Losing her JL "founding member" status is only really a problem if one cares about the JL or if the JL had any significant history of treating the character right. Maybe I would if the writers of JL or it's adaptations like the DCAU, Injustice, or the DCEU had a better tract record of doing the character right. But they don't.
And like what Psy-Lock brought up. Donna always was more of a Titan character than a WW supporting character
Same applies to Diana being a "newbie" among modern age superheroes. I don't really take in account the events of other books when reading WW, so her being fresher than characters from other books I'm not reading matters nothing to me.
Her being a "founding member status" only really matters if she's actually treated well on the team. But given you can make a list of Worst WW depictions and include mostly entries from JL stuff, it doesn't really. It more says "we really need a woman so it isn't just a club of white dudes" than it is about actually treating the character with some importance.
Essentially what Psy-Lock and Guy_McNights said. A character who has their own independent history, supporting cast, and lore should not take backseat to preserving some lineup of the JSA from the 40s or so DC can still make cool splash pages in JL books in between Superman and Batman wagging their finger at Diana for being "too violent".
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Question: was SHAZAM! and any of the old Fawcett properties were considered to be a part of the JSA, or affiliated with the JSA, like the Squadron of Justice? Certainly, the All-Star Squadron era would have had the JSA, the Freedom Fighters and the SJ meet, since the All-Stars was suppose to be some sort of umbrella organization.
And Plastic Man has been hinted to have been around for YEARS, depending upon the needs of DC.
I think there are multiple ways of keeping OG Steve & Etta around in the 40s without negating their modern day counterparts.
My preference would be to have Steve die in the 1940s but be resurrected in the modern day by Olympus (which happened twice Pre-Crisis due to the many, many attempts to kill off Steve). However, making him the decendant of the original Steve is also an option but I'd prefer that's the route they take with modern day Etta. Have the OG Etta be her great-grandmother or great-aunt.
It's comic books, there are so many ways to explain these things in order to not close off potential stories creators can tell. Again, that doesn't mean the modern comics have to constantly refer back to the 1940s if they don't want to, but leaving the possibility for exploration available to present and future creators is a good thing to my mind.
There's a big difference here. The Legion and Outsiders were introduced through Superman and Batman, while Wonder Woman wasn't a founding member of the JSA and was only their secretary when she joined. She also doesn't have any obvious thematic ties to the JSA the way Bats and Supes have with their teams.
Diana's tenure on the JL has not been kind to her, but I also don't think removing her from the team is a good idea either, nor is diminishing her status because of poor precedent. We should demand better of her treatment on JL, not discount her being there or being considered as important to it as Clark or Bruce.
The super creepy guy is Per Degaton, right? Red hair, emo coat. Has to be him!
Closing off potential stories isn't inherently a bad thing. Especially if it means closing off potential bad stories, which is exactly what we get every time DC messes with a character's backstory like this and writers have to come up with convoluted explanations to reconcile the contradictions.
Every choice a writer makes is going to close off potential stories.
Could be a time travel issue
Apparently Helena Wayne is swearing an oath of vengeance to hunt down this nazi(whose famous for time traveling no less)
I wonder…