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Booster Gold has a forcefield, while Harley has NO powers,

The opening scene in a diner made me think it had been lifted from Planetary.

That poor diner was trashed and the “hero” let that happen just to make the scene grounded or some nonsense. Poor business owner.

Booster Gold doesn’t know how his powers work after all this time. Generally, the fight strained credibility throughout.

The interview segments were a lot less forced over in the first issue of West Coast Avengers, also out at the same time.

BIG ONE: How did they all fit inside that farmhouse? Does it have lots of hidden levels? There are loads of dedded people around. They were all recently using a bathroom or a fridge. Where did they all fit?
Even in a quick skim, the premise of the “Big Three” setting up the sanctuary is laughably ponderous and self-indulgent (“redemption” Oh dear). Of course super heroes can’t just get the support that other people get. Even secret identities doesn’t really stand up as a reason. See other navel gazing JLA concepts. Leaving them all with their costumes may not have been a great therapeutic idea either.

It reminds me of the Kent’s farm which may be the idea.

Again, it was a quick read but I didn’t get the feeling that there was a huge amount going on under the surface of the cast.

Not being a DCU reader for a while, I’m just aware of the seemingly huge number of retcons/reboots etc so this could all be time travelled/rebooted away. Although, I didn’t get the feeling, by the arbitrary body count, and interviews, that there was a lot of care for some of the cast.

So, a prolonged fight and a first peek at some cape carnage padded out with some interview pages. I hope Bats does a better job investigating this crime scene than he did in the dreadful Identity Crisis.

They killed Poison Ivy.

Wally West.

See, Sanctuary uses these virtual reality chambers where patients relive their traumas to deal with them (which is an incredibly stupid thing to do) and Wally's been creating holograms of Linda Park and their kids. Which is a special kind of frustrating because, instead of Barry and Iris offering to help Wally look for his missing kids or restore Linda's memories like Iris's memories were fixed, they were fine with shipping him off to Sanctuary so he would shut up. After spending about two weeks in Sanctuary, Wally apparently tried to do something with the computer in what's implied to be an attempt to get Irey and Jai back for real. Somehow the computer totally freaked out and killed everyone except Wally, Booster Gold, and Harley Quinn. Wally found Roy Harper's dead body, held Roy and sobbed he just didn't want to be alone before Harley killed Wally.

With these rumors about Wally being in the new Suicide Squad, it's implied this will be his punishment or attempt at atonement ala Speedball's time as Penance during Civil War.

It is staggering how far Dan Didio will go out of his way to try and destroy Wally's character in any way possible.