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He was a great plotter. I do wish Infinity Inc had ended with issue 50, though. Then Skyman wouldn't have been killed.

Yeah, the last three issues of Infinity just didn't measure up to the rest of the series. It was too Grim n' Gritty­™. Like the Legion, JSA-related titles need to be positive and hopeful.

Issue #50, on the other hand, was awesome. It celebrated the Infinitors, the JSA, and comics in general. It was also on of the few issues that showed Miss America as, unambiguously, a member of the JSA. That was my favorite post-Crisis retcons.

Miss America has the potential to be one of the most awesome heroines of all time. But, of course, with her powers affecting things at the molecular level, there's always the danger of her ending up with goddess-level powers that would render both teammates and antagonists superfluous.

While that's true, having her in the '40s JSA made her, at various times, teammates with Alan Scott, Dr. Fate and the Spectre.

That's kind of what happened to her in the 2007 Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters series.


From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_America_(DC_Comics)


"In issue #6, Joan reveals that she never lost her powers, but used them to create the illusion that she had aged in order to retire and live a normal life with her husband. Now that Derek Trevor has died, she lets the illusion slip and resumes her youthful, heroic guise to aid Uncle Sam and his new team. "


"In the new 2007 Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters series, Red Bee mutated into an alien-insect creature and mind-controls Joan into absorbing Human Bomb's explosive energy and taking it into space. Joan then explodes, presumed to be dead. Unbeknownst to her allies, Joan manages to keep her consciousness alive, rebuilding a new, young body from extant space materials. Evolved into a new form of life, she discards her Miss America identity to claim her new moniker: Miss Cosmos."

"Following her recent return, Miss America appears to have become much more proficient with her powers, claiming that she would be able to transform an enemy's organs to glass or shrink them to microscopic size."

Yet another great character lost to the New 52.

I really thought the Miss America JSA retcon made more sense than the Hippolyta retcon as it was pulled off. It may have become more established in the mainstream DCU, had Infinity not been cancelled. Young All-Stars was Roy's other big series at the time, which I also always thought never got the appreciation it deserved.

The Hippolyta retcon involved time travel, right? Always a red flag for me. Time travel retcons aren't always handled well.

Yes. Even though Hippolyta would have been around during World War II, the retcon had her go back in time from the then-present to fill the role. On her way back, she apparently stopped off a few times to mentor Lyta Trevor, who was still the biological child of Helena Kosmatos (Young All-Star Fury) and the adopted child of Joan Dale Trevor (Miss America).

All those retcons are making my head hurt.

Nine out of ten doctors recommend Pre-Crisis DCU for headache relief.

Me too. Fortunately I went back in time to give myself an aspirin before reading the above posts.

I remember the Spanish-language Bayer Aspirin jingle from when I was little:

"Si es Bayer es buena." ("If it's Bayer, it's good.")

And then a grating kid's voice would come on and say:

"Y tambien para ninos." ("And also for kids.")

I remember as a child either taking Bayer chewable or St. Joseph chewable aspirin. I wondered why there was not an adult, not chewable version of St. Joseph as there was Bayer. I just checked out the St. Joseph Web site. They no longer market their low-dose aspirin for children. It is now primarily intended for adults on low-dose aspirin therapy.

Aspirin is not at all common here. We take Paracetamol Biogesic instead.

Aspirin is not nearly as popular as it used to be in the US. Paracetamol is known as Acetaminophen here and is best known as the brand name Tylenol. Ibuprofen and Naproxen (brand name Aleve) are also popular.

Of the ones you mentioned, Ibuprofen is most common here. I don't think I've ever seen Naproxen here.

Naproxen is not available in all countries. It was the most recently introduced of those medications. It's what I take when I have a headache.

Sometimes when I have a headache, I just take a nap. Of course, if the nap is too short I end up with an even worse headache!

A nap is just not always a possibility, alas. Silly work. It gets in the way of my afternoon naps!

I used to hide in one of the empty conference rooms to nap. Alas, now it's not possible! The good thing though, is my sleep quality has improved enough that I no longer feel sleepy in the middle of the day.

When you think about it, "sleep with" is really kind of a silly euphemism for "have sex with".

Yeah, I can sleep beside someone and not have sex at all!

That's called "marriage"!

Maybe I should put "have sex every night" in my marriage vows when Blaze and I get hitched!

I've always wondered if they bake the no-sex ingredients into gay wedding cakes that they do in the straight ones!