The Lightning Saga, part V – The Villain is the Hero in His Own Story
Justice League of America (volume 2) #10
Cover Date: August 2007
Released: 20th June 2007
- Writers: Brad Meltzer
- Pencilers: Ed Benes
- Inker: Sandra Hope
- Colourists: Alex Sinclair
- Letterer: Rob Leigh
- Editors: Adam Schlagman / Eddie Berganza
Finally we get a cover with Power Girl, and I’ve got to say I’m not a fan! Soulless eyed sexy supermodel superheroes don’t really do anything for me. And despite what some might think I can appreciate a good cheesecake image as much as the next person, but this is not it!
After a quick few pages summing up the entire JSA issue we see that the various Legion members have gone to various locations in the east coast of DC’s United States. Basically everything we’ve seen so far has been a massive waste of time and the Legion has it’s own, possibly malicious, plans. Quickly the JLA and JSA have a member arrive on the scene, one for each of the five Legion, Pee Gee getting Dawnstar in Tokyo. This is the last win that they get in the story.
Each hero get’s a page or so interacting with there respective Legionnaire, including the funny line of Jay Garrick using the word sweetie, it’s even involving time travel so you never know! Well most of them, Pee Gee get’s to zip around but doesn’t get to do anything. ANyway this doesn’t do anything, neither does a plan to turn off the force field that the rings are generating, and even though we don’t know about them the JLA has a plan to switch them off. I guess Batman’s got to Batman!
Anyway they all have there little lightening rods and through Lightening Lad, who doesn’t have his energy field up, and somehow the entire JLA and JSA can’t track him down. Anyway the energy cause all of the Legionnaires to disappear and due to some weird multidimensional shenanigans it’s bought back Wally West. Because apparently Brad wanted a Flash on the JLA I guess?
All the Legionnaires except Lightening Lad who due to the way he did things is stuck in the presence whilst everyone else gets to go back to the future. Everyone seems happy to have Flash back, though Superman is the surley untrusting one for once! Pee Gee has a few scene’s here and there, ensuring Clark this things are okay, suggesting to Jay that Wally might want to join the JSA (ironic seeing how tempestuous there relationship was during the JLE days) only to be told he’s already been asked to join the JLA. Finally the two leaders of the JSA, Pee Gee, and JSA, Dinah, shake and say they’ll meet up again in a year as is the tradition of the pre-Crisis crossovers.
Yup this has been a modern take on the classic JSA/JLA crossover! Thing is those old crossovers were two packed issues, that generally managed to give everyone something to do, this is five issues where the JSA/JLA are mostly sidelined so that the LoSH can do there cool things and the JLA could have a Flash on the team. Great if you’re a fan of the Legion, not so much if you’re more a fan of the other two teams. Oh and it looks like this is he last time these versions of the two teams have a crossover like this, so I guess even that wasn’t important.
It’s not terrible just really light wait with no real substance, even the art isn’t, to me, that strong with more of those skinny dead eye models that I’ve already mentioned I’m not a fan. It’s something I’ve read on the journey to the next one.