JSA All-Stars #17 The World of Regal!

[pyrotwilight]

superboyprime 

recently posted about an interesting story beat that showed up in JSA All-stars #17 so I decided to grab the issue to see more.

So here's some more story, rather interesting story at that....

 

A very Starman-esque story beat there ala what Jack and Mist were like. 

The Prince, whose narrating this, tells of how the heroes banded around Regal. The group that started as the Justice Society expanded and later became the Justice Guild of Earth. "We didn't just keep the world safe as your heroes do we kept the world wonderful."

 

An interesting story to be sure. But some of the things that really caught my eye was the odd fact that Wonderwoman, Superman and Batman were both shown as members of the Justice Society here. It made me consider this world Prince was from might be an altered version of the Pre-Crisis Earth 2, I sort of considered that a possibility as their was also a brown haired Green Arrow in a splash page showing Regal and the Justice Guild (I mention that since the E-2 Green Arrow was retconned during COIE as having brown hair as opposed to the E-1 Green Arrows blond hair to differentiate the two). Of course they also included Superboy (Conner) and Supergirl as members of the Justice Guild alongside Powergirl and the other Justice Guild Members so while it's a very Earth-2 ish look to it there are a bunch of differences that make it also seem like the modern day DCU. I suppose it could still be said to be an altered E-2 (particularly given that Regal and his Guild apparently stopped the COIE)  but those are some rather big changes there.                     

Comments

[sherkahn]

Why am I feeling like this guy is similar to the Superman of the Tangent world?

[shadowpsykie]

ICON LOOOOOOOOVE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sherkahn]

It's the smirk, the twinkle in his eye.

[citygod]

Seconded on the icon - don't think I've ever seen that photo before. Nicely done!
And could the "tachyon burst from the future" that created Regal be Dr. Hate's "interference"?
(By the way, with a name like Dr. Hate, doesn't that make everyone a bit suspicious?!)

[thokstar]

I got something of a Dr. Manhattan vibe, but Tangent Superman is sort of the same thing.

[retro_nouveau]

WHAT shadowpsykie SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!

And motto, Tangent!Superman sprang to mind at first sight.

[darkblade]

I'm getting more of a Sentry vibe here. Guy who was totally perfect, you don't remember him but he was totally there and was so awesome, too bad you don't remember.

[bruinsfan]

Yeah, basically Triumph v2.0. Wonder if the writer thinks he's being original?

I wish changed past stories like these would leave off characters like the Anti-Monitor that should be outside the effects of alterations to a particular world's history.

[pyrotwilight]

It's a bit more like the events of Kurt Busiek's Trinity than Triumph exactly though I can see what you mean.

It's essentially the story of a lone hero trying to save his timeline which means wiping out the bad one. Only in this case the "bad" one is ironically the universe everyone knows.

[akodo_rokku]

Because Regal looks a lot like him.

[endis_ni]

I may never stop adoring your icon.