I like the JSA. I never really read anything before this new series launched and I couldn’t care less about the whole legacy thing, but the team has come together nicely. That said, some of the reviews I have read so far have been complaining about the bad guys in this first arc. The JSA are fighting some Nazis. What’s wrong with that?

The little two line prologue that intros each issue talks about how they’re a WWII-era team, so I say fighting Nazis makes perfect sense. Calling them the Fourth Reich seems a little obvious, but the Nazis were not known for sublety. Reichsmark’s power of turning anyone he touches into a metal statue is pretty bad-ass. The Nazis have kind of hokey dialogue, but you can’t make the Nazis seem cool, that’d come across bad. But I say as villains for the JSA, Nazis are awesome.

And you can quote me on that. “Nazis are awesome.”

Also, Starman being crazy is crazy awesome, especially when Sandman shows up and calls a meeting and Starman starts singing “Mr. Sandman”. And then whispering “52!”

I give this book fifty-two swastikas.