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2014. április 23., szerda

Joker: Last Laugh 02 - Siege Mentality


Return to the main story. We left it that the prison rebellion was successful, but they have not been able to break out of the Slab, but the all super evil is Jokerized. Black Canary has penetrated into the Slab, Blue Beetle covers her from the outside and Batman has appeared at the scene. Oracle and Nightwing have only recently learned of the developments. Shilo and Dina are trying to get out of the Slab.

Nightwing immediately starts off to the Slab, while Oracle looks back the events in the monitor room and informs Nightwing about the developments: namely that Black Canary is in big trouble. Shilo and Dina are trying to get out through the undersea tunnel. Meanwhile, they run into the man-eaters of the marine department, Orca and King Shark. (You can see now Slig escape.)


Meanwhile, Joker and the others prepare to do something by Black Mass. However, Nightwing already has intruded and suddenly finds himself face to smashed members of the Justice League.


The dying Wonder Woman whispers in his ear that everyone is dead, and no other handled them as Bat-Mite.

But a few things are fishy to Nightwing: first of all Bat-Mite himself, then Aquman's old costume, and the Green Lantern wears his ring on the other hand. Wonder Woman answers these observations with a passionate kiss. Then Batman appears and knocks out her. It turns out that she is not Wonder Woman but Lady Spellbinder (she is jokerized of course, that is obviously why she has came forward with the idiot Bat-Mite), and it was all a figment of the imagination. Except black canary, who has been beaten really well, but before passing out she can falter out that Joker prepares some terrible thing. Batman gets his shoulder Spellbinder, Nightwing does the some with canary and they run out.
Meanwhile, Joker opens a (dimension?) gateway by Warp. The whole thing is not over-explained, the creators devote just a few frames for it: it's a blast and the evils enter some yellow-looking thing (plasma? Cloud?).


This is Black Mass' time (otherwise, Joker has missed here poor mini Multi Man who was shriveled in the previous issue and now fights with a spider). The alarm clock goes off, he claps his hands, and the whole SLAB be falling into a black hole or something by his special ability (which is still not quite clear to me).


Batman's team gets out in time and they can escape by Blue Beetle's Bug while Canary informs the others of the details: Joker's brain tumor. However Dina and Shilo get stuck in the Slab.
Oh yes, Joker revived the bizarre monster, Chemo, but it does not look as if it would be any significance in terms of the story. Maybe they just had to fill two pages somehow.
Chuck Dixon's story continues to be quite complex, in addition he does all that the important things look like insignificant to force constant rereading to the readers even from later booklets as well. For example, I knew two issues away that Joker had left the slab before Black Mass's action. Well, so it's not very nice of him. So the whole is confused but imaginative. The Shilo-Dina thread by Scott Beatty looks less unnecessary than last time. The drawer is new, Marcos Martin, but I did not notice it. His draws are like Pete Woods, maybe his shapes are just a little bit more angular, and he feels considerable affection towards the big heads.
Service Notice: Members of the Justice League members are not labeled, because they were just visions anyway, and there was even some marginal figure: Copperhead and Sonar; and they were also not labeled.
The original Hungarian blog post is here.

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