Yeah like I said I like how at first they tried to recreate both the wolfman/perez era and the animated series (thought in hindsight I should have to wonder if ttg played a role in that more than either of the former)
It's almost October so I've decided to reread my fist two volumes of the tomb of Dracula and the Batman vampire trilogy. Honestly I think the 70s was like the second best decade for horror comics since in 71 the cca standards on horror had finally been lifted so we started getting Marvel's horror titles like tomb of Dracula, werewolf by night, marvel chillers, tales of the zombie, and over in DC we had the house of mystery and secrets going back to their horror anthology roots and charlton even got in on the action with their own horror titles. Also while it was still a decade before the tv show aired it was the first time in 20 years when gladstone publications began reprinting ec comics horror titles including tales from the crypt.
Teen Titans has always had a presence, honestly. It's a combo of the animated series being quality and the wolfman/perez run being so stellar that it influenced a ton of shit in the rest of the DCU.
I'd argue that the worst part about the new 52 era has been no JSA more than anything else. It was a wonderful way to see how DC's gigantic catalog of Golden Age IPs would pop up. Hell, they'd just straight up take existing characters that were too cool to be in limbo and toss them on the team. (Blue Devil, Damage).
But mostly I'd love how almost every story involves a few things from the past. Whether it was the bloodlines of golden agers being hunted down, or fucking Johnny Sorrow becoming the modern age's big bad JSA villain. Let's be clear, the 2000s JSA kinda nodded not only to the All-Star Squadron and every other big batch of golden age heroes, they even found time to namedrop guys like Judomaster and General Glory, guys who were retroactively made to be golden age heroes, into being part of the All-Star Squadron and shit. Fun times.
I'm a little salty because new 52 left the JSA in the middle of a big ass story arc. Mind you, they also left the JLA in a big ass one and James Robinson just had a fun time scripting that last issue of the pre-new 52 JLA run with fantastic adventures that'd never get seen again. Who else is gonna give me my Congorilla+Alien Starman team up fix?
Yes, I'm mad that I didn't get to see more of the JSA. We're finally getting trickles and they resurrected the ones that were killed in Zero Hour for some reason. I'm guessing convergence and crisis fuckery are going to be the reasons we somehow have Sandman, the atom, dr. mid-nite, and kent nelson's Dr. Fate alive again? Jim Corrigan's somehow the Spectre again but Hal Jordan also did canonically be the Spectre?
When Dark Knights Metal bullshit is all over, I'd love to see things settle down. Honestly I'd get a laugh if fucking Alan Scott gets retconned into being a gay man because he's probably one of the 3-4 JSA dudes that was known to get involved with women and suddenly that created plot threads. (Please don't erase Harlequin or The Original Thorn from his fucking history DC,.)
I really want DC to pump out a story explaining how Plastic Man's been a hero since the 1940s, and very publicly known too. They sort of brush it off all the time.
