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T'is, so be warned of SPOILERS from here on out:
This is a solid first issue with all-round decent art and writing, marred somewhat by some odd characterization... or is it?
It starts with Duella Dent kidnapping a pop starlet and being stopped by Jason Todd. That's right folks, a superhero and former Titan during 52 (admittedly one with some, ah, moral inconsistencies, but one who was on the side of the angels last time we saw her in Teen Titans) is the bad guy and a murderous crime-boss is the good guy- to the point where he hands over the shaken pop-starlet to the police, who apparently don't have an APB on him from the dozens of murder, racketeering and drugs charges he clocked up in the 'Under The Hood' arc in Batman. It looks like he's being rebranded as DC's version of Punisher- if Big Pun' was Captain America's sidekick and came back to life after Thor punched reality in the nuts. Comics are silly. Oh, and Duella refers to Red Hood by his civilian name, and while I'm not up on Duella's backstory apart from her occasional Titans appearances, I don't think somebody trained by Batman would give up his alter-ego to somebody who bills herself as the frickin' Joker's Daughter. But then, there seems to be a lot about Duella we don't know.
Then we've got Trickster gate-crashing a Rogues getogether- I've never been much into Flash nor his villains, he's always seemed like more of a team player (in the JLA) than somebody who should have their own title, so whatever this part does it doesn't do it to me. Maybe somebody with better Flash-fu can say more about this section that I.
There's a little Darkseid, a little Monitor Corps, some Mary Marvel (with bonus Freddy-Freeman-acting-like-a-jerk action!), the source-wall redefined as the barrier between the 52 universes... and no Jimmy bloody Olsen until next week, so we will never know what haircut he has or whether Superman has married him to a gorilla (What? They did it all the time back in the Silver-age). |
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