A Year In The JSA: 2000 (issues 6-9)
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scans_dailyI think something is about to happen to the hierarchy of power in the DC universe.
Now that the JSAees have decided to be the JSA again, it's time to hold a press conference.
But the festivities are interrupted by a meteor landing nearby. I do believe it's Black Adam, last seen in Jerry Ordway's run on Shazam.
The team's attempt to take out Adam eventually becomes a two-pronged assault, with Hourman traveling through time while others keep Adam occupied.
Basically, they Back To The Future their way into hitting Adam with the same lightning bolt that first empowered him. Time travel!
Gee, Black Canary, how come your mom lets you have TWO one-liners?
This is why I'm glad I'm a Marvel Zombie. I only have to keep track of SHIELD, not the billion spy agencies the DCU has.
Skip ahead a bit and it's time for the simmering Obsidian plotline to come to fruition.
So you see where this is headed. People being taken over by shadows, turned into shadow monsters--your basic highly literal Geoff Johns story. And because it's Geoff Johns, we get the deadliest threat of all... a character that no one's heard of for sixty years.
Thankfully, Dr. Mid-Nite is on the scene and has hooked up with Dinah (not like that... well, not yet at least). He intervenes with his pet owl, because when Golden Age superheroes had a gimmick, they COMMITTED to it, dammit!
By the way, would it be churlish to ask how gay we're supposed to take all of this? Since... you know... Obsidian is one of the few gay characters DC had before they realized they could create fifty different gays and then just never showcase them outside of Pride Specials.
It's not weird. A lot of supervillains fist their close male companions to death. It happens.
Obsidian expands his darkness to cover the whole globe and things get very Kingsman.
Not to be edgy, but millions are dead now, right? Even a few minutes of everyone in the world trying to kill everyone else is going to give Obsidian a bigger body count than Hitler. Let's not even think about what happened with caretakers for the massively ill, the elderly, and the very young. I mean, if you're suddenly possessed by murderous rage and you're holding a baby at the time, or working in a nursery... yeah.
There's pretty much a war crime going down every second Alan doesn't just smack the boy. And this is going on for minutes on end, maybe even an hour, not a matter of seconds like in Kingsman. So, good going, Obsidian, your gayngst has made you one of the biggest mass murderers in human history.
Well, this is a pretty happy-go-lucky way for things to end. Everyone's a bit sad about Todd, but not 'millions of dead babies' sad. Ted's even horny, and no slight on Catwoman, but I don't think even she could manage that reaction after the entire world became a concentration camp for half an hour. So I guess no mass murder? Maybe the Spectre did something. Yeah, let's go with that.
Oh, geez, to say nothing of the damage SUPERMAN and his power level could do if they went on a rampage for even a few minutes. Metropolis would be rubble.
Man, they'd moved into their headquarters for like a day and already the Injustice Society has shown up. That's some high-quality haterade right there.
Now that the JSAees have decided to be the JSA again, it's time to hold a press conference.
But the festivities are interrupted by a meteor landing nearby. I do believe it's Black Adam, last seen in Jerry Ordway's run on Shazam.
The team's attempt to take out Adam eventually becomes a two-pronged assault, with Hourman traveling through time while others keep Adam occupied.
Basically, they Back To The Future their way into hitting Adam with the same lightning bolt that first empowered him. Time travel!
Gee, Black Canary, how come your mom lets you have TWO one-liners?
This is why I'm glad I'm a Marvel Zombie. I only have to keep track of SHIELD, not the billion spy agencies the DCU has.
Skip ahead a bit and it's time for the simmering Obsidian plotline to come to fruition.
So you see where this is headed. People being taken over by shadows, turned into shadow monsters--your basic highly literal Geoff Johns story. And because it's Geoff Johns, we get the deadliest threat of all... a character that no one's heard of for sixty years.
Thankfully, Dr. Mid-Nite is on the scene and has hooked up with Dinah (not like that... well, not yet at least). He intervenes with his pet owl, because when Golden Age superheroes had a gimmick, they COMMITTED to it, dammit!
By the way, would it be churlish to ask how gay we're supposed to take all of this? Since... you know... Obsidian is one of the few gay characters DC had before they realized they could create fifty different gays and then just never showcase them outside of Pride Specials.
It's not weird. A lot of supervillains fist their close male companions to death. It happens.
Obsidian expands his darkness to cover the whole globe and things get very Kingsman.
Not to be edgy, but millions are dead now, right? Even a few minutes of everyone in the world trying to kill everyone else is going to give Obsidian a bigger body count than Hitler. Let's not even think about what happened with caretakers for the massively ill, the elderly, and the very young. I mean, if you're suddenly possessed by murderous rage and you're holding a baby at the time, or working in a nursery... yeah.
There's pretty much a war crime going down every second Alan doesn't just smack the boy. And this is going on for minutes on end, maybe even an hour, not a matter of seconds like in Kingsman. So, good going, Obsidian, your gayngst has made you one of the biggest mass murderers in human history.
Well, this is a pretty happy-go-lucky way for things to end. Everyone's a bit sad about Todd, but not 'millions of dead babies' sad. Ted's even horny, and no slight on Catwoman, but I don't think even she could manage that reaction after the entire world became a concentration camp for half an hour. So I guess no mass murder? Maybe the Spectre did something. Yeah, let's go with that.
Oh, geez, to say nothing of the damage SUPERMAN and his power level could do if they went on a rampage for even a few minutes. Metropolis would be rubble.
Man, they'd moved into their headquarters for like a day and already the Injustice Society has shown up. That's some high-quality haterade right there.
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Date: 2024-07-15 03:47 pm (UTC)"So you're an actual doctor?"
"You sound surprised."
"Let's just say I've met a few Dr fill in the blank types who didn't come close to the Hippocratic Oath."
Again a strong run to build on things and not the first time seen one of these "there should be mass death but no one mentions it later" in comics.