DC Comics and The Other History Of The DC Universe #5 Spoilers and Review follows.
A Black Lesbian Super-Heroine…
…Finale Focus!
An Outsiders…
…Mirror On Society!
It is fitting that since the first issue of this series focused on Black Lighting 1972-1995 (full spoilers here) that the final issue would focus on his daughter,
The other issues in this series had a titanic focus on 1971 to 1993 (full spoilers here)…
…1983 to 1996 through the lens of an iconic Asian female anti-heroine (full spoilers here) and then…
…1992 to 2007 through questioning eyes (full spoilers here).
Well, this final issue follows Anissa Pierce and her journey through 1981 to 2010.
While race and LGBTQ+ matters were covered in previous issues…
…it forms part of Anissa’s journey as she debuts as the super-heroine Thunder…
…after completing college.
We then see her in the Outsiders, a team her father initially co-founded with Batman, but now a new generation of heroes and heroines has taken the name.
This incarnation of the Outsiders also changes and evolved; something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue as in Captain Marvel Jr.
Like in previous issues, we get the overlay of the real world of politics of the time…
…plus we see Anissa’s younger sister Jennifer become the super-heroine Lightning.
Later their father takes accountability for a murder he didn’t commit; it was seemingly Deathstroke.
That leads to Thunder and the Outsiders breaking him out of prison!
We then see the fight of the legacy of the Outsiders that Thunder willingly, and painfully, gives up to Batgirl.
The book ends with Anissa truly coming out her family, no more secrets it seems, as…
…she embraces her legacy and destiny as the vanguard of a new era of diverse legacy heroes and heroines that stretches into 2021’s Infinite Frontier era.
The Pulse:
Another thought provoking issue with sold art. I did find this issue not be a strong as the previous outings, but that could be because I find the pre-2000 eras more fascinating. Still worth a read as it provides an important perspective on DC Comics history and the real world during the same period. 7 out of 10.
