tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post4477295417354930339..comments2024-03-28T20:51:56.173-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Review: Checkmate #6Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-83735115811133957872021-12-02T15:11:36.083-05:002021-12-02T15:11:36.083-05:00I too hope we see the team doing covert missions a...I too hope we see the team doing covert missions and actually ... well ... doing something.<br /><br />Still wish there was more to hang the Kamandi reveal on.<br /><br />AJCAnjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-38378856614727165822021-12-02T13:39:24.014-05:002021-12-02T13:39:24.014-05:00Nice review! I'm ashamed I didn't recogniz...Nice review! I'm ashamed I didn't recognize the name Kingsley Jacobs as a Jack Kirby nod. <br /><br />As for mind control... sure, that would work, but I don't think it's necessary. Five years ago, I'd have agreed -- yes, it's gotta be mind control. But we've just spent half a decade watching people devote their lives and risk their freedom for a charismatic leader who's transparently full of shit. People get radicalized -- even those we love, and people who we might think would be above that sort of thing.<br /><br />I hope to see Checkmate in the future... but I hope we get a more straightforward mission for them next time. (And I'd REALLY love to see the alternative group Lois created at the end of the Leviathan miniseries, too!)Rob S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07331286524477806963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-4090071745825110552021-11-26T08:59:46.544-05:002021-11-26T08:59:46.544-05:00Nice review! I was happier than expected, despite ...Nice review! I was happier than expected, despite all those questions. I’d given up hoping this series would make sense and there you go, it didn’t. I enjoyed the banter and the art and never expected a lot of answers. So I quite liked the Kamandi thing, at least it explained the hair! <br /><br />I do hate Talia. I may have mentioned it previously. She’s a rapist assassin but Batman has a weak spot for her cos she’s sooooo alluring. And she’s always betraying everyone… at least when Catwoman reforms she sticks with it. <br /><br />So now this unimpressive band of spies have to somehow find Talia? Hmm, if only they had a Justice Leaguer among them who could mention that she’s with the League’s multiverse offshoot, The Totality or whatever. <br /><br />We definitely needed a mind control mention… I mean, do you seriously accept that Supergirl’s recent foster mother, Eliza, is suddenly a would-be world ruler and cold-blooded killer? That street level hero The Guardian wants to run the planet?Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.com