The people are very angry at Superman.
I wonder which one is more worse - this or Arkham War. While War had a great premise but faltered at the execution, this was weird from the beginning and grew progressively more confusing as the arc wore on.
Well, we have a robot Batman being controlled by people around the world who have released their rage (I wonder why Guy and his Red Lantern team wouldn't be alerted of this, being in the sector) under the influence of the golden fury blossoms (where does Mongul get these flowers? First Black Mercy. Now this)
The art is bearable through the alike faces problem is still there. The spreadsheet pages are hard to read though.
Greg had a difficult task and didn't do himself any favours. And given where this seems to be headed, I'm not so sure about this.
SPOILERS FOLLOW.........................
A young woman, affected by the golden fury blossoms, is waiting in line to get a loan when Superman crashes though fighting roboBatman. Furious, she becomes the a participant in the Superman bashing.
Elsewhere, Mongul watches in delight and marvels at how a man who was worshiped one day is now the target of so many he saved. Superman manages to avoid RoboBatman and picks up Hiro, hoping to destroy the console powering Mongul's gaming network (the words I type, sheesh).
But concluding that Bruce may die if the console is destroyed, he takes an open punch from the roboBatman and it's 'game over' for him. Given that I was already confused by the rules of this 'game', this didn't make much sense as well. A simple free punch. Really?
Anyway, Superman is now able to enter the cyberspace and talks to the woman, pleading for help and saying sorry for the post office. Now with the people at his side, Superman and RoboBatman face Mongul.
RoboBatman and Superman take him outside the city, where they beat him up (seriously, no big boss fight, pun intended) and we quickly do an Iron Man 3 as we learn Batman survived, Mongul imprisoned in the Phantom Zone,the blossoms withered away and the satellites were destroyed (oh yeah, Clark Kent goes in person to that woman and tells her she got a Wayne Loan approval.).
But apparently some one else is on the horizon. And it already sounds bad.
The aspect in the this issue that common folk are just collateral damage for Superheroes was a nice theme but given the ridiculous plot, it was never going to take off.
SPOILERS END........................
With passable art, and a convulated plot, this arc didn't do Greg Pak any favors. And judging from what he's setting up, it may actually get worse before it gets better.
So, I give it 6.0 out of 10
+A nice theme
+Some good art
-Plot made no sense
-Story unnecessarily bloated
-Conclusion rushed
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