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Overall, maybe the JSA in a fixed point in the past with no present day adventures would be the best answer. But then we're stuck with any kids they may have carrying over and potentially becoming grandchildren in later works, in much the same way Peggy Carter keeps getting booting further & further back up the ancestral line, as we struggle to keep Sharon Carter young & pretty.
Plus, are we good with this solution for Nick Fury & the Howling Commandoes as well? Insisting that their ties to WW II prohibit any involvement in the present whatsoever? Nick & Dum-Dum headed SHIELD in the 60's and no further? Nick and Cap have never met outside of the European theater?
This solution also puts an end to all interplay between the JSA & their JLA counterparts outside of time travel. I'm more or less all for the team being on their own without the drag of having "the kids" tag along all the time telling them (and us) how old and fuddy-duddy they are, but is that what everyone wants? An end to all Barry, Wally, & Jay interaction?
I liked having them on their own world where they could be characters on their own, which this solution would offer, but I also liked the idea of the teams meeting. Should the JLA take annual, or perhaps only occasional, sabbaticals into the past?
Or do we cut the ties completely? No kids or grandkids showing up today. No references back to them except in the most circumspect ways? No "legacy character" taking up the Helm of Fate in modern day, thus creating a bridge between then and now that will only growing longer as time wears on?
Would this solution simply leave the JSA as a novelty act, off on their own, free from all crossovers & tie-ins and therefore irrelevant to many modern readers? I like books and concepts to maintain their own, unique separate identities, but that's hardly the marketing trend the company's seem to be following. Would they do such a book? All-Star Western's off on it's own, isn't it? That's an encouraging note, if true.
Honestly, I'm all for giving this solution a try from this point forward. The JLA/JSA team-ups of my youth are over and done, never to come around again. With the exception of the Strazewski/Parobeck series, Post-Crisis iterations were dreary beyond the telling of it.The current team of Nu52 lame players is painful and twisted (Lois Lane is apparently the Red Tornado in that book. And Superman, who didn't die as we'd been shown, is a murdering bootlicker to Darkseid. Hm. Who wouldn't want to read that?)
A 1940's era JSA with the characters actually exemplifying something worthwhile in the human condition, from an era when comics still seemed to think there was such a thing, would be extremely welcome at this point.
This may not have been the solution we were looking for all along, but it certainly could be the solution now!
Edited by Brian Hague on 21 June 2014 at 11:33am
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