Week Nineteen
This week in “52,” we’re given a big bucket full of question marks. It seems that everywhere you turn in this story, there are more reasons to scratch your head and wait until the next week. It’s compelling, but I’m starting to feel like a dunce, since I really have no clue where it’s all headed. And if you check out “Green Lantern #13” this week, the puzzles get even thicker. In that issue, the Guardians are talking about Superboy-Prime, when they all come to the same conclusion. “52.” It seems as if they’re discussing it as an upcoming problem, or an ongoing one, which would seem to suggest nothing is wrapped up after this giant series is over, but, again, we’ll have to wait and see.
But back to the issue at hand. This week, Animal Man, Starfire, and Adam Strange find themselves on Lobo’s planet, where he’s gone all religy and rules the people of space sector 3500 with the Emerald Eye of Ekron. If anybody knows anything more of that beyond the name, leave me a comment, because I’m not sure of it myself. Also in this issue, Skeets talks to Daniel Carter, from Booster Gold’s bloodline, and convinces the washed up jock cocksucker to help him out in exchange for fame and notoriety. Daniel agrees, and they head back to Rip Hunter’s lab, since, after Booster saw it himself several weeks ago, he told Skeets there was nothing there to talk about. While looking at the lab, Daniel sees the walls covered with grafitti, reading, “It’s all his fault.” Upon closer inspection, he sees that the arrows aren’t pointing at Booster, as originally thought, but, rather, they’re aimed at Skeets. Skeets sends Daniel into a temporal vortex and leaves, saying, “He knows.” The “he” that Skeets is referring to is Rip Hunter, I’m assuming.
That begs the question, what exactly is Skeets? Does Hank Henshaw come into this discussion at all? Why is the stuff in Green Lantern so confusing? There are many questions left to be answered. I have no answers myself; I have only speculation and a hope that, once everything pans out, we’ll be left with a mystery that makes sense, rather than a jumble of unanswered questions and the feeling we’re all going to have once “LOST” goes off the air.
One last thing. When Wonder Girl meets Supernova, she recognizes him, apparently, as Kon-El, aka Conner Kent, aka the dead Superboy.
Again, I have no answers.
See ya in seven.
I completely missed that the arrows were pointing at Skeets, not Booster. That certainly makes his reaction make more sense.
The Emerald Eye of Ekron is a green floating eyeball used by one of the Legion of Super-Heroes more prominent villains – The Emerald Empress.
She’s part of the Fatal Five, who are a pretty dangerous group of outlaws.
Here’s some more info about her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Empress
religy?
Yeah. It’s synonymous with religious, only, in my opinion, funnier.
I’ll dig it. Also, I dig this issue. Except, it was really annoying that Daniel Carter’s football number was “52.” I mean, we get it, okay? We can all survive if there’s a number that appears inside the pages of this comic that’s not 52. And he was a RUNNING BACK! Who was the last running back to wear 52? You only see that in high school six-man football. Ridiculous.