Question about the JLA

I know this is a Superman group, but he is in the League, so can anyone tell me who the 'new' Flash in JLA #33 is and what happened to Wally and is Wally coming back

I wish I haD READ YOUR SYNOPSIS before I had bough the series. Yours was infinitely better and much more succinct. And a lot cheaper too!

I have to disagree, the JLA is not a Super man lead group. If you notice sometimes Batman instructs the members. I believe the group nominates a team leader who is best for whatever mission thay are investigating at the time.

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Superman is the chairman of the League, and as such, is the leader. However, every good leader knows when to delegate authority, even to the point of deferring it when there someone else has an obvious expertise advantage.

Good point, but I think it also needs to be said that Superman is the reason that the other heroes 'came out of the closet' as individuals (or in reality, even exist at all). Did you all read 'The Nail'? (Good premise, crappy execution). Superman is the banner around which they rally. Remember, he's the first SUPER-hero, hence the term.

Even if DC were to change EVERYTHING about the origin of the heroes and the League, they still couldn't travel back to 1938 and wipe out S&S's incredible creation.

The LSH is (was) formed through the 'spirit' of Superman, nice people doing the right thing for no other reason. The League works the same way, and Superman is the embodiment of self-sacrifice.

(Can you tell that I'm glad that Finals are over?)

'Crappy execution'? Looks like there's a lot of room for us to disagree there.

My reading of 'Emerald Dawn' suggests to me that Hal Jordan was the first modern-age hero to appear on the scene. When Hal realizes the implications of what's happened to him, he doesn't think of Superman, but of the heroes of the World War II era. This doesn't argue against your point that Superman serves as the heroic center of the JLA, or as an inspiration to other heroes; it's just a question of chronology.

In 'the Nail,' IMHO it would have been better if Lois had been the enemy, and not Jimmy. I know that ideas like this are too daring for DC, but I think that it would have been a better ending.

I think that they would have been there, but just not the same. THAT was the point of the Nail.

I think that the idea is that they would have been there, but would have been treated like 'X-Men' muties.

That's the whole point of the poem...that all is LOST for want of a nail.