52 #13

52 #13
p.2 Wouldn't the cultists notice a few people wearing masks?
p.2-4 Why wouldn't Ralph fill everybody in on the particulars BEFORE calling them in? As if:"Hi it's Ralph, come meet me at this cult gathering."/"Okay! See you there!" and that's the end of the conversation? No details, no nothing? Uh huh...
p.5 The waters of Memon, the fires of Threntar...anybody?
p.6 Okay, so maybe if they knew what he had planned, they wouldn't have gone with Ralph, but still, to not understand a bit of what's going on? That's a bit farfetched.
Blood Kryptonite?
p.7 Why does Hal refer to Ralph in the third person? "I was the one who brought the Elongated Man into the JLA. " That must have been some other Elongated Man. Maybe it was a clone!
p.8 TYPO!!! co-N-fused
p.10 So Adrianna's brother has a classical Egyptian name? Amon? What real Egyptian is named Amon nowadays?
p.12 Kanjar Ro's gamma gong...anybody?
What suddenly convinced Ralph to drop all pretense?
p.14 It doesn't matter to Cassie that the rope is yellow, if it were brown she'd try the same thing...it's her primary weapon. And isn't it supposed to have electrical properties?
p.15 Oh my god, it worked? No, wait - the post-crisis Dev-Em had extremely strong mental powers which he could use to shape reality to his whims, to the point that he remade himself into a superbeing. He probably used them to animate the wicker Sue.
p.17 Yeah, look at Devem's face. He has no emotion whatsoever...he's definitely trying to fuck with Ralph's mind.
p.19 Why would Ralph leave his wedding ring behind?
p.20 Some think that shadowy lurker by the fence is the Phantom Stranger. But there's no fedora, so I'm hoping it's Constantine!!!

p.22 Yeah! It was a meta capability that allowed Ralph to be able to use the Gingold extract to its full potential, instead of dying from it.
When was an "Oceanographer found murdered in one man bathysphere"? Anybody?
According to Waid, Ralph has abandoned Gingold...but apparently could still use it if he wanted to.
The last story panel proves Ralph is crazy...she's six feet down. Duh!
Lateral thinking which he hasn't been using recently. He's basically just been stumbling around and having things happen to him for the most part, without completely researching what he's getting into, or taking his investigations beyond their most fundamental level.

p.23 So Donner is going to be on Action? Great. But I still want Busiek working with Nicieza on Superman, NOT with Johns. Nicieza has a sense of humor which Johns lacks, and has a talent for producing consistently great comics, rarely producing stale issues. Please, DC, bring Nicieza to Superman! Please, please, please.

Douglas Wolk referred to the wikipedia entry on "Comic Book Death". My favorite listing in that article is:
Dazzler: died in New Excalibur #6; returned in New Excalibur #7
Yes, that's right...with no explanation whatsoever!!! And now that Claremont's gone, we may never know how/why!!!

Overall, a very coherent story, but it's over too quickly, completely ignoring everybody else (except Adam - which, truthfully, was a waste of space). And the story completely ignores all days of this week except the one. I'd say OKAY. For the second week in a row. The series does seem to (hopefully) be shaping up.
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