Friday, September 02, 2005
Infinite Crisis
thoughts, musings and wishes
It seems that after the Crisis du jour is over all of DC's books are going to jump forward a year and there will be major shakeups w/in them: a number of deaths, a number of new characters and a number of people filling the shoes of other characters (possibly due to the aforementioned deaths, retirement or disappearances). I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who's had the intestinal fortitude to avoid the rumours and spoilers (wish I could, but I'm weak.... must be why I'm a retcon supervillain rather than a retcon superhero). I'm just looking forward to 52, which will fill in the gap of that missing year.
For those that want to know the thoughts of other fans (some spoilerific), I'd suggest checking out Geoff Johns' message board.
Non-spoiler thoughts:
I think Mockingbird (the secretive person supplying aide and info to the Secret Six in Villains United) is the Red Hood. In addition the Red Hood may well not be Jason Todd (aka Robin II). I'm thinking Ra's al Ghul (who was revealed to be alive in a time-travel story in a recent Teen Titans arc) is either posing as Jason or his boss. Does anyone truly think Ra's would allow VU's Society go forward w/o having his fingers in the pie, assuming he is alive? Methinks Talia is a double-agent....
I don't think DC would actually kill Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) again so soon after reviving him, but.... as his son Connor is also using the ID, it might be interesting to have Ollie disappear for a while and have Arsenal (Roy Harper, ex-Speedy) buy it during the Crisis. We do have a new Speedy (Mia Dearden)hanging with the Titans and how many bow-slingers does DC need, anyway?
But I'd like to see Ollie and Roy disappear for one reason only: to allow DC to do a variation on the Baby Cart Assassin with Connor caring for Roy's daughter Lian.
thoughts, musings and wishes
It seems that after the Crisis du jour is over all of DC's books are going to jump forward a year and there will be major shakeups w/in them: a number of deaths, a number of new characters and a number of people filling the shoes of other characters (possibly due to the aforementioned deaths, retirement or disappearances). I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who's had the intestinal fortitude to avoid the rumours and spoilers (wish I could, but I'm weak.... must be why I'm a retcon supervillain rather than a retcon superhero). I'm just looking forward to 52, which will fill in the gap of that missing year.
For those that want to know the thoughts of other fans (some spoilerific), I'd suggest checking out Geoff Johns' message board.
Non-spoiler thoughts:
I think Mockingbird (the secretive person supplying aide and info to the Secret Six in Villains United) is the Red Hood. In addition the Red Hood may well not be Jason Todd (aka Robin II). I'm thinking Ra's al Ghul (who was revealed to be alive in a time-travel story in a recent Teen Titans arc) is either posing as Jason or his boss. Does anyone truly think Ra's would allow VU's Society go forward w/o having his fingers in the pie, assuming he is alive? Methinks Talia is a double-agent....
I don't think DC would actually kill Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) again so soon after reviving him, but.... as his son Connor is also using the ID, it might be interesting to have Ollie disappear for a while and have Arsenal (Roy Harper, ex-Speedy) buy it during the Crisis. We do have a new Speedy (Mia Dearden)hanging with the Titans and how many bow-slingers does DC need, anyway?
But I'd like to see Ollie and Roy disappear for one reason only: to allow DC to do a variation on the Baby Cart Assassin with Connor caring for Roy's daughter Lian.
# posted by Alexi Sivana : 12:07 PM
