Yeah I know it’s early in the morning when I’m posting this but considering the long delays and other announcements hitting shelves soon it’s best to pump this book up. JSA is my favorite team after all and I will do what I can to keep this book from being cancelled.
Anyway delayed related Recap: Degaton, the nazi time traveling JSA foe, has performed an evil spell to replace the JSA throughout history with multiple time duplicates of himself. To do this he has been murdering JSA teams in reverse chronological order and he has made it to the present day which is his last stop before the original team in the 40’s. Thankfully Helena Wayne is here with the Flashpoint Beyond snow globe because Degaton can’t keep an eye on her like everyone else.
And also as last left off Helena has broken the cardinal rule of time travel and has gone to Batman in Gotham to warn him about his future demise.
So how does this all end? Well honestly about exactly as you expected it to go down. This thing is heavily delayed with solicitations up to issue 8. If you somehow didn’t know that the JSA managed to save the day and that Helena is now trapped in the present I’m sorry for ruining your mad spoiler dodging record. I’m not going to say how they beat him but I will say that Janin at least delivers with the promise of the cover with multiple generations of the JSA. Trust me there are cool JSA moments where they get to put the smack down on a nazi multiple different times.
That being said the first arc of this run is finally over and we can move on to more stories, specifically we’re finally getting to see what happened after the end of Stargirl and the lost children. Literally the last page of this issue is a reverse shot of the panel where Jay Garrick saw his daughter for the first time. And so next issue if you haven’t read the Stargirl series you are about to be introduced to somewhere about a dozen or more new teen sidekick characters. But the good news is that the Jay and Judy series comes out in October so it actually kind of lines up pretty well with the release of that series.
But either way after a long couple of months we finally got our conclusion and can move on to whatever is next.