Some thoughts about The New Golden Age #1

What is happening to the timeline?

Everyone knows the Justice Society of America, at least they do now but there are many times when they forget it and that's because of the constant changes in history that are now introducing new important people that could change the course of the world.

Geoff Johns, the JSA, it always works so let's go!

This is something that has been building-up for years. Hell, is something that Johns himself has been teasing for years both in interviews and in his own work, from Doomsday Clock, to the Stargirl special, to the recent Flashpoint Beyond series that hinted heavily at it, we're here to see a brand new story focusing on the classic Golden Age characters in a brand new way.

Mind you, not necessarily "brand new way" since once again Johns plays with his typical retcon writing to introduce the new Golden Age characters he created in Flaspoint Beyond but on the other hand, the JSA and changes in continuity goes hand by hand and there's certainly a very "classic" feel in this one-shot. The dialogue seems rather clunky initially but I wouldn't be surprised if Johns is evoking his own early work on JSA by doing so and there are a lot of references to the past, present and future. Johns is obviously forced to include recent developments like Alan Scott's change sexuality (which is mentioned nicely here) while also bringing back the ultra feminist version of Power Girl from her early appearances and most importantly recreating the Huntress' origin in a way that makes her more relevant for the current story.

And about the story, it works well as far as "mystery" stories go... although is not like there's much mystery going on, the murderer of different versions of the JSA is clearly another version of the classic JSA time-traveler villain Per Degaton but it works well enough to justify the alteration in continuity and gives a motivation for the the team to reappear. Funnily enough, the new GA characters don't really appear here but Johns includes the old bio pages where he describes their origins and drops about what's going to happen next with them.

Diego Olortegui, Jerry Ordway, Steve Lieber, Todd Nauck, Scott Kolins, Viktor Bogdanovic, Brandon Peterson and Gary Frank share the pencils and while their different styles obviously clash with one another, they do a fine job during their respective segments and since they're different eras, I think they're fitting as well.

Solid set-up, hope the following work is not too far.