I'm still irritated about the DH thing. Make pitchers hit and if they don't like getting laughed at for being bad at it, take some damn batting practice. Make shitty fielding sluggers play defense. Put them in left field or at first base if you want, but they should at least have to try.
I always forget Hobie Brown built Peter's Hornet outfit originally. Although the idea he managed to build anti-teleport technology is stretching the limits of my belief. Anyway, he's being Hornet and decides to investigate Beyond when it buys out his crowdfunding app (for triple what it's worth) for people who got fucked from exposure to weird super-hero stuff and runs into Dusk. She wants his help finding Ricochet, which leads them to another Beyond lab, where Ricochet is acting as security, or troubleshooter or something. They help him contain some big pink things that came through some uncontrolled rip in dimensions, and then they get offered jobs. The end.
I guess the fact Beyond wants information on people who reacted to weird extra-dimensional energy is kind of interesting, and makes a certain amount of sense with them as some creepy corporate front for. . .whatever the hell they're a front for. I forget what Beyond Corp turned out to be in NextWave.
Hobie tracked down Ricochet by finding a reference to a "Kroatan Farm". "Kroaton" is a sort of misspelling to Croaton, the Native Americans that lived on Roanoke Island, where that colony "mysteriously" disappeared. I.e., they moved somewhere else. Or "kroata" is Esperanto for Croatia. I figure it's more likely a reference to the former than the latter, but I'm not sure what. They find things that disappeared? They figure out how or where those things disappeared to?
The art shifts halfway through, about the time Hobie goes sneaking into Beyond and is spotted by Dusk, but I don't know which half is Bazaldua and which is Towe. The first half makes Hobie a lot more jacked in the upper body (and a huge forehead, makes his facial features look too small), and his entire face is covered in the costume. The second half tones down the musculature a bit and his mouth and jaw are exposed at least part of the time. That half also uses a thicker line than the first half. I prefer the second half, but that's also the half where they don't waste pages talking about buyouts and crowdfunding apps, and instead fight monsters. That probably has something to do with it.
Steph briefly falls under Tutor's control, but shakes it off. They fail to catch the Tudor. The big exhibit made of stolen junk at the docks is also the Tutor's thing, apparently. So Tutor is also Spellbinder? Barbara goes to the showing undercover and meets an old flame from college, while Steph and Cass sneak into the ship and. . .again fail to catch the Tutor as Steph falls temporarily under his control again. The three Magistrates watch, but misread the situation and don't get involved.
I actually like that. Their whole plan was to let the Tutor draw the Batgirls into the open, then get all of them. Because obviously the vigilantes wouldn't let the villain just escape. The fact they did something unexpected - not pursuing Tutor - threw the whole thing off. And it messes things up enough they don't decide to charge into the hull of the ship to try and attack the Batgirls directly. There's a certain level of sense to the actions and reactions.
After, Stephanie feels like she's the weak link on the team. I'd disagree because after all that hassle Barbara put them through to make a secure network, the Seer already found her and is taunting her with images of a tied up and beaten Nightwing, which may or may not be real. Cass is the only one winning, since she found the cook pot her neighbor had stolen in the wreckage of the art exhibit.
I don't understand the random black spots in the panels. What they're supposed to be, or why they exist. Things are dirty, or grimy? It's like Corona and/or Stern are trying to add a gritty texture to the art, but I'm not sure how that helps.
At some point, I would really appreciate it if Cloonan and Conrad would actually explain why Seer is after Oracle. Three issues in, and I have no fucking clue what her beef is. Jealousy, professional rivalry, citywide conquest, revenge, just being a dick? And it would seem Seer knows who Oracle is, and apparently that Dick Grayson is Nightwing, so how were they ever going to hide from her? And shouldn't that be a bigger deal?
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In Nextwave Beyond was testing weapons, but it was some scheme by a baby MODOK and Devil Dinosaur. Al Ewing retconned Beyond in his Mighty Avengers and made them an extra-dimensional entity that likes to play with mortals and manifests as a creepy corporation.
I'm not sure anyone knows what they are, to be honest.
Well the creepy extra-dimensional entity would probably fit here. A database full of humans who had strange reactions to being exposed to weird stuff from other planets or dimensions could be amusing to play with.
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