We as the reader don't get to find out to the baby. As it goes back to the present of Grundy plummeting back to Earth and looking for revenge on Green Lantern.
He committed suicide in a place called Slaughter Swamp, I think the genre conventions of the slasher horror movies (Which the original Solmon Grundy's origin predates by many years) would practically INSIST he be revived as a super-zombie! :)
I think he has mystical connections to.. whatever the Earth2 antithesis of the Green Lantern is, so I think that's all the oriign we need.
didn't scarlett Avenger (or something) come back like that? Also Fury? Also there were several "crows" that were female. (sure not nearly as many as the men, but there have been women that have come back that way.
although she killed herself out of despair, so she would probably come back as a despair monster....
She tried to shoot herself with the pistols belonging to the original Crimson Avenger, who was essentially the Shadow before he became more of an ordinary nonlethal superhero.
I can only imagine the wife coming back as a Rage Zombie and learning that her husband went straight for the murder/suicide instead of taking care of the kid. "He did WHAT!?"
It's still kind of weird to me that Solomon Grundy was given a connection to the Grey and not the Rot. Linking Earth-2's Green Lantern to the Animal Man/Swamp Thing cosmology that's emerged would have been a cool idea if they'd actually done it for real.
Slaughter Swamp being named after a slaughter house does actually make a degree of sense, though if it's warm enough for alligators wouldn't the humidity make the meat go weird?
And I guess you could argue that anyone who knew about sexual harassment/rape and stood around fearing for their jobs so saying nothing is complicit in a real way.
At first I'd assumed the slaughterhouse boss was Gold, and he was going to be Solomon Grundy. That he worked the men to death, then butchered/sold their bodies for meat, and their families found out and killed him but he came back as some sort of super-ghoul.
Is this really better than the old Cyrus Gold origin? Or is it (par for the DCnU) just darker and grimmer (and of course plain old nastier) just for the sake of it?
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I think he has mystical connections to.. whatever the Earth2 antithesis of the Green Lantern is, so I think that's all the oriign we need.
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I feel sort of cheated, all the guys get to come back and avenge their wronged fridged loved ones but the women never do.
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although she killed herself out of despair, so she would probably come back as a despair monster....
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I can't remember her origin, offhand.
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"He did WHAT!?"
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No hint as to who, if anyone, the Red is fielding in this universe.
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also though, the guy who runs the place was shown to be less than ethical...
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Slaughter Swamp prime rib! The dish you won't need to carry home! It walks into your freezer by itself!
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Seriously, it gets a bad rep for being petty and overprotective, but think about how many villains owe their origins to crappy safety protocols.
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What I get from the scans is "My wife is dead. Rage! I'm killing my boss. I'm killing everyone."
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And I guess you could argue that anyone who knew about sexual harassment/rape and stood around fearing for their jobs so saying nothing is complicit in a real way.
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...and maybe avoid DC's entire output this month, come to think of it. It's like someone hired editorial to develop a literary cure for Joker venom.
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What actually bugs me, weirdly enough, is that his name is actually Solomon now.
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Still I can't believe they're tying a variation of the normal Slaughter Swamp origin to the Death God Grundy thing though
It looks like his wife's body was not recovered. Maybe she's the Red Lantern.
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He recites the rhyme to his kid (probably Solomon, jr, to explain that).
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At first I'd assumed the slaughterhouse boss was Gold, and he was going to be Solomon Grundy. That he worked the men to death, then butchered/sold their bodies for meat, and their families found out and killed him but he came back as some sort of super-ghoul.
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