I have no idea where the JLI stands in conventional wisdom these days. (I remember when the Adam West Batman series was deemed an unmitigated embarrassment, and have lived to see it appreciated anew.) But I agree it was awesome.

Comics Takron-Galtos was more an actual prison than a resettlement colony for criminals. Inmates were locked up, people served their sentences and then left, rather than there being a free population (other than the guards), etc.

This show, which has randomly applied names like Vartox and Jemm and Starhaven to people and places that have nothing to do with their comics counterparts, could easily be doing the same with Takron-Galtos.

Or just long-lasting. ("At current average rates of energy consumption, the Waverider's antimatter power cells will be depleted in one thousand years, ship time. I can enter a reminder when the reserves are down to a century if you'd like.")

"They're onto the 'taping your taillight' thing! Now how are our heavily armed agents going to get these people out of their cars?"

On the other hand, Jimmy Olsen is a household name even to non-fans, more famous than Supergirl herself, while J'onn J'onzz is more of an inside baseball character. (He was entirely gone aside from reprints and a couple of guest shots during my formative comics years, having been put on a bus to New Mars in 1968 and…

Having people with a time machine show up in 2017 doesn't really require a lot in the way of plot machinations.

If they need cash, I'm guessing that a replicator designed for covert ops by the Time Masters doesn't have a "no counterfeiting" filter. (And if it did, they could just replicate stuff to sell or barter.)

It's more like a plane that she doesn't know how to fly or navigate. "Okay, we can refuel your ship. How did you plan to pay?"

Most of the villains he seriously fights have sufficient resources that they can't be called poor. (Matching outfits and elaborate deathtraps aren't free, even if the gains are ill-gotten.) And Batman's happy to rely mostly on intimidating low-level thugs into turning on the real target, rather than engage in…

The Spider-Man/Wolverine one-shot in the 80s was pretty good, albeit via discretion shots rather than full-on explicit violence.

They can have clips. (E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… ) What they don't have is magazines.

Well, this was Shanghai in 2008:

A better world isn't a world devoid of conflict or danger. Someone from another time or place would observe that the modern US isn't subject to famines, infant mortality is a tragedy rather than a sad repeated expectation for every family, and the average person doesn't expect to have to pay bribes whenever they get…

I like BB for the characters and the stories, but the world and its implications struck me as incredibly depressing. Batman fails: Gotham is a cyberpunk dystopia more overrun by crime than ever, his company is turned into a tool for evil, and he's a bitter old man.

It's a shame they gave her the name Doris, rather than revealing that she's also named Adrian.

It occurs to me that there's one way I may be being unfair to the piece: the authors are stuck with finding pop culture futures as examples, and those are pretty universally negative in recent decades. (Leaving aside a legacy property like Trek, and even it's had a little of the gloss rubbed off by Abrams.)

It's one of the many conventions of the superhero shared universe: if a crossover isn't scheduled, then the hero is on his or her own, give or take the supporting cast.

On the other hand, enough 1820s Americans were sufficiently discontented with the status quo that they gave Andrew Jackson a popular vote plurality in 1824 and an outright electoral victory in 1828.

Fortunately we're often luckier than that, or the Fifties would definitely have gotten a nuclear war.