Final Crisis Aftermath: ESCAPE #6 (Spoilers)

[jAWSH!]

Nemesis discovers the secret of Electric City...

Electric City is what Brother Eye has evolved into. An entire city that appears to be used as a storage warehouse for time pools, cosmic treadmills, and the miracle machine from Final Crisis.

It is also revealed that someone is stealing those items. Those of us who are still bothering to read Cry For Justice know that the guilty party is Prometheus.

While I'm still confused as to how much previous versions of OMAC have to do with this version, it is interesting enough that I might go back and re-read Couintdown to try and get a clearer picture of what's happening. Probably Final Crisis: Resist too.

All in all, a very good mini series. Very difficult to follow if you're waiting month to month for a new issue. I feel this will probably read better in trade.

Grade: B+

[Dave Hackett]

Complete let down for me.

The concept wasn't worth waiting five issues to explain and too much still didn't make sense.

If Brother Eye is omnipotent enough to build Electric City and pull people and things out of time like this, why does he even need Global Peace Agents?

And why, after all that they've done to him in the "test" would Tom (or Chase) just turn around and sign up on the spot like that?

I guess the "Cosmic Disarmament" idea is vaguely interesting, but it doesn't justify the drek it took to get here.

I feel ripped off.

[jAWSH!]

If Brother Eye is omnipotent enough to build Electric City and pull people and things out of time like this, why does he even need Global Peace Agents?

And why, after all that they've done to him in the "test" would Tom (or Chase) just turn around and sign up on the spot like that?


I'm not sure that Brother Eye is acting alone on this. Also, Brother Eye is far from omnipotent. He was unable to control Buddy Blank's influence on the Electric City.

And I think that once they saw the Miracle Machine and knew what the purpose of Electric City is, it's not too far a stretch for them to join up. Especially Tom, since he was recently heatbroken by Wonder Woman. I think he would want a new start.

Bummer that you didn't like it :frown:

[DaleKaleD]

Gotta say, I will have to go back and re-read the entire run as a whole, and I think it will slowly show whats what.

I am not sure if I agree with the tie into Cry for Justice, though I am not reading that, as I took it to mean that one of the things that Brother Eye was doing, using the GPA as his agents, was collecting and warehousing the greatest of the devices that have and could lead to "crisis" level events, ie the Treadmill or the Miracle Machine.

And I thought that would be interesting, sort of the same way that the Linear Men in the past or Booster & Hunter currently went around in the background of everything else making changes to keep things moving, it kind of gave me that feel.

As a fan of Nemisis from the old Suicide Squad days, I did like the character point that he has always hid himself, and isolated and having to deal with the situation he finally evolved his skillset to what it could have been, if he hadn't almost perpetually been in one disguise or another.

Saying all that, who knows how much if any of this will be picked up down the line by other books, I fear it will only pop up in the one or two event issues here or there, I mean post Final Crisis, I think this is the ONLY place we have seen this agency mentioned at all, and I am behind in my reading, but has Rene mentioned it at all in her current Bat-Book aperances?

[jAWSH!]

I am not sure if I agree with the tie into Cry for Justice, though I am not reading that, as I took it to mean that one of the things that Brother Eye was doing, using the GPA as his agents, was collecting and warehousing the greatest of the devices that have and could lead to "crisis" level events, ie the Treadmill or the Miracle Machine.

It's entirely possible that I misread it, but I think they mentioned that Prometheus was stealing timepools and cosmic treadmills in Cry for Justice 2 or 3...

[Desaad]

Yeah, I didn't see the comment as a reference to Cry For Justice -- just the opposite, I felt that it was a little bit contradictory that they were collecting all these objects at the same time that Prometheus was collecting them (at the same time that General Lane was using the Time Pool, I might add).

Well, this one ended almost exactly as I had figured it out. The Global Peace Agency was what I predicted it would be, what Final Crisis alluded that it would be. How do I feel?

Kind of cheated. I suppose I should clarify that, but ultimately while I liked where we got (this sort of multiversal/timeline jumping Checkmate-like agency disarming the world of their more dangerous weaponry) I thought we got there very, very poorly. 6 issue was not needed for this. Or, rather, I should say they could have been MUCH better spent. The 'mystery' should have been wrapped in the first two issues, and the last four should have been an adventure to elucidate upon the form, function, and methods of this peace agency. I know, this is the picture of the 'wrong type' of review, the type of review that compares the work to what the reviewer wanted rather than what he got...but I just feel like, as a concept, this had a lot of potential. It's frustrating to see the execution fumble this particular ball so completely, because I really would have liked to have seen some sort of ongoing Global Peace Agency presence, dealing with OMAC perhaps. Ah well, ce la vi I suppose.

The art, by Cliff Richards, was functional but not really interesting. The strongest aspect of Rudy's previous work was his inventive layouts (which he continues with in the Shield, reviewing forthwith), and it's rather disappointing to see that Richards chose to mimic the rendering style rather than the page design.