It was a really quiet comics week this week, which was a bit of a relief after 2 weeks of monster pull lists consisting of Bat-titles, Dark Reign and New Krypton. Still no sign of GLC #31 in my local shop annoyingly, so I may make the trek to the other shop this afternoon and brave the shoppers.
Highlight of my very light pile this week was probably the conclusion to Rann-Thanagar Holy War. It was nice to see Adam get back into his Planet Heist outfit a couple of issues back, and the conclusion to the war surprised me, with the people of Rann faking their own deaths, and relocating to the decimated Throneworld (now called New Rann) to escape the Thanagarians. The lingering love of Lady Styx is quickly lost once they see her in person (well, over a monitor screen) and realise the monster she truely is.
The only thing that really rang false for me was that, after Adam and Prince Gavyn’s big speeches about how the people of Rann have a lot of rebuilding ahead of them, all the other characters upped and left. A bit better explanation was needed there I think (although thanks to the solicits we know that at least some of them will be meeting up again in next year’s Strange Adventures title, also by Starlin).
I’ve enjoyed this series on the whole, and over the last few years, DC have done a great job of bringing more focus to their stable of cosmic non-GL characters. If anything though, it might be nice to see a bit of GL intervention in the next series. Given their prescence in the DCU, it did seem odd the way they were completely absent from all the Synar/Lady Styx stuff. Especially the way Lady Styx’s fleet decimated Throneworld without the GL’s intervening. Although I guess that’s a concession that has to be made to allow these characters to be built up.
Perhaps including a new GL character in the next series could be an idea. You presume the sector GLs would be slightly baffled as to how Throneworld is populated despite the kicking it took.
I’m also slightly surprised that no one twigged that Comet is the original. I guess that’ll be a plot point for a future series.
Overall though, this was fun. I’m really enjoying these various mini-series focusing on the various space characters.
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