Justice Society of America #11 Can You Change A Villain Past Part 2

[superfangirl1]

Eclipso possession Yolanda Montez Wildcat body, was manipulating everybody. He comes out a takes control of mostly everyone in the Justice Society of America and Legion of superheroes.

Mordru uses Huntress Helena Wayne Bow and enchanted the arrow with Solaris solar radiation energy to defeat Eclipso.









You think Mordru being in the 31th Century, will keep him from turning evil?

Also I guess that is one way to resolve Helena Wayne dilemma. Just send her to the future.

Comments

[scorntx]

Pretty sure it's always been billed as a twelve issue miniseries.
But, yeah, this is a seriously rushed one.
A "damn it, Geoff, it's way past deadline. Just write something and call it a day" sort of energy.

[beyondthefringe]

I was so disappointed in how this issue resolved. I mean... you have the entire extended JSA (plus reserves) vs the entire Geoff Johns Legion over the fate or Mordru, only the Substitutes also show up, AND it turns out Eclipso's been possessing Yolanda Montez and making them fight... and it all resolves in a heartbeat. I mean, most of the characters don't get namechecked or identified or get to do anything more than fighty-fight in the background. This could have been EPIC instead of a single issue wham and bam.

And then yeeting Huntress and Mordru to the 31st century as part of a new JSA (why do you need a JSA when you have the Legion? Come on, the Legion has always overshadowed every other team--the Wanderers, the Heroes of Lallor, the Work Force, you name it. And of course the new JSA is all legacies... so they get to steal XS, and there's a Doctor Fate and a Green Lantern and... this feels like one of those things no one but Geoff Johns will ever care about or revisit.

This has always been a 12 issue series, only hideously delayed because again, Geoff Johns and deadlines, lol, but it's been a little all over the place and this was so rushed. Sigh.

[mastermahan]

It's weird they're using the 'of America' in a time period when America is no longer a thing. It's like a group today declaring they're of the Holy Roman Empire.

[beyondthefringe]

Good point. I don't think country differences or nationalism have ever been a big thing in the Legion, except on a planetary scale, and that Brigadoon-like island inhabited by Tyroc's people. Metropolis exists but it's a megacity, and there's a President of Earth. Not to mention, most of the time there was a Great Disaster between now and then which fucked up the world for a while and notably destroyed many historical records (to help explain why the Legion didn't always know everything about the 20th Century...)

So if anything, it should be the Justice Society of Earth. Or of the United Planets.

[agent8]

True, on the other hand names that hark back to previous eras are a thing.

The Knights of Malta are, officially, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta. But they're located in Rome now and have no real connection (except historically) to Jerusalem, Rhodes, or Malta.

[donnblake]

They also fielded, at least on paper, one of the world's larger air forces for a brief while (Italy wasn't allowed to).

[zylly]

Agees. When I finished the issue, my only real feeling was just how underwhelming it all was. All the big deal,of Helena being here, trying to change the future, and she just… leaves.

[scorntx]

I guess the 31st century... needed her?

(or no other writer really felt interested in using her?)

Really weird decision. If Helena's whole thing was supposed to be she's out of time, surely a thousand years would be a much greater shock than a few decades...
(Unless Johns writes something it's not like we'll be hearing from them ever again.)

[zylly]

Yeah. I mean, it's entirely possible this was the plan all along and the deadline doom scuttled it, but it feels very much like a "we need to get her out of here as soon as possible" kind of thing.

Considering how much an effort they already made to make sure she was very much not interacting with the larger Bat-family, I'm not entirely surprised.