Jean Loring in 52

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from 52 Week Twenty-Seven. It's written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid; the breakdowns are by Keith Giffen and the pencils by Shawn Moll. The cover is by J.G. Jones.


Ralph Dibny is traveling with the helm of Doctor Fate (really Felix Faust in disguise) trying to find a way to bring back Sue. In this issue he asks the Spectre if he can bring her back to him; the Spectre grins and replies "Absolutely."







In the 52 trade paperback one of the writers said that this was correcting a continuity error from Identity Crisis #1; when Sue is waiting for Ralph she hears a sound coming from inside the house. You're meant to think it's the killer, except Jean traveled to the Dibnys' home via the phone lines.

Comments

[statham1986.insanejournal.com]

Sure, this is what Jean deserves, I agree.

The argument (not really an argument, more a statement), is whether she, Sue, or Ralph had to go through any of that bullshit. Seriously. I love some of DC's decisions over the past years, but if there's one thing I could have wripped out and cast into the retcon pile, it's Identity Crisis.

Someone mentioned 'happy' comics, to me, the other day, when I post the DV8 reveal, and as stupid as it sounds, when Meltzer was establishing just how great Ralph and Sue's relationship was, I loved it, because I'd never heard of the characters before and just loved how perfect their relationship seemed. Then I immediately wanted to rip his skull off for that putrid page with Ralph holding Sue's charred body. I could seriously do with just the implication, there. I would love just a series about Ralph and Sue, though.

[cowtasticism.insanejournal.com]

I didn't like Identity Crisis but I thought it was great how Meltzer made the reader love Ralph and Sue before killing her. Maybe I'm crazy, but I find it much more enjoyable to rad about the death of characters I know and like than a character I do not really care about.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Well, in a story sense, such deaths serve different purposes. In a mystery, which IC was, however incoherent, you have to start out with the death of a major character. In a big comics "event," inevitably they have to throw something down like that(Orion dying at the start of FC, Earth-3 at the start of COIE, the Freedom Fighters at the start of InfC)because in order to whip up interest in an event you have to give a sense of, "My god, if they're willing to do that what ELSE might they do?" The deaths of characters you don't know well or care much about are different. They are there to show the seriousness of a threat. In the DCU, in the first few issues of an event, the characters who die generally bridge both categories. For instance, I don't care about the Hawks, but I still found their deaths at the start of BN a bit freaky.

Satisfyingly so, mind. I was so sick of them whining about their reincarnatory luvvv. I just wish the spear had gone through Carter first, because it was just as fridgy as the similar impalement between the tits of Dee Tyler, which I found kind of...ick. And not in the way I was supposed to.