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This is my first attempt at a timeline of recent JLA related events. There are spoilers involved if you enlarge it.
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The inspiration for this was a random note on Twitter saying somebody was confused as to the reading order of the JLA books and how events aligned against each other. The key seems to be that the events for Cry For Justice parallel 12-issues of the main book, but that most of the events actually occur in a short window immediately before the Blackest Night events.
This isn’t complete – there are a lot of Blackest Night and Superman related things I could add.
I would welcome any comments, suggestions, or corrections that people may have.
Updated 11/03/2010 - I’ve slightly rearranged the original version that I’d posted by moving the Cry For Justice line to the top. I’ve also added the Vixen and Red Tornado mini-series. The Vixen mini-series is relatively easy to position as it was published as soon as “The Second Coming” (the story where Vixen got her powers back) ended. It also features Batman so it had to finished pre-Final Crisis.
The Red Tornado mini-series is more fluid, but there are distinct mentions in the main JLA title of Red Tornado taking a leave of absense (JLA #31) and then returning again (JLA #36) so it seems logical that the story takes place during that leave.
Nice work, Mr. Kirk!
Great job. I´m agree with the timeline you did. It´s very difficult to do that because some things are not very clear (Cyborg and Kory fight in Blackest Night without mention the Roy´s crisis, but Roy was hurted before BN; Also, I am not sure when was Promethus killed by Green arrow. I think that dead occurs between JLA 42 and a future number (not published yet).
As I said there are some incongruences in the DC continuity. Your timelime helps us very much.
(hope all of you can understand me a little. I´m not very good writing in english).
Regards from Uruguay
Hi Brainy,
Your English is very good.
Prometheus and Green Arrow’s timing is difficult. The reason I think it must take place during JLA #42 is that we see Arrow disappear with the Shade in the opening page and then reappear alone on the JLA Watchtower on the final page.