New Warriors #36

[iamrman]

Writer: Fabian Nicieza

Pencils: Craig Brasfield

Inks: Jeff Albrecht

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Vance gets a pep talk from his alternate future self and gets embroiled in a prison riot.

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Vance is about to return to his cell when the rest of the inmates start acting up.

Comments

[thanekos]

" Yeah, Dad in my timeline wasn't as awful. "
" What about mom? "
" She didn't do shit about it. Same for you? "

[beyondthefringe]

"I'd forgotten how shitty my childhood was until it happened to you because divergent timelines and time travel are a real bitch. In fact, I didn't even have a scar in the future until you got it in the past..."

[cainofdreaming]

What's the Wizard supposed to be doing? Performing Shakespeare at the park?

[dan_ingram]

Well, his whole character is being a drama queen

[zachbeacon]

Playing at being a prison reform advocate but making it all about himself?

(He's out of line, but he is right)

[iamrman]

If anybody is an old ham, the Wizard is.

[beyondthefringe]

Prison reform in a comic book universe is always an interesting debate.
Extraordinary powers require extraordinary solutions, but where's the line between containment and cruelty? Like keeping a prisoner comatose because they're literally too dangerous to have awake, or the popular "clear cell with no privacy whatsoever" or "restrained at all times and fed through a straw" or "shrink everyone down to the size of ants" or "use as living power generator for the prison"

And then people get surprised when incarcerated villains riot or escape or take Amanda Waller's deal.

Yeah, a great deal of this is just because writers need stories, stories need villains, and imprisoned villains are rarely as interesting as ones fighting the hero, but I'd love to see a solution to the superhuman penal system that was both humane and effective and not "literally in another dimension." (I was always bothered by the Crime Syndicate being stuck in a bubble between worlds with no space, no privacy, no resources...)