COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #15Story by Paul Dini
Story consultant Keith Giffen
Scripts by Tony Bedard
Art by Pete Woods and Tom Derenick
Surprisingly, Countdown has been one of the best title's over the last month, especially the last couple issues. Can it keep it up? Read on.
Upon opening this issue, I was afraid as I was greeted by a couple pages of the dreaded Amazon arc which has been mutated and combined with the Mary Marvel arc, the two worst stories in Countdown. However, this momentary shock quickly faded as this was a rather painless interlude and not a shift away from the war on Earth-51.
Speaking of the war, we're quickly thrown right into it as Kyle Rayner is busy trying to save Ray Palmer from Power Ring (evil GL), Dark Booster (duh, evil Booster) and 'Girl in blue skirt, red domino mask, cape and no name' (also evil). After making short work of them, with a little help from Ray, the scene shifts to the Monitor's Nexus.
There, we run into Superman Prime smacking Solomon around. Solomon refuses to die, prompting Prime to wonder if he actually wants to die. All the kid wants to know is which Earth is his. Why didn't he just tell him? I imagine he'll be sent to Earth-51 at some point to up the body count.
Before that though, Forerunner comes out of nowhere and is looking for revenge on the Monitors, whom she genetically can't even touch. Not sure what she was planning to do or how she got there, but she seems scared of Prime, who she can only assume is a Superman from a random Earth. Seeing as she's taken down entire JLA's, which include Supermen, I'm not sure why she appears to be afraid of this particular Superman. Regardless, it's good to see her back in action as I have a soft spot for her character and rather enjoy her appearances.
The Batman and Jason Todd interactions are noteworthy. They aren't perfect by any means, but I think you can feel the emotion from each of them in these scenes. It's kind of funny how Todd came onto the scene blaming Batman for not having shot the Joker after his death and is now chastizing this world's Batman for doing exactly that. Kid has issues, to say the least.
The best scene of the issue is probably with the Donna Troys. In a rematch from last issue, the evil Donna Troy, who works for Queen Belthera, berates our Donna Troy as they fight and brags about having killed Wonder Woman with her own lasso and talks about how Belthera gave her a real identity before asking Donna who she thinks she is. Donna's response was a one hit knock out as she says, "I'm Donna Troy, Bitch. Donna. Troy." Look for it in the Moments of the Week.
Verdict - Must Read. A great outing from Countdown. I'm not sure how anyone who hasn't been following along will view this, but as someone who's stuck with it, this is actually starting to deliver and I can't believe I'm saying it, but I can't wait for next week's issue.
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