The Secret Six launch into their newest tale “The Darkest House,” with issue number 31, titled “In Every Dream a Nightmare.” This issue features a nice mix of amusement, drama, and “ewwww,” which is a mix Gail does well with.
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Continuing the crossover with the Secret Six, Suicide Roulette part two is called “Ring-A-Ding Doom,” somehow fitting for Doom Patrol 19.
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Red Robin #20 has guest stars galore, befitting the beginning of a cross-over with the Teen Titans. After recapping his last several, very busy, issues, Tim Drake runs off to respond to an alarm in the room of Lonnie Machin, formerly known as Anarky. Drake had recently crossed paths with a Russian gangster called Viktor Mikalek, and seeking revenge, Mikalek has hired someone to come after Drake and company. As he’s changing into his costume, Tim reflects that short of Doomsday and the Anti-Monitor, there aren’t many he’d less rather fight than Catman, of Secret Six fame.
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One of the things I really like about Gail Simone is her sense of humor. She doesn’t just go for cheap laughs, or stretch a situation to create a joke, she keeps her players in character, and manages to create something that is just incredibly funny, if usually coupled with either a sense of things being uncomfortable or something along the lines of “Eeewwwww.” She does the fish out of water type scene quite well, as I’ll get to in a bit.
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“What Luthor Has Wrought” continues from the Action Comics crossover earlier this month, as the Six, Luthor, and Vandal Savage deal with a remote detonator for a very large explosive device, which is supposed to be able to level the vast Luthorcorp building, and likely kill everyone inside. Ragdoll makes a disturbing (what else?) angel on the first page, convinced that they all died in the blast. There’s a great deal of bickering among all involved about what to do since the detonator landed face down, the button partially depressed, and no one is sure what may set it off. There is more talk about some prophecy that indicates Luthor would do something to make Vandal feel “unbridled joy,” which I believe is tied to the Action Comics back story.
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Action Comics hasn’t been a Superman book for a little while now. It’s had Lex Luthor dealing with various villains throughout the DCU. I’m sure there’s more going on, but I haven’t really been getting it aside from when they feature someone I’m interested in, which they did this month with Gail Simone’s creation, the Secret Six.
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“The Reptile Brain” story arc continues with part three “Masked and Masked Again” in Secret Six 27. The two different Six teams clash, and Giganta learns why when Tremor says “Let go” you should.
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The anticipated clash between the two different groups in Secret Six is set in motion here, albeit indirectly. Secret Six 25, “The Reptile Brain: Blood Calls to Blood Part One,”is an enjoyable read literally from the front cover forward.
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