News transcript: JLA/JSA - FIRST IMPRESSIONS from Mania

In last week's Preview of upcoming DC projects, we reported on an upcoming JLA storyline that finds the team going back in time to meet the Golden Age JSA'This week we received a few more details as well as a clarification on the project's format.
Entitled DC Two Thousand, this two-issue, 64pp, prestige format mini-series begins in July, written by Hourman's Tom Peyer and illustrated by DC One Million's art team, Val Semieks and Prentis Rollins. And as the similar titles suggest, the new project plays off that summer '98 DC event. According to Peyer, the story was suggested to him by reading Grant Morrison's and Semeiks' DC One Million, in which the present-day JLA met their strange, super-advanced counterparts from the far future. 'In DC Two Thousand, the 1941-vintage Justice Society of America is visited by their strange future-counterparts: the Justice League of America from the far-flung year 2000. It's mostly told from the JSA's point of view as they experience our familiar JLA from a mid-20th century perspective. They really are pretty advanced, when you think about it.'
'That sort of irony is at the heart of the story,' added editor Dan Raspler.
'It's a DC Universe comic all the way, which means the great, unifying theme of legacy is strongly present,' Peyer continued. 'Our current heroes know all about the DCU legacy, of course, but to the young JSA it's only a pipe dream [continuity enthusiasts take note, this will be the JSA's first ever meeting with the JLA in current continuity]. When it's revealed to them, they're suspicious of it... particularly since the interests of the time-traveling JLA seem to clash with their own.
'The villain is T.O. Morrow, recently seen as the co-creator of the tragically short-lived Justice League member Tomorrow Woman. He's hatched a plot to turn our era into a far future he controls by introducing Year 2000 technology to the world of 1941 [according to info provided by DC, in the form of "progress bombs"]. The JLA travel to the past to confiscate his machines, but the JSA wants to use them to improve their troubled era.'
'The real star of the show is the incredible characterization that Tom is able to accomplish,' said Raspler. 'It probably the best version of those collective characters in anything ever, I think. The depth of the characterization, the history accuracy of the speech patterns, the relationships and they way they would perceive the Justice League and vice versa is really kind of wonderful, and certainly DC comics fans will love it. '
'The story aside, Val Semeiks has turned in some of the most incredibly detailed, powerful and expressive pencils I've seen from anyone lately,' concluded Peyer. 'If you buy it just to look at the pictures, you'll get your money's worth.'
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