I really don't have a lot of things to say save for that this is my first post that didn't make it on Wednesday since I planned to update every Wednesday. I knew it would happen eventually and suspected it would happen sooner, but to be fair it isn't entirely my fault this time. Turns out that when I signed on to this blogger beta thing and then found that I couldn't access my blog until everything was ready. The price I pay for the drag-and-drop option.
Anyhoo, I've noticed that quite a few series and mini-series are actually coming to an end, so I decided to predict who it will all go down. I don't expect to be write, and for many of them I've only been following the trades, so I don't necessarily have all the information I need to make the best guesses, but I feel I have enough to take a stab.
52
How Much Longer?: The series ends this April which means it has 25 issues to go.
Premise: After the huge Infinite Crisis crossover, every DC universe series skipped a year ahead in time, allowing each series to start out fresh. DC decided to explain what happened in that missing year in a weekly year long series: each issue covers a different week within that year. The characters involved are Booster Gold (a super-glory hound from the future who decided to take Superman's place as Metropolis' big hero since Supes has gone missing), The Question (a conspiracy theorist detective), Renee Montoya (a disgraced Gotham city cop), Ralph Dibny (a former super-hero whose life's been ruined since his wife was brutally murdered), Steel (a super-hero engineer who worked hard repairing the damage from the Crisis) and Black Adam (a sometimes hero, sometimes villain who now rules his own middle Eastern country).
Goings-On: Booster Gold's been seemingly murdered (though who can tell with time travellers) thanks to his sidekick Skeets who may now be insane, Steel's daughter has joined Lex Luthor's own super-hero team, Ralph Dibny has gone off the deep end, a paradise island for mad scientists harbors a strange secrets, The Question trains Renee Montoya to become his successor, and many many other subplots are a happening.
The End?: The series has been hinting at a threat known as the 52 (the number appears in some form every issue) but what the 52 is remains a mystery. My guess is that it has been organizing the mad scientists and is manipulating Skeets. It probably also has something to do with time travel since Skeets himself is searching for time traveller Rip Hunter, who's home is full of insane scrawlings about all manner of super-activity as well as the messages "Time is Broken" and "52". With DC continuity once again changed in a big crossover, it would make sense that some entity or entity would want to take advantage of a fresh new timeline. Since all of the stories are going to intersect by the end of the book, my guess is that it has something to do with the mad science island, the crime bible (a mysterious tome that supposedly archives every crime ever), the new superheroes Batwoman and Super-Nova, the Superboy resurrection cult and pretty much every subplot the series has (which is a lot).
100 Bullets
How Much Longer?: It ends at issue 100 and it's now in it's late seventies, meaning it only
has a couple years left. That seems like a while compared to the other series, but it's still barreling towards it's inevitable conclusion.
Premise: Agent Graves gives people 100 untraceable bullets and irrefutable evidenced that they've been wronged, thus giving them the chance for consequence-free revenge.
Goings-on: Well, it became apparent pretty early on in the series that there was a much bigger story and now a great deal of it has been revealed except what Grave's master plan is and the more specific details of what happened in Atlanta. It seems that America is secretly run by the Trust, an organization of 13 crime families who run America in just about every conceivable way since the 1600s. To prevent one family from becoming more powerful than the others, the Trust employs the Minutemen, 7 agents skilled in murder, deceit and espionage whose job is to police the Trust. But somewhere along the way the de facto head of the trust, Augustus Medici, convinced the others that it was time for a change and that the Minutemen where now obsolete. While they were supposed to be killed off in Atlanta, a surprising number of them survived and it has become abundantly clear that before and after the Atlanta incident it is impossible to tell whose on which side. In fact it's getting hard to say what the sides are, exactly.
The End?: One way or the other the series is going to end in a lot of bloodshed. My guess is that Agent Graves master plan will end with getting himself killed. A lot of characters seem to be willing to put their life on the line for Graves and one character seemed to know that his end was coming, as if it fit into Graves' master plan and he was still OK with that. I think whatever Graves is planning, he believes in it enough that he's willing to lay his own life on the line for society's greater good. But I doubt he'd just kill the Trust and leave America to look after itself and he doesn't seem like the type to want to take control. I think Augustus has been planning it to be this way as well and that he and Graves are actually on the same side. My guess is that Medici's son Benito will become the new head of the Trust and Augustus may also sacrifice his life in order to get his reluctant heir to want to take over. Most of the Minutemen will die (especially the more experienced and confident ones) but a few will remain. And those who do will be Benito's new Minutemen who will begin the test again, giving 100 bullets to those who need it to find out who should be Minutemen (as well as taking care of other problems)
Civil War:
How Much Longer?: Hopefully three months unless there are more delays.
The Premise: After a tragedy involving the destruction of the small mid-western town of Stamford thanks to reckless super-heroing, the moral implications of super-vigilantism come into question. Iron Man quickly gets behind the Superhuman Registration Act which would render any non-government regulated superhuman activity illegal. Before it is, characters find themselves having to pick sides and when it is passed there are two major camps: Iron Man's pro-registration side (his argument is that heroes should not be above the law and that they can accomplish more working with the law) and Captain America's anti-registration side (his argument is that superhumans should not be forced to be government agents or be forced to sacrifice their identity).
Goings-On: To beef up support for the registration, Iron Man convinces Spider-Man to reveal his secret identity on national TV. Spider-Man does so (after consulting with Aunt May and Mary Jane) and finds it biting him in the ass and finds that old friends now view him with disdain. Meanwhile Captain America plans to give members of his faction new secret identities (I can't decide which is better: Cap as a mall security guard or Hercules as an IT guy). The two sides class for the first time in the ruins of an old Stark building and Tony whips out their trump card: Thor, who was thought dead. Well, actually he still was and what they have is actually a Thor clone, that turns out too be a little hard to control as it kills the Black Goliath, which royally pisses Captain America off. Spider-Man, realizing that he's backed the wrong side prepares to defect while Tony, realizing that he'll still need more soldiers organizes a new team to neutralize the heroes, composed entirely of unreformed super-villains.
The End?: Well, if I have one problem with the crossover it's that Tony's side seems to... villainous. I would prefer it that both sides were more relatable rather than making Tony the bad guy. Anyway, my guess is that somewhere there is a villain whose adding fuel to the fire. Wolverine recently discovered that Damage Control, a company in charge of cleaning up after super-battles, may be responsible for the Stamford incident that triggered the war. Plus that murderous Thor clone stinks of evil. My guess is that Loki the chaos god has returned to life (he died at Ragnarok along with all the other Norse gods) and has decided to make things worse. Still, the Superhuman Registration Act will still be polarizing the Marvel universe with each side having to pay for their choices. There will be two Avengers team, Spider-Man will be on the run and (based on an image leaked onto the Internet) Tony Stark will be the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., making me suspect the current director might be a villainess. Still, the Marvel universe will probably be forced to work together for the next big crossover World War Hulk.
Planetary
How Much Longer?: One issue left. Who the hell knows when it'll come out.
The Premise: A team of mystery archaeologists are trying to uncover the Earth's secret history as part of an open conspiracy while matching wits with a deadly group of ex-nazi scientists who have powers not unlike the Fantastic Four... only deadlier. the team is made up of Elijah Snow, the 106 year-old leader with cold powers, Jakita Wagner, a beautiful amazon, and the Drummer, who can talk to machines and can sense information.
Goings-On: Planetary was able to defeat most of the 4, but only the leader remains, as well as a friend turned foe. Also, it turns out the Drummer is a being of pure information.
The End?: The good guys are going to get what they want: access to the secret history of the world and the ability to give that information to the people. But what those big secrets are I can hardly imagine. I'm stumped as to how will this end beyond the obvious good guys win stuff. But Warren Ellis is always more original than that. So my guess is that we'll get a glimpse into the world that Planetary leaves behind now that there are now big plots to exploit the wonderfully strange secrets of the world. I also think that Snow may shock the other characters by giving the last villain mercy since he has much to offer the world despite his selfish evil. I'm guessing that mostly because the rest of Planetary felt a little let down by Snow's somewhat amoral handling of the four's seemingly unstoppable Thing-like member which cause a bit of a rift in the team.
Y - The Last Man:
How Much Longer?: Nine more issues left to go.
The Premise: A man with the unlikely name of Yorick Brown and the helper monkey he's
training (named Ampersand) are the only living male mammals on the face of the Earth. All of the other suddenly, at around the same time, coughed up blood and died. Now Yorick finds himself traveling across the Earth with a government agent named 355 and geneticist Dr. Mann in order to find out why Yorick and Ampersand are the only survivors of the plague.
Goings-On: I actually haven't been keeping up with this one but I'd be able to make a better guess when the eighth trade finally comes out. Last I remember the main character was heading to Japan, but I'm pretty sure he's left by now in the monthly books. Also the books recently told the cause of the plague and the reason for it. The reason for Yorick's survival was released much earlier. Also, Yorick still has to find his girlfriend Beth, who's somewhere in Europe.
The End?: Someone might die but I doubt it's going to be Yorick. Frankly, I'd like a happy ending for everyone but I doubt that's going to happen. But I bet that while not everyone's ending will be peachy keen, the Earth will be able to produce new humans again.
Frankly, I'm not the best at predicting and there is some stuff being telegraphed from a mile away but with some stuff, I have a good feeling that I'm right. Especially 100 Bullets.
Anyhoo, I've noticed that quite a few series and mini-series are actually coming to an end, so I decided to predict who it will all go down. I don't expect to be write, and for many of them I've only been following the trades, so I don't necessarily have all the information I need to make the best guesses, but I feel I have enough to take a stab.
52
How Much Longer?: The series ends this April which means it has 25 issues to go.
Premise: After the huge Infinite Crisis crossover, every DC universe series skipped a year ahead in time, allowing each series to start out fresh. DC decided to explain what happened in that missing year in a weekly year long series: each issue covers a different week within that year. The characters involved are Booster Gold (a super-glory hound from the future who decided to take Superman's place as Metropolis' big hero since Supes has gone missing), The Question (a conspiracy theorist detective), Renee Montoya (a disgraced Gotham city cop), Ralph Dibny (a former super-hero whose life's been ruined since his wife was brutally murdered), Steel (a super-hero engineer who worked hard repairing the damage from the Crisis) and Black Adam (a sometimes hero, sometimes villain who now rules his own middle Eastern country).
Goings-On: Booster Gold's been seemingly murdered (though who can tell with time travellers) thanks to his sidekick Skeets who may now be insane, Steel's daughter has joined Lex Luthor's own super-hero team, Ralph Dibny has gone off the deep end, a paradise island for mad scientists harbors a strange secrets, The Question trains Renee Montoya to become his successor, and many many other subplots are a happening.
The End?: The series has been hinting at a threat known as the 52 (the number appears in some form every issue) but what the 52 is remains a mystery. My guess is that it has been organizing the mad scientists and is manipulating Skeets. It probably also has something to do with time travel since Skeets himself is searching for time traveller Rip Hunter, who's home is full of insane scrawlings about all manner of super-activity as well as the messages "Time is Broken" and "52". With DC continuity once again changed in a big crossover, it would make sense that some entity or entity would want to take advantage of a fresh new timeline. Since all of the stories are going to intersect by the end of the book, my guess is that it has something to do with the mad science island, the crime bible (a mysterious tome that supposedly archives every crime ever), the new superheroes Batwoman and Super-Nova, the Superboy resurrection cult and pretty much every subplot the series has (which is a lot).
100 Bullets
How Much Longer?: It ends at issue 100 and it's now in it's late seventies, meaning it only
has a couple years left. That seems like a while compared to the other series, but it's still barreling towards it's inevitable conclusion.Premise: Agent Graves gives people 100 untraceable bullets and irrefutable evidenced that they've been wronged, thus giving them the chance for consequence-free revenge.
Goings-on: Well, it became apparent pretty early on in the series that there was a much bigger story and now a great deal of it has been revealed except what Grave's master plan is and the more specific details of what happened in Atlanta. It seems that America is secretly run by the Trust, an organization of 13 crime families who run America in just about every conceivable way since the 1600s. To prevent one family from becoming more powerful than the others, the Trust employs the Minutemen, 7 agents skilled in murder, deceit and espionage whose job is to police the Trust. But somewhere along the way the de facto head of the trust, Augustus Medici, convinced the others that it was time for a change and that the Minutemen where now obsolete. While they were supposed to be killed off in Atlanta, a surprising number of them survived and it has become abundantly clear that before and after the Atlanta incident it is impossible to tell whose on which side. In fact it's getting hard to say what the sides are, exactly.
The End?: One way or the other the series is going to end in a lot of bloodshed. My guess is that Agent Graves master plan will end with getting himself killed. A lot of characters seem to be willing to put their life on the line for Graves and one character seemed to know that his end was coming, as if it fit into Graves' master plan and he was still OK with that. I think whatever Graves is planning, he believes in it enough that he's willing to lay his own life on the line for society's greater good. But I doubt he'd just kill the Trust and leave America to look after itself and he doesn't seem like the type to want to take control. I think Augustus has been planning it to be this way as well and that he and Graves are actually on the same side. My guess is that Medici's son Benito will become the new head of the Trust and Augustus may also sacrifice his life in order to get his reluctant heir to want to take over. Most of the Minutemen will die (especially the more experienced and confident ones) but a few will remain. And those who do will be Benito's new Minutemen who will begin the test again, giving 100 bullets to those who need it to find out who should be Minutemen (as well as taking care of other problems)
Civil War:
How Much Longer?: Hopefully three months unless there are more delays.
The Premise: After a tragedy involving the destruction of the small mid-western town of Stamford thanks to reckless super-heroing, the moral implications of super-vigilantism come into question. Iron Man quickly gets behind the Superhuman Registration Act which would render any non-government regulated superhuman activity illegal. Before it is, characters find themselves having to pick sides and when it is passed there are two major camps: Iron Man's pro-registration side (his argument is that heroes should not be above the law and that they can accomplish more working with the law) and Captain America's anti-registration side (his argument is that superhumans should not be forced to be government agents or be forced to sacrifice their identity).
Goings-On: To beef up support for the registration, Iron Man convinces Spider-Man to reveal his secret identity on national TV. Spider-Man does so (after consulting with Aunt May and Mary Jane) and finds it biting him in the ass and finds that old friends now view him with disdain. Meanwhile Captain America plans to give members of his faction new secret identities (I can't decide which is better: Cap as a mall security guard or Hercules as an IT guy). The two sides class for the first time in the ruins of an old Stark building and Tony whips out their trump card: Thor, who was thought dead. Well, actually he still was and what they have is actually a Thor clone, that turns out too be a little hard to control as it kills the Black Goliath, which royally pisses Captain America off. Spider-Man, realizing that he's backed the wrong side prepares to defect while Tony, realizing that he'll still need more soldiers organizes a new team to neutralize the heroes, composed entirely of unreformed super-villains.
The End?: Well, if I have one problem with the crossover it's that Tony's side seems to... villainous. I would prefer it that both sides were more relatable rather than making Tony the bad guy. Anyway, my guess is that somewhere there is a villain whose adding fuel to the fire. Wolverine recently discovered that Damage Control, a company in charge of cleaning up after super-battles, may be responsible for the Stamford incident that triggered the war. Plus that murderous Thor clone stinks of evil. My guess is that Loki the chaos god has returned to life (he died at Ragnarok along with all the other Norse gods) and has decided to make things worse. Still, the Superhuman Registration Act will still be polarizing the Marvel universe with each side having to pay for their choices. There will be two Avengers team, Spider-Man will be on the run and (based on an image leaked onto the Internet) Tony Stark will be the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., making me suspect the current director might be a villainess. Still, the Marvel universe will probably be forced to work together for the next big crossover World War Hulk.
Planetary
How Much Longer?: One issue left. Who the hell knows when it'll come out.
The Premise: A team of mystery archaeologists are trying to uncover the Earth's secret history as part of an open conspiracy while matching wits with a deadly group of ex-nazi scientists who have powers not unlike the Fantastic Four... only deadlier. the team is made up of Elijah Snow, the 106 year-old leader with cold powers, Jakita Wagner, a beautiful amazon, and the Drummer, who can talk to machines and can sense information.
Goings-On: Planetary was able to defeat most of the 4, but only the leader remains, as well as a friend turned foe. Also, it turns out the Drummer is a being of pure information.
The End?: The good guys are going to get what they want: access to the secret history of the world and the ability to give that information to the people. But what those big secrets are I can hardly imagine. I'm stumped as to how will this end beyond the obvious good guys win stuff. But Warren Ellis is always more original than that. So my guess is that we'll get a glimpse into the world that Planetary leaves behind now that there are now big plots to exploit the wonderfully strange secrets of the world. I also think that Snow may shock the other characters by giving the last villain mercy since he has much to offer the world despite his selfish evil. I'm guessing that mostly because the rest of Planetary felt a little let down by Snow's somewhat amoral handling of the four's seemingly unstoppable Thing-like member which cause a bit of a rift in the team.
Y - The Last Man:
How Much Longer?: Nine more issues left to go.
The Premise: A man with the unlikely name of Yorick Brown and the helper monkey he's
training (named Ampersand) are the only living male mammals on the face of the Earth. All of the other suddenly, at around the same time, coughed up blood and died. Now Yorick finds himself traveling across the Earth with a government agent named 355 and geneticist Dr. Mann in order to find out why Yorick and Ampersand are the only survivors of the plague.Goings-On: I actually haven't been keeping up with this one but I'd be able to make a better guess when the eighth trade finally comes out. Last I remember the main character was heading to Japan, but I'm pretty sure he's left by now in the monthly books. Also the books recently told the cause of the plague and the reason for it. The reason for Yorick's survival was released much earlier. Also, Yorick still has to find his girlfriend Beth, who's somewhere in Europe.
The End?: Someone might die but I doubt it's going to be Yorick. Frankly, I'd like a happy ending for everyone but I doubt that's going to happen. But I bet that while not everyone's ending will be peachy keen, the Earth will be able to produce new humans again.
Frankly, I'm not the best at predicting and there is some stuff being telegraphed from a mile away but with some stuff, I have a good feeling that I'm right. Especially 100 Bullets.
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