52 #52: 43 Notes
Responses to the end of the 52 megamaxiawsumseries. Don't even TRY to keep up with this if you haven't read the story...
1. Wait, you're kidding, right? Time-eating Mr. Mind messes up 51 alternate earths... and he just happens, by pure accident, to mess them up in ways that restore the specific alternate-Earth scenarios people wrote about in the sixties and seventies? That's like if you blow up a small mountain, and all of the pieces fall together in the exact shape of the Gaza Pyramids.
2. I'm on board with this "multiverse of possibility" thing, I really am, but we already have a bunch of stories about the Quality Comics/Nazi Earth and the Captain Marvel Earth and the Charlton Earth and the 1980s-1990s-model Wildstorm and and Kingdom Come and such. You're advertising 51 new worlds and you think I'll be happiest if you sell me used worlds for the same price? I'm ready to read about a terrorist-ruled Earth, a new funny-animal Earth, an Earth full of manga tropes, a world where Bruce Wayne and Hal Jordan exist but superheroes and power rings don't, or maybe a world where there's just Wonder Woman and no other superheroes (and there never WILL be, ever). Now, I wouldn't be reading DC Comics in the first place if I wasn't fond of old ideas, but I want those old ideas to be part of a recipe that takes me somewhere new, not to a self-congratulatory clip show with the theme: "Gosh, DC and the companies it's absorbed sure have published a lot of nifty stories."
3. At times, 52 seems to agree with me. Rip Hunter says: "Look around you... there's so much more happening out there than we could ever have imagined... That's the way things should be." Thematic statement of the series? I think so... which is why the restored Earths seem out of place.
4. Of course, it'd be easier to take that thematic statement seriously if Rip hadn't also said, on the very same page, "Mr. Mind... wreaked unimaginable havoc on fifty-plus earths. We can never take the chance that it can be done again." Booster Gold: "Aren't you worried that so much is broken?" Rip Hunter: "Broken or opened? Blah blah multiverse of possibility." Booster: "Wait, so is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Rip: "It's all in how you look at it." Booster: "But you just said UNIMAGINABLE HAVOC--" Rip: "No, I didn't 'said' that, any more. I'm a time traveler. I just made that part of the conversation never happen."
5. Page 3: "Each parallel Earth an exact copy of ours in every way." My God, I could be traveling into alternate universes ALL the TIME and NEVER KNOW IT! And it also WOULDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO MY LIFE WHATSOEVER!
6. Page 5: "Connor Kent?" Booster doesn't know Superman's secret identity, does he? If he doesn't he just got a big clue...
7. Soooo, any permanent effects on the Phantom Zone from being eaten, half-digested and spit back out? I feel a song coming on. "Sum-times I fe-el like I live... in a regurgitated re-aaaa-li-ty..."
8. The dynamic between Daniel, Booster and Rip is pretty charming and makes the exposition actually believable for the most part. I usually hate how much talking and explaining happens during superhero fights, but in this case Rip really does need to keep these guys up to speed to make sure they don't do anything rash. It really WOULD be funny to see time travel used to facilitate conversation, though...
9. I have nothing but good things to say about Booster Gold's development as a character this issue and during this series. He still believes in the value of fame ("Modesty's for the forgotten") but no longer seeks it for himself. And I love the concept of his upcoming series, where he makes everyone think he's an idiot so that time-travelers from the future will never bother to assassinate him. For someone like Booster, there can be no greater penance. Powerful stuff.
10. The Blue Beetle-Booster Gold sequence is, as others have said, sad and sweet and much better closure for their friendship than anything else we've gotten. It's so good that I'm willing to ignore the fact that Booster doesn't exactly act like the multiverse is gonna die if he doesn't hurry. (But maybe in time-travel you don't need to "hurry..." but then, why not take some time off between panels to rest up and get a massage... thinking too much again, aren't I?)
11. Similarly, it's nice to see Booster's football past come in at the climax, but really, dude, the cannon is going to throw harder than your arm. Trust me on this.
12. Most unexpectedly successful makeover of the whole series: Sivana. DC's head writers clearly seem to identify with this bald-headed hyperintelligent obsessive freak. Can't think why.
13. I'm a little iffy on Skeets' survival after all the mourning Booster does for him, but Booster's gonna need someone to talk to who's in on his scam, someone he can trust to keep his secret even unto the grave.
14. Egg Fu (I refuse to call him anything else!) looks real good in his cameo here, but I hope he starts hatching better plans than "Operation eBay."
15. Ralph's encounter with Jean Loring was a storytelling highlight of the series, maybe its best single issue. Funny how so many of the best DC Comics are the ones performing damage control on other, more questionable plots. Maybe this is why we're addicted to reboots in the first place: too much of a good thing?
16. 52 succeeded in making me want to see more Lobo. He's actually pretty funny when you stop using the same five jokes about him. And he's showing up in Waid and Perez's Brave and the Bold? Good tiiiiimes.
17. One more did-Adam-Strange-have-eyes-during-that-story-or-not bit of ambiguity in the flashback! Drink!
18. Starfire did a nice job standing on her own in this series, away from the Titans and Nightwing. Her determination to honor Buddy was a great touch. We'd all like to see more of her, right? I'm NOT just asking because I pitched a Starfire special at the New York Comic-Con this year! That's a bonus incentive, honest!
19. There doesn't seem to be much left to say or do with Buddy Baker. For most of the second and third acts his story looked like a direct steal from Swamp Thing #62 (and it wouldn't be the first or second time that Animal Man stories seemed uncomfortably heavily influenced by that series). I'm with Douglas Wolk: let the man have his happy ending.
20. Lady Styx in 52: Scary as hell. Lady Styx in Mystery in Space: Surprisingly hands-off and nearsighted. I'm hoping she's handled carefully in the next few years.
21. The death of Vic Sage, AKA Charlie. Would that be short for "Charlton?" The return of Earth-4, Earth-S/Earth-5 and Earth-X/Earth-10 probably has some connection to the way the characters who were originally part of those Earths now seem to be dropping like flies on Earth-1 (Blue Beetle dead, Shazam dead, the Freedom Fighters slaughtered at the beginning of Infinite Crisis, now Vic and probably others I'm forgetting, plus Captain Atom seems permanently out-of-universe).
22. I have a higher opinion than Wolk's of the Luthor-Steel battle: though I agree it was padded. Padding aside, we finally get to see Steel standing in for Superman, just as he meant to when he first picked up the hammer. But like Buddy, he seems to have reached a good stopping point-- with so many superheroes around, Luthor gone and Superman back, I think he'll be happier in his workshop than gallivanting around with the Justice League.
23. I'm gonna take issue with Black Adam crying over Isis. It's a homage to Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, but if you look back at her original death scene, we don't see him cry. And I think that is significant: Adam channels grief into rage, not sorrow, which is why he had so much rage before he met Adrianna, and it's the best motivation for his final rampage. (Logic sure isn't: "Criminals hidden within the Chinese government killed my family... SO AUSTRALIA MUST PAY!!!")
24. Presumably, Rip has been teaching Supernova a whole lot about spacetime football... even though Rip was planning to use a big cannon to... um... okay, the cannon was supposed to lob Skeets in and Supernova was supposed to take it the rest of the way... right? Sure, okay.
25. This "time loop" meme has been done before, in Alan Moore's Supreme and a twist on Barry Allen's death in Secret Origins, and probably lots of other places. Though it really doesn't make a lot of sense unless Mr. Mind forgets everything about his previous existence every time, and never ages, and the ripples through time that he creates never affect his own timeline, and AAAAAAGH. Oh, hell, it does have a certain elegance... though I wouldn't have minded seeing an extra page where these logical questions were turned into surreal brain-benders, the way Morrison does so well.
26. Sivana and Mind's scene recalls a scene from Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", but it certainly ends a lot more happily for the mad scientist.
27. Come to that, the big two-page "welcome home" spread seems vaguely reminiscent of the final panel of Civil War, though it's a lot more appropriate here than there.
28. And as we come full circle here, I'll try to articulate my problem a bit better. I get the significance of the opening and closing spreads. 51 unexplored worlds, who wouldn't be excited by that? I just wish the worlds felt less familiar and more fresh. The only world that doesn't come off as a second-rate superhero society is the world of the Atomic Knights.
29. The message here seems to be propagandistic: that DC's "New Earth" (Earth-1, right?) is pretty close to The Ideal Earth, and you're all so lucky to be reading stories about The Ideal Characters already! I have the same general problem with DC One Million, which advances the idea that one million months in the future, society will still be slavishly devoted to re-producing the Justice League, never having developed any heroic icons that surpassed them. Likewise, Star Trek promises you a rich society of dozens of alien races, and then you get there and realize the aliens are almost all humans with expensive makeup and narrowed emotional ranges.
30. The above is, I think, a serious problem for the superhero genre as it exists today. There is nothing wrong with building on the past... but DC and Marvel stories seem so focused on previouslies, there's not much intellectual room for new ideas. When 52 has produced new ideas, it has excelled, and it's done so more often than any major series since the days of Jack Kirby. It would have been nice to go out with some really new ideas, too.
31. Incidentally, I would even sacrifice my beloved Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew to the altar of Truly New Earths. But I admit that if they show up in some form in the future, I'll complain a bit less than I will about Earth-4.
32. Isis not so dead after all? With the disillusioned attitude she possessed in the moments before she died? Could be interesting... Or... perhaps this is a new Isis? Does the power live on after she's gone? With Black Adam out of action, would she get all the attention from the Egyptian Gods? I'm intrigued...
33. ...far more intrigued than I am by the prospect of Teth-Adam himself. I'm with Wolk again: his story had an ending, and should be left there. But Pete Tomasi has apparently left editing to write a Black Adam sequel, so it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Not respecting a strong ending is another problem superhero comics are facing these days... although strong endings are rare enough that the problem isn't half so pronounced.
34. And that's something for which 52 deserves praise. It would have been easy to turn this whole story into a teaser for Countdown, but instead, it really is an ending... and the one teaser the story does contain doubles as a fitting conclusion to the life of Ralph Dibny.
35. One Black Adam plot that would interest me: Sivana had Adam at his mercy for days and ran all kinds of tests, right? He's surely got some detailed genetic information, right? Actual cell scrapings, the kind you can't usually get from an invulnerable, magical being, which would be very very valuable now that Adam is human and he's leaving genetic material wherever he goes. Say Sivana offers that information to some shady government operatives who want the glory of bringing in the world's most wanted mortal. But he wants... something in exchange. Nothing unreasonable, mind you... a trifle, really... heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
36. Guess Intergang's Apokalyptic plans for Earth are still worth worrying about. That spontaneous firepit sure looks Darkseidy to me. And I hear Darkseid's the star in COUNTDOWN, with a big musical number and everything. Hey, maybe that promo for COUNTDOWN is supposed to look like Darkseid is standing in a hole!
37. The children's drawings say "Darkseid" to me, too. In fact, they remind me of this quote from Darkseid's appearance in, of all place, Teen Titans/X-Men:
Kitty Pryde: "You!! You're the thing from my nightmare! You're real!"
Darkseid: "I am indeed! Adults deny me, but children know me for what I am. That makes them dangerous, and worthy to be cherished, for in their innocence lies the universe's salvation, and in the loss of that innocence, my ultimate victory!"
38. Glory be. I didn't really think they'd actually kill Dibny! I mean, they showed an actual death scene and followed it up with a symbolic death scene and there was a funeral and they made damn sure the character had nowhere else to go, but this am comics, you know?
39. This looks like as close to a happy ending as suicidal Ralph and brain-squished, can-never-be-un-raped Sue are going to get. I'm not sure exactly how a ghost who can go anywhere and see anything can really be challenged by a mystery, but don't tell me, okay?
40. Granted, the ending would look slightly happier if the artwork made Ralph and Sue look like the merry spirits that their clothes and dialogue seem to evoke. Instead Dibny looks awkwardly not-quite-stretched-and-not-quite-in-proportion, as if that Gingold finally gave him Marfan syndrome, and Sue looks like a rotting corpse with falsies. Ease up on the inks and measure the proportions, fellas.
41. I figured the Batwoman had a good chance of survival... Montoya'd come from Nanda "we cure everything" Pardat, after all, and if she's watched movies at any time in her life, she knows that the letter of prophecies always comes true. It's how you can defy the implications of their statements that counts!
42. Nice coincidence: Montoya reconstructs the Bat-Signal just before Batman comes back to town. I wonder if the World's Greatest Detective will ever figure out that it wasn't meant for him? (Wouldn't it be HILARIOUS if right after the last page, Batman showed up? "What is it, Montoya?" "....AARGH!")
43. Hey, DC managed to get not one but two lesbian superheroes out of this! Good for them! (But no male gays, because they're icky and lezzies are hot.) Does that mean that Batwoman and the Question can BREED A NEW SUPER-RACE OF LESBIANS? I'm sure there's a prophecy about that somewhere. You have to admit, it would set Batwoman apart from the other Bat-spinoffs.
1. Wait, you're kidding, right? Time-eating Mr. Mind messes up 51 alternate earths... and he just happens, by pure accident, to mess them up in ways that restore the specific alternate-Earth scenarios people wrote about in the sixties and seventies? That's like if you blow up a small mountain, and all of the pieces fall together in the exact shape of the Gaza Pyramids.
2. I'm on board with this "multiverse of possibility" thing, I really am, but we already have a bunch of stories about the Quality Comics/Nazi Earth and the Captain Marvel Earth and the Charlton Earth and the 1980s-1990s-model Wildstorm and and Kingdom Come and such. You're advertising 51 new worlds and you think I'll be happiest if you sell me used worlds for the same price? I'm ready to read about a terrorist-ruled Earth, a new funny-animal Earth, an Earth full of manga tropes, a world where Bruce Wayne and Hal Jordan exist but superheroes and power rings don't, or maybe a world where there's just Wonder Woman and no other superheroes (and there never WILL be, ever). Now, I wouldn't be reading DC Comics in the first place if I wasn't fond of old ideas, but I want those old ideas to be part of a recipe that takes me somewhere new, not to a self-congratulatory clip show with the theme: "Gosh, DC and the companies it's absorbed sure have published a lot of nifty stories."
3. At times, 52 seems to agree with me. Rip Hunter says: "Look around you... there's so much more happening out there than we could ever have imagined... That's the way things should be." Thematic statement of the series? I think so... which is why the restored Earths seem out of place.
4. Of course, it'd be easier to take that thematic statement seriously if Rip hadn't also said, on the very same page, "Mr. Mind... wreaked unimaginable havoc on fifty-plus earths. We can never take the chance that it can be done again." Booster Gold: "Aren't you worried that so much is broken?" Rip Hunter: "Broken or opened? Blah blah multiverse of possibility." Booster: "Wait, so is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Rip: "It's all in how you look at it." Booster: "But you just said UNIMAGINABLE HAVOC--" Rip: "No, I didn't 'said' that, any more. I'm a time traveler. I just made that part of the conversation never happen."
5. Page 3: "Each parallel Earth an exact copy of ours in every way." My God, I could be traveling into alternate universes ALL the TIME and NEVER KNOW IT! And it also WOULDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO MY LIFE WHATSOEVER!
6. Page 5: "Connor Kent?" Booster doesn't know Superman's secret identity, does he? If he doesn't he just got a big clue...
7. Soooo, any permanent effects on the Phantom Zone from being eaten, half-digested and spit back out? I feel a song coming on. "Sum-times I fe-el like I live... in a regurgitated re-aaaa-li-ty..."
8. The dynamic between Daniel, Booster and Rip is pretty charming and makes the exposition actually believable for the most part. I usually hate how much talking and explaining happens during superhero fights, but in this case Rip really does need to keep these guys up to speed to make sure they don't do anything rash. It really WOULD be funny to see time travel used to facilitate conversation, though...
9. I have nothing but good things to say about Booster Gold's development as a character this issue and during this series. He still believes in the value of fame ("Modesty's for the forgotten") but no longer seeks it for himself. And I love the concept of his upcoming series, where he makes everyone think he's an idiot so that time-travelers from the future will never bother to assassinate him. For someone like Booster, there can be no greater penance. Powerful stuff.
10. The Blue Beetle-Booster Gold sequence is, as others have said, sad and sweet and much better closure for their friendship than anything else we've gotten. It's so good that I'm willing to ignore the fact that Booster doesn't exactly act like the multiverse is gonna die if he doesn't hurry. (But maybe in time-travel you don't need to "hurry..." but then, why not take some time off between panels to rest up and get a massage... thinking too much again, aren't I?)
11. Similarly, it's nice to see Booster's football past come in at the climax, but really, dude, the cannon is going to throw harder than your arm. Trust me on this.
12. Most unexpectedly successful makeover of the whole series: Sivana. DC's head writers clearly seem to identify with this bald-headed hyperintelligent obsessive freak. Can't think why.
13. I'm a little iffy on Skeets' survival after all the mourning Booster does for him, but Booster's gonna need someone to talk to who's in on his scam, someone he can trust to keep his secret even unto the grave.
14. Egg Fu (I refuse to call him anything else!) looks real good in his cameo here, but I hope he starts hatching better plans than "Operation eBay."
15. Ralph's encounter with Jean Loring was a storytelling highlight of the series, maybe its best single issue. Funny how so many of the best DC Comics are the ones performing damage control on other, more questionable plots. Maybe this is why we're addicted to reboots in the first place: too much of a good thing?
16. 52 succeeded in making me want to see more Lobo. He's actually pretty funny when you stop using the same five jokes about him. And he's showing up in Waid and Perez's Brave and the Bold? Good tiiiiimes.
17. One more did-Adam-Strange-have-eyes-during-that-story-or-not bit of ambiguity in the flashback! Drink!
18. Starfire did a nice job standing on her own in this series, away from the Titans and Nightwing. Her determination to honor Buddy was a great touch. We'd all like to see more of her, right? I'm NOT just asking because I pitched a Starfire special at the New York Comic-Con this year! That's a bonus incentive, honest!
19. There doesn't seem to be much left to say or do with Buddy Baker. For most of the second and third acts his story looked like a direct steal from Swamp Thing #62 (and it wouldn't be the first or second time that Animal Man stories seemed uncomfortably heavily influenced by that series). I'm with Douglas Wolk: let the man have his happy ending.
20. Lady Styx in 52: Scary as hell. Lady Styx in Mystery in Space: Surprisingly hands-off and nearsighted. I'm hoping she's handled carefully in the next few years.
21. The death of Vic Sage, AKA Charlie. Would that be short for "Charlton?" The return of Earth-4, Earth-S/Earth-5 and Earth-X/Earth-10 probably has some connection to the way the characters who were originally part of those Earths now seem to be dropping like flies on Earth-1 (Blue Beetle dead, Shazam dead, the Freedom Fighters slaughtered at the beginning of Infinite Crisis, now Vic and probably others I'm forgetting, plus Captain Atom seems permanently out-of-universe).
22. I have a higher opinion than Wolk's of the Luthor-Steel battle: though I agree it was padded. Padding aside, we finally get to see Steel standing in for Superman, just as he meant to when he first picked up the hammer. But like Buddy, he seems to have reached a good stopping point-- with so many superheroes around, Luthor gone and Superman back, I think he'll be happier in his workshop than gallivanting around with the Justice League.
23. I'm gonna take issue with Black Adam crying over Isis. It's a homage to Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, but if you look back at her original death scene, we don't see him cry. And I think that is significant: Adam channels grief into rage, not sorrow, which is why he had so much rage before he met Adrianna, and it's the best motivation for his final rampage. (Logic sure isn't: "Criminals hidden within the Chinese government killed my family... SO AUSTRALIA MUST PAY!!!")
24. Presumably, Rip has been teaching Supernova a whole lot about spacetime football... even though Rip was planning to use a big cannon to... um... okay, the cannon was supposed to lob Skeets in and Supernova was supposed to take it the rest of the way... right? Sure, okay.
25. This "time loop" meme has been done before, in Alan Moore's Supreme and a twist on Barry Allen's death in Secret Origins, and probably lots of other places. Though it really doesn't make a lot of sense unless Mr. Mind forgets everything about his previous existence every time, and never ages, and the ripples through time that he creates never affect his own timeline, and AAAAAAGH. Oh, hell, it does have a certain elegance... though I wouldn't have minded seeing an extra page where these logical questions were turned into surreal brain-benders, the way Morrison does so well.
26. Sivana and Mind's scene recalls a scene from Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", but it certainly ends a lot more happily for the mad scientist.
27. Come to that, the big two-page "welcome home" spread seems vaguely reminiscent of the final panel of Civil War, though it's a lot more appropriate here than there.
28. And as we come full circle here, I'll try to articulate my problem a bit better. I get the significance of the opening and closing spreads. 51 unexplored worlds, who wouldn't be excited by that? I just wish the worlds felt less familiar and more fresh. The only world that doesn't come off as a second-rate superhero society is the world of the Atomic Knights.
29. The message here seems to be propagandistic: that DC's "New Earth" (Earth-1, right?) is pretty close to The Ideal Earth, and you're all so lucky to be reading stories about The Ideal Characters already! I have the same general problem with DC One Million, which advances the idea that one million months in the future, society will still be slavishly devoted to re-producing the Justice League, never having developed any heroic icons that surpassed them. Likewise, Star Trek promises you a rich society of dozens of alien races, and then you get there and realize the aliens are almost all humans with expensive makeup and narrowed emotional ranges.
30. The above is, I think, a serious problem for the superhero genre as it exists today. There is nothing wrong with building on the past... but DC and Marvel stories seem so focused on previouslies, there's not much intellectual room for new ideas. When 52 has produced new ideas, it has excelled, and it's done so more often than any major series since the days of Jack Kirby. It would have been nice to go out with some really new ideas, too.
31. Incidentally, I would even sacrifice my beloved Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew to the altar of Truly New Earths. But I admit that if they show up in some form in the future, I'll complain a bit less than I will about Earth-4.
32. Isis not so dead after all? With the disillusioned attitude she possessed in the moments before she died? Could be interesting... Or... perhaps this is a new Isis? Does the power live on after she's gone? With Black Adam out of action, would she get all the attention from the Egyptian Gods? I'm intrigued...
33. ...far more intrigued than I am by the prospect of Teth-Adam himself. I'm with Wolk again: his story had an ending, and should be left there. But Pete Tomasi has apparently left editing to write a Black Adam sequel, so it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Not respecting a strong ending is another problem superhero comics are facing these days... although strong endings are rare enough that the problem isn't half so pronounced.
34. And that's something for which 52 deserves praise. It would have been easy to turn this whole story into a teaser for Countdown, but instead, it really is an ending... and the one teaser the story does contain doubles as a fitting conclusion to the life of Ralph Dibny.
35. One Black Adam plot that would interest me: Sivana had Adam at his mercy for days and ran all kinds of tests, right? He's surely got some detailed genetic information, right? Actual cell scrapings, the kind you can't usually get from an invulnerable, magical being, which would be very very valuable now that Adam is human and he's leaving genetic material wherever he goes. Say Sivana offers that information to some shady government operatives who want the glory of bringing in the world's most wanted mortal. But he wants... something in exchange. Nothing unreasonable, mind you... a trifle, really... heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
36. Guess Intergang's Apokalyptic plans for Earth are still worth worrying about. That spontaneous firepit sure looks Darkseidy to me. And I hear Darkseid's the star in COUNTDOWN, with a big musical number and everything. Hey, maybe that promo for COUNTDOWN is supposed to look like Darkseid is standing in a hole!
37. The children's drawings say "Darkseid" to me, too. In fact, they remind me of this quote from Darkseid's appearance in, of all place, Teen Titans/X-Men:
Kitty Pryde: "You!! You're the thing from my nightmare! You're real!"
Darkseid: "I am indeed! Adults deny me, but children know me for what I am. That makes them dangerous, and worthy to be cherished, for in their innocence lies the universe's salvation, and in the loss of that innocence, my ultimate victory!"
38. Glory be. I didn't really think they'd actually kill Dibny! I mean, they showed an actual death scene and followed it up with a symbolic death scene and there was a funeral and they made damn sure the character had nowhere else to go, but this am comics, you know?
39. This looks like as close to a happy ending as suicidal Ralph and brain-squished, can-never-be-un-raped Sue are going to get. I'm not sure exactly how a ghost who can go anywhere and see anything can really be challenged by a mystery, but don't tell me, okay?
40. Granted, the ending would look slightly happier if the artwork made Ralph and Sue look like the merry spirits that their clothes and dialogue seem to evoke. Instead Dibny looks awkwardly not-quite-stretched-and-not-quite-in-proportion, as if that Gingold finally gave him Marfan syndrome, and Sue looks like a rotting corpse with falsies. Ease up on the inks and measure the proportions, fellas.
41. I figured the Batwoman had a good chance of survival... Montoya'd come from Nanda "we cure everything" Pardat, after all, and if she's watched movies at any time in her life, she knows that the letter of prophecies always comes true. It's how you can defy the implications of their statements that counts!
42. Nice coincidence: Montoya reconstructs the Bat-Signal just before Batman comes back to town. I wonder if the World's Greatest Detective will ever figure out that it wasn't meant for him? (Wouldn't it be HILARIOUS if right after the last page, Batman showed up? "What is it, Montoya?" "....AARGH!")
43. Hey, DC managed to get not one but two lesbian superheroes out of this! Good for them! (But no male gays, because they're icky and lezzies are hot.) Does that mean that Batwoman and the Question can BREED A NEW SUPER-RACE OF LESBIANS? I'm sure there's a prophecy about that somewhere. You have to admit, it would set Batwoman apart from the other Bat-spinoffs.
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