Earth 2 #1

[superfangirl1]

Apokolips led by Steppenwolf has wiped out Metropolis and pretty well conquering Earth and in a last mad desperate gamble. The Trinity of Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman manage to free the world from the Parademon grip, sacrificing themselves in the process in grand fashion.







Five years later on the anniversary of the Trinity deaths to save the earth.





Sitting silently by himself in the woods depress by Joan words. Jay Garrick meets Mercury after witnessing him crash near by in a crater.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

You know, between reading an interview by Robinson yesterday and reading this issue, I think I figured out what this book is and why it feels so weird.

With the exception of their first appearences, the JSA has pretty much always been the grandfather figures of the DCU. What Robinson seems to be doing is creating a contemporary and modern take on the original JSA when they were young and vital.

It's certainly different from what we've seen before, but it doesn't make it less valid, and I'm really kinda digging it.

[icon_uk]

It's a very odd choice, given we already have the fledgling hero team coming together in JLA. JSA following in their footsteps seems a bizarre choice.

And Jay and Joan as a young couple, just starting out (Well, not even a couple here) five years AFTER the Trinity died? Weird....

[darkknightjrk]

With Jay and Joan, like I said, that was how the character started out--as a college student who's girl just left him.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

It was more that she wasn't interested in him enough to be his girl because he had no ambition, which is consistent with this, but that only lasted about a page, then he got his powers (because he was goofing off on the job and he knocked some "hard water" over while smoking a cigarette, proving Joan right about him) and became a more interesting person, then over the decades he got married, became an elder statesman of the JSA and was even more interesting. Why would DC think the best thing to do with him is to expand on his "whiny loser" period?

[darkknightjrk]

Well, yeah, of course it only lasted a page back then--he was created during a time where there wasn't really such a thing as a comic with less than two short stories, thus making them hyper-compressed as a necessity.

As for why...because we've had almost 60 years, give or take, of Jay and the other JSA as elder statesmen and wanted to do something different?

[arbre_rieur]

"...but that only lasted about a page, then he got his powers..."

Which is drastically less than the three pages it lasts here?

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, 33% is drastically less, but the excerpt here gave the impression that his whiny loser period was ongoing. Am I mistaken?

[thatnickguy]

Well, if you think about it from the original Golden Age, the Trinity did come first, with two of them serving on the JSA. So if it's a full-on modern take on the JSA, it works in that respect.

[icon_uk]

Except the Trinity have been dead for five years after presumably having a suitably long career, leaving a Robin and a Supergirl/Power Girl behind, BEFORE Flash first appears.

[thatnickguy]

Sure, but I'm just talking about the core Trinity. They didn't join the team, no, but they still came first. That's still a basic grounding parallel to the Golden Age JSA.

[kenn_el]

I think the difference (for me, at least) is that we're really NOT seeing the formation of the Justice League as it happens, while apparently we will see the Society form. Also, the powers that be don't seem all that consistent when it comes to Earth 1 timelines and all, whereas maybe with Earth 2 the lack of too many cooks will make a more coherent and accessible world. I liked it quite a bit.