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The Amazing Spider-Man # 378
Maximum Carnage part 3
Ascent Into Hell from Strange Tales No. 13
by Peter Gillis and Richard Case
Mark Bagley and Randy Emberlin — Amazing Spider-Man #379 Venom, Carnage, Doppelganger, Demogoblin, Deathlok Cover Art (1993) Source
Portada de The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #361 por Mark Bagley y Randy Emberlin.
Young Justice Our Worlds at War #1 -August 2001- DC Comics
"Comedy of Eras" (31-37 of 37)
Writers: Dan Anett & Andy Lanning
Penciler: Todd Nauck
Inkers: Ray Snyder, Terry Austin, Randy Emberlin, Jaime Mendoza, Walden Wong & John Stokes
Letterer: John F. Workman Jr.
Colorist, Tom McCraw
Batman: No Man's Land: Low Road to Golden Mountain (Story #30)
No Man's Land continues on with the most Larry Hama Batman comic of all time.
The story opens up on Batman noticing that Gotham's Chinatown still has power after Mr. Freeze's scheme. Bruce does some investigating and comes across some dead gangsters... and Lynx!
Because most people don't know about Lynx, here is a brief rundown. She is a ninja lady (Lethal Larry Hama loves a ninja) who has been in the Bat-Books as a gang leader to the Ghost Dragons. Lynx has mostly been a henchman to other forgotten 90's villain King Snake, but she is solo here. She appeared once a year in Robin (Chuck Dixon) storylines throughout the 90's, being a C-list villain.
So, you might be asking why Lynx isn't a bigger deal with how DC love a super-villainess. There are three factors: 1.) DC tends not to play with Chuck Dixon's toys because he is a terrible human being, 2.) She is mainly a Tim Drake villain, and DC downplayed Tim after The New 52 and 3) Lynx died in the background of a bad story in 2006.
This story is basically Lynx's one bid shot at being a solo player in the Bat-Books in the future. And has seen from my ramblings for above, it failed! Let's dissect why this story failed!
The dead gangsters found around Lynx are her crew and it turns that were annihilated in a gang war. And Batman is kinda of asshole about the loss of lives.
The pair fight but Bruce manages to calm Lynx down. They realize that a common enemy in the group that is supplying Chinatown with its power.
Now one might wonder why supplying electricity to people in Gotham is such a big deal that Batman in spending some time to solve the issue. Well, that power has come to somewhere, and Gotham wasn't not a big solar city in 1999.
Well as Batman and Lynx find out, a gang is using slave immigrant labor to power the destroyed city. And it isn't Batman that is offended by this scene but instead it is Lynx. Yeah, as part of her backstory, Lynx's mother worked in a sweatshop, where the conditions were so poor, that the mom died. As an orphan in Paris, Lynx was forced down a path of crime to survive eventually winding up in King Snake's hands.
When Lynx sees a child trying to save an older man from a beating by the slavers, she is ready to free the slaves. But for some reason, Batman isn't quite ready to pull an Abraham Lincoln.
Before the two can get into an argument about this, they are ambushed by the slavers. Batman and Lynx fight back-to-back against all these villains.
Eventually the fight goes down to where all the slaves are at. The previously mentioned little girl is inspired by Lynx's fighting against the slavers, but Lynx is eventually overwhelmed.
Batman has to take Lynx away for medical attention... but doesn't call the rest of the Bat-Family to rescue the children and innocents that are enslaved by this gang. This is a way too cold/dick-ish Batman for the situation.
Anyway, Lynx wakes up under the care of a local doctor/herbalist. And we get this weird message that injured gangsters are paying for the medical care for other people, so it is good that gangsters are around. What is the point, Larry?
An injured Lynx wants to go free the slaves, but Batman and the doctor try to talk her down. But she leaves... only to see the dead boss of the slaver. It turns out the slaves revolted after the battle, gaining their freedom... at the cost of the life of the little girl who was inspired by Lynx.
Batman and Lynx have a solemn conversation about heroism. Lynx says this is the one good thing she will do because it hurts too much to see an innocent girl die. But Batman says heroes have to humanity and emotions, and that people only know who heroes are after they die. Also, Bane is building a bomb for a future story.
This story sucks! Larry Hama is a bad Batman writer; you can tell that he at a lengthy run on Wolverine before this. This isn't Batman in this story, it is Wolverine. The issue ends with idea that Lynx will be a hero now, but the next time she is seen, she is back as a gang leader showing the lack of impact that this story has. The art (Paul Gulacy) saves this story from the very bottom tier, but just barely.
3.5/10
Here is more Marvel Super Heroes artwork of the characters used for the Player Select screen. Sorry I don't have Shuma-Gorath at the moment. Credit to Marvel, the artists and Capcom.
90's Venom by Mark Bagley, Randy Emberlin & Bob Sharen (1992).
From the very last page of Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1 #361 (1992).
