tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557726951171561616.post2761199153867498332..comments2024-03-28T05:58:47.833-04:00Comments on Weird Science DC Comics: Convergence: Infinity Inc. #2 ReviewJim Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12307419602315578911noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8557726951171561616.post-67796776862621368062015-05-31T23:11:58.911-04:002015-05-31T23:11:58.911-04:00First, having read every issue of Infinity Inc, I&...First, having read every issue of Infinity Inc, I'd like to know where the #*^&@ my mansion and giant strawberries are! Having also read all the issues of the retcon to Infinity Inc., the Young All-Stars I feel there should be a second mansion involved.<br /><br />Oh well. The last two pages of #1 did a decent job of explaining the team as far as pre-crisis goes. It at least covered the 'what' of it if not the 'who'. Here are a few interesting details of the who:<br /><br />Harlequin, the golden-age precursor to the current version, worked with Alan Scott,the Green Lantern. For some fairly ridiculous reason, I think to get his attention, she chose to be a villain. Ultimately, they were married, and I kid you not, Green Lantern thought it would be a romantic touch to consummate the marriage in a green force bubble. Sadly, Rose&Thorn, the golden age equivalent of Poison Ivy broke in on their wedding night, apparently killing Harlequin. Of course, she didn't really die, GL only thought she did and nine months later, the super-powered twins Jade and Obsidian were born. Jade obviously wound up with the ring based powers, while Obsidian wound-up with the mystical powers of the Lantern. The golden age lantern was magic, rather than Oan.<br /><br />If you ever wondered why the female villain duo on Batman's Animated Adventures was 'giant wood mallet'/'plant power' heavy, they were originally golden-age GL villains and his weakness is of course, wood, not the color yellow.<br /><br />Brainwave was always the bad boy member of the team since his dad was a super-villain. The comic tells you that much. What they don't mention is that he was also the last member of Infinity Inc. to remember pre-Crisis Earth 2. He was perhaps the only person to remember Crisis besides the Psycho-Pirate. Especially after he erased Fury's memory of the event. It seemed the humane thing to do since she was a parentless anomaly post-Crisis. The whole incident is rendered in a beautiful Todd McFarlane pencilled page, the original of which, now hangs on my wall. OK, OK, maybe I've taken the Infinity Inc. fan thing a bit too far, but it was on ebay. I'd had a few beers. What was I supposed to do? It would however look better in a mansion.<br /><br />Norda was a family acquaintance of the Golden Age hawks. He was also a childhood friend of Hector/Silver Scarab who was the Hawks' only kid. There was a fair amount of 'you always liked him better than me' angst revolving around this in the original series.<br /><br />Hector and Fury had a thing which resulted in Fury having Hector's kid, but by then, Hector was already dead. Of course, not really, he'd merely been whisked away to a quasi-egyptian dream dimension where he'd decided he was the 1960's Sandman. This is where it got weird and Neil Gaiman did his only work I ever disliked.<br /><br />I don't now who Roy Thomas pissed off at DC, but he must have pissed off somebody in a fairly big way. After the original crisis most of his characters and plots were completely gutted. One of the most spectacular examples of this was the Hector and Lyta story. Post Crisis, there's the Neil Gaiman Sandman in his own funnybook. Rather than letting naming collision just slide, DC put Lyta and Hector and their kid in Gaiman's Sandman. Lyta mopes a lot which as you can tell from Convergence Infinity Inc. is completely out of character. Hector seemingly meets some horrible fate, and--I think--their kid winds up being the next Sandman. Go figure.<br /><br />That's all I've got for now, but if you have questions, I might have answers.<br /><br />Oh, in closing, your review was pretty spot on. It was nice to see the characters again, but they didn't really do much. Oh well, it's a cross-over event, that's kind of the thing right?<br />Hamiltonhttp://copaseticflow.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com