Who Was Who Is Who #25

So for want of anything better to write about on a Monday, I'm going to go through all my copies of Who's Who and see if I can predict who will make it over to the new DCU by the end of 2012, who might make it and who hasn't got a Lady Lunar's chance.

KRONA - I suppose you could claim Krona was the DCU's original bad guy what with causing the Multiverse to be born with less energy than it was supposed to. Still, those uber-cosmic crimes are no longer something he gets up to as he was last seen stealing rings and power batteries and entities (oh my!) in Green Lantern before being killed by Hal Jordan. Unlikely he'll be back before the end of 2012.

KRYPTO - apparently he's shown in the reboot on Krypton without powers but that still counts for me.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #131

Oooh, she's feisty!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #123

Power Girl asks what we've all been thinking for some time . . .

Four Becomes Three

In all the hullabaloo of Flashpoint, I've hardly mentioned the upcoming War of The Green Lanterns event that's going to be running around the same time as the GL movie will be out.  Specifically, there's been the couple of mentions of losing one of the Earth/Sector 2814 Lanterns.

At the end of Green Lantern #62, after getting his ass kicked, Hal Jordan has some sort of vision of the future:

That black on yellow dialogue fits in with what we've seen of Krona, intimating that Jordan's possession by Parallax was somehow a deliberate punishment from the Guardians. Then we have the Guardians themselves proclaiming how dangerous he is post-War (so he obviously survives - no surprise there) since "the loss of one of the Lanterns of Sector 2814."

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #120

Firebrand bemoans the budget deficit

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #110

Edward I continues his cross-border relations policy

Missed out on my comics last week so a bumper haul this week - possibly the last of 2010!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #36

A quote heavy Cocktail this week:

• The Boys #30 - "Off Iceland, actually." - now that's how you get rid of a problem.
• Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! #1 - "It ain't just nipples, buddy!" - Willingham and Sturges; I love these guys!
• Justice Society of America #26 - "He ate the candles too." - ah, that Starman . . . he's just crazy.
• Marvels: Eye of The Camera #5 - "Storm. With the hair, the outfit." - can't imagine Halle Berry with a white Mohican, somehow.
• Power Girl #1 - "Work on getting me a doorknob." - this was so well worth the wait!
• Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #2 - "You weren't eight months pregnant when you left this morning!!" - my brain hurts!
• Strange Adventures #3 - "Bad guy down. End of story." - oh, Comet, you're so naive at times.
• Trinity #49 - "What... makes the end of the world like a... Damn... got nothing..." - well I wasn't expecting Krona to do that.

And while there were several things that made me smile or laugh out loud this week, it's got to be Power Girl:

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #35

After last week's miserable haul, I'm certainly glad I went in to get my comics yesterday:

• Battlefields: The Tankies #1 - Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra united once more: does it get much better?
• Blackest Night #0 - why do I think the perfect snack to eat with this comic is a bag of Skittles?
• Final Crisis: Legion Of Three Worlds #3 - didn't Final Crisis finally finish months ago? Crap, that reminds me I have to update the annotations. Still, least we got Conner Kent back, eh? (highlight to read)
  
• Green Lantern #40 - who's joining the Orange Lantern Corps next? The seagulls from Finding Nemo !
• Masquerade #3 - Fighting Yank was a right bastard, wasn't he?
• Teen Titans #70 - more gratuitous butt shots than a year's worth of Ed Benes comics.
• Trinity #48 - Krona gets his ass kicked once more.

And what made me smile this week:

PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER! Oh yeah!

Now let's see if Caleb  borrows this picture! ;-)