for using his powers to kill people and J’onn says the worst thing was manipulating Wanda’s mind at the party. Max wakes up and realizes he passed out right after getting home, so everything after that was just a drunken dream, maybe fuelled by feeling guilty over his actions earlier. He’s surprised to find Wanda asleep in the guest room and wonders if they might have a future together.
Justice League Europoe #17 – “On the Brink” – Keith Giffen, Gerard Jones/Bart Sears/Randy Elliott
Last issue, the Extremists (a bunch of supervillains from another dimension who seem to enjoy destroying entire worlds just for fun) pounded the crap out of the Justice League Europe and took off to find Earth’s nuclear missiles. While the League tries to recover their dignity, the Extremists hijack all the nukes on the planet and suspend them in orbit as a threat (using Diehard’s magnetic powers to keep the missiles from falling). They ask for Earth’s complete surrender or they’ll drop the missiles. The United
Nations meets to discuss the threat and whether they should send more super-heroes after the Extremists. But the Extremists show up at the U.N. to reiterate their threats and to demand every nation on the planet turn over its weapons and treasuries to them, in return for which they’ll allow life to go on much as before. The U.N. decides that Earth’s superheroes should stand down and we get several reaction shots of various frustrated heroes (including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Peacemaker, and the Doom Patrol). At the Paris Embassy, Blue Jay tells the League that the Extremists will do exactly what 
they did on his world if Earth governments give in … enjoy their triumph until they get bored and then destroy the planet anyway. Captain Atom asks Blue Jay to brief them on the Extremists, especially their personalities and potential weaknesses. Captain Atom is ready to defy the United Nations order and go after the Extremists again, but only if he feels they have a real chance to win. Using their newfound knowledge, the JLE attacks the Extremists at their base in the Israeli desert. Metamorpho strikes first, cutting Diehard off from control of the missiles. The rest of the League starts pounding the Extremists but soon realize they fucked up. Without Diehard’s magnetism
keeping them in orbit, all the missiles start falling towards Earth. Metamorpho releases Diehard, who manages to stop the missiles from falling, but the Leaguers are still ready to fight. Unfortunately, they don’t get the chance because Dreamslayer uses her powers to send them to the Extremists’ home dimension … where everything has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust.