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Caveman Poetry, Philosophy, Poison Ivy and Hugging Flashes in Heroes In Crisis #6 Preview

Published Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:00:47 -0600

The new Tom King, Clay Mann and Mitch Gerads issue of Heroes In Crisis is out tomorrow. And philosophy is in the air, with former caveman and Titan, Gnarrk, former Kid Flash, Wally West and former psychiatrist Harley Quinn. With the question asked of superheroes, whatever their failings and feet of clay – did they do more good than bad? How many did they save?

The implication also being how many did Sanctuary save? You know, before everyone died. And then time for Gnaark to speak against type with a little Keats. A poem both about admiring greatness and wishing it upon oneself, before rejecting everything that would come with it. In parallel with being a superhero in the DC Universe, both Wally West and Harley Quinn having someone to model themselves on, to become, before finding the downside that comes with that.

With Wally West finding his North Star in Barry Allen… in a scene reprised from DC Rebirth #1 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank.

Which has different dialogue than how it went down in DC Rebirth….

Which has Barry talking to Wally about his memories of Wally returning rather than hope, or Wally talking about his family.

And for the first time since her confessional panel of doom, Poison Ivy being visited by Harley Quinn in Sanctuary. Before… well, you know…

While Gnaark turns from Keats to Hobbes… fighting a tiger. Could Gnaark be Calvin here?

Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, if there's a DC link there, was the founder of modern political thought and instrumental many political movements. He saw the state of nature described above as the worst way to be and saw that transferred absolute power was the only other solution, but one by choice, creating a social contract of government. Basically, the opposite of V for Vendetta. And possibly what Sanctuary is up to…? They have those golden masks for a reason…

HEROES IN CRISIS #6 (OF 9)
(W) Tom King (A/) Mitch Gerads
Get a deeper look into the inner workings of Sanctuary. When heroes visited the facility, they relived their trauma through virtual reality, contending with the events that brought them there in the hope of reaching a meaningful resolution. That is, until the trauma took over and escalated these personal events into a full-blown crisis! Find out what pushed one of the superheroes over the edge and how it broke the machine. This special issue reunites the Eisner Award-winning MISTER MIRACLE team of writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads!
RATED T+In Shops: Feb 27, 2019
SRP: $3.99

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