GOOD THING: Lex Luthor hires the Secret Six (Plus One) as protection from Vandal Savage. Hilarity ensues.
BAD THING: Thanks to DC's cover-scheme this month - which forwent the usual covers having something to do with the book in favor of some very nice pin-up shots, I had no way of knowing that this issue was meant to be Part Two of a story started in Action Comics #896.
Thankfully, Simone does a good job of setting the issue up so that you don't have to have read Part One. Still, it would have been nice to have some warning of this before I'd left the comic book store.
The Final Verdict: A fantastically funny issue that brings our favorite band of misfits into contact with two of the greatest villains in the DC Universe. Word of advice though - snag Action Comics #896 first. You don't have to read it first... but it helps.
It helps that Action has been freaking awesome since Cornell took over, plus I think his issue in this 2 parter was the stronger. Gail's felt a bit off. My favorite part was Ragdoll's heaven having Parademon in it. I am glad he remembers his friend.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it does no good to point out that the first two pages do tell you to look at the other book...?
ReplyDeleteSee, I thought Cornell's was off but that's almost excluisively becuase of how he wrote The Six. Especially Scandal.
ReplyDeleteSince I specifically scanned that page and mentioned that fact? No, it doesn't. :)
ReplyDeleteI know it says that on the first two pages. It's just a bit bothersome when you go to a shop that frowns on you reading in the store and you get home only to find "oh gee... missed an issue."
I thought Cornell's problem was that in Action he can't really let the 6 be the 6. There for he did what he had to.
ReplyDeleteGail then did what she always does, and in the context of Cornell's Sexy Lexy action, it felt way off from the tone of that book. And since this started in Action it got to set the pace, so it felt true to the story being told if not the characters in it. They never should have had the story be in both books anyway.
True. And yet at the same time it felt really... off for Scandal to tell her father that she chose being a lesbian just to spite him. Ignoring the whole host of issues inherent in implying that sexual preference is a choice...
ReplyDeleteI am going to go with Scandal tell her dad that because she knows that in many ways he is an old backwards caveman and just wanted to piss him off.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that occurred to me too. Lord knows Vandal seems to be REALLY conservative in regards to everything else - why not stab him a little more with the revelation that his favorite daughter will go that far to spite him?
ReplyDeleteOf course it occurs to me that the way Savage is going to learn true happiness is through the revelation that he finally has an heir as ruthless as he is...