A Sister and Bro' reunion - Worlds' Finest #7

Family Matters, part 2

Worlds' Finest #7
Cover Date: February 2013
Released: 5th December 2012

⋅ Writers: Paul Levitz
⋅ Pencilers: Kevin Maguire / George Pérez
⋅ Inker: Kevin Maguire / Sandra Hope / George Pérez
⋅ Colourists: Rosemary Cheetham / Hi-Fi Design
⋅ Letterer:  Dezi Sienty
⋅ Editors: Wil Moss

Continued from Worlds' Finest #6.

As we in the real world meet a new Helena (In Goldern Age #1), I get to read the last one meeting our current Damian (how he remembers all this, what with hypertime and all is a question for you good reader). The conversation happened off screen and then we start with Pee Gee taking the two Waynes to investigate two sites where the possible transfers were coming from. We cut between Robin and Huntress's investigation of one site in snowy, possibly European climes, whiles Pee Gee goes off to, in an inversion of the normal a named African country (The Republic of the Congo). Even though the Congo is the B-plot we'll leave that to last for what will later become very clear...

In this issue rather than right, each other Helena and Damian are fighting a large pack of wolves, which with less witty banter isn't as fun a fight as the one in the previous issue. After saving each other they make their way to a shack where the transmitter dish is mounted on the roof. After a cute little moment where Helena leaps up onto the roof whilst the younger Damian struggles to climb onto the roof! Helena then put in a little doohickey to download the data, before they go to make their escape only to bump into the leader of the pack a giant wolfman!

After Damian fights him for a while Helena takes the wolfman down with her patented crossbow in the back. We then get another cute moment where the two call each other brother and sister, and she gets him to agree not to tell Bruce about her existence. 

Meanwhile in Africa, the Republic of Congo because it's so rare we need to enjoy that it's not just a country of "Africa". After a cute moment of Kara petting an elephant she uses her supervision to spot a similar-looking dish. Who is guarding the dish is a little more, troublesome. Because instead of wolves we get something far more disturbing, Child Soldiers!

It's not done disrespectfully, but its inclusion is just a little weird as unlike say the Take Back the Night rally of previous issues, no point is really made about this. If you're being generous it could be drawing a parallel to the fact that Apokolips also uses Child Soldiers (both Mister Miracle and Big Barda were raised from youth to fight for Darkseid). But apart from a Boom Tube, which takes the child soldier to who knows where we don't know for certain that Apokolips is involved. Power Girl isn't overly violent despite being hit by a powerful high-tech laser gun, she melts their other weapons and seizes the high-tech gun but doesn't hurt any of them beyond using her super breath on them. It's not bad, just a weird bit of real life in a superhero comic where the other two are fighting werewolves.

Apart from that weirdness, it's a solid comic it's building a mystery and moving things along, without yet giving us any answers to what's going on, despite its claims it's a two-part story it's really something that will rumble along for more issues to come!

Comments

  1. Tim PriceThursday, 10 November 2022 at 23:30:00 GMT-5

    I haven't read many comics with Damian, but I got the gist a him very easily and the dynamic with him and Helena was pretty great. I'm gonna need to dig up your coverage of the previous issues. Good stuff.

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