Drunken Comics Rage

Yeah, this is late. I was slacking most of last week and the weekend because of work. I also wasn't able to pick up my comics last Wednesday, and just didn't find the time to over the weekend, so I'm behind on that also. I did want to put up some thoughts on this issue, since I've done the others, but this might be somewhat short.

First off, I'm not really happy with this issue at all. There seems to be just bits and pieces of things going on for the first half or more. I'm not sure if it's because there's a lot going on and there's just not enough room to fill everything out more, or if it's because I should be reading a bunch of tie-ins, and they are just giving us the basics so that the issue isn't totally cracked out, just partially. I'm really hoping the first one, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope.

The first little bit is with The Question. Frankenstein (no really) busts in with a gun, tells her to freeze, and she just asks him "what gangland killing leaves a man mummified?" and takes off. There's then a few things going on that I don't know the details of, which might just be my fault. Frankenstein is working for someone named Taleb, and possibly Father Time. They are talking about a new Global Law Enforcement something-or-other, and are after The Question. I take it these are the big wigs in SHADE.

During this, you see a comet looking thing bust through a building, and hits the ground. The comet thing turns out to be a costumed woman speaking German (I think). No idea who it is, or what she says. at the end of that, SHADE agents pick up The Question.

It then flips to the exiled Monitor. He gets fired from his job, Might be some foreshadowing in here, since it looks like there's a few references to the Metron symbol in a New York subway extension that's from the Paleolithic time period (stone age) and crop circles. Plus, someone seems to be watching the Monitor.

We then flip to Jay Garrick, the elder Flash, retelling what happened at the end of issue #2.All three Flashes, Jay, Barry, and Wally, are all trying to catch the bullet about to kill Orion, but can't do it, and Orion dies. Jay says that he couldn't keep up with the other two, and had to stop.

We then flip to Libra and The Human Flame, they're in what looks like the old school Injustice League headquarters:

Libra hits him with the anti-life equation, and the poor Human Flame becomes a drone. Lex Luthor shows up, stating that he and some others are going to "neutralize" Libra. This is where Libra tells Luthor that the time of Apokolips is at hand, and asks him one more time to join them.

Then we flip to Superman, as Clark Kent, watching over Lois. In the previous part, Luthor mentioned that Libra had somehow stopped Superman and that he hasn't answered an emergency call in over 18 hours.

Well, it seems that somehow, Supes heat vision is the only thing keeping Lois' heat beating. Which sounds all around dumb. First, there was no way for Libra to know that this would happen. If Lois had just died, I doubt Superman would be out of commission. More than likely, he'd be tearing buildings in half trying to find who killed her. Second, I have no idea how heat would keep a heart beating, let alone why he wouldn't burn a hole in her chest to get to her heart. I'm just going to go with it though.

Well, at the end of the scene, someone walks in (sorry, no idea who) and tells him she knows he's Superman, and that he has one chance to save Lois, but he has to leave "this world" with her right now.

It then switches to the Alpha Lanterns talking poor Hal to his tribunal on Oa. I have to say, for the Alpha Lanterns being the ultimate Lanterns and all of that, they have GOT to be the biggest idiots in the universe, and damn smug about it too. As characters, at least as they've been used so far, they're terrible.

Wonder Woman and the older Green Lantern (Alan Scott) decide to start up Article X, which is a Super Hero draft. The series ends with a big bunch of Super Heroes all answering the call. I'll be interested to see what they do with this.

Next (didn't I tell you it seemed like a crap load of stuff?) we're back in Japan, where Mister Miracle and the Sumo Wrestler are talking. Bad guys show up, and Super Young Team saves them in a flying car.

Next, Wonder Woman is going into Bludhaven. She meets up with Mary Marvel, whose under the influence of the anti-life equation. They fight, and Mary Marvel tell Wonder Woman she does what Darksied tells her now, and they've been living in human bodies, which is why no one could find them. Mary also tells Wonder Woman that they needed a disease carrier, shows Wonder Woman a broken vile, and tells WW that she's it.

Then over to Oracle and Mr. Terrific who are watching over things. Oracle says that someone in Bludhaven just sent an email to everyone on the planet, and the email start opening itself. It seems that it doesn't go well for them.

Finally, Wally and Barry stop running, and are a few weeks in the future. Barry actually says that he was dead, and doesn't seem to be happy about being back. On the final page, it looks as if Wonder Woman and a few others are totally under Darkseid's control, and about to kill the Flashes.

I'll give you that most of everything in the book is interesting, and the other issues were set up the same way. Fast paced, with just a little piece of the story. This one felt like more of a recap of everything though, rather than an actual story. I'm hoping that they tie everything together sometime soon, and we get a lot more continuous story lines, rather than just a few pages of 10 different things. I'll just have to wait and see.

I just don't have any desire to pick up a bunch of extra stuff, and tie-ins, to keep up with what's going on.

 

 

 

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