Checkmate #13 - DC

This issue begins the "CheckOut" storyline. It'll bounce back and forth between this title and the Outsiders for the next 2 months. And I think, it's going to force some kind of change on the Outsiders. I only hope that they don't go away because I love that team. But, they seem to be a team in which change is often the norm, even a necessity, so we'll see what happens. Anyways, Checkmate has this operation, of which we don't know the specifics yet, but they've decided that they need the Outsiders to pull it off. So they are going around the globe and abducting them out of the various situations that they are in. For some reason Checkmate thinks, " . . we need them, and this is the only way to bring them in." So they go around and capture all of them, Katana, Metamorpho, Grace, Thunder and Capt. Boomerang Jr. (they have to come up with a better name for him), by catching them all off guard. They capture all of them, except for Nightwing. But I think that was Sasha Bordeaux' plan all along. She didn't want to have to find Nightwing, but she knew that if she captured the rest, he would come to her. Which, on the last page, he does. As he pulls her in to the elevator, and holds his nightstick to her head, he says "I've never been a big fan of chess . . . but from what I understand . . . this would be putting you in Check . . . wouldn't it, Black Queen?" The next issue blurb says that together they hit Oolong Island. But we have to pick up Outsiders #47 to learn what the plan is. This is someone that I don't think the Outsiders necessarily want to get in bed with, but I don't think they're going to be given much of a choice. Should make for a very nice story arc. This one's written by Greg Rucka and Judd Winick, with some very nice art by Joe Bennett. Check it out if you get a chance. Pun intended.