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Originally posted by Animalman:
...I'll be damned if Grant didn't make the Atom a great character.
Grant managed to turn around a lot of characters that no one cared about during his run on JLA. He made Aquaman moderately cool (for a guy who, up to this point, really just talked to fish) and really took some time to do some great things with the secondary characters of the book, like Atom, Plastic Man, Steel, Green Arrow, and several others that I really can't think of right now.

And, in some cases, WW3 was the culmination of these efforts. If you follow Morrison's run closely, you'll notice that, from issue #1, Grant loved the dichotomy of Superman and Batman, making it the best ending (in his mind) for his run on JLA - having Superman and Batman working together to defeat the Anti-Sun. A lot of Grant's other efforts saw fruition in that story as well - Wonder Woman attaining her mission and leading the armies of man, Kyle proving himself as the "true" GL by overcoming Mageddon's control of his ring with just his willpower, Flash racing off and finding The Glimmer, Plas and Steel devising a plan to take out the Queen Bee, ad infinitum.

In many ways, WW3 was the climax of Grant's enitre JLA run. And, to a great extent, it was everything he made it out to be - a great story that summed up the whole of his experience on JLA. And, while I was disappointed in some of WW3, as a whole, it was a phenomenal story!