Down the Rabbit Hole
Worlds’ Finest (volume 1) #15
Cover Date: October 2013
Released: 14th August 2013
- Writers: Paul Levitz
- Pencilers: Emanuela Lupacchino
- Inker: Guiellermo Ortega
- Colourists: Jason Wright
- Letterer: Carlos M. Mangual
- Editors: Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton / Anthony Marques
Continued from Worlds’ Finest #14.
Sometime I wish I planned connections, having an issue called down the rabbit hole just after one called flushed is just to good to be true! Which it is as I’m just not that good to plan things like this!
As you may or may not remember last issue Helena was snatch way into a Boom Tube and Kara in her wisdom followed to rescue her partner. And we start with Pee Gee get herself together as she fly’s through the wormhole like Boom Tube. Though it seems odd that she seems to need to concentrate when it’s just like a tube between two locations in space-time?
After a less than graceful arrival she starts to tear her way through Parademons looking for Huntress. This is mainly to show just how powerful Pee Gee is, which seems to always be the case when the power levels of Pee Gee is about to change. In this case as we get towards the end of the issue Kara begins to feel tired and at the very end its revealed she’s lost her powers being scratched up. This is more or less Pee Gee’s part in the story.
Meanwhile, DeSaad is torturing Helena mostly to feed on her fear, her fearamones as he cutely put’s it! After a quick zap from his energy sucking plugs, mentioning that he tastes a touch of Batman in Helena, though I’m surprised that he didn’t know already, and that being a badarse it’s more pain than the yummy fear that’s he after! With Pee Gee tearing though his base he goes off to deal with her, allowing Huntress to quite easily escape, using before unseen knuckle claws that she got from her mother, then using lockpicks to release the others bonds on her. She then get to beat down the massive brute that we saw being created last issue.
Finally DeSaad meets up with Pee Gee, amusingly referring to Huntress as her Bodyguard, he quickly and quite easily defeats Pee Gee gloating that they’re not equals in any shape or form. Before he can finish her off however Huntress uses her crossbow to stops his blow and rather than just y’know finish them both off decides to send them back to Prime Earth.
Circling around we finish with the reveal that DeSaad has somehow messed with Pee Gee’s powers!
As I’ve mentioned about this era of comics very little seems to happens but still the plot merrily rumbles along. Indeed it’s almost perfectly balance with both characters get a chance to strut there stuff balancing the different power levels for the two. It’s like fast food really, it’s enjoyable but breezy and I can help but want more, which I guess it’s kind of the point writing for the trade and all but on a single issue to issue basis it’s sometime a little frustrating.