Wednesday Comics 12/7/2005

Today will be the first day on commenting on the comics I buy. I don't get too many titles so there won't be too many to comment on every week as some other sites but you'll have to settle for what I get. Anyways this week:

Adventures of Superman #646:

Jumping into the near end of this storyline, Clark Kent stumbles across Mr. Mxyzptlk who can't remember his name and has holes in his memory and trouble with his magic.(most likely the result of the Spectre killing Shazam and destroying the Rock of Eternity in "Day of Vengeance") As Clark helps him remember so MM can go back home Clark sees some of MM's notes that talks about Ruin, a villian Superman has been trying to track down. Dragging along Mxy who helps with some timely magic to find Ruin's lair. Mxy saves supes from a Kryptonite arrow and tries to say his name backwards before he dies, but appears to be unsuccessful. Meanwhile Supes find Ruin who is Professor Hamilton...to be continued next issue.

A side plot in this issue is the cop who thinks Pete Ross, Clark's boyhood friend and former President, is Ruin and has tracked him down to this same lair. Ruin has dressed Pete up to look like him so she will kill Pete.


Batman #647:

For those of you not keeping track Jason Todd is back under the guise of Red Hood. Jason isn't too happy these days (Being beat with a crowbar by the joker back in the day then blown up may do that) Anyways Red Hood is fighting crime again in Gotham though he isn't shy about killing them off. Black Mask, the current crimelord in Gotham, wants him taken out, so he joined Luthor's society of villians to receive aid from some Meta-villians. He gets three C-class villians and they lure Red Hood into attacking them and seem to start to get the upper hand on Red Hood when Batman appears and working with Red Hood defeat the three villians. Red Hood kills one of them though and any good will is broken between them.

Superman 224:

The other Superman title I got this week has Lex Luthor (Green eyed luthor with the battle suit opposed to Blue eyed Luthor ex-president and current leader of DC's villians) flying over the arctic to battle his other greatest foe when an OMAC attacked and brought down the plane. Without his battlesuit Lex is powerless with only a gun and 4 bullets, but manages to take out the OMAC with three bullets by shooting and breaking off a ledge that crushes the OMAC and reverts back to human. The 4th bullet was used to end that man's life.

Superman meanwhile hears about the plane crash and that Lex is involved and flies off to take care of Lex himself but gets sidetracked by the new blackrock who Supergirl helped battle in the last issue. After getting beat he uses his head and puts her inside a lead-shielded room that depowers the blackrock.

Lois meanwhile is searching for the person who shot her. She knows Checkmate is involved and eventually tracks it down to Sasha Bordaux. She was one of the main characters in OMAC Project and ex-Batman lover. Now she is sort of a human/OMAC hybrid experiment. Sasha tells Lois she had no choice in shooting her and she plans to reform Checkmate to something good. Lois takes some pleasure that Sasha isn't human anymore and will suffer.

The best part of this issue is the comparison between Lex and Superman when faced with possible defeat. Lex feeds on his hatred while Superman feeds off of the people he loves. Both overcome adversity in this wat. Superman at the end seems ready to shake off the wimpiness and indecisiveness he has had over the last few years, so hope this contiues. (Batman in Infinite Crisis #1 told Superman the last time Superman inspired any of the heroes was when he died.)