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Were you having a good day?
Did you find yourself going I’m so happy is there a way I could be sadder, I wish that
there was a cloud of doom making me feel wafting waves of sadness.
Well if so never Fear I’m Sasha I’ve got you covered we’re going to look at Dceased
issue 3 by Tom Taylor.
Also of course spoilers!
If you’re sometimes in the mood for something heavy hit that like button.
So for those who missed our reviews of issues one and two, firstly how dare you, I’m joking
the links are down below or you can click the card but if you’re too busy for that
tick tock I have cliffnotes for you.
This is DC’s attempt at a Marvel zombieverse essentially.
This is a horror mini event though it is started to have some spin offs cause it’s doing
well people like it and they especially like the covers look it up and you’re more than
likely to find an article about the covers either mains or variants before anything else.
So Darkseid started the zombie apocalypse via technorganic virus when he tried to use
cyborg to fuse with his half the anit life equation to complete it went wrong.
Cyborg ended up back on earth where the virus was spread vis phones and screens leading
the remaining heroes to the conclusion that they had to shut down the whole internet cause
it’s turning us all into zombies.
I added that last part but it’s hanging over the whole thing come on I’m not imagining
this.
We’ve already lost some big players of note Aquman, and Batman which I actually appreciate
take that mr contingency.
Sorry just sometimes the amount of things they have bruce be prepared for is ridiculous.
I knew that you might one day trip on that step so I had bandaids hidden in this secret
compartment on the stair beside where you landed.
I’m Batman!
So I hope you at least mildly chucked at that cause now it’s time for the sad firstly
this cover is clickbait look at all that ok batman on the cover.
They want their cake and to eat it too kill him off but not let the casual fan who may
just be stumbling upon this book and deciding to buy all 3 at once sneaky sneaky.
We open on Alfred starring down at the bodies of his family bruce, dick and time all dead
Bruce by his own hand I’m sorry I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.
How’s your happy cause I could cry.
This issue is very dramatic narration heavy talking about how there was no time to grieve
only time to act.
We then cut to Harley killing the Joker and being thrilled about it after a brief panel
that makes it look like she might be sad but with how she’s been depicted for years now
her being sad would have subverted expectations not the other way around.
And both would be valid reactions and have merit Harley has been depicted a few ways
and they all have something to say including the earliest ones which were far more nuanced
than people give them credit for some like to dismiss them and say there was nothing
empowering about them at all, but well there was there some intriguing not oft had discussions
happening there but that’s a discussion for another day.
Also she Harley here is all like Iby was right and back to Ivy so it kinda unintentionally
comes off like she’s just trading one obsession for another.
Harley just needs to do things for her, and she actually does including being with the
joker, and dumping him which she did for the first time back in 2001 so Tom Taylor’s
about 18 years late.
But we’re not here for nuance we’re here for zombies and cathartic revenge fantasies
for those who find those kind of things cathartic so yippie kay yey mr j.
I have to face my monster.
And then the birds of prey show up I guess were bird hunting and she has no remorse about
this cause harley most time with or without mr j leans villainous leaving him doesn’t
turn her good.
So get ready to get shot birds of prey although in the zombie apocalypse she probably has
the right attitude open season.
So you may have pepped up you saw harley, she’s always good for some fun even in the
midst of the zombie apocalypse well don’t worry cause damien’s here to bring you right
back down.
He’s justifiably sad cause his dad is dead.
But as the narration boxes said there’s no time for grief.
Clark has to clear out the daily planet building to turn it into a sanctuary and safe zone
which includes clearing out a lot of his and lois’s friends and colleagues.
He leaves the former black canary now green lantern along with ollie to guard the building
and there’s a really sad moment where he promises jon he’ll come back while damien
just watches.
Meanwhile in Atlantis Aquaman is moving towards the core and he’s been turning people along
the way and also killing so the virus is spreading through the blood infecting the water becoming
inescapable and that;s horrifying to me it was so much more visceral than phones or the
interwebs which is too tainted with flashbacks of teachers lecturing us about how tech was
going to rot our brains go to the library read a book.
Even though if a virus was spreading that way it would be actually scary.
But just seeing the water blacken like that it just wafting towards you.
Ick city.
Mera flees Garth isn’t so lucky.
Meanwhile superman is making his way to smallville but keeps stopping to help where he can which
means he manages to save black lightning and his family from an infected clayface sending
them on to the daily planet while he finally gets to smallville but he’s too late his
father was infected.
It’s always jon you notice that, dying of a heart attack before clark can get there,
getting murdered, not letting himself be saved from a tornado he could easily have been rescued
from for reasons.
So this next sequence is heartbreaking and told with littler dialogue this whole issue
is very image centric and cuts way down on dialogue and narration.
But when they come back they really work Superman had somewhere to be he was faster than a speeding
bullet but he was too late.
Clark killing his own father with heatvision through the door down to where his ship used
to be kept my heart.
It’s so sad, and it means something like superman killing should a death from a character
who normally doesn’t kill has to have weight and reason to work and this one does.
The issue ends with Clark leaving with his mom.
Also that means that jonathan kent had like a secret smart phone I need to think of the
image of jonathan kent sitting on a tractor playing farmville to cheer myself up cause
man that was depressing and it was great.
I really liked issue 3 it made you feel things or at least it made me feel things you had
solid set pieces and exchanges between characters with relationships with each other alfred
and the family, harley and joker, clark and his family.
The stakes rose, the art was solid, and there were still character moments this one felt
tragic it felt like the world was ending, for me in this issue for the first time I
fully bought it outside of it’s ohmygerd zombies appeal.
It’s not perfect it still gets a bit stuck up it’s own melodrama at times but it earns
it a lot more this issue.
So sad.
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Sasha thanks so much for watching and I’ll see you again soon here on Casually Comics.