I absolutely love Jim Starlin's cosmic odysseys. To me, this is where he has always been at this peak, and the most comfortable. I'm starting to wonder though, just who exactly are these Aberrant Six that Synnar talked about when he confronted Hawkman and Adam Strange. Obviously, those 2 are part of it, but . . this group now consists of Comet, Bizarro, the Weird, Animal Man, Starfire, Starman and Tiggorr. That's about 9 characters all together. So who exactly are the Six? I know. It's not that big of a deal. I was just wondering. Anyways, Adam's big plan this issue is to, obviously, take out Synnar. However, in the process, he also wants to help, if not save, the population of Rann. Even with everything being thrown at him he ends up pulling it off, but . . there's a lot that goes down. First of all, Prince Gaven is still pretty peeved about the destruction of his planet. Sorry. His planet's still there. The populace was wiped out. So far he's blamed it on Adam Strange. But, when they end up accidentally shooting down Lady Styx's command ship, she comes out exposing herself and now Starman has a new target. He doesn't show any mercy when he attacks her. The next part of the plan is for the Weird to power-up, to the critical mass point, and then they're going to teleport him into Synnar and blow him up. However what they don't know is that all of this is part of Synnar's plan. "Continued transformation onto the higher planes is at hand. Even in defeat Synnar shall triumph! As mighty as Synnar's personage was, still it was no match for him whom I must eventually face and vanquish. That contest will require power far in excess of that which I presently possess. Infinite power is the goal. And infinite power is what I shall gain! None suspect how deceptive this moment truly is. Despite all appearances to the contrary, this is not death. It is but transformation." But while the Weird is powering up . . I think he realizes how they may be playing into Synnar's plans. He looks as if he has a moment of clarity. So I'm thinking he may have done something to mess with Synnar's plans a bit . . as much as he could . . because on the final page, when Synnar is reborn . . he appears to be in the Weirds form. He looks like he could be the Dark Weird. And he's thinking . . . "Resurrection amid desolation. But . . . this is not as it should be." But, at the same time, Adam did get all the Rannians transported to Prince Gaven's Throneworld. With the Prince's cooperation, and acceptance, he welcomes them and dubs the world . . . "New Rann!" As brilliant as Jim's scripts were for this series, I'm equally as impressed with Ron Lim's pencils. When this series first started, I was a bit disappointed that Jim wasn't going to be drawing his own series. But, now that I've seen it, I think Ron did a great job of expressing Jim's vision. We also have a new mini-series coming soon . . . another Strange Adventures mini-series. I don't know a lot of specifics about it yet . . other than Jim will be writing it. But I'm sure our Aberrant Six will be involved. We'll probably see some more about Synnar and the Weirds fate. Plus, we don't really know what happened to Lady Styx through all of this. She could be dead, but . . we've thought that before.
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