Once upon a time, James Robinson was one of my favorite comic book writers. His Ultraverse series Firearm, about a Private Investigator involved in superhero related crimes, was amazing and his DC series, Starman, was fun and quirky and stood out in a sea of DC sameness when it came out. But, either he changed or I changed, and I lost interest in his work. But, just before he started on Starman, Robinson set out to write a new interpretation of the original DC superheros and what happened to them after WWII. This book, The Golden Age, was an interesting failure, but definitely worth looking into. So, let’s see what happened to our Golden Age heros.

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