Fury of The Shade!
Mikaal meets Clarence in the ruins at the top of the Chandler building. The latest, good incarnation of Solomon Grundy is gone, and the blue Starman misses his friend and wishes he had gone with Ted, Jack, Alan and The Batman. He's moved out of the observatory to find his own place in the world. Remember kids: after three days houseguests and fish both start to grow stale.
Elsewhere, outside Meskin Medical, The Batman actually surprises by revealing his favorite Woody Allen movie. Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Alan and Ted reminisce; Jack and Sadie catch up; and Hope slugs Matt, before Clarence summons them all together to confront the Infernal Dr. Pip at the top of the Chandler building. Jack's cosmic rod and Alan's powers are gone due to the effects of Genesis. Captain Marvel, Superman and Impulse are seen affected by it as well.
The Shade makes a timely appearance and stuns everyone gathered by his solution to Pip. The issue really moves along pretty well, almost too quickly. Even though it is almost an epilogue to the Grundy story, it feels like a prolugue to the denoument of the Pip story. Almost like an interlude...Like a drum solo or a guitar solo to cover while the band towels off, grabs a little water before coming back out for the final song before letting the crowd go nuts for an encore. If it's stretching, I don't mind it. Steve Yeowell does a pretty decent job as warm-up act to Tony Harris.
What I enjoy most about Starman is how each event from Underworld Unleashed to Genesis has been dealt with by seemingly almost not dealing with it. Most books will become really bogged down and mired in an event storyline. I appreciate that James Robinson and his crew are able to keep the event mania at the Opal City limits. The story that he is telling isn't hampered by the ripples of an event. He manages to turn it around, where the ripples are a subplot, or background to the more important events of his story, as it should be. Robinson's team has staked out a claim in Opal, a small corner on the fringe of the DCU, where no one else will bother them.
Good deal.
Elsewhere, outside Meskin Medical, The Batman actually surprises by revealing his favorite Woody Allen movie. Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Alan and Ted reminisce; Jack and Sadie catch up; and Hope slugs Matt, before Clarence summons them all together to confront the Infernal Dr. Pip at the top of the Chandler building. Jack's cosmic rod and Alan's powers are gone due to the effects of Genesis. Captain Marvel, Superman and Impulse are seen affected by it as well.
The Shade makes a timely appearance and stuns everyone gathered by his solution to Pip. The issue really moves along pretty well, almost too quickly. Even though it is almost an epilogue to the Grundy story, it feels like a prolugue to the denoument of the Pip story. Almost like an interlude...Like a drum solo or a guitar solo to cover while the band towels off, grabs a little water before coming back out for the final song before letting the crowd go nuts for an encore. If it's stretching, I don't mind it. Steve Yeowell does a pretty decent job as warm-up act to Tony Harris.
What I enjoy most about Starman is how each event from Underworld Unleashed to Genesis has been dealt with by seemingly almost not dealing with it. Most books will become really bogged down and mired in an event storyline. I appreciate that James Robinson and his crew are able to keep the event mania at the Opal City limits. The story that he is telling isn't hampered by the ripples of an event. He manages to turn it around, where the ripples are a subplot, or background to the more important events of his story, as it should be. Robinson's team has staked out a claim in Opal, a small corner on the fringe of the DCU, where no one else will bother them.
Good deal.