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thanekosDarkseid's loomed behind the run so far - his death started it and his passing's the reason its new threat, the Nyctari, are active now.
There's a child of prophecy tied to those god-purgers, one Metron's interested in.
He's made a pawn of Maxwell Lord - brought him out of his post-Rebirth-Wonder-Woman coma and turned his resources to acquiring the child.
In issue #7, some of New Genesis'd arrived on Earth fleeing the Nyctari.
Those of Apokolips who'd fled the enemy's coming there first had also made it to Earth. Max'd met them - and Metron'd smoothed enough the way to their combining forces.
( Their goal was the prophecy child, whom they understood to be Darkseid again. )
There's a child of prophecy tied to those god-purgers, one Metron's interested in.
He's made a pawn of Maxwell Lord - brought him out of his post-Rebirth-Wonder-Woman coma and turned his resources to acquiring the child.
In issue #7, some of New Genesis'd arrived on Earth fleeing the Nyctari.
Those of Apokolips who'd fled the enemy's coming there first had also made it to Earth. Max'd met them - and Metron'd smoothed enough the way to their combining forces.
( Their goal was the prophecy child, whom they understood to be Darkseid again. )
thanekosPareidolia is related to patterns, echoing this three-years-in Batman maxi-series' subtitle.
It's also related to perception, echoing the motifs of the two previous stories. We Are The Wounded concerned tactile feeling, and The Voice In The Tower was audial - it'd ended on the rejection and acceptance of guiding voices.
Pareidolia opens on the acknowledgement of another motif that occurred in those two stories: ' [Gotham City, y]ou have always suffered fires. '
( The acknowledger's Batman. )
It's also related to perception, echoing the motifs of the two previous stories. We Are The Wounded concerned tactile feeling, and The Voice In The Tower was audial - it'd ended on the rejection and acceptance of guiding voices.
Pareidolia opens on the acknowledgement of another motif that occurred in those two stories: ' [Gotham City, y]ou have always suffered fires. '
( The acknowledger's Batman. )
thanekosThe Voice is the Ventriloquist's Scarface - the Tower is Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building.
Scarface's voice is guidance - he's a symbol under which some of " Bleedin' " Towers' residents've rallied, against the City's demolition plans. They've killed one Gotham cop and taken another hostage - Jim Gordon and others're outside while Batman's made his way in.
Issue #5 had Batman finding that the Ventriloquist wasn't from where Scarface was emanating - he was in the Tower, but his tongue was cut.
Someone else was speaking the gangster's words - not the Towers resident who was apparently his second, but that man's abused wife. She'd ended #5 killing her husband because Scarface told her to - and then turning to the hostage cop, who'd been restrained witness to the act.
#6 opened on Scarface's others rushing in: " What the hell happened here?! "
( She told them. )
Scarface's voice is guidance - he's a symbol under which some of " Bleedin' " Towers' residents've rallied, against the City's demolition plans. They've killed one Gotham cop and taken another hostage - Jim Gordon and others're outside while Batman's made his way in.
Issue #5 had Batman finding that the Ventriloquist wasn't from where Scarface was emanating - he was in the Tower, but his tongue was cut.
Someone else was speaking the gangster's words - not the Towers resident who was apparently his second, but that man's abused wife. She'd ended #5 killing her husband because Scarface told her to - and then turning to the hostage cop, who'd been restrained witness to the act.
#6 opened on Scarface's others rushing in: " What the hell happened here?! "
( She told them. )
thanekosThe first issue of this run'd had them described as " the most corrupt police force in America " - they were certainly up there when Blüdhaven was first introduced.
The run preceding this, the Tom Taylor/Bruno Redondo one, had included that corruption being cleansed with Superman supporting character Maggie Sawyer being appointed Blüdhaven police commissioner.
This run's following from that with " there's still problems in Blüdhaven's police force ". Part of it's been their officers cheerfully accepting laser guns, jetpacks and walking tanks (provided by Spheric Solutions, front for the run's overarching villains) to use in their duties.
Issue #125'd had one of the laser-gun-and-jetpack cops murdered - and Maggie, looking into his death, discovering that his " by the book " nature had just been his way of getting away with everything he wanted to.
She and Nightwing'd met the dead Officer Dietrich's killer - an apparent manifestation of Captain Hallow, the ghost of " the first [Blüdhaven cop] to die in the line of duty ", who supposedly punished those of the Blüdhaven police who didn't stand by their fellow officers.
Nightwing'd grappled with the ghost - who'd slipped his grip, leaving a cloak behind. Maggie'd got a shot off at the Captain as he fled - one that hit.
( Captain Hallow still got away. )
The run preceding this, the Tom Taylor/Bruno Redondo one, had included that corruption being cleansed with Superman supporting character Maggie Sawyer being appointed Blüdhaven police commissioner.
This run's following from that with " there's still problems in Blüdhaven's police force ". Part of it's been their officers cheerfully accepting laser guns, jetpacks and walking tanks (provided by Spheric Solutions, front for the run's overarching villains) to use in their duties.
Issue #125'd had one of the laser-gun-and-jetpack cops murdered - and Maggie, looking into his death, discovering that his " by the book " nature had just been his way of getting away with everything he wanted to.
She and Nightwing'd met the dead Officer Dietrich's killer - an apparent manifestation of Captain Hallow, the ghost of " the first [Blüdhaven cop] to die in the line of duty ", who supposedly punished those of the Blüdhaven police who didn't stand by their fellow officers.
Nightwing'd grappled with the ghost - who'd slipped his grip, leaving a cloak behind. Maggie'd got a shot off at the Captain as he fled - one that hit.
( Captain Hallow still got away. )
knight_movesIn issue 2, Darkseid's plot to turn all of Earth into small-minded, violent, hero-hating simpletons continues. If he's not stopped soon, all of reality will become the Marvel Universe.
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
knight_movesComing to you from a murderer's row of talent, Legends was basically the pilot episode of the post-Crisis DCU, introducing or reintroducing a lot of the characters and teams that would dominate the playing field for the near future. As a story, it left me a bit cold, with some pretty wooden dialogue and a slight story about humanity's need for heroes. Of course, with the God of Evil arguing the con position, there's not much nuance to be had.
Anyway, here's Amanda Waller, back when she was less of a villain than Darkseid.
( Read more... )
Anyway, here's Amanda Waller, back when she was less of a villain than Darkseid.
( Read more... )
thanekosThe scope of this New Gods run's zoomed in and out - it's balanced " Apokolips and New Genesis being menaced by a force emboldened by Darkseid's death " with " Scott and Barda protecting a child of prophecy from being killed by Orion ", each issue advancing both stories.
The latter story's on Earth - issue #6 brought the former there too, consequently pulling in Superman and the Justice League.
The former'd stepped in because he'd heard Orion and Scott.
( The latter stepped in because someone else heard. )
The latter story's on Earth - issue #6 brought the former there too, consequently pulling in Superman and the Justice League.
The former'd stepped in because he'd heard Orion and Scott.
( The latter stepped in because someone else heard. )
thanekosThe body's Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building - the gangster's the Ventriloquist's Scarface.
Batman'd entered the Towers in issue #4 to resolve a hostage situation - he found Scarface the hand behind it.
Many of the Towers' inhabitants were Scarface's minions - surrounded by them, the Bat fled, Scarface echoing.
" You've invaded me like a cancer cell. "
( " The kind the gody deals with every day. " )
Batman'd entered the Towers in issue #4 to resolve a hostage situation - he found Scarface the hand behind it.
Many of the Towers' inhabitants were Scarface's minions - surrounded by them, the Bat fled, Scarface echoing.
" You've invaded me like a cancer cell. "
( " The kind the gody deals with every day. " )
Nightwing #125 is dead Blüdhaven police.
May. 24th, 2025 11:02 amthanekosBlüdhaven's police've been part of the current run - the work of its ultimate villains (so far) has included giving those cops laser guns and jetpacks to deal with crime.
Issue #124 had Blüdhaven receiving more - walking tanks - and sending them against the city's gangs.
#125 opens not on what that climaxed in, but after with part of what came before - one of the lasers-and-jetpacks cops.
( He's drinking at a bar. )
Issue #124 had Blüdhaven receiving more - walking tanks - and sending them against the city's gangs.
#125 opens not on what that climaxed in, but after with part of what came before - one of the lasers-and-jetpacks cops.
( He's drinking at a bar. )
thanekosLike the first three-parter in the maxi-series, We Are The Wounded, it had a sense motif.
That one was tactile - a serial killer with the inability to feel, and the other antagonist of the story being punished with a lingering injury.
This one's audial - taking place in a very acoustic Gotham City apartment building.
It opens after a cop's been thrown out a window - Batman and Jim Gordon discussing the cop's autopsy, marks on his wrists and neck.
( They're outside the building. )
That one was tactile - a serial killer with the inability to feel, and the other antagonist of the story being punished with a lingering injury.
This one's audial - taking place in a very acoustic Gotham City apartment building.
It opens after a cop's been thrown out a window - Batman and Jim Gordon discussing the cop's autopsy, marks on his wrists and neck.
( They're outside the building. )
