Jan172007January 17, 2007January 12, 2009NoCommentby Jean-Claude Van Doom

Best of 2006: Twist

Posted in year in review - 2006 by

Every good comic series builds up to a nice surprise, whether it be the unveiling of Batman’s son or the grand revelation that Rictor likes dudes. Okay, so not every twist is a good one. But here’s our picks for the best of the year.

Photobucket - Video and Image HostingThe Joker gets to play, Infinite Crisis #7

“Here’s what I had to say in May: After a final showdown with Batman, Alexander Luthor somehow manages to evade death and even evade capture. He’s going to get away with everything, and come back down the road to try it all again. Or so he would have if he wouldn’t have made one major mistake. As Lex Luthor tells the son of his Earth-3 counterpart, “You made a lot of mistakes. You underestimated Superman. Superboy. Me. But the biggest one? You didn’t let The Joker play.” With an acid-spraying flower, an electro-joy-buzzer, and a big friggin’ gun, The Joker puts an end to the greatest threat the DC Universe has ever known. And while he only appeared in a handful of panels in the entire Infinite Crisis, he manages to steal the show at the end.”
— Fin Fang Doom

ASSBAR vanishes!

“When DC went an entire year without publishing a single issue of All-Star Batman and Robin. Thank you, guys.”
— Doom DeLuise

Ultimate Cop Out

“Not true twists, but Ultimates 2 had a great way of building everything to a head. The traitor was sort of obvious, but Tony shooting her wasn’t as much.”
— Doominator

Photobucket - Video and Image HostingFoggy, alive?

“It’s really hard to pull the wool over comics readers’ eyes with how quickly everything leaks on the Internet. I was fully surprised by both of Infinite Crisis’ big reveals – Alex Luthor as villain and the Joker’s revenge – but nothing caught me off guard as much as Foggy Nelson’s return to the land of the living.”
— Jean-Claude Van Doom

“When Foggy is revealed to be alive and in witness protection. I don’t know why, but I just figured Foggy was really dead. So I was pumped when he was alive because he was alive, but I was extra pumped because of how many potential storylines that revelation opened up – and that’s what a good twist should do.”
— Jim Doom