I mean, seriously, Alfred could have had a heart attack!
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Eclipso Annotations Nearing Completion
Almost finished the notes on the tie-in annuals – only three more to go, then a detailed look at Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2 and that’ll be the main annotations completed. I also plan to have a look at the solo Eclipso series that followed it, as well as how things got wrapped up in the pages of The Spectre.
Having to read (or in some cases re-read) the annuals has been kinda fun on the whole, as I remember the early 90’s DCU with some fondness. However, having just re-read the Justice League Europe annual, I’ve been reminded of how terrible Power Girl was written back then – she was portrayed as constantly angry, a state put down to being allergic to artificial sweeteners in diet soda. So, in the annual, having been annoyed by her team mates, what does she do?
Yep, she binges on diet soda and gets angry. No prizes for guessing who from the JLE gets eclipsed…
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Double Dialogue In The Precinct
The Precinct is a sort of follow-on from Bill Willingham’s Legenderry series and the mini-series that followed that – at least it’s set in the same world even if it’s not featuring any of the same characters. Issue #2 came out last week and there’s a scene where members of the Alchemy Academy (surely Alchemical Academy would work better?) appeal to the Royal Senate to be allowed to have a representative on the Senate. They ask this because, they believe, the Senate relies too much upon steam powered mechanical inventions, whereas the Academy deal with the divine and the spiritual.
During the debate, this happens:
There’s a couple of things that jumped out at me reading this. First, the top panel:
Classified? Who the hell mentioned anything about classified things? That piece of dialogue comes out of nowhere.
The other thing is the first speech bubble on the page (in the panel above) and the last one spoken by a different character. Here they are, side by side:
This is either sloppy writing by Frank J Barberie or sloppy editing by Rachel Pinnelas or Joe Rybandt.
Either way, it doesn’t fill me with a great deal of confidence for the forthcoming Dejah Thoris series which is written by Barberie.
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Green Lantern Corps Redefine Priority
I picked up the first issue of Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion this week and, on the whole, it wasn’t too bad – certainly no better or worse than Green Lantern: Lost Army which it follows. However, being the nit picking kind of guy I am, one thing did jump out at me.
Towards the start of the issue, the Corps members led by John Stewart are gathering to discuss what happens and this conversation takes place:
First glance that’s nothing unusual – they need to find the other Corps members and look for a way back to the universe and time they left behind.
But hang on, let’s take a closer look:
Guy Gardner says they’ve been exploring the dying universe for six months.
John Stewart says finding the missing Corps members needs to be their first priority.
First priority?! If that’s the case, why have they spent six months exploring? Why haven’t they spent six months looking for the rest of the Corps?
It’s a situation made all the more absurd because Graf Toren comes up with the idea of asking Mogo to shine like a beacon and what do you know? The rest of the Corps see it and head towards it!
Six months of not bothering to look for the missing Corps members then, when they decide to, they find them in five minutes!
Suffering Sappho, this does not bode well for the rest of the series!
Crisis on Earth-Prime 