The Human Target #2 Preview

[Hypo]

The Human Target #2 Preview
Writer: Tom King
Artist: Greg Smallwood

[Frontier]

Ice looks amazing! Hopefully she's not a killer.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Ice looks amazing! Hopefully she's not a killer.

Why haven't you learned your lesson about bringing hope to a King written series?

[Frontier]

Why haven't you learned your lesson about bringing hope to a King written series?

I should probably just learn to expect established characters to act how Kings' plots need them to act...

[The Cool Thatguy]

I should probably just learn to expect established characters to act how Kings' plots need them to act...

Now you're learning

Also, hamfisted symbolism. Don't forget that!

[sifighter]

Alright so I’m going to put this in a spoiler box because I need to make sure I understood this issue

spoilers:

So basically he tricked Ice into visiting him by impersonating Doc Mid-nite on the phone and after a slightly romantic day out, I’m sure that won’t come back to bite him, the current suspects are Fire and Guy Gardner because they were really upset with him concerning Ice’s death. Also Ice herself was a suspect and it’s debatable if she still is.

end of spoilers

[Thor-Ul]

Yep, basically that.
Also, this is a detective noir story. The femme fatale is always involved.
ANd I think it is confirmed than this story is very in its own continuity because is taking elements from different eras to put them in the present.

[bossofbam]

Is it too much to ask for a Tom King book that doesn't destroy a member of the JLI?

[sifighter]

Yep, basically that.
Also, this is a detective noir story. The femme fatale is always involved.
ANd I think it is confirmed than this story is very in its own continuity because is taking elements from different eras to put them in the present.

Oh yeah when they started referencing Ice’s death which I believe was a late 90’s, early 2000’s thing and not during the international era that I figured King is doing his own thing.

[Johnrevenge]

Oh yeah when they started referencing Ice’s death which I believe was a late 90’s, early 2000’s thing and not during the international era that I figured King is doing his own thing.

Well technically with Infinity Frontier the current mindset is that everything happened or whatever weird crap DC made up post Death Metal to keep messing up with continuity and making things more complicated for readers.

[bossofbam]

Oh yeah when they started referencing Ice’s death which I believe was a late 90’s, early 2000’s thing and not during the international era that I figured King is doing his own thing.

Ice's death was pre-Grant Morrison JLA, in the waning days of the JLI, post-Giffen and DeMatteis.

[Thor-Ul]

Well technically with Infinity Frontier the current mindset is that everything happened or whatever weird crap DC made up post Death Metal to keep messing up with continuity and making things more complicated for readers.

And as with everything branded Black Label, it can be considered as not canon until declared as such.

[Johnrevenge]

And as with everything branded Black Label, it can be considered as not canon until declared as such.

Yeah, but with the "everything happened" card they can say that the black labels are canon too. I'm not saying that black label books are canon, but that they can use this excuse to make them canon. It's just a cheap get out of jail card.

[silly]

Alright so I’m going to put this in a spoiler box because I need to make sure I understood this issue

spoilers:

So basically he tricked Ice into visiting him by impersonating Doc Mid-nite on the phone and after a slightly romantic day out, I’m sure that won’t come back to bite him, the current suspects are Fire and Guy Gardner because they were really upset with him concerning Ice’s death. Also Ice herself was a suspect and it’s debatable if she still is.

end of spoilers

My first thought after reading this was I hope this is not canon.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Oh, so King used Ice's super duper racist origin.

Yay.