Justice League Adventures #3
Justice League Adventures #3 cover

Date:

 March 2002

Title:

 “The Star Lost”
(Cover Title: “Earth is Finally Saved!”)

Plot:

 The Justice League discovers a ship adrift in space, containing exiles from the planet Daxam, only four of whom have survived the trip in suspended animation.  On Earth, the Daxamites gain superpowers and set about trying to change the world… by force, if necessary.  After a confrontation in Qurac, the Daxamites are convinced of the error of their ways and decide to return to Daxam and change the society which ejected them.

Credits:

 Dan Slott (Writer) • Min S. Ku (Penciller) • Dan Davis (Inker) • John Kalisz (Colors) • Heroic Age (Seps [Separations]) • Kurt Hathaway (Letterer) • Stephen Wacker (Editor) • John Delaney / Randy Elliott (Cover)

CHANGE HISTORY
Date of Change
Content of Change
01/27/03
 Posted
02/18/03
 Added Plot information
06/25/04
 Added Reprints information

Analysis Notes
General The Justice League Adventures comic (and television show) does not share continuity with the main DC universe, although it tends to share the same continuity as the other “animated” comics and shows.  (Exception: the Legion issue of Adventures in the DC Universe meshed with the normal DC Universe continuity and diverges from that of the animated appearance of the characters.)  As such, while there are Legion-related events and characters in the shows, analysis of those tends toward how they contrast with the main continuity.
3:4 This scene bears similarity to the storage hold of the Visitor ships in the television mini-series V from the early 1980s.
4:2 The translation might be off a bit;: foreshadowing at its cheapest.
4:5 Based on the lack of reactions, this continuity has never encountered Daxamites, and thus must have never experienced the events of Invasion.
The Daxamite names are a closer mirror to Kryptonian names (and there was a distant past relationship between Daxamites and Kryptonians in the pre-Crisis continuity) than DC Universe Daxamite ones.
6:5 Yet they never felt the charging of their bodies?  Perhaps that occurred while they were waking up, and it was unnoticed in the processing of shrugging off the suspended animation effects.
8:2-3 So where is Supergirl in this mix?  She’s part of this continuity.
17:3 So the threat to innocents is “collateral damage”?  Is there some political commentary here, with this story occurring in the Middle East, and probably being worked on in the months immediately after September 11, in the early stages of the attack on Afghanistan?
18 In some ways, this is a version of the classic story “Must There be a Superman?”, in which the Guardians of the Universe plant the suggestion that Superman retards Earth culture and advancement by being too willing to “fix” things for humanity.  The power to make the world “better” may not actually make it better.
20:4-5
 This definitely marks the “animated” Daxam as divergent from the main DC Universe’s.  Assuming that a version of M’Onel exists in the “animated” Legion, will he have been from this (very large) group of “seditionists”, or will he have been from the faction which expelled them?
Reprints This issue was reprinted in Justice League Adventures Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven.