Yep. The HSQ is new this issue, but as it's the last of a mighty plotty and complex arc, it's definitely worth a look back. (There's other rereading to be done too, but it'll be clear what that is after you've read.)

Huh. I will do so, then.

I can think of at least two things that might be the other re-reads.

You know, I like it when a storyline does that.

Oh! I picked up Powers last week (?) and looked at it but I was kinda put off by the art work.

Like Gloomcookie, I like the art style too. I mean, come on: Christian looks exactly like Bruce from the Batman animated series.

From hayden's link:

One of the most outstanding and noteworthy characteristics of Powers during its finest moments is its rapid-fire and modern-noir dialogue, an aspect Bendis happily admits he cribbed wholesale from the TV drama “Homicide: Life on the Streets.”

Heh. Someone needs to tell Erika to read Powers.

I only have issues 54 and 53 of GK -- so I'll need to get the other two.

One reason I didn't get Daredevil (I remember now) is that it looked like I would need the past 2 issues or so to understand what is going on in the current issue.

One reason I didn't get Daredevil (I remember now) is that it looked like I would need the past 2 issues or so to understand what is going on in the current issue.

The Previously gives you a pretty good rundown of what's going on, and officially, it's the second in the latest arc, so only last month's issue is "necessary." And besides, there's me and Jeff.

These seem to be Gail's key points

(Rather surprisingly, I appear to be Gail. Go me! Or, uhh, something.)

Batman: Death in the Family finally arrived!!! I was starting to think that the ebay seller forgot about me. Now I just have to get it from the house tomorrow.

Quickie review the next: Outsiders 14: Between all the Big Doings In The 'verse (not just IC, but also and especially the increasing and doomful sense in all the Bat-titles that something big's a-brewing in preparation for War Games), and the fact that I'm generally left a cold by team titles[*] (they're like the All-Star Game. It's a thing.) and this one is good team vs. bad team, the Fearsome Five business has mostly made me impatient. The American League revives their guys from the dead and breaks them out of prison and goes after the National League and, oh, YAWN.

The good part was Jade's little talk with Dick: Damn, but she kicks ass, and we haven't ever seen enough of her in this title. Want more Jade. And it's an interesting side of Dick, too: He's being accused, and not for the first time in this title, of being the cold and disconnected executive, of not caring enough. Of being, in her words, the hard-assed ice queen (yeah, really). The Dick we're used to seeing in NW (and especially in Devin's run) practically bleeds his heart's-blood all over the page; this one isn't a born hardass the way Batman is a hardass, but is playing the part because he's determined to be a leader, to build the team. It's radically different from the Dick we've seen elsewhere, and yet it doesn't quite seem inconsistent -- if only because it's so clear that it's an act. If anything, it's his circus all over again, only this time, he's determined not to let it get destroyed. So, really interesting Dick stuff -- but on the downside, they spend THREE FREAKING PAGES standing on a catwalk talking. It coulda been done in three panels. If you're going to spend that much of a 22-page comic on something, make it three more pages of Jade/Anissa liplock closeups, please.

Disconcerting moment -- thanks to all the aforementioned Big Doings, when Roy got the "OH MY GOD WE HAVE TO GO RIGHT NOW" call, I was seriously expecting them to be called away to Gotham. But, oh yeah, that was last week's NW.

All in all, edging toward meh, with a side of good but could've been better executed.

[*] But strangely, not by family ones -- and granted, all the "families" in question are adoptive or surrogate ones. The Bats, the Arrows, all good with me, because the bonds there seem to precede and override the fact that they're all being hero-ey together. But (young) justice (league) (society) (of Am. | Int'l | Detroit) have never grabbed me beyond the fact that they contain characters I happen to like in other contexts. That I love BoP beyond reason is due to either overwhelming love of all the principals, or something else that'd probably take therapy to dig up.

Amych, I thought the same thing when Roy got that call.

So, I got last month's GK -- thought that I needed many more to make sense of the arc -- you don't think so? (Why I didn't get this month's.)

I'm very seriously thinking about heading back to the comic shop to pick up the last 3 Flashes (Curse you wee Plei!). . . possibly putting Green Lanterns on hold. . . I suck with my suggestibility.

Sumi, re GK, I'd say you probably do need to go back at least a couple more -- this month's HSQ is of the big reveal sort, but it definitely builds on what's come before in the arc.

My store didn't have the whole arc. . . I should look more closely and see how far back they do have.