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Supposedly posted by DuplicateMan:
As for MM's long absense from the JLA, that was retconned out. Since 1986, J'onn HAS been the "heart and soul" of the JLA.
So a retcon will do the trick, huh? Sorry, it's artificial. You can manufacture "heart and soul"-ness and insert it into the past. I grant you, the Manhunter from Mars has played a long-standing role of being the only member with continuity from 1984 to the present, but the heart and soul bit is just pure hogwash, really. Retcons can't change that, and they don't hold weight against history. Just look at Miss America, the one-time retconned replacement for Wonder Woman -- she's a complete nobody who's never actually appeared in any WRITTEN adventures of the JSA, but only in flashbacks. People who are so bloody concerned about Der Kontinuity will argue till they're blue in the face that Miss America was a member of the JSA, but it's still not going to make it so.