Arkham City: The Order of the World #6 is an order and its disordering.

[thanekos]

The orderer is Professor Pyg, to whose Asylum Dr. Joy (formerly of Arkham's) and the group in her wake'd been led in #5.

Issue #6 had Dr. Joy " on staff ", observing Pyg's patients in the repurposed slaughterhouse.

Her rounds took her to Dr. Phosphorous and Nocturna.





Dr. Joy addressed them.



" Him " was Azrael, whom Pyg and No-Face (the professor's shapeshifting accomplice) had manipulated to hound the former Arkhamites loose in Gotham, to funnel them into the new Asylum.

" Him " was Azrael, who'd been part of the intake at the end of #5.



(The decapitation of Solomon Grundy was in issue #3.)

Over Dr. Joy's objections, Pyg loosed Azrael, to give him the same kind of therapy Ratcatcher there was getting with his running free.



Azrael, with his flaming sword (which'd been given back to him), rained down on the Asylum's occupants.

Dr. Joy sat alone, listening to the wrack of the wrath.



Eventually, the police showed up - led by Detective Stone, who'd been working with Dr. Joy at the start of the series, as part of the law's effort to corral the scattered ex-Arkhamites.

Stone found Pyg and No-Face and their patients savaged.

He didn't find Azrael - but he did find Joy and the Ten-Eyed Man:



(That was Stone's son and wife whom the Ten-Eyed Man'd been menacing in #5.)

Stone berated Joy - and then the Ten-Eyed Man lunged at him, and cracked his head on the wall.

" If I performed the rituals..

" I would be protected. "



The Ten-Eyed Man gamboled free.



(Pagecount's just under 7 of 22.

Writing's Dan Watters, art's DaNi, colors're Dave Stewart, and letters're Aditya Bidikar.

Publisher's DC.)

Comments

[cygnia]

Well, that was depressing as all fuck...

[blues32]

I assume she's dead. I mean, she looks pretty dead, but who knows with comic books. If she's still in one piece, she might not be dead.

Is Nocturna somehow immune to radiation? I know she's kinda like a vampire, but she's not undead, is she?

[bruinsfan]

Can't Sartorius control his radioactivity since he signed an infernal deal?

[donnblake]

If he can, I don't think he has been. The couple living next door to him and Nocturna when they were out in the city died of radiation poisoning, I'm pretty sure.

[blues32]

Pretty sure all those deals were undone. Mr. Freeze needs his suit, Black Manta isn't an actual humanoid manta ray, Killer Moth isn't a monster and so on.

[tinygaylaura]

I can't believe the prince of lies didn't honor the deals he made

[blues32]

Neron can't welch on a deal. It's literally impossible for him to do so. I mean, Lex Luthor is doing just fine. His clone body degenerated and he suffered from locked-in syndrome (I think that's what it's called). Unable to move but fully aware. He sold his soul to be cured and it seems to have stuck. And I don't know if Joker lost his box of Cuban cigars.

[tinygaylaura]

Then explain why Black Manta is no longer a manta

Explain that

With all your science

[blues32]

Aquaman touched him with his water hand. No further context needed, I think.

[cainofdreaming]

She, in at least some continuities, seems to have vampiric immunities -- bullets do nothing, poisons don't affect her, et cetera -- so who knows whether they would go as far as prevent radiation poisoning. This series is a bit quick and loose with continuity anyways, so for this I think we can assume they do.

[jgraygaming]

Has Officer Jenny showed up yet?

[tinygaylaura]

"Dr Joy"

Someone with the last name Stone

The writer has been trolling us from the first issue

[super_fly]

Gotta catch 'em all

GOTHAM ROGUES

[tinygaylaura]

Harley: Prepare for trouble

Ivy: And make it double

Harley: To protect the world from devastation!

Ivy: To unite all people within our nation

Harley: To denouce the evils of truth and love

Ivy: To extend our reach to the stars above!

Harley: Harley!

Ivy: Pam

Together: GOTHAM BISEXUALS BLAST OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

SURRENDER NOW OR PREPARE TO FIGHT

Selina: MEOW

THAT'S RIGHT

[tinygaylaura]

Azrael didn't kill the Arkham patients did he?

I hope they are still alive

Well except for Pyg

Pyg can die

[tinygaylaura]

I love the fact thatthe radioactive skeleton dating a vampire conclusively proved that they are both more sane than the world around them