the CouchGuy blog

Newsarama asks some good questions here in their article/poll about the place of the WWII-linked JSA in the revamped DC Universe. The CouchGuy is a big JSA fan, and I kept buying and reading titles featuring them even when the rest of my comic buying dropped to nil at one point. I love the concept of a group of elder-statesmen heroes acting as mentors for younger heroes carrying on their legacies. I also love some of the new characters introduced in the JSA title, such as Stargirl, the younger Wildcat, and the new Mr. Terrific. I agree that the link between the JSA and WWII is unbreakable, and increasingly hard to justify in continuity. But the JSA is too important to the DCU to fade away. My own proposal, set the new JSA #1 during WWII, and tell those characters’ stories in theera where they belong. What better way to reveal the backstory of the new DCU? Then launch Infinity Inc. #1 with a new team if legacy heroes brought together to honor their forebears and search out the truth of what happened to the JSA members who were lost track of after they retired in the 50’s. In the process, it can be revealed that a few (Alan Scott, Jay Garrick and Ted Grant, perhaps) were time-displaced in a final battle, only to appear again today, where they become the mentors of the new team. Put the surviving JSA members in their early sixties (physically) and let them get used to the world of the 21st century gradually. (Personally, I’d love to see Power Girl end up as the leader of the new team. She’s a different sort of “legacy”, but she really fits here.) now that is a pair of titles that I would buy regularly!