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52 Week Fourteen

By Hervé St-Louis
August 20, 2006 - 21:47

Steel has remorse over his niece going with Lex Luthor, while former detective Renée Montoya and the Question are heading to Kahndaq to investigate the proliferation of crime from Intergang in Gotham. However, the couple is framed for a brutal series of murder they did not commit. Can they make it out alive?

I had not realized it until I read this issue, but Black Adam and Isis are the direct opposite of Renée Montoya and the Question. Each of them represents the flip coin of DC Comics’ very structure. On one side, we have the powerful godlike heroes, an odd couple showing incredible feats of power over small humans and trying to right wrongs by changing the course of rivers.

On the other side, the Question and Renée Montoya are investigating crime out of their own personal bank account and using their knuckles to move ahead in their investigations. They can be captured and killed at any moment and it’s by using their skills and team work that they will perhaps get out alive.

In a world without Superman, Black Adam is Superman and The Question is Batman. The weekly nature of 52 doesn’t encourage one to see these things right away, unless one has time to philosophy about such things. As many, I’d rather do something else. Yet putting these characters on a collision course is a great read. Isis and Black Adam are twisted Wonder Woman and Superman. Isis has the Wonder Woman part down perfectly. It’s Black Adam who is the real problem.

As for Montoya and the Question, usually, the guy gets the girl. Yet, it’s quite implicit that this great team will not end up in a long lasting loving relationship, as is usual. I like it already. If that’s what the DC Universe is without its icons, than let there be no icons.

All I’ll say is that I love how Eaglesham makes Doctor magnus, the inventor of the Metal Men look like a character straight out of the 1950s. Everyone else looks modern but him. It takes a good artist to have enough flair to present characters like this. It works for me. Of course, with strong layouts provided by Keith Giffen, everything else is a pleasure for the eyes.

8/10

Past review:

52 Week Thirteen

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