Which would have been fine, except they spend the last page making Captain Marvel look bad to make Mary look better. Supergirl claims that Billy is impulsive, and that he would have charged in if Supergirl had tried to hold him back the way she did with Mary. Mary is treated as wiser because she had the patience to not jump immediately into action and used her wisdom to solve the problem.catsi563 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:34 pm One of my fave Mary moments came in the JLU comic followup where she aids the JL against a group of Greek themed villains. shes trying to fgure out her place among the heroes so to speak and dealing with the issues that come with being the ""Female version"" she comes up brilliantly though when she uses the wisdom of solomon and finds the bad guy coordinating the villains takes him out of the picture and that lets the other team mates kick the bad guys rear ends
Except . . . Billy did the EXACT SAME THING Supergirl is praising Mary for doing! During the Clash, when Billy saw a situation, he flew in, de-escalated things, tried to get as much information as possible, got Superman and Lex talking, and came up with a peaceful solution that would have satisfied all parties (well, in theory, as Lex wanted to make Superman look bad). SUPERMAN then ignored all of this and continued to destroy private property, and when Captain Marvel tried to stop Superman from doing something foolish (the way Supergirl stopped Mary), Superman ATTACKED Billy and started the fight.
Superman was the one who was impulsive. Superman was the one who charged in when Cap tried to keep him from doing something foolish, and it's Superman who didn't act with wisdom.
It's an incredibly unfair and outright inaccurate portrayal of what happened and tore Cap down to build Mary up. If they wanted to use that example, it should have been an ironic twist where the person with the S-Shield stopped the person with the Lightning Bolt from being impulsive, but in this instance, Mary had the sense to listen. It could have been a way to showcase that Mary was just as level headed and wise as Billy and showcase how she and Supergirl could learn from the mistakes other heroes made.
That last page sours the entire issue for me because of this. It's made worse because Cap never appeared in the Justice League Unlimited comic outside of a flashback panel where he and Superman were fighting. There was never any resolution to what happened, no character growth, no him and Superman coming to terms, etc. Mary actually got to join the team and appear more often than Cap did. It kind of comes off as the writer of the book actively disliking Billy.
I understand the point the issue was making and for the most part it's fine, but that last page just ruins it for me.