Comments on: Birds of Prey #109

By: Tremaine

Tremaine — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:09:18 +0000

Uh, there can’t be 2 Mr. Miracle’s?’ cause Shilo is still in HIS MM costume….

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:27:57 +0000

“a rouge monitor”?!? You mean, one of those fashion-challenged guys who watch over Universes has been assigned to make sure drag queens aren’t using too much blush? Hopefully, this is something which will be rectified in the Final Crisis. ; )

By: nu

nu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:21:56 +0000

you should make a special exception for your hero histories and have a “hero histoy special: who is the new god killer?” then profile all of the likely suspects. their origins and powers, possible motive, and of course why they might be the killer (such as the shadowy outline) and reasons why they may not be the killer. for example so far i have heard darkseid, orion, black racer, infinity man, firestorm, martian manhunter, takion, alexander luthor, one of the supermans, waverider, a rouge monitor, and fastbak could all be the killer. some of these seem more likely than the others and some seem just crazy, but are they? also i think that the major spoiler site looks a lot better than most comic book sites, and most of those discussion boards are annoying. so maybe with all of the combined intellect here at major spoilers we might be able to figure out who the new god killer is, or just have fun speculating. and with this i will shut up for now. praise be to batman. amen.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:02:26 +0000

Why is that you get irritated when Batman knows everything, but expect the same knowledge from Oracle? :P

Because Oracle is less of a cock-rocket about it…

Read Jack Kirby�s Fourth World for a the identity of The Infinity Man and part of the reason (in my opinion) Darkseid considers him a threat. Not sure the exact issues, its been a while.

The Infinity Man was the combined entity that came when the five Forever People (Mark Moonrider, Beautiful Dreamer, Serifan, Big Bear, and Vykin The Black) combined their essences with their Mother Box, and appeared mostly in Forever People. He is not to be confused with Legion of Super-Heroes villain The Infinite Man.

By: Stacy B.

Stacy B. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:38:34 +0000

Read Jack Kirby’s Fourth World for a the identity of The Infinity Man and part of the reason (in my opinion) Darkseid considers him a threat. Not sure the exact issues, its been a while.

By: nu

nu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:11:31 +0000

i guess we could consider infinity man the “good” darkseid that everyone kept talking about. maybe his image on the cover is to throw us off, maybe…

By: Brent F.

Brent F. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:32:19 +0000

Darkseid considered Infinity-Man a threat.

If that doesn’t say something dangerous about him then I don’t know what will.

By: nu

nu — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:43:09 +0000

going along with the whole, infinity man is the killer idea; yes he does resemble the outline but if you look at the cover for the death of the new gods infinity man is seen between orion and takion. i thake this as a sign that he is not the new god killer since it appears that everyone on the cover is looking a someone or something. i believe they are all looking at the killer.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:44:51 +0000

But why would the Infinity Man want to kill New Gods?

Motivation and character changes have not been big concerns in the big two universes these past few years… . Who would have thought that Alex Luthor, Superboy Prime, and Golden Age Superman would be behind Infinite Crisis, or Iron Man and Captain America would be on opposing sides of a Civil War?

By: Brent F.

Brent F. — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:56 +0000

Why is that you get irritated when Batman knows everything, but expect the same knowledge from Oracle? :P

By: Axel M. Gruner

Axel M. Gruner — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:20:07 +0000

Since the multiverse changed… or got better… the nature of Limbo and the Infinity Man could have changed… maybe someone punched it real hard? :-)

By: Stacy B.

Stacy B. — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:13:06 +0000

But why would Infinity Man want to kill New Gods?

Although, to my knowledge, only the Forever People have been able to summon up Infinity Man, I don’t recall it ever being stated that they where the ONLY ones that could do it. Maybe it is more like the Uni-Mind (from Marvel’s Eternals) and any group of New Gods could potentially call him forth.

Originally, Infinity Man was in Limbo until he was called forth, then the Forever People would swap places with him. Maybe a he is sick of Limbo, and is trying to make sure that he can’t be sent back by any of the New Gods. Has anyone seen the Forever People lately (since the 7 Soilders cameo)?

Sorry, rambleing again. Great review! I really like being able to keep up with all the books this way.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:38:14 +0000

From the silhouette on the rooftop, I�d say that�s more evidence for the Infinity-Man camp, not Fastbak. Note the ridge on the top of the helmet and the shoulder-pads.

But why would the Infinity Man want to kill New Gods?

By: Sean Curley

Sean Curley — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:21:19 +0000

I believe Bedard recently apologized on messageboards for making the mistake re: Shado (although you’d think an editor would have caught that).

By: matt

matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:22:39 +0000

Thanks for the Major Spoilers. It’s sad that a book that used to stand on its own so well is now being used to promote other projects. I guess it’s to be expected when a writer joins the team that is responsible for so much of the other Final Crisis tie-ins. Write what you know and all that. I may still have to pick up the issues for the Scott art though…

From the silhouette on the rooftop, I’d say that’s more evidence for the Infinity-Man camp, not Fastbak. Note the ridge on the top of the helmet and the shoulder-pads.