quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: Creepy, creepy exploration of Mick Rory, aka HEAT WAVE this month.
I never knew a whole heck of a lot about this character... I always found his costume and m.o. a bit boring, to tell the truth. But not anymore.
It's pretty rare to show me a character who at once arouses sympathy and horror. Usually, it's pretty tellingly weighted one way or the other. Heat Wave now is 'my' exemplar of balancing the two. He'll be totally believable whichever 'side' of the fence he lands on.
Could someone spoil this for me? What's so creepy about Heatwave?
From: Canada | Registered: Jul 2003
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And burned down the circus he worked at, with all the performers still inside. And, at present time, he's just torched a bar. Don't think there was any indication of whether the bartender got out or not.
From: Columbus, Ohio | Registered: Jan 2004
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What keeps Heat Wave interesting to me is the fact that as creeped out as we the readers might be by him-- or as weirded out as the characters in FLASH are by him-- he's more creeped and weirded out by himself.
I don't despise him, though. Then again, I wasn't really invested in his redemption-- truthfully, I never paid much attention to him until now.
I know he was involved in Cadmus for awhile, during the SUPERBOY series-- was that where your affection for the character and his redemption comes from? Or from earlier runs of THE FLASH?
In general, I enjoy redemption stories and 'pull' for the characters involved.
From: Knoxville, TN | Registered: Jul 2003
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Heatwave officially scares the shit out of me now. And I love it.
I never really was into Heatwave 'going good' before...it seemed like too many of Flash's traditional badguys were doing that (and Piper as a hero is done very well, and I really like the way the original Trickster has been written since Underworld Unleashed).
Man, is Heatwave scary now. He is definately the biggest sicko of the Rogues now and it was very fitting that he was hunting the biggest sicko of Flash's new baddies, Murmur. Heatwave's belief that he's just on the edge of being good makes it even scarier and more tragic. Perhaps we'll soon see that Capt. Cold may have been the only one to really ever have caught onto him before.
It's the scenes with all the old Rogues that I really like, and I'm enjoying how John's has now fleshed out the Top along the same lines that he did Capt. Cold, Weather Wizard and Mirror Master. And now Heatwave, but in a waaaaay different way.
Suddenly, I'm interested in seeing what is going to happen to Heatwave.
And the panel where he burns down his parents, followed by the panel where he burns the circus down, was definatley a big WTF? moment for me.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Ba-da- for issue 219, first part of an x-over with Wonder Woman; the second part is WW 214, out next month.
I finally caught up with the Top and Heatwave issues last weekend. I give them Five Jenni's:
This book is firing on all cylinders. Hope the cross-over doesn't derail its momentum any heading into the Rogue Wars...
From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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The first part didn't... but it sure pushed Zoom into Heatwave-level creepiness.
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A golden-age character meets her maker in this issue, too. Priscilla Rich, the original Cheetah is killed by Barbara Minerva, at the prompting of Zoom. She doesn't even get a line... which I found sort of disrespectful.
I'm still smarting from events in last week's WOLVERINE #25, though... so maybe I'm a bit oversensitive.
From: Knoxville, TN | Registered: Jul 2003
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Yes, I enjoyed the pearance of WONDER WOMAN. Ummm, so she's blind now? I'm not hep to that development.
This issue was good enough to make me want to get the conclusion in WW, a title I don't currently collect. I can't say that for 99% of other crossovers. I might very well get it.
And the ART-- I've loved JUSTINIANO since I first saw him in the BEAST BOY mini, and his fill-ins on various issues of the last TITANS run.
For goodness' SAKE, DC!!! Put Justiniano on a regular gig, or rotate him on arcs with a slower artist!!!
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I'm pretty sure Justiniano has at least a mini-series coming up, Lashie... I think it's even something I was planning on preordering, if I haven't already. I'll have to do a little research and get back to you.
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From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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Yes indeed, he's drawing the DAY OF VENGEANCE mini-series, 1 of 4 that spins out of COUNTDOWN. Here's the info on #2 that I found in my preorders:
quote:DAY OF VENGEANCE #2 Written by Bill Willingham Art by Justiniano & Walden Wong Cover by Walter Simonson On sale May 18 • 2 of 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.50 US
-------------------- "Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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Okay, so what happened to Wonder Woman?? How come she's blind?
-------------------- You can never quit believiing in your dreams ... or yourself. ----- You GOTTA listen to Levi Kreis.
From: Aggieland | Registered: Jul 2003
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