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wherever our whims take us Dceased we’ve come to the end of the main dceased storyline
it’s issue 6.
And it;’s time it’s all been building to this are you ready.
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I’m Sasha and let’s do this.
Cliffnotes revision the zombie apocalypse is spreading started when Darkseid tried to
use Cyborg to complete the anti life equation heroes have fallen Lex and yborg crafetd arks
for the remains of humanity to escape.
Superman has becomes infected and he’s returning to Earth.
Issue 6 Go.
This cover has nothing to do with anything.
It just looks cool it’s kind of an homage to Michonne and the walking dead and you know
her walkers on leashes but really it’s so they can lure you in with a gotham city sirens
esque cover with harley ivy and catwoman.
The opening dramatic narration for this one is fantastic.
Faster than a speeding bullet more powerful than a locomotive able to ,leap tall buildings
in a single bound.
But clark had a much greater power every person who saw him was filled with Hope look up in
the sky.
That’s such a powerful play on the classic Superman lore and his catchphrases coupled
with the perversion of what he represents to the people of Earth.
Well played issue 6 ending strong I see.
All hope was lost at 11:48 am it was a wednesday.
Damien is quick to point out that his father had contingency plans in place to take down
superman.
And now is the time to use them who’s paranoid now.
In a bit of humour that works Green Arrow is annoyed that Batman didn’t have a contingency
plan in place to stop him.
I could be a planetary threat if I wanted to.
Of course you could dear.
But wait some of you may be crying you big scrooge why do you like this joke but not
the others well this joke is directly tied to the events that our occurring while playing
with pre established canon and characters relationships.
So it’s in tone with the rest of the events.
That’s my hill and I like it up here.
Wonder woman reveals that she and Bruce were secretly perfect for each other and that wonderbat
is alive and well when she decides to modify Bruce’s plan saying it wasn't enough cause
it wasn’t lethal that bruce wouldn’t go that far.
You think Batman’s the only one with enough sense to plot against his friends?
Exactly is it paranoia if it keeps happening.
Diana knows what’s up.
So she makes a kryptonite magic sword to battle Clark with.
Meanwhile it’s time to start loading the arks while holding off superman.
Harley and Ivy stay behind cause Ivy refuses to leave the green and Harley won’t leave
without her cause well you know how she gets in relationships attached oh i’m sorry this
is ivy and not the joker if this was the joker this would be horrible and demonstrate co
dependence but this is ivy so it;s romantic.
Yes I know the relationships are different but still you know it’s true.
Why is love dead for me, what happened to me?
No human can have this much salt and survive.
You know what else is salty the sea and here is Aquaman looking amazing rising with a kraken
and a zombie hoard.
This panel is amazing all hail the king of the sea until Green Arrow snipes him with
an arrow.
Poor Arthur he tires so hard to be cool taken out by Green Arrow who uses it as a chance
to say F Batman cause Titans is his favourite show.
When green arrow is cooler than you it’s just all gone wrong hasn’t it.
But I mean his is on an island that’s his home turf.
The amazons face off against the atlanteans in an epic battle to the finish but it results
in them being left behind.
Meanwhile on the superman front Diana cuts his arm off with the sword but it;s not enough
he can’t be stopped and he infects her and heads for the arcs.
Cyborg opts to stay behind with her cause he feels he doesn’t deserve to leave with
them as he started this whole thing...so spider-man levels of misplaced guilt who does he think
he is getting kidnapped and experimented upon,,,I mean how noble I respect his sacrifice.
Jon can see his father coming and goes to confront him.
It’s ok mom I know what I have to do and he opens his jacket to reveal the superman
symbol.
Chills when I read this chills.
Clark would have been so proud of him, Jon can’t stop his father but it’s time for
surprise CAVALRY the green lantern corps!!
Like all of them which accurate this is the anti life equation we;’re talking about
it is a threat to all things.
Guy is also just completely uncaring that Hal is dead harsh just harsh all around.
The guardians are there to quarantine earth but first that means taking out Superman.
It couldn’t stand against the corps so it calculated another way to kill.
So possessed superman flies into the sun draining it of it’s energy.
And the panels of it well they’re cool very phoenixesque which I’ll never say not to.
So they’re like well I guess that’s that time to move on.
Galactic pilgrimage time.
Meanwhile Cyborg has lassoed wonder woman and is trying to talk to this zombie, blight
anti life equation entity concept thing.
Anyway it tells him that there is a cure.
The cure is in you.
You are man and machine you are binary off and on patient zero and the one the alpha
the omega.
But that means everyone we fought . everyone we ended they didn’t have to die.
Umm firstly no some people needed to go we were there we saw secondly come again what
how why no i’m going to need more than that.
This is just here so there can be extra despair cause then she beheads so oh no his am I a
man or a machine cure is lost seemingly.
How he’s not the only cyborg on you know what it’s fine.
Lois is waxing poetic holding Jon who’s fine he’s just got one of those strategic
I’m injured but not too injured slings on As we looked on our new world for the first
time Our new start our Earth 2.
Do you get it cause earth 2 was the name of the first every parallel earth way back in
1961
I knew the monsters were behind us now or were they dun dun dun.
So that was DCeased the main event.
It was pretty solid now as an experience reading it issue by issue will be different than reading
it all at once but it should work both ways.
In this issue by issue release each part had a pretty solid cliffhanger and were decently
self contained though some issues struggled a bit with pacing.
As a whole this will work better and feel more cohesive and the reveal of Lois as narrator
will make some of the pacing fit better in this context.
As whole how effective this will be will depend on your taste for these narratives this series
could vacillate between feeling extremely personal and then seconds later very aloof
and disconnected.
The art could be evocative and heartbreaking or very simplistic particularly in the faces
where sometimes some characters could look almost identical.
I’m glad I read it that’s for sure while simultaneously being afraid it’s going to
balloon into a monster like marvel zombies which is now 14 series in.
I know some people found this series daring bold and shocking like with killing batman
off early on but I dunno it never really felt that way to me.
It felt like zombies but with DC characters so that’s the hook.
But what did you guys think?
What was your favourite part your least favourite share down below!
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