A bunch of the initial pages of this issue are filled with Katana and Starling trying to kill Poison Ivy. You know, because Poison Ivy is a whacko Arkham Asylum loony nutjob terrorist murderer. But if she can help the team, Black Canary is willing to overlook those faults! And all it takes for the others to go from trying to kill her to welcoming her on the team is for Poison Ivy to save their asses when the hostage they took mutters a rhyme and blows the hell up.
Both times someone has blown up by hearing a specific phrase, Black Canary's head began to ring. My guess is that when the stealth assassin kissed her in the first issue, he somehow transferred some sort of explosive stroke medicine virus into her brain. That's some kiss!
But before the hostage blew himself up, Poison Ivy was able to get him to blab the location of his safe house. The Birds head over and find some scraps of paper they think may hold the names of a couple of other people who have bombs in their heads. So they head out to try to save these people by knocking them unconscious so that they can't hear the trigger words. Except how, you know, people can still hear things while they're asleep or unconscious. I don't think it would work.
Um, I also don't think the stroke medicine brain bomb would work either! But I'm willing to accept that as a plot device. I'm just not so willing to accept bad solutions to the plot device!
When I'm at work, I ma'am rude women all the time.
Ivy is tasked with stopping the train. Canary and Starling need to drug the brain bombers. And Katana is walking around on the roof of the train like a good ninja samurai whack-job.
But none of that matters because Dinah aborts the mission when she finds out what we already knew:
Whoops!
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