I've found that over the years a lot of comics fans have tended to discount the Justice Society as merely a poor man's JLA and a blatant attempt by DC to cash in by creating a 'parallel' earth to populate with more superheroes, thereby selling more books. Nice work if you can get it. Most of the time, the Justice Society story lines have suffered from inferior characters and with the exception of Jay Garrick as the original Flash and Alan Scott as Green Lantern, somewhat secondary super-humans. Does anyone really believe that Power Girl isn't merely a rip off of Supergirl? And really Power Girl? They couldn't come up with a better name?
DC could also be given forty lashes for carrying the JLA Kingdom Come storyline to the JSA world. And if they had ended with the first volume that criticism would have been justified. But what starts off as a weak story in the first volume picks up and gives us a satisfying conclusion in volume two. Truthfully the story is never more interesting than when the original JLA members are on the page.
Problem 1 with Thy Kingdom Come: The Magog storyline is over done from the JLA version. Enough already.
Problem 2 with Thy Kingdom Come: The original cast of the JLA is not in on the story enough. I have a feeling it would have been much stronger had it been a 'cross over' book with both teams fully engaged throughout.
Reason to buy 1: The Alex Ross artwork.
Reason to buy 2: The emergence of Citizen Steel as a hero is very well done in the first volume.
Add to Library: Yes, but do yourself a favor, save a few pennies and wait until the trade paperbacks are published.
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