Justice League of America #1

[superboyprime]

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[stillanerd]

What I found unintentionally hilarious (and what's not shown here) is that one of the reasons Amanda Waller decides to form the Justice League of America, and ultimately gets Steve Trevor on board is, because of Superman and Wonder Woman hooking up. Thus once again, even though DC has been going out of their way to ship Superman and Wonder Woman, Geoff Johns--the very guy who made them an item in the first place--is flat out saying it's making things a whole lot worse for everybody. Yeah, their romance is certainly not going to last beyond the Trinity War, folks. Heck, Johns might as well have titled this comic "Super Cockblockers" because that's essentially what this incarnation of the Justice League of America's primary mission really is.

[shingi70]

Didn't Johns say that last year during the Justice League International Annual. Future Booster Gold comes and warns present day about having to stop superman and womdermoman before both are thrown through time.

[stillanerd]

Yep. He's just reinforcing it here.

[darkknightjrk]

I have a feeling that what we might infer from that is meant to be a red herring, though. Superman and Wonder Woman hooking up is not going to cause problems in the DCU--it's going to be people overreacting to it.

[jaybee3]

I don't think Johns is in love (so to speak) with Supes/WW. It's almost certainly not his idea. He wrote Lois/Clark very well in his various Superman runs and he's the one (along with his mentor, Richard Donner) who actually gave them a kid! The whole Superman/WW thing seems to be coming from Didio and Lee. Johns is a pro - even as he was trying (along with Mark Waid) to talk Didio out of killing Nightwing off in Infinite Crisis he was completely prepared to do it if Didio didn't relent. Likewise, he was the one who killed off Superboy who is probably his favorite character. Johns will do the job (even if he is COO) but it seems (IMO) he's not a huge fan of it.

[arbre_rieur]

In Wonder Woman's own book, Azzarello hasn't mentioned the Superman/Wonder Woman relationship at all, which I doubt would be the case if the pairing was an editorial edict.

I don't see why it wouldn't be Johns' idea. Most people think he wrote a good Wally West, yet he also decided to bring back Barry. And the pairing is likely meant to be temporary anyway, so it wouldn't get in the way of Clark and Lois in the long run.