Batman: The Dark Knight #0

Hey guys and gals, my last review of the week and thankfully my last zero issue comic is none other than Batman: The Dark Knight. So let's finish off these zero issues and get back to the present of the DCnU.

Batman: The Dark Knight #0

Summary: This issue starts off with a young Bruce Wayne, not long after his parents murder. After going through his parents things, he finds his dad's watch and wears it as a memento. After being alone, Bruce returns to crime alley, looking for answers and finds one of his mom's pearls, but he drops it down a storm drain by mistake. Bruce notices a hobo living in the alley and asks him if he saw anything the night his parents were killed. The guy says he may have seen something, but demands Bruce's watch. Bruce, desperately wanting answers gives the guy his watch, but the guy had no answers, and he pushed Bruce down and tells him to go home. From there we see Bruce growing up, studying every single acquaintance his parents had, looking for motive. We see Bruce doing this while in classes, as well as training and boxing, getting his body ready for his one man war on crime. Bruce eventually graduates and returns to Crime Alley as an adult, looking for the man that stole his watch. He finds him and demands his watch back, as well as answers about who killed his parents. The old hobo reveals that Bruce's parents were killed by Joe Chill. Bruce then goes to a bar looking for info on Chill, and after busting a few skulls, he gets answers and finally heads to confront Chill. He asks Chill why he did it and who hired him, but Chill says they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, he wanted Martha's pearls, and when she screamed, she startled him, causing him to shoot her. An enraged Bruce yells that he's lying, they weren't just killed over pearls, there had to be a motive, but Chill lowers his head, saying that's all it was. Bruce pulls out a gun and holds it over Chill before turning around and storming out of the building. The issue comes to a close and Bruce boards a plane to Tibet, getting ready to start his true training.


Thoughts: This was an interesting issue. It started off slow, but I loved the idea that a young vengeful Bruce was taken advantage of, and he turned around as an adult and went back to that same man, getting his father's watch back and the answers he wanted. It showed how dedicated Bruce is. I also loved that Chill killing his parents was just wrong place, wrong time. There was no plan, no enemies acting on them, just pure, dumb coincidence. That's why Batman works as a vigilante, because he's stopping that from happening to anyone else. If there was someone behind Chill, he'd just go after them and be done, instead of stopping all the crimes he can. And that came across well here.

Score: 7.5/10 

Bruce: I'm Bruce Wayne.
Joe Chill: I didn't mean to.

Ultimates #16

So last issue Captain America won the emergency presidential election.  That actually gained the Ultimate Marvel Universe some serious mainstream attention(for the first time in a while).  Now we see if Sam Humphries and the rest of the Ultimate crew can make this thing work.

Ultimates #16:

Summary: This issue opens with Cap giving a speech stating he's willing to answer the call of the people and take on the job of president.  After being sworn in, Cap takes off in a jet to try to fix the mess the country has become.  That angers Carol Danvers, who wants Cap to return to the temporary White House, but Cap just tells her to deal with the political crap as his Chief of Staff, while he goes about reuniting the country. With that, Cap takes Thor and Iron Man and they rapidly put an end to the hostilities between North and South Carolina.  Cap then sends Iron Man to the West Coast Nation to convince them to reenter the Union, which Iron Man succeeds in doing.  He asks Thor to head to Wyoming, where a top secret SHIELD facility had fallen off the grid, however, Thor wants to investigate an Asgardian rune that was found in Texas.  Cap tells him the most important thing was to secure the weapons in Wyoming, so Thor dutifully heads off...  Cap hops back in his jet to deal with the Dictator of Detroit and gets a call from Senator Underwood, who tells Cap to stop running around unilaterally and get back to Washington to do things with talk and compromise, not force.  Cap blows him off and continues his mission to bring the country back together.  Underwood gets in touch with acting head of SHIELD, Marvin Flumm(in the 616, Mentallo), and since they were working with the mysterious Morez, who wanted Wyoming left alone so his Hydra forces could ransack it, Underwood tells Flumm to shoot Cap's jet down with a missile.  Flumm fires the missile and Black Widow appears, having been spying on Flumm's conversation with Underwood at a miniature size thanks to Pym particles.  While Widow and Flumm fight, the missile system announces a successful hit, but Cap storms in the room and tells Flumm that the missile had been tricked into hitting nothing by Stark Tech.  With that, Cap destroys Flumm for betraying the country, and you know, trying to assassinate the President of the United States, before calling Underwood and telling him that his time was over, which leads to a defeated Underwood resigning(with the help of a little arm twisting by Hawkeye).  In Wyoming, Morez is annoyed by Underwood's resignation, but has already entered the Wyoming base and was looking over the weapons with the leader of Hydra.  Morez senses Thor nearby and tells the Hydra leader to leave him alone, at which time Thor walks in, figuring Morez was Loki, which would explain why he was sowing such chaos throughout the nation.  But wait!  This issue ends with Morez revealing that he wasn't Loki, but was actually Modi, Thor's son!

Thoughts: Hey, you know what, I really enjoyed this comic!  Issue #1 of the Captain America as POTUS era was a success in my opinion.  I liked Cap basically blowing off all of the politicians and continuing to act as Captain America, a man of action, not President Rogers, a guy sitting in an office signing paperwork.  So yeah, all the Cap stuff was great, as was the way the other Ultimates were used.  Widow being named head of SHIELD, Hawkeye intimidating Underwood into resigning, Iron Man talking to the Silicon Valley jerks and getting them to come back to the Union, and of course Thor...  See, I dropped the Ultimates series a few issues back because I can't stand Jonathan Hickman's writing(for the most part).  The only thing I did like that he did was put Thor's son away in the World Tree, and I'm happy to see Thor's kid popping up here, especially as a villain, because that can lead to a lot of good...  Especially since he seems to be the only person left with Asgardian power thanks to Thor's actions(I think Thor is still using armor that was designed by Iron Man to imitate Asgardian powers) back when EVIL Reed Richards was killing all of the Asgardians.  But yeah, this issue was really, really good, and the future looks damn bright here.

Score: 9 out of 10.

I'd vote for him.

Aquaman #0

Hey guys and gals, after reading and absolutely hating Deadpool, and being able to sum up the entire issue of Invincible in one sentence, I figured I'd review something with more substance, instead of throwing up a review that was a paragraph long, including my thoughts. So, I've decided to sub out Deadpool and Invincible for Aquaman and Batman: The Dark Knight. Hopefully these can save a crappy month of Zero Issues (GL and Shazam excluded).

Aquaman #0

Summary: Our story starts six years ago, because continuity in DC is supposedly important although it isn't... We see that Arthur Curry's dad was attacked by Black Manta, which was payback for Arthur inadvertently killing Manta's dad, as we saw a few issues ago. As Arthur's dad dies, he asks his son to go to Atlantis and tell Arthur's mom that he loves her, as his dying wish. After Arthur's dad dies, we see Arthur at home as a bunch of reporters stand outside, yelling for him to come out and answer questions, not even caring that his father's funeral is today. An upset Arthur runs out of the door stating that he knows he's not one of them now, I guess because of the lack of compassion they showed, as he dives into the sea. We see Arthur swimming for what i would guess is days, looking for Atlantis, when a boat with a young woman and her father are about to crash into a bunch of rocks. Arthur stops the boat using his superhuman strength and stays with the family until morning. The daughter, Jayne, asks how Arthur was able to do that, and after a bit of prodding he says that he's an Atlantean, and he's looking for his mother, the Queen of Atlantis. Jayne's dad says he knows a man who used to claim he was from Atlantis but everyone thought he was crazy, he tells Arthur about the man's last known location and Arthur goes to see him. When Arthur meets the man known as Vulko, Vulko recognizes him immediately as the son of the Queen of Atlantis. He explains how When Arthur's parents met and his mom got pregnant, she wanted to live on land but was imprisoned by her own people. She escaped long enough to give birth and left Arthur with his dad and returned to Atlantis, where she was forced to marry a suitor. While married she gave birth to a second son, Arthur's brother, Orm, On Orm's twelfth birthday, his father was killed, so Arthur's mom planned to escape the next night but she was murdered before she could escape but an unknown person. Vulko believes it was Orm that murdered her, as he became King of Atlantis, but if Arthur returns he'd become King because he's the oldest born.Vulko gives Arthur a map to the armory, where the first King of Atlantis' powerful trident is kept. He tells Arthur that Orm is as charismatic as they're mother but as ruthless as Orm's father, and he's a tyrant of Atlantis. Arthur is undecided but chooses to accompany Vulko for a return to Atlantis as this issue comes to a close.


Thoughts: Well, this was a average story. Which is something good in Zero Month with all the other stories I've read and haven't enjoyed. Nothing amazing happened, and we didn't really learn much, besides learning of Orm. The stuff with Orm can be interesting, we've been to that well before but I can't say I mind seeing Orm pop up here. Besides that, this was a slow issue, nothing bad but nothing amazing either. Just average and used for the purpose of setting up future storylines, which I have no problem with at all.

Score: 6.5/10 

Jayne's Dad: He claimed to be from Atlantis, though everyone thought he'd been underwater too long.

Teen Titans #0

Oh boy...  So I've been extremely negative on DC's zero issues.  They have been, in my opinion?  Almost universally terrible.  Especially the ones where the writers decide to take liberties and alter/wreck/destroy otherwise good origins.  And that's exactly what I'm expecting here.  Well, no sense delaying this any longer...  Let's see how Scott Lobdell destroys the origin of one of my favorite characters in all of comicdom...

Teen Titans #0

Summary: This issue is actually pretty close to Tim's original origin in some ways, which is a good thing.  Basically you have Tim trying to figure out who Batman is.  He's realized that the prior Robin(Jason Todd) had vanished and that Batman hasn't been the same(although Bruce is kind of meh about Jason being "dead" in this one).  He sets up a way to meet Batman(something about gunrunners and other weirdness), so Bats shows up, telling Tim that he had tolerated him digging around for long enough and to knock it off, before pulling the famous Batman vanishing act.  Tim takes that as a challenge(which you think Bats would have realized) and ends up making himself a target of the Penguin, forcing Bats to rescue him(and his parents, who were nearly killed in the crossfire...).  With that, Tim's parents end up going into the witness protection program, while Tim doesn't...  For some reason.  So Tim says adios to his folks, and Bats takes him in(some how...).  From there, Tim decides he doesn't want to be Robin, out of respect to Jason dying, and becomes Red Robin('cause that's so much different).

Thoughts: First things first...  This issue seems to give us another case of Bruce being forced to take in yet ANOTHER Robin!  Anyway, this was about 7,000,000 times better than Jason Todd's origin story, and was better than Dick Grayson's as well.  Still, I don't know why we didn't just stick with Tim's original origin story...  For me, Tim's original story was better than this one, due to the weird things that happened here...  Why did Tim's parents go into witness protection, but not Tim?  Why would Tim put his parents in such mortal jeopardy if he's supposed to be so smart?  How did Tim end up with Bats?  Was he taken in by Bruce?  And if he was, wouldn't Tim still be a target of Penguin?  Plus, it appears that "Tim Drake" was the name given to him by witness protection...  Maybe...  Even that wasn't made 100% clear, especially since everybody was calling him "Tim" prior to the whole mess with witness protection.  All of that was glossed over.  The way Tim ended up being adopted by Bruce in the pre-New 52 DCU made a lot more sense than the way he ended up with Bruce here...  If he did...  Eh.  I guess I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.  Things could have been SO much worse(as we saw in Red Hood and the Outlaws #0).  It's funny how low I've set my standards for anything written by Scott Lobdell nowadays...  So I'll say this was an okay comic and move on.

Score: 6 1/2 out of 10.

So Tim's first Robin costume was the Superboy RIP one...  And why are they on the cover of a newspaper?!

Amazing Spider-Man #694

Hola comic readers, JT here with the first review of the new comic week, and who better to start things off than the biggest name in Marvel Comics? One hell of a hero that I hope is in the next Avengers movie... that's right, I'm talking about Alpha! And I guess his sidekick Spider-Man as well. In the last issue, Spidey decided he was going to stop Alpha, will he succeed? Let's find out right now.

Amazing Spider-Man #694

Summary: We start this issue with Alpha skipping his weekly check in with Peter Parker a Horizon labs to go to a appearance in Tokyo. We find out that Peter has been in his lab for days trying to come up with a way to cure Alpha because he's too dangerous, and that Pete hasn't gone out as Spidey or helped the FF or Avengers in a few days. He's even missed seeing off Aunt May, as we see her and Jay Jameson boarding his private jet. Seems like they could've waited since it's his private jet... but whatever. Peter decides to try to rush to see Aunt May off and dresses as Spidey so he can web-sling through town, when he runs into the Avengers, who need his help taking on the giant villain Terminus. Captain America tells Spidey to call in Alpha, as they need a big gun, but Spidey says he doesn't think it's a good idea. Cap persists so Spidey calls Alpha who jumps at the chance and flies from Tokyo to Manhattan in seconds, and attacks Terminus. Spidey is shocked because Alpha's only limitation was that he could only use one power at time, yet now he's used Super-Speed and Flight, showing he now has no limitations. Terminus deflects Alpha's blast and it causes every aircraft within a ten mile radius to shut down. Spidey has Captain Marvel sling him towards Jay's Jet as the rest of the Avengers head off to save the falling planes. Spidey enters the jet and tries to help Jay and May land the plane but the landing gear is stuck, so Spidey manually pushes it out with his feet as they land. After the rough landing, J. Jonah Jameson arrives on the scene and surprisingly thanks Spider-Man for saving his father and his mother-in-law. Back with Terminus, the Avengers defeated Terminus and Alpha fled the scene. The Avengers try to figure out what to do with Terminus and his energy lance but Spidey asks for the chance to study it, and maybe he can cure Alpha. Next we see Spidey calling Alpha to Horizon labs and he has him step into the chamber that Peter uses to check Alpha's power levels. Spidey turns it on and notes that he figured out a way to de-power Alpha, because yesterday was a test and Alpha failed miserably. Alpha begins to cry as Spidey explains his days as Alpha are in the past, and he's to go back to living with his parents and going to school. He'll be teased and laughed at but eventually everyone will forget, but he'll know and Spidey will know that a little bit of power is still in him and always growing, and maybe someday they'll try it again, but with a mask, and not as Alpha, because that's over. Afterwards, Peter visits Aunt May in the hospital and learns that because her leg was injured in the landing, she'll have to use a cane to walk for the rest of her life. Peter convinces Aunt May to move back to New York, to which Jay agrees, and just like that, Jay and May are back. The issue comes to a close as we see Kingston arriving back in New York as well, and he goes to a shipping container and picks up a bag, pulling out his Hobgoblin mask and stating that "he's home."


Thoughts: Dan Slott is great, first things first, Alpha has become a hell of a character after only a Month. And the little things that make this issue even cooler, like the "1 Month of Alpha" label in the corner, like it's a milestone that should be celebrated is awesome. This issue was great because Spidey had to stop Alpha, he was getting way to powerful, and the way he was stopped means he can always come back in the future, and he's a good enough character that he should be brought back somewhere down the line. I don't care much for May returning, she seems to get in the way a lot, but other than that I really enjoyed this issue. Seeing Jameson thank Spidey was surprising but awesome, and seeing how heart-broken Alpha was to lose his powers was great in reminding you that although he comes off as an ass, he was still just a kid. Now with the Hobgoblin storyline coming up as we get closer to issue 700, to say I'm excited is an understatement.

Score: 9/10 

Alpha's Answering Machine: If this is a girl, leave your measurements.

New Comic Day! September 26th Edition.

Hey guys and gals, it's that time once again for New Comic Day! JT here, and since I'm kicking things off with the first review of the week, I figured I'd start off by letting you guys know what I'm picking up. For this week's comics, I'm grabbing Aquaman #0, Invincible #95, Amazing Spider-Man #694, Captain Marvel 4 and Deadpool #61. The JT review days are Thursdsay, Saturday and Tuesday and you can expect yours truly to review Amazing Spider-Man #694, Invincible #95 and Deadpool #61. And with my small haul of comics taken care of, let's see what my buddy X has planned to review this week. Tell em, X-Mayne.

5 books, JT?!  For shame!  Unlike that loser, JT, Ol' X ended up with a few more comics this week...  And when I say a few, I actually mean A LOT!!!  Here's what I snagged...  American Vampire #31, I, Vampire #0, Justice League Dark #0, National Comics: Rose and Thorn #1, Teen Titans #0, Voodoo #0, Invincible #95, Amazing Spider-Man #694, Captain America and Black Widow #637, Deadpool #61, Invincible Iron Man #525, Journey Into Mystery #644, Secret Avengers #31, Space Punisher #3, Ultimates #16, Winter Soldier #11, Wolverine #313 & X-Men Legacy #274...  Yes X-Maniacs, I picked up 18 comics this week...  Since that snake JT took two of the books I was really looking forward to reading(Spidey and Deadpool!), I'm stuck reviewing Ultimates #16, Winter Soldier #11, and yes, Teen Titans #0...  Which should be terrible.  There ya go, until later, X out.

Spider-Men #5

Hey guys, JT here with the last review of this comic week. After a super-mega-boffo-huge post that X made, obviously compensating for something... but I, your humble blogger, will present to you a modest review of the final issue of Spider-Men. How will things end for the partnership of Peter Parker and Miles Morales? Let's find out!

Spider-Men #5 of 5

Summary: This issue gets things underway with Mysterio getting ready to move on and leave Spider-Man suck in the Ultimate Universe, but he can't resist popping in to see Spidey one last time, which of course backfires. He opens the portal and is webbed through it by Spidey, and arrives in the Ultimate Universe, face to face with Spidey, Ultimate Spidey, Hawkeye, Thor, Iron Man, Nick Fury, and a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Spidey prepares to go through the portal and back to his own Universe when Mysterio puts his final plan into action, by using some kinda scarecrow-like gas to make each of the heroes see their fears. Spidey talks the guys through it since he's used to Mysterio's special effects, and Miles snaps out of it in time to see Mysterio trying to escape. Miles tackles Mysterio through the portal and he and Mysterio end up back in the 616 Universe. Miles is in awe and Mysterio tries to take advantage and attack him, but Miles counters his attack and kicks Mysterio back through the portal, as he follows, back to the Ultimate Universe. The Spider-Men dish out some vengeance to Mysterio and he's then arrested by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Spider-Man asks if they're gonna keep Mysterio in the Ultimate Universe and Fury says its for the best, since he knows Peter Parker's secret identity, and that can do much more damage in Pete's universe than Miles'. Before he finally heads back home, Peter gives Miles his blessing, as well as a bunch of advice, including to never get cloned, keep Doctor Octopus from marrying his Aunt May, leave crime scenes ASAP or they make you clean up, and the most important advice, which Spidey doesn't get to say because the portal teleports him back to his Universe. Fury tells Miles that he earned Peter's blessing, now he has to keep earning it. The issue comes to a close as Peter, back at home, decides to look up Miles Morales in his world. He finds his answer, that we of course don't see, as Peter says "Oh my God."

Thoughts: This was a kinda odd comic. I like to imagine they were waiting for days before Mysterio just happened to open that portal and get webbed through it. This mini series was okay, I expected more but it could've definitely been worse. I'm going to be very disappointed if we don't find out anything about the 616 Miles Morales, and it better be big the way Peter reacted. Also, I'm kinda peeved we didn't get to see what Pete's "most important" advice was, that seemed like a cop out, especially when he gave him lesser advice like loaning Wolverine money... All in all, this wasn't a bad issue, but it was far from great, I'd say it was average.

Score: 6/10 

Iron Man: And I would give the opposite advice on almost every subject by the way, if anyone cares.

The Best of the Rest! September 19th edition.

So this was supposed to be the spot I posted my third and final review of the week, with JT closing out the comic week tomorrow with his third review.  But you see, I ended up posting my first review on Wednesday and throwing the whole schedule out of whack(cue JT saying something negative about me...).  Since I've already posted my three reviews for the week, and don't want to leave an empty day(I won't be the first one to do that, JT will!), how's about I cobble together a quick post about ALL of the comics I read this week!  Yeah, that'll work!  Since I didn't really read most of these books with the idea of reviewing them in mind, I don't have any number scores for them...  Instead, I'll use the good old thumbs up/thumbs in the middle/thumbs down system.  What the HELL is that, you ask?  Thumbs up means a comic scored somewhere in the 8 to 10 range, in other words, a good comic.  Thumbs in the middle would be around 5 to 7 1/2, or an okay to meh comic.  Thumbs down?  You guessed it, a comic that falls in the sub-5 range, you know, a bad comic.  I don't really know why I felt the need to explain that...  Oh no, I'm in one of those moods where I can't stop writing!  I'd better get to the meat of this post lest this intro goes on forever!!!

Let's see, we'll get started with Red Hood and the Outlaws #0...  JT pretty much summed up my feelings for this one with his review, so I really don't have all that much to say here...  I will say this though...  If not for the idiotic Joker reveal, I probably would have given this comic a thumbs in the middle.  As it is, it gets a thumbs down and likes it.

Avengers #30 was your basic Bendis/Avengers comic book.  Spider-Woman and Hawkeye discussed their relationship while fighting Mr. Negative's goons...  It was as exciting as it sounds.  Honestly, I wasn't sure what the hell Bendis was going for here, since Hawkeye hadn't actually done anything to wrong Spider-Woman...  Basically she was pissed that Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch MAY have unresolved feelings for each other...  Yeah..  If you like bad soap opera-esque comic books then THIS is the comic book for you!  For me, it was a thumbs in the middle, mainly because it(kind of) focused on Hawkeye, no matter how thin the story was.

Ah, finally a good one!  Daredevil #18 was probably the best comic I've read this week...  No, scratch that, it WAS the best comic I read this week, and if I was giving out scores this one would very likely get a perfect score.  Seriously, this issue was fantastic.  Mark Waid is(unsurprisingly) crafting a wonderful story here, as this issue actually makes the reader doubt DD's sanity.  The entire series has been seemingly building towards this storyline, and I have to say, this issue would be a great jumping on point for new readers...  Just sayin'...  Oh yeah, thumbs WAY up.

Next up is Dark Avengers #181.  All I can really say about this comic is that it happened...  I think I've reached the point now where I just want the Bad Bolts to return to the present and the Dark Avengers/Thunderbolts/whatever they're called to finish their mission.  Thumbs in the middle.

Rolling along it's Mighty Thor #20!  I don't know why I added an exclamation point to that, nor why I'm thinking out loud, but let's go with it...  This was another really good issue in the Everything Burns storyline(I really love that title, btw).  Asgardia is still being hammered by Surtur's forces and Thor is still down and out. However, there was a slight glimmer of hope for us Kid Loki fans, as this issue kind of makes you wonder if Loki betrayed Thor, as it seemed in the prior part of this storyline, or if Loki is actually planning on saving his brother.  I'll go thumbs up for this issue and fingers crossed on Kid Loki not going full blown villain.

New Mutants #49 had Nate Grey in it...  That's pretty much the only positive thing I can say about it...  Well, that and the fact that this issue ended the whole Evil Doug Ramsay from the future story.  I've never cared for Doug no matter how much Marvel tries to show he's more than a guy with sucky powers.  This story did nothing to change my opinion of Doug.  Thumbs down...  Sorry Nate...

Ultimates #15 was a comic I seriously considered giving a full review to, mainly due to the fact that it was getting mainstream press attention.  But as you can see, I decided against that course of action...  So yeah, anyway, this comic.  I have to admit that I enjoyed this one.  I've been enjoying the direction the Ultimate Marvel U has been going for a while now, and this was no exception.  This issue, especially in the way it was told, kind of perfectly led to the whole, "Captain America is the president now!" thing.  It didn't seem forced or anything, which was something I was afraid of.  And I can actually see Cap, especially the Ultimate version, ESPECIALLY considering the way things have been going in the Ultimate U, deciding to become the president.  It'll be very interesting to see how this experiment works out going forward.  For this issue though?  Thumbs up.

Oh god...  Not THIS comic...  Ugh, it's Venom #25...  I'm actually surprised, horrified and yes, a bit impressed at how quickly Cullen Bunn took this series from a book I always look forward to reading, to something I barely want to open...  Why would you want to add a supernatural element to this series?!  Who sat there and thought, "You know what this series is missing?  DEMONS!!!"  This is kind of like the mess that Scott Lobdell made out of Red Hood and the Outlaws, in that you take the lead character and put them in a situation that makes no sense...  I don't get why Daimon Hellstrom was used in this mess, I don't get why a battle between the Hell Lords is taking place in this series, I don't get any of it!  Hopefully things straighten out with the upcoming Minimum Carnage storyline...  Thumbs down.

And finally we arrive at X-Factor #244.  This was, as usual, a good, solid issue of this series.  It wasn't as good as some of the prior issues, but it was solid.  I will say this though...  I'm very curious to see where Peter David is going with this story...  He's really breaking the team apart here, it'll be interesting to see how things shake out and who's left standing.  Thumbs in the middle.

Sweet, I'm done!  That means I can go back to playing Borderlands 2!  Huzzah for me!  Until... Um, whenever the hell my next post is supposed to be, X out!