I seem to have missed part of the argument here…to the rest… I suppose they could have retrieved him…if they wanted to risk sending someone to a world that might not exist any more (world destroying bomb and all), if they had a working device on time (he chucked the working one to Owlman and his bomb, and he had no way of knowing how long it’d take Lex to put another one together to get them back), and…well, if he told them where he sent them (no sign of that). And, of course, he didn’t need to strap him to the bomb - just send the bomb away, and bring Owlman back with him.
Well, I think you’re also missing one other key ‘out’.
If Owlman turned off the bomb, he had a working dimensional transporter laying at his feet.
Caught up on several weeks:
GL Corps: Black Lantern refridgerator vs. Kyle. :smack: Still, turned out better than that concept had any reason to.
Booster Gold: Is this being cancelled? It reads like this is being cancelled. 
Batman & Robin: Dick gets all detectivey to set up the return of Bruce.
Action Comics: sigh Just… get rid of the Nightwing/Flamebird plotline, please. And drop the Captain Atom backup. They’ve all sucked.
Last Stand of New Krypton: as they get ready to put the writers’ new toy back into its bottle, I was looking forward to some actual Superman stuff, and LSH stuff. Looks like we’re going to get the Superman stuff… but the writers immediately punked the LSH to showcase how awesome Zod is. :rolleyes: This is the LSH that faced Darkseid and an entire planet of Daxamites – a squad with Element Lad and Projectra shouldn’t go down off-panel. Also, Jeckie’s new costume and Mon-El’s new “S” remain stupid looking.
… I’m hoping what’s left of New Krypton ends up falling on top of Gen Sam Lane, too.
Wonder Woman: punched into Canada. heh.
This. I love Greg Rucka’s writing. His “Gotham Central” is one of the 5 best book of the early 2000s. He’s also the only Batman writer during the Denny O’Neill reign of terror who actually wrote well. But his Superman just sucks.
Also, this.
It’s also the same Legion that fought the only Mordru worth mentioning. The one who has a big crystal ball where he “plucks out planets he likes like baubles on a jeweler’s tray.” These are not the reboot or the threeboot Legion. Also, ditto on the costume changes. They’re dreadful.
I really hope it turns out that Sam Lane is a robot-clone from an evil dimension or something. Superman really doesn’t need to have a super-villain in-law.
I may have missed an issue: where did it turn out that the Legion’s been hanging around to free the bottle cities?
I am definitely picking up The Brave And The Bold #35. The Legion of Substitute Heroes follows the example of their mentors to go back in time to recruit…The Inferior Five!!. Lovin’ it in advance.
Adventure #8, basically. It has a fairly-okay 31st C portion, a plot-exposition 21st C bit (where they use Jeckie as a slideshow projector, basically. sigh), and yet another utterly irritating backup featuring one of Zod’s agents infiltrating Gen. Lane’s absurd organization.
In whole, rather lackluster for the switchover of Adventure to an LSH-focus. But I suspect they’re trying to use the Last Stand crossovers to bolster the freefall that the Superman family of books has been in (since, oh, about the time they had no Superman in them). Probably thinking that, hey, it worked with GL and the Sinestro Corps War. Unfortunately, the Sinestro Corps War was actually good. The buildup to Last Stand has been so dull that I’m basically following now out of habit (and to get my LSH fix).
… But the Subs in Brave & Bold? Sign me up.
Yeah, “freefall.” :rolleyes: Whatever. They plotted these books in large part over a year ago.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Superman books with their alternate headliners. It was something different, which I appreciated. Cleanses the palate for what comes next - which is, unfortunately, JMS. So 50% chance it’s good, 50% chance it’s awful.
As much as I enjoyed GL Corps and the creepiest Black Lantern of all time, my favorite book this past week was the Fall of an Avenger book with Hercules. Hilarious.
Sales on the Superman books have apparently been steadily going down since Superman was not in those books. Which has been since… about a year ago. And they weren’t great before that.
So, yes, I think they planned Last Stand over a year ago, to recover sales in much the same way as the Sinestro Corps War did for GL.
Unfortunately, the Sinestro Corps War stuff was awesome, and so far Last Stand looks rather pedestrian.
JMS is hit-or-miss, but 99% chance his stuff’ll be better than that mess with Gen. Lane though.
Anyone been following Siege in Marvel?
Any ideas on what the hell the Sentry is actually supposed to BE?
I only read three Marvel titles these days, and Siege isn’t one of them - sorry, I wish I could help.
It simply depends on how much editorial fuckery JMS has to deal with–if you leave him alone, his stories generally rock. Start forcing him into crossovers, and worse, start forcing him to rewrite, his stuff becomes awful.
Was that Sentry or Loki. And I have no idea what it was supposed to be.
Nice to see Thanos back in Realm of Kings.
It’s what Sentry really is.
“Spider-Totem.”
I’m glad he’s back too, and I’m looking forward to The Thanos Imperative. Unfortunately, both Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy are being put on hiatus next month at least until The Thanos Imperative is over. I hope that’s not code for cancellation. Both of those books are really good.
Oh well, at least I’ll still have Fables.
Had a bit of a boggle at the critters-of-light rollcall splashpage in Green Lantern: fish of willpower, bug of fear, snake of greed, bird of hope, and…
cuttlefish of compassion. Um… yeah.
Woo, Green Lantern! Excellent stuff - loved seeing Driq one more time. And I really dug Superman this week - with Brainiac’s minions including giant white apes who say ‘Koko’, as well as four alien species whose names start with U, L, T, and R… nice little reference there.
That sucks. I always preferred the cosmic and space stuff. Only reason I’m following The Siege is because of Thor and Asgard.
Re: the avatars of the corps…
Given the focus on erotic love among the Star Sapphires, doesn’t that make their avatar the SEXUAL Predator.:o
So, is Arsenal going to get the Bucky Barnes treatment?