User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-184.60.221.229-20120429071102/@comment-4928331-20120429150342

Vandal Savage, and practically all other members of the Light, has always been an earthbound villain. There is no reason to suspect he sent the League off to kick alien booty. It's not like they were brainwashed by traditional space-based Justice League villains like Kanjar-Ro and Despero.

Besides, it's possible that certain things are going to happen very soon from January 2011 to make them all busy. Let's say, a worldwide gene bomb detonation resulting in many, many metahumans...?