Stormchasers
Jim Beard / Writer
Clément Sauvé / Pencils
Serge La Pointe / Inks
Kurt Hathaway / Letters
Tom McCraw / Colors
Digital Chameleon / Seps
Cover by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Meriño, with color and separations by Guy Major. From time to time, DC will attempt a horizontal cover, but they never fully commit to the idea (just like the Sins of Youth covers). The picture is going one way, but all the words are going the other. Anyway, this is your standard posed image of all the major members of the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America. It's alright, I guess. Nothing too striking.
In keeping the tradition of Secret Files & Origins, this issue features a main story, several quick backup stories and a handful of profile pages. The main story serves as a prologue for the upcoming special, JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice, which we actually will cover on this blog because Impulse does make a very quick cameo in it. But all we care about today is this issue's backup story that includes Impulse.
We begin in Johnsville, Ohio, which is being threatened by the flooding Ohio River. Aiding in the relief effort are several members of the JLA, JSA and Red Tornado, which confuses a news reporter, since he's not sure which team the android belongs to. Red Tornado works alongside the townspeople to help create a massive wall of sandbags. Superman and Jay Garrick both join up with Red Tornado, and Superman asks him to rejoin the Justice League right before Jay asks him to come back to the Justice Society.
Red Tornado is honored by the requests, but he tells the two heroes he has to decline the invitations. As he talks, Impulse, Superboy, Robin and Secret show up to help, and they're all in a bit of a rowdy mood. Red Tornado tells Superman and Jay that Young Justice needs the guidance he once received from the JSA and JLA. The android says he has long searched for an identity, and now he has found one in a parental role to these teenaged heroes. He then takes off to scold Impulse about spilling sand in Superboy's face.
Bart had his own experience with a flood in Manchester, so I'd imagine this mishap with a sandbag was a mistake, and not just him goofing around with Kon. But more importantly, I have to point out the glaring continuity error in this story. Red Tornado put Snapper Carr in charge of Young Justice, and he hasn't been with them for quite a while now. And even when Red Tornado was the official supervisor of Young Justice, he still was an active member of the JLA. So the idea that he doesn't have time to be on the JLA or JSA is a completely ridiculous one, thus rendering the entire purpose of this story null and void.
Next time, I promise a much more meaningful story in Young Justice #51.
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