The trouble with Cry For Justice is that it starts out with a BIG PLAN, big characters and plot to form a second JLA with a purpose - to hunt down bad guys. DC changed their minds so many times during the brief run that it makes little sense thereafter, so characters get changed, plots watered down etc. It became a huge mess. Not as much of a mess as Krul's Rise & Fall though, which is one of the few comics that made me feel like ripping them up.

From what I remember (and I have tried to expunge the memory) you are safe not getting Cry For Justice, though if you see it cheap enough it's worth a read to see how something that starts out with good intentions can go horribly wrong. It isn't a total write- off though.

That run of JLA also has its moments. Meltzers initial run is excellent. It goes badly downhill under McDuffie who I think had the rug pulled out from under him, so he was always scrabbling against the demands of other editors. Robinson actually got a second string League to be good fun, even if his writing was sometimes awkward in the extreme - he kept doing this sort of thing and adding asides which meant that dialogue captions went on forever - and the last 10 issues or so are really good. There was a fabulous plotline with Alan Scott that was totally ignored in the JSA title.