Final Crisis #2- Wow! When I saw the last page of this issue; Wow! Now that’s a surprise. Whatever problems Final Crisis has, risk taking is not one of them. A good thing because it does have some problems. One of the biggest is the threat of the story. Now we know it has something to do with Darkseid and the New Gods, about how Darkseid won the war of the gods, but what is Darkseid trying to do on Earth? And how does Libra fit into all this? 2 issues in and we have more puzzles than we have answers. Add to this was the 50 year old bullet that travel back in time, and we have a real muddle of a series. One more thing; you need to have a real knowledge of the DCU or else Final Crisis will make no sense whatsoever. It’s lack of accessibility is a real problem as at the end we see quite a number of Flash (hint, hint) and if you don’t know the backstory of the Flash or Crisis, you have no chance of understanding the series so far. Still, that last page ensured that I’ll be here for the next issue. Wow!
Trinity #4- I can understand what writer Kurt Busiek is trying to do. He is trying to tell the readers the different roles Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are playing in the DCU. He is having a hard time of it. The big problem with this is that he isn’t trying anything that 10 other writers hadn’t tried before. Also having the Justice League fights a super-strong alien in Konvict is also something other people had tried before (can anyone say Doomsday). I also don’t know about having the two villains, Morgan Le Fey and Enigma, sitting there watching the battle between the JLA and Konvict. I mean if these two are to match Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, surely they need to do more than just sit and watch in Morgan Le Fey’s castle? Long way to go before it reached the height of 52.
Avengers: The Initiative #14- Another issue, another new member for the cast of Avengers: The Initiative. The issue is on 3-D Man, a recent Initiative graduate who somehow inherited the leadership of the Initiative team in Hawaii, The Point Men. How in the world did a recent graduate from boot camp managed to score a leadership role in his first assignment? Who cares? Not Dan Slott and Christos Gage. Anyway, despite this glaring mistake, this issue exactly worked. 3-D has the ability to detect Skrulls and took all of a day to see a Skrull on his team and is tipped off to the impending invasion. I like the fact that the Skrulls were undone by an old-school visor; a bit of forgotten technology they had no right to know of. Another plot development was between cast members Crusader and Yellowjacket. Both are Skrulls, but both are unaware of the other. The sheer length both Skrulls are willing to go to keep their secret was very funny. Initiative is still the best Avengers book out there. Marvel has a winner here.
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Ever since Avengers Initiative #5 it was established that Triathlon (who had already gone through basic Avengers training back when he was an actual Avenger) was in the Initiative training to become a field leader.
Yes, but he just graduate from boot camp. And immediately is leader to guys who are good enough that they never even had to go through training. That make sense to you?
Yes. If, like they said in the series, he was AT boot camp specifically training to become a team leader.
In other issues, and in other Marvel comics (Fantastic Four, Young Avengers Presents), we've seen that there are trainees on the base that we haven't focused on. Who's to say that the other characters never had to go through training?
3D-Man was the part of the first batch to graduate from Camp Hammond. If The Point Men were trainees on the base, then they should have been on the same plane as 3D-Man. BTW; I perfer Triathlon as the name, it sound way cooler than 3D-Man
Not necessarily.
We've also seen other new heroes in other states (The Liberteens, Frog Man's team in Kentucky, Cloud 9's team) and all of those teams had new heroes. They had to get training from somewhere.
There's another training camp outside Camp Hammond? I never know that; where did you read that? Where's the second training camp?
In Civil War we saw a training facility where the first group of The Order were being trained.
If groups like the Liberteens, Frog Man's group in Kentucky, and other new heroes are around before Cloud 9 and Triathlon graduated, maybe they trained there?
The Order were being trained there?I thought that was a training facility for the heroes they had cloned and was shut down after Forester was killed by the cloned Thor. Guess I have to re-read Civil War
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