I'll get to the long, convoluted story of how and why Connor was abducted, but first . . an observation. This book is only on issue #12 and already it's turned into a team book with almost as many characters. We get to see the whole cast in action this issue. Our group, in this particular book, consists of . . Green Arrow and Black Canary, Mia, Batman, Plastic Man, Shado, Dodger, and if you count Connor and Robert that's 10 in all. We've already got the Titans and the Outsiders . . and a Corps that already has Green in it's name. So what do we call these guys? Seriously . . I'm asking. I'm at a loss. I can't think of anything. If anybody has a witty response . . please reply. So now . . back to the story. Shado wanted to cure her son, Robert, of Leukemia. So she went to Sivana. He's not an altruistic individual by nature, so he wanted something in return . . he asked Shado to kill Green Arrow. Well, you know that was going to be difficult as Oliver is Robert's dad. This is where it gets a little 'out-there' . . . Shado decided to pose as Ra's al Ghul and create her own League of Assassins. She would then task them with the job of killing Oliver. Of course we know that they messed that up and shot Connor instead. Then Sivana decided that he wanted Connor and Plastic Man as his lab rats. Long story short . . very long story . . Connor is alive, although we don't know to what extent . . Robert is cured of cancer, and Sivana has an army of Plastic Man clones running around out there. Overall I enjoyed Judd Winick's story here. Although I thought that the wrap-up this issue was a bit of a stretch. But it still leaves things pretty open for the future. Mike Norton is back to his own style . . instead of trying to mimic Cliff Chiang's . . . who's still doing the covers. At least now all of the characters are accountable for. It'll be interesting to see where we go from here.
I agree almost completly with your observations of this comic, but where did the thing with Sivana come from??? I've enjoyed this series from issue #1 as well as most of Judd Winick's work, but the decision to put Sivana as the master mind really came out of left field to me. Isn't he mainly an enemy of the Marvel family? I can't really think of a reason he'd want Ollie dead, although I am still kind of new to the DC universe, so I might have missed that. I was just kind of curious if Ollie and Sivana had some run in I was unaware of.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. The Sivana thing did kind of come out of nowhere. We know Shado's side of the story, but Sivana's motivations, I think, were never fully explained. Maybe during the 52 or Countdown experience he got a lot more ambitious in his list of enemies. Although just the nature of him, and his work, fits so much better in the Shazam! world than the 'normal' one. Maybe in some future story . . or 'flashback' . . it'll be explained better.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of have the feeling that Winick might have some future plan's involving Sivana and Ollie. Unless, Sivana was aware of Shado's relationship with Ollie and only sent her after him to screw with her mind. That kind of seems like the type of scuzzy thing he'd do to someone.
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