Wednesday Comics 12/21/2005 & 12/28/2005

This is a special 3 week edition of Wednesday comics. Special because of the holidays two things happened. One, I didn't update my blog at all. Two, because of the holidays comics actually shipped on Thursday. Not super special I agree, but I needed a second point to de-emphasize my not updating.

12/21/2005:

Adventures of Superman #647:
Final showdown between Supes and Ruin AKA professor Hamilton. Now the prof has been a long time ally of Superman but now believes that an uber powerful alien almost impossible to destroy is a danger to all normal humans. Kinda like some other Superman villian. Hmmm any connection the mysterious benefactor Ruin mentions? Could the mysterious benefactor be the person revelead in Infinite Crisis #3?

Infinite Crisis #3:
I segued that pretty well I believe. Anyways there is alot of baggage coming into this issue. I will try and help with some links to information. First there is Multiple Earths and everything that happened in Crisis on Infinite Earths back in 1985 which this is a sequel of sorts to. Then all the lead up to Infinite crisis with the different mini-series and corssovers. Infinite Crisis #1 ended with Superman from Earth 2 having enough of watching Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman bickering with each other in the ruin of the JLA watchtower and breaking out of the pocket paradise dimension to set the world right bringing with him his Lois Lane from E-2, Superboy from Earth-Prime, and Alexander Luthor from Earth-3. Infinite Crisis #2 is mainly about Powergirl and E2 Superman who are really Cousins as Powergirl is really Supergirl from E2. Lois is dying and at the end E2 Superman reveals that he thinks the wrong earth was saved and that he wants the E2 to be the one and only now.

So that leads us up to this issue where Atlantis gets stomped by Spectre, OMACS chase Paradise Island away leaving Wonder Woman Alone and E2 Superman attempts to recruit Batman with no success. At the end two big shocks in this one to match the big ending shocks that has come before(E2 Superman and Co returning and E2 Superman wanting to restructure the universe) and that is that Luthor confronts the other Luthor and you discover that Alexander Luthor is the Society Blue-eyed Luthor. Right after that in a second yet connected shocker Batman finally gets the video off the Justice League's blackbox and sees that it was Superboy that blew up the JLA Watchtower.

Whew! Looks like E2 Superman is the dupe here and not evil though Alexander is a Luthor and you can never trust them no matter what dimension they come from and who knows yet about Superboy.

Justice #3:
This is an out-of-continuity series that comes out every other month which is way too long to wait for this great series. Basically all the villians have had visions of the Earth's destruction that the heroes cannot stop. So now various plots are brewing for who knows what end. In Justice #3 Braniac has Aquaman and is about to experiment on him while Red Tornado is searching for him at the watchtower while Martian Manhunter is looking for him in the ocean. MM is looking in the ocean so his vulnerability to fire cannot be exploited but alas Garilla Grodd uses his mind powers to make MM believe he is on fire and incapacitates him. Red Tornado however finds Aquaman's location because of countless sea creatures circling his area. I just can't help but think of Aquaman as pathetic from the Superfriend's cartoons and Cartoon Network commericals. Neither can this guy it seems.

12/28/2005:

Batman #648:
Alfread and Bruce recieve a gift from Jason. It is some green hair...hmmm who has green hair? Red Hood convince Black Mask (What ever happened to Green Scarf?) to wipe out his underlings and Red Hood would stop harassing Black Mask. But he lied. The two tussle and Batman see the fight and arrives a moment too late to stop Black Mask putting a dagger into Red Hood. I'm sure he isn't dead...again.

All-Star Batman and Robin #3:
This series hasn't been as good as I hoped with Frank Miller writing it, but I do still like it alot. Lee just is an awesome artist who draws the most beautiful women. Speaking of that this issue is mainly about Black Canary who kicks some biker asses in this issue with a little bit of Batman and Dick Grayson in the Bat-mobile/Bat-Submarine and a little with Supes reading that Batman kidnapped Dick.