Infinite Crisis – FanDad Speculation

I’m about to engage in some idle fandad speculation about INFINITE CRISIS outcomes. I’ve peeked ahead at some of the related covers and read the brief synopsis DC provides. If this sort of thing spoils fun a bit for you, feel free to bug out now.

Okay, now that we’ve seen (and presumably read) this:

And we all pretty much knew this was coming:

I suppose this isn’t too much of a surprise:

That’s the cover of Supergirl #5

Guess I’m going to have to pick up a few issues of Supergirl as this thing progresses. Based on the events of IC #2 and this little blurb for Supergirl #6:

There can only be one true Supergirl, and there's only one person who can help Kara win that title: Superman!

They've thrown down before, but now Superman has to stop Supergirl - even if it means the most unexpected death of all! Don't miss this special issue guest-starring Batman and Wonder Woman!

I’m assuming that Powergirl is the “mistress of might” who battles the new Supergirl in issue five. Hard to see who else would make sense. (And does this mean the two Superboys are going to duke it out somewhere?)

As to who dies, well I’ve already predicted that the current version of Wonder Woman dies and I’m not backing down from that. (Although I was clearly wrong about who Alexander Luthor was whispering to Earth-2 Superman about. Interestingly, most people -- besides me -- seemed to think he was referring to Powergirl but it’s fairly clear now that it was Lois. And I’m no longer sure about the return of Earth-2 WW – I’m now thinking Donna Troy may assume the WW mantle.) According to DC’s site WONDER WOMAN #226 will be that comic's last issue but while the timing is right, it hardly seems likely she would die in Supergirl’s book (but maybe) so I’m guessing one of the Supergirls eats the kryptonite bullet. But which one? And maybe this is where Earth 2 Lois dies. Or Superman. Or Lex. Or Krypto…or...

You know, I have to admit, I’m eating this stuff up. I originally saw the whole effort as one big, overstuffed plot truck, designed to get us from a place DC didn’t want to be in, to a newer, brighter, shinier place. And maybe that will be the end result, but so far IC has all the makings of a true comic classic. Sure, it has its WTF moments, a bit of overfeeding at the continuity trough and waaaaay too many OMACS (and you just know these guys are going to be popping up in books for decades to come) but so far it’s working really well. I’m having fun. I hope you are too.

Comments

[Aya Ayuvara]

I hope you are right about the OMACs. Jsut remember: There are humans and there are superhumans. With powers you're bound to NOT understand. Powers that can easily kill hundreds of people with the blink of an eye or the wave of a hand. From such difference, fear stems.

And now there is a tool to keep superhumans in check. And the core of this tool is... human.

Sure if the idea is overused, it would be bad (as if the X-Men were always hunted by Sentinels), but brought up from time to time, it would help to keep the feet on the ground. So I hope you are right, even if you don't seem to like the OMACs.

[Kurt]

While I didn’t care for the way the OMACs were initially birthed into the DCU, I think a decent job has been done in retroactively attaching an explanation for them. They're here and I can accept that. But what I can’t accept is when they’re used as a generic antagonist to prop up lazy storytelling – which is much of how they’re being used currently. (Witness JLA 122.) Oddly enough, the Sentinel comparison hadn’t occurred to me, but it seems very apt and for some reason makes me like the OMACs less.

As to them being human at their core – aren’t most of the DC heroes that? What’s the difference between an OMAC and Green Lantern? With the exception that GL is acting under his own free will. (As far as we know.)

[Aya Ayuvara]

Well human is maybe the wrong word, as you are right: most heroes are (even if they are aliens, they are still human and act human).

My point was something different. Not their humanity but their (relative) innocence. It is not their wish to act against the heroes, still they do.