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To break the Sandman luvin' for just one moment... I just read
Infinite Crisis
#7. Ooooooohhhh Yeahhhh.
This old DC-verse goob had a blast. My highlights - (white-fonted spoilery up the wazoo)
Tim Drake discovers Connor.
Earth's 1 & 2 Superman vs Doomsday. That fucking rocked. Knee to the head, mother-fucker! Ah-hem...
Alex Luthor: "Because I... I am like my father was; The only hero in a world full of villains."
Burninate in Krypton's star, bitch!
Mogo!!! (there's a cameo I never expected).
"You didn't let the Joker play." Ouch.
"I know when." Double ouch.
That's gonna leave a scar, young'un.
Moments that made me a little miffed:
Batman with a gun.
Some of the very poor choices for fill-in artists.
Final thing: I think that lantern washed up on the shore was the one owned by Earth 97's Green Lantern. This makes me happy because among the general chos of #6, I thought that Green Lantern was really cool looking.
Glee.
That's a whole lot of white font.
Damn, guess I'll have to stop by my comic shop tonight. I generally let my pulls pile up a bit between visits.
I will say it's itemized, so there's a lot of line breaks. But still, plenty of DC OMG to last me awhile.
Oh, I didn't realize there was another crisis going on. I thought the IC stuff was referring to
Identity Crisis,
which was confusing since it was, you know, last year.
Picking up IC #7 after work. V. excited. Notreadingthewhitefont.... notreadingthewhitefont....
Nope, P-C, Infinite Crisis harkens back to the 1985 epic of Crisis on Infinite Earths. I'm not much of a DC reader these days but was back then which is why this was such a big deal for me.
Steph, no don't read it. But after you've read the issue, let's compare notes on our favorite goobery moments.
I guess I need to stop by the comics shop on my way home too.
I am beginning to see why you love Delirium. She's cracking me up.
She's at her most quotable in
Brief Lives, too. I want to smush her and then run far far away before awful things start happening to my brain.
So. IC #7. There were characters I didn't recognize -- who I haven't recognized throughout IC -- because I'm *not* a DC fangirl from back in the day. That said, I don't think my lack of knowledge hurt my enjoyment of it.
What I liked:
That perfect, heartbreaking moment of Tim seeing Kon all broken and bloody in the rubble of the tower. Poor Timmy is just a walking bag of pain.
The Superman double-teaming of Doomsday.
The Batfamily taking on Deathstroke. (Which would have been oh so much better had the Nightwing storyline played out the way that it was intended to, instead of being cut short and nonsensical.)
Bart Bart BART!!!! (Yes, Plei, I've come around to the Bart-love.) But I don't know how I feel about him being older. And -- not a speedster.
Nightwing OH NOES!!!! ...or maybe not.
The Joker. Dude. The Joker. Payback's a bitch.
I really didn't mind Batman with the gun, though I don't think the character really earned that moment, at that specific point. It still worked for me, because it took him all the way down, to the point of killing, and that establishes his need to "find himself," and his trip around the world with the birdboys.
What I don't understand is
how Earth-1 Superman lost his powers. What exactly happened to make them go away?
Steph, quick answer to your last question...
All the Supermen gain their powers from the light of a yellow sun. They can retain some ( I guess, like a battery) but eventually their powers wear off in the depths of space. A red sun does nothing for them, and may even sap them (I'm not up on current canon), but what the red sun did here was -
a) Destroy Superboy Prime's armor so that he didn't have a reserve of power.
b) Slowly push them all towards a more normal power level so that the two Supermen would have a better chance to deal with Superboy who is actually stronger than either of them (that's a long story). Presumably if they'd been on that planet for awhile they would have been a man in his prime, an older man and a boy, all normal strength for their age and size which would have hosed Superboy. Ultimately the plan, I think was to reduce Superboy's power enough that he could be captured.
