Booster Gold’s on the trail of the Sanctuary killer - who may or may not be him!? Meanwhile the Trinity track down Harley – incongruously cast as the hero in this bizarre setup – to one of the Penguin’s safe houses for questioning.
After the bombastic opening issue comes the slow build-up to the next loud melodrama – and that’s all Heroes in Crisis #2 really is: table-setting, and unfortunately not much of it interesting!
The story looks to be shaping up into a familiar one: the superheroes’ secret identities are revealed to the world! Ugh, please no! It’s never interesting and gets immediately retconned so it’s a complete waste of time. Plus DC just did this in Gene Luen Yang’s terrible Superman run when Clark was outed.
I’m not buying Tom King’s version of Harley who’s able to best Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman at once – come on, really? Not that I need to know right now – we’re only two issues in out of nine – but the whole Penguin safe house thing seemed utterly pointless too. What, she thought she could hide from Superman AND Batman? I have no idea why King’s so fixated on Harley… unless Mistah J’s gonna figure heavily later on, which it’s kinda hinted that he might.
Still not a fan of Booster Gold either who’s ineptly running his own haphazard investigation into the murders. I guess King’s playing the character for laffs but it feels even more pointless than the Harley storyline.
Clay Mann’s art continues to look spectacular and impressive - I love the physicality of his Superman – and, though Travis Moore draws the Booster Gold/Flash scenes, his style isn’t so different as to take you out of the story.
Tom King’s a fine writer but Heroes in Crisis #2 is not a good comic. I’m fast losing interest in this series and I wasn’t that invested to begin with.
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