![]() ![]() The Batgirl vs Supergirl fight, on the other hand… well it sucks. That was a very straightforward scene that has been done repeatedly in modern times. Interestingly, we have a precursor to the Kryptonite ring he’ll acquire post-Crisis. With that out of the way, we can focus on Batman fighting Superman. You guys just suck in this series, isn’t it? Thanks to the secret monitors they access to view the Batcave and the Fortress of Solitude… they discover the SHOCKING secret of the two aliens!Īaaand they’re immediately taken out by a mysterious attacker. NOPE! We also have Robin and freaking Jimmy Olsen in this thing! Okay we have the mystery of which alien is telling the truth AND two pairs of heroes fighting each other… Superman and Batgirl against Batman and Supergirl. This leads us to the other hero promised by the cover: Batgirl, who has to deal with a statue in Gotham City coming to life.Įxcept it’s not a living statue… it’s Superman’s way to contact her!Ĭellphones can’t be invented fast enough for these people. So even Superman realizes things might get tough for him. He’s still Batman, though, and Supergirl has a few years of hero experience at this point. Superman has little trouble throwing Supergirl into the stratosphere for a while, and he manages to stop Batman before he has the chance to capture Vice-Alien.Īs Superman takes Vice-Alien to safety, Supergirl rescues Batman. The Neal Adams pencils are a delight, but… WTF is going on with Supergirl’s hip in this panel!? Superman is just as eager to fight as Supergirl. (not that you need to go back to the 60s for that: even twenty years he wasn’t constantly in Bat-God mode) I miss the times when Batman’s technology had SOME limits. Tiron, who just followed the criminal to another planet, immediately backs away from the investigation. It’s also as if Supergirl was just waiting for an occasion to punch her cousin. Surely Supergirl will convince Batman to actually talk to Superman, right? While I’m glad we’re past the time when superheroes kept calling each other by switching lamps on and off, surely there was a better way to get her attention? Tiron: “Don’t, Superman unquestionably believes the word of an alien he just met.”īatman: “Sounds legit, alien I just met, I unquestionably believe you.”īatman COULD just call the Justice League, but we have something neat: he decides to recruit Supergirl to help him! But here?īatman: “I’ll ask Superman, he’s like a brother to me.” Superman being under the influence of an alien is not unheard of, but typically there’s some kind of mind control involved. What’s stopping Batman to simply talk things through with Superman? The references to Robin being in the Teen Titans are getting more and more frequent.Īs good as the premise is, however, it’s already showing some cracks. Who is Tiron, the assassin as Superman thinks, or the law enforcer as Batman thinks? ![]() Who is Vice-Alien, the target of an assassin as Superman thinks, or a criminal as Batman thinks? I rarely give props to Cary Bates when he’s writing Superman, but I have to give it to him: this is a rather solid premise. ![]() The alien, Tiron, claims that the guy we just saw meet Superman is a criminal. Now, if that was the premise, it would be a somewhat standard plot for World’s Finest.Įxcept there’s ANOTHER alien that has infiltrated the Bat-Cave. Which is apparently of the utmost urgency, and yet that didn’t stop him from doing the interview as Clark Kent.ĭid he expect the interview to take much less time or what? So Superman brings the Vice-Alien to the Fortress of Solitude to keep him safe… but then he IMMEDIATELY leaves for a space mission. ![]() I’m starting to think there’s a reason this guy wasn’t elected President. So why didn’t he go to Superman in the first place!? Only THEN he decided to call Superman and ask for help. This guy knew Earth has Superman and went there to hide from the assassins… but instead of immediately asking Superman to help him, he disguised himself as Not Vincent Price. Not crazy enough for you? This is the Vice-President of his planet! It’s going to be one of those issues, isn’t it? He IMMEDIATELY gets outed as Superman! Two things of note here:ī) how does he keep getting hit like this when he has super-speed!?Īnd then it turns out the Not Vincent Price is actually an alien!!! We begin with Clark Kent interviewing Not Vincent Price. Despite its simplicity, I find this cover to be fascinatingly intriguing. ![]()
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