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]

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?