Grayson #10

Between scanning this cover and this caption, I reread a shit-ton of X-Statix and the final two Fables Trades. Reading without commenting is so much more relaxing!

Since Spyral has come under the auspicious leadership of Helena Bertinelli (unless her leadership is not auspicious at all and I should probably read the definitions of words before simply using them in ways that I've seen them used before), it has been revealed that somebody associated with Spyral missions has been murdering secret agents of other shadowy organizations. Everybody thinks it's Dick Grayson which means nobody really thinks it's Dick Grayson because it's so fucking obvious it's Dick Grayson that you would be the shittiest shadowy organization in the world to really believe that it was. But they don't like having their agents killed, so they've told Helena to rent a fucking Bobcat and dig up the root of the problem. Her first step to solving the problem was to tell Dick about the problem so Dick could solve it for her.

Helena suggested Agent One might be the problem so Dick knocked out Agent One and left him for the guards to capture. But Agent One is apparently the Tiger King of Kandahar so he can't be caught so easily. He beats up the guards and escapes. Nobody seems to care about the mystery guy with the goggles and the escrima sticks lying unconscious next to Agent Tiger King. That might be the real bad guy! The "Nemesis" guy from the title!

Meanwhile the Duchess is all pissed off at the gift of blue balls given to her by Dick Grayson.

Stupid comic book translated all of the Spanish for me. I could have done the job just as well!

Helena's scientific lackeys, Doctors Ashemore and Netz, have been going over a bunch of data which makes Dick a more likely culprit of the murders than Agent One. So Helena decides to consult her freaky screen saver with the Cirque du Spyder triplets who can only speak in analogies about species of spiders. They tell her maybe she should bait a trap to catch the killer. Didn't that almost get done at the Prado? Is nobody going to talk about the guy with the escrima sticks?! The Duchess will have him arrested and interrogated, right? Someone?

While Helena cuts bait with Agent One, Dick Grayson runs into an old friend in Corsica.

Damn, Dick. What did Kite-man ever do to you? You don't have to question Kite-man's heroic integrity simply because you're pissed off at Lex Luthor. Oh wait. Kite-man is supposed to be the "scary villain" and not the "someone who has never met a scary villain." Never mind.

Dick not only learns that Lex Luthor paid for the mission to gain the Kryptonite and/or Kryptonian Vibrating Sunstone, he's also financed much of Spyral's technology. Some of that technology enables another person to take control of Dick's body through the Spyral implants which sounds super great for the leaders of Spyral until somebody hacks into that system and controls all of their agents at which time it's super not great for the leaders of Spyral at all.

Dick decides he's not going to give Lex Luthor anything that might help Lex destroy Superman. He also decides he'd better cut Helena out of his life for a bit while he figures out what the hell is going on with his implants. So his next move is to have a pow-wow with Agent One. Is "pow-wow" an insensitive term? Should I not have used it? Enh, who cares?! I'm not popular enough to be a target of destruction by angry word police! Although I should be planning for the future for when I am that popular! People will sift through everything I've ever written on the internet and tear me apart! I wonder if I should blow up the servers that contain the No Apologies! Press website?!

As Dick is heading to Rome to find Tiger, Tiger is attacked by Dick. I think something weird is going on! I bet the fact that Attacking Tiger Dick is wearing gloves is a clue! Also I said "Attacking Tiger Dick."

Grayson #10 Rating: No change. Can the next issue just be out already so I know what's going on?! While I wait for that issue, can somebody direct me to the issue of Superman or Action Comics which explains Lex Luthor's fascination with purple and green? I want to read that story.