JLA #5 Preview - The fate of Catwoman
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scans_dailyThe CBR preview of the new JLA #5 has something of a spoiler to it, inasmuch as it reveals (or at least very, very stronly hints at what happened to Selina at the end of last issue.
But before that, a fun little moment as ARGUS approachs Simon Baz to be their Green Lantern.
How... reassuring to see that the ARGUS agent has all the sensitivity toa First Contact situation that one might hope for. ... You just did the equivalent of calling a man you've never met before a chimpanzee! Whatever else s/he is Bd'G, s/he is a sentient alien with a freaking power ring and they are floating right there in front of you.
Meanwhile, whilst Catwoman lies dead at his feet, the weird looking leader of the Society is talking things over with his colleagues; Copperhead, Signalman and Blockbuster (Who the pale guy is is still unconfirmed, but I rather like the idea that he's Alfred from Earth 3 as the Outsider (Though Alfred as the original Outsider WAS a villain, so I'd have thought that made him a hero on Earth-3... or something)
Looks pretty obvious to me who this "Selina" has REALLY been (Red eyed shapeshifter linked to the JLA? Tough one, no? :) ), and I suspect things are about to get a lot less certain for the villains of the piece.
But before that, a fun little moment as ARGUS approachs Simon Baz to be their Green Lantern.
How... reassuring to see that the ARGUS agent has all the sensitivity toa First Contact situation that one might hope for. ... You just did the equivalent of calling a man you've never met before a chimpanzee! Whatever else s/he is Bd'G, s/he is a sentient alien with a freaking power ring and they are floating right there in front of you.
Meanwhile, whilst Catwoman lies dead at his feet, the weird looking leader of the Society is talking things over with his colleagues; Copperhead, Signalman and Blockbuster (Who the pale guy is is still unconfirmed, but I rather like the idea that he's Alfred from Earth 3 as the Outsider (Though Alfred as the original Outsider WAS a villain, so I'd have thought that made him a hero on Earth-3... or something)
Looks pretty obvious to me who this "Selina" has REALLY been (Red eyed shapeshifter linked to the JLA? Tough one, no? :) ), and I suspect things are about to get a lot less certain for the villains of the piece.
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Date: 2013-06-25 09:43 pm (UTC)Oh, great, the super rapist is back. Maybe they can find some way to make him not a joke in this continuity, because they sure never found a way in any other one.
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Date: 2013-06-25 10:08 pm (UTC)http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/06/12/justice-league-identity-crisis-doctor-light-dc/
It's a bit of an abrupt change, but changing shit like Identity Crisis is exactly the kind of thing that DC should be doing with their reboot.
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Date: 2013-06-26 07:05 am (UTC)I like villains like that.
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Date: 2013-06-26 05:23 am (UTC)But, yeah. It turned him into an even worse joke than before, because the joke wasn't even funny.
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Date: 2013-06-26 01:59 pm (UTC)Plus the other the Leagues shock at Light's rape is what really motivates the lobotomy (kind of a skeevy use of rape as a plot device in retrospect). So Meltzer I guess felt that he had to show and prove to the reader the REAL RISKS AND CONSEQUENCES of supervillains knowing who you are, your loved ones, and where you live. Just telling us and years of understanding/indulging in the trope as comic readers wasnt enough I guess.
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Date: 2013-06-25 10:18 pm (UTC)He started strong (if fighting the Silver Age Atom using a "Lethal Light Bulb" can be said to be "starting strong"), recruited the Fearsome Five via a small ad in the Underworld Gazette, but ended up kicked out by them when they realised they did better without him, and he ended up being defeated by, amongst others, a newly formed "Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys" on their first time out, and Robin with a concealed sleeping gas capsule.
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Date: 2013-06-26 03:07 am (UTC)Man, I miss the good Suicide Squad series. (Good as in quality not the morality of its members.)
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Date: 2013-06-26 02:30 am (UTC)I'm going with theory that the Society's leader is the outsider and he's a combination of either the Alfred version or the Outsider from Flashpoint.
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Date: 2013-06-26 04:42 am (UTC)And even though this story looks pretty uninteresting I'd be happy if DC brought back the Flashpoint Outsider, he was one of the better ideas to show up during that event.
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Date: 2013-06-26 06:15 pm (UTC)-
A lot of characters are like that. Come out weak during the hype, improve a lot once it's passed.
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