Month: March 2023

This Week’s Comic

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (vol. 4) #3: Huntress, Doctor Mid-Nite, Stargirl, Jakeem Thunder, Wildcat, the Golden Age Flash, and the Golden Age Green Lantern are tied to a clock.
  • References in Justice Society of America (vol. 4) #4 to Per Degaton’s history in both All-Star Comics #35 (Jun–Jul 1947) and JSA #72 (Jun 2005).
  • We finally get to meet the Justice Society of the present-time DCU in this issue (although it’s still reading closer to a future-Huntress book than I’d personally prefer). Apparently Beth Chapel and Yolanda Montez were resurrected as a prelude to the Lazarus Planet events; they were originally killed back in Eclipso #13 (Nov 1993). (How this fits with Doomsday Clock #12 is left as an exercise for a reader who reads more event minis than I do.)
  • The “Next Issue” line is very, uh, Zero Hour.

This Week’s Comics

FANTASTIC FOUR #5: In five diagonal swatches with different layers and color patterns, the Fantastic Four fight in the Dark Dimension.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #21: "This is it!!! The story arc you've been waiting for!!!" Peter Parker (in Spider-Man attire from the neck down) and Mary Jane Watson, holding each other, face the reader and an unseen person—whose shadow reaches them.
BATMAN #133: Batman digs up Bruce Wayne's grave, and Alfred comes at him from behind with a rapier.
THE FLASH #794: "One: Minute:War Part 00:05: Like Father, Like Daughter..." Irey West, in costume, crouches beside her father as at a starting line.
  • Hey, the Amazing Spider-Mail printed my letter!
    Dear Albert and Nick, It was nice to see the Coffee Bean crowd together again, even just briefly. I've seen plenty of letters asking when the big 'What Did Peter Do?' mystery will get resolved, but what I want to know is when we'll get to see the Randy Robertson/Janice Lincoln wedding! Lots of good potential for gang-related hijinks, methinks. Martin Pyne, Sunnyvale, CA. Hey, Martin! Hope all is sunny in Sunnyvale! More Randy and Janice is coming down the pike sooner than you may think! Maybe they're responsible for what happened to Peter and MJ?!
    Unfortunately it is quite rainy today.
  • The actual solution to the “What Did Peter Do?” mystery appears to call back to the Zeb Wells-written Wolverine team-up back in Amazing Spider-Man #555–557, which I had honestly entirely forgotten about except for Chris Bachalo’s art.
  • Irey West unlocked “choose her own hero name!”
  • I see Chip Zdarsky felt the need to subtweet everybody who says that Bruce Wayne doesn’t spend money on charity.