Originally posted HERE

Before we talk about this story, I better explain what "Kingdom Come" is.

"Kingdom Come" is a story about an alternative DCU, where Superman gave up the good fight, realizing that the people he swore to protect preferred brutal 90s heroes, who weren't afraid to kill. After Wonder Woman tells him to grow a pair, Superman get's out of his Fortress Of Solitude for the first time in 10 years, and realizes that the superheroes has gone out of control. He then reunites the Justice League in order to set things straight... AAAAAND then kinda screws it more up, by being TOO hard on the out-of-control heroes.

"Kingdom Come" is a glorious tale, and still my favorite comic-book of all time. If you haven't read it yet, you ought to. I would also like to recommend "The Kingdom", the sequel that sadly has a pretty bad reputation.

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"JSA; Thy Kingdom Come" is a spin-off of a sort. The story takes place in the mainstream DCU, where Superman from the Kingdom Come universe by accident ends up there. And he is amazed to see a world that have not been ruined like his, and he praise all the heroes for not making the mistakes he and the other heroes in his world made He is pretty much the exact opposite of Superboy Prime! But he is also afraid, that what had happened in his world could happen is this one, and he ask the JSA for aid in order to find out if this world also has a Magog, the man who started the chaos in his world, and make sure that he wont do to this world what he did to Superman's.

Even though it's an awesome 14 issue(and three special issues) story it has a HUGE problem; it came too soon.

The series had just started, and had a lot of new characters(like Wildcat's son Tom, the new Amazing-Man and Lightning) and we didn't have a chance to get to know them properly before this huge story-arc started. It doesn't hurt the story, but it's not good for the team-book that we know so little about them, that they end up being fill-up characters. "Thy Kingdome Come" shouldn't have started at issue 9 of JSA, and we should have been given more time to let the new team-members grow on us. Also, this story(and the series) is much easier for you to read, if you have read the prior JSA series, since their is a lot of references to past events.

But it's still a pretty damn good story. Johns wrote the story with Alex Ross(artist supreme, as well as one of the two writers of "Kingdom Come") so the "Kingdom Come" magic is there. If "Kingdom Come" is about the abuse of authority, "Thy Kingdom Come" is about whatever you should accept authority. The JSA is divided, as they can't agree whatever they should accept the presence of a god-like being, and if he is to be trusted. The ending kinda feels like a cop-out, as there is only one solution, but it's still a good story about whatever one should leave his fate entirely in a god's hands.And it has plenty of awesomeness, such as KC Superman punching freaking lightning!!!

That's all for now. Next time, we will take a look at the absolute WORST story Johns has ever written.

I'm Waezi2, and thanks for wasting time with me.

That Kingdom Come Superman logo is so bada$$. Wait, is that suppose a S? Dafuq...

Wonder Woman scared me in this. I am still not sure if in a good way.

Yeah. the logo looks a little odd, but I still think it's pretty good. You might notice that his costume is a little more dark, like darker blue and the the emblem is black instead of yellow.

I'm pretty sure it's suppose to be the bad kind of way. The ambassador of peace becoming a warrior in order to try and force the peace upon the world.

You read "The Kingdom"?

@waezi2: "The Kingdom"? What do you mean?

@ms-lola: The Kingdom is the sequel to Kingdom Come, written by Mark Waid. It's about a man called William, who believes that Superman is a god, and the destruction of Kansas was his test for mankind. But when Superman tells him that it was not his will but his fault, Will's world falls apart. Superman is no longer god, but anti-Christ. So when he is empowered by the gods of the DCU, he decides to mess up the timeline in order to kill superman over and over again.

@waezi2: This is sad. Sad because no, I haven't read that and I should have by now. This will not stand. Thanks for the info and reminder, 5 Panels Guy! (sparkly eyes)

@ms-lola: It's not your fault that you haven't heard about it before. It's a pretty infamous comic. But it's pretty good. Not as good as Kingdom Come, but still.

The best part of it is, that we get a closer look at some of the minor characters of Kingdom Come, like Dick Grayson's daughter; Nightstar.

@waezi2: Has Nightstar been in other books?

Gonna read KC soon

Well, she and the other sons and daughters of the original five Titans traveled to the mainstream U in order to save Donna Troy. That was in the series "The Titans."

There is also a fan-comic about her on Deviantart. But that's it. I think no one really dares touch Kingdom Come too much, like no one dares to bring back Jack Knight as Starman.

@waezi2: Got it. This is why she sounded familiar. Thanks.

This is my favourite JSA arc and the story that got me into the team

What, the Titans, or the fan-comic?

Me too, actually.

@waezi2: Titans