of the Justice League members

[CTTT]

and their legacy characters since their inception who would you say is the most consistently written? I'm talking Superman, Batman Aquaman, Green Arrow, Flash...Wonder Woman as well. Yes I know there have been some stinker stories in there, but basically on the whole more good than bad?

[K. Jones]

and their legacy characters since their inception who would you say is the most consistently written? I'm talking Superman, Batman Aquaman, Green Arrow, Flash...Wonder Woman as well. Yes I know there have been some stinker stories in there, but basically on the whole more good than bad?

Hmm.

There's a couple ways to take the question.

1. If you mean: "Who has been most consistently written WELL", then it's probably unarguably Batman because he has the most stories told by the most writers and there are just so many "Must Read" Batman runs and stories. Over his 75+ year history there's plenty of ups and downs and periods of flux and quality but there's always some graphic novel or side-story run or something every year or two that's just high level quality. Batman has a long history but rose to the top early on, in the 1940s, as the cream-of-the-crop with the neatest concepts, and then had the 1966 show to maintain popularity, and the 1970s Revival which rebuilt his quality story material earlier than a lot of other characters got dusted off and fixed up.

2. If you mean: "Who has been written consistently in-character", like who different writers have taken on, but who has remained ... consistent! ... in their depiction (they feel like the same character no matter who is writing them), it's probably Flash. Since Flash is a younger character (1959) he didn't start out Pulpy in the Golden Age then get fluxed or neutered into the Comics Code debacle in the 1950s. He's one of the handful of characters who kicked off the DCU Silver Age and stories featuring Barry Allen (and then Wally, and then Barry again) have persistently remained "Flash-like" for years, whereas Batman has gone from "grim crime-buster" to "silly and campy" to "gothic and James Bondy" to "ultra dark and grim" to "family oriented yet self-sabotagingly lonery" to the more recent "really, really high tech and Bat-God over-prepared". Some of it's by virtue of just not having that extra 30 years of overall comics quality up-and-down, and some is just that Flash books just seem to have to feel like Flash books. Because they started in the 1940s (or even 30s), Superman shifted from a radical fighter of corruption to a patriarchal dad of the state, to a TV Reporter / media personality ... to very 90s ... and so forth. Wonder Woman has been consistent in character to some degree but has had a lot of radical makeovers in 75+ years. Aquaman a similar dynamic, with radical revamps and different writers trying different personalities with him. So on, so forth.

[My Two Cents]

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The same holds true for the Avengers
It is in there solo books where we
Learn about who Batman really is
And who Superman really is
Within the Justice League Superman
Is the guy with all the World on his
Soldiers and no life and Batman
Is a cold taskmaster General demanding
Total obedience while at home
He can not keep his own family
In line or local villains from defying
His wishes and wrecking havoc and
Mayhem while at his second job as
Leader of the Justice League he has
Most figuratively messing there pants
In fear of incurring his wrath.