Synopsis: Desaad is bleeding some guy from the skull while talking to Darkseid about the meaning of death and if one death rly means nething in the grand scheme of things :O
Darkseid overlooks a giant chess board filled with replicas of the heroes :o He says that he would agree with Desaad that ultimately nothing means nething if he was as limited as Desaad but since he's Darkseid, he says that existence itself will be recreated and that he'll be the architect :O
He moves the Duela Dent piece and we see Duela in a club :o She kidnaps a famous singer and parachutes out the window with her, hoping to hold her for a ten million dollar ransom :o However the parachute is shot down by Jason Todd o_O;;
Todd saves the girl and pursues Duela.
Meanwhile, Mary Marvel, in depowered form, comes out of her coma. She's unable to access her powers by saying the magic word and is all upset that nobody's come to visit her :o She finds out that Freddy Freeman paid her medical expenses but left her a note saying not to find him. :\
She walks off angry and alone swearing to find him. >.>;;;
In an apartment, Flash villains Heat Wave and Trickster gather for a party :o Heat Wave accuses Trickster for being one of the villains who blurred the lines between good and evil and helping Flash along with the Pied Piper. Trickster says he's put that behind him and is willing to hurt Flash now :O
Meanwhile on the rooftop, a rat that was observing them climbs out and talks to the Piper who learns of their plans :O He says that if the Rogues are rly planning something he can't let the Trickster get in his way >.>;;
Duela runs away from a mysterious assailent who is immune to her weapons o_o;;
Jason Todd intervenes trying to save her but it turns out to be one of the Monitors! :oo
The Monitor shoots Duela and is about to shoot Jason too when another Monitor intervenes :O The "bad" Monitor says that Duela doesn't belong in this universe and Jason Todd doesn't either (since he should be dead). The other Monitor says that he has to have authorization. :O
They beam away and Jason gets up and clutches Duela who appears dead o_O;;
The "good" Monitor flies to the source wall at the edge of the universe. :O He asks it what's going on and it says GREAT DISASTER >.>;;
He asks what the solution is and it says RAY PALMER :o
He acts shocked o_o;;
Review: >.>;; This wasn't a very strong first issue.. at least not in my opinion :( 52 had this feeling that rly we were starting a huge journey that would explain the missing year and we rly didn't know what would happen. :o
Here, there are mysteries, but the same feeling of adventure seems to be missing :\
Also.. when did Jason Todd become good and Duela evil? :O In Green Arrow Todd is still bad and in Teen Titans Duela is good. >.>;;
So I'm confused :(
I'm also confused as to when Duela knew that she was from another Earth since she says so in this story :O
How old is Mary Batson supposed to be? :\ She looks in her 20s o_o;; Is that right? :O I always thought she was a teenager at the very most when she's not being Mary Marvel :O
I'm also confused about why Black Adam is among the heroes on the cover running heroicly? :O Is he still considered a hero after massacring a whole country? :| It's going to be hard to justify :(
At least Darkseid is back :D
Is it just me or is Amazon's Attack the most ignored cross-over-mega-event EVAR? :\ No other books are talking about it or even acknowledging it exists, tho supposedly an army of superpowered warriors are beseiging the United States of America. :| Yet.. it doesn't show up newhere else? :\
I DO like heroic Jason tho :) I wish there was more of a place for him in the DCU tho. I rly think that he was meant to replace Dick since he was supposed to die in IC, but when he didn't, Jason had nowhere to go :(
I think Dini did a pretty good job with the characters that he has, but the writing isn't as crisp as his Detective stuff :(
I guess my biggest problem with everything is just that we're just finished 52 and only a year removed from IC :\ And we're still getting to know the "New Earth" and the heroes and the changes to them :O And now we're starting a new super deadly crisis involving the Monitors, Darkseid and the end of everything >.>;;
It seems very soon :(
NEWAYS, I hope the next issue is better! :D
A note to DC: why isn't Countdown $2.50 like 52? >.>;; Saving half a dollar every week adds up >:O
Angelwings Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Monitors
Recommendation: Worth checking out :) But dun expect Countdown to be 52 part 2 :\
2 comments:
I've decided to skip Countdown b/c of Event fatigue, but someone gave me a copy. I agree that it was a weak start. It certainly didn't convince me to change my mind and pick up the series.
I was also confused about the roles of Duella and Red Hood.
How does Duella know she's from another Earth? I thought the existence of the multiverse was a huge secret. But Duella is talking about it like it's common knowledge.
Oh boy, a rogue Monitor who crosses the line... *yawn* I guess later on he'll go really crazy and try to "fix" the mulitiverse and there'll be a big fight in homage to COIE. (btw, doesn't his killing Duella also mess up what was "supposed" to happen in the multiverse?
It feels like the new DCU can't really get going b/c it's constantly distracted by these events. We still don't know what has changed in Superman and Wonder Woman's--or anybody else's--histories. They can't settle down and establish anything.
it does seem like DC is so busy focusing on Major Events (that don't seem to acknowledge each other) that there isn't even room to get a real good story going.
And yeah, how DOES Duealla know she's from another earth?
could it really be that sloppy?
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