Last Week's Comics: 52
Feb. 27th, 2007 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAt long last, I have the most recent issue of 52, no thanks to Diamond. My shop still doesn't have this in, and won't till tomorrow! Diamod once agian shows why a monopoly is not a good idea. However, I managed to find it at a newsstand instead...
52, Week 42 - Wherein Ralph Dibny explains it all. And tells us and Felix Faust (who had been pretending to be the Helmet of Fate all along) that he was never fooled for a second. It was all an act. All the pieces come together, though it does require the revelation that the gun Ralph had way back in issue one was a wishing gun and not the standard blow-your-brains-out kind. It's a little complex, but it works. In a way, it's a total vindication of Ralph, of what he stands for, and what we expect from him.
But then...
He dies. See, the real baddie here was Neron, one of DC's Satan stand-ins, and Neron wasn't happy that Ralph messed up everything. So he kills Ralph. Only Ralph left a binding spell on the place they were in, one that cannot be lifted by anyone but the spellcaster. He's dead, but Neron is trapped forever.
And yet...three days later, Bea daCosta fidns Ralph's wedding band on Sue's tombstone. How did that get there?
Make no mistake. This was a good issue, and Ralph gets to be Ralph again (complete with gingold). And he dies a hero whose death means something, unlike Blue Beetle or the Question. But I don't want to see him dead. And I suspect that Mark Waid (whose fingerprints are all over this comic) doesn't either. We have 12 weeks to go, and I think there is one more mystery to be solved that will leave readers happy.
52, Week 42 - Wherein Ralph Dibny explains it all. And tells us and Felix Faust (who had been pretending to be the Helmet of Fate all along) that he was never fooled for a second. It was all an act. All the pieces come together, though it does require the revelation that the gun Ralph had way back in issue one was a wishing gun and not the standard blow-your-brains-out kind. It's a little complex, but it works. In a way, it's a total vindication of Ralph, of what he stands for, and what we expect from him.
But then...
He dies. See, the real baddie here was Neron, one of DC's Satan stand-ins, and Neron wasn't happy that Ralph messed up everything. So he kills Ralph. Only Ralph left a binding spell on the place they were in, one that cannot be lifted by anyone but the spellcaster. He's dead, but Neron is trapped forever.
And yet...three days later, Bea daCosta fidns Ralph's wedding band on Sue's tombstone. How did that get there?
Make no mistake. This was a good issue, and Ralph gets to be Ralph again (complete with gingold). And he dies a hero whose death means something, unlike Blue Beetle or the Question. But I don't want to see him dead. And I suspect that Mark Waid (whose fingerprints are all over this comic) doesn't either. We have 12 weeks to go, and I think there is one more mystery to be solved that will leave readers happy.
