With the Justice League currently dead in the DC Universe, the new Superman is taking it upon himself to reform the team, and yet Jon Kent is finding hardly anyone wants to join up, and the Avengers prove why.
Thanks to Pariah, the standard Justice League are dead. Now, without any heroes to stand up to the looming Dark Crisis, someone has to take their place. Jon Kent, the new Superman and Clark Kent's son, believes a new Justice League has to be formed. To accomplish this, he goes around the world asking various heroes to join. He's met with some success and some failures. But when Black Adam, the only surviving member of the former Justice League, arrives to greet the group, he criticizes the effort and flies away.
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Despite his rash approach in Dark Crisis #1 by Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere, Black Adam is largely right. This Justice League is not ready to face the coming threat. While Jon's heart is in the right place by trying to re-form the team, experience shows that a successful superhero team is not something that can be forced. He saw a vacuum and purposely tried to fill it, but that was not how the first Justice League was born. It came about because the heroes, who were operating independently at the time, had to come together to face a larger threat, discovering a functional team dynamic before committing to working together.
Marvel's Avengers know this lesson all too well. It was how the Avengers first came together to fight Loki in their original appearance, and how the team was recreated by the New Avengers during a mass breakout from the Raft prison. It was only after the fact they decided to stick together as a group and were able to
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