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The Wives Club

Dec 13th

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Lets do a little examination of the romances of the Justice League.

Superman has Lois Lane.

Wonder Woman has Steve Trevor.

Aquaman has Mera.

Batman has.. well..

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, bad example.

Lets talk about the lady loves of the JLA.

Flash’s first wife Iris West is a reporter in the vein of Lois Lane and Flash is always there to help get her out of trouble in the nick of time.  Iris is also the aunt of Wally West, who would become Kid Flash and the Flash’s sidekick.

Iris and Barry married, but one of Barry’s villains, Professor Zoom killed Iris leaving Barry to mourn his love.  While brief romantic flings occured with Fiona Webb and a near disastrous pairing with Zatanna, Barry’s heart remained with Iris, who was revealed as not having been killed, but living in the future.  At the end of The Trial of the Flash, where Barry was put on trial for killing Professor Zoom, Barry was exonerated and went into the future to live with Iris.. for a time.

For Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, love never seemed to be in the cards.  He worked many jobs over the years but his most stable was as a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft and was instantly under More >

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Ramping Up to the End of the Justice League…

Jun 11th

Posted by Darren in Comics

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That title looks pretty ominous doesn’t it?  Well, it is.

The Justice League of America as a title had been struggling in sales, with other group books becoming more popular year after year like Marvel’s X-Men franchise and DC’s New Teen Titans and the Legion of Super-Heroes.  The JLA formula had pretty much consisted of a formula where a bad thing would happen + one or more members would discover the problem independently + hero(es) realize they need help + call in the JLA + problem solved.

While this formula works for a 30 minute episode of Super Friends, as the comics audience matured, so did their need for more interaction in plots.  However the writers of JLA have a unique problem, they cannot really do much to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, etc.., as those heroes are appearing in their own books where they have major changes originate.

This leaves the JLA writer able to change those characters not appearing regularly or the “B characters”  Green Arrow, Black Canary, Atom, Hawkman, Elongated Man, Red Tornado, and Zatanna.  (Firestorm was still appearing in his own title while he was in JLA).

DC saw what comics readers were attracted to, a group of characters that were more intensely intertwined More >

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Beasts and Hawks

Jun 6th

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The Justice League marches on from the shock of Black Canary’s new heritage and into a story that serves a few interesting purposes.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl, now Hawkwoman had been the stable married couple in the DCU prior to the Elongated Man and Sue Dibny on the scene, but a story in World’s Finest Comics which was an anthology at the time broke the couple up for a trial separation for a time with Hawkwoman leaving Earth and Hawkman staying behind.

While Hawkwoman was off taking some “me time”, Hawkman grew rather lonely and despondent.  This JLA story reunites the two of them into the team again and resolves Hawkwoman’s feelings for Hawkman.

Firestorm also has a love subplot for he falls for one of the enemies who is a reluctant participant in the goings on, but mayhaps I am skipping ahead.

I’m sorry Reena, the role of Catwoman has already been taken in this Universe.

There is an arena where only the rich of the rich go for entertainment.  Inside this arena, it smells heavy of animals and blood.  Here men geared up like gladiators are forced to fight strange beasts.  All under the guise of Rex Maximus.

Rex and his gang are the Animen.  A group More >

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Four More Lovely Ladies

Apr 12th

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Often in superhero comics it’s all men all the time, but I have a great deal more respect for the lovely women of the DC Universe who can go toe to toe with the manly men. Here we talk about four additional ones. Two with powers, two without, but all are gutsy.

Introducing Mera, Queen of Atlantis and wife of Aquaman. Mera is the queen of another dimension and she becomes King Arthur’s consort and eventual wife and mother of Arthur, Jr.

Usually the stories of “happily ever after” end at the wedding, and there is a reason for that, and almost every married couple will tell you what that is…after the wedding comes the really hard work, the marriage. There are bumps in every marriage, but losing a child has to be one of the hardest to overcome.

Mera and Aquaman fall on tough times and are separated when I started reading comics and in fact Mera had left Aquaman to return to her home dimension, but like all good couples their love continues through the hard times. Mera like most of the undersea characters has enhanced strength, the ability to exist under water as well as on land for a limited amount More >