But, like Scott Benefiel did in his “Sensation Comics” issue, he can’t help but draw unnecessarily revealing scenes with Hawkgirl, which feel really voyeuristic and creepy. We then see all the major players of the first “JSA” arc react to this event, and most of it is handled really well.

He then is attacked by ‘the Dark Lord,’ but manages to delay him long enough for him to kill himself by jumping off a cliff, both keeping the child’s location a secret and sending himself to the afterlife, where he can be reunited with his wife. Dodds had a dream that led him to Tibet, where he encounters the Gray Man and sets his companion, Speed Saunders, on a journey to save a yet to be born child. The Chris Weston art makes Courtney look like a gangly, awkward teenager, which I appreciate, but can be a little rough at times, lacking much consistency at all.īut the main story, and it’s a good one, is about Wesley Dodds, the original Sandman. Courtney is written as an obnoxious teenager a lot around this time, but here she’s especially shitty to Alan, who is just trying to be a nice old man. The other story is a sweet, if not a little over the top Ron Marz penned story about Star Spangled Kid chatting with Green Lantern Sentinel. He is basically the most 90s design you could ever dream up. There really isn’t much going on here, beyond saying “Hey, look over here at Fate! He’s going to be important!” Eddy Newell does some gritty, grimy work here that is very effective for the tone of the story, but this version of Fate already looked cheesy and outdated by 1999. Fate, and there is a story of he and Black Canary meeting for drinks in a sleazy bar. Continued in JSA #1!īefore we get to the main piece in this anthology, there are two small pieces that basically catch readers up on two characters who would be very important to the first “JSA” arc, but may not be known to the readers. Plus: Black Canary meets Fate and Sentinel spends some time with the new Star-Spangled Kid. Get the inside story on how the latest incarnation of the original super-team came together–along with the final fate of one of the Justice Society’s original members. Lettered by Ken Lopez, Janice Chiang, and Typeset Inked by Mark Probst, Eddy Newell, and Chris WestonĬolored by John Kalisz, Gloria Vasquez, and Tom McCraw Penciled by Scott Benefiel, Eddy Newell, and Chris Weston

JSA by James Robinson