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This article comprise pocket-size spoilers forJustice League vs. The Legion of Super - Heroes # 5 !
If there ’s one hero suited to lording it over a post - apocalyptic world , it ’s DC ’s godlike antiheroBlack Adam . Marvel ’s hugely successfulOld Man Loganhas spawned an entire channel ofWastelanderscomics where a few live on superheroes seek to protect a fallen America - an idea DC has alreadytapped into with its Old Lady Harley . Now , as DC fluff fans with the idea of ' Old Man Black Adam , ' it ’s an musical theme the publishing company really take to render on .
Justice League vs. The Legion of Super - Heroesis the tale of the Justice League and the Legion both becoming displaced in time as they face off against a mysterious threat stretch along across time and space . While it has led to plenty of time - traveling fun , with the Justice League and Legion becoming trap within each other ’s century , it has also make age modification in several characters , among them Green Arrow , one of Triplicate Girl ’s constituent body , and Black Adam , who has aged significantly .
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As the Justice League and Legion of Super - Heroes attempt to cypher out what ’s happening , Batman demands thatthe mysterious Gold Lanternhand over his power doughnut . As the heroes debate , Black Adam expresses his foiling , with a now - teenaged Green Arrow stating,“Old Man Black Adam is right!“While it ’s a minor reference in Brian Michael Bendis and Scott Godlewski’sJustice League vs. The Legion of Super - Heroes # 5 , it ’s a phrase that ’s load down with import in modern funnies , as so many characters have received the Old Man / Lady intervention . In fact , DC’sFuture State : Suicide Squadrecently did aversion of this for Black Adam , with the antihero becoming an influential Hero of Alexandria and establish a utopian dependency in the far , far hereafter .
While it was fascinating to see this possible ' happy conclusion ' for Black Adam , the core of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’sOld Man Loganis a single torpedo taking on a broken world . This variety of concept would fit DC ’s adult - orientate Black Label imprint utterly ( Wonder Woman : Dead Earthput Diana through something like ) , to the point that it feel like Bendis - who pen both the 2015Old Man Loganfollow - up series andJustice League vs. The Legion of Super - Heroes- is challenge DC to foot up the creative gantlet . Indeed , Black Adam ’s long white beard has a similarity to the original translation of the wizard who give he and Shazam their business leader , propose the potential difference for a cyclical news report where Black Adam somehow creates his heroic arch - nemesis .
As of now , there ’s no prompting anOld Man Black Adamstory is in the works , but DC Comics has a phenomenal premise available to them - one now lodged in devotee ' judgment due to this subtle character . Black Adam ’s lordliness and need for control make him the perfect character to take exception with a hopeless world , especially as he ’s dedicated toprotecting the nation of Kahndaqrather than the entire major planet . DC ’s Black Label is the perfect office for a fledged , out - of - persistence story star Black Adam , and the idiomatic expression " Old Man Black Adam " is a lurch in and of itself .
