Well, I had every intention of only doing the one issue here. After all, I thought that this issue was the culmination of this first story-arc. However . . I was wrong. The story actually wraps up in issue #7, so . . since that one is also in my stack . . I thought I'd include it also. What the heck? First of all, I want to say that I think Nicola Scott is doing a tremendous job on this series. I first noticed her art in Birds of Prey, and there I thought she had tremendous potential. However, I think that she's only gotten better. I love the life that she's brought to these characters. Of course, none of that would even be possible without Gail Simone's fantastic scripts. These 2 definitely seem to work very well together. Anyways, issue #6 has the characters still in Las Vegas and dealing with their recent knowledge that Junior, one of the major players that's also after Neron's "get out of hell free" card, is actually Ragdoll's sister. So now, not only do they have to deal with her, but they also have to get Bane out of her clutches. Of course all of that works out, but now Junior is also after our miscreant team because they've all seen her true face. This bothers her so much that she even shoots her own henchman because he's seen her.
Also it looks as if this Jeanette may be joining our rag-tag sextuplet of anti-heroes here. First of all, she's jonesing for Floyd . . something about her being able to smell or see the death on him. She calls his guns the 'death-bringers'. And we also get a little of her history. Apparently shes 200 or 300 years old. But in the end, none of that matters because Floyd betrays everybody, shoots or runs over them all, and grabs the card and takes off for Gotham on his own. By the way, in Gotham, the Mad-Hatter is also after our little group for the way they treated him during his short membership. Issue #7 shows the team on the road . . Tarantula with Floyd, but the rest of the team on their own. Yes they all survived Floyd's attack. During Tarantula's talk with Floyd we find out that he wasn't trying to kill them, just slow them down so that he could race to Gotham and face down the hell-storm that's waiting for them on his own. He was actually trying to help them . . maybe even save them. He just has a weird way of showing all those friendly emotions. Anyways, long story short, when they all meet up in Gotham there's a huge cast of villains waiting for them. There's a lot of fighting, but in the end Tarantula and Junior are fighting on the bridge and all of the bad-guys with energy powers blast them at the same time. They both go up in flames and off the bridge. During the fight Tarantula stated that she had the card which is how she and Junior got so close. So, upon their deaths, it appears that there's no more card, so . . no more fighting. After all, who's going to pay them now? Everyone takes off in their own direction, and with Jeanette our group has it's 6 again. It's funny how that works. Oh yeah, and in the final panels we find out that Scandal actually has the card. I made a mistake in previous blogs thinking that this title was a mini-series. I'm actually very glad that it's not. I enjoy everything about this title . . the writing, the art, and the characters. And I'm sure under Gail and Nicola's guidance . . the best is yet to come.
Well, I had every intention of only doing the one issue here. After all, I thought that this issue was the culmination of this first story-arc. However . . I was wrong. The story actually wraps up in issue #7, so . . since that one is also in my stack . . I thought I'd include it also. What the heck? First of all, I want to say that I think Nicola Scott is doing a tremendous job on this series. I first noticed her art in Birds of Prey, and there I thought she had tremendous potential. However, I think that she's only gotten better. I love the life that she's brought to these characters. Of course, none of that would even be possible without Gail Simone's fantastic scripts. These 2 definitely seem to work very well together. Anyways, issue #6 has the characters still in Las Vegas and dealing with their recent knowledge that Junior, one of the major players that's also after Neron's "get out of hell free" card, is actually Ragdoll's sister. So now, not only do they have to deal with her, but they also have to get Bane out of her clutches. Of course all of that works out, but now Junior is also after our miscreant team because they've all seen her true face. This bothers her so much that she even shoots her own henchman because he's seen her. 
Also it looks as if this Jeanette may be joining our rag-tag sextuplet of anti-heroes here. First of all, she's jonesing for Floyd . . something about her being able to smell or see the death on him. She calls his guns the 'death-bringers'. And we also get a little of her history. Apparently shes 200 or 300 years old. But in the end, none of that matters because Floyd betrays everybody, shoots or runs over them all, and grabs the card and takes off for Gotham on his own. By the way, in Gotham, the Mad-Hatter is also after our little group for the way they treated him during his short membership. Issue #7 shows the team on the road . . Tarantula with Floyd, but the rest of the team on their own. Yes they all survived Floyd's attack. During Tarantula's talk with Floyd we find out that he wasn't trying to kill them, just slow them down so that he could race to Gotham and face down the hell-storm that's waiting for them on his own. He was actually trying to help them . . maybe even save them. He just has a weird way of showing all those friendly emotions. Anyways, long story short, when they all meet up in Gotham there's a huge cast of villains waiting for them. There's a lot of fighting, but in the end Tarantula and Junior are fighting on the bridge and all of the bad-guys with energy powers blast them at the same time. They both go up in flames and off the bridge. During the fight Tarantula stated that she had the card which is how she and Junior got so close. So, upon their deaths, it appears that there's no more card, so . . no more fighting. After all, who's going to pay them now? Everyone takes off in their own direction, and with Jeanette our group has it's 6 again. It's funny how that works. Oh yeah, and in the final panels we find out that Scandal actually has the card. I made a mistake in previous blogs thinking that this title was a mini-series. I'm actually very glad that it's not. I enjoy everything about this title . . the writing, the art, and the characters. And I'm sure under Gail and Nicola's guidance . . the best is yet to come.
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