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After teases aplenty, Geoff Johns has released the following image for this summer's JSA Annual #1, "Welcome to Earth-2." The image, by Alex Ross features the Earth-2 versions of many characters, including Robin and Huntress (who, classically in Earth-2 genealogy was the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle) as well as Lyta and Hector Hall from the original Infinity, Inc.
Welcome to Earth-2
Teaser Analysis by Troy Brownfield
The teaser for the forthcoming Justice Society of America Annual arrived, and it’s big. The Alex Ross art showcases some very familiar faces to long-time readers of the DCU. For some of the newer readers, though, they may not catch the significance of some of the cameos. Let’s do a quick run-down:
ABAIXO TEM SPOILER DE 52
[hide:bb1cf7b9f6]First: Earth-2. What?: Even the newest readers know about the DC Multiverse. At one point, there were many, many parallel worlds. Earth-1 was the DCU mainstream prior to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths; Earth-2 was the world that was the home to the Justice Society of America and Infinity Inc. (mostly comprised of their children and wards). After Crisis, five Earths and their universes (1, 2, X, S, and 4) merged to become one consistent DC continuity. (I ran through much of the JSAs history and the notions of alternate Earths here. After the events of 52, the Multiverse is again divided; one of the worlds, apparently, is again Earth-2.
Power Girl is significant here because of her complicated history. In fact, I once did a lengthy bit of coverage on it here
Essentially, Power Girl was Earth-2 Superman’s cousin, and lived on Earth-2 prior to the merge. Post-Crisis, it was deemed that Superman would be the only Kryptonian, and much was done to give Power Girl a different origin. By the time Infinite Crisis rolled around, Geoff Johns and the gang, knowing that the Multiverse was coming back, simply decided to reveal that she was still good ole’ Power Girl from Earth-2. As Denny Green might say, “She are who we thought she were!”
Extreme Top Right: Just behind the “Johns”, we see Hawkgirl. Granted, at that point, the blurring effect of the image’s edge comes into play, and we can’t see if that’s the present, “New Earth” Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) or the original Earth-2 Hawkgirl. Considering that the only “New Earth” character in the foreground is Power Girl, we’ll guess that it’s the classic Earth-2 Hawkgirl. The original Hawks were reincarnated from an Egyptian prince and princess, fated to live through their tragic love story throughout history.
Extreme Top Middle: The winged fellow there is Northwind. One of the founders of the original Infinity Inc., Northwind was the son of a human father and a mother from a race of bird-like people that Hawkman and Hawkgirl had befriended. Northwind was close to the Hawks and had a bit of siblingesque rivalry with their son, Hector Hall. On “New Earth”, Norda (his real name) has undergone a mutation to take on a more Hawkish appearance, perhaps suggesting the Hawkgod who appears in Kingdom Come.
In Mid-Air, left to right: They are, as follows: the original Dr. Fate, Kent Nelson; the original Starman, Ted Knight; Uncle Sam (the Freedom Fighters lived on both Earth-2 and Earth-X pre-Crisis); the original Thunderbolt of Johnny Thunder; and the original Hawkman, Carter Hall (wearing the cowl that he adopted later).
Standing, left to right: We’ll come back to some of these. Here, we find: Fury II, Lyta Trevor-Hall; apparently the original Wildcat, Ted Grant; the Silver Scarab, Hector Hall; the adult Robin of Earth-2, Dick Grayson; Nuklon, Albert Rothstein; Power Girl; the Huntress of Earth-2, Helena Wayne; Dr. Midnight (Beth Chapel of Infinity Inc; yes, she spelled it differently); and the original Atom, Al Pratt, in his second outfit.
Okay, deep breath . . . It’s important to remember at this point that these aren’t all necessarily the characters that we knew as the Earth-2 heroes back in the day. Many of those heroes have aged or changed identities or died on post-Crisis or “New” Earth. However, they do appear to be a revitalization of the characters as they appeared on Earth-2 in the DCU circa 1985.
That notion is further supported by certain pieces of visual evidence: Hector is Silver Scarab and not Dr. Fate III; Dr. Midnight is still alive (she was killed by Eclipso in his series in the early ‘90s); Starman and the Atom are still alive (having died in the James Robinson Starman series and Zero Hour respectively); Nuklon has his original appearance and mask (he later become Atom-Smasher); and so forth.
The question then becomes: what will the JSA of the present DCU do when confronted with these past versions of themselves, their children, or friends long dead?[/hide:bb1cf7b9f6]
:P
After teases aplenty, Geoff Johns has released the following image for this summer's JSA Annual #1, "Welcome to Earth-2." The image, by Alex Ross features the Earth-2 versions of many characters, including Robin and Huntress (who, classically in Earth-2 genealogy was the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle) as well as Lyta and Hector Hall from the original Infinity, Inc.
Welcome to Earth-2
Teaser Analysis by Troy Brownfield
The teaser for the forthcoming Justice Society of America Annual arrived, and it’s big. The Alex Ross art showcases some very familiar faces to long-time readers of the DCU. For some of the newer readers, though, they may not catch the significance of some of the cameos. Let’s do a quick run-down:
ABAIXO TEM SPOILER DE 52
[hide:bb1cf7b9f6]First: Earth-2. What?: Even the newest readers know about the DC Multiverse. At one point, there were many, many parallel worlds. Earth-1 was the DCU mainstream prior to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths; Earth-2 was the world that was the home to the Justice Society of America and Infinity Inc. (mostly comprised of their children and wards). After Crisis, five Earths and their universes (1, 2, X, S, and 4) merged to become one consistent DC continuity. (I ran through much of the JSAs history and the notions of alternate Earths here. After the events of 52, the Multiverse is again divided; one of the worlds, apparently, is again Earth-2.
Power Girl is significant here because of her complicated history. In fact, I once did a lengthy bit of coverage on it here
Essentially, Power Girl was Earth-2 Superman’s cousin, and lived on Earth-2 prior to the merge. Post-Crisis, it was deemed that Superman would be the only Kryptonian, and much was done to give Power Girl a different origin. By the time Infinite Crisis rolled around, Geoff Johns and the gang, knowing that the Multiverse was coming back, simply decided to reveal that she was still good ole’ Power Girl from Earth-2. As Denny Green might say, “She are who we thought she were!”
Extreme Top Right: Just behind the “Johns”, we see Hawkgirl. Granted, at that point, the blurring effect of the image’s edge comes into play, and we can’t see if that’s the present, “New Earth” Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) or the original Earth-2 Hawkgirl. Considering that the only “New Earth” character in the foreground is Power Girl, we’ll guess that it’s the classic Earth-2 Hawkgirl. The original Hawks were reincarnated from an Egyptian prince and princess, fated to live through their tragic love story throughout history.
Extreme Top Middle: The winged fellow there is Northwind. One of the founders of the original Infinity Inc., Northwind was the son of a human father and a mother from a race of bird-like people that Hawkman and Hawkgirl had befriended. Northwind was close to the Hawks and had a bit of siblingesque rivalry with their son, Hector Hall. On “New Earth”, Norda (his real name) has undergone a mutation to take on a more Hawkish appearance, perhaps suggesting the Hawkgod who appears in Kingdom Come.
In Mid-Air, left to right: They are, as follows: the original Dr. Fate, Kent Nelson; the original Starman, Ted Knight; Uncle Sam (the Freedom Fighters lived on both Earth-2 and Earth-X pre-Crisis); the original Thunderbolt of Johnny Thunder; and the original Hawkman, Carter Hall (wearing the cowl that he adopted later).
Standing, left to right: We’ll come back to some of these. Here, we find: Fury II, Lyta Trevor-Hall; apparently the original Wildcat, Ted Grant; the Silver Scarab, Hector Hall; the adult Robin of Earth-2, Dick Grayson; Nuklon, Albert Rothstein; Power Girl; the Huntress of Earth-2, Helena Wayne; Dr. Midnight (Beth Chapel of Infinity Inc; yes, she spelled it differently); and the original Atom, Al Pratt, in his second outfit.
Okay, deep breath . . . It’s important to remember at this point that these aren’t all necessarily the characters that we knew as the Earth-2 heroes back in the day. Many of those heroes have aged or changed identities or died on post-Crisis or “New” Earth. However, they do appear to be a revitalization of the characters as they appeared on Earth-2 in the DCU circa 1985.
That notion is further supported by certain pieces of visual evidence: Hector is Silver Scarab and not Dr. Fate III; Dr. Midnight is still alive (she was killed by Eclipso in his series in the early ‘90s); Starman and the Atom are still alive (having died in the James Robinson Starman series and Zero Hour respectively); Nuklon has his original appearance and mask (he later become Atom-Smasher); and so forth.
The question then becomes: what will the JSA of the present DCU do when confronted with these past versions of themselves, their children, or friends long dead?[/hide:bb1cf7b9f6]
:P
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