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[Damon Griffin]

Countdown to Infinite Crisis (death toll)

Only that they have some very great talented people behind <Countdown to Infinite Crisis>.

It looks really good.

I've been pretty much out of touch with DC for some time now, reading JSA and not much else from DC. I have to wonder how many characters are going to get killed by the time we're done with Identity Crisis, Countdown, Oman Project, etc. Recent deaths or other casualties I'm aware of to date:

Firestorm (didn't see this happen, only saw a reference to it in Manhunter)
Sue Dibny
Jean Loring (criminally insane)
The Atom (went MIA because his ex is criminally insane)
Captain Cold
Tim Drake's dad
Blue Beetle

Did I miss anyone?

 

[Klaus]

DC posted a recap of Identity Crisis/Countdown to Infinite Crisis, it's at www.newsarama.com .

You should add to your list:
Donna Troy (but she's cmong back)
Captain Atom (died in Superman/Batman)

But there's always the come-backs:

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Ronnie Raymond (Firestorm) is now the unbodied mentor of current Firestorm
Jason Todd is the new Red Hood
Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner are back as GLs
Jean Loring will be the new Eclipso

 

[Viking Bastard]

Captina Cold is dead? Again?

Captain Atom is already back, also. It happened off-panel. Anyway, he's immortal,
so it doesn't really count. The real reason he came back so soon (but he was always
supposed to) is because of a continuity mishap. He showed up in the background of
Identity Crisis after being killed in that Superman/Batman arc a year earlier.

Supposedly Rags Morales, IDC's penciller, didn't know Atom was dead and the editor
didn't catch it, or something. So someone came out sometime and said: "Hey, he came
back off panel. This is like the sixth time he dies, anyway, so who cares? He jumped
a week forward in time. We know he can't die because of Kyle Rayner's final GL arc
where it's revealed Major Force is immortal and he and Captain Atom have the same
powers. Case closed. Stop pestering us with this! Enough with the emails already!"

Paraphrased, of course.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Captain Cold

I think you mean Captain Boomerang- Cold's still alive and kicking in the pages of the Flash, where he's about to get involved in the Rogue War that's been brewing for some time now.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Ah, yes. I'm a little behind on my Flash reading, but I would've thought I'd heard of
somone as big as Cold kickin' it.

As for Captain Boomerang, we already have a new one.

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, the

Spoiler

supposed son of Barry Allen and the Golden Glider (Cap Cold's sister)

I wonder why all the hubbub about mindwiping Dr. Light, when the JLA (Batman included) had no qualms to, say, mindwiping the *entire white martian race*!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Yeah, the

Spoiler

supposed son of Barry Allen and the Golden Glider (Cap Cold's sister)

Not sure if this needs to be spoilerized or not (ID Crisis has been over for some time now, and the new Captain Boomerang has been in the last several issues of Flash), but just in case...

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the new Boomer is thought to be the son of the original Boomerang and Golden Glider, not Barry Allen. AFAIK, the Barry Allen thing is just a fan supposition that has yet to be borne out by any writer. I certainly don't think that's where Johns is going with it. The old Boomerang dismissed the idea of his kid being Glider's son, so his parentage is still a mystery, but by all lights, he does seem to be Boomer's kid, mother unknown.

 

[Damon Griffin]

Countdown (death toll) updated

I think you mean Captain Boomerang- Cold's still alive and kicking in the pages of the Flash, where he's about to get involved in the Rogue War that's been brewing for some time now.

Yes, Boomergang. My bad. I'll be interested to find out who his son's mother really is, if it wasn't Golden Glider...Jessie Quick, maybe? We'll find out eventually, I guess.

I hope Klaus was kidding about some of the combacks. Jordan's return I was aware of, and so far I haven't been very happy with the Rebirth story, though I was outraged several years ago when DC turned one of my favorite characters (Jordan as GL) into a lunatic multiple murderer.

Anyway, Jean Loring as the new Eclipso, assuming it's for real, wouldn't count as a comebck for me -- she'd still be an Identity Crisis casualty, sacrificed by DC in the name of selling a few more books. And Jason Todd as new new Red Hood? I knew there WAS a new Red Hood, but wow, talk about completely pointless resurrections -- Jason Todd?

 

[Viking Bastard]

The scene in which

Spoiler

Jason Todd

is revealed as the Red Hood was frickin' kewl, where he

Spoiler

beats the Joker up with a crowbar

.

 

[Silver Moon]

The scene in which

Spoiler

Jason Todd

is revealed as the Red Hood was frickin' kewl, where he

Spoiler

beats the Joker up with a crowbar

.

Yeah, but that was only the beginning. Since he was trained by

Spoiler

the world's greatest detective

his next move was to break into the offices of

Spoiler

Warner Brothers to obtain the telephone list from the 1985 reader's poll of everyone who called the 1-900 number to vote for his death.

Those are the folks he really wants revenge against.