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Streets Ahead 4-28-10: They Broke the Bar!
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Green Lantern Corps #47 was extra sized goodness, thank you for being so awesome Gleason, and you too Tomasi!
Is that not the best Guy facial expression in the series?
Is that not the best Guy facial expression in the series?
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Pure fucking magic.
Unfortunately I don't have a scan, but there's a really cool page that stands out as my motw for that issue:
And here's some Quicksilver coolness from T-Bolts #143:
Alan Scott's death was pretty funny. Who left this giant wooden box here?! Anybody? Well, guess I better move close to it, all vulnerable-like.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Do you find wood generally suspicious?
Only a Trojan would...
Wood's his weakness, though. It's like if someone sent Superman a box made of Kryptonite and Doomsdays.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Man, I couldn't resist knowing what was inside, certain death aside, curiosity would just be too great.
Of course inside you end up finding
daaaaaaaaaaaaaayuuuuum
I was just about to post this for my MOTW. Thanks Tex (love the thread title btw!), now I can go back to kicking myself for not getting Green Lantern Corps this week.
It's just a cool story?
The early deaths were pretty meaningless, yeah. I think they were just put there to establish that it's not a "real" story.
Or the incredible amounts of lesbian subtext in this week's Nomad backup.
So awesome.
Agreed. Balder is just such a badass in that book.
Please take my advice.
he got exploded by a dick wizard but Jack rebuilt him but all he can doo Hooot now
And Deadpool was a good done in one issue although Way really goes over the top with the Southern accent.
I lol'd like Deadpool did upon seeing the name "White Lightnin'."
Twice.
Such a puntastic name.
I'm pretty psyched for the next four weeks.
Also, was War of Supermen #0 actually important, or was it like Blackest Night #0?
Basically it was just a lot of well-decided diversions and battle scenes until the last issue.
The Supergirl issues dealt with her trying to unite the kryptonians, deal with her mom, team up with superboy, and then in Supergirl 52 she met Brainiac 5 for the first time, whereas this was one of his later times meeting her. They tore apart the engine to Brainiac's ship so that the shields would go down.
What I can remember of the overall plot is that the legion team and superboy show up, and they're arrested by Zod, but eventually break free. Superman gets inside Brainiac's ship right away, and Mon-El follows pretty closely behind before the legion shows up as well.
Eventually Brainiac re-shrinks Kandor, but it turns out Zod was planning for it, as they've created a device that allows him and his spec-ops team to escape the bottle and re-enlarge in Brainiac's ship. They head around and start wrecking shit. Superman frees Kandor, and gets Supergirl and Brainiac 5 to re-enlarge it. He heads back to fight brainiac and zod.
Luthor turns out to be a plant from Lane, and he grows one of the bottled cities in the ship, which brings down the ship and then starts to destroy Kandor by growing over it. Brainiac 5 stops it, but sees that Supes has been impaled in the wreckage, and so the super-family regathers to fix him up and transfuse blood to him.
Brainiac and Zod get into a battle, one-on-one and Zod depowers so it's an even fight. Zod wrecks Brainiac, and is about to deliver a kill-shot when Kal-El jumps in to try and stop him, and then Brainiac 5 teleports back to the 31st Century with Brainiac 1.
Kandor lies in near-ruins, but the people have more faith in Zod than ever before because he was able to "save" them from Brainiac, and many people saw him almost deliver the kill shot. Zod says Luthor's involvement shows that humanity clearly is trying to destroy New Krypton, and the Super-family finds out that "Luthor" was only an android. Meanwhile, on earth General Lane gives Luthor a Presidential Pardon, allowing him to return to Lex Corp. They explain that the Luthor android was created by Toyman.
Zod announces a war with earth, and Lane says something about final preparation for the war.
Mon-El got shafted, what you saw in Superman 699 was all they explain of that stuff. Nothing more.
War of the Supermen #0 is essentially just a really cool fight scene between Supes and Zod/Ursa/Non, with Zod announcing that his first wave is already reaching Earth at the end. Then Lois narrates a recap of everything that's happened so far in the last year.
This isn't really a spoiler at all, but it ends with