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jaybee3 (jaybee3) wrote in scans_daily,

Thanks for posting this. The early (previous volume) JSA was great and see, this was the James Robinson (and David Goyer) that everybody loved (compare this to Cry for Justice or Snidely Whiplash Sam Lane). Wes Dodds to me had one of the best deaths of any super-hero. He went out, an old man, on his terms, helping to save a life and restore the world in balance. And he went to be with the love of his life. That's how you kill off a hero.

Too bad a lot of plot points were dropped here - Sandy got Wes's pre-cog powers (in addition to being made of carbon and functionally immortal) and Wes's money and put together and financed the new JSA and was the first chairman. And what did they do with him after that? Nada.

Hector was revived and the new Hawkgirl was his distant cousin who actually had the soul of his dead and beloved mother. What kind of interaction did Hector and Kendra have before he died? Nada.

Having Kent and Inza in the amulet, having the kind of family they never had when alive was a stroke of genius since it kept the Golden Age characters active, checking Nabu and mentoring Hector. Where are they now? Gone, I think (unless the new Kent Nelson is in contact with them).

Then there's the identity of Hector's new "birth mother" (I won't spoil it) who is still playing (at this very minute) a big role in the DCU and her giving birth hasn't really been brought up again (kinda like Power Girl's baby).

Like a said a great beginning. It's kinda of a shame that Geoff Johns and the other writers kept adding more and more cast members (yes, I'm looking at you Magog) so that the plot lines could never be picked up and expanded upon.