Week Forty-Four
The solicitations for “52” during the month of March claim that, “Death and destruction reign supreme this month in the DCU.” Yeah, I guess you could say that. As usual, beware of spoilers.
This week opens with Osiris’ powers returning to Black Adam and the discovery of what’s left of Amon’s corpse, picked fairly clean by Sobek. I would say that this gratuitous gore is getting old, but I can’t. I love it. After finding the body, Black Adam and Isis are greeted by Sobek and the Monster Society, aka the Four Horsemen. Sobek mentions briefly that he’s been lying this whole time and only showed up in Doc Sivana’s lab right before the Black Marvel Family showed up for dinner, back in Week 26 or so. What’s that mean? That means that Mr. Mind still is at large and unaccounted for. Last we saw of him was in Week Ten, when Will Magnus found the empty cocoon from the lab.
Anyway, that’ll come later. What happens this week? Glad you asked. After the discovery and the revelations, Black Adam goes King Kong on Sobek’s jaw, snapping it wide open. From there, he turns to War, and Isis deals with Pestilence (poorly). They eventually win the fight, for the time being, after Isis explodes Death and sends him elsewhere; however, she’s been infected, and she dies in Black Adam’s arms. Her last words are touching. It’s not Black Adam that needs redemption–it’s the rest of the world. She asks to be avenged. UH-OH, SPAGHETTIO’S!!
Back in Nanda Parbat, Renee Montoya is given the Question’s uniform and instructed to head on over to Kahndaq for some answers to some very important questions.
All I have to say is, the solicitations didn’t lie. This week is chock full of death and destruction. Black Adam is back to being the bad-ass he was during the Crisis and in the first few weeks of “52,” before the ol’ ball and chain made him into a wimp. Thank God.
The art’s solid, as always, and having Black Adam in rare form is enough for this week’s issue to rank in my top five favorite issues of “52” so far. Somebody’s gonna pay for this! It’s gonna be sweet.
See ya in seven.
Well….Obviously I love Black Adam and was happy that he had Isis at his side. I didn’t think they had to kill her to make him snap, and I hope she comes back.
As for Osiris, the kid was just plain stupid and naïve, what about the wisdom of Zehuti? Shesh. But still, what a horrible way to go out
I like Black Adam much better without a family. If that means some interesting charcatres had to die, so be it.