Week Twenty
For the first time in the series, I find myself truly annoyed by “52.” I can put up with Lobo, and I can put up with filler issues, but not both.
To start, let’s talk about what actually goes down this week. John Henry Irons opens things, helping fight a fire in some building. He’s finally snapped out of his funk, and he’s ready to embrace his new superhero abilities. He and that other girl that works with him also come to the realization that if Luthor has the capability of making anybody superpowered, he also has the ability to take away superpowers. Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O’s! The rest of the issue is given to Starfire, Animal Man, and Adam Strange on Lobo’s planet. They battle some unknown force (I say unknown, since I couldn’t tell what the heck was happening), and Starfire uses the Eye of Ekron to put the threat to bed. Lobo then says they’re in grave danger, since everytime the Eye is used, the person who uses it is being targeted by the Emerald head of Ekron, from which the Eye was ripped out of. They end up going on the run at the end of the issue, and that’s that.
So, why am I annoyed? Simple. I want some answers or development, dammit. I want to know who put the bounty on the three space adventurers before they start running from somebody else. I want to know what actions Black Adam, the Question, and Montoya are taking after joining forces two weeks ago. I want to know who was grabbing the prison keys in Week Fifteen. I want to know what’s going on with Luthor’s everyman program. I want to know who Supernova is (although, I will be willing to wait for that answer for quite some time), and I want all of the inconsistencies between this series and the OYL stuff to be explained. Where’s Harvey Dent? It seems like Steel is set to take down Luthor, but isn’t Clark Kent supposed to do that, according to Up, Up, and Away?
I guess I’m just fed up with having to end every review of this series with a big ol’ question mark and an urging to just wait for next week. Most importantly, I want to know what the hell Fifty-Two is.
See ya in seven.
This really should have been titled Weak Twenty. You, sir, have fallen down on the job.
I was willing to let last week slide, but this week it took me a while to figure out if I was really dumb or if the issue just stunk. The only part I was intrigued by was Supernova in the Bat cave.
I now think Supernova may be a super-powered Lex Luthor. He was certainly looking for that Kyptonite glove he found, and we all know Supernova’s not Superboy, so who else would care about Kryptonite? Booster Gold wouldn’t. Maybe this is Lex trying to take back the city Superman stole from him (his words in Up, Up and Away) by replacing Superman? They even went to the trouble of saying Lex can remove the superpowers later. Hopefully it still turns out to be a not-dead Booster Gold, though.