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13:00 / 14.05.06

That cover image is really weird, given who else is on it.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

19:08 / 14.05.06

Where can these images be found?

19:12 / 14.05.06

Newsarama

23:51 / 15.05.06

This was fun, a bit odd with the stilted sense of the first half (a page every day? some pages including 2 days? It made me think 'they are giving us flashes of essential information that will prove key to the story' but the 1 day-1 page thing kind of took me out of it for a bit). I like the idea that a major event Booster is expecting in the timeline doesn't happen and messes everything up....and what happened to poor Skeets? DEAR GOD, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SKEEEETSSSS!!!??!?!?!??!

Ahem. The little preview panel of the next issue was interesting...are we going to get one of those taking up 1/3 of a page at the end of every issue? Also, wasn't the first ish supposed to have the 2-page History of the New Earth DCU thingie? I guess that starts with issue 2.

The thing that interests me most at this point is the Church of the Upside-Down/Perverted Superman. I thought they'd be baddies at first but one of the new covers shows Hal Jordan and Ollie apparently features as hooded cult members. Or maybe they're trying to infiltrate the Evil Superman cult?

23:52 / 15.05.06

And it's fun to play the 'who do we think wrote this page, stylistically' game too.

23:55 / 15.05.06

The hooded figures on that cover are all heroes who've come back from the dead. Zauriel, Metamorpho, Hal, & Ollie.

00:59 / 16.05.06

Don't forget Superman.

03:09 / 16.05.06

Good Gord...I NEEEEEED to get to a comic store...

23:10 / 18.05.06

SPOILERS for week two....

So, it looks like the Question/Montoya stuff is mostly written by Rucka and the Magnus/T.O. Morrow scene feels like it's by Morrison mostly. Aye?

And.....

further spoilers....

as an intrepid poster noted above, it really is the Church of the Super-Resurrection! But will they be good or eeeeevil? I have a feeling the plot to resurrect Sue Dibny (if that's where we're going here) will end in tragedy and not with her actually coming back to life.

This issue read more fluidly than #1.

Phex: Dorset Doom

23:29 / 18.05.06

Will they be good or evil? Well, it's three superheroes and a frickin' angel... so I'm guessing they'll probably ressurect Chemo and drop him on Orphanage City ('City of Orphanages! says the guidebook).

And does anybody know what OPRK is? It's on Ralph's Number-One-Fan's t-shirt and Booster's right thigh.

23:36 / 18.05.06

Morrison is indeed writing the Booster Gold => Will magnus inventor of the Metal Men story arch. He told me so.

Actually he told alot of people at Wonder Con, I just happened to be there.

There is still some layout mechanics that seem to still be working themselves out. The first week seemed quite packed. As the series progresses I'm hopful the series will gell more.

As I understand it some story archs will be longer than others thus allowing new(er) stories to kick in at stagered intervals.

I'm wondering how this series will rate along the Supercompressed vs. Decompressed scale of storytelling. On the one hand alot seems to happen in a given issue but no more than a week's worth of events and is that enough over the course of 52 stated issues?

00:16 / 19.05.06

Google gives a handful of possibilities for OPRK. (an airport, a protein, a legal society, an opiate receptor, and the president of Korea

) But none of them fit. I'm almost positive it's important, tho.

02:50 / 19.05.06

I'm wondering if the K of OPRK (OPrK?) stands for Krypton. Just a stray thought though.

08:25 / 19.05.06

Could someone explain to me what Booster's shooting at when he rescues the plane?

I thank you.

10:58 / 19.05.06

Red Inferno?

Does this mean there's also a Red Tsunami and a Red "Earthquake"?

The reeks of Morrison.

11:19 / 19.05.06

Skeets, his little floaty AI thing.

And you gotta love Morrow's response to Reddy's sacrifice:

"Why does he keep having to DO that?"

12:33 / 19.05.06

Skeets, his little floaty AI thing

Was that in response to me? Why would Booster be shooting at Skeets?

Cass, my thoughts exactly. Could just be a throwaway Morrisonian ideabomb, though.

I love Booster Gold at the moment. Thanks, Granticus.

12:42 / 19.05.06

He seems to be blasting something off the plane. A wheel covering? An entry hatch?

12:59 / 19.05.06

i thought he was blasting the engine off but that's stupid now i think about it.

13:18 / 19.05.06

the Organized People/Overwhelming Prayers [for the] Resurrection of Krypton?

[the notion that the "S" symbol is actually a Kryptonian symbol that means hope was first brought forth in Season 2 or 3 of Smallvile, incidentally]

Also, I know the resurrected heroes on that upcoming 52 cover are...well, heroes, but spray painting a resurrection symbol on Sue Dibney's grave reeks of something sinister, as does that slim figure in black and what appears to be a thin ninja-type mask... if it was just a bunch of nice heroes who wanted to bring Sue back to life, I doubt they'd communicate their intent by, oh, something like a message on Sue's grave. Looks like this is an internet cult of zealots who have decided to worship Krypton and its gods and might think they're doing the heroes a favor by trying to bring Sue back to life...however they seem creepy/cultish and I'm sure will mess things up royally somewhere down the line.

Maybe the upcoming cover of resurrected heroes is about the heroes trying to infiltrate the cult with their street cred?

13:20 / 19.05.06

since Supes has disappeared when 52 begins, maybe the Cult of the Resurrected Superman thinks he's died again and will come back to life yet again...?

Haus of Mystery

13:22 / 19.05.06

Nice one DC for featuring a scene with both lipstick lesbians (in sexy undies, natch) and the Question getting down to some serious pant sniffing. Now that's a detective!
That said, i'm digging this enough. The Booster stuff's great (is there any possible question that it's Morrison writing this?), and the rotating cast is quirky enough. Question mark on the bat symbol was a righteous moment.

13:30 / 19.05.06

*looks*

Ah. I misread "shooting" as "shouting". My mistake.

13:38 / 19.05.06

Yeah, what was that pant sniffing business about? Really odd. As far as I'm aware Graunt is writing both the Booster and the Metal Men stuff.

As for Booster's blasters, well, it wouldn't be a Morrison comic if there wasn't at least one glitchy panel.

Spyder Todd 2008

17:15 / 21.05.06

I really love the idea of an organisation kidnapping all the mad scientists on the planet and using them towards their own ends. Issue two was much more interesting than the first, I thought. Some of this has to do with them not having to talk
about the second crisis every page, methinks.

And did anyone else get a sort of "Eh. Whatever." feel from the "History of the DC Universe" back up?

07:16 / 22.05.06

I thought the backup was straight-up awful. Boring, stupid, bland. At least there's the booster stuff to make up for it.I also have to give a shout out to mr. Kieth Giffen for making the main story pages flow well for the most part.

08:16 / 22.05.06

After just one episode, the back-up feels like a re-tread of the Wolfman/Perez History of the DC Universe already; I hope they’re getting paid something for it.

Quite enjoying this, though the introductions for the characters can sometimes be a bit slight – if you don’t know who the Question is, this series doesn’t make it easy for you.

And am enjoying the numbers games they’re playing – the firemen in issue 1 had the number 52 on their helmets, and the flight number in this issue too … well, actually, it’s 2824 (28+24) in one place, and then 2428 in another ? Is this a typo in the newspaper headline, or is it a deliberate variation to show that the timeline of events is being messed with, as suggested by Skeets? I suspect the former, unfortunately.

11:07 / 22.05.06

I think it may actually HELP if you don't know who the Question is. Makes him spookier.

14:23 / 22.05.06

Well, the cryptic message from the Dominators in the recent Supergirl + Legion book ("Remember the fiffffdee-tu.") suggests that "52" may have more significance than just "weeks in a year." And with Morrison on the creative team you get an interest in numerology.

52 is the new 23, I say!

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:54 / 22.05.06

And am enjoying the numbers games they’re playing – the firemen in issue 1 had the number 52 on their helmets, and the flight number in this issue too … well, actually, it’s 2824 (28+24) in one place, and then 2428 in another ? Is this a typo in the newspaper headline, or is it a deliberate variation to show that the timeline of events is being messed with, as suggested by Skeets? I suspect the former, unfortunately.

It's the latter most likely, as that Headline plane crashed in Sydney and the plane Boosta saved landed in Metropolis. Other side of the world and all that. 52 is the new Lost.

15:27 / 22.05.06

The Question's an Ayn Rander with a big coat, hat, and no face. There's little more one ever needs to know. Especially as the story stands now, being a mystery and all... we should be happy there are things we might not know. His primary function so far is being a creepy stalker type with a blank face, bugging our ex-detective.

15:43 / 22.05.06

Major airline disasters often make front page headlines all over the world. Especially on a slow news day.

But isn't Booster's logic flawed? If he uses his knowledge of the past to CHANGE it, his knowledge then becomes useless, thanks to chaos theory (the Butterfly Effect, and all that)

16:32 / 22.05.06

Yeah, he's trying to change the machine without being part of the machine. 52's gonna be be a great story for him.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:49 / 24.05.06

Is it just me, or did it look like Skeets went inside the plane while Booster was trying to rescue it? After I read the issue I had a feeling that Skeets was acting sinister since the muck up at the press conference.

14:18 / 24.05.06

Not so much that skeets was acting sinister but that he was accessing the historical files from another (now defunct) reality. In hindsight i think this may be something to do with the mix up with the plane flight numbers- skeets' records show flight no. 2824 coming in from North but booster actually encounters flight no. 2428 coming from south.

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