Warning, this comic is not for adults!

The action takes place during the Second World War and the team consists of Wonder Woman (Queen Hippolytha), Flash (Jay Garrick), Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Starman, Hawkman & Hawkwoman, Dr. Mid-Nite, Dr. . Fate, Hourman, spectrum, Thunderbolt, Sandman, Dr. Occult, Atom (Al Pratt), Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane) and Wildcat (Ted Grant).

Johnny Thunder is putting black on white the last adventure of the JSA against a demon from hell. The team members decide to make him the official historian of the JSA. Meanwhile he tries to make a career as a writer and an editor potential decides to put under the tutelage of Jack Williamson, a writer of pulp confirmed type adventures. In the New York sky appears an airship that dumps soldiers augmented with cybernetic parts and marked the SS. They engage in sabotage. These individuals divert energy sources to siphon to the airship. They act on behalf of Lord Dynamo. It soon becomes clear that he can not seem to get enough energy and proposes an exchange to the people of New York: unpublished art works, symphonies, scientific literature, many significant advances in scientific and cultural fields against the mass energy of Starman and the ring of Green Lantern.

This is a classic temptation for comics publishers: hiring an experienced writer to attract shoppers and boost sales. This time, Kevin J. Anderson is known for his adaptations of Star Wars book and the Saga of Seven Suns. The bet is to say that it recognized name will attract consumers who usually never buy comics and have a better quality product than usual. For this story, Anderson wants to make a tribute to pulp fiction series and talk about the writing profession. The first idea is not as famous trotting comics each month legacy ad nauseam pulps. And Anderson is not proposing a different approach to what can be read month after month, even more clearly less substantial and less inventive. In terms of working conditions of a writer to an editor whose only concern is profit (catastrophic working conditions, without any job security), the discourse remains at Anderson daisies and s' apparently aimed at a preteen. As usual with the JSA, the number of characters prevents linger much, but here this characteristic reaches a level never equaled. 4 persons have the right to caricature replicas (Starman, Green Lantern, Woldcat and Atom) and the other does not exist all along the story.

Listed illustrators, DC Comics has done things since they have affected this Barry Kitson project (own designer on him with an acceptable level of details) and Gary Erskine, meticulous ink. Yet it is page after page of drawings in an unusual flatness. It was not until the penultimate episode to qualify for illustrations that come out of clichés to tell the childhood and adolescence of Lord Dynamo. Kitson Erskine and realize their designs in tune with the scenario: the childish mode. They do not botch the layout or finish, they come at a time when a superhero raised a building with bare hands, there was no foundation under it. This is all the more frustrating that the details are there and the atmosphere good spring 1940. But for the rest, Johnny Thunder is a pale copy of Jimmy Olsen. Superheroes are frozen in static pauses. The buildings appear to be cardboard paste, simple facades with nothing behind. He did not miss a single book on library shelves but they all appear artificial, as in furniture stores. The mission in Eastern Europe takes place in a castle of operetta. And the bottom is reached with the castle in Bavaria tracings directly on that of the Disney empire. And I prefer to mention the number of spaces with just a talking head and absolutely no background.

Obviously, this story is for younger readers. Kitson and Erskine seem excessively simplified style to stick to a scenario of rare idiocy. Anderson organizes confrontations where the most powerful heroes intervene only late for others to have time to get her brains fucked before. All this leads to a string of ridiculous scenes with an outstanding mention for a full page Dr. Fate stands arms outstretched claiming more wind (which also does not correspond to his powers). I read the back of JSA Geoff Johns.