OMAC #3

Mind prepared to be blown!

According to the cover, OMAC is going to be fighting The Shrimp Faced Man. He is on his way to Louisiana, so that makes sense! But also according to the cover after I learned to read a little more, he's actually called The Psi-Fi Man! Get it?!

This month's adventure is called:

These titles sound like games from the television show, Banzai!

Kevin finds himself in Shreveport without any money. So Brother Eye talks to him from an ATM machine and begins spitting out money. Brother Eye also put Kevin on the FBI's most wanted list so that he'd be arrested and thrown in a prison where the Psi-Fi Kid is running everything! That Brother Eye is just a manipulative jerk. And everything always works out exactly how he planned it! So he's a smart ass as well.

Fasten your helmet belts!

This is the Psi-Fi Man. He can sense Brother Eye and he knows about OMAC. He may want to do to Brother Eye what Brother Eye wants to do to him: absorb his power and information into his super mind. Brother Eye senses it too and cuts his conversation with Maxwell Lord short so he can concentrate on the battle against Psi-Fi Man.

Meanwhile, Maxwell Lord has traced Brother Eye's transmission to his satellite. Lord sends a team of elite Checkmate agents to destroy the satellite. The agents are Sarge Steel, Little Knipper, and Maribel. Ooh! Sounds so threatening!

Try and guess who's who! Hint: Little Knipper is neither an ironic nor a racist nickname.

Oops! Correction. Apparently Maxwell Lord gave his team coordinates to the prison where OMAC just transformed. I guess that makes more sense than sending them into orbit without any spacesuits. Although their 'ambient tech' could probably have transformed into spacesuits. Checkmate's 'Ambient Tech' really just looks like Green Lantern's power ring. They can make weapons and things from their thoughts alone. Too bad the Oans didn't get a patent on the technology. Dumb dumbs!

And then a whole bunch of action takes place that isn't mind blowing at all! The cover lied in puns! What does happen is Psi-Fi Man takes a back seat to the Checkmate and doesn't appear again until the end of the issue where the reader learns he escaped during the melee. Checkmate gets OMAC on the ropes and Brother Eye berates him the way your coach who is also your father berates you on the baseball field.

OMAC should just hold on to the ball when the next kid bunts it to him and let everyone score. Then walk off the field to his mommy. That'll show Brother Eye!

This whole situation pisses OMAC off and he yells, "SHUT UP!" while smashing everything. I'm pretty sure he wanted to yell, "OMAC SMASH!" but the lawyers wouldn't let him. After that, OMAC heads home.

That is probably just the right amount of things to be said.

OMAC #2

The video for Teardrop is probably what Pro-Lifers think is really going on in the womb. At all stages. Forever.

It turns out OMAC no longer stands for One Man Army Corps. Probably because DC already had Men of War and who needs another military book, amirite? Unless Blackhawks counts. And speaking of Men of War (although I should save this for the Men of War post): does DC expect its readers to be anything but cynical about its reboot motivations when it cancels Men of War and replaces it with GI Combat? Oh look! The war book was cancelled due to low numbers. Maybe we should replace it with another war book! Then we can use all the stories we were going to do for Men of War in GI Combat! And people will buy it because it's a new title instead of that old title which sucked! I know there are more changes than that. But what's really happening is DC is changing one war book that didn't sell with another war book that will never sell as well as they want because they put JT Krul at the helm! Fuck. Really? Eat me, DC! You are so lucky I get 13 titles free each month or I would start beginning to possibly consider maybe not purchasing one of your 52 titles! Stupid suck ass JT Krul.

I would have called it the Overwhelming Military Ambiguity Container.

Oh yeah, returning to my previous thought, OMAC now stands for One Machine Attack Construct. Which sounds like he'll be beating the the hell out of tons of shit even more than when he was a One Man Army! It also sounds like Kevin has acquired a perfected version of the virus that the Suicide Squad had to stop. Sort of. A little bit. If you squint and kick yourself in the balls. Which I just did before having that thought. Am I the only person in the world who can't sit comfortably and correctly in an office chair? Generally I just squat in it like a [insert foreign type that squats a lot]. <--- Irishman?

As you can probably read in that panel I posted, Brother Eye thinks he's controlling Kevin. He's probably right. He can probably flip the OMAC switch any time he wants. Let me guess: Kevin is now going to wander the Earth like Carradine's character (my friend Ken via Instant Messenger: "Not sure how to spell it, but it's Quay Chang Cane" Close!) in Kung Fu or Bruce David Banner in The Hulk.

OMAC THE TELEVISION SERIES BY ME!
EPISODE ONE: Only Men Are Callous

Kevin Kho wanders through the Southwest. He ends up in Santa Fe wandering around a local artist fair. A man walks by a native themed pottery stand and scoffs! Kevin begins to feel weird. Brother Eye can't stand smugness! Kevin erupts into OMAC and smashes everything including the scoffer's skull! The police ride up on burros to arrest him but OMAC runs into an alley and changes back to Kevin. Kevin pouts about all the lives he's hurt but just as he's about to turn his back on the scene, he sees the pottery artist smile and hug her pot! He turns and walks away into the desert with sad music playing.

OMAC's origin story!

This issue, I learn that Cadmus is in Metropolis! And Checkmate makes its first actual appearance (I think) investigating OMAC's attack on Cadmus. That chick that looks like Jonni DC Continuity Cop in the above panel is a Checkmater. And Cadmus is a part of Checkmate. The only Checkmate comics I read were the ones that crossed over with Suicide Squad. I wasn't really interested in them but this following bit in OMAC makes them look about 15 percent more interesting than 20 years ago. That's pretty slow growth.

I guess I was wrong about them being a United States agency. Except I guess they are! They're just privatized, really!

After throwing his cell phone away in the desert because Brother Eye kept talking to him through it, Kevin Banner Caine walks into Wayne, Texas. How is he going to get home to Metropolis without a cell phone?! How is he going to take instagram pictures of his trip and post them to Twitter?! He's going to fall so far behind on his tumblr time wasting! This Kevin is in some serious trouble!

Kevin stops into a bar and ends up in the middle of this situation:

I would have gone with the name Rockest.

Oh, turns out the guy's name really is Rocker! His codename is Amazing Man and he worked for Checkmate before Cadmus gave him his rock man abilities.

No relation to this Amazing Man. As far as I know.

It looks like Brother Eye teleported OMAC into this little Texas town to capture Rocker. I think OMAC just turned into the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo and Pokemon as well as Kung Fu and The Hulk. Is OMAC going to be sent from place to place to capture escaped Cadmus projects? OMAC ends up throwing a building at him.

Well then maybe you should have sent a poet to capture him!

The Amazing Rocker Man absorbs stuff. So it just absorbs that building. But after OMAC literally punches his face off (yes, literally literally, not figuratively literally!), Rocker decides to absorb OMAC's power. Which is, of course, what Brother Eye wanted all along. Once Rocker is full of OMAC circuitry, Brother Eye uploads him into his satellite for later use. With the fight over, Brother Eye teleports OMAC to Metropolis. No, just kidding! He only teleports him to the bus station in Fort Worth. Kevin can find his own miserable way back home!

You know, after Brother Eye sends him on on another mission to Louisiana. Also, the last page big surprise reveal just makes the Reboot even more less of a reboot.

So he's back? Again again again? Again?

I was going to end there but needed an addendum. I just read all of Maxwell Lord's confusing history. In an off-hand way, I knew a bunch of it. Like how he killed Ted and how Wonder Woman broke his neck. But I hadn't known about all of the OMAC stuff he was involved in and how he ended up running Checkmate. So this comic makes a lot more sense as one of the titles of the New 52. And that nano-virus in Suicide Squad looks to actually have been this OMAC virus that Maxwell Lord tried to release on the world. Which is why Checkmate arrived at the scene after Suicide Squad killed everyone.

You know, you knowing a lot about the DC Universe really helps explain what is supposed to be some kind of reboot. I suppose just changing all the titles to Issue One was reboot enough. Why ditch all of the history?! Now I have to wonder about all the people who bitched and moaned about the reboot. Are they just sad that they aren't picking up Detective Comics #794?

OMAC #1

OMAC was created by Jack Kirby. I just learned that from the OMAC title page. But I guess it's fitting that he's being drawn by Keith Giffen since Giffen seems to have gotten his ability to draw by eating old Jack Kirby comic books. Seriously, it's just so old fashioned. He might even be drawing a bit more Kirby style than normal here. You know? On purpose. Except Giffen's OMAC is just a tad different than Kirby's OMAC.

More of a runner than a weightlifter.

The title of this issue is "Office Management Amidst Chaos". I guess I don't have to make a whole bunch of 'What does OMAC stand for?' jokes because they're going to do it themselves! OMAC stands for One Man Army Corps, by the way. Jack Kirby should have sued the government when the Army started using the slogan 'An Army of One.'

I don't think that outfit is work appropriate. It must be Friday.

Jody Robbins is looking for her boyfriend. But he's nowhere to be found and his computer monitor has a picture of OMAC on it! I wonder if he might be OMAC!? It's possible because OMAC smashes through the wall like Kool-Aid and begins taking orders from Kevin's computer monitor. And when Jody calls for Kevin, OMAC looks toward her.

Okay, big deal, this Kevin guy is OMAC. The real question is who is OMAC? And maybe a fantastic question would be who is Kevin? Oh! A mythical question might be who is the person giving OMAC orders through the computer? And then an urban legend question could be what does OMAC want with Cadmus? This paragraph is starting to sound like the last minute of every Soap episode. But since OMAC has been cancelled, will any of these questions be answered?

The disembodied computer voice speaking to OMAC is trying to get back into the basement of Cadmus. It's using OMAC as its body and its weapon. The basement of Cadmus is a strange place. Lots of genetic experiments running around. OMAC runs into a guy named Dubbilex who can read minds. He begins to learn some of OMAC's secrets but OMAC slaps him into unconsciousness. Then a woman attacks him. She turns out to be a Build-a-Friend and guns come out of her face. She blasts away at OMAC but OMAC slaps her into debris. Next, a bunch of little gobbling monster dogs come trotting out to eat OMAC but OMAC slaps them into jelly.

OMAC and the voice reach the mainframe and merge with it. The voice grabs all of the files and then they escape by teleportation. Kevin awakens in the middle of Arizona. Or New Mexico. He has no memory beyond having gone to the bathroom. But the voice, calling itself Brother Eye, calls him from space. Brother Eye is a satellite that looks like an eye! It claims Kevin's life is now its and that Kevin should probably call his girlfriend because she's worried about him.

And that's it. I guess with a comic about a big hulking blue brute, I shouldn't expect there to be a lot to it! Just a lot of smashing and OMAC barely able to put three words together and a voice guiding the brutish thing. It's another one of those comics that the first issue just isn't long enough with 20 pages. You don't get a decent chance to figure out what's going on. I imagine a lot of people didn't buy this title because OMAC isn't exactly a popular character. Or a known character for most people! And after this first issue, I don't see a lot of people being intrigued by it or feeling they care enough to know what happens next.

Anyway, I'm sure there will be a lot of people getting beat up.

Suicide Squad #4

Wasn't Voltaic already betrayed by one of their own?

In this issue, the Suicide Squad infiltrates a Basilisk Terror Cell to collect Dr. Elisa Visyak, the creator of the nano-virus that turns people into electric zombies. They get in, collect her, and try to leave. But they're stopped Grey Lora of Basilisk. Before any violence can erupt, Deadshot speaks a name...

...which seems to get her attention. Apparently Wong Fon Yay was Grey Lora's sister. Or mother. Or lover. Or daughter. That's never really made clear. And when I called her Wong Fon Yay just now, that wasn't a joke or an error. That's what she's called through the rest of the comic. I don't know why Deadshot calls her Wong Fon Shay the first time but I suspect an error on the Letterer's part. Or the writer.

Deadshot knows who killed her and is willing to give Grey Lora the information if Grey Lora is willing to let the squad walk out with the doctor. It appears that Wong was stabbed through the heart with a boomerang.

Captain Boomerang was only added to the mission in case the Squad couldn't get back out with the doctor. His firing mechanism is a dud and it isn't a surprise. Waller would never give Boomerang that kind of authority. Not only is he a miserable jackass, he's also a huge spaz who wouldn't hesitate to push that button if someone pissed him off. So the Squad leaves Boomerang with Basilisk and Grey Lora lets them go in return for Wong Fon Yay's body. When the Squad gets back to Belle Reeve with the Doctor, their Nanite Neck Bombs still aren't disarmed and they're shoved into the middle of a prison riot that they need to stop in 18 minutes or their heads will explode!

Nobody died in this issue! That's good because DC doesn't have an infinite number of C-List villains to throw away each month. Although if they really want to clean up with this reboot, this is the way to take care of all those troublesome characters!

Suicide Squad #3

Cliff Richards did the art for this?

Another comic that starts off out of sequence. The group is pinned down in a diner with some bounty hunter named Mad Dog trying to shoot the shit out of them. I'll ignore this for now and start two hours earlier when the Squad first escaped from the Megadome.

They end up stealing some clothes from a laundromat so that they can ditch the uniforms and blend in. They leave King Shark in the woods somewhere because, well, how the fuck are you going to disguise that thing? Still, some of the members have some problems with not sticking out.

Maybe try something with a hoodie that covers a bit more skin then.

The team gets all dressed up like the locals (meaning dressing like the Dukes of Hazzard County) and they find an off-season hunting cabin to hide out in as well. While Spider and Diablo head out for medical supplies, Harley Quinn flirts with Deadshot.

He changes his mind in one panel.



I don't get the clown car joke. Is she comparing her vagina to a clown car? If so, does that mean Deadshot has 18 penises?

After Waller cockblocks Deadshot with an incoming call, everybody heads back out to the diner to meet up for the evacuation. On the way, Deadshot and Harley run into Mad Dog. He and Deadshot seem to know each other.

After 37 hours of training to make sure they don't give up the operation or Waller, Deadshot does that?! What a chump!

A shoot-out ensues and everyone ends up in the diner unable to fire a shot at anybody else because Harley turned on the gas. But she only thought up that plan after Mad Dog had already seriously wounded Black Spider.

Sheesh! And these were the idiots who passed all of the keep your mouth shut or die trials!

Mad Dog takes off and launches a grenade into the diner as the the Squad escapes out the back. Actually, half the squad. Spider and Diablo remain inside the explosion but Diablo protects them with his Asbestos Tattoos. As Mad Dog escapes, he meets up with King Shark and, presumably, is eaten. The Squad finally meets up with the evac and hand over the baby. But the Squad isn't allowed to go anywhere. It's time for another mission!

Yo Yo has got to be the stupidest name yet yet.

The other replacement 'personal' is good old Captain Boomerang! Captain Boomerang tells the rest of the jerks that he's in charge of their next mission and even shows them the detonator for the bombs in their necks. I think the mission involves those Basilisk people I mentioned earlier since the comic hasn't mentioned them yet. And I've only read the first four issues of Suicide Squad. So it'll be in the next one!

Death Count:
Issue #1: Savant.
Issue #2: Voltaic.
Issue #3: Mad Dog.

Mad Dog is the only character that has died that I'm even partially familiar with. And he might still have survived. The encounter was ambiguous enough.

Suicide Squad #2

Is Deadshot going to look through the rifle's scope with his scope eye? He'll never find his target that way.

The first panel of issue two begins remind people reading the series what the series is about. I'll be the first to admit that I often can't remember what's going on in a story from month to month. But I generally retain the idea behind the overall structure. "Hmm, my Superman comic is out this week. What the fuck was the premise of that?" So just in case you started with Suicide Squad #2 because you saw some chick with her tit flopping out of her costume and you had no idea what was going on, Deadshot will fill you in.

I think at this point in Deadshot's career, he's more known for working with a team.

Okay. Everybody understand what the Suicide Squad is now?

Great! Now maybe we can get on with the action. I'm a bit concerned the way the story went from one big torturefest to dropping the team right into their first mission and then, if I'm remembering correctly, dumping them right into another mission immediately after that. This comic doesn't just have to be about a bunch of villains constantly fighting while the reader wonders which one is going to die each month. Let's build some personalities and begin some really great character interactions and conflicts!

No no no! I didn't mean make them fuck! What is this, Catwoman?!

I'm getting ahead of myself. Currently, the Megadome or whatever advertiser the Stadium is named after is full of people. I don't know why. I guess whenever there's an emergency in the south they just shove everyone into a dome. The emergency right now is some kind of virus. The Suicide Squad is supposed to kill everyone in quarantine and secure a package from a woman. And since Waller is being so secretive with this "package" crap, you can bet the package is her unborn baby. Which it is because I've read this already!

Listening to some guy stuck in the stadium, they learn the place was actually full of people attending a sporting event. My apologies for making assumptions of the way southerners react to a crisis. During the national anthem, people started eating each other. Some people were eaten and other people were turned into people who eat people. The place was quarantined and the national guard blockaded the place. That's all the guy knows.

More like the Homicide Squad, amirite?!

Turns out the victims of the virus are turning into electric zombies. I don't know how the virus works. Someone suggests a nano-virus mainly so that a pseudo explanation of this ridiculous outbreak was sort of mentioned. And maybe the people infected need to eat other people to use the iron in their blood to create more metal parts and circuitry in the host. And why would something like this virus exist? Because some scientist just loves zombies and robots and he created a disease to make more of both! Possibly. I'm giving you more explanation than the comic book thinks you need! I think by the end Adam Glass just says something like Basilisk, an organization based on TERROR, did it! And that explains that.

The team decides to split up to find the woman's package.

No, that's not it.

Just before the team splits up, Deadshot gets some blood in his eye. Uh oh! Someone's about to turn into a zombie robot sniper! He sends Harley, El Diablo, and Black Spider off on their own to find the woman.

I think someone who hates Harley's new look should go through all of the issues of the comic and color her old suit on over her. That would be a cool project.

Deadshot, Voltaic, and King Shark fight a bunch of zombies in the other direction. Voltaic takes them all out by zapping everything. And then King Shark cleans up.

King Shark adds just the right amount of ridiculousness to the group.

The team ends up finding the pregnant woman. She turns into some fleshy tentacled monster that isn't anything like the robot zombies they were fighting earlier. Harley calls it a boss monster and that's probably about right. Maybe some game like Silent Hill where you fight devil dogs and zombie nurses the whole time and then the end monster is some weird blobby whatchamacallit with no relation to anything else that's been happening. The creature almost wins but forgets to keep her eyes on the living land shark on the Squad. He bites her head off and that's that.

Except it isn't, exactly. Deadshot cuts the living baby from her womb and takes it with him. She must have been ready to drop because she was pretty fat and the baby is just fine. The Suicide Squad is ready to leave. But how covert a mission is it if they run in, kill thousands of people, and run out again? Questions are going to be asked! Which is why Deadshot had Voltaic fry every body they came upon, alive or dead. So the whole thing can be blamed on a supervillain gone nuts.

Suicide Squad can't be immediately evacuated because Checkmate agents are flooding the area. Checkmate is still around and they're still a thorn in the side of the Squad? Anyhow, the Squad have to head into town and lie low for awhile. Sure, that'll be easy! Just put the human shark on a leash and nobody will ask any questions.

Suicide Squad #1

Harley Quinn has gone from cute and insane to I'm going to fuck your face and then cut it off.

Out of the New 52, this is the only title for which I have Issue #1. The main reason I got back into reading comics after so long was because of a random trip to a comic book store while in Phoenix, Arizona, where I stumbled upon the reboot. I had read the Maxi-Series 52 since I was vaguely interested in what DC was doing (even after I stopped collecting, I would keep at least one toe in the water). I hadn't realized they were doing this and was intrigued. And then I saw that they had restarted Suicide Squad and I decided to begin reading it. This was when the New 52 was on Issue Three. Which is why I'm so far behind.

While reading Issue #1, I happened on this advertisement for the New 52:

So Justice League #1 came out one week earlier than the rest. And in February, it came out one week later than the rest! Falling behind, Mr. Lee!

Well hell! I'd already decided to start buying one monthly comic! What could it hurt to pick a few more titles from this list? I decided I was going to purchase about ten of the new 52, including Animal Man, Justice League Dark and Red Lanterns because I knew Milligan was writing them, Swamp Thing, Stormwatch, Demon Knights, and Justice League International. I think I'd also decided to pick up the Batman comics and Action Comics since Morrison was heading that title.

By this time, the first issues were already hard to find (at least at my normal shop. When I finally shopped around downtown for some missing issues from the first four months, I noticed they had nearly all of them) so I decided to buy DCs Big Book of First Issues. And then I decided I'd purchase at least the first four issues of every single title to give them all a chance. Perhaps there would be a gem where I wasn't expecting to find one?

But I also knew I'd have trouble remembering the story lines from month to month. With so many titles and such a huge amount of time between stories that can be read in five to ten minutes, how could anyone keep them straight? So I decided I would blog about every comic I read. This would insure that I had notes on the comic and allow me to reread what I wrote the previous month before I read the new issue! I'd be able to follow along without having to reread past issues to stay caught up! Plus the act of writing about them would in and of itself help to retain the memory of the story line! And as an added bonus, I would spend an hour or so on each comic, making the $3-$4 price tag a little more bearable.

So that's what happened. Suicide Squad is why I'm writing this stupid blog. That along with having a bit more extra cash each month than I've had in quite some time. And that's my Origin Story!

ANYWAYS....

Suicide Squad begins with Deadshot being tortured by some weirdo with a burlap sack on his head. He might actually be a normal, boring accountant. But that sack on his head makes him look weird! The other members of the Suicide Squad are also being tortured. But Deadshot is the important one. He's the guy who makes the Suicide Squad the Suicide Squad. Without Floyd Lawton and Amanda Waller, it's just a bunch of B-List villains running around getting themselves killed. But written well (like when John Ostrander was doing it), those B-List villains really shine.

Note the woman in purple. She makes a cameo in all the first issues. She's some mysterious person that showed up in Flashpoint and lauded Flash for merging Wildstorm, Vertigo, and the Mainstream DC titles with his mucking about in time. Before I'd read about her in the back pages of the comics, I noticed her in JLI #1 and suggested she might have been behind he people acting crazy.

In the first few pages, I like the way Lawton is characterized. He spits on loyalty but he despises the idea of someone ratting out the group. Even a group like the Suicide Squad which he understands is just a bunch of bottom feeding losers. But when this guy threatens someone in Lawton's life, he immediately knows he's going to kill him. No waffling. No gray areas. He just knows what needs to be done. Don't take threats lightly. That's the Deadshot I remember.

The second member of the Squad is El Diablo. He's a tattooed street thug who ended up in Belle Reeve for burning down a house full of drug dealers who weren't paying him a cut. But the dealers had family in the house and El Diablo gave himself up without a fight. So we've got a member with a conscience, apparently.

The third member is Harley Quinn. She's gone a bit more nuts than usual since The Joker was put away and then escaped Arkham leaving his face behind. She was placed in Belle Reeve for murdering the lawyers who put the Joker away. She's got a new look that a lot of people have been bitching about. She's gone from cute and crazy to overtly sexy and super nutso. I find it a fine evolution. Her old self probably would be a bit too cute for the Suicide Squad although Jewelee of Punch and Jewelee was adorable. So it could have worked. But it's also a reboot that DC hasn't been really using to its full advantage. We'll see how she evolves.

The next three members are either new or just plain obscure. Black Spider who is, surprisingly, a black man. Voltaic, as it says, is a soldier of fortune. And King Shark is a mutant shark man beast thing. These three members hold their tongues. But the last member, some guy named Savant, finally breaks down and explains to the torturers who they are. Task Force X. The Suicide Squad.

Savant explains that convicts in Belle Reeve volunteer for Task Force X just to get out of their cells for more than one hour per day. Bombs are implanted in their neck to insure they do as they're told. Then they're sent on covert missions for...well, the government, maybe? Their first mission ends up with them all being knocked unconscious by a bomb and captured. A set-up!

I do like the blow-up doll pun. Nice one, Harley!

And then they woke up being tortured. After Savant blabs, he's dragged off into the darkness. The rest of them are all knocked unconscious. When they awake, they awake to this not really all that surprising message:

Ladies and Gentlemen! Your graduating class!

The Suicide Squad also finds themselves on a plane where they're being dropped immediately into their first mission.

Not the Amanda Waller I remember!

Don't we already have enough fine looking women in the DC Universe? I liked the old Amanda Waller! It's interesting to see how DC's editors have barely done anything to change the universe in this reboot but apparently when The Flash fucked around with time in Flashpoint, it caused Amanda Waller to lose 150 pounds and 15 years!

And lastly, searching for that old pic of The Wall, I saw that Angela Bassett had played Amanda Waller in the Green Lantern movie! Damn! I wish I hadn't spoiled that. I guess it's my fault that I haven't seen the GL movie but it would have been an awesome surprise to see Amanda Waller suddenly there on the big screen. Now I'm interested in the Green Lantern movie! Let's see a Suicide Squad movie now that they've already established The Wall!