JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6

[MattBrady]

DC has provided Newsarama with a preview of next week’s Justice Society of America #6, the next chapter in the Justice League-Justice Society crossover, “The Lightning Saga!”…

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #6
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Dale Eaglesham & Ruy José
Cover by Alex Ross
Variant cover by Phil Jimenez & Andy Lanning
Part 4 of the 5-part JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA/JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA crossover “The Lightning Saga!” Wonder Woman leads Damage and a squad of League and Society members deep into the recesses of the mysterious Suicide Swamp! What horrible evil will rise that will plague the world for a thousand years, and how will the combined might of the Justice League and the Justice Society stop it?
Retailers: This issue will feature two covers that may be ordered separately. The Standard Edition cover is by Alex Ross; one copy of the Variant Edition, with a cover by Phil Jimenez & Andy Lanning, may be ordered for every 10 copies of the Standard Edition ordered. Please see the Previews Order Form for further details.
On sale May 30 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

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[Dragavon]

Why are John's issues so much better than Meltzer's? I can see a clear logical flow of scenes that lead somewhere, as opposed to a guided tour of the DCU's hot spots.

[rwe1138]

Superman: "We were Legion."

Awsome take on a classic line.

[khuxford]

I'm just perplexed as to how Batman thinks people willing to commit suicide to bring another back is explained away by them being "kids"...and how, with Batman saying they were kids, the artist drew them all looking like they were in their mid-to-late 20s.

[durkadurka]

Ooooh, exciting.

[LunarDaydreamer]

Dale Eaglesham just gets better.

*AMAZING* artist.

[von Doom, M.D.]

This crossover has been something else. I've really enjoyed it so far. This is the first time I've read anything with the Legion in it, besides a mid-80's issue I got in a comic grab bag at a dollar store once. I'm liking the characters and the story. I'm also curious as to what these Legionnaires are trying to do, especially since they just referenced Lightning Lad as being alive. Could this be how Kal-L comes back to life, as seen at the end of JS of A #1?

[coolmvm]

Sweet Preview.

[durkadurka]

Originally Posted by khuxford

I'm just perplexed as to how Batman thinks people willing to commit suicide to bring another back is explained away by them being "kids"...and how, with Batman saying they were kids, the artist drew them all looking like they were in their mid-to-late 20s.

I could be wrong, but i took Batman saying "You were kids" to be in contrast to what superman said. Superman tried to justify the Russian Roulette thing, but then Batman points out this fact that seems like he's saying "you didn't know what you were doing."
It's kind of hard to write proper intonation in comics.

[J.D. Lombardi]

Originally Posted by khuxford

I'm just perplexed as to how Batman thinks people willing to commit suicide to bring another back is explained away by them being "kids"...and how, with Batman saying they were kids, the artist drew them all looking like they were in their mid-to-late 20s.

There's that and for me...this incredibly confusing "Superman is part of the Legion" thang. I mean I know in other eras, Superboy was SuperMAN as a boy, etc...but for the current Supes to start spouting all this stuff off suddenly is jarring for me.

Has he made recognition of this in any other books besides JLA and JSA?

[Amoebas]

Originally Posted by khuxford

I'm just perplexed as to how Batman thinks people willing to commit suicide to bring another back is explained away by them being "kids"...and how, with Batman saying they were kids, the artist drew them all looking like they were in their mid-to-late 20s.

The super-sacrifice happened MUCH earlier in the Legion's history. Reasonably, the Legionnaires have aged since then.

As for the preview... This is the Legion! In character and it almost feels like a day hasn't gone by (except when I look in the mirror). It really looks like one of them may have to die tho

[J.D. Lombardi]

Also...(sorry for two quick posts)

I've gotta say, as a big time LEGION lover, it is really nice to have a great story involving them. For me, the current series was just God awful and I dropped it after the first 8 or so issues. I love what came before that, have always been intrigued the the older more classic teams as well.

I'm hoping that somehow, this team'll carry over into something I'll be able to collect again.

It is damn hard to be a proper comic nerd and NOT collect one title (at least) of an X-Men and a Legion.

[caats19]

Originally Posted by J.D. Lombardi

There's that and for me...this incredibly confusing "Superman is part of the Legion" thang. I mean I know in other eras, Superboy was SuperMAN as a boy, etc...but for the current Supes to start spouting all this stuff off suddenly is jarring for me.

Has he made recognition of this in any other books besides JLA and JSA?

new earth. ha. but is it really that jarring? i never read the old superman, and haven't read a lot, but to me, i thought it was and should be superman was superboy for a bit, and superboy went with the LOSH for a little while. that's pretty classic imo, and i like it. but i do wonder if Kal L had any adventures. i have a question, was superboy prime suppose to be the superboy from the old comics or no? i've wondered that. oh well. thinking too much ruins comics.

[Quetzal]

Eaglesham returns!!!! Thats great!!!!

[dpg]

This crossover has been absolutly great. That whole explaination of forgeting the details after time-travel.


sweet.

[vbartilucci]

I'm doin' the happy dance...I'm doin' the happy dance...

Sorry folks, as good in spots all the Legion reboots have been...THIS is the Legion of Super-Heroes.

My money's on a continuity-correction (an act like this cannot be called a "retcon" or a "reboot") of the Legion after, or as a direct plot point of What Comes Next.

Originally Posted by khuxford

I'm just perplexed as to how Batman thinks people willing to commit suicide to bring another back is explained away by them being "kids"...and how, with Batman saying they were kids, the artist drew them all looking like they were in their mid-to-late 20s.

I think that's a limitation (for lack of a better, less insulting sounding word) of the artist. Not too many comic artists draw teenagers or children as anything other than smaller adults. Heck, they didn't look like teenagers when Grell and Cockrum were drawing them either. Chris Sprouse in Legionnaires is about the only one I can think of where they truly looked "younger", and that was because they HAD to drive home the point that the clones (heh) were "younger" than the "real" (again, heh) Legion.

As for "kids" being willing to lay down their lives, I too believe he was trying to say they were too young to find safer way to try what they were doing, or naive to think it had a chance of working. I don't think he was trying to demean what they were doing.

Every word out of Superman's mouth about the Legion has damn near brought me to tears. The wistfulness, the nostalgia of those days...it so mirrors my own love for those adventures (and, I dare say, that of many other readers)

[Crusader K]

Don't get me wrong.

I'm loving the 70's era Legion here. I grew up on them and the Levitz/Giffen era Legion. What is annoying me and has from about the year 1999 on (yes, that long) is this bizarre rewriting of Superman's backstory. I bought into the whole Byrne re-do in the mid 80's, even tho that played havoc with the Legion's continuity. But I accepted the whole 'pocket universe' explanation thing and moved on.

I just want someone to define Superman's backstory. I mean, at last count since '86, we've had at least 3-4 versions of Krypton - Byrne's, Kelly's and now Johns/Donners. Please tell me Superboy Prime still isnt at it with super punches on the wall of time!

Now, we're told in the recent Annual that Clark 'played' at being a super-boy in Smallville, that he was actually a costumed Superboy with the Legion in the 30th century, and all the 'old' Legion continuity still pertains even tho Waid/Kitson's Legion is running around.

Someone please make sense of this!

[J.D. Lombardi]

Originally Posted by caats19

new earth. ha. but is it really that jarring? i never read the old superman, and haven't read a lot, but to me, i thought it was and should be superman was superboy for a bit, and superboy went with the LOSH for a little while. that's pretty classic imo, and i like it. but i do wonder if Kal L had any adventures. i have a question, was superboy prime suppose to be the superboy from the old comics or no? i've wondered that. oh well. thinking too much ruins comics.

lol You are exactly right on that last sentence. Thinking too much DOES mess it all up. But I can't help it. I think it is cool that they added it back in and it doesn't make me all upset in that loyalist sorta way. It was that it just came about so suddenly. I've been collecting since a little before Byrne re-did Supes' origin, etc...and that has been cannon for so long.

Also, about the preview....anyone notice that it more or less stated on the last two pages that Lightning Lad IS alive still in the future? It seems that was a red herring after all.

[vbartilucci]

Originally Posted by caats19

i have a question, was superboy prime suppose to be the superboy from the old comics or no? i've wondered that. oh well. thinking too much ruins comics.

Superboy Prime was the Superboy of Earth-Prime, which was alledgedly "our" Earth; the one where the employees of DC Comics made up adventures of the fictional JLA. But soon the JLA started showing up here, and getting help from the folks at DC. Julie Schwartz showed up in Flash a lot, and there was a story where Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin got transported to Earth-1. There were a lot more, that's just a sample.

But the point was, there were no super-heroes there (here?) until SBP. He was introduced in the last issues of the Superman books, juuuust before CoIE started, and pretty much was created for use in Crisis.

Tho if they wanted to rehabilitate SBP, putting him in Legion for adventures moving forward is not too bad an idea. It would require a) settlement of the Superboy lawsuit (which I still say will be done before What Comes Next) and b) a pretty major event in the storyline to turn him from maniacal mass-murder to true hero again. But truth to tell, I wouldn't mind it.

Yeah, yeah, I know, you all want Conner...

[khuxford]

Originally Posted by durkadurka

I could be wrong, but i took Batman saying "You were kids" to be in contrast to what superman said. Superman tried to justify the Russian Roulette thing, but then Batman points out this fact that seems like he's saying "you didn't know what you were doing."
It's kind of hard to write proper intonation in comics.

Superman is talking about them being willing to trade their life in the little section of the page where Superman is holding lightning rods with the other members of Legion. In that scene...the time that Kal-El was talking about...they were in their mid-to-late twenties. Batman would expect that you'd know what you're doing much earlier in life than that. I mean...it is already suspect that Batman would excuse anyone thinking about suicide like that. But to shrug it off with the kid thing and not be corrected?

[Andrew.T]

Friggin WOW.

Excellent, but then, I didn't think it would be any less.

This title DELIVERS.

[khuxford]

Originally Posted by vbartilucci

I think that's a limitation (for lack of a better, less insulting sounding word) of the artist. Not too many comic artists draw teenagers or children as anything other than smaller adults. Heck, they didn't look like teenagers when Grell and Cockrum were drawing them either. Chris Sprouse in Legionnaires is about the only one I can think of where they truly looked "younger", and that was because they HAD to drive home the point that the clones (heh) were "younger" than the "real" (again, heh) Legion.

As for "kids" being willing to lay down their lives, I too believe he was trying to say they were too young to find safer way to try what they were doing, or naive to think it had a chance of working. I don't think he was trying to demean what they were doing.

Every word out of Superman's mouth about the Legion has damn near brought me to tears. The wistfulness, the nostalgia of those days...it so mirrors my own love for those adventures (and, I dare say, that of many other readers)

I gotcha on the artist's limitations, though I love Eaglesham.

But the "kids" thing...I'm just saying that Batman wouldn't have supported a solution that is one person sacrificing their life only to bring the other one back. Not to save the day, just to bring someone else back, while letting a different person go. I mean...it doesn't even make sense in the "Legion's big three" thing, since Saturn Girl was sacrificing her life, too. But that wouldn't have jived with Batman anyway. And being younger wouldn't make it understandable to Batman. They just had the wrong character saying that dialogue, IMO.

[durkadurka]

Originally Posted by khuxford

Superman is talking about them being willing to trade their life in the little section of the page where Superman is holding lightning rods with the other members of Legion. In that scene...the time that Kal-El was talking about...they were in their mid-to-late twenties. Batman would expect that you'd know what you're doing much earlier in life than that. I mean...it is already suspect that Batman would excuse anyone thinking about suicide like that. But to shrug it off with the kid thing and not be corrected?

What i tried to say was that Batman wasn't shrugging it off, but telling superman how stupid it was.

[khuxford]

Originally Posted by Amoebas

The super-sacrifice happened MUCH earlier in the Legion's history. Reasonably, the Legionnaires have aged since then.

You're missing the actual thing being displayed in the comic. During Superman's recounting the story, the image of everyone holding a lightning rod up is supposed to be from when they went to make the super-sacrifice...when they should be much younger, but they're drawn as practically 30 year old people.

[garion]

I. CAN'T. WAIT.!!!!!