Countdown #47 - DC

What a fantastic book. If there was ever any doubt that this book would be able to live up to the standard set by 52 . . . put it out of your mind. This book looks like it's going to be everything and more. I mean look at the Ed Benes cover. Meowww! Who ever knew that Mary Marvel could be so sexy? Anyways, Paul Dini writes it, with help this issue by Sean McKeever. And Tom Derenick turns in another fantastic pencilling job. We start out with Jimmy Olsen. He's having some dreams, about Lightray, the New Gods and the Source. But I don't think he really knows what all those things are. So he's really questioning what's been happening to him of late. Next we see Holly Robinson. She's just arriving in Gotham. I'd have to guess that this is before she became Catwoman's replacement. That or she's moving on to another chapter in her life. We then get to the meat and potatoes of this issue. Mary's confrontation with Black Adam. He's ready to kill her, but he's decided to do something far worse. He's given her all of his powers. She thinks it's a gift, but he tells her, "If you see your cousin . . . tell him I'm sorry!". We also get another glimpse of the Monitors. They're having a crisis of conscious. They're split over how to go about correcting the problems that could lead to a crisis in the multiverse. And we get some more hints about the characters that it'll be affecting. We also check in on the Trickster and the Piper with the Rogues. They're both there for their own reasons, but it really has nothing to do with the Rogues. They're just a means to an end. Finally we get a glimpse of the Amazon attack. Nothing new really. Just a page to let us know that it's a part of what's going on around everything else. I'm really diggin' this book. I know it's only 5 issues in to it, but I'm really liking what it looks like they're going to be doing. I just hope that the powers that be don't stop them from making the changes that it looks like they're heading towards. I've always said change is good. And change should be the only constant. Excelsior!