ironangelx's Red Hood and the Outlaws #3 - Cherish is the Word I Use--to Destroy You! review

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    Painful Memories

    Remember how I said in the review for the previous issue that in that final shot we saw all the inner emotions of the characters? Well this issue goes right into it. Red Hood, Starfire, and Arsenal are walking through this old residence of Todd's. They come upon a small little bald kid (who reminds me of the Last Airbender kid) just sitting there nonchalantly. It's as if this kid was up to something. I'm thinking he's going to be a bad guy. I'm waiting for this kid to say something compromising as a villain and Jason to just waste the kid and apparently so was Harper. But that doesn't happen. Apparently this kid who is like centuries old, is comfortable enough with himself to not give a crap what happened to who. Todd interrogates the kid a little longer and asks for permission to be let into the Chamber of the All (which is one screwy world). The kid permits this only if the trio offer their most valuable memories to him, this is hesitantly agreed upon by all three and all three are granted admittance into the Chamber of All. As the trio are gone, the little old boy argues with himself about how he is not allowed (by who I don't know) to look into the memories of individuals but he lets himself look at Kori's, justifying that she is an alien and thus has no rights. Here we find Kori on her home planet of Tamaran that has just been taken over by some barbaric looking alien race. Kori is much younger and in spite of being covered more, looks poorly dressed for a princess. Pitiful little girl finds the hand of one of members of the triumphant alien race. She "petitions a boon" from the monstrous individual who tells her she should run and that this is no place for a princess. She thanks the man and then destroys him with her power and says that she doesn't need sympathy. She is surrounded by others of his race who say they are going to kill her but we all know that didn't happen. Now it's Roy's turn. The boy believes he can just look Roy's now since he already broke one rule. Roy has just been removed from everything he had when he was allied with the Green Arrow. He's on top of a roof fighting Killer Croc who looks more like a crocodile than I am accustomed to. Killer Croc can't seem to figure out why Roy won't back down until he realizes that Roy is trying to get Croc to assist in a suicide. Croc stops himself from doing any more harm and tells Roy that he needs to get his life straight and that Croc won't be a tool for Roy's suicide. Roy then tells Cros that he isn't such a bad guy after all. Croc then responds about how the next time they meet, it will not be the same. Back to the Chamber of All. I'm guessing that the world is based off the life the main individual of the room. I see twists and turns, something that looks like an entrance through the Joker's mouth. I mean it is very complex. After being exposed to the page full of vertigo, Hood finds something that may be a clue to finding who killed all of his old allies. I believe I have failed to mention previously that a race called the "Untitled" are what killed everyone. They are an evil race that are immortal unless physically harmed. There now that I have got that out of the way, we can get back to the fun part. The clue that Jason finds is so far off it looks like just a little crystal ball. Jason and Roy take a step towards the clue despite the request of Kori to not move. Thus, a large overgrown, green, spiky, monster with a lot of teeth emerges from beneath their feet. I think this would be a particular fun scene to see in an animated movie personally. We see Red Hood clawing his way to grab the crystal, Kori blasting it with her energy blasts, and Arsenal talking about how much fun he is having and saything this was his "new favourite memory". Once again, it's several panels of fighting and back and forth...well more back than forth. Kori is eaten. WOW that was uprupt, well it's true, our favourite Victoria Secret superhero is snatched by the creature's long slimey tongue and pulled into the mouth and eaten. What bothers me is that Red Hood and Arsenal seem to be unconcerned. But then I realize, she is an alien with powers on a nuclear level. But Jason finally reaches his destination and finds that the clue is just a snow globe of Colorado (my old stomping ground). Something is mention about a smell and Kori has erupted the monster from the inside and flown Jason and Roy out of harmes way. We come back to the little old boy who has just got done sifting through Harper's memories. Red Hood says they found what they were looking for and walks away. Roy and Kori are given back their memories and when the boy asks Todd if he wants his back, Todd simply replies: "Keep it". We then get to see what that memory was. It goes back to when Todd was Robin and Batman was about to head out on patrols. Alfred asks if Todd can stay home since he is sick and Bruce concurs. Todd is angry by being treated like a baby as he is given soup and sat down in front of a television. While he sulks, a hand touches his shoulder and Bruce Wayne tells him that it isn't a bad thing taking a day off. He then sits down next to Robin (both in their uniforms except for the mask and cowl) and eats popcorn while Jason falls asleep on his shoulder. Would I have ever pictured such a moment with Batman? No, but I loved it. I loved seeing a side of Wayne that wasn't so much "softer" as it was more "fatherly". He loved Todd and we know this from how the events after his death affected Wayne. What I love most of all is how Todd still cherished that memory no matter how much hate he had for Bruce, and I loved how he chose to keep that memory out of his mind, I guess so as not to be a distraction to him in the future. All in all, this is my favorite issue out of the whole 7 issues that I have read.

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