All I can say is that J Michael Straczynski is brilliant. Who'd have ever thought that a team-up of the Joker and the Atom would ever work. The Atom is called to Arkham Asylum. The doctors need his help. It appears that the Joker has a condition where the synaptic process' in his brain are running at full throttle. 'The condition first produces seizures. Then the patient lapses into a coma. If left untreated, the patient dies.' But the Atom is finding a hard time actually caring. 'I'm not seeing the problem here. It's the Joker.' Anyways, long story short, the Atom agrees to the process. Basically, he has to insert himself into the brain, and release a chemical into the Joker's neural net. It sounds easy enough. However, while in there . . the Atom gets caught in some of the synaptic lightning. When that happens . . the Atom relives the Joker's memories as if they're his. The good news is . . we actually get some views of the world through the adolescent Joker's mind. Things we might not have ever seen, otherwise. The bad news . . the Atom viewed them as memories of his own. So . . they could change his view of the world. Or, at the very least, they could cause some serious nightmares. After he comes out the Joker laughs at him because he let him live. The Atom responds with the words of a young Joker on a playground . .'I'm not weird. It's the world . . it's the world that's weird.' That instinct and response is going to sit badly with him for quite a long time. Like I said, JMS did a brilliant job scripting this story. I really loved the subtle nuances that he gave both characters. And, Chad Hardin and Justiniano does the art. The whole issue was very entertaining. Unfortunately, we skip a month next month. But then we come back in March with Aquaman and Etrigan. I wonder if they throw these characters at him just to see what he'll do?
Sunday, January 24, 2010
the Brave and the Bold #31 - DC
All I can say is that J Michael Straczynski is brilliant. Who'd have ever thought that a team-up of the Joker and the Atom would ever work. The Atom is called to Arkham Asylum. The doctors need his help. It appears that the Joker has a condition where the synaptic process' in his brain are running at full throttle. 'The condition first produces seizures. Then the patient lapses into a coma. If left untreated, the patient dies.' But the Atom is finding a hard time actually caring. 'I'm not seeing the problem here. It's the Joker.' Anyways, long story short, the Atom agrees to the process. Basically, he has to insert himself into the brain, and release a chemical into the Joker's neural net. It sounds easy enough. However, while in there . . the Atom gets caught in some of the synaptic lightning. When that happens . . the Atom relives the Joker's memories as if they're his. The good news is . . we actually get some views of the world through the adolescent Joker's mind. Things we might not have ever seen, otherwise. The bad news . . the Atom viewed them as memories of his own. So . . they could change his view of the world. Or, at the very least, they could cause some serious nightmares. After he comes out the Joker laughs at him because he let him live. The Atom responds with the words of a young Joker on a playground . .'I'm not weird. It's the world . . it's the world that's weird.' That instinct and response is going to sit badly with him for quite a long time. Like I said, JMS did a brilliant job scripting this story. I really loved the subtle nuances that he gave both characters. And, Chad Hardin and Justiniano does the art. The whole issue was very entertaining. Unfortunately, we skip a month next month. But then we come back in March with Aquaman and Etrigan. I wonder if they throw these characters at him just to see what he'll do?
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another great issue
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you also are hitting a home run with the informative reviews