First of all, let me say that Brad Meltzer's writing, gets better and better with every comic that he does. The scene that he choreographs on pages 10 & 11, where Black Canary is confronted by one of the rogue Tornadoes, is awesome. She knows that there should be a fail-safe shutoff someplace on the robot, so in order to find out she asks for an arrow from Roy, "Give me an arrow! With a point! NOW!". Then systematically takes out every joint on the thing until she gets down to the Achilles heel. Which of course is where it's at. Brilliant scene! Then Ed Benes. . . . . WOW!!! He also gets better and better with every book that he does. The flow of the same scene on 10 & 11 is perfect. But what really got me was the image of the Phantom Stranger on page 6. This image should be the architect of all future Stranger appearances. Sheer perfection! If the direction the story is going is any indication, it looks like we have two things happening. 1, Bats, Supes and WW are trying to put together a hand picked team for this go around. And 2, "the best laid plans of mice and men . . . . .", they may get the team that comes together out of circumstance. Right now we're looking at, the big 3 obviously, then Green Lantern, Black Canary, Arsenal, Black Lightning, Cyborg, Vixen, Red Tornado and Hawkgirl. But that's just a guess on my part. I mean we're really only on issue 3, so this part of the storyline could stretch out to issue 12. Again, a guess on my part. But, whatever the circumstances, this is really shaping up to be an awesome book. Like I said, it's only on issue 3, so if you can get ahold of the first 2, I definitely recommend it. This is a classic in the making.
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