I present a list of things that are not, in fact, cool or badass or emotionally powerful in any way:
1. Someone holding their palm over a candle flame. This is especially true if the person is Geo-Force.
2. Moping around the cemetery where your ex-fiance's parents are buried because apparently he's the closest thing to family you have even though there's two married guys you've formed strong platonic ties with recently. And an entire group of twenty-something heroes also. And a woman who is also chilling in a cemetery on the same evening.
3. Standing on a rooftop talking about swooping down to the street below to lay down sweet justice on the criminal element. This is especially true if the person is Batman or Robin. (God, Meltzer, still with the talking instead of doing!)
4. Inexplicably introducing a minor character into an unconventional role, habit, or profession. I would have had an easier time accepting Bruce Wayne as suddenly deciding to become a pseudo priest and holding confession for other heroes than I would seeing a Challenger do the same. Because Batman does a whole bunch of crazy stuff every month but a member of a C-list team that's only sometimes in continuity? No, you just can't do that all of a sudden. (Well, Brad Meltzer can't, at least.)
5. Geo-Force.
6. Dressing Lian Harper up as Speedy and training her. I see a future in mind-altering substances for her already!
7. GEO-FORCE.
8. Using a five-panel page to do what should have been done throughout an entire oversized comic.
9. Deathstroke planning to reenact "The Judas Contract" with Geo-Force and not even taking him out to dinner first.
10. Spending $3.99 on a Deathstroke/Geo-Force comic.
Alternately, things that were not bad:
1. Hal Jordan's backside being green again. Wally West may be straight, married, and raising kids but even he's got to enjoy that view.
2. Captain Cold.
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... the one redeeming quality being HAL JORDAN'S BACKSIDE. ;-)
Hey, as long as a comic has THAT, the rest is just details!
The hilarious thing is that Hal's rear view* is the final page--a SPLASH page--meant to be the spark of hope amidst the confusion and growing anxiety that was supposed to make up the atmosphere of the entire comic.
*Okay, he does say something optimistic too. But he waited until he was flying away to do it.
I've got to get my scanner up and running again so I can share these visuals!
Oh, yes! Please do! :-)
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