JLU 2/25/06 - Patriot Act

Sounds fun. I enjoyed the Flash museum episode a couple of weeks ago. I’m glad they’re giving time to the non-big three heros.

I look forward to next week’s episode…

…not only for the inherent comedy potential, but to see (well, hear) Michael Rosenbaum play Wally playing a different incarnation of Lex Luthor than he already plays on Smallville.

Yup.

I believe more details on the weapon are avalible in recent issues of Green Arrow.

I don’t remember anything about the quantum arrow in the last couple issues, just GA getting his rear end killed (apparently), and Star City being blown to smithereens.

Of course, I haven’t been able to pick up #60, yet.

Because it’s too far to walk.

Hard to impress the ladies with your own horse when your best friend rides a freakin’ Pegasus.

Vigilante was a 1940s cowboy, not a 1880s one. He had a motorcycle from the beginning.
Later, he got sent back in time, and it gets complicated from there.

All too many comic book explanations contain this phrase.

Neglected character, sixty+ years of history, revived every so often for one-shots and three-comic story arcs… kind of hard to keep things stitched together.

And that’s not even counting what happens when an avant-garde writer decides to add relevance to the character, turning a portly, mostly retired, movie-cowboy into a werewolf out of pretty much nowhere.

Excuse me, but, WTF? When did I miss this?

It’s for the comics, only. It’s a twist introduced in the Seven Soldiers miniseries thing going on.

Which, of course, turned Vigilante from the, ah, portly and at-peace with himself older gentleman he was last seen as, to a skinny crazed man, all sunburn and tendons.

Not that I have any great vested interest in Vigilante, I just happen to like obscure heroes.