COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #10Story by Paul Dini
Story consultant: Keith Giffen
Script by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti
Art by Ron Lim and Mark McKenna
So, uh, are we supposed to forget that Mary Marvel has been killing people, fighting other heroes, teaming up with Eclipso and has been generally a completely unredeemable character for most of Countdown simply because the gods, who shouldn't even have anything to do with Mary's powers if Trials of Shazam are to be believed, say so? And where did she get her powers back from? She just randomly shouts Shazam and she's Mary Marvel again? I assumed the gods being imprisoned would stop them from aiding her, so how did she get the lightning back to free them?
Whatever, I've learned to stop getting hung up on the random and unbelievable occurances in Countdown a long time ago and, despite them, I still enjoyed this issue, for the most part.
This week's edition consists of the girls freeing the gods that were imprisoned by Granny Goodness. Ya, the real Athena and what not. As I said above, Mary did this by shouting Shazam and calling down the thunder to free them. For helping Mary, a couple gods empower Harley and Holly, most likely temporarily. This leads to them going on a killing spree (seriously, I'm not lying) as they systematically take down every single one of Granny's honour guard with precision arrows to the throat and what have you. Mary acts all innocent and tries to get them to stop. Before they can get revenge on Granny, the New God Killer / Source kills her. It was a bit odd, though, as Granny was reduced to ash instead of the regular hole in the chest dealio.
Meanwhile, Jason "I'm not the Hood anymore" Todd broods some more, tries to help / kill Una and then leaves Karate Kid to be killed by said OMACified Una. Good times.
On the other side of town, Piper is getting some Faustian advice from Desaad, who wants him to use his flute to become a god by channelling the Anti-Life Equation. Just kill me now.
Finally, OMAC has some daddy issues as he takes control of all of Apokalips. He seems to just want Batman to see how big he's gotten and be proud of him. Awww, isn't that sweet. Wonder what Darkseid has been doing, what with his little planet getting taken over while he sits on the throne playing chess with a Monitor.
Verdict - Check It. Still seems like a lot of filler and anti-climax since the end of the war a few issues back, but it was still a decent outing.
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