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After the assassination of the genocidial President Bhat in the previous issue (along with two of his staff, though no one seems to care about them), Naif is having to explain to various political sorts why the JLElite appear to have killed people after he promised they wouldn't.
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Three interesting things there: 1. the guy on the phone appears to be GW Bush, when he actually lost the 2000 election to Lex Luthor and thus was never president in the DCU. 2. Naif is so stressed that he's smoking three cigarettes at once. and 3. Note Vera's eyes, they appear as square and rectangles several times, so when they don't it could be argued not to be an artistic error.

Vera asks Manitou Raven to prepare a spell to root out the murderer on the team, but the fact that Raven is giving Vera and the team more attention than her doesn't help the increasing resentment she's started to feel for her husband.
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Vera gathers the team on a rooftop, and states that if whoever is responsible steps forward, then they'll be given both a day's head start and the promise that the team would be the ones who catch them. So they'll be better treated than if they were caught by any of the other government agencies or superteams.

No one steps forward.

Then...
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Wow, nice to see you add a semi-racist comment in there Ollie. *rolleyes*
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And thus begins Ollie's term of boinking a teammate's wife.

Date: 2009-11-29 12:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sailorlibra
I like Ollie. I know he can be an ass sometimes, but I still like him. He's just... fun, I guess.

I PROTEST, SIR!

Date: 2009-11-29 12:54 am (UTC)
stig: "It Was A Boojum..." (Default)
From: [personal profile] stig
A humorous, outspoken Britishwoman who does not pronounce the word as either the in-decent-company 'anus' or the full-on-blood-and-sputum 'arse' with a capital 'arrr'?

Joseph Kelly, I challenge you to pistols at (Manitou) Dawn! You may name your weapon!

Re: I PROTEST, SIR!

Date: 2009-11-29 01:40 am (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
Huh, you just made me realize for the first time that Vera and Manchester may be quite old.

Re: I PROTEST, SIR!

Date: 2009-11-29 02:07 am (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
A later issue shows the center of her tech stuff is implanted in her chest.

Re: I PROTEST, SIR!

Date: 2009-11-29 05:10 am (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
Yea. Her arms get the most attention because they're the only part of her that's entirely tech, but her control thingy is in her chest and there's tech throughout her body.

Re: I PROTEST, SIR!

Date: 2009-11-29 01:07 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jaybee3
The whole thing with Dawn and Ollie was a whole WTF? moment for me. Especially since at this point in time IIRC he was trying to get Dinah to believe he'd changed (he then also had a one-night stand with Joanna Pierce when Dinah took him back). And when Dawn was first introduced she was probably as attached to Manitou Chief as a wife could be...and then this. Of course later after Manitou dies and Dawn takes over his role (and knows he knew what happened with her and Ollie and never said anything) and she wallows in guilt while Ollie just shrugs it off with a few "oops" lines (in Johns' "Crisis of Conscience" JLA arc I believe) and moves on.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] taggerung301
do you think that they'll ever bring Vera and Naif back or restart JLElite? this is a damn good series

Date: 2009-11-29 01:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aaron_bourque
this is a damn good series

Enh. Not really.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] taggerung301
well, I enjoyed it

Date: 2009-11-29 01:41 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] q99
I think it'd be cool if they did. Probably not restart the Elite, but Vera at least.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:55 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] taggerung301
Yeah, that would be nice
If she does come back, I hope Naif shows up too

Date: 2009-11-29 01:54 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jarodrussell
I think it being so great precludes it from being something DC would want to work on. They tend to produce only crap.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] valtyr
So he's willing to let the Martian in with urethral mind probes but not let Diana use her lariat? Wacky.

Also, LOL at Batman grabbing the lariat, using it, and then going all I DON'T TRUST MAGIC.

And I like pretty much all this art but Diana.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
I got the impression that he was actually kind of planting the idea in everyone's minds that using the lariat might be effective. And really, I don't think Bats trusts ANY conclusion that hasn't been come to using his personal talents and equipment. Everything else is suspect.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wetstereorebel
Yeah, I love Mahnke's stuff, but his Wonder Woman looks...off.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cmdr_zoom
I will forever remember the big panel he drew of her reacting to being asked if she was a whore, with two of her teammates showing identical "ohhhhh shit" expressions at her shoulders.

Date: 2009-11-29 03:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wetstereorebel
I really can't put my finger on it. It's almost like her facial proportions are off, but I think there's more to it than that. Perhaps someone more eloquent than myself would like to read my mind and help out here?

Anyone?

Date: 2009-11-29 01:27 am (UTC)
blake_reitz: (Default)
From: [personal profile] blake_reitz
Did Ollie's mustache spontaneously curl in the last panel?

Date: 2009-11-29 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] taggerung301
I think so
hadn't noticed it until you pointed it out
that's actually pretty funny

Date: 2009-11-29 01:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] freezer
So... Bats is unwilling to trust in Diana's Golden Lasso - which he has seen work time and time again - because it's "magic", but he's willing to trust Sodium Penthalate? Fucking "Truth Serum."

Someone needs to be beaten for writing that stupidity.

Date: 2009-11-29 02:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] q99
To spoil a bit of what happens later, Vera *was* cheating the lasso, so Batman wasn't entirely wrong :)

Date: 2009-11-29 02:12 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] freezer
Oh I figured she pulled somethign (from the way the art kept emphasizing her obviously artificial arm). My thing in this case is less Bats' ridiculous "No such thing as magic" kick than the fact that he's offering up the notoriously unreliable Sodium Penethol.

Any law enforcement agent or doctor who saw that would've had a hard time not laughing in his face..

(Not sure how widespread the knowledge that Truth Serum is far from a sure thing is, so I don't know if that counts as Dan Browned or Did Not Do The Research)

Date: 2009-11-29 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] warpedhand
I'm pretty sure that Batman has been aware of this fact in the past, and attempted to create his own, so this may just be a case of both.

Date: 2009-11-29 01:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jarodrussell
Vera is so cool, it hurts.

Date: 2009-11-29 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] warpedhand
Yes, because Batman wouldn't notice a thing like her arms are fake.

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