#Justice Society of America 2 Review

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Justice Society of America #2 Review

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Writer: Geoff Johns Art:  Mikel Janín, Jordie Bellaire, Jerry Ordway, Scott Kolins, Steve Lieber, Brandon Peterson, John Kalisz, Jordan Boyd, Rob Leigh, Yanick Paquette, and Nathan Fairbairn Publisher: DC Comics Price: $4.99 Release Date: January 24th, 2023 The new Golden Ages continues as Huntress has arrived in the present day, but the Justice Society of America are not what she remembers. Can…

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this is a shortened works cited from my thesis, pulling out the sources about American intersex history and activism from the past 30 years. i have pdfs for most of the sources there, if there's something that isn't linked send me a message and i can try to find it!

just thought i'd try to put a lot of intersex history sources in one place.

Works Cited: 

Amato, Viola. “The Intersex Movement of the 1990s: Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence.” In Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture, 55–102. Transcript Verlag, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1xxrsz.6.

Bauer, Markus, Daniela Truffer and Daniela Crocetti. “Intersex Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights. 24, no.6. (2020):724-749.https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1671354 

Brown, Lydia X.Z., Erickson, Loree, da Silva Gorman, Rachel, Lewis, Talila A., McLeod, Lateef, and Mingus, Mia.  “Radical Disability Politics.” In Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, edited by A.J. Withers and Liat Ben-Moshe, 178-193. Routledge, 2019. 

Cameron, David. “Hermaphrodites With Attitude.” Newsletter. 1994. https://isna.org/library/hwa/ 

Carpenter, Morgan. “Fixing bodies and shaping narratives: Epistemic injustice and the responses of medicine and bioethics to intersex human rights demands.” Clinical Ethics. 2024;19, no. 1. (2024) :3-17. doi:10.1177/14777509231180412

Chase, Cheryl. “Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism.” Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 4, no.2, (1998): 189-211. 

---, Hermaphrodites Speak! 1997; Rohnert Park: Intersex Society of North America. Video tape. 

Cohen, Julie, dir. Every Body. 2023; United States: Focus Features, DVD.

Denny, Dallas.  "Chrysalis Quarterly, Vol. 2 No. 5 (Fall, 1997 / Winter, 1998)."  Periodical.  1998.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/7s75dc39s  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Davis, Georgiann. “Introduction: Normalizing Intersex: The Transformative Power of Stories.”  in Voices: Personal Stories from the Pages of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: Normalizing Intersex, edited by James DuBois and Ana Iltis. 1-4. John Hopkins University Press, 2016. 

Dreger, Alice. “Rejecting the Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism in Intersex Care.” Alice Dreger (blog). November 2015. Accessed April 9, 2024. https://alicedreger.com/dsd_human_rights/ 

Dreger, Alice and April Herndon. “Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement: Feminist Theory in Action.” Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 15, no. 2. (2009): 199-224.

Fausto-Sterling, Ane. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books. 2000. 

“A Framework for Intersex Justice.” Intersex Justice Project. 2021. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org/intersex-justice-framework.html 

"FTM Newsletter #37."  Periodical.  1997.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/kd17cs89j  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Hegarty, Peter, Marta Prandelli, Trove Lundberg, Lih-Mei Liao, Sarah Creighton, and Katrina Roen.”Drawing the Line Between Essential and Nonessential Interventions on Intersex Characteristics With European Health Care Professionals.” Review of General Psychology. 25, no 1. (2020): 101-114. 

Hermaphrodites With Attitude.  "Hey AAP! Get Your Scalpels Off Our Bodies! Flyer."  Ephemera.  1990.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/qj72p712h  (accessed April 08, 2024). 

“Hermaphrodites With Attitude,” Intersex Society of North America. 2006. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://isna.org/library/hwa/ 

“How To: Organize an #EndIntersexSurgery Protest in your hometown--a toolkit created by Intersex Justice Project (IJP.” Intersex Justice Project. 2019. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20191111232744/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EgYy2jfSO04HF_FGv-8RXYEgWW422L-RB7oxMOaIiBc/edit 

Hughes, Ieuan, Christopher Houk, Syed Faisal Ahmed, Peter Lee, and LWPES1/ESPE2 Consensus Group. “Consensus Statement on Management of intersex disorders.” Disease in Childhood. 91, no.7. (2006): 554-563. doi: 10.1136/adc.2006.098319

“I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US.” Human Rights Watch. InterACT. July 2017, accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/lgbtintersex0717_web_0.pdf 

“InterACT Statement on Intersex Terminology.” InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. 2015. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://interactadvocates.org/interact-statement-on-intersex-terminology/#:~:text=interACT's%20use%20of%20terminology%20and,of%20the%20term%20%E2%80%9Cintersex%E2%80%9D. 

Lindhal, Hans. “Is PCOS an Intersex Condition? Here’s 5 Reasons Why Some Say Yes.” HansLindhal.Com (Blog). February 2023, Accessed April 7, 2024. https://hanslindahl.com/blog/is-pcos-an-intersex-condition 

---., “9 Young People on How They Found Out They Are Intersex.” Teen Vogue. October 2019. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/young-people-on-how-they-found-out-they-are-intersex 

“M.C v. Aaronson.” Southern Poverty Law Center. 2017. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/mc-v-aaronson

Merrick, Ten. “From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: A Case of Epistemic Injustice.” Synthese 196, no. 11 (2019): 4429–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45220035.

Orr, Celeste. Cripping Intersex. University of British Columbia Press, 2022. 

Pagonis, Pidgeon. “#EndIntersexSurgery Protest At Lurie Children’s Hospital Recap + 5 Ways To Get Involved.” Intersex Justice Project. 2018. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org/blog/endintersexsurgery-protest-at-lurie-childrens-hospital-recap 

Pagonis, Pidgeon and Sean Saifa Wall. “Open Letter to AIS-DSD Support Group.” EndIntersexSurgery. Intersex Justice Project. February 2018. Accessed April 8, 2024.  http://www.endintersexsurgery.org/ 

Redick, Alison. “What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols.  Cardozo Journal of  Law & Gender. 12 (2005): 289-296 

Reid, Graeme, and Minky Worden. “Caster Semenya Won Her Case, But Not the Right to Compete.” Human Rights Watch. July 2023. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/18/caster-semenya-won-her-case-not-right-compete  

Reis, Elizabeth. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. John Hopkins Press, 2021.

---, “Did Bioethics Matter? A HIstory of Autonomy, Consent, and Intersex Genital Surgery. Medical Law review. 27, no.4, (2019):658-674. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwz007 

Rios-Espinosa, Carlos, Koomah, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Sean Saifa Wall. “Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice & Intersex Justice In Conversation.” Webinar at the Crip Camp Impact Team and Human Rights Watch Film Festival, United States, October 2020.  

Rubin, David, Michelle Wolff and Amanda Lock Swarr. “Creating Intersex Justice: Interview with Sean Saifa Wall and Pidgeon Pagonis of the Intersex Justice Project.”  Transgender Studies Quarterly. 9, no. 2. (2022): 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9612823 

Sharman, Zena. “Intersex Justice and the Care We Deserve: ‘I Want People to Feel at Home in Their Bodies Again.’” Ms. Magazine. 2022. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://msmagazine.com/2022/02/03/intersex-justice-the-care-we-dream-of-queer-trans-healthcare/  

Sharpe, Sam. “No one-size-fits all: Myths and Misconceptions about PCOS.” InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Advocates for Informed Choice. October 2022. Accessed on April 7, 2024. https://interactadvocates.org/no-one-size-fits-all-myths-and-misconceptions-about-pcos/ 

Spurgas, Alyson. “(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD.” in Critical Intersex edited by Morgan Holmes. 97-122. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 

Tamar-Matis, Anne. “ Advocates for Informed Choice, Newsletter Fall 2007.” Newsletter. 2007. AIC Legal .https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/fall-07-newsletter-final.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Newsletter Spring 2008.” Newsletter. 2008. AIC Legal.https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/spring-08-final.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Newsletter Summer 2009.” Newsletter. 2009. AIC Legal.https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/aic-2009-summer-newsletter-pdf.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Spring 2010 Newsletter.” Newsletter. 2010. AIC Legal.https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=5803ec8c71

---., “June 2011: Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy.” Newsletter. 2011. AIC Legal. https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=cec68ddac 

---.. “June 2012: Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy.” Newsletter. 2012. AIC Legal. https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=b4d4dd90cf

---. “ 2012 Annual Report.” Newsletter. 2012. Advocates for Informed Choice. https://interactadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AIC-2012-Annual-Report.pdf 

---. “2013 Annual Report. “ Newsletter. 2012. Advocates for Informed Choice. https://interactadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2013-annual-report-FIN1.pdf  

“US: Anti-Trans Bills Also Harm Intersex Children.” Human Rights Watch. October 22. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/26/us-anti-trans-bills-also-harm-intersex-children 

Vecchietti, Valentino. “A Journey to the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag.” Global Inclusive Pride Flag. Intersex Equality Rights. 2021. Accessed April 7, 2024. https://www.globalinclusiveprideflag.com/ 

Wilchins, Riki Anne.  "In Your Face No. 5 (Spring 1998)."  Newsletter.  1998.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/vq27zn45k  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Withers, AJ. Disability Politics and Theory. Fernwood Publishing, 2012. 

Woo, Elaine. “David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment.: Los Angeles Times. May 2004. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-13-me-reimer13-story.html 

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Wouldn’t it be better to see how many men are actually raping and how many support it. Or how many women are getting raped by men. Than just saying men commit 99% of rape/SA? Because like idk wouldn’t it be like saying you should be wary of black people because they commit most violent crime? But most black people don’t commit violent crime.

At least one in three men around the world openly admit to abusing or raping women.

At least one in three women around the world self-report being abused or raped by men.

These stats are both based on self-report, which likely means they are both under-estimates (reasons in linked posts).

It is also useful to describe the demographics of abusers and rapists. The fact that the vast majority of abusers (90+%) and rapists are men (post 1, post 2, post 3) indicates that this is a gendered phenomenon. It would be a different story if there was sex parity in offenders and victims, but there isn't, so such statistics are useful.

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"Because like idk wouldn’t it be like saying you should be wary of black people because they commit most violent crime?"

No. This is a common comparison drawn and it is both misogynistic and racist.

First, black people do not commit "most" violent crime. According to the 2022 Bureau of Justice report black people (primarily men) committed ~25% of violent offenses and made up ~12% of the population, indicating a 2:1 offender-to-population ratio. While this is a disproportionate representation, it also isn't "most".

Second, while research on this topic is contentious and ongoing, there is substantial evidence that this offending gap is not caused by race but by differences in other environmental factors that happen to correlate with race (in the USA specifically, but also in some other countries examined).

For example:

Younger adults are substantially more likely to commit crimes than older adults [2], and the black American age distribution is much younger than the white American age distribution [3]

Urban areas have higher rates of crime [2] and a greater proportion of black Americans live in urban areas [4]

This articles [5] suggests that the key factor driving racial differences in criminal behavior is intergenerational mobility. Specifically, "black Americans and American Indians have much lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility than whites, leading to persistent disparities across generations ... Hispanic Americans have rates of intergenerational mobility more similar to whites than blacks, leading the Hispanic-white income gap to shrink across generations."

This review [6] found an "excess risk for criminal behavior in adulthood exists when an individual is exposed to lead in utero or in the early years of childhood" and this longitudinal examination [7] shows "alarming racial disparities in toxic exposure."

These were just a few examples of how some secondary factor(s) that is correlated with race (but, importantly, not caused by race) in America can explain the racial gap in criminal offending. This indicates that the racial gap is an illusory correlation.

In contrast, men are the primary perpetrators of almost every crime, across all societies, for every demographic, throughout all of history [8].

References under the cut:

Alexandra Thompson & Susannah N. Tapp. (2023). Criminal victimization, 2022 (307089; Criminal Victimization). Bureau of Justice Statistics. https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/criminal-victimization-2022

Who Commits Crime? (2015). In Social Problems. University of Minnesota. https://web.archive.org/web/20240818215340/https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/chapter/8-3-who-commits-crime/

Schaeffer, K. (2019, July 30). The most common age among whites in U.S. is 58 – more than double that of racial and ethnic minorities. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/

Igielnik, K. P., Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Anna Brown, Richard Fry, D’Vera Cohn and Ruth. (2018, May 22). 1. Demographic and economic trends in urban, suburban and rural communities. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/

Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Jones, M. R., & Porter, S. R. (2020). Race and economic opportunity in the United States: An intergenerational perspective. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(2), 711-783.

Talayero, M. J., Robbins, C. R., Smith, E. R., & Santos-Burgoa, C. (2023). The association between lead exposure and crime: A systematic review. PLOS global public health, 3(8), e0002177.

Sampson, Robert, Alix Winter. "The Racial Ecology of Lead Poisoning." Du Bois Rev. 13, no. 2(2016): 261-283. DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x16000151

Steffensmeier, D., & Allan, E. (n.d.). Gender and crime. https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/legal-and-political-magazines/gender-and-crime

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Molly McGhee’s “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind”

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is Molly McGhee's debut novel: a dreamlike tale of a public-private partnership that hires the terminally endebted to invade the dreams of white-collar professionals and harvest the anxieties that prevent them from being fully productive members of the American corporate workforce:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734829/jonathan-abernathy-you-are-kind-by-molly-mcghee/

Though this is McGhee's first novel, she's already well known in literary circles. Her career has included stints at McSweeney's, where she worked on my book Information Doesn't Want To Be Free:

https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/information-doesn-t-want-to-be-free

And then at Tor Books, where she worked on my book Attack Surface:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531/attacksurface

But though McGhee is a shrewd and skilled editor, I think of her first and foremost as a writer, thanks to stunning essays like "America's Dead Souls," a 2021 Paris Review piece that described the experience of multigenerational debt in America in incandescent, pitiless prose:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/05/17/americas-dead-souls/

McGhee's piece struck at the heart of something profoundly wrong in American society – the dual nature of debt, which represents a source of freedom for the wealthy, and bondage for workers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zombie-debt/#damnation

When billionaire mass-murderers like the Sacklers amass tens of billions of liabilities stemming from their role in deliberately starting the opioid crisis, the courts step in to relieve them of their obligations, allowing them to keep their blood-money:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

And when Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to mismanagement by ultra-wealthy financiers, the public purse yawns open and billions flow out to ensure that the wealthiest investors in the country stay whole:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/18/2-billion-here-2-billion-there/#socialism-for-the-rich

When predatory payday lenders target working people and force them into bankruptcy with four-digit APRs, the government intervenes…to save the lenders and keep workers on the hook:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/planned-obsolescence/#academic-fraud

"Debtor vs creditor" is the oldest class division we have. The Bronze Age custom of jubilee – the periodic cancellation of all debts – wasn't some weird peccadillo. It was essential public policy, and without jubilee, the hereditary creditor class became the arbiter of all social priorities, destabilizing great nations and even empires by directing production to suit their parochial needs. Societies that didn't practice jubilee (or halted it) collapsed:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/08/jubilant/#construire-des-passerelles

Today's workers are debt burdened at scales and in ways that defy comprehension, the numbers are so brain-breakingly large. Students who take out modest loans and pay them off several times over remain indebted decades later, with outstanding balances that vastly outstrip the principle:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kawaski-trawick/#strike-debt

Workers who quit dead-end jobs are billed for five-figure "training repayment" bills that haunt them to the end of days:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose

Hospitals sue indigent patients at scale, siccing debt-collectors on people who can't pay – and were entitled to free care to begin with:

https://armandalegshow.com/episode/when-hospitals-sue-patients-part-2/

And debt collectors are drawn from the same social ranks as the debtors, barely trained and unsupervised, engaging in lawless, constant harassment of the debtor class:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

McGhee's "American Dead Souls" crystallized all of this vast injustice into a single, beautiful essay – and then McGhee crystallized things further by posting a public resignation letter enumerating the poor pay and working conditions in New York publishing, triggering mass, industry-wide resignations by similarly situated junior editorial staff:

https://electricliterature.com/molly-mcghee-jonathan-abernathy-you-are-kind-interview-debut-novel-book-debt/

Thus we arrive at McGhee's debut: a novel written by someone with a track record for gorgeous, brutally insightful prose; incisive analysis of the class war raging in the embers of capitalism's American Dream; and consequential labor organizing against the precarity and exploitation of young workers. As you might expect, it's fantastic.

Jonathan Abernathy is a 25 year old, debt haunted, desperately lonely man. An orphan with a mountain of college debt, Abernathy lives in a terrible basement apartment whose rent is just beyond his means. The only thing that propels him out of bed and into the world are his affirmations:

Jonathan Abernathy you are kind

You are well respected and valued by your community

People, including your family, love you

That these are all easily discerned lies is beside the point. Whatever gets you through the night.

We meet Jonathan as he is applying for a job that he was recruited for in a dream. As instructed in his dream, he presents himself at a shabby strip-mall office where an acerbic functionary behind scratched plexiglass takes his application and informs him that he is up for a gig run jointly by the US State Department and a consortium of large corporate employers. If he is accepted, all of his student debt repayments will be paused and he will no longer face wage garnishment. What's more, he'll be doing the job in his sleep, which means he'll be able to get a day job and pull a double income – what's not to like?

Jonathan's job is to enter the dreams of sleeping middle-management types in America's largest firms – but not just any dreams, their nightmares. Once he has entered their nightmare, Jonathan is charged with identifying the source of their anxiety and summoning a more senior operative who will suck up and whisk away that nagging spectre, thus rendering the worker a more productive component of their corporate structure.

But of course, there's more to it. As Jonathan works through his sleeping hours, he is deprived of his own dreams. Then there's the question of where those captive anxieties are ending up, and how they're being processed, and what new products can be made from refined nightmares. While Jonathan himself is pulling ever so slightly out of his economic quagmire, the people around him are still struggling.

McGhee braids together three strands: the palpable misery of being Jonathan (a proxy for all of us), the rising terror of the true nature of his employment, and beautifully turned absurdist touches that are laugh-aloud funny. This could be a mere novel of ennui and misery but it's not – it's a novel of hilarity and fear and misery, all mixed together in a glorious and terrible concoction that is not like anything else you've ever read.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/08/capitalist-surrealism/#productivity-hacks

[popculturebuffet]

Wanna Make Something Of It?: A Justice League International Retrospective: Justice League #1 Review

Keith Ian Giffen 1952-2023 "I"m sick of Darkseid, Darkseid has been passed around the DC Offices like a Bong"

Hello all you happy people and happy birthday to me. Each year either on or around my birthday, or in this case a month later because the end of 2023 was a cold and carpal tunnel hellscape and 2024 opened with bronchitis, I take a look at something special to me, something that means something: From the first apperance of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, to the first volume of Scott Pilgrim, to Scott Pilgrim Vs the World , to last years look at the uncanny x-men's rebirth with Giant Sized X-Men #1, i've always set aside my birthday to reflect on my past and celebrate it with something I truly love.

This year I decided on that.. for reasons that still break my heart. On October 9th at the ripe age of 70 Comics Legend and personal inspiration of mine Keith Giffen.. passed away. He had a long, good life and created countless amazing stories and characters.. but his loss will be a void that can never quite be filled.

For those who hadn't heard of him, Keith was a comic book writer who's best known for his work at DC, having helped redefine the Legion of Super Heroes and Darkseid with the legendary Great Darkness Saga alongside Paul Levitz, created the main man Lobo, the fourth wall breaking before it was cool Ambush bug, the incomprable Jamie Reyes whose first arc I covered this year, and of course, the one punch, the only, the bwahahah-ey Justice League international.

If your asking why it took this long to eulogize him if I respected him so much, the answer is simple: I didn't know. In an age where if someone dies it's usually blasted onto my news feed, even if I don't exactly google that person every day, I had NO idea Keith was dead till reading an amazon review.. which is the kind of sick irony he'd find hilarous, so I have that, but not exactly the way to find out one of your personal heroes died. So I scrapped my original birthday review plan (Letterkenny's Three Wise Men For the Curious) and decided to start a project i've been mulling over for a while now. So welcome folks to Wanna Make Something Of It: A Justice League International Retrospective, an ocasoinal look at this long run.

JLI has an intresting history to it so if you'll sit down i'll tell you

The Not Really Secret Origin of the Justice League International

It was the late 80's and DC Comics had just undergone a massive reboot with Crisis on Infinite Earths, the first true big event comic as we know them with tie ins and a massive reboot in the end as Editorial had felt the various alternate earths had made things too complicated. So a big blue murder man named the Anti Monitor tried to wipe out all of creation, leaving only five earths: Earth 1, where most of the action took place, Earth 2 where the heroes of the Golden Age, the Justice Society of america and their various successors lived, Earth 4, where the recently aquiried heroes of Charlton Comics like Blue Beetle, Peacemaker and Captain Atom resided, an earth not concidentally introduced for this crossover, Earth S, home of the Shazam/Captain Marvel Family, and Earth X, a world where the nazi's won WWII and only the freedom fighters stood in opposition. Basically any heroes DC felt like keeping and their shiny new toys.

The result was a new one world earth with a fresh coat of paint to let in new readers. It wasn't without issues: several corners of the DCU got torn up with my beloved Legion of Super Heroes getting some of the worst of it, with every resonable attempt to fix the retcons or bring characters back.. being shot down AFTER the story had already been started or happened, eventually leaving such a giant mess they rebooted in the 90's, while many a hero was left without an origin or clear history, Donna Troy having to have her origin redone again now her connection to wonder woman was gone, Hawkman became a hawk mess in part thanks to this very book, story for another time, and much more I don't have the time or patience to get into right now.

There was a lot of good in it though, as the reboot left room for new heroes like self promotional himbo with a heart of gold, Booster Gold, the now DC flavored Blue Beetle, and more, and for some the fresh start was badly needed, revitalizing Superman, and giving Wonder Woman and out and out reboot that, while taking her history away, exchanged it for one of the best runs on the character ever via George Perez. And eventually, after some growing pains, it gave us room for an all new flash after a lengthy murder storyline left Barry running out of steam. For all the damage it did i've learned over the years, the crisis still did a LOT of good and helped a lot of characters find their place in this brave new world.

One property vital to DC that needed this was the Justice League of America. A few years before the crisis, DC had noticed the sales of the League were down, and tried to revitalize it: the result was a book I hope to read and cover one day.. still called Justice League of America bu tknown to most as Justice League Detroit. The IDEA was good: feeling the league was a bit scattered after a martian invasion destroyed their iconic satalite headquarters, Aquaman called for them to disband and only those who could commit full time rejoin, leaving it with just him, Martain Manhunter, Zantanna and The Elongated Man. They soon added some fresh recurits in the cyborg steel, the horribly named in hindsight but loveable for her father daughter relationship with the Martain Manhunter, Gypsy and the sterotype tastic Vibe, who'd later be heavily reworked for the better by the flash tv series.

The idea was good but even from what defenders I could find after googling the team, the book had the good IDEA of making the team more of a surrogate family like the Titans or X-Men, but simply didn't seem to pull it off. It's part of why i'd love to look at it some day: the roster is good, with even the rookies being intresting Even Vibe at least had intresting power, a low income background not really see in the Justice League at that point, and cool shades.. even if him break dancing was very much

So I do really want to read this run and possibly cover it and if you'd like me to, let me know. It intrests me.

But while it intrests me now, no one at the time was really biting so DC decided to pull the plut. It really didn't help that , thanks to the crisis.. DC now had a wide buffet of characters they could suddenly ad to the league like Captain Marvel, the Charlton gang, and Dr. Fate.

So the team got the axe in the ties ins for Legends, DC's next big event that was also designed to bring the new team together. Legends has another really cool concept: Darkseid, god of evil and dc office bong , wanted to break earth's heroes for defying him so he could finally claim it and thus came up with Operation: Humilation. He sent his lackey Glorious Godfrey to earth , becoming tele-evanglist and far right loon G Gordon Godfrey, inspired by the times and sadly still relevant. Godfrey lit up an anti superhero fervor, causing Ronald Regan to ban superheroes while Godfrey spread the message of hate, helped by Godfrey setting up Captain Marvel to seemingly kill one of Darkseid's minons who was in fact a robot designed to die and scar a 12 year old for life.

The problem is the series is a bit too fast paced for it's own good, taking a message on how hate movements like this spread oh so easily with the power of tv, and speed running it so we go from Godfrey using real life hate tactics that are chillingly relevant, to the point we get scenes with a crowd nearly killing a 12 year old jason todd or a cop killing his partner after said partner lets Black Canary go then blaming her for making him do it, to ... him making people into murder dogs and storming the captial. In three issues. You have to nearly burn the country down to get people to do a insurrection everyone knows that.

On top of that like many an event after.. a lot of it's about setting up tie ins instead of it's core story so we get stuff like Jason being saved happening off panel or Darkseid deciding to take superman off the board.. and then doing it in a tie in.

That brings us to Justice League where one of the biggest fallouts of this event.. happens entirely in it's own book. I'm split on this as on the one hand, the end of the Justice League of America should happen in it's own book.. but on the other given they brought in another writer to end the book, I don't see why they didn't just cancel it early and say "To be continued in legends" and have Godfrey tied into the league's ultimate end instead of Amazo.

Alas instead Amazo and Despero clean house leaving the league battered, demoralized and in the cases of Vibe and Steel dead. Everyone whose left leaves.. .everyone except the person it means the most to, the person who almost never left and whose the heart and soul of the league for the Martain Manhunter vows it'll live on.

Cue the finale of Legends: With things escalating quickly, Dr. Fate, DC's Resident Mysterious Magic Man, gathers a bunch of heroes together to put an end to this: Batman, Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Black Canary, Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), The Flash (Wally West), Beast Boy (Going by Changeling back then), Mister Miracle (Scott Free), Superman and Captain Marvel (The future Shazam) to put an end to this, with Jonn clinching the heroes return to legality by coming in the save and Wonder Woman making her debut to the superhero community post-crisis by jumping in to help. The day is saved , and a new justice league is formed from the ashes of the old.

So you may be asking: Why this roster and why aren't Wonder Woman, Superman, the Flash and BB on the cover? Let's explore that under the cut as we delve into why this roster, the creative team for the actual book, and the first issue itself shall we?

Roll Call:

So you'd probably think given how team books work nowadays that future writers Keith Giffen and JM Demattis picked this team themselves, with maybe a member or two picked by dc editorial. It's what I assumed.. but nope, DC picked the team themselves, which .. does kinda bother me. A creator should really pick their own roster as chemistry is VERY important to a team book. It speaks to Giffen, DeMattis and Macguire's talents that, even dropping a few members in issue 7, the book comes off as natural as it does and said drops come off less as "this person we were saddled with isn't working" and more "they simply didn't fit into the group so we used the big rebrand to shuffle them out". DC may of picked the roster, but to their credit they choose well. As giffen himself put in the introduction of a collection of the first few issues back in 2008 "That call was DC's to make and as it turned out.. not too shabby"

So before we got into the actual book and who made it, I wanted to take a second to explore this roster as I wanted to show WHY DC might have choose them as I couldn't find any info on why this roster was picked, and simply have my edcuated guesses to go on

First who WASN'T added despite being front and center in legends: Each of the four members cut from the roster so to speak have good reasons for not being in the team. Beast Boy is the most obvious: he was never going to be in the League to begin with, they most likely wanted a titan to represent their flagship book for the crossover and choose one of the most popular.

For the Flash, Wally's a bit more of an actual misdirect as given he hadn't shown up since his decision not to take up the mantle, this was his big coming out party as the flash, with Wally deciding to embrace his mentors roll. It's also why he didn't take it up in story and likely out: he just put on the tights and didn't feel ready for the league just yet and the character would need some time in his own solo before it made since to plop him in a team book.

For Superman and Wondy it's also simple: Superman was being rebooted: He still had a LOT of his history, but major parts of it like his time in the Legion as Superboy or his cousin Kara were cut out, major villians were revamped, and his world was reshaped for the 80's while Diana was flat out rebooted by George Perez after sales had pretty much died pre-crisis, with said run now being one of my favorite comics and one I can't wait to complete some day and share with you all.

So that left the All New, All Diffrent Justice League with a roster consisting of Batman, The Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel (Now known as the Captain or Shazam), Dr. Fate, Black Canary, Mister Miracle and Green Lantern (Guy Gardner). So for those of you less familiar with some of these guys, let's get aquanited, as well as figure out why DC choose them.

Batman: Batman is here because he's batman.. I could end it there but that'd leave the question of why Bats was okay to go but SUperman and Wonder WOman weren't. The answer is simple: Batman.. didn't get rebooted by Crisis. Things were changed like Jason Todd's backstory, some villians erased, some bits of history tinkered with, but that was standard for most post crisis heroes. He'd have a new defentiive origin with Frank Miller's year one, but Denny O'Neil had already soft rebooted batman back in the 70's, so he wasn't in as big of a rut. Crisis took out weird shit from the silver age that I love but understand why maybe it's best reinstated as a drug hallucination, thank you Grant Morrison, and Earth 2 batman, but it really didn't change who Bruce was, his status quo etc. Batman was selling well, Dick Grayson was super popular over in New Teen Titans, it was something DC knew wisely not to fuck with. Granted I haven't gotten as hands on with just after the crisis batman as I have Superman or Wonder WOman, so I could be wrong, but most of the changes were to villian backstories, stuff that was necessary and handy, but not things that really shook up who Batman was or what stories were going on with him like Superman and Wonder Woman. And since Batman is a lisense to print money, for better or worse, they stuck him on this team.

Martain Manhunter: The Martain Manhunter is Jonn Jonzz, a cop from mars who got accidently kidnapped by an old man to earth and took up resdiense as a detective. Jonn would get a full mini establishing who he was post crisis I have not read by Giffen and Dematties but i'm now dying to now I know it exists. Jonn was a founding member of the justice league and a big hero during the silver age, and comes off as the JLA equilvent to the Avengers Wasp, not in terms of character, Janet and Jonn aren't like each other in the slightest but I do think they'd hang, but in being a hero who has a storied career almost entirely tied to one of their unvierses big super teams, but not much solo wise. The former has meant he's been bounced around a bit and even left out of the team in the new 52 for cyborg, but also means he's a treasured part of it, an elder statesman who gives the team a sense of a heart among a floating lineup. He also gives the team a power house, having most of superman's powers PLUS telepathy and shapeshifting. Jonn is one of my faviorite DC heroes owing to the justice league cartoon

Guy Gardner: Guy is an odd duck in that both John Stewart and Hal Jordan were wearing the ring, this being the first time all three earth lantern's wore it, so WHY Guy was chosen out of the three was a mystery given JOhn was, as far as I know, popular even then and Hal was the old reliable, back before everyone was sick of that and wanted them to remember they had 7 or so people more intresting. Guy was Hal's understudy. He literally didn't get the ring.. because Hal Jordan was closer, and thus was picked to become a space cop later. He was depicted intially as a school teacher before being resculpted into a jingoisitc asshole by Steve Engleheart, something that was cemented and fleshed out here. He also has a three stooges haircut, something I feel adds to his asshole charm and feel had to be brought up at some point.

Dr. Fate: Dr Fate is kent nelson, a vetran of the JLA's predecessor, the Justice Society of America. Originally the JSA was part of Earth 2, but was merged with Earth 1 so now they simply.. existed before our heroes, retired due to Mcarthyism, then came back into action when the new age of heroes launched, with deaging and such used to explain how their still around. Fate was chosen likely because he looks neat, they needed a magic guy, and they wanted a JSA rep on the team. He.. didn't really quite fit as it was clear DC didn't know quite what they were doing with him yet.

Blue Beetle: My boy ted, who I've already covered on this blog before, but this is his shining moment. For those less familiar or who missed the underated blue beetle film, Ted is an inventor who found out his uncle was planning to take over the world with an army of robots, and enlisted his close friend Dan Garret, who turned out to be the OG blue beetle and sacrificed his life to stop Ted's Uncle, passing on the mantle but not the magical alien beetle. Ted compensated by building a ton of gadgets, having plnety of quips and generally being plesant. Ted was part of Charlton Comics, a company DC had bought recently, and having his own series at the time, being fairly popular, and having an outfit created by Steve Ditko himself, he was a shoe in and a nice pick from the b-list. Grante di'm biased and this series is entirely WHY, but Ted's a fresh face in the dcu who comes in hot with plenty of experince and a cool ship for the group to fly around.

Black Canary: Dinah Lance was changed by the crisis, going from an immigrant from earth 2 to the daughter of the original. She was also made a founding member of the justice league to replace Wonder Woman because she as the only prominent dc heroine who who would've been active at the time. And yes she's wearing THIS for her time in the JLI

And honestly it's.. meh. I think they were trying to give her a less casual look, but the fishnets and black leather jacket just fit. Sometimes a superhero just needs something anyone could wear in the right order to have a super outfit. I'm not against civlian style costumes if it fits the hero and dinah's just.. fits. This one just dosen't suit her as it's a bit too bombastic.

Dinah's likely here both for her new jsa connection and new jla founder status. She's also here because the team needed a female member, alongside dr. light, who we'll get to later.

Captain Marvel: Billy is easy. While DC had aquiried their former rival Fawcett back in the 70's, and thus one of the best superman immitators there ever was and ever will be, Billy had been on earth S since they bought him, and like Dr. Fate is there to show off how the earths are all merged now. He's also another power house, and was someone dc was trying to push. DC.. never really knows HOW to push captain marvel and i'm hoping his current series by Mark Waid helps. If you haven't read it check it out, it's possibly the characters best that i've been able to have acess to (Since DC hasn't reprinted the golden age stuff quite yet). For those who haven't heard of him, Billy Batson is a ten year old who was chosen by a wizard to become his champion and thus can act out the movie big but with superman powers whenever he wants. I love him dearly and wish DC knew how to market him.

Mr. MIracle: Last but not least Mr Miracle is Scott Free. Scott is part of the new gods, Jack Kirby's big contribution to DC that also included bong of evil Darkseid. To keep the peace Darkseid and his counterpart Highfather did a son swap, HIghfather getting Darkseid's angsty son Orion and Darkseid getting Scott, who he gave to Granny Goodness, the God of Child Abuse, who gave him othe name to mock how he'd never be free. Naturally this strategy backfired as it only fired up young Scott to escape, becoming the escape artist, hero and wife guy mr miracle. The last part came courtsey of big barda, another one of Granny's charges who came to take Scott back, but was convinced that maybe hellpits weren't the best place to live, and married him in Kirby's last issue on the two. Scott is here to emphasis the new gods,s something DC was playing with more post crisis. His manager Oberon, a cheery fella with Dwarfism, is also here because Demattis and Giffen had a lot of material for the guy it turned out and Oberon is essentially the team's guy in the chair.

So with this motely crew assembled let's see what this dynamite creative team did with them as we begin the storied history of the justice league international... the international part comes later.

Starting with the cover. While usually i'll skip these in an analysis, it's both a habit I need to break and would be a criminal act here as the cover for Justice League #1 is my faviorite comic book cover of all time and my faviorite to see an homage of.

It's simple, but it's perfect. The group shot is well deisgned, showing everyone off, but in a way that's diffrent from the usual action poses we get. Their clearly ready to kick your ass then their gonna fuckin kick your ass, but it's in a way that's unique, shows the team's unity. It also is taken so seriously here.. that it makes it ripe for jokes later in the series. The wanna make something of it ffrom guy both echoes the tough image their going for.. but fits the goofy tone the series is really going to have as it settles in. This comic has been homaged to oblivion and rightly so. Even Keith's memorial image dc put out is this but with Keith and all his creations.

We open the issue proper with a declaration.

It's one of my faviorite opening pages in a comic: It's beautifully drawn by artist Kevin Maguire, sets up the setting well and sets up guy as having his head firmly up his own ass.. it's why he has the bowl cut you see, helps him get it up there nice and tight.

The issue smartly introduces the cast one or two at a time, letting each character get a proper introduction and seeing how they bounce off each other as they file in.

So first in is Black Canary, who marvels at their old headquarters recent reneovations. Our heroes start the run in the Secret Sanctuary, the Justice League's first headquarters built into a mountain in Happy Harbor Road Island. And if it seems familiar to some of you, it should as after the JLI were done with it the Doom Patrol moved in for a bit during Grant MOrrison's Run. Most famously and lastingly, Young Justice, another team I have to cover at some point, made this their main hq, the only team to really make it a home that wasn't a justice league. And to prove that point the JSA also stayed here briefly. It's this weird go to for teams who need a headquarters for five minutes.

Anyways Dinah remembers the good times and all the ghosts, guy's a dick about it humming the twilight zone theme, and assumes he and Dinah will have a sam and diane thing and not a "Stay 50 feet away at all times thing".

Next up is Mister MIracle, whose nervous about the gig, not sure if he belongs there. Out of the leaguers Scott tends to stick to the back, not shy or afraid to speak up when needed, but not as outspoken as his team mates. This nicely contrasts oberon whose all too happy for the box office as even if this lasts a cup of coffee. He's less happy when Guy makes a shot at his dwarfisim and Oberon's grumbling is hilarious.. as would've been him decking guy but we still got a few issues till someone finally does that.

Billy zooms in, shocked by all the press, showing his naivitie: even after all he just went through... Billy is still a bit shocked by just how profile this is and happy to be there. Enter the boys, Martain Mahunter and Blue Beetle, with Jonn not forgetting the whole LEgends fiasco so soon, and having a bit of a mope... though he soon makes a valid point to ted as he turns on the computer.. and shows the Detroit League. It's a nice reminder that even if the team wasn't like.. they were still close and still Jonn's proteges.. and most most of them are dead and those that arent quit due to the trauma. So doing this, while something he feels is necessary. Cue Guy banging a gavel and declaring the meeting started

We then cut to the offices of innovative concepts where we meet the heart and galbladder of this run, Maxwell Lord, a mysterious man in a suit whose watching a row of tv's. Max isn't evil like he'd later be retconned into being.. but he is VERY shady at this point, watching all the coverage on the league and in one of my faviorite subtle little things scratching the "of america' part out of the legue's name on a pad of paper.

I want to take a minute to point out macguire's facial work.. i'ts incredible, nicely detailed, realistic, but still cartoony enough to have tons of personality. Just looking at max you get his smugness, ego and sense of control all at once with him having barely said or done anything. There's been plenty of masterminds sitting behind a row of tv's, but you get Max's vibe immedietly while still wondering what his deal is and what he wants with the team, the latter being the main mystery of the books first year. Back at the Sanctuary, Dinah and Guy argue as SHOCKINGLY the experinced vetran with an eye for the teams legacy dosen't want sylvester calzone here running things. Oberon TRIES to intervene on Dinah's beahlf but get's literally brushed off and Jonn trying to be an adult in teh room.. gets Guy picking him up and making a green giant joke, both funny, both well done.. and enough to get even JONN pissed enough to enter a brawl.

Cue the goddamn batman.. and dr. fate whose here too. That's.. really fate's roll for their time on the team, their just.. here. While Giffen and Demattis did really try to work with most of the roster they were given, seeing who worked and who didn't, Dr. Fate just didn't fit this team. As you can see already.. a key part of this team is disfunction. Some become true companions eventually, but it's mostly a bunch of personalities that barely function together, fairly normal people who put on tights. It's the charm of the series: instead of just getting along or having the usual angst, these guys just make digs at each other and amble along, but DO get the job done and do deserve to be called the justice league. It's just a version of said league that dosen't take itself seriously and has fun with it, and that treats this group like people. Normally the Guy Gardner in the group would just be ingorned but because he actually DOES have the power to toss people around (and props to the creative ways he does), it leads to an actaul brawl.

Fate... doen't fit into this. Fate is an enigma, mysterious and distant. So they simply.. don't work well in a jokey sitcom. It's clear the duo LIKE the character, they'd reinvent him soon enough, but he just didn't fit what they were going for.

So that begs the question how BATMAN does.. and he answers it, cowing everyone else into stopping it and getting guy to sit down before dryly reading out the charter. Bats is the boss in this workplace sitcom, and he's a mean one, being an utter dick to dinah at one point.

This moment horks me off.. but it's also a perfect encapulation of batman's leading style: shut up do what I say. Even someone whose his EQUAL , and who founded the team before him and thus has senority, he just tells them to shut up when she's making a valid point: their fidgity because this meeting is nervous nad because they just went through some crap. What I like is that despite having BATMAN.. the dream team dosen't glorify him. He's still batman, he shuts down the room with a glare, is a tactical genius and thus great at leading in the battlefield.. but it's very clear even this early on he simply.. can't lead this team well. He has a barking "do what I tell you style" and expects them to be good soldiers, treating them like a group of sidekicks instead of experinced heroes.

It's not something the group pull out of thin air either: Batman used to have a team of his own, the Outsiders, formed after Batman walked out on the league for refusing to let him rescue Lucius Fox and turned in his badge when Clark wanted him to sit this one out as a league member. He found a bunch of other heroes along the way, and choose to make them into a team, but it was very clear that the outsiders were partners, and weren't treated as full equals, with the exception of Black Lightning who Bruce felt was on his level. He wasn't bad to the team, helping find the younger amnesaic Halo a home, setting them up with day jobs, but his style is very much "listen to me or there's the door. "

The problem is while the outsiders were mostly fresh faces to being heroes or out of practice like metamorpho or black lightning, Bruce can't let that guard down even whent he heroes have more than proven themselves. It popped up in a crossover with the New Teen Titans where he started ordering that team around, with Dick eventually having to tell him to shut the hell up and let Dick lead his own damn team.

So while it's midly grating here it fits: Batman is so determined to keep this league together he's treating them like his backup i nstead of experinced heroes, two of whom HE'S BEEN ON THE LEAGUE WITH BEFORE.

Anyways Bats does have ONE good point in his leadership so far: he wants the team to keep a low profile. While it's hard given the army of camera's outside, the team dosen't know each other, hasn't trained together yet, and needs time to be in full shape. After all they just barely got superheroes back in the popular opinon: while Godfrey DID juice up people's emotoins, it dosen't mean it won't swing back to negative easily if they fuck up.

Unfortuantely for them... someone else has other ideas.. and i'ts not fate because their in the room. At the UN Kimyo Hoshi is in the bathroom puzzled by receving a JL signal device from Max and not sure if she'll accept. Kimyo is the second Dr. Light, a hero unlike her predecessor and a scientest from Japan who got her powers during the crisis. She.. wont' be here long as while the issue plays her up as a member on the cover, she never fully joins the league. More on that in the future. For now she exits the bathroom.. to find herself a hostage. Terroists have taken the UN. THankfully she activates the device and while Batman's very confused dr. light has one, rallies the team to go anyway.

Naturally Brucey Boy is cautious, having most of the team get in the bug, while he sends Fate and Billy to scout ahead. Guy WANTS to but Batman's response to the idea of sending a human bulldozer who barely listens to him into a tense hostage situation?

The team enters and despite the disfunction so far... it goes easily: Guy seals the premiters and probably invents some new swears, beetle does his best as the guy in the chair in the bug

And Fate.. well fate left and told Billy batman would understand and left the ten year old to explain this.

The league clean house.. but Batman notices a problem: these guys are ameture, clumsy and their equipment is oudated. Something else is going on here.

Time for that is passed soon though as Guy dive sin and finishes the job quickly. It's a nice sequence overall that shows the team REALLY is this good: this is a setup sure, but they don't know that. The lead terroists plans to detonate himself and batman... tells them to clear the room and let him, knowing somethign we don't as the man prepares to fir eon him and after they exit we get a wrapup via news as Max once again watches

So yeah SOMETHING made the leader kill himself, and max is behind anything. not a MASSIVE twist as the batman conversation set it up, but still a neat one: Max has plans for the league. I also like the focus on optics here: it's something I don't THINK the league had done before, the idea of how the media views a superhero team. This verison of the league isn't bad.. but Batman's refusal to talk to the press allows them to paint the narrative they want instead of the league controlling it. It's what gives Max a leg up on slowly wrestling control of it and makes him a compelling character from the word jump: Unlike Batman, he clearly gets optics, having set this up to force the league into the spotlight bright and early and removing the of america part to give the team a bigger calling. His tactics for doing this are also brilliant but we'll get more on them as we go.

For now this issue.. is as good as ever. Amazingly drawn, sharply written and nicely snappy, setting up the team, the myth arc with max and the situation their in all in one issue while modernizing thigns a bit: instead of space monsters our heroes are now fighting terrorists. Not that I mind fighting a godo space monster, but I get trying to give the leauge something diffrent and more part of the world. And part of the world is a major part of this series: putting the League more into our world an dhaving to deal with things like the media, other nations, etc. It's a brilliant start

Next Time: The last heroes of a dead world try to save ours while a greedy bearded man wonders who he can exploit this and the team gets some gold.

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you guys i’m starting to think magic story might not be that good

I’m really really happy the Phyrexia essay found its intended audience, and i’m glad it resonated so deeply with so many of you! People have asked me if they can quote it or lift concepts from it, and the answer is yes, absolutely! Please attribute it to me if you do, and if you want to send me whatever you’re using it in I would love to read it, though that’s optional. That’s the first thing.

The second thing is, man, was March of the Machine story a wet dud or what? I try to set my expectations low with official WotC stuff, but I did not have them set anywhere near low enough. Consequently, it’s been difficult to muster the energy lately to do things on this blog because, like, jeez, what an unceremonious and largely consequence-free waste of potential all of that was (except for the Ixalan story. The Ixalan story had everything: amazing kaiju fights [sorry Ikoria] and Magic’s best lesbian couple [sorry Gruulfriends, also congrats Gruulfriends.] “But what about the Ravnica story?” you, an incorrect person, say, “I thought the Ravnica story was really good,” you continue, incorrectly. The Ravnica story was very bad! It had really good ideas in it, but it was exceedingly-poorly written. My most charitable interpretation is that there was a miscommunication, and the author expected there would be a thorough editorial pass, and instead they just published it as-is. Sad! I would have really enjoyed a well-written version of that story. </hater>) But also it’s been difficult to muster enthusiasm to do Magic stuff lately because of WotC’s extracurriculars (increasingly-predatory attempts to more thoroughly monetize D&D, the fucking thing with the fucking Pinkertons.) But today I took an Adderall because it’s one of the rare days I actually have to focus on a task at work, and I’m using the residual focus to post an overdue update here, hello!

And I’m not done with this blog! Far from it. I’m going to keep posting dumb horny card art reviews here, for sure, but here’s some other stuff you can expect to see in the next few months or so:

1. a follow-up to the Phyrexia essay digging into the question of what a “fascist aesthetic” is, what it’s for in fiction, what it means to enjoy things that contain those elements. I think this is a really interesting topic with a lot of depth and hopefully nuance to it, and I really only skirted it in the original essay, and oh man did people have things to say about that (most of them polite). I addressed a similar topic previously on this blog when I talked about the conquistador vampires in Ixalan, but I don’t think I’m satisfied with that post. I think we can also talk about how we engage with a text, and how we engage with a text like Magic: the Gathering specifically. This is a lot to cover, and it may end up getting trimmed down, or I may succumb entirely to the seduction of scope creep. Who can say!

2. an essay on chivalry in its historical contexts, how it’s been used, what purposes it serves in a society (its role, for instance, in sustaining white supremacy in America), and what it means when we encounter it in “sword lesbian” media (the Locked Tomb books, Revolutionary Girl Utena, etc.) This is going to require a great deal of research and I have no idea what my ultimate conclusion will be, but it’s a topic I’m personally very invested in for a whole host of reasons.

3, maybe. I’ve been toying with the idea of writing MtG fic for a while, because they keep wasting potential and I think I could do a better job. If I do, I’ll post it here, but no promises. Fiction isn’t my main genre, and fanfic isn’t something I’ve gotten seriously into before, despite being on tumblr since 2011. But someone needs to do Avacyn justice, so we’ll see.

4. other writing. I’m a lightly-published poet in real life, and I’m currently working on my first chapbook, so maybe I’ll try putting some of it on tumblr, and since this blog’s readership has surpassed my personal, I guess? I’d put it here? Or, possibly, the short horror stories I infrequently write. Again, we’ll see.

5. Obviously I’m going to keep doing the horny Magic card art reviews. I’m not feeling the new stuff right now, but there’s a lot of older sets I haven’t done yet. The Tarkir block is next - and in fact, I think that will be the next post on this blog. I think it’s time we started appreciating Monastery Swiftspear for more than her brutal efficiency in aggro decks, because frankly she’s a snack and this should be acknowledged.

Anyway, thank you all for reading, hit me up if you wanna play some Commander, and I’ll see y’all in the next one!

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Review: Justice Society of America #2 [Editor's Note: This review may contain spoilers] Writer: Geoff Johns Art: Mikel Janin, Jerry Ordway, and Scott Kolins Colors: Jordie Bellaire and John Kalisz Letters: Rob Leigh   Reviewed by: Matthew B. Lloyd   Summary The mystery deepens for Helena Wayne as she meets the Justice Society in 1940.  Dr. Fate tries to "share" her memories with the rest of the team, but things go haywire! Positives With The New Golden Age #1 and Stargirl: The Lost Children, Geoff Johns and DC Comics have begun reinvigorating their Golden Age legacy characters.  In the Silver and Bronze Ages, these characters lived on a separate parallel earth known as Earth-Two.  With Justice Society of America #2, despite taking place on the main DC Earth and ostensibly "in continuity," it genuinely feels like the creative team is carving out its own corner of the DC Universe that feels like a separate timeline.  In Stargirl: The Lost Children, Emiko Queen and Oliver Queen are part of current continuity, yet Oliver's time in the past as the Golden Age Green Arrow is such a different feeling character from the traditional Earth-One Green Arrow.  Likewise, Helena Wayne in the Justice Society of America is a character that channels not only her own pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, but brings her dad (yes, main continuity, Prime Earth) Bruce Wayne along for the ride.    As she wakes up  in an infirmary at the beginning of Justice Society of America #2, having arrived in 1940 at the end of last issue, she thinks she hears her father's voice.  It's a small thing, but a detail that connects the ideas in a meta way.  Readers know that Batman was originally part of the JSA, but his history doesn't show that after all the reboots.  It's how Johns is able to connect the past with the present in a way that acknowledges the characters histories.  Sliding Helena's timeline forward is the same sort of thing.   Positives Cont'd These elements point to great world building.  It's honestly ok if it doesn't feel like the main DC Universe.  That's what was always special about Earth-Two and the JSA- it didn't feel like the main DCU.  They could co-exist and here we have it again in a new way.  It helps that most of the characters are different, but more so in this case it's the fact that we are getting elements of the past woven into the present continuity .  This makes new characters like Judy Garrick and Salem, the Witch Girl who we see more of in this issue more likable and feel more appropriate.  Like issue #1, there are other glimpses of events at the end of the issue that readers may remember.  Alan Scott in his Sentinel days is seen 8 years ago, 13 years ago, Selina Kyle stepped out on a balcony in her Catwoman garb for the first time and Khalid Nassour gained the helmet of Fate just a year in the past.   Mikel Janin, Jerry Ordway and Scott Kolins combine on art again, each providing wonderful visuals for a distinct part of this time travel story.  Jerry Ordway's work always recalls the Earth-Two stories of the '80's in All-Star Squadron and Infinity, Inc.  Besides being a fantastic comic book artist, this adds another nostalgic element to the series that is greatly appreciated. Per Degaton is finally revealed and named in full as Selina Kyle Wayne plays an important role in the story.  The plot is developing nicely, but it is moving at a measured pace in order to provide space for the character development and world building that is so critical to a comic like this.  This isn't "villain of the month," and it shouldn't read like it. Negatives The real question here is will this series based on so much history bring in new readers? Verdict The world building continues as Johns, Janin, Ordway and Kolins deliver another great issue of this new series.  The details bring out so much in the story as the nostalgia anchors the new elements.  This book looks great, it's fun and by having Helena on a journey of discovery, it allows readers to see things through

her eyes.  So if you don't know what's going on, neither does she and even a new reader can discover this corner of the DC Universe with her.   Score: 4.5/5  

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 329 – Gotham Knights

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The Earth Station DCU Episode 329 – Gotham Knights

This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs review the Gotham Knights Premiere. The Manhunter continues to hunt the Green Team, while Starman and Warlord attempt their plan to resurrect Good Lucks. Orion uses his galactic GPS to find Earth in Danger Street #4. A Justice League mission causes Superman to become lost in time taking him twenty years to come home in Superman: Lost #1. Selina completes her mission to break into the Batcave, but Harvey follows her with an army in Catwoman: Lonely City #3. Huntress travels back into the past in search of Dr. Fate to help her stop Degaton from killing her JSA in the future in Justice Society of America #3. Stephanie and Cass take on the Mad Matter when they are invited to a tea party in Batgirls #16. Diana goes to Olympus to make peace with Hera in Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #1. All this plus, DC News, DC TV, Shout Outs, and much, much more!

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Table of Contents

0:00:00 Show Open

0:01:15 DC News

0:20:28 Danger Street #4

0:27:50 Superman: Lost #1

0:33:56 Catwoman: Lonely City #3

0:42:13 Justice Society of America #3

0:47:02 Batgirls #16

0:57:08 Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #1

1:06:05 The Flash S9 Ep7 – Wildest Dreams

1:17:20 Superman & Lois S3 Ep2 – Uncontrollable Forces

1:29:48 Gotham Knights S1 Ep1 – Pilot

1:47:04 Show Close

Links

Danger Street #4

Superman: Lost #1

Catwoman: Lonely City #3

Justice Society of America #3

Batgirls #16

Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods #1

Batman Family (1975-1978) #6 (Cletus’s Read More Comics Pick)

Earth Station One Tales of the Station

Earth Station One Tales of the Station Vol. 2

The Chameleon Chronicles: Colors of Fate

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Lit Review/Discussion Prep #9

In this week's readings, we are learning how historians can bring community engagement through their work with historic preservation. As historians, we need to safeguard all histories of an area so that people can see how the community transformed into the community that lives there now. Supporting the community you are working with helps create the need to preserve their community's history so that they are remembered and have their voices lost to future generations. While historians maintain the record of history, we can use the record to lift voices that were oppressed during their time, and we can provide them a space where their history can speak to future generations so that they can understand the growth of their local community and how that fits in the broader aspects of history.

In Chapter 12, Civic Engagement and Social Justice historians and Activists, of the book Public History  Caunvin writes about the prominent roles that historians have to take to show a history of an area.1 He writes that Activist historians argue that we as historians can use history and our historical understanding to help groups that did not have a voice in their community during the time.2 Still, now they can have their voice back in the story of their local community and their impact there during their time.3 Public historians can take up this role in the community to help raise different groups to get involved and continue their group's history in their community.4 One group that he talks about in this chapter is Native Populations and how they are placed into the backdrop of the history of America and the focus on the beginning of how the United States of America was formed and anything before is forgotten about.5 He writes that historians from all forms should come together with cultural institutions to empower native people, tell and explain their history in the Americas, and show the history of the Native Americas and how they shaped and adopted their culture to survive in modern America.7 Native Americans are one of many groups in America that have historians, and their community needs to come together to show their history to the world.

Another group of people that Caunvin writes about is Migrants and how migrants fit their voice in the historical narrative of America.8 Because Migrants that come to America have trouble representing their voice in America's history because of misunderstandings and stereotypes that impact the community's voice.9 Also, Public Historians and traditional historians can show the history of Slavery and the impact of Jim Crow laws that hinder the African American people in America from creating a better life for themselves.10 Public History can help inform the people of these events that shapes these groups to fit in the society of their local community and national society over generations.

In the book Beyond Preservation Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities, Andrew Hurley writes about how historians can reshape inner cities by giving their communities a place to remember their history.11 He shows this in chapter 4, titled, History that Matters Integrating Research and Neighborhood Planning, and writes about how historians can help inner city communities to create an area to maintain their history through the buildings and shops that help show the culture of a space.12 He continues to write about how city locals can regain the power of redesigning their community to benefit them and persevere as much of their history as they want so that the world can see their community and culture that lives there and makes their city unique.13 An example of this happening is the CDC working with community leaders and historic businesses that the community uses to help maintain a safe environment for their history to counter in the city.14 Overall, this chapter shows how local people and historians can collaborate to create a space where their history is shown the way they want it to be shown. 

These two readings are impactful to me with working with Dr.French on the Eatonville project that helps the people of Eatonville show their history in their community and how they show their history with different buildings and sites like the Hungerford High School that was used as a school and a community center for the locals in Eatonville. We can work with them to show the school's history and how the community works with the school for different local events that create a history that they want to show the world about their community.

Footnotes:

1. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 230

2. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 231

3. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 232

4. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016.233. 233

5. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 233

6. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 233

7. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 233

8. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 234

9. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016. 235

10. Cauvin, Thomas. Public History : a Textbook of Practice. New York ;: Routledge, 2016.236

11. Andrew Hurley. 2010. Beyond Preservation : Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 94

12. Andrew Hurley. 2010. Beyond Preservation : Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 95

13. Andrew Hurley. 2010. Beyond Preservation : Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 96

14. Andrew Hurley. 2010. Beyond Preservation : Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 97

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JSA #2 Review

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Writer: Jeff Lemire Art: Diego Olortegui, Luis Guerrero, and Steve Wands Publisher: DC Comics Price:$4.99 Reviewed by: Anonymous Release Date: December 4th, 2024 Flash back to the events leading into the previous issue as the JSA investigates a break-in at the observatory of Ted Knight, the original Starman.  How was the JSA separated, and where is the Tower of Fate? What caused the rift between…

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Dear Ex-General Erich H. Holder sir-

First, I would like to share this with you because you do not have time to review my works. Second, the United States of America may read my whole text if the Government of the United States of America ought to bless happiness to all of the American citizens and the worldwide human beings. When my whole text of experiences was represented by the lowest class of the worldwide, so I could not compose any quotes which. I would like to talk up the proxy war of the United States in the Republic of Vietnam. Because America has solemnly donated a valued gift of war to the Vietnamese people and the excellent Southern Officers, we have loyally been serviced for their Second mother of American war” America”. As you remembered US Attorney General Robert Kennedy when he came to Saigon in Vietnam, in 1963, he had declared and said, " The Republic of Vietnam must win communism,” but Attorney General Robert Kennedy had no had orders to sell off the Republic of Vietnam to communism as like Kissinger was self-confessed and said, " Vietnam failures we did to ourselves." I would like to ask you. How would you think about American law, the United States Treaties, the International Agreements, and the protocols of international relations between America and the Republic of Vietnam?

Especially, the base on the Vietnam War has taught Bright Quang when I have been accumulating for the quintessence of the greatest power of the America to collect some of the good, the true, and beautiful of the America. If the proxy war of the United States did not take place in the Republic of Vietnam, Bright Quang, perhaps, lives in an underdeveloped country and peaceful land. For the reason I live in the modern and luxuriously American society because the American law has not had given any foreign citizens who petition the Government of the United States which is why your government has freely seized my nation when your American soldiers were freely destroyed all of things in South Vietnam, but your government did not compensate any pennies. Therefore, I came to the United States to petition for any injuries from your proxy war in the Republic of Vietnam. In fact, my study has been accumulated for this text to offer for you and the American community standards to enjoy to the lowest class of the worldwide when my bottom heart does not only talk out the best of American society but also I have exposed many worsen of the America policy in the Vietnam war if you or your party will have orders Federal Bureau Investigator that should be kill me because I have exposed all things of the Americanism to play trick on the Southern Officers, so, I am happily for death under the American sword because my suffered heart has had liberated by the defamation's service war of the America to attack my honest life of prisoner of war.

The Quotes of Bright Quang

1. Forgiveness buries the hatchet, but your injustice-power ought to compensate for victimizes.

2. Ethics of people ought to respect the good, the true, and the beautiful, which should be deleted for the barbarous hearts.

4. The justice of a super nation is symbolized by the constitution. If it does not perform perfectly, it is a puppet.

5. What does he somehow understand about the Rule of law or rule by the law of the Government of the United States of America because distorting justice is a national traitor?

6. Unmitigated punishment for offenders

7. Having many invading wars, the American leaderships have freely been enriching for the boundless.

8. The American law, the United States treaties, and the protocols of international relations with the Republic of Vietnam have not respected by the American Court system - the values of them have not respected as good as the certificates Marriages because the certificates marriages have valued for the child support by the American Court if the husband and wife were divorced each other, but the Republic of Vietnam was robbed to sell off to communism by America - so all of them the American law, the United States Treaties and the protocols of international relations are undervalued the same as a certification marriage.

9. The Republic of Vietnam was fallen by the proxy war of the United States of America, but the American law will not be bankrupted by the United States Constitution.

10. Justice struggles are better than the battlefield.

11. How does he exactly take cognizance about to super legalistic values of the United States Treaties and International Agreements of the United States of America and the Republic of Vietnam to have solemnly declared in the protocols international relations when the proxy war of America’s fighting against communism to take place in South Vietnam?

12. A beautiful face will fade by the time- an attractive body will be lost by age, but a sublime heart is long-lasting.

13. Reverse one's opinions of an arrogant government are not respectful for the objective truth that's often of super great power.

14. The education of a person looks like a sun, which spreads everywhere, furthermore, a guy is not educated like the lamp without oil.

15. The ethical conscience of the person looks like the upstream, which runs to the sea. If anyone is without having a morality that is like a well without having water.

16. “Bury the hatchet," but carry the pen.

17. You strongly beat a ball one, such it is self-reflection for one hundredfold.

18. The Constitution of super great power is strongly symbolized by favoritism, that a nation can't exist for the long run and lead the whole world.

19. The use of rule of law protects the democracy system that’s sublime constitution, but using rule by law is disguised by the rule of law, which is demagogic.

20. The erudition of Kissinger is limited, but the barbarous ambition of him is limitless.

21. The cornerstone of the constitution is sublime justice. If justice does equally not perform, there is nothing to say.

22. Whether the United States of America expresses exactly the righteousness, the human rights, the ethics, and the equality of the US Constitution, if not, the Justice of the arrogance of negligence of undisciplined-soldier of bankruptcy, and of the United States in the Vietnam War of prisoner of war for what’s means?

23. Super values of democracy, freedom, and justice are symbolized by the court, but justice is not enforced perfectly, justice is demagogic.

24. No mankind was born to receive unhappiness of the invading barbarous wars of the great powers without having benefits.

25. Justice is the cornerstone of the court system of justice for all. If justice distorted the constitution and the law, justice is super demagogic.

26. Good health, all things exist- The heath is not good, everything will be lost- The health of a person is lost, all dreams and properties are gone.

27. Rather eat lettuce leaves than make penny-a-liner.

28. The conscience of ethics of an honest person who is not ambitious for more women, for no thirst for money, and avoids political politics.

29. No parents of the human world were born for the children who served in the invaded wars of the great powers without having any benefits of the prisoners of war.

30. The pleasure of the human world of sexuality is not falling within a crime love, but sexuality ought to transfer to hand down the lineage to protect the nation.

31. The House of Representatives impeaches the right Presidents- When the House of Representatives violated its ruling, who ought to impeach the House of Representatives?

32. The small nations are under robbed by a great power-therefore, the American leaderships are freely enriched limitless by the human blood.

33. Impeached President Trump because he was related to Foreign to have interfered with America's general election. That's why the House of Representatives enacted the law to rob the Republic of Vietnam and sold off to communism but did not compensate any pennies to the war victims.

34. God Bless the United States of America which is why the Government of the United States of America has cruelly hastened the Republic of Vietnam by the proxy war of America.

35. Because the theory of conspirator could be dying the United States of America to be reddish the same as mainland China, let’s earn to enrich without had limitless

36. The ethical conscience of the American society was fallen down by its American citizen when a motherly love child has never existed in American society-

37. Love to the Southern policemen that were surely protecting the US Embassy in South Vietnam when the Vietnam War took place, but in the end, the Southern policemen were betrayed by their USA allies. Today national Iraq in which you must reap what you have sown.

38. He prays for President Abraham Lincoln who blesses for his Settlement case of prisoners of war to be equal.

39. The Vietnam War of the United States of America is a great class to teach human beings worldwide if they believe in the enforcement of the American law and Constitution.

40. The Republic of Vietnam was fallen by the proxy war of the United States, but the American law of the Vietnam War is not bankrupted by the United States Constitution.

41. We, the best citizens of the free world, should study International Law to struggle with dictatorships by our peaceful hearts.

42. A core of the heart of the greatest powers of the world invades the foreign nations, robs the foreign natural resources, and assassinates human beings when their demagogic laws fool humankind.

43. The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like powder adorn of women

44. Education looks like a master-key, which opens the treasure of human beings if someone is not educated; his or her life looks like a well without having water.

43. Robbers have not had governments; we do call them the sea robbers. Yet, the robbers have had super governments when we called them to be great nations.

44. You did not understand about the Vietnam War when you did not realize to Kissinger, he said,” Vietnam failures we did to ourselves and why do you tell South Vietnam to defeat oneself?” Therefore, he quotes,” The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like powder adorns of women.

45. Bright Quang, he prays for President Abraham Lincoln who blesses him when he highly respects the United States Congress has quoted, “No one and none of us is above the law." Bright Quang has petitioned for his settlement in the Vietnam War of the proxy war of the Government of the United States of America. Therefore, Bright Quang would respectfully like to adore and worship President Abraham Lincoln because he has quoted, “The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like a luxurious fruit tray."

45. Religions teach human beings to the beautiful, the true, and the good without having the fame, the money, and the power, but when one takes advantage of religions to make politics, the religions are to be the tools of the power.

46. The core of interests of the greatest powers of the world invade the small foreign nations, rob the foreign natural resources, and assassinate human beings when their demagogic laws fool humankind.

47. The quotes of Bright Quang are mightier than the atomic.

48. The ethical conscience of this man was lost by the inhuman-money when he lived in the modern American society, he had forgotten the love of the father, the love of the husband, and the love of a great American citizen. So the inhuman-money has buried all of his super-values in the dirty mud.

49. When we talk out, we do not re-take our voice-and therefore, we talk out when we would like to do perfectly.

50. Many great men remind us,

We can make our lives sublime.

When we depart, what will we leave behind?

It should be more than footprints in the sands of time.

60 Make honest citizens better than barbarous politicians.

61 Distort justices is a national traitor.

62 Capitalism will be bankrupted by distrust.

63 Justice is the great sublime that is the highest expressed dignity by the United States Constitution.

64 Perform Justice, which is peaceful, but anti-justice as demagogy

65 Justice is long-lasting, but power has a short life.

66 The Constitution is protection for all people, but it's not cheating for weak men.

67 Book is a master-key opening the humanity treasure.

68 The holy light of the heart symbolizes faithful love.

69 The grass-tree aims to the sun, so the human person must be moral truth.

70 If you always live with warlike men, you’ll have become a barbarous man.

71 The string of love is voluntary dedication to each other without compulsion.

72 A sublime life of a person is moral and of great quality.

73 The self struggle is seeking justice.

74 The happiness of humankind is not luxurious matters,

But human dignity is greater than everything in human life.

75 Our world will not have peace, because the blood and flesh fly always takes place. When the forgiveness is very low, the animosity is without limitlessness.

76 If the superior does not conduct himself properly. Its inferiors would make a riot.

77 Put into effect faithfully laws; society is peaceful.

78 The Justice of the powerful has never shared with the weak and the poor.

79 The loyal voices of weak people are patriotic.

80 The democracy of the powerful is not truthful.

81 There is no sublime justice by its distrust.

82 Rather see is better than hear.

83 Fight for a legal revolution so that our world is peaceful.

84 The holy light of the heart symbolizes faithful love.

85 The great hope of American society is individual character. Therefore, my life is not to be a brick, which lies under dirty mud. Instead, I see my life as a brick, which supports the building of American democracy.

86 All of the political parties of the world should be killed by their lies.

87 The super-government of a nation is robbery. It has more modern weapons when its honest people are unarmed.

88 Wisdom must be won by the power of injustice.

89 Circle of injustice-society:

Grandfather of racism is the slave

It gave birth to injustice

Father of injustice is inequality

It was born to injustice.

90 Does religion look like an excellent teacher who taught his students to be the good, the true and the beautiful?

91 We, the American people, can question ourselves. That is why our nation has not won any wars from decade 60 to up-to-date, but we still fall in love with the wars?

92 A good heart is of value more than the biggest skyscraper.

93 A small, stiff tree breaks more than a flexible one.

94 The morality treasure of a sublime leadership is lost by its inequality. Then their dignity will be faded by human history.

95 Enslave exists, so inequality increases up in our society.

96 War looks like a hole.

It buries many people.

All of them lack paddies,

Yet, the bombs crumble their bodies.

97 If you wished to be a sublime man, you should understand the rules of the society and three main paths are:

Happiness,

The Source of Life

And Sorrow. And with Noble five-fold are:

The Right Thoughtfulness,

The Right Love,

The Right forgiveness,

The Right Struggles

And the Right Independence,

98 The best of American citizens are paying full income taxes, voting for elections, and not violating any American laws, but the American courts prohibit sharing any American justices.

99 We communicate morality to our children. Our morality does not only make them happy but also builds their lives perfectly. So our morality is to be noble more than gold and money.

100 A pious child must adore parents, siblings, and relations. That child also respects teachers, adults, and laws.

101 His books communicate his ideologies to human beings. These look like rose-petals throwing down the Grand Canyon. His books are immortalized lamps of wise accumulation. He’ll wait for his offspring who will be hearing the echoes.

102 I only tremble from my poor intelligence, but never tremble from my poor life.

103 An honest book is valued more than a barbarous leader.

104 A good name is like the perfume of nature, so, a bad name of barbarous leadership will be insulted by his history.

105 I thought, ‘A person liked to brawl with everybody, so he lost the wisdom of life.’

106 A slight light shone at the end of the dark tunnel. So I do hope it'll shine on my path.

107 We are one's super enemy if we were a coward of friendships. We are courageous men; we will be the best friendship with each other.

108 Truth would only be understood. It’d not be described, and it could not be explained. That truth should only have stayed in the heart.

109 The choice of justice is rather than violence. That is the reason for sublime man of wisdom, so, the ones have dropped off justice, and they have had a tremendous shock in their wisdom.

110 Thoughts shows you that you've dreams to make an idea as you would have it be…And just because you wish them, you dream them as you see it.

111 Each individual has an own place to build a dream in the world, is important in some respect and whether she or he chooses to be so or not. Therefore, my money, ever since, is not the end of life, but my character is important more than the matters.

112 Duty of a child is first pious; the child respects its parents. He always obeys his parents as their experiences are more sublime than him.

113 A powerful government could never protect its people, but it must first protect its core interests of the essence of life.

114 Education is of understanding, and must be done correctly. If you had educated excellently but did poorly, you are not a human being.

115 The great end of my life is not money, but this is my knowledge.

116 A wonderful painting is a historical book of the present's civilization time,

117 Love is the birds. That laughs in the sky if a person has not loved –A car, broken down.

118 Those were rebellious ministers, generals, and heroes. The Justice Cause was lost people, homeland and justice.

119 Let me then be up and struggling For the Holy fire of human rights, shining with my heart for any fate If not to achieve, I must pursue.

120 If someone ruined his house, he’d not avenge him because he is of low intelligence.

121 He takes up his torch in the darkness when we travel the long road. His torch is not snuffed out by the wind. It burns bright in the rainstorm, his flame.

122 Americanism secretly unconditionally surrendered communism when it did not have any battlefield.

123 Human lives are: Unborn baby is suffering, birth is suffering, Aging is suffering, death is suffering, and pain, sorrow, lamentation, sadness, and distress are suffering. As we, the Vietnamese American prisoners of war, are unloved, which being attacked is suffering?

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  · Shared with PublicDear Ex-General Erich H. Holder sir-First, I would like to share this with you because you do not have time to review my works. Second, the United States of America may read my whole text if the Government of the United States of America ought to bless happiness to all of the American citizens and the worldwide human beings. When my whole text of experiences was represented by the lowest class of the worldwide, so I could not compose any quotes which. I would like to talk up the proxy war of the United States in the Republic of Vietnam. Because America has solemnly donated a valued gift of war to the Vietnamese people and the excellent Southern Officers, we have loyally been serviced for their Second mother of American war” America”. As you remembered US Attorney General Robert Kennedy when he came to Saigon in Vietnam, in 1963, he had declared and said, “ The Republic of Vietnam must win communism,” but Attorney General Robert Kennedy had no had orders to sell off the Republic of Vietnam to communism as like Kissinger was self-confessed and said, ” Vietnam failures we did to ourselves.“ I would like to ask you. How would you think about American law, the United States Treaties, the International Agreements, and the protocols of international relations between America and the Republic of Vietnam?Especially, the base on the Vietnam War has taught Bright Quang when I have been accumulating for the quintessence of the greatest power of the America to collect some of the good, the true, and beautiful of the America. If the proxy war of the United States did not take place in the Republic of Vietnam, Bright Quang, perhaps, lives in an underdeveloped country and peaceful land. For the reason I live in the modern and luxuriously American society because the American law has not had given any foreign citizens who petition the Government of the United States which is why your government has freely seized my nation when your American soldiers were freely destroyed all of things in South Vietnam, but your government did not compensate any pennies. Therefore, I came to the United States to petition for any injuries from your proxy war in the Republic of Vietnam. In fact, my study has been accumulated for this text to offer for you and the American community standards to enjoy to the lowest class of the worldwide when my bottom heart does not only talk out the best of American society but also I have exposed many worsen of the America policy in the Vietnam war if you or your party will have orders Federal Bureau Investigator that should be kill me because I have exposed all things of the Americanism to play trick on the Southern Officers, so, I am happily for death under the American sword because my suffered heart has had liberated by the defamation’s service war of the America to attack my honest life of prisoner of war.The Quotes of Bright Quang1. Forgiveness buries the hatchet, but your injustice-power ought to compensate for victimizes.2. Ethics of people ought to respect the good, the true, and the beautiful, which should be deleted for the barbarous hearts.3. All of the Southern Officers, politicians, and pundits, and the Republic of Vietnam were sold off to communism by America while the United States of America robbed the Republic of Vietnam by the puppet laws, the puppet United States Treaties, and the puppet protocols of International relations.4. The justice of a super nation is symbolized by the constitution. If it does not perform perfectly, it is a puppet.5. What does he somehow understand about the Rule of law or rule by the law of the Government of the United States of America because distorting justice is a national traitor?6. Unmitigated punishment for offenders7. Having many invading wars, the American leaderships have freely been enriching for the boundless.8. The American law, the United States treaties, and the protocols of international relations with the Republic of Vietnam have not respected by the American Court system - the values of them have not respected as good as the certificates Marriages because the certificates marriages have valued for the child support by the American Court if the husband and wife were divorced each other, but the Republic of Vietnam was robbed to sell off to communism by America - so all of them the American law, the United States Treaties and the protocols of international relations are undervalued the same as a certification marriage.9. The Republic of Vietnam was fallen by the proxy war of the United States of America, but the American law will not be bankrupted by the United States Constitution.10. Justice struggles are better than the battlefield.11. How does he exactly take cognizance about to super legalistic values of the United States Treaties and International Agreements of the United States of America and the Republic of Vietnam to have solemnly declared in the protocols international relations when the proxy war of America’s fighting against communism to take place in South Vietnam?12. A beautiful face will fade by the time- an attractive body will be lost by age, but a sublime heart is long-lasting.13. Reverse one’s opinions of an arrogant government are not respectful for the objective truth that’s often of super great power.14. The education of a person looks like a sun, which spreads everywhere, furthermore, a guy is not educated like the lamp without oil.15. The ethical conscience of the person looks like the upstream, which runs to the sea. If anyone is without having a morality that is like a well without having water.16. “Bury the hatchet,” but carry the pen.17. You strongly beat a ball one, such it is self-reflection for one hundredfold.18. The Constitution of super great power is strongly symbolized by favoritism, that a nation can’t exist for the long run and lead the whole world.19. The use of rule of law protects the democracy system that’s sublime constitution, but using rule by law is disguised by the rule of law, which is demagogic.20. The erudition of Kissinger is limited, but the barbarous ambition of him is limitless.21. The cornerstone of the constitution is sublime justice. If justice does equally not perform, there is nothing to say.22. Whether the United States of America expresses exactly the righteousness, the human rights, the ethics, and the equality of the US Constitution, if not, the Justice of the arrogance of negligence of undisciplined-soldier of bankruptcy, and of the United States in the Vietnam War of prisoner of war for what’s means?23. Super values of democracy, freedom, and justice are symbolized by the court, but justice is not enforced perfectly, justice is demagogic.24. No mankind was born to receive unhappiness of the invading barbarous wars of the great powers without having benefits.25. Justice is the cornerstone of the court system of justice for all. If justice distorted the constitution and the law, justice is super demagogic.26. Good health, all things exist- The heath is not good, everything will be lost- The health of a person is lost, all dreams and properties are gone.27. Rather eat lettuce leaves than make penny-a-liner.28. The conscience of ethics of an honest person who is not ambitious for more women, for no thirst for money, and avoids political politics.29. No parents of the human world were born for the children who served in the invaded wars of the great powers without having any benefits of the prisoners of war.30. The pleasure of the human world of sexuality is not falling within a crime love, but sexuality ought to transfer to hand down the lineage to protect the nation.31. The House of Representatives impeaches the right Presidents- When the House of Representatives violated its ruling, who ought to impeach the House of Representatives?32. The small nations are under robbed by a great power-therefore, the American leaderships are freely enriched limitless by the human blood.33. Impeached President Trump because he was related to Foreign to have interfered with America’s general election. That’s why the House of Representatives enacted the law to rob the Republic of Vietnam and sold off to communism but did not compensate any pennies to the war victims.34. God Bless the United States of America which is why the Government of the United States of America has cruelly hastened the Republic of Vietnam by the proxy war of America.35. Because the theory of conspirator could be dying the United States of America to be reddish the same as mainland China, let’s earn to enrich without had limitless36. The ethical conscience of the American society was fallen down by its American citizen when a motherly love child has never existed in American society-37. Love to the Southern policemen that were surely protecting the US Embassy in South Vietnam when the Vietnam War took place, but in the end, the Southern policemen were betrayed by their USA allies. Today national Iraq in which you must reap what you have sown.38. He prays for President Abraham Lincoln who blesses for his Settlement case of prisoners of war to be equal.39. The Vietnam War of the United States of America is a great class to teach human beings worldwide if they believe in the enforcement of the American law and Constitution.40. The Republic of Vietnam was fallen by the proxy war of the United States, but the American law of the Vietnam War is not bankrupted by the United States Constitution.41. We, the best citizens of the free world, should study International Law to struggle with dictatorships by our peaceful hearts.42. A core of the heart of the greatest powers of the world invades the foreign nations, robs the foreign natural resources, and assassinates human beings when their demagogic laws fool humankind.43. The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like powder adorn of women44. Education looks like a master-key, which opens the treasure of human beings if someone is not educated; his or her life looks like a well without having water.43. Robbers have not had governments; we do call them the sea robbers. Yet, the robbers have had super governments when we called them to be great nations.44. You did not understand about the Vietnam War when you did not realize to Kissinger, he said,” Vietnam failures we did to ourselves and why do you tell South Vietnam to defeat oneself?” Therefore, he quotes,” The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like powder adorns of women.45. Bright Quang, he prays for President Abraham Lincoln who blesses him when he highly respects the United States Congress has quoted, “No one and none of us is above the law.“ Bright Quang has petitioned for his settlement in the Vietnam War of the proxy war of the Government of the United States of America. Therefore, Bright Quang would respectfully like to adore and worship President Abraham Lincoln because he has quoted, “The justice of America is symbolized by atomic and modern weapons when the American law looks like a luxurious fruit tray."45. Religions teach human beings to the beautiful, the true, and the good without having the fame, the money, and the power, but when one takes advantage of religions to make politics, the religions are to be the tools of the power.46. The core of interests of the greatest powers of the world invade the small foreign nations, rob the foreign natural resources, and assassinate human beings when their demagogic laws fool humankind.47. The quotes of Bright Quang are mightier than the atomic.48. The ethical conscience of this man was lost by the inhuman-money when he lived in the modern American society, he had forgotten the love of the father, the love of the husband, and the love of a great American citizen. So the inhuman-money has buried all of his super-values in the dirty mud.49. When we talk out, we do not re-take our voice-and therefore, we talk out when we would like to do perfectly.50. Many great men remind us,We can make our lives sublime.When we depart, what will we leave behind?It should be more than footprints in the sands of time.60 Make honest citizens better than barbarous politicians.61 Distort justices is a national traitor.62 Capitalism will be bankrupted by distrust.63 Justice is the great sublime that is the highest expressed dignity by the United States Constitution.64 Perform Justice, which is peaceful, but anti-justice as demagogy65 Justice is long-lasting, but power has a short life.66 The Constitution is protection for all people, but it’s not cheating for weak men.67 Book is a master-key opening the humanity treasure.68 The holy light of the heart symbolizes faithful love.69 The grass-tree aims to the sun, so the human person must be moral truth.70 If you always live with warlike men, you’ll have become a barbarous man.71 The string of love is voluntary dedication to each other without compulsion.72 A sublime life of a person is moral and of great quality.73 The self struggle is seeking justice.74 The happiness of humankind is not luxurious matters,But human dignity is greater than everything in human life.75 Our world will not have peace, because the blood and flesh fly always takes place. When the forgiveness is very low, the animosity is without limitlessness.76 If the superior does not conduct himself properly. Its inferiors would make a riot.77 Put into effect faithfully laws; society is peaceful.78 The Justice of the powerful has never shared with the weak and the poor.79 The loyal voices of weak people are patriotic.80 The democracy of the powerful is not truthful.81 There is no sublime justice by its distrust.82 Rather see is better than hear.83 Fight for a legal revolution so that our world is peaceful.84 The holy light of the heart symbolizes faithful love.85 The great hope of American society is individual character. Therefore, my life is not to be a brick, which lies under dirty mud. Instead, I see my life as a brick, which supports the building of American democracy.86 All of the political parties of the world should be killed by their lies.87 The super-government of a nation is robbery. It has more modern weapons when its honest people are unarmed.88 Wisdom must be won by the power of injustice.89 Circle of injustice-society:Grandfather of racism is the slaveIt gave birth to injusticeFather of injustice is inequalityIt was born to injustice.90 Does religion look like an excellent teacher who taught his students to be the good, the true and the beautiful?91 We, the American people, can question ourselves. That is why our nation has not won any wars from decade 60 to up-to-date, but we still fall in love with the wars?92 A good heart is of value more than the biggest skyscraper.93 A small, stiff tree breaks more than a flexible one.94 The morality treasure of a sublime leadership is lost by its inequality. Then their dignity will be faded by human history.95 Enslave exists, so inequality increases up in our society.96 War looks like a hole.It buries many people.All of them lack paddies,Yet, the bombs crumble their bodies.97 If you wished to be a sublime man, you should understand the rules of the society and three main paths are:Happiness,The Source of LifeAnd Sorrow. And with Noble five-fold are:The Right Thoughtfulness,The Right Love,The Right forgiveness,The Right StrugglesAnd the Right Independence,98 The best of American citizens are paying full income taxes, voting for elections, and not violating any American laws, but the American courts prohibit sharing any American justices.99 We communicate morality to our children. Our morality does not only make them happy but also builds their lives perfectly. So our morality is to be noble more than gold and money.100 A pious child must adore parents, siblings, and relations. That child also respects teachers, adults, and laws.101 His books communicate his ideologies to human beings. These look like rose-petals throwing down the Grand Canyon. His books are immortalized lamps of wise accumulation. He’ll wait for his offspring who will be hearing the echoes.102 I only tremble from my poor intelligence, but never tremble from my poor life.103 An honest book is valued more than a barbarous leader.104 A good name is like the perfume of nature, so, a bad name of barbarous leadership will be insulted by his history.105 I thought, ‘A person liked to brawl with everybody, so he lost the wisdom of life.’106 A slight light shone at the end of the dark tunnel. So I do hope it’ll shine on my path.107 We are one’s super enemy if we were a coward of friendships. We are courageous men; we will be the best friendship with each other.108 Truth would only be understood. It’d not be described, and it could not be explained. That truth should only have stayed in the heart.109 The choice of justice is rather than violence. That is the reason for sublime man of wisdom, so, the ones have dropped off justice, and they have had a tremendous shock in their wisdom.110 Thoughts shows you that you’ve dreams to make an idea as you would have it be…And just because you wish them, you dream them as you see it.111 Each individual has an own place to build a dream in the world, is important in some respect and whether she or he chooses to be so or not. Therefore, my money, ever since, is not the end of life, but my character is important more than the matters.112 Duty of a child is first pious; the child respects its parents. He always obeys his parents as their experiences are more sublime than him.113 A powerful government could never protect its people, but it must first protect its core interests of the essence of life.114 Education is of understanding, and must be done correctly. If you had educated excellently but did poorly, you are not a human being.115 The great end of my life is not money, but this is my knowledge.116 A wonderful painting is a historical book of the present’s civilization time,117 Love is the birds. That laughs in the sky if a person has not loved –A car, broken down.118 Those were rebellious ministers, generals, and heroes. The Justice Cause was lost people, homeland and justice.119 Let me then be up and struggling For the Holy fire of human rights, shining with my heart for any fate If not to achieve, I must pursue.120 If someone ruined his house, he’d not avenge him because he is of low intelligence.121 He takes up his torch in the darkness when we travel the long road. His torch is not snuffed out by the wind. It burns bright in the rainstorm, his flame.122 Americanism secretly unconditionally surrendered communism when it did not have any battlefield.123 Human lives are: Unborn baby is suffering, birth is suffering, Aging is suffering, death is suffering, and pain, sorrow, lamentation, sadness, and distress are suffering. As we, the Vietnamese American prisoners of war, are unloved, which being attacked is suffering?298 viewsView 2 sharesAnswer needs attribution (Appeal)1 of 1 answerUpvote52Profile photo for Bright QuangAdd commentProfile photo for Bright QuangBright Quang · 4yBright Quang’s answer to Was Edith Piaf considered a collaborator after the war?ReplyProfile photo for Bright QuangBright Quang · FriBright Quang’s answer to Was Edith Piaf considered a collaborator after the war?ReplyProfile photo for Bright QuangBright Quang · FriBright Quang’s answer to Was Edith Piaf considered a collaborator after the war?ReplyProfile photo for Bright QuangBright Quang · Frihttps://qr.ae/T3VI3DReplyProfile photo for Bright Quang

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JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #195-197 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1981 BY GERRY CONWAY, GEORGE PEREZ, KEITH POLLARD, JOHN BEATTY AND ROMEO TANGHAL

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC WIKIA)

Ultra-Humanite, the archnemesis of the Earth-Two Superman, who has the ability to transfer his genius brain into different bodies, and who is now in the body of a mutated giant ape, recreates the Secret Society of Super-Villains. He recruits villains from both Earth-One and Earth-Two as members: Cheetah, Signalman, Floronic Man, and Killer Frost from Earth-One, and Monocle, Mist, Psycho-Pirate, Rag Doll, and Brainwave from Earth-Two.

His master plan is to remove ten particular super-heroes of the Justice League and Justice Society from the multiverse, defeating them and hurling them into limbo, thus upsetting the cosmic balance and causing all super-heroes to be eradicated from one of the two parallel worlds -- but which world is unknown.

Mist renews his battle against Black Canary (unaware that she is actually the daughter of the original Canary, whom he previously fought)[1], Monocle overcomes the Earth-Two Hawkman, and Cheetah takes her revenge on Wonder Woman.

The battles continue as Psycho-Pirate takes on Hourman in a solo battle [1]; Signalman attacks his nemesis, Batman; Rag Doll tackles the Earth-Two Flash; Floronic Man resumes his struggle against his original opponent, Atom; Brainwave selects Johnny Thunder as his victim: Killer Frost defeats Firestorm; and Ultra-Humanite vanquishes his nemesis, the Earth-Two Superman.

Banishing the ten defeated heroes to limbo does, as the Ultra-Humanite had planned, eliminate all super-heroes from one parallel Earth, Earth-Two. When the Earth-One villains (Killer Frost, Floronic Man, Cheetah, and Signalman) learn that their allies had known all along that it would be Earth-Two whose heroes would disappear, they turn against their leader, only to be banished back to Earth-One.

Killer Frost takes charge of the Earth-One villains and, overcoming Green Lantern and Elongated Man, they use the JLA Transmatter to reach limbo and free the imprisoned heroes, who defeat the villains. In the midst of running rampant across the face of Earth-Two, now without heroes, the remaining Secret Society members are summoned to an emergency meeting... only to discover that the meeting has been called by the heroes they had sent into limbo. Each taking on his or her previous antagonist, the Justice League and Justice Society champions defeat the villains and hurl them into their own teleportation device, sending them to limbo along with the Earth-One villains and restoring Earth-Two to normal.

REVIEW

This is what I would categorize as a superhero story. A Superhero group story. George Perez helps to make that into fruition of course, as the man was born to dram thousands to super-heroes on the page. So we establish that the art is fitting and very good, but what about the story?

Crisis stories before the actual crisis are pretty boring and dumb. But this one manages to at least not be boring. With the villains winning over the heroes in creative ways, and those taking pretty much two issues, you are either invested in the story or completely bored. It is amazing I wasn’t bored by it. It was actually entertaining.

But the main plot is a bit weak. The concept of removing 10 random super-heroes from both earths would change reality into removing all super-heroes from one of those earths is a long stretch. And in the end, all the super-villains involved were removed from both earths and that didn’t change reality at all. While this doesn’t work in the end, I think the narrative was way better than previous encounters and deserves extra points for that.

There is also a missed opportunity here. Heroes are still too morally strong, dating this story in the bronze age. The same story in the modern age would have them discussing whether they should use the machine to erase all villains from all the Earths. It’s amazing that no one tried that in future stories. (Probably because they threw them to limbo anyway and nothing happened).

On another note, that letter from Todd McFarlane... hope he changed his address since then.

I give this event a score of 9

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Thank You, RBG

We are heartbroken. Supreme Court Justice and gender equality hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, Sept. 18. Her death is a painful loss for our country. She was a fierce and unapologetic warrior for equality, and her achievements are endless. As we mourn we’re also embracing our gratitude for her service to our country.

Cherishing RBG’s Legacy

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg committed her life to protecting the rights, freedoms, and health of people across the country — in particular women, communities of color, and others whose voices too often go unheard. She was a true trailblazer who inspired millions of girls and women to fight through sexism and discrimination to make American a better place to work, to live, and to love. 

Her powerful words over the years, including her razor-sharp dissents, helped push our nation toward freedom and opportunity for all. Her spirit, values, and words will be deeply missed.

A Modern Revolutionary

Some revolutionaries shook up a society with anger burning and guns blazing. Others studied hard, knocked down an unfair system one peg at a time, and spoke truth to power while wearing a lace collar. That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

She got two mottoes from her mother, Celia Bader (who marched for women’s suffrage): 

“Be independent,” take care of yourself without being financially beholden to a man, and

“Be a lady,” don't allow emotions like anger to be so consuming they get in your way.

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw anything repugnant — like systemic discrimination — she would get straight to work. It wasn’t easy. Over decades, Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced a slew of indignities. But she harnessed courage and resolve to strategically break down America’s sexist, unethical laws and institutions. 

To honor the Notorious RBG, we’ve collected our seven favorite facts about her life and her legacy.

7) RBG was defiant in the face of entrenched sexism in college and law school.

Most colleges didn’t accept women in the 1950s, and Ruth Bader was one of the first to break the gender barrier. At Cornell University, she was sexually harassed by a professor, who offered answers to a test in exchange for sex. She confronted him: “I went to his office and I said, ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?’ And that was the end of that.” 

At Harvard Law School, she and the eight other women in her class of more than 500 students were ogled, ignored in the classroom, excluded from the library, and asked by the dean how they could possibly justify taking a seat away from a man. But that hostile environment didn’t stop her. 

She fought it with brain power and superhuman physical endurance. She was so obsessed with the law that she’d regularly stay up until dawn studying. Well into her 80s, she retained her reputation for working until 3 a.m. and living on just two hours of sleep. 

While she was kicking butt at the top of her classes, she was also taking care of her young daughter and sick husband. Martin (Marty) Ginsburg contracted testicular cancer and had extensive radiation therapy, which kept him from going to his own law school classes. So, RBG organized his friends to attend his classes, worked through their notes with Marty, and typed up Marty’s papers — all while doing her own schoolwork on top of it. 

She tied for first in her class from Columbia Law School in 1959. She also was the first person to become a member of both the prestigious Harvard Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review — one of many of her unprecedented feats. She proved to those elite schools that a woman could succeed.

6) RBG showed the world what a partnership looks like in a husband-wife relationship.

Ruth Bader met Marty Ginsburg while they were both at Cornell University, and they forged an equal partnership from the beginning. He learned to cook so she didn’t have to. Later, he lobbied for her seats on the Court of Appeals in D.C. and on the Supreme Court. And he gave up his law firm in New York to follow her to Washington — a shocking move at the time. 

Here’s how she put it at her 1993 Senate confirmation hearing:

“I surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams of equal citizenship alive. I have had the great good fortune to share life with a partner truly extraordinary for his generation. A man who believed at age 18 when we met that a woman’s work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man’s. I became a lawyer when women were not wanted by most members of the legal profession. I became a lawyer because Marty supported that choice unreservedly.”

5.) RBG won a whopping five cases before the Supreme Court — and they all advanced the Constitutional protection of equal rights for all Americans.

As smart and accomplished as Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, no law firm would hire her after she graduated from law school. Law firms slammed the door in her face time after time because they only hired men. She realized that “being a woman was an impediment.”

As Ginsburg navigated the legal working world in the 1960s, she saw how thousands of state and federal laws were treating women as second-class citizens. At that time, most states’ laws allowed employment termination for pregnancy, and let banks deny credit to women without a male co-signer. The Supreme Court had rejected every challenge to laws that treated women worse than men.

All this gender discrimination fueled Ginsburg’s drive for social justice. In the early 1970s, she followed the strategy of NAACP civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who helped dismantle Jim Crow laws case by case over many years — leading to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in schools in 1954. Like Marshall, Ginsburg centered her arguments on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says all persons should be treated equally under the law.

Throughout the ‘70s, Ginsburg led the ACLU’s Women's Rights Project, for which she argued and won five landmark gender equality cases before the Supreme Court. As she said in the 2018 documentary RBG: "I knew that I was speaking to men who didn't think there was such a thing as gender-based discrimination, and my job was to tell them it really exists.”

These cases set the foundation for the country’s laws against sex discrimination, and helped eliminate being male as the criteria for employment, pay, and benefits:

Two cases in 1975 and 1979 established the requirement that women serve on juries, recognizing that they should enjoy both the benefits and the responsibilities of our judicial system.

“The vaunted woman's privilege viewed against history's backdrop simply reflects and perpetuates a certain way of thinking about women. Women traditionally were deemed lesser citizens.”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Duren v. Missouri, 1979)

An employment benefits case in 1973 required the U.S. military to equally distribute family-based benefits for service members regardless of sex.

“In asking the Court to declare sex a suspect criterion, we urge a position forcibly stated in 1837 by Sara Grimke, noted abolitionist and advocate of equal rights for men and women. She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.'”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973)

Two cases in 1974 and 1975 threw out gender-based distinctions in survivors’ benefits, granting widowers the same benefits as widows. RBG argued that while giving widows special treatment sounded nice, it wasn’t. Withholding benefits to widowers devalued the work of their deceased wives.

“A gender line...helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing before the Supreme Court (Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 1975)

4) At her confirmation hearings, RBG openly declared that abortion access is a Constitutional right.

At her 1993 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed what it looks like to uphold constitutional rights. Unlike recent Supreme Court nominees, she affirmatively declared the Constitutional right to safe, legal abortion. When Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO) grilled her about her views on abortion, she declared:

“But you asked me about my thinking about equal protection versus individual autonomy, and my answer to you is it's both. This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when Government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”

3) RBG wrote the historic decision ruling that state-funded schools must admit women.

In 1996, Justice Ginsburg wrote the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, which ruled that the Virginia Military Institute’s men-only admission policy violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Justice Ginsburg destroyed the Institute’s argument that its program wasn’t suitable for women. Instead, she wrote that:

“[G]eneralizations about ‘the way women are,’ estimates of what is appropriate for most women, no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.”

The school has admitted women since then, and — as Justice Ginsburg predicted — they have made the school proud.

2) RBG’s dissent from the majority in Lilly Ledbetter’s case led to the passage a fair pay law.

In 2007, Justice Ginsburg dissented in the ruling against Lilly Ledbetter — a tire factory employee who learned, decades into her tenure, that she was being paid much less than men in the exact same supervisory role: She was making $3,727 per month, while her male counterparts were making between $4,286 and $5,236 per month. However, she lost the case because the Civil Rights Act had a statute of limitations for reporting on discrimination. 

In her scathing dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that gender discrimination can be hidden for a long time and “the ball is in Congress’s court” to change the rule. In 2009, Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which extended the Civil Rights Act’s statute of limitations and guarantees women equal pay for equal work.

1.) RBG put the smack down on TRAP laws in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. 

In the landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case in 2016, the Supreme Court — including Justice Ginsburg — ruled that two abortion restrictions in Texas were unconstitutional because they would shut down most clinics in the state and cause Texans an “undue burden” on access to safe, legal abortion. The case exposed the lie that anti-abortion politicians have been peddling for years: that it’s somehow “safer” when the state imposes medically unnecessary, onerous targeted restrictions against abortion providers (TRAP) laws. 

In her concurring opinion to the majority, Justice Ginsburg wrote:

“Given those realities [that keep abortion access out of reach], it is beyond rational belief that H.B. 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law ‘would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions’... When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners... at great risk to their health and safety.”

With this historic decision, the Court reaffirmed the constitutional right to access legal abortion. This decision was a triumph for abortion access. And when one of the restrictions that Ginsburg helped strike down came up in another lawsuit this year, Ginsburg again helped lead the Court to protecting abortion access in a major Supreme Court victory for reproductive rights.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose for all of us. How will we work together to rise for her?

From day one, Justice Ginsburg recognized our constitutional right to control our bodies and our destinies. That is a legacy that cannot and must not depart with her. 

Justice Ginsburg stood up for us. Now it’s our turn. 

Follow Planned Parenthood at facebook.com/PlannedParenthood and twitter.com/PPFA to stay updated on how to get involved. Together, we will rise. 

By Miriam at PPFA

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#4

ALITO, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH & CONEY BARRETT MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE SUPREME COURT.  They owe their positions to The Federalist Society but they are supposed to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

215 notes - Posted November 11, 2022

#3

I stumbled upon this & thought it was quite interesting.  There were stronger restrictions on guns in the “Old West” than the world we’re living in now.  The article even mentions that the understanding of the 2nd Amendment was nothing like what we’ve been dealing with since Scalia & the other RepubliKKKans on the Supreme Court made up their own interpretation.

221 notes - Posted May 26, 2022

#2

Johnson’s comments are the most batshit crazy yet.  Could he be suffering from brain damage?  Seriously just read this statement he made on Sept. 11th:

“ On Sunday Johnson suggested to Levin that liberals, Democrats, and anyone on “the left” as he put it, do not have an inherent right to participate in American life on an equal footing as Republicans.”

RON JOHNSON MUST BE DEFEATED & NEVER HOLD GOVERNMENT OFFICE EVER AGAIN.

236 notes - Posted September 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

THIS IS A MUST READ.  

RUTH BEN-GHIAT IS AN EXPERT ON AUTHORITARIANISM.  THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS FACING, WITH OR WITHOUT TRUMP.  RON DESANTIS IS ALREADY PREPARING TO REPLACE TRUMP & OVERTHROW AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY.  

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE & REBLOG IT.  OUR LIVES DEPEND UPON US BEING AWARE OF THE IMPENDING DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY.

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scandalous beauty: hazel scott - an analysis

“I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.” - Hazel Scott

The fact that this woman is forgotten is pathetic. She is the classy black lady from the ‘50s simultaneously playing two pianos that you now see on the internet. Alicia Keys would pay tribute to her as she hosted 2019 Grammys, and also performed on two pianos simultaneously while the crowd sat there in indifference. However, 60 years ago, this lady inspired anything but indifference. That lady, Hazel Scott, may have been Adam Clayton Powell’s wife but she was a bonafide star in her own right. Scott was a born improviser, driven to break the rules. A child prodigy, she was playing the piano by the age of 2 and by age 8, she was enrolled in Julliard, (where the admission age was officially 16). At 15, she performed with Count Basie and toured with her mother’s all-female orchestra. There was something thrilling and subversive in Scott’s hybrid art, and to the audiences and critics of the time, it seemed clearly rooted in her race and gender. Duke Ellington was a fan. Sinatra was too. In 1950, she became the first black woman to host her own television show. She played Carnegie Hall, was an outspoken civil rights advocate, and her hands were insured by Lloyds of London. With her poise, beauty and curvaceous physique, Hollywood came calling. Scott had it written in her Columbia Pictures contract that she would not play traditional subservient roles, and also demanded full control of her wardrobe. She also called out the virulent racism that went on in America. For that type of spunk and self-respect, she got blacklisted. She went to Europe and enjoyed a little of the fame she had, but changing times meant that her salad days were coming to an end. The erasure of Hazel Scott’s name from the jazz catalogue is appalling, and a damning indictment of how black artists were treated in ’50s America. Hopefully, in some small way with this analysis, I’ll be able to do justice to the great injustice done to her and make sure her name and accomplishments are remembered.

Hazel Scott, according to astrotheme, was a Gemini sun and Aries moon (the moon is speculative). She was born Hazel Dorothy Scott, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She was the only child of R. Thomas Scott, a West African scholar from Liverpool, England, and Alma Long Scott, a classically trained pianist, and music teacher. In 1924, the family moved from Trinidad to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York City. Her father soon left the family and her mother raised Hazel as a single parent. Her mother dreamed of musical stardom, but she recognized her daughter’s natural gift for playing the piano and moved her attentions from developing her own career to nurturing Hazel’s talent. Alma set her daughter up for an audition at the Juilliard School. Minimum entry age was 16, but Alma insisted they let Hazel audition. The young pianist marched in, and a virtuosic Rachmaninov Prelude flowed from her fingertips. One of the judges labelled her a ‘genius’, and she was granted a scholarship on the spot. Professor Paul Wagner accepted her as his own student. By the age of 16, Hazel Scott regularly performed for radio programs for the Mutual Broadcasting System, gaining a reputation as the "hot classicist", who mixed jazz and classical music. She became known for her skills in improvisation and ‘jazzing up the classics’ – playing Bach, Mozart and Liszt sped-up and syncopated. Soon, she started playing nightclubs, and she headlined at New York’s Café Society, the first proper nightclub in America. Café Society was one of first integrated clubs, and it featured the best talent of the day – from Miles Davis to Nat King Cole. Scott soloed at Carnegie Hall, and in 1940 – at just 20 years old – she released her debut album, Swinging the Classics, to rave reviews. She bcame a superstar overnight, and she she soon had a chauffeur and had her hands insured by Lloyds of London. By 1945, Scott was earning $75,000 (over $1m in today’s money) a year.

Aged 22, Hazel Scott made her debut in a New York musical. And Hollywood came calling. Until then, Afro-Caribbean actresses in Hollywood had nearly always been cast as prostitutes, slaves and maids. But Hazel had it written into her film contracts that she would not play any demeaning, subservient roles. In fact, she had it written that she would only play herself, Hazel Scott. Hollywood said yes. Hazel featured in five Hollywood films, notably I Dood It (1943), Broadway Rhythm (1944) and Rhapsody in Blue (1945) and would become one of the highest paid African American entertainers in the country. She was also the first person of African descent to have their own television show in America, The Hazel Scott Show, which premiered on the DuMont Television Network on July 3, 1950. Soon her personal life would heat up as well. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was a Baptist minister, and New York City’s first black councilman – and he was already married. But he and Scott hit it off like a shot, and they began a secret affair. Powell divorced his wife, and married Hazel five days later. Their marriage was controversial; their fame astronomical. Everyone was fascinated with the couple, and photographers followed them everywhere. In the late ‘40s and 50s, Powell and Scott were one of the most famous black couples in America. The couple became parents to their only son, Adam Clayton Powell III. In Powell’s eyes, Scott was now a mother, and he requested she stop performing in nightclubs. While he was away in Washington on business, she performed concert dates across the US. In, 1950 right-wing journal Red Channels put out a list of actors, musicians and others in entertainment industry suspected of being Communist sympathizers. Fearful, Hazel volunteered to testify before the House Un-American Activities. She denied being a communist, but strongly criticized the blacklisting process in a blistering speech. Hazel’s speech made the headlines. Her television variety program, The Hazel Scott Show, was cancelled a week after Scott appeared before HUAC. Her concert bookings took a nosedive. Around the same time, Scott’s marriage to Powell was falling apart. Scott suffered a nervous breakdown in 1951.

In 1957, Hazel fled America and moved to Paris with her son, and she and her husband divorced. He later married his secretary. She had a second wind in Europe, where Hazel’s music was popular again.In 1963 she marched with other African American expatriates – including James Baldwin – to the US Embassy in Paris to protest racial injustice and support Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington (where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech). In 1967, Hazel decided to return to America and settle. By this time, the Civil Rights Movement had led to new legislation ending racial segregation and protecting black citizens. Scott went back to playing in New York nightclubs. But by then, rock n’ roll was the new jazz, and jazz artists in the US were struggling. In 1981, Hazel Scott died of cancer. She was 61 years old.

Next, I’ll focus on another classical actor you never head of. He was arguably the first major black star of the stage: Leo Ira Aldridge.

Stats

birthdate: June 11, 1920*

*note*: due to the absence of a birth time, this analysis will be even more speculative

major planets:

Sun: Gemini

Moon: Aries

Rising: unknown

Mercury: Cancer

Venus: Gemini

Mars: Libra

Midheaven: unknown

Jupiter: Leo

Saturn: Virgo

Uranus: Pisces

Neptune: Leo

Pluto: Cancer

Overall personality snapshot: There was something of the racing champion in her. She had speed, flair and a self-assertive pugnacity which is constantly jockeying for position. In her, nerves and adrenaline combined or conflicted. When she combined her intense willpower and convictions with her strong communicative ability and intelligent curiosity, she could become a great persuader and salesperson with a touch of poetry and a clear, inspired vision. Indeed she was a purposeful, ambitious intellectual. She expected to have her own way and was a natural leader and spokesperson in her chosen field. Her quick, intuitive mind leaped to conclusions and always had a plausible reason for her every impulsive utterance and action. Indeed she was a whiz with words, wit, satire and pointed jokes, and could be a veritable escape-artist and rationalizer when it came to talking her way out of situations and arguing that black is white. She liked to travel, to be up-to-the-minute, on the move and on her toes. Twenty-four-hour rolling news and current-affairs programs were dreamed up for and by the likes of her. With her quick intelligence and enthusiasm she made a vivid speaker and inspiring teacher, though she got impatient with those less nimble-witted than herself. She had the gifts of a formidable lawyer, a natural writer, broadcaster, politician or debater. In short, this is an ideal combination for any job where you have to think on your feet.

Nonetheless she was probably at her best when she developed an area of expertise in which was an authority, for she needed to be her own person, to be able to say what she thought and not pull her punches. Her eternal youth, explosive energy and exuberance was the envy of many. When it came to putting over her ideas on something in which she believed, her power-assisted words hit the world like sustained gunfire. Yet for all her quickness, curiosity and with-it, streetwise dexterity, she had about her a certain naive, bright freshness and spontaneity, which no amount of negative experience could dull. She said what you saw, heard and thought, though seldom what she felt, for feelings were not your strong suit. Although she ‘felt strongly’, even passionately, about things, she did not empathize well with other people. She considered their problems and pains to be something they needed to sort out themselves, unless she happened to share their problems, in which case she soon mounted a one-woman crusade with the assistance of her clear, incisive wit, passionate rhetoric and scathing indignation. Her forthright, pugnacious approach and strongly held views made her a formidable adversary but can also make her, to her indignant surprise, some bitter enemies. Yet at the end of the day she could shrug this off with a witticism, for often humour and a good belly laugh were her best medicine.

She had a very good memory and found it easy to learn subjects that interested her. She was very kind and thoughtful towards others. Her imagination was very keen, but if it got carried away, she may have experienced irrational fears. Even though she may have tried to maintain a scientific and objective outlook, her mind was actually dominated by her emotions. She was very perceptive, intuitive and compassionate. If she felt threatened or challenged, she tended to withdraw and say little. However, if she was further provoked, she had plenty to say. She had a boost of self-confidence and faith in herself and what she could accomplish. She used every opportunity she could to show others what she could do. Because she was eager and creative in exploiting her potential, her development and progress was reasonably fast compared to others. Luxury and pleasure attracted her, as did all forms of pomp and ceremony. She could be autocratic at times, but she possessed a genuine desire to please others. One thing that turned her off was when people lacked the strength to stand their ground when they were in the right. She expected a lot from those who are close to her, but she gave a lot too if she felt they were loyal. Emotionally, she was quite serious, and her close relationships may lack some warmth and humour. This can be partly attributed to the fact that she felt a strongly developed sense of responsibility and duty in everything she did. She found herself drawn to people who were responsible and self-sufficient, although she liked to believe that they depended on him for stability and security. She held high standards and had a tendency to be critical, which meant that she could act act quite severely towards subordinates. Her standards may have been so high that nothing ever seemed good enough, leaving her dissatisfied with both herself and life in general.

She belonged to a generation gifted with original and unusual artistic talents, highly imaginative, secretive and visionary. She personified the Piscean Uranus generation in the sense that she felt uncomfortable facing reality, finding the world a difficult place to survive in. She relied on negative escapism as a preferred way of escaping the harsh reality of the world around her. The unknown and the taboo appealed to her, because she wanted to have the freedom to explore and think for herself. She was part of a very artistically talented and creative generation that wanted to escape from the demands of the world around them into a world of excitement and glamour. Members of this generation love the theater and the cinema, in fact, any sort of creative self-expression. They also believed in the rights of any individual to express themselves. This generation was both idealistic and romantic, selfish and individualistic. Scott embodied all of these Leo Neptunian ideals. Also, as a member of the Leo Neptune generation, she experienced and fully embraced changes in sexual mores and attitudes, changing the way people approach the whole issue of romantic relationships. Changes were also experienced in the relationships between parents and children, with the ties becoming looser. Scott was part of a generation known for its devastating social upheavals concerning home and family. The whole general pattern of family life experienced enormous changes and upheavals; as a Cancer Plutonian, this aspect is highlighted with Scott’s father leaving the family.

Love/sex life: She was forever choosing between her idealism and her curiosity, between her dreams of a perfect relationship and the tantalizing prospect of a new experience. At heart she was an exceedingly loyal lover who would do anything to make her partner happy but she also had a weakness for expediency in her sex life and she had a highly developed sense of fun. So, though no one could fault her intentions, she was not likely to be known for her consistency. Of course, this lack of consistency wasn’t always a bad thing. There was a playfulness about her approach to sex and an elasticity that kept even long-standing relationships fresh and lively. She was the lover who knew how to love meaningfully and still not take it all too seriously and she had an absolute confidence in the power of love that was contagious. So what if her flirtatious nature sometimes got the better of her. The intellectual sparkle she brought to lovemaking is worth a lot of forgiveness. 

minor asteroids and points:

North Node: Capricorn

Lilith: Scorpio

Her North Node in Capricorn dictated that she needed to develop the more caring and compassionate side to his personality and try to place less emphasis on the materialistic aspects of his life. Her Lilith in Scorpio meant that she liked life intense and was judged for her sexuality and general vibe and learned early on how to deflect moral judgments. She may have been tried in the court of public opinion but no way was she going to show up for the sentencing. She seduced and conquered on a daily basis. She was fearless as a musician and otherwise.

elemental dominance:

fire

air

She was dynamic and passionate, with strong leadership ability. She generated enormous warmth and vibrancy. She was exciting to be around, because she was genuinely enthusiastic and usually friendly. However, she could either be harnessed into helpful energy or flame up and cause destruction. Ultimately, she chose the latter. Confident and opinionated, she was fond of declarative statements such as “I will do this” or “It’s this way.” When out of control—usually because she was bored, or hadn’t been acknowledged—she was bossy, demanding, and even tyrannical. But at her best, her confidence and vision inspired others to conquer new territory in the world, in society, and in themselves. She was communicative, quick and mentally agile, and she liked to stir things up. She was likely a havoc-seeker on some level. She was oriented more toward thinking than feeling. She carried information and the seeds of ideas. Out of balance, she lived in her head and could be insensitive to the feelings of others. But at her best, she helped others form connections in all spheres of their daily lives.    

modality dominance:

cardinal

She was happiest when she was doing anything new (in her case, it was beginning new partnerships), and she loved to begin new ventures. She enjoyed the challenge of claiming territory. She tended to be an initiator—and a bit territorial as well. Also, she had a tendency to start more things than she could possibly finish.

planet dominants:

Mercury

Neptune

Moon

She was intelligent, mentally quick, and had excellent verbal acuity. She dealt in terms of logic and reasoning. It was likely that she was left-brained. She was restless, craved movement, newness, and the bright hope of undiscovered terrains. She was of a contemplative nature, particularly receptive to ambiances, places, and people. She gladly cultivated the art of letting go, and allowed the natural unfolding of events to construct her world. She followed her inspirations, for better or for worse. She was defined by her inner world; by her emotional reactions to situations, how emotions flowed through her, motivating and compelling her—or limiting her and holding her back. She held great capacity to become a part of the whole rather than attempting to master the parts. She wanted to become whatever it is that she sought.

sign dominants:

Gemini

Cancer

Aries

She ventured out to see what else was there and seized upon new ideas that expanded her community. Her innate curiosity kept her on the move. She used her rational, intellectual mind to explore and understand her personal world. She needed to answer the single burning question in her mind: why? This applied to most facets of her life, from the personal to the impersonal. This need to know sent her off to foreign countries, where her need to explore other cultures and traditions ranked high. She was changeable and often moody. This meant that she was often at odds with herself—the mind demanding one thing, the heart demanding the opposite. To someone else, this internal conflict often manifested as two very different people. At first meeting, she seemed enigmatic, elusive. She needed roots, a place or even a state of mind that he could call her own. She needed a safe harbor, a refuge in which to retreat for solitude. She was generally gentle and kind, unless he was hurt. Then she could become vindictive and sharp-spoken. She was affectionate, passionate, and even possessive at times. She was intuitive and was perhaps even psychic. Experience flowed through her emotionally. She was often moody and always changeable; her interests and social circles shifted constantly. She was emotion distilled into its purest form. She was a physically oriented individual who took pride in her body. She was bold, courageous, and resourceful. She always seemed to know what she believed, what she wanted from life, and where she was going. She could be dynamic and aggressive (sometimes, to a fault) in pursuing her goals—whatever they might be. Could be argumentative, lacked tact, and had a bad temper. On the other hand, her anger rarely lasted long, and she could be warm and loving with those she cared about.

Read more about her under the cut:

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, classical and jazz musician Hazel Scott became one of America's premier pianists of her time. Born on June 11, 1920, this child prodigy first started tickling the ivories at age 3 under the guidance of her mother. She moved with her family to the U.S. in 1924 where she started performing in New York City and receiving scholarships to study classical music at the Juilliard School of Music -- all of this by age 8. Her mentors in jazz technique were Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson. Topping her talents off with a warm singing voice to complement her glamorous presence, she was a club and radio star by the late 30s and performed with such notables as Count Basie. She gained some attention for her swinging versions of classical themes. Hazel appeared in the productions "Singing Out the News" and "Priorities of 1942" on Broadway and played twice at Carnegie Hall. As a sometime actress, Hazel became a noted specialty performer in musical motion pictures, including "Something to Shout About" (1943), "I Dood It" (1943) and "Broadway Rhythm" (1944) during the war-era while releasing dozens of albums during her prime. Her most famous hit was "Tico Tico" and her catchy boogie-woogie style proved quite popular during the 40s, while her versatility and ability to shift from jazz to classical to blues was incomparable. Hazel married the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., noted Congressman, preacher and editor in 1945. She became the first black woman to host her own television show in 1950 but, within months, the show was canceled. An outspoken personality all her life, she was subsequently accused of being a Communist sympathizer. She refused to perform in segregated theaters and became a vocal critic of both McCarthyism and racial injustice. Following her divorce from Powell, she lived in Paris where she performed and enjoyed racial freedom during the 1960s. Her return to the U.S. marked a second career on TV with guest parts on such shows as Julia (1968) and The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969) coming her way. Scott continued to perform in clubs until her death from cancer in 1981. (x)

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The Canonical History of SuperWonder

I love Diana and Clark together, but I found it oddly hard to track down a coherent list of when and how they were canon in the comics, so after consulting multiple lists that were each missing some iterations, I decided to make one myself.

This list turned out very long, because I included pictures of every SuperWonder kiss/one highlight moment from each run as well as brief reviews and warnings (deaths and triggers) to each, so here a TL;DR for those who only want the titles:

1974 - Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, #136 *

1981 - DC Presents, #32 *

1983 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 #300 *

1985 - Superman Annual #11: For the Man Who Has Everything **

1987 - Superman, Vol. 2 #05 **

1988 - Action Comics, Vol. 1 #600

1996 - Kingdom Come (4 issues)

1998 - Distant Fires (oneshot)

1999 - The Kingdom (2 issues)

1999 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 #140 & #141

2000 - Created Equal (2 issues)

2000 - Act of God (3 issues)

2001 - JLA: Riddle of the Beast (oneshot) **

2002 - The Dark Knight Strikes Again (3 issues)

2003 - Red Son (3 issues)

2004 - New Frontier (6 issues) **

2005 - All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder (10 issues) **

2009 - Thy Kingdom Come (18 issues from the Justice Society of America Vol 3) **

2012-2016 - New 52; Justice League + Superman/Wonder Woman

2013-2016 - Injustice: Gods Among Us (73 issues)

2013-2014 - Justice League Beyond 2.0 (24 issues) ****

2014 - Justice League: War (animated movie)

2015 - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (animated movie)

2016 - Justice League vs Teen Titans (animated movie)

2016 - Justice League: Action (animated show) **

2017-2018 - Injustice 2 (38 issues) **

2020 - Golden Child (oneshot) ***

* fake relationship or a magical dream sequence ** very brief (< one page/one episode) *** Clark/Diana are absent; their children are the main characters **** I can’t explain the caution for this one in one sentence, sorry

If you know any issue/run that feature SuperWonder and that is not listed here, drop me a title so I can read it and add it onto the list!

Now, more detailed recommendations and some pictures under the cut!

1974 - Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, #136

The first time Clark and Diana are dating in canon, though brace yourselves - it’s only a Fake Relationship Trope. A ploy to protect Lois from Clark’s obsessive stalker and they part again at the end of the issue.

Still, the comic gives us a brief date-scene, two SuperWonder kisses and the entire plot is told through Lois’ POV, who keeps narrating just how well Diana and Clark fit together. So while not a real relationship, it still gives a good first visual and narrative representation of what their relationship would be like.

Definitely recommended, especially as a starting point into this SuperWonder journey.

1981 - DC Presents, #32

Again, not a real relationship - this time, magic made them do it. The god Eros is rejected by Diana and, to punish her, makes her and Superman fall in love.

They try to fight it, but the pull is too strong at times, giving us (including the cover) three SuperWonder kisses, jealousy and tension. It’s a good one for visuals, but the fact that it was all due to magic and is resolved in the end, having them part and go back to Lois and Steve, puts a damper on things.

1983 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 #300

The first of three instances where it’s all just a dream. Oblivion holds Diana captive in her own mind, trapping her in various dream-scenarios where someone not Steve lands on Themyscira. Among them, a few pages long dream-sequence where Superman crashes onto the island.

Despite being a dream, it gives a wonderful pitch for a What If, showing how they could have fallen in love had Clark landed on the island. They even get married in the dream. Sadly, even in the dream, they break up before Diana wakes up. I still appreciate seeing this take on how they could have fallen in love though.

1987 - Superman Annual, Vol. 1  #11

The story For The Man Who Has Everything features Diana and Bruce (and Jason Todd) as they free Clark from a mind-prison, a plant that induces a dream of your heart’s greatest desire.

And while the story itself resists the “SuperWonder are canon in a dream”, Clark and Diana do kiss in the end, outside of the dream, back in the real world. Though instead of acknowledging what a splendid idea that is, DC is being strangely winkey about it by having them call their getting together “too predictable” and end it there.

Truly not a lot in here, but a SuperWonder kiss is a SuperWonder kiss, I suppose.

1987 - Superman, Vol. 2 #05

While the very brief scene itself is only a dream, this is simultaneously the first instance of actually making Clark’s feelings for Diana canon. This is not a magic-induced dream, it is fueled by Clark’s real, actual feelings for Diana that are blossoming. While I don’t consider it worth reading if you’re reading for the ship - since it is truly only the first few pages of the issue - it is still an important instance to note in the overall history of SuperWonder.

1988 - Action Comics, Vol. 1 #600

The natural way to celebrate fifty years of Superman; by having Clark and Diana kiss on the cover and them, for the first time in actual canon, admit their feelings to each other. They kiss, for real, with no ploy or dream or magic, and agree to go on a date.

The best first date for two heroes their size is, naturally, to save Olympus from Darkseid. The issue beautifully illustrates what a great team they make and also just how well they already know - within seconds recognizing when a doppelgänger takes the other’s place.

Sadly, in the end, they agree to just be friends, Clark claiming that he does not stand equal with the Gods and that Diana is thus out of his league and Diana needing more time to settle into man’s world. Despite that agreement, it is a wonderful issue showing just how well they work together and having them share their first canon kiss and go on their first actual date.

1996 - Kingdom Come

Earth-22 is the holy grail of SuperWonder. We will revisit this Earth’s timeline two more times in this post, but let’s kick it off with its first run.

Lois is dead and Clark mourns alone. Diana lures him out of retirement and Clark has to face a world he has failed. Though they edge on over the course of the story, they remain each other’s most important pillar through this upcoming war. And, when the dust settles after the fight, they find each other.

In a brief epilogue, the two meet with Bruce to tell him that they are expecting a child, marking the first instance of endgame SuperWonder getting a happy ending; neither of them dead and both starting a family together.

1998 - Distant Fires

Oh boy, do I have mixed feelings about this one. Listen, if you just stop reading at page 49, this is basically perfection. And I am in love with it.

The premise alone is an intriguing one; man-made catastrophe wipes out basically all life on Earth. Lois is dead, and so are Clark’s friends. He thinks he is the sole survivor of the apocalypse, before he finds Diana - and she shows him an entire village of survivors. All heroes have lost their powers in the apocalypse and they now have to adjust to this new reality. As they rebuild a society for themselves, Clark and Diana fall in love, get married and have a son, Bruce Kent.

Instead of exploring this intriguing premise of powerless superheroes rebuilding their own society after the apocalypse, the comic introduces a twisted Billy Batson who is obsessed with conquering the world - and conquering Diana. Ultimately deciding that if he can’t have her, no one can and so he kills Diana. As a rage filled Clark fights Billy to avenge Diana, the Earth literally comes apart and Clark barely manages to send their son away from the exploding Earth, mirroring his own origin stories.

Not only is it incredibly disgusting to see Diana die in such a manner - killed for such a motif - but also to see Billy, of all people, as the antagonist. Yet I’d still recommend it because it’s very intriguing. And if you stop reading at page 49, you get to pretend it has a happy end.

1999 - The Kingdom

Here we have a direct sequel to Kingdom Come. We revisit Earth-22 in time for the birth of their son, Jonathan Kent. But we only get a brief moment to be joyous before a villain comes crashing the party (read New Year’s Evil: Gog from 1998 as a prologue and villain origin story). He ends up kidnapping baby Jonathan and Clark, Diana and Bruce find themselves on a time-traveling adventure trying to get Jonathan back and defeat Gog.

The comic does have a happy ending for our heroes and they are reunited with their son - not just the infant-version though; it is revealed that Jon will grow up to become a hero like his parents and protect the multiverse under the alias Hyperman. Clark and Diana’s past selves, from a time before the triggering disaster from Kingdom Come, wonder if this adventure has changed their timeline too, or if Jon will be born (and, consequently, Diana and Clark will end up together) in their timeline too, to which Jon gives a cryptic answer.

Personally, I enjoyed this as a sequel quite a lot. It gave us a glimpse into their happiness, it teased that their son would grow up to be a hero and it gave a potential of a changed, alternate timeline where just maybe, the heroes of the past manage to avoid the great disaster... and still get their happy ending.

1999 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 #140 & #141

I do quite love this two-parter. The premise is a similar one as 1983′s Wonder Woman #300, where Diana is captured in a dream. She dreams of world peace, but it is not enough to keep her captive, because she is lonely.

So to keep her trapped, Oblivion also captures Clark and Bruce - who had come to rescue Diana - and traps all three in a shared dream-reality.

Prior to being captured, we get a look inside Bruce’s thoughts and see him worry if Clark’s romantic feelings for Diana will jeopardize this mission, seeing as there are no other Justice League members as “buffers” (quote), not only driving home that, yes, that Clark has real feelings for Diana, but also that Bruce knows this.

Inside the dream, Diana and Clark are in love and happy - unlike in #300 where their relationship within the dream comes apart. They get married with Bruce as their best man (and, though I try to limit the amount of images in this post, I can’t not include a SuperWonder wedding) and Diana finds out she is pregnant. But even the most beautiful of dreams has to end and while both Clark and Diana express how much they enjoy this dream, they confront the fact that it is not real and break out of it.

While the relationship itself only happens in a dream, Clark and Diana’s feelings are very real and so is their yearning. We end with a shot of Diana, accepting reality but being sad that it was just a dream. The story very beautifully shows the Amazon princess’ lonely status as Wonder Woman and it also shows the potential of Superman as her equal, it also serves to show that they both still have feelings for each other in their reality, while also giving a beautiful dream-sequence of what their life could be like.

2000 - Created Equal

I wasn’t fully sure whether or not to include this one. They’re not explicitely stated to be together, though Diana’s feelings for him are evident and it is heavily implied toward the end that the two of them will end up together. So see this as a warning of sorts. I would still count it, even without the expliciteness.

Now, to the story itself. Lois dies. Again, she does that a lot. Also all men aside from Clark and Lex die of an unknown plague. It’s a pretty interesting two-issue story, I think, though the approach is very... man-hating in how it’s executed. Lex becomes the king of incels and all men are implied to be inherently bad by nature, so if that’s not your cup of tea, maybe steer clear.

2000 - Act of God

This one comes with actual trigger warnings, because it includes themes of alcoholism, depression and nearly attempted suicide. It also comes with a hearty recommendation though.

Remember how, far up above, I complained that Distant Fires didn’t deal with the more interesting elements, such as the power-losses? This three-parter features a so-called “act of god” that caused all super-powered beings to lose their powers and then deals with what this would actually mean for them. Clark and Diana are not the vocal point of the story; the comic focuses on other heroes and how they cope with the loss too.

Lois divorces Clark, because she realizes she “loved the Super more than the Man”, when she can’t deal with Clark’s depression and self-pity anymore. He can’t deal with all of this on his own though and seeks out Diana, someone he feels will and can actually understand what he is going through. Though their relationship is bumpy and they break up in-between - Clark a heavy alcoholic and Diana suicidal - when they hit rockbottom, they find each other again and they pull themselves together again.

Despite Clark sobering up and picking up the pieces of his life again, including his work at the Daily Planet, he does not get back together with Lois; the two reconcile as friends and Clark and Diana get to raise their son together, presenting the second instance of SuperWonder endgame with a happy ending. It also teased the potential for a sequel, revealing their son to have powers.

2001 - Riddle of the Beast

I’m not entirely sure how to describe this. It’s like how I imagine it’d be if the Justice League sat down together and played D&D.

The story is a Lord of the Rings-esque high fantasy setting and all characters are... very far removed from what they are in canon while still echoing their canon selves in certain ways.

In it, Diana and Kal are king and queen of warring kingdoms. They were once engaged but the engagement came off. The main plot happens - it’s centered around Tim Drake and Zatanna mostly, who are on a quest to slay the Beast - and changes both Kal and Diana’s situations.

At the end of the battle, Kal and Diana are reunited and at the very end of the comic, agree to give each other a chance, romantically. Though their interactions are very brief and they are not explicitely shown as a couple, as a fair warning. But they do end up together.

2002 - The Dark Knight Strikes Again

Don’t read this comic. I just... I can not stress enough how much I recommend everyone to not even touch it. The Millerverse is atrocious, obnoxious and misogynistic enough as it is, but this one also comes with horrendously ugly art - and that’s not just in the sense of objective taste; there is no anatomy in this hastily scribbled-looking comic (just look at the proportions below; Clark’s thumb is as thick as Diana’s arm).

Sure, they’re technically canon in this universe, but... at what cost... Clark is a better sperm-bank, purely sexual and not a romantic partner or equal to Diana, who is honestly quite the bitch in this story. They’re a very small fraction of a very large, overall mess. The comic can’t even be recommended for the SuperWonder content, much less for the actual plot.

Here, I’ll spare you the time of going through it for SuperWonder and will provide you with their kiss, which is basically the peak of whatever is going on between them in this comic:

2003 - Red Son

While the premise of “what if Clark grew up in Russia and became an important pawn in the Cold War?” is incredibly intriguing... the execution is sloppy and whacky. Lex Luthor is the good guy and though Kal and Lois literally only exchange one glance once, the story still kind of acted as though there was some romantic will they wont they going on between them - just to reveal (and no, I am not making this up) that Kal is a direct descendant of Lex/Lois who was sent back in time when Earth exploded.

Diana is introduced as a potential match made between Stalin and Hippolyta, but the comic never actually pull through with them. Diana is canonically in love with Clark, but no only does Clark not return those feelings, he also remains oblivious to them, ultimately ending up ruining Diana’s life.

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend it, not just because of the onesidedness of SuperWonder, but also because... seriously, I can not stress enough just how weird not just the ship of Lex/Lois but the fact that Kal is their descendant was and how even more weird the tension between Lois and Kal was, under these circumstances. The whole comic is just... weird.

2004 - New Frontier

While the story itself is more or less entertaining, if you came solely for the SuperWonder, this is not the right comic. They have a total exchange of three pages over these six issues and it ends with them sharing a kiss... right before Diana nearly dies. She does survive, but even as they reunite, the kiss is not spoken of again and they are not romantically involved after.

2005 - All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder

More Millerverse. Still, can not stress enough how much I dislike this verse, but at least the art is pretty this time. But if you’re really only here for the SuperWonder, this is even less recommendable. They barely have one scene in this that lasts only if I remember right three pages or so.

And for the story itself? Again, it’s the Millerverse. It’s weird, and not in an entertaining way; in a disturbing way. So here, have the one obligatory SuperWonder kiss Miller put in there and move on to better comics:

2009 - Thy Kingdom Come

We’re back on Earth-22... more or less.. in this kind-of midquel to Kingdom Come. This one does require some explaining.

Clark is pulled out of his own reality and sucked into a parallel world, one where Clark Kent has died a while ago and where the Justice Society keeps the peace. An enemy appears who echoes Clark’s own past from his Earth.

But if you came here for the SuperWonder, you can safely skip this one - or at least skip to the final issue’s last five pages, where we are treated to a beautiful, art-style keeping redrawing of Clark and Diana’s getting together scene, as well as brief shots into what their future looks like, including a confirmation that Clark and Diana have four children in this reality.

Though that is really it when it comes to SuperWonder in this comic; it fully takes place on the parallel Earth and even there, Clark’s entire focus is on facing the ghosts of his past - in the form of Lois. He spares no thoughts to Diana or has real interactions with this world’s Diana; he grieves Lois and confronts her, his dynamic with Kara is also explored marginally. As a whole, I’d still recommend it though, because it’s very compelling; the storyline is interesting and well-executed, the characters involved are very compelling and the “man out of his world” plot presented an interesting angle on it all. Also, at the very least, it doesn’t undo anything about Kingdom Come, though it also doesn’t necessarily add much to it either.

2012-2016 - New 52

I have such mixed feelings and with this being the longest run of SuperWonder, there’s a lot to unpack.

For one, there is a lot of SuperWonder in here, which makes sense considering there is an aptly named Superman/Wonder Woman series in the New 52, which I definitely do have to recommend. But maybe stop early, if you aren’t into heartbreak, because Clark dies in the end. And he gets replaced by a Clark who comes with his wife Lois and son. They really just... replace Superman like you’d change a lightbulb, and I’m mad about that.

I do think that the SuperWonder relationship in New 52 is very beautiful. It highlights all their strengths and what makes them work. It also gives them some domestic moments and dates and really quite a lot of kisses and gentleness. If they hadn’t shit the bed with the ending, this could be such a beautiful, contained little SuperWonder universe.

The tricky part is knowing where to find it, outside the SM/WW run. Their relationship actually starts out in the Justice League run, in volume 2, and is also featured in volume 3. If you are only here for the SuperWonder, those are the only two times that their romantic relationship is really acknowledged in Justice League. So if by volume 3 the story is still not doing anything for you, I’d say stop reading there, because if if at that point, SuperWonder is still your driving force, you don’t really need to bother anymore.

Instinctively, you’d go to the separate Superman and Wonder Woman runs too. And you’d be wrong. The Superman run manages to, somehow, be C/ois bait, putting them very close, physically so too, and much in a “will they/won’t they” situation, which seems strange and uncalled for since Clark is with Diana from the get go and stays faithful with her and they quite literally have to kill this Clark off and replace him with a whole new Clark who is in love with Lois. Aside from that, Wonder Woman is an absolute mess and if you are invested in Greek mythology you too might feel personally offended by this as I did, and the Superman storyline wasn’t... the writing wasn’t after my taste, at one point I just started skipping through it for the SuperWonder tidbits.

And because the New 52 are horribly confusing to keep track of with the different series and how they interact, here is a short, chronological order in which SuperWonder are actually featured (for completion’s sake, all Justice League volumes not featuring SuperWonder are also listed but set in braces):

Justice League Vol. 1: Origin

Justice League Vol. 2: The Villain’s Journey

Justice League Vol. 3: Throne of Atlantis

(Justice League Vol. 4: The Grid)

Superman: Unchained

(Justice League: Trinity War)

(Justice League of America: Survivors of Evil)

(Forever Evil)

Young Romance

Superman Vol. 4: Psi War

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol.1: Power Couple

Superman Vol. 5: Under Fire

Superman: Doomed

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 2: War and Peace

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 3: Casualties of War

(Justice League Vol. 6: Injustice League)

Justice League: Power and Glory

(Justice League Vol. 7: Darkseid War Part 1)

(Justice League Vol. 7: Darkseid War Part 2)

(Superman Vol. 7: Before Truth)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 4: Dark Truth

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 5: A Savage End

Superman: Savage Dawn

The Final Days of Superman

If you don’t want to see him die slowly, don’t read the crossed-out issues. If you don’t mind the death, or just want to get to the SuperWonder bits in between, that’s how the story goes and Final Days is where it ends.

2013-2016 - Injustice: Gods Among Us

This is gonna be one of these more complicated reviews again, because there is actually relatively little SuperWonder in this (considering the length of the run), but even so I would wholeheartedly recommend it because I am deeply, madly in love with this universe.

It takes an alternate turn on Kingdom Come, in a way: If you came out of that, thinking “Damn, I wish Clark hadn’t retired to farm in isolation after Lois dies but instead had murdered the Joker” - you have come to the right place. Again, Lois dies. This time, Clark kills the Joker for it and decides “no more”. No more unnecessary death. And what... starts out as a good cause slowly, very slowly and gradually, slips. This is an incredibly well-written slowburn thought-experiment on a corrupted Superman who becomes a tyrant and dictator to the world and I absolutely adore it, seriously, it is so well-written, even when juggling so many sub-threads and characters, it really fleshes their stories and motivations out so well.

The SuperWonder is just a bonus. And a relatively small one, at that, hence the opening of this being a more complicated review. They’re heavily implied to be a couple, Diana definitely is in love with him, there is a beautiful though short dream-sequence where they are happy together. There’s SuperWonder continuously sprinkled in between the story, but well, it’s not the main focus, so if your goal in reading these is to only focus on the SuperWonder, this might be a disappointing read. (The above image is not from the dream sequence; the below one is though.)

2013-2014 - Justice League Beyond 2.0

I’ve tried to write the briefest of warnings in the summary, but this one is too complicated to break down in one sentence, so if the summary note confused you and you ended up here for a full-length dissection of what is going on, take a seat.

This story takes place in the Batman Beyond continuity. Clark is a vocal point of the new Justice League, with a young team. Together, they saved a young boy named Zod-Ur from the Phantom Zone and Clark basically decided to adopt the kid, help him find his footing as a Kryptonian on Earth.

It later turns out Zod-Ur is actually Clark/Diana’s biological son. Only not this Clark.

Diana from the Beyond reality left many years ago to a parallel Earth where Lord Superman and Lady Wonder Woman rule as evil dictators and she went there to fight them. Along the way, she fell in love with that other world’s Bruce Wayne. Other Bruce and other Diana die in the continuous war between Bruce/Diana and Clark/Diana in what might be the strangest ship-war-metaphor possible.

Beyond!Diana then agrees to get married to Lord Superman; a political alliance to bring peace to their people. But they hate each other.

And still, they decide to have a child together because... they want to project all their marital problems onto the kid, I guess. However, the Brainiacs from both their worlds work together to steal the child and hide it away in Beyond’s Phantom Zone, where the boy grew up to become Zod-Ur.

You... can see how this is a bit more complex than a one sentence break-down? A biological child of SuperWonder is one of the main characters (he is a delight and getting to know him is definitely worth the read to claim him in later... better... takes on SuperWonder, since we rarely ever see their children beyond the baby stage). And technically, SuperWonder are married, but... they’re not happy or in love or... even like each other.

Meanwhile, Beyond!Superman... doesn’t have his Lois either, this part confused me because usually Lois being dead means SuperWonder is endgame. But there don’t seem to be romantic feelings between the Beyond versions of Diana and Clark either, though they do... kind of... end up as co-parents to Zod-Ur, since the boy already took to Clark and Diana is here to stay and trying to rekindle her relationship to her son.

I would recommend it still, because I found Justice League Beyond quite engaging and I think it is worth it for Zod-Ur alone if you want to get to know the possibilities of a SuperWonder family more, but if you read it for the ship itself, don’t, because the ship’s not a happy place in this. (Below, Beyond!Clark with Zod-Ur.)

2014 - Justice League: War

This is actually what started all of this for me; my first introduction to SuperWonder. Unlike all prior to it, this is not a comic - it’s an animated movie. And Clark and Diana aren’t (yet) actually together. Though they heavily flirt during multiple instances and their voice-actors brilliantly deliver on the inrigue both characters feel toward each other.

This movie marks the first in a multiple-movies spanning shared universe that I’m personally very fond of; I enjoy the characters’ characterizations, the constellations and the animation, as well as the stories.

2015 - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis

The next movie in the shared universe. And it directly opens up with SuperWonder sharing a kiss over Athens. Over the course of the movie, they bond, go on an actual date and banter throughout.

Aside from being heavy on SuperWonder, the movie introduces Aquaman to the universe - and to this Justice League - and explores the dynamic among this JL lineup more thoroughly. Seriously, I recommend these movies.

2016 - Justice League vs Teen Titans

The third (and last) of the Justice League movies in this universe (though there are more movies set in this world). This time, the Justice League has to face Trigon - in a rather different way, as the demon takes them over and the Teen Titans need to save them.

We see Diana and Clark preparing for a date and later coming from said date, just before Clark is taken over. In the final battle, it is Clark who brings Diana back from her possession.

Now, while I do recommend this universe, from a SuperWonder point of view, I’d advise you to stop after this movie; it is followed by the first Superman solo movies (Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen) and the first Wonder Woman solo movie (Bloodlines), which... break SuperWonder up for... literally no given reason, just to have them in their usual endgame romances for their solo movies (also the final entry to this universe, Justice League Dark 2: Apokolips War, is simply an atrocity and a gorey mess). Still, that’s a total of 11 animated movies, even without those four. (Not that you can’t watch those four too, it’s just a well-meant warning, particularly if you don’t want to see Clark and Diana broken up for no reason whatsoever.)

2016 - Justice League: Action

This show SuperWonder baited me. It’s a cartoon series that, in theory, has SuperWonder as a canon ship in it, but... they’re only actively seen as a couple in one episode and mentioned in passing one more time. Not that I need a romance at the forefront of a cartoon series, but even for a background ship of two of the main characters, you’d expect it to come up casually more often, through small gestures shared or something.

The one (out of 52) episode that does focus on them is episode 12 Repulse!, where we see them on a date, having a good time, just to be interrrupted by a villain. There is a total of not one, not two, but three (3) interrupted kisses. Which is absolutely ridiculous, seriously if this was a mlm or a wlw ship I would understand the homophobic censoring of preventing them from an on-screen kiss but seeing a man and a woman kiss on screen in a cartoon is... really not that unusual. This cartoon is so strange to me in that they are canon, but they never get an uninterrupted kiss and they don’t even get casual background relationship behavior. It’s treated like a heavily censored queer ship would be treated in a cartoon and that’s just wild.

I’d still, on the overall, recommend the cartoon though, because the animation is cute, the stories are funny and quirky and explore the different members of the Justice League nicely. But if you only came for the SuperWonder... just watch episode 12 and move on, there is literally nothing more in it than that.

2017-2018 - Injustice 2

This is where things get complicated in the recommendation department again, because... there virtually is no SuperWonder in this. As indicated in the table of content/short-list at the top, it amounts to one page, really. And that one page is Black Adam referring to Diana as Clark’s love.

However, that’s not due to, say, them shelving the ship or something. They kind of... shelved both Clark and Diana in the sequel? Clark spends all of this in prison and only appears in the first and last issue of the run, Diana is also imprisoned for a huge junk of the comic. But seeing as it very much sets up a sequel and is itself a sequel to a comic where SuperWonder is canon, I would still recommend it - if you came out of Injustice: Gods Among Us really loving the story, the world and the other characters too. If you came out of that one already only liking the SuperWonder, then there is absolutely nothing in this run for you, aside from the one panel below.

2020 - Golden Child

This one’s different because Clark and Diana aren’t even in it (well, Clark is, very briefly), but they’re still technically a very important angle to this comic - because their children, Lara and Jonathan, are the main characters.

It’s Millerverse, again, by the way. But honestly, I actually kind of liked this one. It was an interesting exploration of how a child would deal with these kind of powers and I find Lara and Jon rather interesting.