Mister Terrific #8

Farewell, Mister Terrific! See you on Earth 2!

Donald, Michael Holt's rival and co-worker, has kidnapped Aleeka, Michael Holt's closest friend and assistant, and stormed Holt Industries in his mad-capped version of a corporate takeover! Luckily Aleeka was talking with Michael via hologram when Donald was breaking into her house. Donald still looks like a half-zombie, half-robot giant until he integrates with the circuitry of Holt Industries and completes his origin!

I guess a guy with the name "Mister Terrific" probably thinks a lot of names are pretty good. Although Mr. T did hate The Tomorrow Thief's name which showed some good sense.

I wonder how many pages this fight will last? Will this be the final issue of Mister Terrific? Just a great big brawl between Digitus and Mister T? I hope there is some other kind of shocking ending in store. Like Mister Terrific being transferred to Earth 2!

Digitus explains how his algorithms work in this panel as he throws Mister Terrific through a wall. And by the way Mr. T's legs are splayed, he looks seriously hurt!

And then promptly proves that they don't work very well in the next panel.

Digitus is yelling for the Holt Security Systems to help take out Mister Terrific. Once the security system begins firing on Mister Terrific, he's blasted by Digitus's blast ray. Finally! A blast ray is simply blasting something in this comic! And Mister Terrific wasn't able to use his fancy thinkin' to get out of it!

Meanwhile, on a base south of LA...

It's Commander Lincoln of the Blackhawks!

The Blackhawks leader, Lincoln, is after Mister Terrific. The Blackhawks is one of the other cancelled DC titles. I guess maybe they wanted to go down together. You can make your own jokes there.

That reminds me of this time I was hanging out with some friends. One of them was this guy Tony that my cousin Jennifer was dating. She eventually married him and had three children with him and then divorced him. But at the time, they were just dating. He was really into fishing and was thinking about getting a boat. So I told him he should call it the SS Jenny because then he'd know it would never go down. He didn't talk to me for the rest of the night. That was a pretty typical night in our friendship.

Back to the battle, Digitus turns Michael's T-balls against him so Michael has to self-destruct his own balls. Ouch. Also, some stupid vapid reporter has decided she's going to sneak into the middle of the fight so she can get the news story First and Live and Local. I hope she dies! And remember what happened the last time I hoped someone died!

Yeah, look into your future, reporter! You have been cursed by, um, THE CURSEMAN! Um, no. I better think about my name for a bit.

The battle with Digitus ends fairly quickly. Mister Terrific can't defeat it so he tricks it into trying to destroy Holt Industry's A.I. But that computer doesn't like being destroyed, so it responded by shutting down Digitus. Because Digitus was a part of it? Or created by it? Yeah, one of those. Immediately after that, The Blackhawks break in to continue the beat down on Mister Terrific!

Mister Terrific and Commander Lincoln don't end up fighting. They argue a little bit. Lincoln wants Mister Terrific to surrender his T-Technology but Mister Terrific can't let it fall into anybody's hands but his own because it's far too dangerous to be used irresponsibly. Lincoln threatens to arrest him. Mister Terrific threatens to fight back even though he's unarmed. And then the lousy reporter walks in to save the day! Although it really shouldn't save the day.

What the fuck, Lincoln? What part of COVERT don't you understand?! Now you're going to have to kill all of these reporters and all the people watching the live coverage at home. By the way, where the fuck did all of these reporters come from? I guess the woman in purple wasn't the only one with the idea to sneak into Holt Towers during the fight.

The Blackhawks back down although they never should have gotten themselves in this position. Lincoln treats speaking with a reporter as an every day occurrence. In the Blackhawks comic, it was a huge fuck up when one of their own had their picture leaked on the internet. Blackhawks were supposedly just rumor and speculation. Did they just decide to throw their hands in the air and give up the covert shit after that? No disinformation campaign? Just give it all up? Come on, DC. Get it together!

After all the fighting, Mister Terrific has some down time to look into all the break-ins on the company computer. He finds that someone downloaded his Quantum Tunneling Theory stuff and traces it back to the Starr Corporation. He doesn't know why Karen Starr (Power Girl!) needed it, but he intends to find out why by running a Quantum Tunneling experiment himself! He sets it up in his T-Sanctuary and pretty soon he's being sucked out of this comic and into Earth 2 where he really belongs because that's where the Justice Society is located! I think.

Well, if you're about to die in your stupid experiment, you're, technically, not going to find out the answer to anything.

Mister Terrific Issue #8 Rating: No change in the ranking. This issue was much better than the last two but it really only evens everything out. I wonder if Mister Terrific will still be the 3rd Smartest Man on Earth 2? And won't there already be a Mister Terrific over there since Michael Holt's son from Earth 2 visited him at one point in his past? The son that Michael would have had if his wife hadn't died in the car crash? Perhaps on Earth 2, Michael Holt died in a car crash while his wife and son survived. So now they'll all be reunited!