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 You know that saying, "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"? Because in the wake of the nu-52, you can bet Bruce Wayne doesn't. Welcome to FUTURES END this year's big DC Event which mainly focuses on Firestorm (Meh), Frankenstein (meh), and Terry McGinnis (Opinion rises!), primarily written by Brian Azzarello along with Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens, and Jeff Lemire The Plot Thus Far (OP Note: Summaries will be spoilered until the next issue hits stands. Also, these summaries will only cover the core series as there will be a massive number of tie-ins released in September.) Free Comic Book Day/Zero Issue 35 years into the future, Brother Eye has made a big comeback. But instead of building OMACs, he's gone full Borg with his plans. Superheroes are assimilated into mechanical bugs and sent to crush any and all resistance. During a diversionary attack on Brother Eye's power source (Firestorm), Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis rush to complete a time machine so Bruce can go back and stop himself from building the drat satellite (again). However, Bruce is injured and infected by Brother Eye, so Terry has to go instead with a warning from Bruce to avoid his past self as well as Clark Kent because they won't approve of the fact that the plan involves straight-up murder. In other words, the plan is Terminator 2. Terry hops in the time device and arrives 5 years ahead of the current DCU, which is in his opinion too late, as he gazes upon billboards advertising Mr. Terrific's company. Issue #1 Terry along with A.L.F.R.E.D. deduce that the reason he didn't arrive in the right time period is because the time machine was calibrated for Bruce's mass, not Terry's. A Brother Eye drone that came through the time stream attacks Terry and is quickly dispatched, although not fast enough for someone nearby to record it all via his Google Glass. Out in space, the Stormwatch Carrier and the Engineer become infected with Brother Eye's programming. Brother Eye activates the internal defenses and after Apollo disembarks to see what they're up against he's summarily fried. At which point Brother Eye activates the Carrier's self-destruct. In North Carolina, Grifter executes a group of aliens disguised as a family and considers it the "Best Job Ever". And in New York, Firestorm arrives at a massive explosion centered on Green Arrow's lab. And in a final splash page, it turns out Green Arrow was home at the time and is now dead. (No idea if it's going to stick.) Issue #2 Ronnie and Jason are arguing as Firestorm on their way to Ollie's funeral. Also on his way is Mr. Terrific who is pissed that Ollie's funeral and Batman not attending it are trending higher than him on Twitter. So he gets out of his car to press the flesh a little, which Aquaman gives him poo poo for. At the funeral proper, Buddy Blake gives a well written and touching eulogy for his friend. Seriously, I thought it was excellently treated. Elsewhere Terry McGinnis is still talking with A.L.F.R.E.D.. It appears that Brother Eye is already in orbit, but is non-functional. However, both agree that the method for getting the drat thing down is probably inside TerrifiTech. In North Carolina, King Faraday is posing as a Fed in order to hide evidence of Grifter's involvement in last issue's killing spree for....reasons. After serving as Ollie's pallbearers, Ronnie and Roy Harper get into it over where Ronnie was when Green Arrow's call for help went out. (He was banging some chick.) Roy's already tracked Ronnie's communicator and knows that he didn't become Firestorm until close to an hour had gone by. So the Funeral of Green Arrow ends with Arsenal punching out Firestorm, who then flies off like a pussy. Meanwhile, Lois Lane is writing an article on the funeral, when she receives a package pointing her towards a bar called the Wounded Duck, along with one of Arsenal's arrowheads. The instructions inside warn her against trusting anyone else. Issue #3 Opening in Nunavut, Frankenstein shows up to save an Inuit from some kind of Robo-Polar Bear that was sent there by S.H.A.D.E.. He wanders off, muttering about how Father Time will taste his blade. Back in New York, Jason is begging Ronnie to release him from Firestorm. Ronnie is in full-on douchebag mode, and has decided that if he lets Jason go, Jason will go around blaming him for Green Arrow's death. Ronnie's decided that he's given up enough for Firestorm, and goes to hit on some babes, while Jason promises to kill him when he's finally released. Over in Camden, NJ, Grifter is contemplating how his ability lets him see not only shape-shifting aliens (including J'onn), but also anyone from Earth-2. He also contemplates that if Wonder Woman gets pregnant from Superman, how they might "baby-proof" the world. Going to his hide-out, he greets his...side-kick? Assistant? Anyway, this guy, Justin is trying to find an agent to wipe out all the shapeshifting invaders at once, and he's doing it by testing it on a captive alien, with his current experiment involving drain cleaner. While he continues his experiments, Grifter contemplates a number of files, including one on King Faraday. At TerrifiTech, Mr Terrific is watching security footage of Terry kicking rear end throughout his building before finally being forced to flee. He and his cronies consider if Terry is associated with Bats or not, then leave the building. He signs an autograph and hands some cash to a begger (actually an in-disguise Terry). And in New York, some guys bragging about money they won in a Dead Pool over Green Arrow are unceremoniously tossed out of the Wounded Duck by its resident bartender while Lois Lane watches and thinks that the bartender is actually Tim Drake, believed killed in Paris. So here we go, another big event series, and at least DC isn't just smashing their franchises against each other for whatever reason like Marvel does I guess. But at the same time, I can't be the only one disappointed that Brother Eye is going to be the antagonist. We already did that, and in my opinion, it was one of the weakest parts of Infinite Crisis (don't get me wrong, I loving love Infinite Crisis. I just wasn't big on the Brother Eye segments.) Add in the fact that Terry's mission is literally Sarah Connor's plan from T2 and I really don't know what to think. (gently caress, I just realized that they're even both trying to kill black people!) At any rate let's all avoid the robot bugs and see if Terry's actually going to straight up murder someone. My guess is no. Ensign_Ricky fucked around with this message at 07:01 on May 22, 2014 |
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rotinaj posted:Is this the first proper introduction to mainline DC Canon of Batman Beyond/Terry McGinnis? As a matter of fact, I believe it is.
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May 11, 2014 17:42
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Little Mac posted:So how does Mr. Terrific get from Earth-2 to Earth-1? No idea, that confuses me as well. Unless this is Earth 2?
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May 11, 2014 18:16
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Hakkesshu posted:I checked this out on a whim, and was wondering if anyone could explain Firestorm to me? I'm not a big DC guy, so this is the first I've seen of him, but he seems like a powerfully stupid character. It's like the worst buddy cop duo ever: A douchebag and the floating head of a black guy. The catch is they don't get along too well! I don't know the full gamut of his origin, but I know he used to be a douchebag and the floating head of an old white guy. And then a black guy and the floating head of an Asian girl. Essentially, the two merge into Firestorm and the floating head helps provide advice as Firestorm can rearrange things on the molecular level to different elements. Problem was that Ronnie Raymond (the douchebag) is an idiot, so he needs the floating head to help him with chemical formulas. Ah, here we go: Wikipedia posted:The original Firestorm was distinguished by his integrated dual identity. High school student Ronnie Raymond and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Stein were caught in a nuclear accident that allowed them to fuse into the "nuclear man" Firestorm. Due to Stein's being unconscious during the accident, Raymond was prominently in command of the Firestorm form with Stein a voice of reason inside his mind. Banter between the two was a hallmark of their adventures.
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May 11, 2014 19:27
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Hey, here's a question simply because I had zero interest in Mr. Terrific up until this series: Was he always such a terrific douchenozzle?
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May 16, 2014 00:44
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TwoPair posted:As somebody who for some reason read some of his series that came out at the start of the nu52... kinda? He was smug about how successful he was and inner-monologued about how stupid people were whenever he was having to interact with extremely stupid assholes at his company's corporate functions, but nowhere near the level of dickbag that this version of Mr. Terrific was. I mean, after his section I had to say "Hang on, you mean you aren't the villain? Because I suddenly jumped right on board Plan Kill Terrific."
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May 16, 2014 04:34
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I keep reading, but the more I read, the more I feel I'm walking in a movie half-way through what with the "Earth-2 War" and Tim Drake supposedly being killed in France.
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May 22, 2014 07:02
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Teenage Fansub posted:Isn't that the point of a time jump story? Fair enough, I suppose. Unless Terry's time-travel shenanigans negate it I guess. And I am still fully down with Terry killing Terrific. I should feel bad about wanting a Batman to kill someone that isn't Darkseid, but, well...the guy's a douchenozzle.
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May 22, 2014 22:19
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There will be a slight delay this week in updating the OP as my finances are in deep loving poo poo.
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