Tuesday, July 11, 2006

52 #6-9

Posting this all together, because nobody reads this page anyways. Here goes:
WEEK SIX
p.1 Why is Booster such a prima donna asshole?
p.2 That Kid has a Booster Gold comic...could we be far behind?
p.6 Ghost Fox women? Far-away homeland? Super young yeam? Whatever.
p.7 Hal speaks in English, and his opponent answers in Chinese.
p.9 Since the Chinese government has persecuted Buddhists and Nepalese, it seems odd that one of their superheroes should identify with same.
p.10 "All that other stuff?" Do scientists really talk like that?
p.15 Black Adam is telling Hal to retreat, yet he's trying to grab on to his ankle.
p.17 What are Time Capsule Minutemen?
52 reference: Midnight, January first, fifty-two b.c.
p.18-19
Man of Steel==John Henry Irons turning into Steel
Find the last "EL"==when do the metropolis trains stop running at night (jk)
Further time is different==could refer to the eradication of the time controllers and hypertime
it hurts to breathe==isn't that what the Bulleteer's husband said before he died?
Who is Super Nova?==SuperNova is definitely that guy who shows up in Week 8
Te versus (Au+Pb) => must have a further non-chemical meaning. look deeper.
Someone is monitoring. They see us. They see me. == It's Egg FU!!
Khimaera lives again. => Who is Khimaera? There was a villain named Chimaera, and three named Chimera, and Nightshade used Chimera as an undercover identity.
The Lazarus pit rises.=>This could refer to the resurrection of Lady Shiva
To me it looked like "Szo Kane" not 320 Kane.

History THE DCU Part 5
p.22 The JLI saved the world on numerous occasions in that incarnation. Please stop shitting all over them.
Note that the new continuity, once again, has Joe Chill, the murderer of the Waynes being brought to Justice.
Jason's subsequent return would have ramifications "IN YEARS TO COME?"
p.24 Who are the Team Titans pictured?



WEEK SEVEN:
p.1 How is Adam functioning without his sight?
Starfire is leaning on Buddy!! WOODY! Well, but she's gone all Anna Nicole with food all over her face, so...
p.3 Rangers from Tomorrow?
p.4 Who is Kate Kane? Why have we never seen her before?
p.6 Why is Booster such a dick?
p.8 Sets Identity Crisis #1 eight months ago.
p.17 With all his sponsorships, why would Booster's check bounce? How come he wouldn't have been informed that the armor hadn't been returned?
HOTDCU
p.23 Are we blaming continuity errors on Superman-2 now?
p.25 Even upon explanation, the Damage/Big Bang thing makes as little sense now as it did then.
They left out AzBat. They left Ollie out of the frame.

WEEK EIGHT:
Cover: act now? probably trying to evoke some wartime effort posters
p.2 Steel IS going all colossus!
P.4 Apparently Ralph doesn't WANT to be stretchy anymore.
p.5 It was Ralph's idea that Ollie should run for Mayor
p.6 what a moron...what, Ralph didn't realize Ollie had been dead?
p.7 Chromium, Nickel, Carbon, Iron==Stainless Steel?
p.12 Clark!
p.14 What moron does welding in a halter top?
p.17 How does getting caught in a net knock Adam and Buddy out?
p.21 "Look to the skies?" Oh, no...are they going to turn red again?
HOTDCU
p.22 Who are Atom's titans?
p.23 "For a while, so much was changing so fast that I could barely keep up!" ugh awful
Who is the golden black man behind Dick?
Who's the white-faced chick?
Is that Jesse Quick?
p.24 "from there it seems like things just got worse" ugh awful
Oa was reconstucted by Tom Kalmaku
p.25 Who is drawing Ralph's costume? An open chest, then a solid extension, then an open neck? Ugh!


WEEK NINE:
p.1 Is Lex talking about Pete Ross or himself? In the new reality is Lex Luthor from Smallville?
When the "Meta plague" happened during Lex's tenure in office, didn't he lead the charge to quarantine and confine them?
p.2 So Steel can throw drops of molten metaL from his fingertips?
p.3 "Don't fight me" she says, as she punches him out of a window!
Did the powers Lex gave Nat include Power Girl breasts?
p.11 Obviously Steel's transformation includes some degree of invulnerability.
p.13,15 Devilance calls himself the god of the Pursuit, but Buddy translates that to "God of the Hunt".
p.16 How can Adam see to jump, and how does he see the lance?
p.17 That was quick - only one week, and already Ollie has thrown his hat in the ring.
p.20 And theeere's the Batwoman. Funny we've NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE!!! She must be following Renee for SOME reason, but what it is...well...it's probably stupid.

Dan Didio ALWAYS says it's "a great time to be a fan of comics, and an even better time to be a fan of DC Comics" regardless of whether or not anything special is happening, even if comics suck, and especially DC comics, he ALWAYS says this. What a moron.

HOTDCU
OMG it's identity crisis week, and they start by telling the major plot points, and by plot points I mean major spots of nastiness IN ORDER!!! They could have put the rape much earlier, the mindwipes, then the murder, the identity of the killer, then everything else, but instead they treat it like it's STILL A MYSTERY!!! Assholes. Seriously, since we all know the ending, why even include the "attempted hanging" of Jean Loring?

p.21 "probably the nicest, most genuine people I ever met" bleeeaaagh.
p.24 we go back in time to the brainwashing of batman...why not do this earlier????
"The league continued on" - funny, all the leaguers pictured here were NOT PRESENT AT THE TIME OF THE MINDWIPE!!!!
Batman didn't "remember", he SUSPECTED/DEDUCED - at least so we were led to believe
Oh look! Donna's face is leaking!

All these issues come nowhere near GOOD. They are passable. EH-OKAY. HOTDCU: AWFUL.
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