Someone Else's Spotlight
So this is the first issue where the focus isn't solely on Red Hood/Todd. It opens up with Roy Harper sitting in a bar in Colorado and monologueing (once again don't know if I spelled that right) about beer and drinking and alcholism and ironically how his sponser (Killer Croc) would be very unhappy with him for placing himself in a position of temptation. He also talks about how Croc would be displeased with him hanging out with trouble makers and then we see Todd beat up a few hicks over a bar seat next to a pretty girl. They both go to leave and are both intercepted by a unrealistically attractive sheriff whose clothes fit too tight to be an actual officer's. Anywho, scene changes to Starfire who is floating above a church trying to remain "out of site" (but in the midst of the snow there is a half naked glowing flying chick above a building that naturally draws attention with its steeple). In short, I don't see how she's out of sight. Anywho, she is now thinking about Roy and Jason and how she feels unexplainably drawn to them, how odd they are. Then the thoughts are interrupted by her being sucker punched by a monster named Crux (look at the cover). He starts doing a bad guy speech and Starfire ignores him and starts kicking his butt. She goes on about her heritage about Crux was a coward and what not and literally beats the snot out of this guy and into a frozen lake. Scene change to Roy sitting outside of the police station and Jason is in the inside with the sheriff lady and there is no other officers around (I would think this would be a hint that something wasn't right). Anyways, Jason is for some reason explaining his intentions of being in Colorado and about how he wants to track down the untitled and kill them all...all while holding the woman hostage kinda. He lets his guard down for a split second and it turns out...surprise surprise....that this unrealistically attractive sheriff who works at a barren station is one of the Untitled. She talks about eating Jason's organs and all looks hopeless till Harper comes in without permission and launches three bronze (I believe) arrows into the monsters face. HE SHOT HER IN THE FACE!! Anywho, we're back at Starfire who is trailing this monster who is trying to swim away under the ice. She is staring down and not paying attention to the point where she mistakenly traverses through a machine that is designed by Crux who used Tamara's own technology that takes away all of her powers. There's a huge energy signal and this alerts Roy who is still fighting alongside Todd and he ditches Todd and goes to Kori's rescue. Todd is left alone to fight the untitled. What I find interesting is that this Crux character was the creepy stalker black guy in the first issue that was watching photos of her on the internet. He apparently has a bitter taste in his mouth when it comes to aliens due to the death of his parents by an alien spaceship. He looks down at Kori who is lying in the fetal position and utters: "welcome to the human race, princess." Overall it's a fairly good book, to me, even though there was a lot of action, it felt like the story was little slow for me, and this may be cause we were scattered between characters. But it was a really good book.