Maxwell Lord manage to (temporarily, at least) ramp up his powers so much that he wiped out any memory of himself from every person on Earth...
But, given this:
If Max's plan is to work, he must also have somehow gone in and wiped out every news broadcast; every single pixel on all of the cameras at that press conference, all of the film of people talking about Max Lord; every internet reference; every record of Wonder Woman's murder trial; every History Channel special on the post-Crisis JLA (and by the way, the History Channel must really rock in the DC Universe); every Daily Show reference (and, yes, the Daily Show too must rock in the DC Universe); the time Maxwell Lord hosted SNL must be somehow wiped off of every DVD (oh, c'mon, you know JLI era Max would have hosted SNL); every email and Twitter mentioning Max...well, you get the idea. And wouldn't everybody wonder what the hell they were doing at that press conference.But even if that mysterious energy explosion with Captain Atom somehow magically wiped out every record of Max (and only records of Max, and "fixed" those records so there were no Max-sized holes in the record, if you take my meaning)...even if that was so, there is still every physical back copy of every newspaper and magazine that ever mentioned Max, every gossip column, every unauthorized biography and National Enquirer expose, every piece of paper that Max ever signed while heading up JLI or Checkmate, etc...
In other words, if we're to believe this scenario, Max Lord is more powerful than Darkseid. After all, even with the Anti-Life Equation, Darkseid couldn't control the minds of every person on Earth, couldn't destroy of manipulate all of the data on Earth to that degree, couldn't impose such a total mind-frak. For the scenario to make any sense, Max Lord must be so ridiculously powerful, you wonder why the hell he's dicking around like this.
I'm just sayin'...
Let's look forward to forgetting this series ever happened.
ReplyDeleteI had the same thought reading this issue - there's just too much physical evidence for Max's plan to work... unless (and sorry for thinking about this too much) Max's mind wipe of everyone makes them sort of un-see every mention of Max. Fire and Ice and the others show Superman the recording of the press conference but Supes sees something else?
ReplyDeleteMaybe?
Kinda?
Gah! Can't believe I'm making excuses for a Winick-written book.
I feel dirty.
Maybe its like the Glory spell from Buffy; if they see evidence they will remember for a very short time, then just forget?
ReplyDeleteI'm just happy to see the remnants of the JLI back together at last, and am willing to overlook this - its not exactly original in comics, I know Marvel have dome something similar with Captain America, Iron Man and Spider-Man (and at least Mephisto wasn't involved)
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ReplyDeleteMaybe Max did the same thing that Michael Korvac did to Starhawk where he fixed it so that not only would Starhawk not remember Korvac but would be unable to perceive him as well?
ReplyDeleteOr it was like the Brainiac story where he convinced everyone through mass mind control that Superman's corpse had been discovered when it never existed, throwing doubts on whether Superman was really back from the dead?
notintheface--but of course, that strategy blew up in Korvac's face, didn't it...?
ReplyDeletei read the interviews with winnick and giffen with interest, but this was too much winnick and nowhere near enough giffen to sustain my interest.
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