Helenaween #7 - Wonder Woman #273
So Huntress starts the story in a, rather fancy cage, apparently Grundy has transferred his affections from the now smashed statue to Huntress. Weirdly, it's rather tame for what is quite an icky situation. Grundy, it seems, has no real desires down there; obvious that part of him is totally dead rather than just undead. She seems to sit in the cage until the right moment; she doesn't seem to be restrained, and the cage is quite spacious. It looks like she's just waiting to find out just what was going on!
In between, we get the DA making a final call on Helena, and we finally find out what he wanted to talk to her about. If he should do a policy to crack down on vigilante supers, with a leaked story forcing his hand! And this isn't even the first crackdown a Wayne's been involved in, which I'm sure you remember that it happened when we first met Helena and Power Girl got her costume change!
Anyway, Huntress again beats the goons, suitable for a Wonder Woman comic, binding them in a golden rope. A Grundy, someone that she's not been able to defeat this whole comic? She tricked him by making him think that she had her cape stuck on some wooden planks. She intimidates the goons into selling this deception because Grundy hasn't exactly been a good leader of this little group.
Anyway, the board that he smashes through, Grundy isn't exactly a subtle, leads to a fall down the inside of the building (the geography here isn't totally clear) through some water pipes and into the sewers to be washed away back to (probably) his swamp!
Anyway, we're out of pages and after an issue consisting of a fight, we get a one-page summation of all the floating plot points. Vinson, you remember the bearded reporter that definitely isn't Power Girl's boyfriend (whatever Convergence might claim). Anyway, he's at the press conference about Gotham (again) clamping down on vigilantes, and this is so important that the arrest of everyone involved in the fake painting scams is summed up in a single panel with a photograph showing everyone involved. We only know it involves Winnie because of the magnificent moustache!
It's all a little frustrating in that they're solidly told comics, and the story is a nice noir-ish feel, but the pacing of these three-parters are really inconsistent. Really, it seems like they would have been better as two-part stories, which would be roughly right for a single issue of a regular comic. And we would have gotten another story to go along as a bonus!
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