JSA 2020 Appreciation

[caj]

If you had to choose one of each of these for your JSA roster, who would it be:


Tom Bronson or Yolonda Montez
Peter Cross or Beth Chapel
Atom Smasher or Damage
Rick Tyler or Android Hourman
Jack Knight (out of retirement) or another Starman
Hippolyta or Diana
Shiera or Kendra
Hector or Khalid or Kent V.
Jade or Alan
Jesse Chambers or Jay Garrick

Yolanda
Pieter
Atom Smasher
Android
Jack Knight
Hippolyta
Shiera
Hector
Alan
Jay

and I would add Ted Grant as Wildcat

[achilles]

While Stargirl is an outstanding TV series IMO, one of the best I've seen, (so far); the thought occurred to me that I'd LOVE to see a Johns era/roster JSA TV show, (obviously pre expansion Johns era, before he introduced all those very, very minor characters who would make a TV cast far too big to manage). The big problem would be that you'd either have to wait till after Stargirl wraps its final season, which should be years away, or you'd run up against the "which JSA is that" problem.

Is there a way to get around that in live action somehow? I mean, with a Stargirl-centered kiddie JSA...which just killed of most of the older JSA types, how can you have a completely different JSA that is not Stargirl centric? Or does the use of a non-standard Stargirl centered JSA preclude that?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

For me, the real sticking point is going to be the creative team. As much as I loved the Johns/Robinson JSA books, the stuff that followed was absolutely terrible.

Preferably, I'd like two books. One set in the 1940s giving us a modern take at these characters in their youth knowing what we now know about the brutal realities of the time. And I'd like another focusing on a mix of the young legacy characters with the surviving old timers.

[The Cool Thatguy]

For me, the real sticking point is going to be the creative team. As much as I loved the Johns/Robinson JSA books, the stuff that followed was absolutely terrible.

Preferably, I'd like two books. One set in the 1940s giving us a modern take at these characters in their youth knowing what we now know about the brutal realities of the time. And I'd like another focusing on a mix of the young legacy characters with the surviving old timers.

Yeah, Willingham's stuff was all kinds of terrible. The reboot was almost a metrcy kill.

[dr-brainwave]

If you had to choose one of each of these for your JSA roster, who would it be:


Tom Bronson or Yolonda Montez
Peter Cross or Beth Chapel
Atom Smasher or Damage
Rick Tyler or Android Hourman
Jack Knight (out of retirement) or another Starman
Hippolyta or Diana
Shiera or Kendra
Hector or Khalid or Kent V.
Jade or Alan
Jesse Chambers or Jay Garrick

Ted Grant
Charles McNider
Al Pratt
Rex "Tick Tock" Tyler
Ted Knight
Diana Prince
Carter Hall
Kent Nelson
Alan Scott
Jay Garrick

[Will Evans]

Ted Grant
Charles McNider
Al Pratt
Rex "Tick Tock" Tyler
Ted Knight
Diana Prince
Carter Hall
Kent Nelson
Alan Scott
Jay Garrick

LOL.

Some of those answers weren’t options.

[Shamrock Holmes]

If you had to choose one of each of these for your JSA roster, who would it be:


Tom Bronson or Yolonda Montez
Peter Cross or Beth Chapel
Atom Smasher or Damage
Rick Tyler or Android Hourman
Jack Knight (out of retirement) or another Starman
Hippolyta or Diana
Shiera or Kendra
Hector or Khalid or Kent V.
Jade or Alan
Jesse Chambers or Jay Garrick

For a title set in the current era:

Tom Bronson
Peter Cross
Damage
Rick Tyler (Team Leader/Mentor)
Jack Knight (reservist) [Stargirl prefered]
Hippolyta (reservist)
Kendra
Khalid
Jade
Jesse

[Timber Wolf-By-Night]

Yeah, Willingham's stuff was all kinds of terrible. The reboot was almost a metrcy kill.

Willingham's stuff wasn't the best, but it was freakin' Roy Thomas compared to Guggenheim's excrement.

[Jekyll]

Willingham's stuff wasn't the best, but it was freakin' Roy Thomas compared to Guggenheim's excrement.

This! Guggenheim's run was god awful.

Though I admit I am a little tired of hearing, "Well they just have to get the right creative team!" Folks, it's been a decade! They have had plenty of time to work out an on-going. If the JSA doesn't have an on-going after Synder's event concludes, it's because DC doesn't want them to have an on-going book.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Willingham's stuff wasn't the best, but it was freakin' Roy Thomas compared to Guggenheim's excrement.

Yeah, agreed.

"Lets have everyone join!"

[warzon]

JSA 1.jpgJSA Justice Society of America

[warzon]

JSA 2.jpganother gem in my file

[warzon]

JSA 6.jpgI think Nicolla should do a JSA book.

[Will Evans]

Was Hawkgirl not counted as a member until they went to Limbo?

[DrNewGod]

Was Hawkgirl not counted as a member until they went to Limbo?

Not really. Even tho she was featured in several of the Hawkman segments of the early JS stories in All-Star Comics, she never turned up in the group bookends (sort of the opposite of Wonder Woman in those early stories). In that respect, she had a place a lot like The Crimson Avenger's assistant Wing, who was an unofficial "Eighth" in the Seven Soldiers of Victory.