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Spoilers for The New Golden Age # 1 by DC Comics
TheJustice Society of Americais returning to the pages of DC Comics in a big elbow room , as Geoff Johns is spearheading two new story that will shine the spotlight on unlike versions of the superteam from across time . InThe New Golden AgeandStargirl : The Lost Children , the Justice Society of America will be pushed to the head of DC Comics as its deep , important story gets explore - with new and old characters take up center stage .
InDoomsday Clock , Batman : Three Jokers , and the recently concludedFlashpoint Beyondminiseries from DC Comics , Geoff Johns has worked on weaving an interconnecting story that will have huge implications for the time to come of the publisher ’s comic script universe . InThe New Golden AgeandStargirl : The Lost Children , lector can see some payoff from past teases , as the Justice Society of America makes a triumphant counter . We spoke to Geoff Johns about write the JSA again , preface new characters , and what readers can expect from the raw Golden Age and Stargirl - asterisk series ' .
What was it like to go back to the Golden Age and revisit some of these JSA characters that were lost in prison term ? What makes them so particular ?
Well , I think that the magic of the new Golden Age is that release in time , the forgotten sub because the JSA are often forgotten in a lot of areas of DC - they just disappear . And I know that because they ’re so rooted in the ' forties during World War Two , some of them can feel dated . But I think that ’s part of their charm . And my upheaval about belong back is not only going back and enjoin stories about this generation of the JSA but also the succeeding contemporaries JSA and the original JSA . And usher in these new characters in the Golden Age , that subsist that people just have n’t learn their stories about . And that has made it really fun to go back there . Because there are unexpected pathway to different history and new character that you do n’t know . And they have a account that we have n’t show about yet . And it makes it all palpate raw , even though it ’s been around a foresighted , long time .
What was it like to play with the comic script history of the JSA and re-introduce some of these characters to new readers for the first time ?
I intend , I reckon that the Justice Society of America and Stargirl stories are designed to be people ’s first Word . The New Golden Age # 1 takes place from the point of view of a brand new , potentially a new persona , a new version of Helena Wayne - so you may get into this and empathise it and see the legacy that stretches across it .
But revisit the first JSA meeting was one of my favorite things that I ’ve generate to do . To just take a second where they ’re all have together for the first prison term , and the Atom wants to postulate some merriment questions because he ’s got a Doctor Fate there , who you could see the time to come . So , it leads to a really fun scene , and some fun interactions and exploring those first second where those heroes are brand raw , and they ’re just getting to know each other , and what they might do , so it ’s not all about what ’s the mission at hand but just living like normal .
So I loved indite that prospect . Because when you get in those scenes , in the cause of that , I sat down to indite and did n’t think " oh , Al Pratt is live on to be the one that ’s conduct the conversation . " But he just speak up , he just verbalize , and I ’m like , Oh , well , he ’s just he ’s carrying me through it . And I knew I was going to get to Dr. Fate but that Al Pratt kind of accept me to him , and that ’s how it worked .
Where does the JSA find itself in the present 24-hour interval ?
Well , they ’re in the present day right now and you ’ll eventually see it in the books but in the present daytime , right now , they live as their team as they always have , with unlike generations taking on the mantle . So a lot of them you ’ve seen on the cover , but Justice Society of America number one convey place 26 years from now , it takes place eight old age afterThe New Golden Age#1 and it sharpen on our lead character Helena Wayne and how she is carry on her father ’s bequest and how she ’s re-explain what her father ’s bequest really has get along to have in mind , and what she ’s using the Justice Society of America for so as to honor and enact what she believes is the core lesson she took from her dad . And it changes what the JSA is .
So what made Helena the arrant case to pore this all around ?
Because he ’s such a singular character with such a unique perspective on her father ’s legacy . And she ’s been a part of the JSA in the past , but that interpretation was kind of write out of continuity . So it was fun to go back and , and say , " well we ’re going to put her back in , but we have an chance to put her back in through time change of location through future through , you jazz , a different , slightly dissimilar version of who she was . " And she ’s a character I was always concerned in , and I never had an opportunity to write and suddenly , there was a plot line where it made perfect sentiency for her to be the anchor to the history .
What was it like to tackle a newfangled generation of the JSA ?
It was smashing fun . It occupy forever to do because some of the fiber are brand new . So when you ’re doing it , just like writing those Who ’s Who pageboy and getting into that , that take longer than writing The New Golden Age , because every one of those ingress is like five comic books worth of floor . Because you have to write who Salem was and where she ’s from and where her parent are and what she dealt with and how Dr. Fate found her and , why they partner up and where she go , and what her powers are . Like , there ’s so much chronicle in there . It ’s hire a long time to delve into these characters and give them these backstories , but Helena Wayne is no different . When you see the JSA she ’s a part of a lot of these characters in there . There are a few Modern ones that you ’ve never discover , and there are certainly member that have never been on the JSA before .
What is Stargirl ’s role in her newfangled miniseries , and how does it connect to the JSA ?
Well , Stargirl , to me is such a great voice to new teenage Hero , particularly the JSA and the Golden Age because I intend she has such a can - do attitude . She believe in people so much she find out their potential and I suppose she nurtures that and gives people sureness and has a lot of compassion for others . So if there are untested wedge skin with something she ’s kind of the perfect character to help them find their fashion as the never - ending luminousness that just is and exists . And obviously , I have intercourse the character so much , but she was the gross star for a story that dealt with you know , basically every teenage aureate Age champion ever created and new ones .
Throughout your recent tarradiddle , includingDoomsday Clock , Batman : Three Jokers , andFlashpoint Beyond , there has been intentional , methodical planning connect to the Watchmen existence . How does this fib culminate with that and the Thirteen seen in Flashpoint Beyond ?
I ’ll just say that ’s a big that ’s a thread that carries and weaves in through all this stuff and nonsense . And I do n’t want to say too much about it powerful now . But it ’s , it ’s a turn of a recollective story that ’s brewing in the background knowledge and draw into this in sure ways , and that ’s also about propagation like the JSA . So there is uh you know , there ’s a bit of story to tell , I just do n’t want to featherbed what it is .
The New Golden Age#1 gives you a chance to compose about late - cut DC characters you have n’t explored before ; which were you excited to write ?
I ’ve been really excited . The more obscure the beneficial . You get laid , I screw writing the Time Masters in Flashpoint Beyond - I make out writing like Bonnie and Corky Baxter and Dr. Jeff Smith and Rip Hunter They ’re just something about these four eldritch bizarre quartet of time traveler that lock kind of outside the rest of the DC Universe . I bang that it ’s been so fun to publish them . In terms of the JSA and the Golden Age , all of these characters , there ’s some are some really obscure Golden Age quality that popped up in the Lost Children that I did n’t realize how much playfulness I ’d have with them . One of my favorite things to pen was the backstory for Ladybug with Red Bee . Because Red Bee has no backstory . There ’s a lot of tale to him . And so to be able to build so much story to that was super fun through a low varlet of a psychic fictional character that we on the spur of the moment get out subsist .
What do you trust lector get from the new stories ?
Honestly , I just hope they really love the comic and that it feels like a classic DC story that carries across the whole universe and the history of it . And they ’re intrigue and connected to Helena Wayne and they want to pursue her adventures and explore more of the Golden Age . That ’s all its for . I want to share the love I have for these characters and the JSA with everybody else . And hopefully , mass who bed the JSA will enjoy reading the chronicle of their favorite character reference again , they ’ll meet some Modern favourite part , and I trust hoi polloi who have never take Justice Society of America , give the books a guesswork . They certainly are in the public center a set more than they ’ve ever been between Stargirl and Black Adam . So my Bob Hope is that hoi polloi give the graphic symbol a chance that maybe they had n’t before .
Thanks so much to Geoff Johns for consume the clip to talk to us about the upcoming project . Readers can see theJustice Society of Americareturn inThe New Golden Age#1 by Johns , Steve Lieber , Jerry Ordway , and Diego Olortegui , which is in comic Koran storehouse now . Stargirl : The Lost Childrenby Johns and Todd Nauckwill be released on November 15th .
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