It’s news that almost seems to be too good to be true.
The Justice Society of America will be hitting the big screen – and we have confirmation from no less than the Rock himself – “Fast and Furious” star Dwayne Johnson.
Johnson told ScreenRant that his long-awaited Black Adam film will “introduce the world to the JSA.”
After a couple years of teasers and with “Doomsday Clock” reaching its last ticks – it only feels as if the miniseries began in 1941 – DC finally announced that the Justice Society of America will be returning to continuity.
And it’s a case of be careful for what you wish for, for the creative mastermind behind the JSA’s long-awaited return will be …
… Scott Snyder.
Jesus H. (expletive, tosses rock, tosses another rock, expletive) Christ.
Most of the Justice Society has vanished.
While the senior members of the team search for their comrades, the junior heroes – Star-Spangled Kid and Jakeem Thunder – are left alone in the mansion on Halloween night.
What could go wrong?
For starters, there’s the head from the Statue of Liberty – which lands like an atom bomb outside their front door.
How many years has it been since DC gave us an original Justice Society of America story?
The team was blanked out of existence with the dreary New 52 relaunch in 2011. DC’s Rebirth in 2016 has welcomed and played with the notion of the multiverse, and gave us back the first and best Flash, Jay Garrick, if only for a moment.
“Doomsday Clock,” the miniseries written by Geoff Johns, seems prepped to give us the team back, if we can ever get down to the last tick.
So imagine the surprise when a DC book hit the stands this week with the JSA in all their glory on the cover.
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It starts with Santa Claus being blown up.
It ends with one of the most garish gifts in the DC Universe.
It features six super-heroes behaving criminally stupid in an Agatha Christie-style caper that climaxes with a ridiculous deus ex machina simply because the story had only so many pages and just had to end.
So why is “The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus” such a fun story – and yes, even important?
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Mark Perigard 