Tim, I think that this week’s episode of Nip/Tuck was possibly the best they’ve ever done. I loved the issue. I dug the unhappy ending to older woman’s surgery, I loved the lack of resolution with the father/son storyline. I enjoyed the lack of anesthetic. This was a great episode.
I am curious who the Carver really is. Everything points to it being the new doctor, but I hope it’s not. For one thing it’s way too obvious. But Joe Reid brought up another point when I caught him on IM; this would be the second time in two seasons where the antagonist is someone with “abnormal” sexuality. Given that Ryan Murphy, the creator of Nip/Tuck is gay it seems odd that he’d perpetuate a stereotype. But anyway, what’d you think of Nip/Tuck?
I thought that it was the best all season, certainly, although perhaps not of all time. The old woman’s case was handled in the best way possible I thought, showing both her strength and the fact that plastic surgery was no wonder cure in this case. The stuff with Matt and Sean at the end was excellent as well, even if I did hate agreeing with Matt (damn punk kid).
However, the anesthetic scene I thought was, by far, the strongest moment in the whole episode. I found it impossible to walk away from the screen then, but part of me wanted to do nothing more. Man”¦so creepy.
As far as the Carver goes, I hope it is not Quentin as well. First of all, it is something of a cardinal sin of writing to essentially introduce a character just to be the killer. Yes, Quentin showed up once before last season, but that was it. To have his big walk on the stage correspond with the Carve’s reveal is a lousy move if he is the Carver. But, we shall see.
Links – The Warriors Edition
IP Music would have to be The Turnbull AC’s.
IP Movies I’m guessing would be The Rogues since they’ve always got a plan.
IP Games would be The Boppers if only because of the outfit.
IP Figures would have to be The Punks because of how they roll.
IP TV would be The Gramercy Riffs because they’re so deep.
IP Sports so lucks out by being The Baseball Furies.
Moodspins would The Orphans because they’re underestimated.
IP Culture is obviously The Lizzies due to their ability to lure you in.
Our DC Forums would be the Pelham Bay Park, because that’s were everyone meets.
I cannot decide if you are the coolest person I know or the weirdest for dropping all this fresh Warrior knowledge on the people.
Tim, what are you linking this week?
Just this one but believe me when I say that all forgetful men might want to look into this site.
Thanks to Ben Morse who drawing my attention to it as well, even though I am, of course, far too caring and spontaneous to need it.
What I Read Last Week
Return of Donna Troy #4 – Wow, talk about living up to the title. It actually lived up to the hype and made the entire mini worthwhile. I really dug this issue.
Superman/Shazam: First Thunder #2 – It was cool. Winick clearly has a thing for Sabbac and Eclipso would have been cool a year ago. But it was cool seeing Supes and Billy play coy.
Albion #3 – Nice issue. This is a slow burner, but I’m diggin’ it. I’m betting I’d be way more slayed if I was actually familiar with any of the characters, but I still like the book.
Swamp Thing #20 – Kind of trippy issue, but I love Corben’s art.
JSA #78 – Mordu is back! Jakeem is evil? Tell me more! I need more. I didn’t really even notice that Geoff didn’t write the issue, so kudos so Champagne.
That too was my high praise for the book. I didn’t even notice Geoff was gone.
Nighthawk #2 – Way too quick a read. That was disappointing. I dig how it picked up right after last issue. But it went way too quick.
I kind of agree. However, I like how it is forcing Nighthawk out of his comfort zone.
Son of Vulcan #5 – I’m so sad this is just a mini. This is a very pure comic book. I dig the White Martians. I dig Funky Flashman. I loved the “golden age” sequence.
Outsiders #29 – And there goes my real Mockingbird theory. I swore it was Sivana. Great cover, but I’m tired of Sabbac already. I’m curious how the new approach to the team is going to work.
Aquaman #35 – This is how Millennium should have been done. Great art, “cool” Aquaman and plenty of action. This book needs to be more acclaimed.
Rann-Thanagar War #6 – Interesting. Sadly this issue features fill in art. I suppose on a realistic level it’s nice that the war’s not wrapped up in six issues, but it’s kind of unsatisfying at the same time.
Let’s jump to the questions.
IP Music’s own Aaron Cameron placed the lyric. But the guys got the advantage of, y’know, being a music writer.
Aaron is so spoiled.
In 1992, DC was wrapping up their loose-leaf “Who’s Who” series. One of the issues (such as it was) featured an entry on The New Titans. Even though the then-ongoing “Titans Hunt” storyline hadn’t come close to ending, the Who’s Who entry featured the entire post-Titans Hunt roster (Phantasm, Pantha, Wildebeest, Red Star) and mentioned that Jericho had been killed. I remember a very weak and loosely-worded excuse from DC on how/why this happened, but do you remember any of this and have there been other times where a story in one title prematurely revealed major plot points in another?
It’s funny that you should mention that because it’s been happening a lot in the DCU lately, but that’s part of the problem with a hyper connected series of titles.
For instance when The OMAC Project launched Wonder Woman could clearly see, yet at the same time in her own title she was still blind with no hope of seeing in sight (ouch.) (I can’t believe you just went there.)
Donna Troy showed up in JSA #77 on a mission, yet The Return of Donna Troy #4 hadn’t hit the stands, so no one really knew about her mission.
Carter “Hawkman” Hall was prancing around in Rann/Thanagar War but in the actual Hawkman title, Carter’s been dead for months (with only a recent glimpse of being revived).
If I recall correctly, we found out that Lex Luthor wasn’t President anymore on the pages of Aquaman which featured a President (and white) Pete Ross. (Pete Ross has always been white in the DCU”¦just not on TV)
Now obviously Hawkman wasn’t going to stay dead, nor was Wonder Woman going to remain blind, but the conclusions to those stories were/are undermined by having the drama lifted as part of a big event.
I’ve found that the internet and advance solicitations do more damage to revealing the conclusions to storylines than editorial mishaps. We all knew that Kyle was going to survive Rebirth. In this day even the peek at a cover months in advance can ruin the tension a writer has been building for months.
I don’t actually remember the whole “Titan’s Hunt” controversy but I do remember when those huge Who’s Who hit. I loved them something plenty. In fact over the time that I’ve been doing this column I managed to complete my collection. Thus I can provided various bits of information about comic book characters, a dozen years removed.
But I’ve gotten off track, basically yes, Aaron even in this day and age storylines can still be “spoiled.” It happens. It’s part of being a comic fan. At least DC’s no longer trying to pull a “Captain Atom/Hawk” switcheroo.
Tim, can you think of any comics that rained on the parade of another comic?
I’m blanking on specific instances, but I know it happens every now and again with the Secret Files books, especially when they first started them up. Recent solicitations gave away that Wally would be getting his twins back about three issues before he actually did in Flash which was particularly disappointing considering that there was no hint of that possibility at that point in “Rogue War”. Beyond that, nothing comes to mind. It often happens when DC tips over the line from tease to spoil and, as you mentioned, it somewhat inevitable given our insistence on always looking for the next event before the one prior to it has even begun.
Wence just can’t seem to remember that one thing.
I have been reading the old crises on infinite earth. And well I was wondering what ever happened to the wonder woman of earth 2 her husband and their daughter fury. Plus it seems that earth 1 superman remembers what happened in the end of the book but now and days he seems like he don’t. Can you please help me with my question?
Crisis on Infinite Earths is an interesting thing. Y’see they kind of had to end it on the “happy note” of the heroes recalling the multiple Earths, because the alternative would have been downright depressing.
As a result Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor went up to Olympus to hang out with the gods. And the Golden Age Superman got to experience paradise with his woman. And The Crisis was fairly common knowledge. Y’see how happy that is.
But once the Big Three got relaunched everything went out of the window. Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor disappeared (and we know this because we’ve hung out with the gods since.)
I’ve got two theories about this. First is that as we got further from The Crisis the less vivid the memories of it were. It’s like what you ate for breakfast on Monday. You can remember it all day and even the next day. But are you going to recall it a week later? That’s what The Crisis is like, breakfast from a week ago.
And since Diana and Steve were “gods” and gods thrive on belief, they ceased to exist when people forgot that they ever existed. Did that make any sense?
Oh, but Fury’s still around. She’s got some pretty convoluted backstory (though not as confusing as Donna Troy or Power Girl.) She actually showed up in last week’s JSA #78.
Tim, how do you account for the lack of recollection about the Pre Crisis DCU?
Editorial decision.
Or, to be less of a killjoy, what you say makes sense. There is also that theory about the waves that emanated out at the end of Crisis, “fixing” things eliminated most of people’s memories about the incident except that there was a Crisis involving the Anti Monitor and some freaky black ghost things that was averted by the heroes and, specifically, Flas’s sacrifice.
Frosty embraces his namesake.
Can you give me a list of characters who have freezing/ice/cold type of abilities? (powers or mechanical)
Well let’s start with the well known; Mr. Freeze (mechanical), Captain Cold (mechanical), Killer Frost (powers), Ice (powers), Icicle (powers) and Icemaiden (powers).
Next let’s move onto some of the less well known; Chillblaine (mechanical), Blizzard (powers), Coldsnap (powers), and Frostbite (powers)
And now to the downright obscure Blue Ice (powers), Comet (powers), Ice King (powers?), Minister Blizzard (mechanical), Polar Boy (powers) Cryonic Man (mechanical), Snowman (powers?).
Sadly Ice, Chillblaine, and Blue Ice are dead. Polar Boy has been retconned out of existence. But I think that the rest are all fair game.
Tim, did I leave out any cold characters?
The only one I can think of is Heatsnap who appeared in Aztek #7. He/she was actually Heatstroke and Coldsnap combined. They just wanted to be close to one another and when they finally did”¦well, they were permanently “close”. Batman did give them a card though so for all I know those two crazy Masters of Disaster might be alive, well, and separate as well speak.
Interesting (maybe?) sidenote: Mr. Freeze did have ice powers (as opposed to mechanical) for about a week or so during Underworld Unleashed. He pulled off the rare feat of being in one tie-in book (Batman) still rocking the metal suit that gave him powers and in another (Green Lantern) bereft of suit and feeling fine. It was dropped pretty quick though so he is back to mechanical.
Aaron needs it all to matter.
Dude. Jason Todd is alive? Come on. Tell me what I’m missing, because if this is true, then every comic book death is rendered irrelevant.
Stormangel posted the similar;
what the hell exactly has been going on with Jason Todd as the Red Hood? I don’t follow Batman and from what I read here that may be a good thing.
Ok, here’s what we know at this point; the “Jason Todd” that appeared during Hush was indeed Jason Todd. We’ve also seen Batman come face to face with his former sidekick in the story titled Under The Hood (a trade of which will be released on 11/1/05).
Basically all that we really know is that Jason Todd is alive and kicking. We don’t know the “how”, “when” or “why”. We do know that Jason as The Red Hood, has been carving a niche for himself in Gotham. He’s promised to cross lines that Batman won’t. He’s even tried to deal with criminals. It’s recently been revealed (last week’s Batman #645) that Jason Todd’s body never made it to burial, which would seem to point in the direction Ra’s al Ghul.
But good news is that DC has promised to reveal the whole story in Batman Annual #25. The bad news is that it may not live up to the hype.
Aaron, I don’t know if Jason’s death undermines every comic death. Personally I think that Bucky’s resurrection, across the way, is much more damning. Jason’s death was the result of interactivity with the fan (back when a 1-900 number was considered “interactive”) it wasn’t a natural evolution of character. Yes Jason was an unlikable character, and yes, he was greater in death than he ever was in life. Yet at this moment, I find him even more interesting in resurrection than he was in death.
Stormangel, I do love the story. I love how Batman has a member of his family that has basically turned against him and rejected him. It’s also the one member that he “lost”. So Jason represents his greatest failure, in many regards.
Not only is Jason Todd a great character, but the ripples that he creates sound pretty compelling. I can’t wait for Jason and Tim to meet up in Teen Titans. I am looking forward to a Nightwing/Red Hood confrontation. Are heroes going to try to have an intervention or will they accept him and his questionable tactics? I want to see this thing played all the way out.
Tim, what’s your take on the Red Hood situation?
If, two years ago, you had told me that DC would be doing this, I would have echoed Aaron’s feelings. It was a bad bad bad idea. I felt the same way when he briefly showed up in Hush and then breathed a sigh of relief when it turned out to be Clayface.
However, I have found that I have an undeniable enjoyment of this story. I would never be something I would have requested or done myself, but it is well written, interesting, and does give Batman a new villain that might have the chance to actually be inducted into the upper echelon of the Bat’s gallery (unlike, say, Hush or Bane). So, I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
Aaron needs to poke another body to make sure it is dead.
So, Blue Beetle is dead. Sucks, but whatever. But, last I heard, Ted Kord was a zillionaire software developer or something. If there wasn’t a funeral for Beetle, has anyone noticed that this rich, white guy businessman hasn’t been in the office lately?
Actually Ted Kord wasn’t that successful. In the time since you’ve been away from comics, Ted’s been everywhere, from on the verge of bankruptcy to returning to success.
Well Blue Beetle’s body was incinerated so there’s no pesky body to turn up and raise questions. Another bad aspect of Ted’s disappearance, he was last seen trying to put the moves on Oracle. That means that there’s not a spouse to raise a stink and create an investigation.
Ted, like most entrepreneurs who also happen to be heroes, didn’t really to the day to day business type thing. That would have gotten in the way his hanging out with Booster Gold and the rest of the Superbuddies and investigating the mysteries of Checkmate!
And since he probably had direct deposit and his bills deducted from his account that’s not going to raise any flags either. When you factor in crooked business managers who will keep cashing Ted’s checks regardless of the lack of contact with Ted, it looks like no ones going to question the lack of Ted Kord in the DCU.
Yup I can’t really see too much media coverage, I mean it’s not like he went on a trip to Aruba or anything.
That said Batman knows that Ted’s dead, so he’ll probably make a cover story about how he and Ted went on a trip and Ted died (although hopefully more detailed than that.) And since the footage of Wonder Woman snapping Max Lord’s neck has popped up all over the world, I’m guessing that Ted’s death will probably come out pretty soon.
If I was Batman, here’s the story I would tell, word for word.
“So, Ted and I, we party sometimes. You know, booze, some ladies, maybe an alligator or two to wrestle to impress aforementioned ladies. Nothing big.
Anyway, Ted and I went to Barbados or Aruba or somewhere last week. I don’t really remember, I was waaaaaaaaaaaaay blato. So we went to this tropical place and were totally getting down. I was macking it with these twins Candy and Bambi and life was good. Those ladies kept me up all night. But that’s how it goes when you get down with two 19 year olds on spring break. Am I right, fella, am I right? HELL YEAH!
So the next day, I wakes up and Ted nowhere to be found. I figured that he might’ve gone to another room with that fine looking piece, Roxanne, cause DAMN me and the ladies were loud. Turns out he didn’t though. Apparently he stumbled into the surf and gotten chomped on by a shark or something. Sucks”¦
So”¦that’s it. Ted’s dead. I’m out!
Aaron has no use for whiners.
A long time ago, I began reading the Wally West “Flash”. I stopped around issue #10, I think, but, at the time he was an insecure hero still fighting with Barry Allen’s death and the mantle of the Flash. So, when did the whole “hero” thing click for him and he stopped with the entire whiny internal monologue?
Ouch.
Aaron, that really hurt. I love The Flash. I’ve been reading the title since #1. It’s an amazing title.
But, yeah, Wally did have a self-loathing thing going on. He didn’t quite feel that he lived up to the Barry standard. He really came into his own in The Flash #50. That’s when he donned the slick shiny suit and accepted himself as The Flash.
And as a guy who’s read every issue of the current title, I can honestly say that the most recent issue (The Flash #226) was my least favorite.
Really? Granted my time with the Flash does not go back nearly as far as yours (I’ve only read from Waid’s stuff forward and the occasional Messner-Loeb issue before that), but I found the last issue to be boring, but also fairly harmless. My nominee for worst Flash story would be the multi-part Cobalt Blue saga that kicked off here: 
No matter how you slice it, I thought that was a far lower moment for the Flash title than the rather inconsequential #226.
Seldee just had to bring up multi colored kryptonite
I know you’ve covered the various krytonites before in past WWITDU’s but I can’t find it and since it shows up at the end of Supergirl #2. What the heck does black kryptonite do?
Ok well since you asked let’s take a refresher course on Kryptonite!
Green kryptonite – kills Kryptonians.
Anti-Kryptonite – kills non-powered Kryptonians.
X-Kryptonite – gives temporary powers to human beings.
Red Kryptonite – unpredictable. It made Superman into a giant, a dragon, a thief, a human ant, a tiny being, and an amnesiac among other things.
Bizarro Red Kryptonite affects humans like Red Kryptonite affects Kryptonians.
White Kryptonite – kills plant life.
Blue Kryptonite – kills Bizarro Supermen.
Gold Kryptonite – Takes a Kryptonians powers away, permanently.
Jewel Kryptonite – Increases the mental power of Phantom Zone prisoners.
Purple Kryptonite gives Kryptionians mental powers, for a limited time.
Magno Kryptonite attracts things of Kyptonian origin.
Slow Kryptonite slows down nerve impulses.
Now for the toughie; Black Kryptonite. Is it really that tough? Let’s see; Black Kryptonite first appeared on Smallville, a show that Jeph Loeb helps produce. In the DCU Black Kryptonite first appeared in Supergirl #2, which was written by Jeph Loeb. Coincidence?
On Smallville Black Kryptonite can split a person into two entities. On the show Lex was split into two people. Is that what’s going to happen/happening in the DCU?
There is the theory floating about that Battle Suit Lex and Business Suit Lex are two separate entities. The appearance of Black Kryptonite would seem to bolster that belief.
I honestly don’t know what Black Kryptonite does; I’m as in the dark as you are. Sorry. But I’m guessing that we’ll all find out soon enough.
Hey Tim, how come we can get Black Kryptonite from Smallville but we can’t get a Black Pete Ross?
For one thing because Pete Ross has been around, and white, for like 60 years now. Fans will tend to get up in arms when you change a person’s skin tone after 60 years.
The other problem is that Smallville Pete Ross, in spite of being black, really was not all that interesting a character. Sometimes he was a drag racer, sometimes a master of slang, sometimes a guy who felt forever eclipsed by his best friend. Sadly, in all those guises, he was always rather boring. The show never knew what to do with him, and there’s no reason to believe the comics could or would be any better with it.
Also, we never should’ve gotten Black Kryptonite in the first place. We only need green. You hear me! JUST GREEN!!!!
Legion asks the question of the ages
Who the hell is Donna Troy?
The end to that last issue left me scratching my head more than the first issue did.
Basically the current Donna Troy is a holdover from the Pre-Crisis DCU. When the DC Multiverse became a Universe it pushed all of her “histories” together. On page #13 of Return of Donna Troy #4 it states “The multiverse collapsed upon itself. Time was reordered. Where there had been a thousand Earths, there was only one with one history–and a Wonder Girl before there was ever a Wonder Woman.
You see, this new universe didn’t know what to do with some of the more complicated holdovers from the multiverse. Sot it improvised. It tried to compress all of my histories–a thousand lifetimes–into one.”
(By the by, that narration is my nominee for this yea’s Awkward Pairing of Cosmic Language with Colloquial Speech Award)
And it makes complete sense. Just as Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Power Girl and Batman all came from different Earths and ended up on the same one after the Crisis, the backstories of the Donna Troy’s of every Earth were all merged in the current Donna Troy.
It explains that Dark Angel was the Anti-Monitor’s counterpart to the Monitor’s Harbinger and that Dark Angel was also Donna Troy on Earth 7.
And just as Harbinger survived the Crisis, Dark Angel survived to cause havoc. The reason the Titans of Myth “adopted” Donna was because she could get them access to a means to save themselves from an upcoming event.
So basically Donna Troy is the Donna Troy from Who Is Donna Troy and the Donna Troy from Who Is Troia. She’s almost the physical manifestation of Hypertime. Since Hypertime shows that every comic that DC has published “happened” somewhere, every origin for Donna Troy is true, on some level, somewhere.
I wasn’t really confused by the issue. It made great sense to me and actually gave me some relief. I was happy to find that the in continuity reason for Donna’s problems is the real reason for Donna’s problems.
Tim, who’s your favorite Troy; Donna or Christian?
Jeez”¦hard to say. I mean, Donna fills out that costume like none other, but Christian is just so dreamy and tormented. Do I really have to choose, can’t I just love them both.
Also, before we move on from Donna, this origin might not be confusing, per se, but I was by no means thrilled by it. First, I dislike Hypertime. I really, really do. I respect Grant Morrison and Mark Waid, but I will never understand the decision to introduce Hypertime into the DCU. Do we, as fans, really need to be told that our favorite stories “counted” in some portion of Hypertime somewhere? I don’t think we do and I don’t like what it says about us if such a thing like Hypertime need exist.
Pet peeve aside, simply saying, “It is ALL real. Every origin, every shred. It is ALL real,” strikes me as lazy storytelling more than anything else. It is less about clarifying and more about making sure everyone who read a Donna story or wrote a Donna story leaves happy. And what happens when we do that? That’s right, almost no one actually ends up happy.
Talowolf lives for the sea
Alright, seeing as how you and I are the only ones that seem to admit lately that we read Aquaman, I have a few querys on his side of the world. Who’s the mother of his adult son who’s been showing up in his book lately?
Let me begin by saying that you need to find Aquaman: Time and Tide either in trade form or single issues. It’s one of the best (and most underrated) “Year One” stories out.
But to answer your question, Orin met up with an Inupiat woman named Kako and they “got friendly”. Aquaman then left because he was still “discovering” himself. This occurred in Aquaman: Time and Tide #3.
Years later, in Aquaman vol 5, #5 Koryak first appeared. There was that awkward “long lost father/son” moment. Kako ended up becoming the Fire Elemental Corona. As far as I can tell Corona is still around the DCU, somewhere.
You may also want to pick up Aquaman vol 5, it’s a pretty good read. Actually it’s got some of the best Aquaman action to date.
Tim, do you think Aquaman will survive Infinite Crisis?
I most certainly do. I can almost guarantee it, in fact. Why? Because he was already offered up as the sacrificial lamb in Our Worlds at War and that stuck for about 30 seconds. DC is, I expect, not anxious to revisit that lame bit of “this changes everything” and as such Aquaman gets a free pass.
I’d also like to second Time and Tide for purchase. Almost ten years ago (good god”¦I am so very old) I bought it for a then friend of mine for his birthday. I happened to find it on the way home from a family vacation and when I ran out of my own reading material, I gently read Time to pass the”¦well”¦time. It was actually quite good. I then gave it to my friend. Three years later, we barely spoke, he sort of kind of had a role in the dissolution of my relationship with what I guess you’d call my high school sweetheart, and he just generally proved to be a bitter, cruel man. I should have kept that trade for myself. It was too good for him.
Ah well, bygones and all that. Least I can look back now and chuckle.
Talowolf works it on the catwalk, on the catwalk, yeah.
Which outfit do you prefer, orange top, or bare chested metal chestplate thingy?
This is actually a tough one. If we’re talking purely visually I’m going with orange top. The chainmail/fishscale look is something that I dig.
However if we’re talking about the actual series that featured those looks, I’m siding with the bare chest Orin. It was written by Peter David, Animal Man and Swamp Thing both guest-starred and Tempest was born. It was a great series. The current book (and classic look) had a really sluggish first year that might actually approach Titans stinkiness.
(Whoa! Let’s not say things we can’t take back.)
Tim, you Tivo Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and are a card carrying fashionista, which of Aquaman’s fashion statements do you prefer?
Hmm”¦a little of column a, a little of column b perhaps. I’d ditch the water hand. I just don’t like it. I know that may make me shallow, but whatever. Give him back his flesh or the hook, no preference there. Just no more water hand.
I think the green pants that he rocked when he was bearded, bad ass Aquaman were more visually interesting. Keep them over the simply green.
Sad to say, ugly though it may be, you’ve gotta keep the orange shirt. It IS Aquaman to most people and well it is the dumbest color for a man who lives in water to choose, ever, what’s done is done. Thus, orange it must be.
Talowolf sees miracles all around us
I thought the Mister Miracle in 7 Soldiers was an entirely new character, but now I hear he was actually a student of the original. What’s their story if any?
Yup, Shilo Norman is an established DCU character. He first appeared way back in 1973 in Mister Miracle #15.
Shilo had the hard knock life. His mother abandoned him and he ended up in an orphanage. He eventually escaped, but had to survive on the harsh streets of Metropolis, in Suicide Slum.
But things started to look up when he found his long lost brother, who happened to be a cop. Sadly he pretty quickly saw his brother murdered. Shilo turned to the cops for help. The cops then put Shilo in the home of Scott Free. Shilo avenged his brother
Scott and Barda took good care of Shilo and Scott even began to train him in the artistry of escape. Shilo eventually managed to score the “Mister Miracle” gig. Before the Seven Soldiers event Shilo had previously taken the job of warden at The Slab.
It’s still not clear where the Seven Soldiers fits into the DCU, so conceivably the story could be in continuity.
I dig Shilo as a character. I liked how his upbringing was linked to Scott’s, given up by a parent, raised in an orphanage. It was a pretty cool way of connecting the two.
Tim, you dig Mister Miracle?
I dug the first issue of his Seven Soldiers mini. Love the idea of an escape artist hero (see also: The Escapist). To be honest though, I have very little exposure with either Mr. Miracle besides the odd guest appearance in Justice League.
Sadly the column is through. But that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop. Visit our very own thread and you can join in on the post column conversations that usually follow. Don’t think that treated Ted Kord with dignity, post it. Care to chime in on the Aquaman fashion debate; post your thoughts. Oh yeah and you can post your questions there too.
My question to you this week; So, now that Infinite Crisis #1 has hit the stands, what are your thoughts? Did it live up to the hype? Did it outrage, or fail to impress?
“There’ll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans.”
