Speaking of bondage...

[shankie]

I love Elseworlds; The Search For Ray Palmer revisiting them has me just tickled to death.

Red Son had a goodly lot of Superman/Diana, with insane terrorist Batman, and that's what comes out when our heroes stumble into this crazy Communist state... with excellent fashion sense.

Spoilers for a book that just came out today.



They find Ray Palmer; just not the right one. They also find Batman, who I so love in this world. Bitter, hunted, nothing left to lose, and a serious love of Mother Russia. Also, Ray hanging around his shoulders is kinda cute. :D



Bondage is also a theme of this story. Generally involving the lasso. More on this later...



Ray hiding in a chandelier is great; that costume is awesome.



So is Diana's costume. :D



The thing about Red Son that always bothered me me was this Clark/Diana thing. The lonely princess from the island comes to Man's World, latches onto Superman, follows his ideology out of... seems like mostly devoted love. An unquestioning one-woman Gestapo, all out of unrequited passion? His ideologies are part of why she's so devoted, but especially in this story, she kinda comes off like a henchman.

Anyway.



It's too intense for Jason; of course, there's more reasons why for that.

Lastly, a pretty shot of Superman's costume. Even if he's kinda evil, he looks good doing it.



Then... what do we have to look forward to next week?



I'm certainly looking forward to Alexis Luthor. :D

Comments

[galamb-borong.livejournal.com]

Wow... I'd never thought Batman holding the lasso could work so well! *adds to list of prompts to ask for at rounds_of_kink*
Though I'm not following it directly, the only real downside I see to the AU worlds exploration involved in The Search For Ray Palmer is the element of elimination. If there's 52 AU's and we know about them all, doesn't that spoil the potential for future elseworlds?

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

He's very good with that lasso, isn't he? XD

I'm hoping this'll encourage future Elseworlds with the series being well received... but anything's possible with DC's evil intentions.

[akoyamiazaki.livejournal.com]

"They also find Batman, who I so love in this world. Bitter, hunted, nothing left to lose, and a serious love of Mother Russia. Also, Ray hanging around his shoulders is kinda cute. :D"

...
I LOVE YOU.
*ahem*... for posting so much comics love and for making me cave into my inner yaoi fangirl AND geekasming fanboy SIMULTANEOUSLY. :D

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Always glad to help. :D

I love this Batman. And his funny hat. XD

[akoyamiazaki.livejournal.com]

I find it strangely SEXY. Why? Its the 'comrade' in every other sentence.

...Or what I'm listening too. I mean, "menage de trois"? Pfft.

[galamb-borong.livejournal.com]

I love that icon. Who's the guy?

[akoyamiazaki.livejournal.com]

That's Ares from Mighty Avengers. #3 me thinks. And yes, he totally has that thought bubble in the comic.

I'm dazzled by your icon as well, dear.