POP-A-LOOZA: Imagining A JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA Movie

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares a post from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. Just in time for the May premiere of the new DC Comics TV series Stargirl, this week's shared post is my imagining of a hypothetical Justice Society of America movie.

My nine-part history of DC Comics' 100-Page Super Spectaculars included the story of how I became a fan of the JSA in 1967, when I was seven years old; you can read that individual chapter about the JSA here, or my complete Super Spec history here. Elsewhere, a fanciful episode of my series Unfinished And Abandoned recounted my 1970s notions for a JSA radio show, alongside a sequel to the original Captain Marvel movie serial and film team-ups of The Marx Brothers with Charlie Chaplin and The Beatles. I was an ambitious lad.

On the subject of superhero movies, I liked the 2017 Justice League movie more than most other folks did, but I liked the last two Avengers movies a lot more. I like superhero movies, but I stop just shy of liking all of them without exception or reservation. I am generally all in for the Marvel Cinematic Universe; I wrote about Avengers: Infinity War here. I hated Suicide Squad, and I was disappointed with Shazam! I have not yet seen Aquaman, Joker, or the long-titled Birds Of Prey thing, nor have I seen any of the non-MCU Marvel movies (Fantastic Four, X-Men, Deadpool). My favorite superhero films of the last few years or so would include Wonder Woman, Black Panther, the recent Spider-Man movies, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. I think everyone else was into Thor: Ragnarok far more than I was. 

The Copperhead, as depicted by artist Shane White

As for superhero stories written by me, well, I've tried a few times. The good folks at AHOY Comics have made my recently-published '30s pulp hero short story "The Copperhead Strikes!" available to read on their website. The fight scene in that story was repurposed from a Batman short I wrote for this blog, "The Undersea World Of Mr. Freeze." I started writing a sequel, "Paradise Does Not Believe In Tears," and I also started writing a Green Hornet script called "The Beat And The Sting." Those two remain unfinished, though I did also write a back-cover hype blurb for the Green Hornet story, because why the hell not?



What else? I wrote the first five chapters of a proposed rock 'n' roll time travel superhero novel called Eternity Man!, reminisced about the genesis and unrealized potential of my childhood creation Jack Mystery, and detailed my unsuccessful Marvel Comics try-out starring Spider-Man. I've talked about my big ol' stack of rejected DC Comics submissions, and just this week I talked about two one-off superhero comic strips I did as a high school art student in 1976, the comedy Agent 690: Man Of Action! and the dark 'n' gritty Hero. Let hijinks ensue as they may.



But now, it's time to imagine a movie about a swell bunch of guys and gals bustin' the Axis circa 1940. It's this week's Boppin' Pop-A-Looza, The Justice Society Of America: The Movie.



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