Shankie's House of Guns & Spandex

We go back in time to Mister Miracle Volume 3, in which Granny Goodness finally kills Barda for the Black Racer, and Scott accepts his godly powers to bring her back... only to ultimately free himself of them again. Mostly.

Because off-panel deaths are not befitting of warriors. At the statement "The man never bothered to seek out a God power," well that's just wrong, Mr. Darkseid. And you know it firsthand.

( Scott denies his Godhood. It goes south from there. )

Of course, it's a Mister Miracle comic, so there's bondage involved. Only... well, it's heavier bondage than usual. Involving the Source.

( The door or the trap. )

He finally accepts his Godhood, and uses it to go to Hadis and confront the Black Racer. Who tells him to build and army and what-not to get Barda back. Which leads to a huge zombie fight.

Barda makes a cool zombie. And there's a little problem; Barda zombie just loves the endless battle of death too much. But Scott gets her back, anyway. Being a God. The Black Racer is pissed.

( You want me to use my power? )

But let's end this on a better note, shall we?

A note like say...



...Barda and Diana sparring to an Amazon audience, perhaps?

That took up most of Mister Miracle #6. Good times.

From this very week! So there are like... spoilers and stuff.

Sorry, I'm just so tickled about Wally being back I had to do it sometime, right?

First, JLA-Hitman #1, the first issue of a two-issue short set back during the 'good old days' of JLA. Kinda like most of JLA: Confidential which is most of why I love that series so much. So.

During the earliest issues of JLA especially, Flash was played as the 'old hand' at superheroing; Batman describes him as being one of the longest of them in a mask, regardless of age. It wasn't very often he was played quite so straight as I've seen here. Seriously.

He's like Mr. Spock only... bitchy.



More sciencey than Barry ever really got. It being the Silver Age, but still.

( What did you just say to me? )

Next! Okay, so this is actually last week AND this week; Countdown #33 & #32.

Flash snatches Piper and Trickster out of Batman's clutches and into his significantly more pissed off hands. It's telling about how the Rogues Gallery has become something... different. Or is it?

( Mindwipe! )

It's all very grim and dark.

And then Countdown #32 rolled around and... well, I actually really enjoyed it.

Really.

( Especially Barda punching a mummy. )

And speaking of iffy? I was pretty iffy about where The Flash relaunch has been going. Mark Waid and all. About his kids and about Linda becoming suddenly not a reporter but a super-scientist. Were they afraid of making her too much like Lois or something?

She's been a reporter since day 1 of her being in Flash comics. Maybe I'm just a traditionalist, but still... it's a leap.

I'm still iffy about Linda's transformation; but I love their kids. From The Flash #323.

( And when their daddy comes to save the day... )

Seriously, must she always be wearing a lab coat? ::cough:: Anyway. Yeah.

It's different, but it's more like it, if you know what I mean.

Not that any of this makes up for the wedding issue this week. C'mon DC. It had such a promising start.

So I've been reading Mister Miracle volume 3, the late 90's short series. Oh man. More on that later.

I'm responding, at the moment, with a little Barda love, from volume 1's Mister Miracle #1. Barda meets the neighbors in Bailey, and obligatory bedroom scene.

( A peeping Tom! )

::runs off to work::