We are back, my favorite team of old guard and new are back and hopefully on schedule now.
Anyway lets do a recap because of the delay, *ahem*: Per Degaton has been killing the JSA throughout time but he didn’t count on Helena Wayne with the Flashpoint Beyond snow globe. After her team gets killed she gets shot through the timeline and ended up in WW2 era and then the present day where she met Khalid Nassour and the Justice League Dark. The Dark team took the globe to madam xandu to check it out while Khalid brought Helena to present day JSA when Degaton appears to murder them all.
And thus we get in this issue a fight, some teases of things to come, and some reveals. If you wanted more present day JSA we get that. If you wanted to know why it is that Degaton is working backwards we get an explanation for that as well. Apparently he is working via a magic reality altering spell that requires him to work backwards and kill JSA or at least Dr. Fates in sequence. And if you had some questions about Beth and Yolanda’s resurrection we get a little more on that, though it may not be a good thing depending on where Johns takes this latest reveal.
I would probably say that this arc has been a lot of teases of future storylines to come that aren’t Watchmen and Joker related. I’m personally all for it as a JSA fan and only hope that this series goes on long enough to tell the story.
Although the ending will likely bother people, that can’t be helped because a certain someone shows up to be warned of the future. But given their ties to the story and characters already established it’d make no sense if they didn’t appear.