52# Week 52
For fuck's sake--THE MULTIVERSE IS BACK!
Okay, check your sad-o-meters. If you found the above statement just beyond all shades of awesome, you are as sad as me. If not, you probably have already Googled 'big boobed Swedish foot doctors' and moved on, innernet-wise.
Still...THE MULTIVERSE IS BACK!
Oh yeah, 52 also ended. And you know? Unlike Civil War or Infinite Crisis, I thought it ended well. Sure, it can be argued--or agreed upon--that DC has noticed the greying of its audience, and is doing its utmost to bring back the DC Universe the majority of its readers grew up reading, just to hold onto them a bit longer. It doesn't hurt that most of their creators seem to prefer the old DCverse of old, as well. That's why we have the continued nurturing of the JSA, why we have the Levitz Legion returning, and perhaps why we have the return of the Seventies Batman (sans yellow circle.)
I'm not complaining, and I'll even do my best not to wonder just where DC plans to go from here. I'll just geek out and drool over such great scenes as Rip Hunter kneecapping Doctor Sivana. Or Mr. Mind eating time on the alternate worlds, causing the temporal disruptions that gave (returned to?) us the old/new Multiverse. Yes, we now have the Kingdom Come world. And the Wildstorm world. And the Freedom Fighters are fighting the Nazis world. And the Fawcett City world where Captain Marvel and the rest of the Marvel crew belong. And my favourite--Earth 2--is back.
When Rip Hunter says to Booster 'Welcome home', he was speaking to us as well, fellow geeks.
Yeah, I'm happy. After having endured many of DC's more stunning editorial fumbles (evil Hal Jordan, Infinite Crisis, the Death of Superman, and that whole fuckup with Hawk becoming some evil guy and giving us a fake Multiverse, and the aborted idea that was Hypertime), I'm just glowing that they've done something I really like.
And did it very, very well.
4 comments:
My geek-out moment was the shot of Earth-X. I still re-read my copy of the Freedom Fighters #1 (one of my few #1s, though valueless to anyone but me) from back in '76. I was just old enough to grasp the whole multiverse idea, and I thought the Human Bomb was about as cool as a person could be. Though I never cottoned to Condorman's outfit. I mean really, a cape attached to the wrists? Come on.
Regardless, great review. Thanks.
Who else has that weak cape to the wrists thing? Didn't Morbius the Living Vampire have the same deal? Or was it that he had hollow bones or some shit which allowed him to fly?
I mean, if the cape doesn't cover your backside, then why bother? Oh right. The Marvel Family.
Okay, an exception shall be made.
Yeah, good for Mary, not so much fun on Bill and Fred.
I can't recall off-hand, but there were others with the bridal-wrist-straps. And I think they always had headbands as well. Hey, if Nomad taught us anything, it's leave the capes to the S and the Bat.
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