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Fringe is J. J. Abrams’ follow-up to Lost. It’s a X-Files-esque setup about a team of FBI investigators who study strange occurrences around the world. However, it also comes with a heavy dose of jumping back and forth an alternative universe called the “other side”. Akiva Goldsman wanted to show art from the alternative world’s comic books to illustrate the differences between the two universes. So Goldsman gave Geoff Johns a call:
He was shooting a scene in an alternate world where things weren’t exactly like ours. Where even the smallest details were somewhat off. Including the comics. Together with executive producer Jeff Pinker, Akiva wanted to showcase an array of DC Comics that could’ve been including the ones you can see below. He wanted them to be as authentic as possible. Something only the hardcore would really recognize.
The most eye-catching image was one of a Red Lantern/Red Arrow cover that duplicated one of the famous Green Lantern/Green Arrow Neal Adams covers. Another of the covers, shown below, is a recreation of Kevin Maguire’s famous crowd cover from Justice League #1, yet with Green Lantern Guy Gardner swapped out in favour of DC gunslinger Jonah Hex.
Bizarrely this isn’t the first time that Jonah Hex has appeared in a JLI crowd cover. Justice League Europe Annual #1 (1991) featured one of those scatter-them-in-time stories that tied into Armageddon 2001. It’s crowd were the motley crew of obscure DC characters met by the JLE during their adventure. This time Hex is shown in the bottom-righthand corner.
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