A brand new Justice League of America series by Geoff Johns (Justice League, Green Lantern) and David Finch (Batman: The Dark Knight) hits comic book shops this week!
Former Justice League liasion and Wonder Woman main squeeze Steve Trevor has recruited an eclectic team of heroes to fight the Secret Society of Super Villains. The roster includes classic heroes, rogues, New 52 creations like Simon Baz, Justice Society icons and a blast from the past maybe no one was expecting!
How did Martian Manhunter, Catwoman, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Stargirl, Vibe, Katana and the new Green Lantern come together? Geoff Johns told MTV Geek :
“The idea of why the JLA forms, and what it is, and what it’s in reaction to… It kind of spins out of Justice League #12; what happens in that, and then subsequent issues, because JLA comes out next year some time. But the book itself is a group of heroes that aren’t necessarily coming together because they want to be together… They’ve been selected specifically. They all want, or need something that Steve Trevor, and the other person behind the scenes that’s in charge of this team can provide.
The first arc is going to deal with something they learn is called The Secret Society of Super-Villains.”
Why is Batman’s femme fatale on the team?
“Catwoman is a very different perspective, and is brought in for a very different reason. She stays because they have something that she wants… And it’s not at all what you’d expect. It’s not a big diamond, it’s not a get out of jail free card, it’s something she’s been searching for that’s going to lead to a whole exploration of a side of Selina Kyle we haven’t yet seen.
But she is going to have a lot of fun on the team, she is going to be the Veronica to Stargirl’s Betty, if you will, and she has a new dynamic because we haven’t really seen her interact much with all these characters. Some of them not at all, like Vibe, and Stargirl… There’s not a lot of interaction between her and Martian Manhunter, and I don’t think she’s ever interacted with Steve Trevor that I can remember. Catwoman has a very different reason for being on the team.”
And then let’s talk about the surprise addition of Vibe – the Hispanic super hero from the Justice League Detroit era who hasn’t been heard from since that era! Not only will the sonic powered hero be part of the team but have his own spinoff series: Justice League of America: Vibe premiering the same week!
For more from Geoff Johns here’s the MTV Geek link.
Justice League of America arrives this week.
By Editor
