After last month’s slightly slower issue, issue 3 kicks things into high gear, with the Holy War itself being kicked off, and the space team all coming together to investigate what’s going on (leading to classic scene where the Weird suggests they all form a permanent group like the JLA, only to be ignored).

I’m still finding Captain Comet’s character in this to be a bit of a departure from how he was portrayed in Mystery in Space. There was was fairly typically heroic, whereas now he’s almost cowardly, relying on Tyrone to set him right. Its an understandable shift though. Next to the rest of the space characters, some of them are going to start looking quite generic without changes. Aside from his telepathy, there’d be a real danger of Captain Comet and Adam Strange being inter-changable. And the character shift has resulted in some amusing scenes (Comet realising that by going to Rann he’s actually jumped right into the middle of trouble, rather than avoiding it for example).

I also found a scene at the end interesting, from the point of view of my “Why has Adam’s revamp been retconned” rant. Adam Strange’s suit clearly has the ability to manifest the same hardlight weaponary that he got in his Planet Heist revamp. Since in Countdown to Adventure it was explicitly stated that Adam’s suit was his old one, we can only assume this suit is new, but with a deliberately retro look.

It still irks though that they ditched such a good revamp.

There’s a nice little aside aside with Animal Man admitting that he’s not told his wife that Kory’s there. That gave me a laugh.

On an unrelated note, this week’s DC Nation is hilarious. Especially in light of the recent “Didio must go!” online witchhunts.

One comic series I’ve been enjoying but not really talking about here is the current Huntress mini-series.

Owing a lot to Gregg Rucka’s Cry for Blood mini series, this series goes back to Helena’s origins once again, expanding on some of the ideas from that series.

Its been a great read so far. Whereas Cry for Blood also had a plot thread in the present day DCU, this series is completely focused on Helena’s origin as the Huntress, so there’s a lot of time donated to her dealings with the different crime families and the interactions between them.

The latest issue has also had Helena’s first meeting with Barbara Gordon, so I’m really interested to see how it spins Huntress’ first encounters with Batman and the like.

I’ve been really enjoying the creative team of Ivory Madison and Cliff Richards so I’ll definitely be keeping one eye open for any future mini-series from them.