The return of Gail Simone's Spy Smasher

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Remember Katarina Armstrong? She was the second Spy Smasher, appearing in Birds of Prey #100-108 (collected in the trades "Blood and Circuits" and "Dead of Winter," for those who are interested).

Katarina returned this week in Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #3, written by Ivan Brandon and illustrated by Marco Rudy.

Gail, if you're reading this, do you have any plans on using Katarina again? It shouldn't be hard to restore her memory (if it isn't already restored by the end of the series), and it'd make sense that she'd be involved with the Department of Metahuman Affairs where Diana works.

Comments

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, what are those Global peace agents up to ????

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Characters tied to things that spin? How Silver Age retro!

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

And everything with the FInal Crisis name on it continues to suck.

[gailsimone.insanejournal.com]

Can't really comment because I don't want to spoil their story, sorry!

But I do really like the character. She's kind of a bitch on wheels, but she
also has a viewpoint and she's a blast to write.

[suzene.insanejournal.com]

*blinks*

Are those two together?

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Oh, damn. That's cool, so long as he doesn't pull a Winick.

Is the Nemesis in this like Simone's or like Heinberg/Picoult/Pfeiffer's?

[retro_nouveau.insanejournal.com]

Now she's got an empty head, and with those glasses... "I can see Russia from my house!" XD

[akodo_rokku.insanejournal.com]

Y'know, ALL the Final Crisis follow-ups are rather shit, but this one? This one is shit AND makes no sense what so ever.

Which makes it the truest inheritor of the Final Crisis mantle.

[shanejayell.insanejournal.com]

GEH.

Just... BLEH. Kill it with fire!

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

That's okay. McCoy and Chapel can have her re-educated and back on duty in a couple of weeks.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Interesting. So if one of those other options had been landed on, what would have happened? 'Escape' is pretty obvious, but what about 'Panic'? Would SS have gone mad with fear or something?

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Uh oh...This would definitely be a job for Oracle and the Birds of Prey if they still had a book...*sniffle*