Yes, a spoiler lies herein. But were you really going to read this issue anyway?
DC Comics
Script: Mark Veirheiden
Artists: Ed Benes & Joe Prado
I bought this issue because of the cover. Not that it’s a particularly good cover, just interesting – although the beady similarity of Lois, Jimmy and Perry’s eyes is a bit disconcerting.
The issue itself? Eh. If you were really intent on knowing just how all these OMACs became OMACs then this is your read right here. I’d already attributed the whole thing to the latest Mydoom virus but it turns out it’s actually related to (avert your eyes now)
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Flue vaccines. Marginally clever actually, but the placement of this information -- post-OMAC mini series -- feels more like tidying up than a well-thought plot point. I would like to have seen this issue a year ago. Lois could have been doing her investigative reporter thing, turned up some weird hook into the vaccine deal and then gets attacked by an OMAC. Except it’s in shadows the whole time so we never really see much except a red light and a head fin. Then, when the whole mess hits, we’d all go, “Aha!” And the Internet would break in half. (That line never gets old.)
Heck, they could even have tied it into IDENTITY CRISIS. Maybe Jean Loring gets a flu shot, becomes an OMAC and kills Sue Dibny as part of Max Lord’s grand scheme. Turns back into Jean and goes crazy with the knowledge of what she’d done. There’s a lot of ways they could have gone with that and still covered the same thematic territory. But I’m guessing DC just figured out the flu shot angle about 15 minutes before this book went to print, so…
And the art. It’s not bad really, although the book did meet the six month quota for the Lois, bent-at-the-waist, back arched, butt and chest jutting-out pose. Supes looks great. At least in the four panels he’s shown.
And we have another Bizarro sighting. The guy’s getting to be like Cheech Marin in a Robert Rodriguez movie.
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