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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Pandora! I found her.

So quick update, because We forgot to look for Pandora on the release of the second wave. So we didn't have her in our podcast. Here she is


G.I. Combat
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World's Finest








Right. So the calling of the shenanigans.
Off the bat. you notice only three, there is no Pandora for Earth 2. I call bullshit. This is a character that clearly has cosmic level powers, that will lead to their mega crossover. She's on par with Phantom Stranger, and gives Spectre the finger. She's clearly supposed to be watching these characters for them to become apart of this crossover, that is what these summer blockbusters do, take everyone into them.
So what does this mean for Earth 2? Well it could mean that DC doesn't want to bring in Earth 2 into this cross over. Which screams to me of having their cake and eating it too. She is supposed to show a larger plot develop, and this removes one of their main line books from that plot by having her absent.
Or, it means DC is treating Earth 2 like an elsewhere book where they don't give that much of a damn about what happens there, because it will never be relevant. As a fan of Alan Scott and Jay Garrick, fuck you DC.
Of course, I could have just missed her, and am trusting the internet too much when it says she isn't in Earth 2.

Other shenanigan, and this one kind of pisses me off more, but will be a much shorter rant. She technically doesn't appear in G.I. Combat. She appears in the back-up story, Unknown Soldier. I think it's an even bigger insult to the readers than Earth 2. Because Earth 2 has some work around where it isn't totally insulting. This, well this doesn't. It's DC going, "Hey, you know the book you bought, well it really doesn't matter, it's back up does."
And to be fair, both stories are 14 pages, so this is an anthology type book. So both stories have prominence. BUT, the second story is the extra in this book, let's not kid ourselves. You are picking up any of these books for the cover story, the story that comes first. We're reading Justice League, not Billy Batson Whiny Ride. This feels like DC going, it doesn't matter.
Maybe this rant is as long as the previous one. It doesn't help that G.I. Combat is crap. Men of War and Blackhawks failed...lets keep doing that! (I liked Men of War for a bit, to be perfectly honest). But skip G.I. Combat.

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