Instead of reviews, which ain't my
schtick, I've got some smart-ass questions which need answers.
A) What, the
Batmobile drives from the right side? Is
Bruce Wayne importing his vehicles from England??
B) I know
DC heroes are
frustratingly casual with their secret identities, but is this at all wise?
Seriously...taking the
Titans out to a Kansas farm to meet
Supergirl...isn't that just a bit risky, especially given that the
Terminator's daughter and a kid who has sold his soul to the devil are members?? (Yes, I know the Supers flew a ways from the Kent spread before hooking up with the Titans, but c'mon now...)
Aside: When
Identity Crisis started, I had hoped that the story was going to involve somehow having knowledge of everyone's secret ID's wiped out. I mean, how many hundreds of people know that Bruce is Batman and Clark
Superman? It's not remotely credible that
somewhere,
somehow that information isn't going to leak out. Some sort of spell to wipe out knowledge of everyone's identities would fix that, and lead to some interesting stories about whom you'd trust with that info. But nope, instead they did a story where the
Atom's ex-wife becomes a serial killer.
Much better choice.
Really.
C) Why is it that
Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society is
infinitely better than anything they've given us in
Countdown?
Perhaps because it involves absolutely zero about the search for Palmer, and virtually zero about our "
Challengers of the Unknown." And it actually focused on the world where they were visiting, instead of just a bunch of cameos from natives, and no sniping between
Kyle and
Jason Todd. Seriously--
whose idea was it to team these three together? Could there be a more
annoying team (at least, more annoyingly written) in all of comics?
D) Why is it that in one page
Paul Dini does more to explain and advance the "Athena's Shelters" storyline in one issue of
Detective than they do in 20+ issues of Countdown, even though Paul Dini is allegedly in charge of that project? I mean seriously, is it that everyone else writing Countdown is so inferior?
Or is it that the weekly format is
DESTROYING the series, because there ain't 52 weeks worth of story, so we've got to pace things very slowly to kill time until
Final Crisis?
E) How come
Bizarro Doomsday looks and acts exactly like regular
Doomsday?
I mean, I was thrilled with the concept--Bizarro Doomsday...rad!! But shouldn't he be nice, or meek, or articulate, or in some way the opposite of regular Doomsday?!? Seriously, if they didn't tell you he was "Bizarro" Doomsday, you'd think he was just regular ol' Doomsday. This is why we have
GOT to stop letting amateurs tell
Bizarro stories.
F) Speaking of
Richard Donner, when, exactly, was it decided that the Richard Donner Superman movies were part of the official Superman continuity?
I mean, does anybody like the
Phantom Zone as the floating mirror thingy? Do we *
really* have to declare that "the son of Jor-El will kneel before
Zod?" What's next?
Otis?
G) Why the
hell isn't
Blogger working properly today? Grrr.....damn you,
Google!!
Pictures from, in order, JLA/Hitman #2, Supergirl #22, Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society #1, Detective Comics #837, Action Comics #856, and Countdown #30. Phew...
