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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 28, 2024 21:30:17 GMT -5
I think my favorite JSA series/run was the short lived 10 issue '92 run that was set in contemporary times (for that time) and did deal with the members reckoning with old age, considering retirement, etc. Granted it had to contend with the return form Limbo imposed by the ill conceived Last Days of the JSA Special, but that context and starting status quo worked so well for the JSA and created so many interesting character dynamics you just don't see in a lot of super-hero comics and wouldn't get at all in period pieces set in previous decades. -M That's my favorite incarnation of the JSA, too. Action, adventure, humor, and smart characterization, all illustrated to a fare-thee-well by the late, great Mike Parobeck. They pulled the plug on it way too soon.
Cei-U! What's not to love?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 28, 2024 22:06:55 GMT -5
I think my favorite JSA series/run was the short lived 10 issue '92 run that was set in contemporary times (for that time) and did deal with the members reckoning with old age, considering retirement, etc. Granted it had to contend with the return form Limbo imposed by the ill conceived Last Days of the JSA Special, but that context and starting status quo worked so well for the JSA and created so many interesting character dynamics you just don't see in a lot of super-hero comics and wouldn't get at all in period pieces set in previous decades. -M That's my favorite incarnation of the JSA, too. Action, adventure, humor, and smart characterization, all illustrated to a fare-thee-well by the late, great Mike Parobeck. They pulled the plug on it way too soon.
Cei-U! What's not to love?
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Jul 29, 2024 10:07:35 GMT -5
I chose 60s-70s because I'm envisioning a series that shows the Greatest Generation JSA having to deal with the Vietnam War and protests at home, Nixon as president, urban decay in the 70s, etc. Basically the Relevance Era on Earth 2
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jul 30, 2024 10:42:58 GMT -5
I chose 60s-70s because I'm envisioning a series that shows the Greatest Generation JSA having to deal with the Vietnam War and protests at home, Nixon as president, urban decay in the 70s, etc. Basically the Relevance Era on Earth 2 Me too. Also ... they had some members (Red Tornado, primarily) whom we never actually got to see working in their own milieu, only in JLA/JSA crossovers ... so in many ways this is narratively a 'lost decade.' |
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Post by amerigo178 on Sept 5, 2024 15:59:43 GMT -5
I said WW II. Reasoning being the JSA are rarely depicted as “rookies” just starting out. Even in the Young All Stars which wasn’t in the war years they came off as the “Old Timers”
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 5, 2024 22:10:55 GMT -5
I never liked the idea of The JSA taking their ball and going home when called upon to reveal their identities before The HUAC (or whatever the comic book equivalent of that was). Given that I can't imagine that the government would have been able to do much had they just ignored their summons, it seemed very spiteful on their part. Therefore, I'd like a sort of behind the scenes series which follows the team as they continue on in a covert fashion - or just retcon the retcon that the team was made up of a bunch of quitters since that never made sense in the first place and follow them throughout the 1950's and 60's.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 5, 2024 23:12:54 GMT -5
I said WW II. Reasoning being the JSA are rarely depicted as “rookies” just starting out. Even in the Young All Stars which wasn’t in the war years they came off as the “Old Timers” Young All-Stars was set in 1942, like All-Star Squadron. To show them as rookies, you'd have to set it around 1940 to early 1941, before the US entry into the war. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 9, 2024 12:14:05 GMT -5
I never liked the idea of The JSA taking their ball and going home when called upon to reveal their identities before The HUAC (or whatever the comic book equivalent of that was). Given that I can't imagine that the government would have been able to do much had they just ignored their summons, it seemed very spiteful on their part. Therefore, I'd like a sort of behind the scenes series which follows the team as they continue on in a covert fashion - or just retcon the retcon that the team was made up of a bunch of quitters since that never made sense in the first place and follow them throughout the 1950's and 60's. In my Earth-2 Timeline, I tried to combine the story of the 50's Starman with the original Batman story featuring Starman, in order to deal with exactly this issue. I postulated: the JSA created the identity jointly in 1951, and traded off using the costume and airship (McNider was the first, but at least Rex Tyler, Wesley Dodds, Carter Hall, Kent Nelson, and Ted Grant must have used it at times). This tradition ended in 1957 when Bruce Wayne borrowed it and gave the game away. |
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