Princes of Darkness also did something Johns had mastered at the time: tying together elements of DC Universe lore that seemed only tangentially connected. The team’s roster was also very malleable, accommodating long-term guest appearances that suited the story arcs. The JSA roster was a mix of the old guard (The Flash, Green Lantern, Wildcat, Hawkman), adult sidekicks (Sand, Power Girl), adult children (Atom-Smasher, Doctor Fate, Black Canary, Hawkgirl, Hourman), and new characters picking up old mantles (Doctor Mid-Nite, Mr. Throughout this run, Robinson, Goyer, and Johns emphasized the generations of heroes that began in the 1930s and are continuing into the present day. Before JSA, there had been a series of mini-series, some taking place in the Golden Age and some in the present day but none of the writers seemed to know how to capture what made the Justice Society so enjoyable, legacy. Goyer was an essential element in reintroducing this team to modern audiences. The first arc in this cluster of issues is Princes of Darkness, David Goyer’s farewell bow after kickstarting the series with James Robinson four years earlier. I even found myself getting teary-eyed a couple times reading these issues because Johns finds a way to make the most obscure DC superheroes extremely human & so their losses hurt, or when we have to say goodbye, it is bittersweet. The Justice League are big movie blockbusters (or they should be when written correctly), while the JSA is much closer to Claremont’s X-Men, a story about a diverse family of superheroes, they have their own lives, and these personal elements often intersect with the team’s adventures. One of my biggest takeaways was how the JSA was unlike anything else at DC Comics.
Watching that atrocious Black Adam movie made me realize I missed the JSA of the 2000s, so I figured out a way to split the remaining issues into three clusters and read through them. After I decided to do this series, I read that DC was publishing Book 5 in March, but I simply didn’t want to wait an indeterminate amount of time for the rest of JSA to be reprinted. It has been 2 ½ years since JSA by Geoff Johns Book Four was published. Written by Geoff Johns & David Goyer (#46-51)Īrt by Sal Velluto, Leonard Kirk, Keith Champagne, Don Kramer, Wade von Grawbadger, and Rags Morales
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