I love this story more every time. It encapsulates issues to being the first meta and the JSA disbandment, but in a simpler explanation. I think I’ll use this if I need to teach a mundane that comics aren’t just for jids and cover real issues of over reach and zealotry making things worse.
Just re-reading this (again 🙂 ) and I have noticed in the last panel; the vase in the background, surely that is not the same vase that Tom used to threaten Zodon?
Aaron, I’m reading this for the first time. I was a fan of Nodwick back when it was in Dragon, and while browsing TVTropes, I ran across a reference to it, followed links, and ended up here. I’ve bee reading straight through for a couple hours now. I can’t put this down. And this arc, with Naomi, has me crying. I haven’t cried while reading a book in ages (the last time was Diane Duane’s Deep Wizardry, back when in the ’90s), and while reading a comic, never.
This should be required reading in every American History/Literature/Civics class. It really should. Never have I read anything that so brilliantly takes on what we can so easily become, in the name of “America”. Thank you.
I love that the time traveler is named Tom Davidson. I didn’t catch that the first time I read this.
I love this story more every time. It encapsulates issues to being the first meta and the JSA disbandment, but in a simpler explanation. I think I’ll use this if I need to teach a mundane that comics aren’t just for jids and cover real issues of over reach and zealotry making things worse.
The last page of this story makes me cry every time I read it. So good.
Just re-reading this (again 🙂 ) and I have noticed in the last panel; the vase in the background, surely that is not the same vase that Tom used to threaten Zodon?
Looks suspiciously similar, yes.
Aaron, I’m reading this for the first time. I was a fan of Nodwick back when it was in Dragon, and while browsing TVTropes, I ran across a reference to it, followed links, and ended up here. I’ve bee reading straight through for a couple hours now. I can’t put this down. And this arc, with Naomi, has me crying. I haven’t cried while reading a book in ages (the last time was Diane Duane’s Deep Wizardry, back when in the ’90s), and while reading a comic, never.
This should be required reading in every American History/Literature/Civics class. It really should. Never have I read anything that so brilliantly takes on what we can so easily become, in the name of “America”. Thank you.