There’s something about oddball heroes.
Keep your Supermen and your Thors.
Give me the heroes who have no great gifts – or worse – just weird gifts – and throw themselves into battle with the same determination and fervor as the gods of justice.
It took almost 40 years, but the Justice Society of America, DC Comics’ premier super-hero team, finally got an origin story.
Which begs the question:
What took so long?
Even the good folks at DC Comics had to be scratching their heads.
When the team debuted in “All Star Comics” No. 3 in 1940, the band was fully formed, sort of. They might as well have been drinking buddies gathering to swap stories – which is just what our heroes did.
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The tweet hit like a swat to the cheek.
“Reading books instead of Kindles can improve your memory, concentration, and good looks.”
And the source of this stunning wisdom?
GoodReads.
You know, the social media site for book lovers, the one that bills itself as “the largest site for readers and book recommendations.”
My first reaction: Who now what now when now?
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While all the annual Justice League/Justice Society team-ups were all events, not all were epics.
One went even to the dogs – well, a dog.
But the 1971 team-up, while fun and light, had unexpected consequences for this reader.
First the crisis, then a confession:
When you think about the annual Justice League/Justice Society team-ups, you think about the greatest cosmic threats to menace two worlds – alien invaders or a quest to find time-tossed Golden Age heroes or a rebellion on a Nazi world.
You probably don’t think about the teams suffering through a pissing contest between their writers.
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Mark Perigard 