He's made some appearances here and there in various flashback stories, but didn't actually return to comics until after the New 52. I just don't think people were quite as aware of the inherent mortality of this sort of thing at the time.Ī few years later, as the series was coming to a close, Vibe was killed by one of Professor Ivo's androids, making him the very first Justice League member to ever die. This was the same year the movies Breakin' AND Beat Street came out, which is a clear indication just how played out the trend was. Building a character based entirely on a rapidly expiring dance trend is probably not the most forward thinking idea. The stereotypes at play with his teammate Cindy were more subtle, but with Cisco they were incredibly obvious, to the point where modern readers may find themselves taken completely out of the story.Īnother clear indication of Vibe's status as a product of the mid-eighties is his connection to break dancing. He's a teenage street gang member who actually wound up embroiling the league in the shenanigans of his former gang. He's one of the very first Puerto Rican superheroes in comics and the first for DC, but he's also a character invented in the mid-eighties. Vibe had the ability to make shockwaves, but that was definitely the least relevant thing about him. We also met two completely new teenage characters Cindy Reynolds, a runaway girl with invisiblity powers, and Cisco Ramon's 'Vibe'. Maritan Manhunter, Zatanna and Elongated Man stuck around, but we were introduced to Steel, a legacy version of an original character by series writer Gerry Conway, and Vixen, a re-thought version of a character that had been intented for her own series before the DC Implosion of 1978 led to it never being published. New members had JOINED the league, but this was the very first time we had an entirely new team makeup. in 1984, after 200+ issues and 20+ years of publication, the Justice League's storied lineup was changed for the first time.
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