I was wondering if any body heard of a new series coming out based on Earth Two maybe as a spin off of the Justice Society/New Golden Age ? I'm just a bit curious.
I was wondering if any body heard of a new series coming out based on Earth Two maybe as a spin off of the Justice Society/New Golden Age ? I'm just a bit curious.
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Johns current JSA run would've worked better set on Earth 2 for me.
I liked Robinson's worldbuilding on Earth 2 and I would like it to be brought back as the home of an alternate DC earth.
Does his JSA take place on Earth 2? I thought it was supposed to be the mainstream Earth. I know there was that one scene that has Superman in the Earth 2 costume. I haven't been following it so if anyone knows feel free to say.
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I wish! The last Earth 2 book was cancelled right when it was hitting its stride. For reasons beyond my understanding, DC editorial thinks we can't have an Earth 2 book and a JSA book at the same time.
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It's doubtful. Johns went out of his way to bring classic elements of the OG Earth-2 to this JSA run, having some events take place on the main Earth instead of Earth-2, so the possibility of them bringing back classic Earth-2 is sadly really low.
They still hint at the existence of New 52 Earth-2 from time to time, but I don't think that version has enough legs to support its own series anymore. They completely botched it after Robinson left.
James Robinson's world building and any goodwill built up for the New 52 Earth-2 series was pretty much pissed away by DC and all the following writers. From shoving the characters Robinson started the book with so far into the background that they might as well have become guest-stars who barely made cameos, to introducing new Trinity-adjacent and -related characters that became the stars of the book (which was supposed to have lost all Trinity-related characters in a previous conflict), to the rather cynical efforts to apparently alienate the audience by turning the book into nothing more than an exercise in mass-murder and disaster porn (and make the "heroes" look utterly incompetent)....
....Dc sh*t the bed with the New 52 version of the Golden Age or Justice Society characters, and the stink has never worn off. I seriously advise anybody (who clearly didn't read the previous attempt) asking for a return of the Earth-2 book to let dead dogs rot. This particular IP was so thoroughly mismanaged that whatever potential it might have had was permanently destroyed.
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I don't mind the JSA on Earth Prime but Earth two feels more free.
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This. Taylor and Wilson produced some the the worst comics I have seen in 50 years of collecting. DC has rarely embraced the idea of an older, experienced Justice Society leading a book. Even going back to "Super Squad" in the 70's revival of All-Star, the belief that older characters didn't sell until they did and Super Squad disappeared from the covers. Thomas had Infinity, Inc. as a true second generation set of heroes and not a sidekick group like Titans. Eventually as a Justice Society book sold and the franchise often supported two monthlies, Flashpoint came along. I've read where Robinson wanted something closer to the original idea of an older set of heroes on an alternate Earth, but DC wouldn't go for that.
As for the current version of Earth 2 heroes from the nu52 book, we have versions of PG and Huntress in JSA, Michael Holt is back, and Val Zod appears to be the only part of that book that DC wanted to carry over (Alan Scott's sexuality aside).
I'd love to see a JSA/Earth 2 heroes crossover. It's one thing for the JSA to meet the JLA but seeing alternate younger versions of themselves is something I think would be fun.
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Love to see a new series based on Earth two yet after the Doomsday Clock mini series I think people might get the Earth two of the Justice Society of America confused with the new 52 Earth 2 with the Val-Zod Superman along with Helena Wayne Batman and the Wonders who battled Darkseid who destroyed their original Earth. So that said I would like DC to explain why there is two Earth 2s.
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Yeah, I really loved what Robinson set up and the dynamic between Alan, Jay and Kendra. Taylor completely ruined it and made it another generic apocalyptic Elseworld with Batman and Superman. I also think Val Zod was one of the most inconsistently written, dull, poorly conceived versions of Superman ever. The whole thing just really bummed me out because I loved it before Taylor came in.
Exactly which earth 2 are you asking about? The traditional earth two or New52 earth 2? In any case, there is nothing in the horizont outside the present day JSA series.
Here I agree with @Timber Wolf-By-Night. DC had a golden oportunity to give a different spin on the earth 2 concept, but they transformed it into a mix of Flashpoint and Injustice with characters than everybody just meet. Really I don't think the editors understand why those comics worked and why that failed so miserably on earth 2.
At least WIlson was taken out quickly of the tiotle and Dan Abnett did what he could to at least patch up partially what was left of those characters, but his only solution was a reboot on, how many destructions were already? Three?
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Nu52 Earth-2 got no goodwill from me; I thought it was one of the worst comic books I've ever read. It was relentlessly grim, offering little in the way of characters I could latch on to. Basically, for me, it was grim and boring, the two worst sins a comic can commit. But that's MY opinion, and probably not a popular one. I fully acknowledge that others think differently on this, and if it worked for them, great.
I lay the blame for this on DC itself, the grim Darkseid mandate seemed to come from them.