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3. JSA: The Golden Age

…the JSA had to live through the red scare?”

Wow, is this one great. It reads like a novel more than anything else. But then, writer James Robinson is full stop excellent at comic book writing. And since Golden Age heroes are kind of his bread and butter, this one is, of course, gonna be great. Also, the Paul Smith art is so great it makes me feel uncomfortable new feelings I’m gonna have to come to terms with soon. Not today though!

The story focuses on the retired and disillusioned JSA after World War Two and the personal crisis they all must suffer through. We also get the stories of Johnny Quick, retired documentarian, Starman, scientist crippled by guilt, Tex Thompson, former Mr. America and current state senator with a dark secret, and Paul Kirk, Manhunter driven to madness by what he saw overseas.

This one I can’t spoil because it takes a left turn into Crazy Town in the last act, but it is well earned and legit fan-frickin-tastic.