LINK: Sent Forth from the Power

It usually takes me a few issues after I drop something from my pull list to lose the phantom limb feeling whenever I’m picking up my weekly stash, but in the case of 52, I miss it about as much as I miss Mo Vaughn playing for the Mets. I am still enjoying Douglas Wolk’s weekly dissection of the increasingly convoluted storyline, though, and this week’s entry was particularly good, in that same way I enjoy seeing an “0-4; 3 Ks” stat line for Alex Rodriguez.

Wolk breaks down Grant Morrison’s Great Ten, exposing the lazy research that apparently went into conceiving them and spotlighting a great comment from an earlier entry that ripped it apart. The best line:

Is it too much to ask DC to do their homework when writing about other cultures? To talk to the Chinese-American intern in Accounting, who could maybe call her grandpa and ask real quick?

Sha-clack-clack!

At least Devin Grayson’s handling Batwoman, so there’s a slim chance the character won’t end up being as embarassing, assuming of course that Greg Rucka doesn’t screw up her impending 52 debut in a few weeks, which, in context, is arguably a sucker’s bet.

As for the rest of the issue, Wolk’s page-by-page notes made me a little dizzy and confirmed that 52 is really only for the diehard DCU fan. Check out Fossen’s latest 52 on 52 for a screenshot featuring Booster Gold and a couple of chalkboards headlined “Time is Broken” if you don’t believe me.

Something‘s broken all right…

About Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez works in publishing by day, world domination by night. Over the years he’s lived in Staten Island and South Beach Miami; served in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, US Army, and Dennis Kucinich’s ‘04 Presidential Campaign; won poetry slams, founded a reading series, co-authored a book of poetry, and self-published another; prefers Pumpkin and India Pale Ales, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses Bourbons, and Dona Paula Shiraz Malbec. He’s a devout Mets fan from the Bronx now living in New Jersey, and has a beautiful wife and two amazing kids.

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