It's one of my favorite ideas because I want Superman to be ashamed of this era of his life and all the wrong people he fell in with.
And then you find out most of them became space cops and nepo hires in the champion trade, you find out why Kal is right to leave them.
Heroes Journey poses the question:
"What makes a hero? Is it destiny? Is it lineage? Is it the people you know?"
And every single strong man has a warped idea of being a hero. Especially Kal.
Superhero teams keep double dipping on 'big strong guy' when they probably could do better with 'a speedster, a mage, a ranger, a paladin, a blacksmith, a fighter, a scientist, and the nuke' and in my JLA pitch I will...
Green Lantern is essentially the guy who watches over them as a representative of the Guardians and their scattered order of space knights.
Aquaman is a free-spirited dude catching waves and shows up when people need him; and not a King.
Batman and Superman are busy.
My JLA having 8-10 members keeps it a bit focused. I do want to add Mr. Terrific and Tomorrow Woman on the team too. I just think the stories are more rotating with a 4 man team in every plot. And it's always an A PLOT in which the team seems ill-suited for, at first.
Invincible is bad in that regard. Everyone is Superman but without his unique powers like laser vision and freeze breath. Atom Eve has the most creative powerset and uses them to make pink glass.
Heroes Journey/Legends 101
aka "Kal undergoes college era metaphor stories"
I tend to think Superman's life is lived in but the specific bits of info aren't super important. Story telling over lore. The immediacy of the story from GO is the focus instead of being front loaded.
I was on the toilet thinking about the trinity of 'young Superman eras'
High School
College
Young Adult
And for the life of me, the thought of fraternities and hazing and Greek symbols and traditions tickles me. Like a silly pantheon and oh...
OH SHIT. OH FUCK.
This is a phase of Kal's life.
This is where his relation to mythology hits him, he's not in a 'superhero school', he's got normal classes, this is something else.
This is training camp. And the Legion are the endpoint of all the things he learns from this but rejects.
Superman takes a little from the worlds he comes from.
Midwestern myths has Paul Bunyan.
Old mythology had Samson.
Global adventures told of Tarzan.
City architecture withstood Doc Savage.
Space legends had John Carter.
Superman takes from them. But he finds his own way.
Jake Wyatt on Batman in My Adventures with Superman
"Brendan does have a good Batman take. It could just be an episode one-off or a full series, but right now, Batman is a little booked up. We love Superman and the Super-Family, but we’re always happy to expand on the universe. What does ‘Blank hero’ look like in the Adventure-verse is a super fun question.”
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Superhero teams keep double dipping on 'big strong guy' when they probably could do better with 'a speedster, a mage, a ranger, a paladin, a blacksmith, a fighter, a scientist, and the nuke' and in my JLA pitch I will...