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WOLVERINE: REVENGE #1 (OF 5): The all-star team of Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo tell a Wolvie story in the Savage Land. Why? Who cares! Should be pretty good.
WOLVERINE REVENGE RED BAND #1 (OF 5): Here's the "Red Band" cover, which is bloodier. Plus an homage cover to Tales from the Crypt #39.
PREDATOR VS BLACK PANTHER #1 (OF 4): Logan survived a Predator attack, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see T'Challa do likewise. Wouldn't it be a bummer if the good guy lost? I don't know if any writer really wants to do that.
“If you’re a comics nerd, I will feed you. If you’re a movie nerd, I will feed you too. And if you’ve never read or seen anything about Predator or Black Panther, you can get fed as well,” writer Benjamin Percy promised in a recent interview with io9. “I want these to be evergreen titles, and the best way to accomplish that is to honor legacy while not overly burdening the reader with continuity homework.”
Elsewhere at Marvel:
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #259 FACSIMILE EDITION: Early black costume story.
DAREDEVIL: WOMAN WITHOUT FEAR #2 (OF 4): New Daredevil (Elektra) vs. New Punisher (blonde guy).
GIANT-SIZE THOR #1: Guest-starring Hercules. Includes a reprint of Thor #365, another Thor-Hercules team-up.
MMW FANTASTIC FOUR HC VOL 26: Brings us up to Fantastic Four #285.
NAMOR #2 (OF 8): I assume this is an homage, but it's not exact. Also, your lawyer advises "wolffish" is already taken, Mr. Mariner.
VENOM WAR: CARNAGE #1 (OF 3): Nope.
VENOM WAR: VENOMOUS #1 (OF 3): Nope.
DC COMICS
"Absolute Power" week 8:
SUPERMAN #17: (W) Joshua Williamson (A/CA) Jamal Campbell
WONDER WOMAN #12: Wonder Woman has been assigned to break into the Gamorra Supermax prison and free the captured heroes. For some reason, Damian Wayne has been assigned to go with her. That should be an interesting team-up! (Also, you have to figure Waller has planned for this obvious move, and it will not go well.)
Elsewhere at DC:
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #30: Mark Waid writes the first meeting of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. At this point in DC's non-continuity, I have no idea where or when this wouild have happened. Might be interesting to compare it to previous "first meetings."
CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #5 (OF 12) FACSIMILE EDITION
JENNY SPARKS #1 (OF 12): I always liked Jenny Sparks. Or maybe I just like tough-talking chicks who dress kinda slutty. Anyway, I thought her "tenure" as the Spirit of the 20th Century was over, and she had been replaced by Jenny Quantum, the Spirit of the 21st Century. I guess Tom King has a plan to bring her back! Apparently it's to stop Captain Atom, who has gone rogue. They really don't know what to do with Captain Atom, do they?
IMAGE COMICS
DESTRO #3 (OF 5)
GI JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #309
STANDSTILL #1 (OF 8): A sociopath steals a device that can freeze time, and suddenly a lot of really odd crimes occur. The government, which built the device, has no idea where the thief is, or how to catch him if they did, so they decide to find the scientist who built it (and was subsequently fired), a character we met in the first few pages whose wife just left him.
OK, that's a lot of particulars, some of which are interesting, and some of which are not. But I rather rather enjoyed this first issue just for the concept, and how well the creators play it. Who hasn't fantasized about being able to stop time, so we can A) think of the proper comeback, or B) change the situation to our advantage, or C) get the heck out of there? (Super-speed can do this too.) It's a common fantasy, I think, and this issue shows the creators understand just how fun it would be.
I also really loved the art. It's clean and weighted, with just the right balance of color and rendering, and a variety of camera angles that at no point become confusing. And I could swear it had some Mort Drucker peeking out. Just in the faces and body language, mind you -- Drucker's unique rendering is absent. But every once in a while I see a MAD cover influence.
One caveat for digital readers: The book is almost entirely two-page spreads, which are hard to read digitally. I managed, but even that annoyance didn't stop me from enjoying it.
DARK HORSE
NIGHT CLUB II #1: A book about vampires who decide they'd rather be superheroes than monsters. I didn't read the first miniseries, so I didn't start on this one. Honestly, it takes a lot to make me pick up a Mark Millar book.
PARANOID GARDENS #2: I have no idea what's going on here.
Well, I mean, I am following the story. But conceptually I'm at sea.
The story stars a twentysomething human woman who appears to be both a staff member and an inmate of some sort of extra-dimensional care home, whose patients are all over the map species-wise, and is apparently sentient in some way, as it resists letting in people who don't belong (by what criteria I do not know), whose chief doctor is up to no good, trying to sell out the home to some sort of cabal based on Cheeky Monkey, a very direct parody of Mickey Mouse, which results in murder of some secondary characters, and that's where the second issue ends. There's also some sort of butterfly metaphor or symbolism going on, that I have not related to anything in particular yet.
And oh yeah, the sentient care home is named Paradise Gardens, and the gardens do indeed have some medicinal effect. The book title is a play on that name.
It's written by Gerard Way, so I am not panicking yet that I am dumbfounded. I'm sure it will all make sense eventually, like most Gerard Way books (Doom Patrol, Umbrella Academy). And the art is very good (see below). So I'll be patient, and hopefully all will be made clear.
PATRA #1: I have no idea what's going on here, either. (Seems to be a pattern these days.)
A serial killer slaughters an entire family (except for the daughter) at home in a small town. The daughter cannot be found, but is not a suspect. A doctor appears in the sheriff's office who says he's from an insane asylum that houses the serial killer, who has escaped many times and slaughtered many families except for a single daughter, as he is trying to re-create his own family, as he had sisters. But eventually he always kills the daughters he kidnaps, too, as eventually they do something that reveals they aren't one of his sisters.
The sheriff swallows this hook, line and sinker.
Also, we are privy to where the daughter is, which is some nightmare/dream world where she is being pursued by the killer in a forest, and when he is close a skull mask appears on her face, along with a machete in her hand. She escapes the killer numerous times.
What does all this mean? I doubt I should take any of it at face value. Certainly the serial-killer escapee story is nonsense (at least in a non-fictional world), and the escaped daughter doesn't seem to be in any real danger. But I'm afraid I'll have to wait for the second issue to tell me more. And I'll read it, because it's written by James Robinson, who is usually very good, and drawn by Scott Kolins, whose art I usually like. (Usually, but not always.)
SUNNY LUNA TRAVELLING ORACLE GN: Well, that happened.
I don't usually care much for Warren Pleece's artwork, but I am accustomed to it. So I plunged on through, despite all the strangely big noses, and focused on the story. Also, I assume this is English in some way, because "travelling" is spelled "traveling" in the U.S.
The story is set in a dystopian future (after the usual nuclear war), where all of America is exacty like the Dust Bowl of the Depression. Exactly. Hence the sort-of sepia artwork and 1930s-style technology, attitudes and clothing, suggesting that era. And nothing has really changed, because the conservatives who caused the war are still in charge afterwards, clamping down on any independent thought or historical accuracy. We know this indirectly, by their agents in this story, who both dress and act like they are rich Roaring '20s characters. Conservative=rich, controlling and lying, if you missed it.
But there's also a mystical/hallucinogenic angle (I'm not sure which it is) wherein SOME books transmit true history through chemicals or magic or something, and there are caretakers of those books, which the Roaring '20s characters are in pursuit of. (Both the caretakers and the books.) For some reason they want to possess these books, instead of just burning them, so they have to find the caretakers and steal the books out of their cover among other books, instead of just burning down whole libraries. They usually achieve this through flim-flam, but if that fails, torture and murder.
Our lead character is a young girl (indistinguishable visually from a young man) who wants more intellectually than her conservative farm life affords. Her father is aggressively hostile to these thoughts. He tears up her book, and tells her that her thinking is wrong and she needs to conform.
I suspect a metaphor is at work here.
Some psychedelia occurs to our protagonist, thanks to the books. The local caretaker grooms our hero to be her successor. Her family becomes righeously angry. The dandy and the flapper close in. The caretaker tries to save her books. A denouement occurs.
And I honestly don't care about any of it. I agree with the politics, but they're ham-handed, and in today's market, pretty SOP. I find nothing new here.
TITAN COMICS
CONAN BARBARIAN #14: I have been astonished by the previews on this series since it began, with the art being so John Buscema-esque that it looked like one of my favorite Silver Age artists had risen from the grave. I've been looking forward to reading the series, but before I knew it, 14 months had flown by. Which meant that the beginning of the series kept receding into the distance, and the time I'd have to allocate to catch up kept growing longer.
But this week I said "screw it" and decided to just pick up the series where it is. And I'm glad I did.
The John Buscema clone is named Roberto de la Torre, about which my 30-second Google search turned up nothing. But he is no longer on the title, so it doesn't matter. Instead, we have Doug Braithwaite, and I have to say that as much as I was looking foward to delicious nostalgia with de la Torre, Braithwaite is no disappointment. This is very, very good Conan art.
But while I didn't get nostalgia with the art, I did with the story. This is the second part of a longer story, and I didn't feel it necessary to read the first part, because writer Jim Zub pretty much summarized the previous issue in the dialogue here. And what's happening is a story set in Conan's very early days, after the sack of Venarium, but before he is captured by the Hyperboreans. He runs into some Aesir, and thanks to various Tough-Guy Respect conversations, joins them to fight some Vanir.
But the point is that the whole thing is being observed by a chick who, in her internal monolog, says she's the daughter of a god. This is very reminiscent of "The Frost Giant's Daughter," which is a pretty cool story by Robert E. Howard from 1934, and is even cooler in the original Conan the Barbarian #16 from 1972 (when drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith). This isn't that story, but there are some thematic similarities. I suspect this chick, who isn't a frost giant's daughter, may be the daughter of Crom.
I'll see next issue. I hope you'll join me.
HUGE DETECTIVE #1 (OF 5): OK, so underground giants from antiquity awaken, take issue with the human gnats who have taken over the Earth, and go to war. Things go so badly for both sides that they agree to a peace, where the giants get Australia.
That's the set-up, and now we have a murder where a shizophrenic human who thinks he's a giant is the witness to that murder, and a human detective (with some sort of undisclosed health problem) recruits a giant detective to help her solve the murder. Meanwhile, there's a whole lot of world-building going on to explain how these two species co-exist.
I'm ... mildly interested. I'll check out the next issue, but I'm on the fence.
RIVERS OF LONDON STRAY CAT BLUES #4 (OF 4)
IDW PUBLISHING
SPACE JUNK GN: "Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder: what’s the point? Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who’ve spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into each other’s orbit as they try stay in place in a universe that is moving all too quickly. With Space Junk, the startling imagination of award-winning graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw explores profound questions of past and future, trauma and recovery, staying grounded and taking flight."
The premise sounds interesting, in a literary sort of way. In a practial sense, I don't think a whole GN examining suicidal thoughts is a winner. But maybe there's something here worth examining.
However, the art is of the "primitive" style, to which I have an almost atavistic dislike. "Why," my lizard brain says, "should I pay money for art that I could literally do better myself? And a lot better, I might add."
You may feel differently, so here's a preview by which you may judge for yourself:
DYNAMITE
POWERPUFF GIRLS #2
BOOM! STUDIOS
POWER RANGERS INFINITY #1: A new team of Power Rangers -- "a ragtag team of off-kilter Rangers from across the Grid" -- arises. Nothing cliched there. Here's a FIRST LOOK.
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2000 AD PROG PACK: Rebellion / 2000AD alert!
40 YEARS OF SCREAM ARCHIVAL COL HC: Rebellion / 2000AD alert!
A PHONE CALL AWAY GN (Maverick-Mad Cave): A couple's daughter goes missing and then turns up dead. They become rich from the media attention. Now, another of their children has gone missing. I don't think this is going to be an uplifting story.
ADVENTURES OF THE MAD TSAR HC: A play on Twain's Prince and the Pauper, and all the subsequent plays, movies and novels about courtiers trying to replace a king with a compliant lookalike. There's a king, a lookalike, evil courtiers, hijinks ensue.
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG ASSASSIN NATION #1 (OF 2): Valiant “Road to Resurgence” alert!
Also, one of the cover variants is an homage to a popular Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster of the '70s. Why was it popular? THE NIPPLE. It was a more innocent time.
ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #353
BOY ISLAND HC: A gay writer/artist whinges endlessly about how interesting/difficult his/her/their gayness is. Not for the first time at Silver Sprocket.
CHUPRACABRA TALES OF BLOOK & INK HC: "When a high school reporter begins investigating rumors of a secret society headquartered in her hometown, mysticism and sacrifices are only the beginning." First, high school reporters aren't a thing. Second, even adult, professional investigative reporters are a vanishing species and aren't spending time in small towns. Third, all small towns are run by a small group of families indistinguishable from a cult. (Gungnir Entertainment)
CUTTING SEASON: Sixteen short stories by Indian writer/artist Bhanu Pratap. I don't think I've ever seen any Indian comics. (Fantagraphics)
EC EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #2 (OF 12): New EC Comics alert!
EINSTEIN IN KAFKALAND HC (Bloomsbury): A graphic novel extrapolating from the one year that Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka both happened to be in Prague at the same time. That seems a stretch, but obviously some graphic novels have been based on less.
GOLDEN AGE CLASSICS AMAZING MAN VOL 1: Back in the day, I just assumed Roy Thomas turned the Golden Age character Black for All-Star Squadron. But in retrospect, I know absolutely nothing about the Golden Age Amazing Man. Maybe Roy Thomas just used the name and made up a guy. With this book, I will learn the truth!
I SURVIVED VOL 10: THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII AD 79 GN: I admit to being curious how anyone could survive. (Graphix)
LAST HARLEMITE #1-2: "In the ruins of downtown Manhattan, Mansa ventures on a daring quest fueled by memories of his sister and loyal companion, Benzo. As he navigates through the perilous post-apocalyptic terrain, confronting mutated beasts, Mansa discovers that true adventure lies not just in overcoming obstacles, but in the unbreakable bonds forged with his friends Miguel and Tommy." This is an unknown quantity from Red 5 Comics.
MY BAD ESCAPE FROM PECULIAR ISLAND #4 (OF 5): Ahoy Comics alert!
PALESTINE HC (NEW EDITION): I have the original, published 30 years ago. I hope he updated it a little.
PS ARTBOOKS has, and I am not making this up, six facsimile editions this week of Marvel Family issues by Fawcett from the '40s. Whoever's buying these, STOP. Make PS publish collections!
PS ARTBOOKS: FANTASTIC MONSTERS OF FILMS MAG #1: I'm not going to buy a facsimile edition (I want a collection!) but I admit to curiosity.
PS ARTBOOKS: FROM HERE TO INSANITY MAGAZINE #1: Ditto.
ROBOT ARCHIE AND THE TIME MACHINE TP: Rebellion / 2000AD alert!
SOMETHING CRAWLED OUT #1: Midwestern horror from Vault. The cover's nice, but I can't find a preview.
VALIANT UNIVERSE HERO ORIGINS RAI TP: Valiant “Road to Resurgence” alert!
WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK: MYSTERY OF THE SWAMP HC: This is Volume 3 of the Carl Barks Library, bringing us very close to the end.
YOR: HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE #1 (OF 4): I remembered this as the title to a not-so-good movie from 1984, and wondered why they were reviving it. Turns out, the movie was an adaptation of a 1974 comic book -- form Argentina! Antarctic Press is reprinting the entire run of Yor in four 40-page issues.
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BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #30: Mark Waid writes the first meeting of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. At this point in DC's non-continuity, I have no idea where or when this wouild have happened.
I'm tellin' ya, man: continuity resets with every "new number one." Doesn't even have to be the same title; any new number one resets an entire universe.
Might be interesting to compare it to previous "first meetings."
It might, indeed.
JENNY SPARKS #1
I never read Stormwatch or The Authority so I am wholly unfamiliar with Jenny Sparks, but it's written by Tom King so i will at least try it.
But in retrospect, I know absolutely nothing about the Golden Age Amazing Man.
He's a Bill Everett character. See Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives, Vol. 1 for stories from Amazing Man #5-8. Or just wait until Wednesday.
Maybe Roy Thomas just used the name and made up a guy.
That one.
Ahoy Comics alert!
Here's another "Ahoy Comics alert": The final two issues of Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers have been resolicited for October/November release.
PS ARTBOOKS has, and I am not making this up, six facsimile editions of Marvel Family issues by Fawcett from the '40s. Whoever's buying these, STOP.
Also, those facsimile editions are, like, 15 bucks a pop!
I have updated this post. Now with more Farrah Fawcett-Majors!
...a popular Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster of the '70s.
I never watched a single episode of Charlie's Angels, but I had that poster. Actually, I bought two. The first one got bent while still rolled up, before I even got it home. causing a wrinkle all the way down about a quarter of the way in from the left. It was no longer mint, so of course I had to get rid of it. I asked my brother-in-law if he wanted it, and he asked what was wrong with it. I told him it was wrinkled and he said, "She's wrinkled in all the right places."
STANDSTILL #1 (OF 8)
I understand that the title Sex Criminals also had a time-freezing bit. John D. MacDonald wrote The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, which was filmed for TV. The Gold Watch in question could freeze time. It was one of a few science fiction stories he wrote. He wrote The Executioners, which filmed twice as Cape Fear (1962, 1991). He is best known for his long-running Travis McGee series. McGee would recover whatever was taken from you for a 50% fee. I haven’t read The Executioners, but I have read all of the McGee books. They all have a color in the title, which usually turns out creepy.
Jeff of Earth-J said:
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #30
If Mark Waid ever leaves this title, I hope for plenty of warning. He’s the only reason I follow it.
JENNY SPARKS #1
I never read Stormwatch or The Authority so I am wholly unfamiliar with Jenny Sparks
I read Stormwatch and The Authority in TPB. I think you’d really enjoy them, Jeff.
JENNY SPARKS #1: The titular character is 124 years old, the "Spirit of the 20th Century," and leader of The Authority. (She apparantly has some sort of agreement with the Justice League governing jurisdiction.) I was surprised to see Batman and Captain Atom in this series; I had no idea that "Stormwatch" and "The Authority" were part of the DCU proper. I was a bit confused as this issue follows five apparently random people throughout, and I had no idea if I was supposed to already know these characters or not. (There significance becomes clear in the final pages.) I probably would have got more out of this if I were more familiar with the main character, but I trust Tom King enough that I'll buy issue #2 next month.
WORLD'S FINEST #30: This story takes place in the same universe as 2017's Wonder Woman Annual #1 ("Rebirth"). If I had to descibe this issue in one word it would be "unneccessary." It reminds me somewhat of Matt Wagner's Trinity (for one), but it's not as good so why bother in the first place? Plus there is a technical error early one (page 3) in which a line of Wonder Woman's dialogue comes out of a corpse's mouth (the comic book equivalent of a boom mic dropping into shot), which soured the whole experience for me. I kept waiting for the story and/or art to recover from that early misstep but it never did.
JENNY SPARKS #1: The titular character is 124 years old, the "Spirit of the 20th Century," and leader of The Authority.
In WildStorm continuity, "century babies" are artifical constructs who usually are "born" on the first day of each century and die on the last, and act as planetary defense mechanisms. Some call them the antibodies of the Earth. (Although they don't seem to be doing much about global warming.) Jenny Sparks, representing electricity, is the Spirit of the 20th Century, while Elijah Snow of Planetary is the Ghost of the 20th Century. There have been others. Jenny Quantum was born on the first day of the 21st century (I don't know if they got it right, that the first day would be Jan. 1, 2001, not Jan. 1, 2000.) Others have been mentioned, as have previous ones, like Jenny Revolution, Jenny Inquisition, Jenny Plague, Jenny Ra, Jenny Fire and Jenny Stone.
Not all Century Babies, live 100 years -- some just llive for specific event or trend. But I thought 100 years was the limit. I have no idea how Jenny Sparks is still alive, and I was hoping this series would tell us. Or why she stopped aging in her 20s, for that matter. At least Elijah Snow looked like he'd been around the block in Planetary, and not 27. Now that I think of it, Planetary lasted until 2009, so Elijah outlived his remit, too. But then, I always thought that making Snow a Century Baby was a clumsy retcon. I imagine that, as Commander Benson would say, somebody had a "Neat Idea" that really didn't work (for me).
I understand the writer appeal of continuing Jenny's story, though. She's a tough, no-nonsense, sharp-tongued Brit who sleeps around, but is extremely straightforward and blunt. And a chain-smoker, which makes her pretty unusual for 2024 (but absolutely emblematic of the mid- and postwar 20th century). IOW, a really specific, snarky and old-fashioned character to write, complete with Brit slang. Plus, you can re-write history at will by having her reveal what "really" happened. What writer could resist?
Jenny Quantum doesn't have a personality yet AFAIK, although she should be 23 (or 24) by now, and ripe for narrative exploitation. Perhaps she'll show up in Jenny Sparks to demand Sparks step aside. I'm guessing that, being another female, she too will be frozen at a sexy age.
(She apparantly has some sort of agreement with the Justice League governing jurisdiction.)
This is news to me, and also another argument that WildStorm (and for that matter, Fawcett, Charlton and Quality) should have been kept in their own separate universes, only crossing over when somebody had a good "Crisis on Earth-One" idea. Writing Superman to allow for "jurisdiction" is a violation of his characterization -- he's going to step in where needed, regardless of protocol, because he's Superman. And Batman wouldn't recognize any restraint on his operations. Shoe-horning the WildStorm characters into the DCU reduces them (Apollo and Midnighter, for example, have to take a back seat to the characters they are parodying -- and, of course, the parody has to stop) and damages the original characters, as above. Captain Marvel and Captain Atom were the most powerful characters in their respective universes, but once blended into the DCU they have to take a back seat to Superman.
I was surprised to see Batman and Captain Atom in this series; I had no idea that "Stormwatch" and "The Authority" were part of the DCU proper.
They were revamped into the DCU as part of "52." That was 13 years ago. Clearly, they didn't make much of a splash.
I was a bit confused as this issue follows five apparently random people throughout, and I had no idea if I was supposed to already know these characters or not. (There significance becomes clear in the final pages.) I probably would have got more out of this if I were more familiar with the main character, but I trust Tom King enough that I'll buy issue #2 next month.
I haven't read it, so I can't help you there.
WORLD'S FINEST #30: This story takes place in the same universe as 2017's Wonder Woman Annual #1 ("Rebirth"). If I had to descibe this issue in one word it would be "unneccessary." It reminds me somewhat of Matt Wagner's Trinity (for one), but it's not as good so why bother in the first place? Plus there is a technical error early one (page 3) in which a line of Wonder Woman's dialogue comes out of a corpse's mouth (the comic book equivalent of a boom mic dropping into shot), which soured the whole experience for me. I kept waiting for the story and/or art to recover from that early misstep but it never did.
That's disappointing. I was racking my brains for stories where the characters met for the first time, and all I came up with was 1947's All Star Comics #36 (not All Star #3, because Wonder Woman wasn't there yet) Justice League of America #9 (showing the JLA's first adventure, which would probably be the first time Superman and Batman met Wonder Woman in the Silver Age) and Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity #1 (2003). I would also include Superman Annual #1 ("For the Man Who Has Everything," 1985) because it's the first time I remember those three being chummy. There are also Elseworlds meetings that are fun, like Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier.
BTW, what happend in the Wonder Woman Annual that ties these together?
In WildStorm continuity...
Thanks for all the backstory!
This is news to me...
I may have got that wrong. that's what I took from it.
They were revamped into the DCU as part of "52." That was 13 years ago. Clearly, they didn't make much of a splash.
I did read 52...
BTW, what happend in the Wonder Woman Annual that ties these together?
Batman says to Robin, "Superman and I met her briefly a while back," with a footnoted reference to the annual (so if you're looking for a first meeting of DC's "Trinity," World's Finest #30 ain't it, either).
I think the Captain meant Flashpoint / The New 52.
Captain Comics said:
(She apparently has some sort of agreement with the Justice League governing jurisdiction.)
This is news to me, and also another argument that WildStorm (and for that matter, Fawcett, Charlton and Quality) should have been kept in their own separate universes, only crossing over when somebody had a good "Crisis on Earth-One" idea.
Jeff, I’m not buying most of the new comics, but if these DC versions of the Wildstorm characters are disappointing, you should check out the collections of the original versions (Stormwatch, The Authority and especially Planetary).
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