« Brubaker has the chops for Daredevil…but why did Quesada spoil the ending? | Main | The End of Batgirl, but not Cassandra Cain »
February 19, 2006
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 2
Infinite Crisis spoilers ahead. Week 2 continues with only three heroes echoing through the multiverses...
Jimmy Olsen shows up on the last page of Action Comics 836. Beside his current cool dude incarnation, we see the classic tweed-jacket Silver Age Jimmy, Jimmy as Elastic Lad, and even Bizarro Jimmy. Come to think of it, I've never really liked Jimmy Olsen since the Crisis 1 reboot in the 1980s. The Silver Age Jimmy was much more proactive. The current one limps around waiting for Superman to save his butt.
Birds of Prey 91 has a pretty weak story as Gail Simone took this month off. You do get to see the various forms of Huntress on the last page. The second one is the classic Joe Staton designed costume from her debut in DC Super-Stars #17. I can't really identify the third or fourth character. My guess is that the third one is the Golden Age villain called Huntress and the other one must be an Elseworlds character.
Green Arrow is in a pretty bad spot here, which is why I waited a week to show it. If you want to see how those arrows got lodged in his chest, pick up Green Arrow 59. Winick did a pretty good job of totally destroying Oliver's life in that one. We see the Silver Age Green Arrow beside him (the one who first joined the JLA). The third figure represents one of Mike Grell periods? Fourth is when Oliver was lost on an island and learned how to shoot arrows? Fifth is JLA:Elite covert-ops Ollie? Total guesses, fill me in if you know. Nuff said.
See also:
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 1
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.baytripper.com/cgi-bin/mt/mtb.cgi/29
Comments
For Green Arrow, the third figure is his one-armed future self from Dark Knight Returns. Your other guesses look right.
For Huntress, I don't recognize the third, fourth, and fifth versions, none of which are the villain Huntress (for her, see this Comic Treadmill post: http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Individual/2005_05/000787.php).
Posted by: Michael G | February 19, 2006 10:37 AM
Yeah. I'm pretty sure most of the Huntress ones were made up for this page.
The only two that probably really count are the first 2. Though I can't recall her Staton look being like that second one all that much.
Posted by: Nala | February 19, 2006 4:59 PM
FYI, the third GA is the one-armed old guy Green Arrow from Frank Miller's Dark Knight books.
Posted by: Huk-L | February 21, 2006 11:32 AM
Thanks for posting the last pgs as an Epal told me of Huntress, and I was hoping to see the one version depicted on an upcoming "Superman/Batman" cover. It was a costume she wore prior to the plague-virus that wiped out a part of Gotham, previous to NML. I didn't see it here, tho.
So I read OYL of GA & TEC, but have NO idea how Ollie survived nor Bats did his situation -- anyone else know?
Posted by: Vinny | March 20, 2006 6:39 AM
