Well, in all fairness, you'd probably already read half of it in the various Previews.Originally Posted by saidestroyer
Well, in all fairness, you'd probably already read half of it in the various Previews.
I think the issue was a good read, and I liked the reveal.... I particularly liked Butcher getting his "revenge moment"... After the shock of realizing he was chasing the wrong man all these years, at least he was able to finish off the correct rapist...
I would have preferred BN to be a "brain altered" clone... One that had obviously been lobotomized or had some electronic failsafe installed that would account for his loyalty to Vought all these years (and would account better for Maeve's reactions to him) How about having BN be BALD, at least? (He could have donned a wig and makeup as easily as HL's costume, right?)
Then I MIGHT for a second believe that no one at Vought EVER suspected it could be BN in a HL costume in the infamous photos... To me, it's as ridiculous as the "Clark Kent can't be Superman because Kent wears GLASSES" argument...
Anyway, I'm interested to see what comes next..... Stillwell, LOOKOUT! Butcher is coming for you...
And will we EVER find out about the Legend's feet and get a current look at MM's Momma?
Here, I'll tie up some loose ends, since the plot will shift away from the surviving minor characters...
The Deep will open a fried chicken franchise "Deep's DEEP FRIED Chicken, Catfish & Waffles"...
Starlight will replace Janine in the porn business...
After hunting down and eliminating rogue supes under a new government contract, Frenchie and the Female will take their newfound wealth and open a wildlife preserve for the most dangerous creatures on the planet...
Hughie will remain a blue-poopin putz who sits in his apartment all day muttering to Jaime the hampster about gay "good soldier" aliens and wondering who keeps depositing bloody jizz outside his door...
When I think of something good to write here I'll let you know!
Here are a few more:
SuperDuper by default becomes the premiere superteam. Due to immediate fame, fortune, etc, they become just as corrupt as the Seven...
Laddio returns Tek Knights lair, having failed in his quest to learn from the masters (he would arrive at their headquarters after they were all destroyed)
The last few issues have given us some of the greatest super"hero" fights ever. First we see HL (Superman) knock QM's (Wonder Woman's) block clean off. Then we see HL and BN (Captain Marvel?) square off. If you felt sorry for Maeve's decapitation (as well as that of the Team Titanic's Rabbi Zatara, and A-Train's), you now know they got off easy, in that they weren't disemboweled first. From here on out, whenever the Thing fights the Hulk, I will always wonder why a jaw doesn't come flying off.
I saw a review that was critical of the issue for applying juvenile humor to a serious situation. I think that guy completely misses the point. This series began, openly, as an Ennis diatribe against brightly costumed super heroes. In the opening scene, a character is inroduced only to be splatted Roadrunner-Coyote style. It took a serious turn a few times, but it is completely fitting that it end with a dumb HL fighting a dumber BN in the Oval Office.
I hope Ennis keeps the farcical tone up through the last arc, as Butcher confronts Stilwell. It's possible. It is not atypical that a corporate decision-making process could determine that the proper response to an unstable super-powered creature was a psychopathic even-more-super-powered creature, and that is a ripe area for mocking.
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