I saw the summary for this and thought "it'd just be the best if they used the Trickster, but they never would" and I got this! It's very well written too. I'm SOOOO happy with the character choice. Straight to favs :)

I'm glad you did manage to complete it. I'm a little puzzled over "Crisis on Infinite Earths #22" - did you mean #12, the final chapter? Why did you almost not want to finish writing the story after reading it (apart from the obvious, being the deaths of a great many characters and actual *worlds*; I mean specifically)?

It's interesting to point out that only Batman's villains seem to have survived (through lobotomy, though) while we never hear the fate of the others, like Superman's. Possibly they were the first he experimented lobotomy on, and it didn't work every time - this would explain why Justice Lord!Superman did it on Doosmday so quickly and easily. He had training and experience :S

Now, the fic in itself... I remember reading it a while (a long while!) ago on the Rogues LJ comm, and it gave me the chills. Since then I found that it still does. The descriptions are effective, straight to the point and really help set an "end of the line" atmosphere. Poor James - you really, really write the hopelessness of his situation well, and you sure paint a bleary picture with the fates of the other Rogues. I can't help getting tight-throated *every single time* I read about what happened to Piper. (It doesn't help that I'm listening to the Doors' "The End" - the lyrics are chillingly accurate.) Your depiction of the Trickster's last moments is rather terrifying and quite poignant, with the mention of the ashes on the uniforms (it's really the blood on their hands, though) bringing out some hair-raising reminders of what happens to unwanted people in a totalitarian society... I might be reading too much into it, of course, but honestly the thought crossed my mind.

In a nutshell, an unassumingly gut-wrenching, sad, thought-provoking story, and easily one of my favourites in the DCAU Justice Lords 'verse. I love it :o]

Wow. I wasn't really even sure where you were going to go with this story but that was just, wow. damn and I like the villains in the DC verse too. So to try and think of them all being dead. That's like harsh. Shudders at the thought really. Amazing writing though. Very dark and too the point.

Wow. I don't know the Justice Lords-verse very well, but this was a fantastic fic. Well-written, and wonderful characterization.

The Justice Lords don't even have a point, I mean sure yes by ruling with an iron fist they take out thugs, psychos, and the nutcases that want to take over the world, but unlike Ra's al Ghul who can make the world in ecological harmony or Lex Luthor who could end famine and cure cancer protect and give humanity the means to protect themselves from alien warlords they don't have a real point they aren't any better than any other dictator who always promise and some even deliver safe streets and full bellies, at the cost of freedom even law abiding tax paying citizens though this is still better than what they do do you don't put a band-aid on a gunshot wound beating up thugs, pychos and the nutcases who want to take over the world is not good enough you have to, everyone has to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work it is a lot of hard work all day every day I hate making the heroes holier than thou it is kind of like the Elite how Manchester Black wanted to kill villians to stop them from causing trouble later I mean the Joker has killed over two thousand people he once gassed a kindergaten class took out an entire boy scout troop with poisoned cotton candy put him down, on the other hand with how comic book deaths work the Joker would probably come back with an army of demons to do his bidding so THIS WAS AWESOME

This is beautifully done - I can imagine that it was difficult to write from a purely technical standpoint. You pulled it off WELL - I think the only sentence in here where the flow was disrupted (for me) was "...then shattered into a million fragments by Wonder Woman's punch" - maybe I'm just put off by the use of "punch" as a noun.

And wow, the Trickster was a brilliant choice. In a way, he's the most innocent of the villains. For the JLords to close in on him the way they did drew a big yellow highlighter all over just how torn up they were about Flash, and just how - well - insane they've become. The Trickster was the rational one in this scenario. Wow.

And this: "He wanted to curse the Justice Lords..." that whole paragraph was so so so sad. And to be immediately followed by the completely groundless horror of GL's ring - so good! Good choice.

The way you used Linda Park in here was also creepy and excellent. And everyone was in character, which is always a nice bonus in fan fiction.

Basically, this is awesome. I'm glad I came across it.

That was an AWESOME story! Keep up the great work!

Wow. That was amazing. I thought it was cool that people looked to the last villain on earth for hope. James was completely right. Wally wouldn't have wanted this at all.

Stupid Justice Lords.

I think the Trickster really worked for this fic.

Great job.

Very nice fic. Perfect grammar, nice plot. Made me kinda sad, for Flash...his sacrifice was misunderstood by his own friends. Congrats,it was very cool...going straight to my faves!

I like this- it made me sad, but still... great job!

The last free man, indeed . . . Jesus.