This Week in the Multiverse, #15
7:23PM ON
01/12/2008
BY
Will Emmons
So, I wanna start this week’s column with a musical interlude. I’ve been driving around Kentucky in my mom’s car that has a broken CD player, so I’ve been listening to a lot of Top 40. My attention was drawn immediately to Baby Bash and T-Pain’s song “Cyclone.” To the civilian’s ear this song (dig the YouTube video below) would seem about a sexy lady who dances very well in a tornado-like fashion. The civilian would be wrong. The the true believer is able to recognize that this song is actually about one of DC Comics’ newest superheroes: Harvard freshman Maxine Hunkel, the “teen-aged wind witch” who fights the good fight along her comrades in the Justice Society of America as Cyclone.
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=veYbj2zypaM]
You see, the lyric “Going hard when they turn the spotlights on” is not actually about a lady who shakes at the club. Rather, as a theater major, Maxine has to contend with stage lights a lot and she doesn’t back down (except when she’s nervous about meeting the Superman of an alternate Earth). The song mentions that she has her own entourage, this of course in reference to the Justice Society. And anyone who would doubt that she could make someone want to do it all night long should just look at the lovely portrait of her by Alex Ross below the cut.
Other than this revelation that occured to me in the car this week, comics plugged along as always. Countdown continues to do just that. And we got another awesome issue of Green Lantern Corps by Peter Tomasi in which the alien villain Mongul (something vaguely racist about a big yellow alien conqueror named Mongul…) and Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner have decided to open up a bar on Oa. Good times.
Also this week, Keith Giffen put the 52 Aftermath: Four Horsemen miniseries to bed. It was fun and funny at points, but something tells me next time I’m selling a big stack of comics to a used book store this series is going to be in the pile. For such a critically acclaimed author, I remain unimpressed with Keith Giffen. I would imagine that the stuff he does for Marvel and Wildstorm is more captivating. Although, you can’t knock the guy for having a panel where Batman slapped late 50’s/early 60’s JLA mascot Snapper Carr.
Anyway, I’ll catch you all next week when I’ll gush on the Flash and Robin. Peace.
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