COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #18Script by Paul Dini
Breakdowns by Keith Giffen
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Scott Kolins
The Search for Ray Palmer finally concluded this week in Countdown. Apparently, he's on Earth-51, where he's replaced that Earth's version of himself, who he witnessed dying in a lab experiment. Since then, he's been shacking up with that Earth's Jean and living the good life as he worked on the experiment that killed that Earth's Ray. It supposedly holds the key to stopping the Great Disaster.
After that brief recap for the Challengers, Bob, the supposedly good Monitor, reveals that Ray Palmer must die as he towers over him with a glowing fist of doom. Every single Monitor has been a relative push over from what I've seen, so I don't really get how Atom can't just shrink out of harms way or how the Challengers can't take him down. If I recall, in the Ion series, Donna and Kyle had pretty much no trouble against a Monitor and the Extremists took out Bob with ease in Countdown, as did just about every other threat they've run into. So, while I liked the little twist at the end of this issue and it did make sense if you think about it, the threat just doesn't seem to match up with what we've seen of these Monitors.
Oh ya, Mary Marvel's powers and story continue to make little to no sense as she overpowers Eclipso with little to no effort. Hopefully they just kill Mary and end all our suffering as we are subjected to that story week after week.
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