Cable and Deadpool #25 - it’s a oneshot, meant to make us look more kindly on Cable or something. It’s not bad, it just loses a lot of the usual punch I associate with the book.
Majestic; Hawkman; Legion (from last week); Nodwick; Invincible; Fables;
Also, issue one and two of the Intimidators, which is a novel new series form Image - a Silver Age relic hero turns up, and is matched with a team of Iron Age killer-hero types, and asked to mold them in his image.
Also, Bomb Queen #1 - another form Image’s new mature readers line, the story of an amoral psychopath who’s taken complete control of her city - and the people love her for it.
I’m not really a fan of Supergirl (I had to force my way through issue 1, and skipped 2 and 3), but to be fair, the bits with John and Wally aren’t too bad.
John and Luthor were in the Watchtower, which seems as-yet unexploded, although it seems to be holding its atmosphere pretty well, considering the size of the hull breach left by Luthor’s entry. (Then again, in IC#1, in the completely trashed Watchtower, Batman had no trouble, so the atmospheric force field mentioned in IC should be able to manage a relatively tiny hull breach like this.)
And Wally was moving pretty fast, and didn’t feel the effects of the airlessness untill he stopped, which gives us two possible salves:
He was moving so fast, he just wasn’t out there long enough to notice the effects of the airlessness until that point.
He was being sustained by the Speed Force until he stopped.
Like I said…magic infection. Smooths the bumps over right nice.
Rann-Thanagar War One Shot – Ummm, if the Big Luthor Hands are visible, and Earth 2 is recreated (as happened immediately at the end of Inf. Crisis 4), then why haven’t Alan Scott and Jade vanished and returned to Earth-2?
I really liked Teen Titans this week. And Ultimate X-Men was a lot of fun.
Unlike the others in this thread, I hope the end of Nightwing sticks.
I can field this one. The effects, as observed by the end of Inf Crisis #4 - haven’t really split the entire universe yet. There’s not really a Universe-1 and Universe-2, yet. As far as we know, only Earth was affected - and the two Earths actually can see each other - and are therefore in the same vibrational plane. So anyone off of Earth at the time would not, yet, have felt the effects.
[spoiler] Ever since he visited hell. Gar’s been having nightmares about the death of the original Doom Patrol. When he visits the new DP to find out what’s happening, the Chief says he’s been having the same dreams ever since the Justice League Watchtower blew up.
Then they get Superboy’s distress signal, and go to the fight.
When they approach Superboy-Prime, Gar and the original DP get visions of their past, and remember everything. Silver Age, Morrison run, everything. Rita remembers dying. When it’s over, they, and everyone else (even if they didn’t get the visions the Doom Patrol Proper got), remember the original history of the Doom Patrol. They’re all alive, though, and more or less in the state Byrne left them in (except the Chief, who suddenly went gray). So, Byrne’s team, but original history.
It’s not stated explictly, but it seems that Byrne’s retcons were sme kind of temporal bump caused by the original crisis or retroactively by the current Crisis, that’s been smoothed out in the presence of Superboy-Prime and by Luthor’s actions. [/spoiler]
Ma Hunkel, the Golden Age Red Tornado, now curator of the JSA museum. I’d seen the Scribbly strip before, but had no idea that this character had been brought into continuity.
Re. the odd detail of the Chief’s hair color: in the Kupperberg run of Doom Patrol, it was shown that Caulder was gray and that the red hair and beard was a dye job.
Jeph Loeb’s son died a few months ago. His run on the series will also now be only 5 issues instead of 6. Issue 5 will be 32 pages long, I believe, to finish out the story.
Ma Hunkle was the Golden Age Red Tornado. She was a big, tough housewife and mother by day and when all the men went away to fight WWII, she became a crimefighter by night, wearing an extremely sensible costume of a bulky sweatsuit (which helped conceal her gender from the hoodlums she was fighting) and a big metal stewpot on her head, with eyeholes cut out so she could see.
A couple of years ago there was a Christmas issue of JSA where her backstory was told. It was revealed that she had to fake her death and go into witness protection (to protect herself and the family she had to leave behind) after some incident about which I’ve forgotten the details. The JSA found out she was still alive and invited her to “come home”. I feel bad that I can’t remember all the details, because I loved that story and have a lot of affection for the character.
I’m pretty sure the JSA knew all along she was still alive, and the visits to Santa were a regular thing. What had changed was that the last of the people gunning for her had finally passed on.
DMZ #4: I dunno, I kind of expected some kind of heartstring pulling or very sympathetic characters, but I’m not getting a lot of it yet. Certainly not Matt - he still seems almost as much a cipher as when the series started. The best so far was the sniper bit from a couple issues ago. I’m not sure I care enough to keep reading it.
Plus, what the devil were the special forces deserters doing uselessly patrolling the park when they’ve got such a great set-up? I’m finding it hard to buy the protect-the-trees motive. As tragic as it would be for the war to end and the park to be barren of trees, it’s not like trees couldn’t be transplanted from, say, upstate New York.
I haven’t read DMZ #4 yet, but I’m still getting it. And yeah, I’m still waiting for it to get good. You’re right; the main character isn’t much of a character. If it’s not more interesting soon, I’ll quit reading it. I’m weeding out the books I don’t care about.
Am I the only one who like Supergirl? Can someone explain how she got John’s ring? Did she just move superfast to get it? I didn’t get that from the art. Oh, and why is it whenever a Kryptonian goes bad, he wipes the floor against numerous teams, quite easily (then again, they were on the moon), and in the case before this (I’m looking at you Superboy (Earth-X?)), quite deadly. (Someone should explain that one to me, too :smack: ).
I enjoyed Supergirl. John was fine without his ring because of the forcefield sealing the hull-breach - which I think is visible, faintly, in at least one panel. Yes, she stole the rign at super-speed - the art is inobvious, but you can see the green streak as it leaves his finger.
I’m not convinced “Bad Supergirl” is a normal Kryptonian, because of her claim about being made of willpower and all. Both Supergirl* and Superboy-Prime seems to be pre-Crisis Kryptonians, which means they’re more powerful than just about everybody.
*This is my theory - it has been repeatedly noted that she’s stronger, faster, etc. than Superman.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked Supergirl. I just thought it felt short.
I picked up the **Freshman ** yearbook over the weekend. It consists of some pretty cool art and a short blurb on most of the main characters. We don’t learn much new stuff about the team, but cool nonetheless.
I’ll go on record as not liking the new Supergirl.
I liked the Peter David Supergirl character, and I want to see her again. In fact, I miss much of the supporting cast that made the Superman books worthwhile in the 1990s – Matrix/Supergirl, Bibbo, Keith White, etc. Reading recent Superman books, it feels like his universe has “contracted” a great deal. I don’t enjoy it as much.
I also despise the post-Presidency direction they’ve taken with Lex Luthor.
I want the Post-Crisis DCU to be substantially different than Earth-1, not just warmed over Earth-1 with up-to-date costuming.
I thought she was only stronger than Superman because Supes was still weak from the giant kryptonite meteor. I also thought she was more resilient to green-k (note to self, must re-read my Superman/Batman books, and write them about changing the damn title).
Oh, and yeah, I forgot that Earth-prime had Superboy. Huh, I thought Earth-prime was devoid of superheroes. If Superman (Kal-L), Superboy, and Supergirl are all pre-crisis, I can’t see anyone defeating them, much less the Flashes.
Speaking of which, is there an issue out there that explains how Superboy is all crazy?
