Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Justice Society of America #2
Batman's future daughter Helena Wayne has come to the present in the latest issue of DC's Justice Society of America. Featuring past, present, and future versions of the classic team all at the same time, it will be up to the Huntress to save both versions of the JSA, revealed to be the team's leader 30 years in the future. Witnessing the deaths of her team thanks to the villain Per Degaton, Huntress' mother Catwoman sent her to back in time to the 1940s, using a powerful temporal talisman made from the snow globe and watch that once belonged to Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan, imbued with his power.
In the new Justice Society of America #2 from Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, Mikel Janín, and Jerry Ordway, the Huntress meets with the very first JSA in 1940, and Kent Nelson's Doctor Fate attempts to look through her timeline so that they might help her return home. However, someone sinister slides Kent's consciousness across his own timeline, and it's most likely Degaton manipulating events in his effort to hunt down the Huntress and kill her. However, the snow globe then transports Helena to the present-era of the DC Universe, appearing before Khalid Nassour's Doctor Fate, Deadman, and Detective Chimp at the issue's end.
The Huntress Must Save The JSA Of Every DC Comics Era
While it's become clear that the temporal snow globe is fairly temperamental, Huntress now has an opportunity to get answers from her own father, albeit a younger version of Batman operating in Gotham years before her own birth. That being said, it's unclear how much time she'll have before she's sent through time yet again. However, he might be able to help his future daughter harness and control and snow globe's power.
As seen in Geoff Johns' preceding Flashpoint Beyond series, Batman first recovered the snow globe to contain the rogue Flashpoint timeline that held versions his living father and mother who respectively became that dark reality's Batman and Joker in the wake of their Bruce's death. Having met this version of Thomas Wayne, Bruce was unwilling to let another set parents die. Although the timeline could have ripped apart all of DC's Hypertime with its instability, Bruce trusted that his "parents" could learn to move on, thereby stabilizing the reality within the snow globe much to the surprise of the Time Master Rip Hunter. As such, he allowed Batman to keep the snow globe in the Batcave, hence the reason why Catwoman had it on hand years later to send Helena into the past.
Keeping that in mind, it's certainly possible that Batman would know how to help his future daughter navigate the time stream in the issues to come. Whether Batman encounters the future Huntress or not, Helena working with the current JSA will no doubt be very exciting as well, especially if she keeps jumping back and forth between the JSAs of the past and present as this new series continues. Justice Society of America #2 is on sale now from DC Comics.