#JSA 2007

[palmanatomy]

these comic panels have been living in my head rent free like brainworms and i cant get them out.

I call these the comic panels of angst and despair

[ufonaut]

You've been on this team a long time now, Courtney. From Mordru to the Injustice Society to Vandal Savage, as Stargirl you've proven yourself time and time again.

Alan & Courtney in Justice Society of America (2007) #26

(Geoff Johns, Dale Eaglesham)

[hel-starr]

the only 2007 jsa character i’ll allow in the new series is citizen steel, because i liked his dyanmic with pg. cyclone is so obnoxious i don’t know how anyone can get pass her lines, and if i say what i think about magog i’ll be suspended.

[cicatricis]

garth of shayeris reading guide w/ recommended issues (doesn’t cover new 52 and after because that garth is basically a whole different character). posted this on tumblr before, but felt obligated to repost a more updated version!

all the issues in text format under the cut

• Adventure Comics #269

• Brave and the Bold (1955) #60, Brave and the Bold (2007) #10, Aquaman (1962) #11, #23 and #33

• Teen Titans (1966) #28 - #30

• The entirety of Aquaman: Death of a Prince, but specifically Adventure Comics #452 - #455 for Garth

• Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 - 10 (mostly for context!)

• Teen Titans Spotlight #10, #18

• Aquaman (1994) #1 - #9 -> Showcase ‘96 #1 -> Aquaman (1994) #20 - #25

• Tempest (1996)

• Teen Titans (1996) #12 - #15

• The rest of Aquaman (1994), but especially #36 - #37, #45 - #47, #49 - #56, #60, #63 - #75

• JLA/Titans -> The entirety of Titans (1999), but especially #1 - #5, #14 - #19, #42 - #47

• JLA: The Obsidian Age; Garth appears in JLA #68 and #75

This isn’t included in the guide, but I recommend reading Rick Veitch’s Garth (/Cerdian) story in JLA/JSA: Secret Files & Origins before reading Aquaman (2003).

• Aquaman (2003) #4 - #12, #32 - #38

• Titans (2008) #15

[isfjmel-phleg]

Ever since Titans 1999 #17, when Grant admits what his foster father did to him, that abuse has become an accepted part of his backstory for later writers. But there's a difference in how those later writers have approached it.

During his conversation with Roy, Grant doesn't go into detail about the abuse--just enough to make it clear that he was both physically and sexually abused.

(Titans 1999 #17)

In a later story in which he's still living in Arizona on hiatus from the Titans, he and Jesse encounter some beings that can take the form of people from their past, including, in Grant's case, the Emersons. John Emerson's abusiveness is implied through his anger, an unfinished threat, his raised fists, and Kate Emerson's futilely pleading with him to leave Grant alone (as you'll see in another panel below, Kate's whole thing appears to have been positioning herself as the "nice" parent while in reality backing up everything John did). This is an implication of specifically physical abuse.

(Titans 1999 #45)

After Grant joins the JSA, he occasionally brings up the abuse in his narration. He recalls an incident in which John Emerson burned him with a cigarette for three minutes to get a confession out of him, and he refers to John having "smacked [him] around." Again, when there are specifics, the physical abuse is what is brought up.

(Justice Society of America 2007 #4, 16)

Or else the abuse will be referred to in oblique terms. "What my foster father did to me." "These things."

(Justice Society of America 2007 #8 / Justice Society of America 80-Page Giant #1)

All of these later writers (all male, I might add) have apparently shied away from addressing the sexual abuse directly. The physical abuse doesn't seem to be a difficulty to address--there are even further specifics added--but did these later writers consider the sexual abuse too delicate, too taboo a topic to deal with?

I have no way of knowing why these writers made the choices they did, so I can't say for sure, but I do find the disappearance of that aspect of Grant's past to be significant.

[leoruby-draws]

Having something a little different here, not really introducing a new team member per say, but a friend and ally of sorts. Here's Tom Bronson aka Tomcat, son of Ted Grant aka Wildcat! I love cats, look how many are in this pic, everyone's having a fun time (except Grant lol).

Tom debuted in Justice Society of America 2007, which I enjoyed tho it lacked the space for all those characters (a common problem I noticed in a lot of earth 2/jsa stuff), Since he was introduced in the first issue, you would think that he'd be a pretty important character onwards. But alas, he rarely got any focus past the early few issues, even in JSA All-Stars he wasn't given a lot of page time. Then new52 hit and he got erased, not sure if he's been re-introduced back yet.

He and Ted had a pretty good relationship in the book, Tom never blamed Ted for not being in his life and even actively keep up the distance as an adult. Up until Vandal Savage tries to attack them at least. Here in the TrWh au, it can be assumed Tom was discovered at an earlier age (he's 11 to Jason's 10 btw).

Also I said up there that Tom isn't a new team member, but I did wanted to do that originality. That's because in the comics, Tom really didn't like fighting at all when Ted meet him. And that's because Tom has a secret ability to transform into a werecat, something he inherited from his mother. Ironically he keep it secret from her, maybe that'll change in this au.

Ted seemed to help Tom get over his hang-up over fighting somehow, it's not really explained how exactly (like I said, Tom didn't get much focus past tho early issues).I wished that he kinda keep up his reluctant pacifism, it's a unique outlook in a world full of heroes and villains fighting each other.

So at the moment he's a non-combatant ally of the Outlaws, maybe that'll change later who knows.

Since I'm introducing him at at an earlier age, he's still in that anti-fighting mindset, and prefers to stay out of trouble. So he can't really help the team in combat issues, but they can still hang out and have fun in other ways.

Tom's tries to come off as cool and standoffish, but that seems to be a way to hide his skittish and kind-hearted nature. He's been feeling stressed and lonely, esp with how his mother is currently sick and bedridden. Perhaps some friends will do him good!

Here's Tom hanging out with the other Wildcats, his father and Yolanda Montez. Tom is fun to draw, esp in his werecat form. I might be making him more like a cat than a panther, but cats are so fun to draw. I'm basing some this of my mom's own cat, a black cat like Tom.

I really liked Yolanda, she had a real aura of confidence and was really outspoken about what she wanted. I admit I might be a bit biased, since I'm also a Latina as well (¯\_(ツ)_/¯). You can see her trying to 'help' Tom with training to fight, he doesn't seem to enthused with the idea. There's also Ted showing affection with his son, look at the mini cat suit, Tom is so done lol.

More of Tom spending time with Yolanda, they have fun together. Btw Yolanda might already be Wildcat at this point or at least just about to, a bit earlier than in canon but why not?

Jason messes with Tom, he can't help himself. Tom doesn't seem to know how to react with Jason sometimes, esp when Jason jokes around with him. But the jokes never feel too mean-spirited so it's not too much of a bother.

If you ever read Fruits Basket, then you know there's this character with the ability to call forth cats to him. Tom doesn't quite have that power but cats seem to gravitate to him anyways. Looks like Jason called in a favor for his little brother Damian.

Here's a comic that I'd meant to go on a little longer but couldn't think up of what to come next. It's meant to show how Tom meets the team and decides to become friends. Tom seems unsure and almost insecure about why he's being 'recruited' to be friends. Rose seems surprised at Tom's stance but Eddie seems happy to make another friend. But why does Jason want to be friends?

You know there's been some meta about how Jason probably wouldn't have mind not being Robin and just be the civilian son of Bruce Wayne. YMMV on whether you can agree with that or not, I can see reasoning for it tho it should be noted Jason was really ecstatic to be Robin. I'll keep it ambiguous on whether or not Jason would want to hang up the cape, but I keep this reasoning in mind for his interactions with Tom. Tom not wanting to fight at all is a viewpoint Jason has not really come across in his interactions with heroes. As said in the comic, he finds it 'interesting'. Perhaps he was also drawn to Tom's conviction in his ideals as well, maybe Jason finds it kinda admirable in a way.

The team Jason, Rose and Eddie made is in some ways a place to have fun and hang out, to escape from lonely and unhappy lives. It the same reason why other members of the team joined in, to just do things their own way and on their own time. Members come and go at their leisure (the team have multiple places to hang but no official headquarters) so it's a fairly casual and unrestricted type of team. Having a member who doesn't even fight is not really a problem. Though Tom sometimes feels lonely when team members go out on combat missions, and he gets left behind.

There's also the little detail of the team being 'unofficial', I don't think I ever shown that info before. Though I'll probably talk about that for another time.

Well, hope you liked that!

[frogaroundandfindout]

“…dick Grayson is the one guy alive that every other crime fighter trusts.”

Nightwing lies to the JLA and the JSA to get them as far away as possible from spirits capable of possessing and killing their best fighters. Hawkman takes note and is held back for his knowledge on ancient civilizations.

(The Brave and the Bold (2007) #15)

[stealingyourbones]

I’m currently sorting though my comic collection and here are just the Justice League comic variations I’ve seen over the past hour and a half (years are just the year the comic I have is printed not the duration of the comic run):

Justice League (1987)

Justice League (2014)

Justice League of America (1978)

Justice League of America (2007)

Justice League of America (2014)

Justice League Europe (1989)

Justice League International (1987)

Justice League Spetacular (1992)

Justice League Task Force (1993)

JLA 80 Page Giant (2008)

JLA: Justice League of Aliens (2001)

JLA Secret Files and Origins (1997)

JLA-Z (Guide to the Worlds Greatest Superheroes!) (2003)

JSA (2005)

JSA Classified (2006)

JSA All-Stars (2011)

JLX (1997)

JLX Unleashed (1997)

Justice Society of America (1991)

This is why you sort comics by comic run AND date.

[palmanatomy]

rereading JSA 2007 and i forgot how much I love hourman, liberty belle and damages relationship. its like they just picked up this kid and annoyed him into becoming theirs.

bonus shot of grant being a cutie patootie with kids

[ufonaut]

The Kingdom Come versions Alan & Jennie in Justice Society of America (2007) #22. Art by Alex Ross.

[wishingly-mesh]

Khalid rambling

Khalid is finally getting stuff where he's included with the JSA, and while I'm excited about it in general I really wish he wasn't sooooo mischaracterized.

writing the guy whos going to college for a doctorates (is that what its called?)

Knows magic without the helmet

has had his heart pulled out

has one of my personal favorite relationships with Nabu out of the fates

like he's new too this stuff and while sure he kinda is in retrospective he's already saved the world once :p

in my dream JSA he's in the middle ground between the og JSA members and the younger gen (even though he's a newer character then them, he's written in a way that it would work best IMO). Khalid unfortunately since his original comic hasnt been the most consistent but the current JSA run as much as I overall enjoy the story is the worst take on him specifically. I think theres good ideas in this, the attempts to establish a mentor mentee relationship with him and wildcat is one I'm interested in if it was done better. I also would've appreciated more interaction with him and Alan, knowing his track record with the fates after kent I wanted to see more of what Alan thinks of khalid as the new fate

I want to think he's some inbetween of it all, he's not as skilled as Kent yet, so he's under the pressure and expectations of the Senior members while just falling short because I don't think he should know everything about being fate yet. but he's also more skilled then the new gen of JSA members. I think him and Jakeem should be in that same spot together considering Jakeem is also treated like he hasnt been apart of the team since the 2007 run.

also random side note, What happened to nabu anyways? Ive read the majority of khalid's appearances but I feel like ive missed something from when the helmet was broken in that one arc I cant be assed to remember the name of. I mightive fallen behind on recent khalid appearances since I've been re reading a lot of alan scott stuff rn

ugh

okay dont yapping, Ive got some Khalid stuff to catch up on but just throwing my thoughts out here since I dont really have any DC friends who are into the JSA so the tumblr followers ive gotten from my old Khalid doodles is all i got 💔

[mpchev]

You like reading fanfics? How about reading about fanfics? 😏

Here’s what I've read so far (or am currently getting through) for my dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding! I'll be updating it as I go until the end of July. If you have any recs to add to the towering pile or any questions/opinions about something on there, I’m all ears!

on fan studies & ficbinding ✔

Alexander, Julia, ‘Making fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelf’, The Verge, 9 March 2021 <https://www.theverge.com/22311788/fanfiction-bookbinding-tiktok-diy-star-wars-harry-potter-twitter-fandom> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Buchsbaum, Shira Belén, ‘Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler, ‘Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Jenkins, Henry, Textual Pochers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routeledge, 1992)

Jenkins, Henry, ‘Transmedia Storytelling 101’, Pop Junctions, 21 March 2007 <http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html#sthash.gSETwxQX.dpuf> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Hellekson, Karen, ‘Making Use Of: The Gift, Commerce, and Fans’, Cinema Journal, 54, no. 3 (2015), 125–131

Kennedy, Kimberly, ‘Fan binding as a method of fan work preservation’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Minkel, Elizabeth, ‘Before “Fans,” There Were “Kranks,” “Longhairs,” and “Lions”: How Do Fandom Gain Their Names?’, Atlas Obscura, 30 May 2024 <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fandom-names> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Penley, Constance, Nasa / Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London: Verso, 1997)

Price, Ludi, ‘Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography’, Humanities, 11, no. 100 (2022), 1–20

Schiller, Melanie, ‘Transmedia Storytelling: New Practices and Audiences’, in Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era, ed. by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 99–107

on folklore, the internet, other background reading ✔

Barthes, Roland, ‘La mort de l’auteur’ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984)

Blank, Trevor J., Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2009)

Mauss, Marcel, ‘Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques.’, L’année sociologique, 1923–1924; digital edition by Jean-Marie Tremblay, Les classiques des sciences sociales, 17 February 2002, <http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/socio_et_anthropo/2_essai_sur_le_don/essai_sur_le_don.html> [accessed 10 June 2024]

McCulloch, Gretchen, Because Internet: Understanding How Language is Changing (Random House, 2019)

Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999)

hopefully coming up next (haven't started yet)

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021)

Dietz, Laura, ‘Showing the scars: A short case study of de-enhancement of hypertext works for circulation via fan binding or Kindle Direct Publishing’, 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ‘23), September 4–8, 2023, Rome Italy (ACM: New York, 2023)

Fathallah, Judith May, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017)

Finn, Kavita Mudan, and Jessica McCall, ‘Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe’, Critical Survey, 28, no. 2 (2016), 27–38

Hjorth, Larissa et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)

Jacobs, Naomi, and JSA Lowe, ‘The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbinding’, Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9, issue 1, article 5

Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006)

Jenkins, Henry, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning In A Networked Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2013)

Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum, ‘Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions’, Humanities, 11, no. 67 (2022), 1–18

Kirby, Abby, ‘Examining Collaborative Fanfiction: New Practices in Hyperdiegesis and Poaching’, Humanities, 11, no. 87 (2002), 1–9

Kustritz, Anne, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction (New Work: Routeledge, 2024)

Lamerichs, Nicolle, Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affecive Reception in Fan Cultures, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universtiy Press, 2018)

Popova, Milena, ‘Follow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studies’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Rosenblatt, Betsy, and Rebecca Tushnet, ‘Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use’, in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices, ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves

Soller, Bettina, ‘Filing off the Serial Numbers: Fanfiction and its Adaptation to the Book Market’, in Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence, ed. by Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 58–85

[queen-lance]

Black Canary reads?

Yes, Black Canary can read.

...

Speaking seriously tho, I've always dreaded that someone would ask me this about Black Canary instead of ANY OTHER CHARACTER cause despite loving Dinah, a lot of stuff she's in isn't good.

The only stuff with "Black Canary" in the title that I actually like is:

- Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell

- Black Canary: Ignite

That's it. I REALLY love Bloodspell and completely recommend it. Ignite is cute

She has 4 solos and all of them are pretty bad. You can read it though! Maybe you'll like it!

They are: Black Canary (1991), (1993), (2007) and (2015)

If you want to experience her appearances in other titles, I'd go:

- The Hard Traveling Heroes Era: Green Lantern (1960): #78-79, #81-84, #86-87 / The Flash (1959): #217-219 / Green Lantern (1960): #93-110, #113-117, #119-122 (I'm obsessed with these books, but Dinah isn't exactly the focus. Still, she's there and she's great)

- Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters (a bunch of BC fans hate it for the way Dinah is victimized, which is an extremely valid point)

- Green Arrow (1988) (deals with Dinah better than it's predecessor and I actually like the portrayal of her and her flaws here. That is a bit controversial tho)

- Birds of Prey (1999) (I have... Some complicated feelings towards this, but it's where you'll mainly get Dinah Lance shining. Her portrayal, especially when you get to Gail Simone, is really good)

- JSA (1999): Secret Files and Origins #1 / JSA (1999): #1-4, #6-14, Annual #1, #15-22 / JSA Secret Files and Origins #2 / JSA Our Worlds At War / JSA (1999): #31-32 (I haven't read these so I can't give you an opinion, but I've heard good things!)

- Green Arrow (2001): #1, #4-6, #8-9, #12-15, #17, #21 (I only like this until issue 21 and I frankly would recommend that you read all of them so it makes more sense), #21, #29, #34, #40 (those are... A MESS)

- Road to the Altar (definitely not a fan, but it's important)

- Green Arrow/Black Canary (not a fan either, but the Dinah here is not the problem, Winick just isn't very good at telling stories)

Then! New 52

- Birds of Prey (2011):

Rebirth

- Green Arrow (2016) (I have my problems, but it's overall kinda fun. I really like Dinah here)

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey

Infinite Frontier

- Green Arrow (2023) (it starts meh and then just gets worse)

- Birds of Prey (2023) (I really enjoy this! Great Dinah and fun storylines)

She's also in a bunch of Justice League stories, but then we'd be here all day.

Link to a complete reading guide:

[isfjmel-phleg]

During one of his encounters with Vandal Savage, after a lengthy and strenuous display of how far his powers can go, Grant is offered something to drink and asks for a double chocolate milkshake, which he eagerly gulps down.

A few years later, he's in a grocery store shopping for a teammate's birthday party and complaining that he doesn't like ice cream. Uh-huh, sure. Of course JSA-era Grant is typically surly, so this might be him being difficult on purpose. But there could be something else behind it.

(Damage #15 / Justice Society of America 2007 #26)

Grant has spent the better part of the past year in hospitals being (mostly unsuccessfully) treated for facial trauma after being brutally beaten. We know that in addition to severe scarring, his injuries specifically were "a crushed nasal cavity and a mangled profile," which likely would include some kind of damage to his jaw. Which would mean having to live off soft foods for however long. Which often involves, among other things, a lot of ice cream.

Easy way to get sick of something or to develop unpleasant associations with it. In this light, his being difficult about this makes a little more sense.

[verydonegoldfish]

no because you dont know star-man like i do. YOU DONT LOVE HIM LIKE I DO!!!!!!!!!!

we're literally taking our psych meds and eating sloppy joes together rn and like you didnt even bother to show up smfh

from jsa 2007 book 10

the three stars as his face is so cute im sobbing and vomiting

[sandy-castle]

Sandy Hawkins Reading List

This is the sweet and simple version. When the longer version is done, I'll add it in the reblogs.

Adventure comics 69 (First Appearance) All Star Squadron 51, 53-54, 57-60 Justice League of America 113 (Creature in the Velvet Cage) DC Comics presents 42 & 47 (What ever happened to Sandman/Sandy)  JSA (1999) 1-5, 18, 26-28, 30-31, 63-64 Justice Society of America (2007) 14-18  JSA Kingdom Come Special: The Kingdom   Justice Society of America (2007) 21  JSA All stars (2010) 1-6