The Remaining Plot Threads

[MisterS]

We'll find out in 67, according to the solicitation.
VG2 is dead. She wore a red suit. She was in the White House when all of the supes came down in 63. In 65 there was a headless body in a red suit in the hallway outside the Oval Office.

I'm not so sure of that. Without proper ID (such as a head) it could be anybody.
Also, whoever she is, she seems to have as much charisma as Stillwell himself.

[statsman]

She was not a plot point. She was a caricature of Bush' Sec. of State Condi Rice. Just like Vic is Dubya, and Dakota Bob is Cheney.

[superhamster]

Hughie redeems himself by saving Annie from Butcher or perhaps killing Butcher after Butcher takes out Annie.

[statsman]

It turns out that Mallory recruited MM to be a fail-safe to take out Butcher should he ever prove to be..."unreliable". Things don't go as Mallory planned, though, and we have a reprise of the full page "Noir carrying HL torso" scene, except it's MM carrying Butcher's drunk body out of a bar and to a cab.

[MisterS]

Or The Female, at Frenchie's word, might be the failsafe! (I never did buy his origin story)

[statsman]

Re-reading issue 64, there are two items begging elaboration-

1. Butcher's call with Maynor mentions some guy not wanting to fly to DC that night. Who?
2. In HL's conversation with Stilwell, Stilwell refers to "miserable specied"; i.e. humans. What does that mean? Aliens? Or is Stilwell supposed to be an attempt at a higher order species? Could be, as his dad was a VAC big shot, right?

[Kamakazi]

Or The Female, at Frenchie's word, might be the failsafe! (I never did buy his origin story)

I didn't want to believe hers or Frenchies' origins, but let's keep in mind that Hughie's backstory was every bit as retarded as theirs, as was presented as being 100% true.

[Dustin]

I didn't want to believe hers or Frenchies' origins, but let's keep in mind that Hughie's backstory was every bit as retarded as theirs, as was presented as being 100% true.

I remember Ennis saying that the whole point of Hughie's origin is that he didn't really have one in the sense that a single moment defined his life like many superheroes and villains. I still think the story could have been trimmed an issue or two.

[Dustin]

Re-reading issue 64, there are two items begging elaboration-

1. Butcher's call with Maynor mentions some guy not wanting to fly to DC that night. Who?

I believe the quote was along the lines of I don't blame him, flying into DC airspace is a nightmare. Just have transportation waiting at Dulles." It may be as simple as they wanted a helicopter to take them to the White House but no one would fly them.

[Garth]

I remember Ennis saying that the whole point of Hughie's origin is that he didn't really have one in the sense that a single moment defined his life like many superheroes and villains. I still think the story could have been trimmed an issue or two.

You try squeezing an entire bloody arc out of the little gobshite sometime.