Captain Boomerang is not having a good time...

[dreamreaver]

Four pages from The Flash #2 under the cut.





Last page, and main suspect in the Mirror Monarch's murder:



It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy!

Comments

[dcbanacek.livejournal.com]

I seriously want Tim Drake to tear Digger a new asshole. If ANYONE deserves the "honor" of kicking his ass, Tim's at the head of the line.

[big_daddy_d]

Dude, you just voiced the very showdown I wish for!

[kagome654]

I see inmates can still enjoy one of Warden Wolfe's 'Welcome to Iron Heights' beatings. One of the more competent, evidence based capes needs to get that guy ousted already.

[jlroberson]

I think Inertia killed him during Final Crisis.

[intertobamf]

Nah, he's still around.

[aeolos_sakya]

TV TROPES LINK!!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[dreamreaver]

Join ussssssssssssssssss!

[comicoz]

Under no circumstances should you visit the Just Bugs Me section. I've been reading it for DAYS and I'm still only through two categories.

[aeolos_sakya]

Dammit...

[thehefner]

Still glad to have ol' Digger back!

[thehefner]

Although his silly hat is not as good as his original silly hat.

[silverzeo]

You think Iron Hieghts would come up with some armor to counteract Cold's gun...

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Or do something about all the damn reflective surfaces in their prison. He's called freakin' Mirror Master!

[kagome654]

Wolfe complained about that once, apparently bleeding heart liberal types wouldn't allow him to remove everything that casts a reflection or house the inmates in the dark.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Still, it's a metahuman prison. There ought to be something they can do to prevent people from just walking in and out. How was Piper the only one to break out (when the prison debuted), when Mirror Master can just come and go?

[kagome654]

Well, that's the thing, most of the metas can't just walk in and out without outside help. Piper and Murmur were the only ones to escape on their own, iirc*. Mirror Master was an acknowledged problem, but he only broke certain individuals (the core Rogues, mostly) out, and only when it suited him. Most of the others had to sit tight until there was a full scale riot (like when Grodd ripped the prison apart) to escape.

*Meltdown 'escaped' at one point, but he was being transported at the time and doesn't really count

[lieut_kettch]

Much as I'd like to see Tim confront him, there's another non-Flash family superhero I can see visiting Digger-- Kara Zor-El. With all that's happened in New Krypton, I don't think Kara's had the time to mourn Owen properly. Their relationship (big brother/little sister with just the right amount of squick) was one of the things I liked about the early Supergirl comics.

[jaybee3]

But then Kara would also have to deal with the fact that Owen fed women and children to his BL Digger - and he wasn't under mind control to dot it. He just did. I mean when you go so far into the abyss that you even disgust the Rogues, then you know that's some screwed up stuff.

[lieut_kettch]

I think that's part of why Kara should visit him. Digger probably thinks of Owen as some sort of monster. It would be up to Kara, who probably knew him the best and was the only one in the hero community willing to give him a second chance, to show Digger the kind of person his son really was. And how circumstances (and bad writing) led to his fall from grace.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Anyone else read Barry's hair as "bland"? Since he's clearly ginger, not blond.

Also, damn them for making Digger pretty. I want Owen back, but this art...

[darklorelei]

Funnily enough, I did, actually.

[icon_uk]

Barry's as blond as an Aryan poster-boy

[dreamreaver]

Which is funny but technically wrong, since "Aryan" should refer to the Indo-Iranian peoples, who I don't think were blond... (thanks for mangling a perfectly usable term, Hitler!)

[icon_uk]

Very true, and I always found it ironic that Hitler himself was about as un-Aryan as you could get, being about as Nordic as Whoopi Goldberg.

[retro_nouveau]

I like his signature: Brry Alleeen XD

[darklorelei]

Hey, not all of us are smart enough to spell our names correctly in our signatures!

[naebler]

I honestly like the fact that Iron Heights is so corrupt compared to other prisons out there. A good parallel to the "second coming of Justice" aka the holy father Barry Allen (tell I'm still annoyed?). It makes a lot of sense and could lead too a decent arc in the future if done right. It's a lot like why I enjoy Star City being so damned Corrupt.

[intertobamf]

I wouldn't call Iron Heights "corrupt". The warden and guards aren't abusing their positions for personal gain, such as taking bribes or raping the inmates. "Excessive", maybe.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Ya know, I wonder. Could they really arrest Digger legally? He was legally dead, after all, and hadn't committed a crime after his resurrection.

[intertobamf]

I'm sure he has outstanding arrest warrants. Nothing in law says that death wipes the slate clean.

[icon_uk]

If you are declared dead erroneously (and turning up alive might be seen as the ultimate proof of that) you can still be charged with any outstanding crimes, and the murder of Jack Drake would definitely count.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

The Federal Government took extreme liberties with Boomer's body. Given that, I'd think any decent lawyer would be able to argue that he's a different person now, legally.

[icon_uk]

How could they prove the extreme liberties taken by a Black Ops operation, and thus probably undocumented in any way accessible to lawyers, and when Digger is walking around hale and hearty?

A guy shows up with Digger's face, fingerprints, memories, personality and DNA. He's have one hell of a time proving that he WASN'T Digger "Captain Boomerang" Harkness.

[neuhallidae]

A guy shows up with Digger's face, fingerprints, memories, personality and DNA. He's have one hell of a time proving that he WASN'T Digger "Captain Boomerang" Harkness.

In the age of clones, alternate universe counterparts, ridiculously human robots, shapeshifting aliens, and god only knows what else? I'd think it'd be a lot easier than you'd expect.

[icon_uk]

Kurt Busiek dealt with this subject in an Astro City story, where the "Evil Twin Defence" is used in a court of law for the first time. It gets a murderer off, but it establishes a precedent where there is a "reasonable cause" addendum to it.

Marvel also played with the concept the She-Hulk series (Where she asks everyone in the courtroom who has been dead to raise their hand, and thanks to the events of the Infinity War, where half the life forms in the universe ceased to be, temporarily,... half the room raise their hands)

Don't think the DCU has been seen dealing with that.

[katzedecimal]

Because I suck at HTML, apparently, but nevertheless, here's my opinion of Captain Cold's behaviour over the last couple of years (and especially his "rules", which he seems to be making up - and excepting to, et tu Evan? - as he goes along.)

[philippos42]

Frozen bodies don't break like that. At least Ge'off is consistently putting bad science in every issue he writes.

[icon_uk]

You're assuming it's a straightforward cold beam.

It's entirely possible that they're not frozen, so much as transmuted into ice, or else there are two guards stuck in an ice-shelf somewhere, having had their mass transposed with a precisely equivalent mass of ice via a telportation method.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Actually, they probably would. Cold's gun doesn't shoot ice per say, but instead slows down the molecules. Ice is just a by-product

[liabrown.livejournal.com]

Happened like that during Waid's run too.

[redorion]

Because comics are known for realistic science.

[mad]

As much as I am disinterested in a book starring Barry Allen over Wally West, I gotta say I love Francis Manapul's art.