There’s 3 unnamed Lord of Chaos who gave Kestrel his powers. (Hawk and Dove got theirs from T’charr and Terataya.)
A Lord of Order named Kilderkin visits Dream when he’s trying to unload Hell (Chaos send a functionary).
But where are you seeing 9 Lords…the only references I can see Nabu making to the number nine are saying that this is the Ninth Age of Magic.
Ain’t it the truth?
John, much as I love him, has an uncanny ability to elevate a situation from ‘Oh, bother’ to ‘Oh, SHIT!’ (Or, hey, from ‘My, what a nice day’ to ‘Oh, SHIT!’)…
While trying to help keep the damage down in Opal City (‘Thank you, so much!’ ‘I was rescuing the statue, not you.’), he witnessed the destruction of an apartment building. Knowing, somehow (I’m not sure just how, but this IS Shade), that Courtney’s father was in there, he decided she should be told he was dead, and took it upon himself to inform her.
You know what? Re-reading, you’re right. My brain somehow turned that around. Still, I’d like to figure a list of the Lords of Order and Chaos somehow.
I can’t think of any but the lot we’ve named between us. Although thinking on the Lords has given me a thought…
Spectre didn’t kill Mordru. The Thunderbolt sent him away.
This could be an out to bring him back - but more like his original appearances in Legion of Superheroes… He’s removed from this reality, then returns in the Tenth Age, stripped of his powers as a Lord of Chaos, is just a very powerful, slightly insane, sorcerer.
(The loss of Mordru and Nabu is something I’m somewhat unhappy with here. This is probably just wishful thinking.)
Anyway…On to the last new book I have something to say anything new on.
Marvel Zombies #2: I love this book. The bit Giant Man and T’challa was one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in a long while. Also, one of the funniest. And most disgusting.
This is true. I wasn’t 100% certain that Mordru was a Lord of Chaos, though. Or, perhaps, the Spectre killed him off-camera.
I actually have trouble with the Spectre’s behavior here - it exemplifies rationality in some regards (go after the people who can stop me first, before the ones that are actually, y’know, evilest.) - and in others it completely defies any sort of logic. There can be no rationality from a thing of magic? Well, you’re a thing of magic, dumbass, and so was Eclipso.
And where the hell was the Spear of Destiny?
Agreed, wholeheartedly. I’m wondering if we’ll see some other whole survivors - I have conceptual problems with a disease that can effect Thor and Hercules, but if there’s a zombie Vision or original Human Torch or Machine Man, then I’d have to drop the book.
My comics list this week included the Books 1,2,3 and 5 of Fables and the TPB of Superman: Birthright.
I read Fables volume 4 from my local library and loved it. This series is fantastic, I was crying at the end of volume 5, when Snow White and baby # 7 meet and talk to each other.
Is there an “annotated Fables” web site out there? There must be tons of references I’m missing. One guy I’ve been wondering about is a blind man called “Kay” who shows up in a few places. I don’t think he’s one of the Three Blind Mice made human, because I’m pretty sure I saw them in mouse form on the Farm.
Superman: Birthright I just read from the library, and I must say, I’m underwhelmed. First of all, I hate the art style. Second of all, this retcon of Krypton and Smallville really undoes some fantastic stories since the Byrne revamp (though I guess it was done in full knowledge of Infinite Crisis messing around with timelines again). Third of all, I totally don’t get the panicky, paranoid reaction to Superman in a world that has supposedly had super-heroes since World War II. Simply put, it makes for a nice Elseworlds story, but it seems very out of place in the DC Universe…but my understaning is that this is supposed to be the “canonical” Superman origin going forward.
But it restores one thing that was really missing from Superman since the Byrne-revamp: Krypton was a good place, losing it made the universe poorer, and Jor-El and Lara were good people who only wanted to save their son. Post-Crisis (hell, since Donner’s Superman: The Movie), Krypton has been cold and at least vaguely menacing, and he can all agree that even setting aside the powers, Kal-El is better off with the Kents. It robs Superman of his tragedy (letting the Kents survive took the rest of it, but they’re good characters so I’d call that one a wash).
As for the mistrusting Superman stuff, the JSA et al had been retired for quite some time by that point. And none of them were aliens. “The Nail” was another good story about how the “Silver Age” crew (Superman being the vanguard of them, post-Crisis) run into mistrust without Superman’s leadership and good image. Besides, Superman was the first superhero and should be regarded as such, even if he wasn’t within continuity.
All in all, I think Birthright will be overlooked because it doesn’t rock the boat enough. Unlike Bryne’s Man of Steel, only the details are changed, the broad strokes of the story remain the same as established Post-Crisis stuff. This is unforturnate, IMHO, since I really enjoyed it.
