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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-30 17:04:00

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char: dr. john watson, char: sherlock holmes, creator: aaron campbell, creator: john reppion, creator: leah moore, publisher: dynamite entertainment

Sherlock Holmes is on the case.

Four scans from Sherlock Holmes #1, by Leah (spawn of Alan) Moore, John Reppion, and Aaron Campbell.

Some douchebag is blowing up buildings in London, and sends a letter to the police threatening to blow up the house of a retired Scotland Yard higher-up; also, some German royal is visiting and a second letter from an alleged Frenchman complaining about "Almani-Lotharingen" is also mailed in. Anyway, Holmes and Watson are brought in, because no one in the actual police force is ever competent enough for cases like this. On the night of the threatened bombing, everybody is on guard at the house, while Holmes goes up to visit the consumptive Sir Henry (the target) in his room...when suddenly there's a shot!

In retrospect, having the title of this story ("The Trial of Sherlock Holmes: Part I: The Smoking Gun") at the front may not have been such a great idea.

Anyway, looks to be a good story.

But don't take my word for it! Take the word of the three (talented?) guys on the back cover blurb:

Nobody knows more about putting Batman stories in new wrappers than Jeph Loeb.

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	foxhack 2009-04-30 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	If JMS and Brubaker approve, then I approve. If Loeb approves, then ... not so much. D: (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-04-30 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	For me, it's Brubaker's approval that makes me think I might not like this. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pensive1.livejournal.com 2009-04-30 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	And Loeb's the one that has the most to say too. D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filbypott 2009-05-01 12:59 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, Loeb is great at recognizing good stories. Why, he rips them off all the time! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-04-30 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	Sherlock Holmes... at a loss for words? Does not compute. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-04-30 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	I wondered about that, but I suppose that's to get people interested in whatever mysterious it was that happened. Also, he did (apparently) just shoot and kill someone, which isn't a normal occurence in his stories. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-04-30 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	If I recall it right, Holmes and Watson both shot and killed a guy in one of the earlier mysteries. It was The Sign of Four, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-04-30 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	...Sherlock Holmes is alive and well and- Wha? I didn't realize that was Sherlock Holmes until they explicitly told me so. Somehow, I am not feeling this. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-04-30 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	(PS: Holmes, you were a prize-fighter. You unbent a poker with your bare hands. You've been in action situations before. THIS IS NOT LIKE YOU.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-30 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's rather the point, this is the first part of a mystery after all. His complete befuddlement screams "plot point". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-04-30 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'd read this anyway, simply because it's got Holmes and Watson in it, and I'm an enormous fangirl. (Now taking bets that Holmes is in a cocaine daze! Taking all bets, ladies n' gents!) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	merseybeatler 2009-04-30 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	Someone threatened his precious stash of 7% solution! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	irenem 2009-05-01 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	Oh noes! That is a six-pipe problem, at least. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	batcookies 2009-04-30 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	I'm another one not quite feeling this. As for letting you know what's going to happen from the start... that's not unusual in Holmes. Half the time the bad guy does everything short of star in a musical entitled "I Did It, I Did It, But You'll Never Guess How!" (Reply to this)

	darklorelei 2009-04-30 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	I hate the coloring. Also, I don't know if I can get behind Holmes in this medium. So much of it is the wordiness. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suzene 2009-04-30 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	Have you seen 'Aetheric Mechanics'? Because I will repost if you haven't. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-04-30 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't, but it sounds interesting! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	irenem 2009-05-01 05:44 pm UTC (link)
	It does look kind of... poopy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-04-30 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Holmes being himself accused of a felony is an interesting twist. But yeah, the dazed state isn't like him at all (even for a man who, in the earlier Conan Doyle stories, took narcotics). Reminds me of Meursault on the beach from Camus' The Stranger. Only Holmes is indoors so he can't claim the sun was in his eyes. :-) (Reply to this)

	pensive1 2009-04-30 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Holmes dazed and confused? UNPOSSIBLE. (Reply to this)

	sailorlibra 2009-04-30 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, pfft. Framing detectives for crimes is old. (Even Sherlock has been semi-framed for a crime before.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-04-30 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	At least twice by Lovecraftian assassins, if I remember correctly. Though one was in a short story and the other was in a miniseries that Dark Horse did a while back starring the Baker Street Particulars. It had the Lost World's Professor Challenger in it. :) Though in a Neil Gaiman story, the identity of an assassin of Lovecraftian beasties was a major plotpoint. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-05-01 04:30 am UTC (link)

This looks interesting, if only because this seems to be the first time (that I can think of, anyway) that Sherlock Holmes has EVER been phased by anything. Startled, yes. Irritated, yes. Momentarily at a loss for words? Occasionally. But this would seem to be the first time that Holmes has ever been unable to deal with a situation. This intrigues me, and it's written by the spawn of Alan Moore, so I look forward to seeing what lies ahead.

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	cricharddavies 2009-05-01 10:14 am UTC (link)
	Consider that posing at being unable to deal with the situation may be his way of dealing with the situation -- a la "The Adventure of the Dying Detective". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-05-01 04:16 pm UTC (link)

That's the one where he pretends to be sick and goes all delirious, right? It's possible - it'd certainly be a twist in the plot - but I don't see how it'd apply here. I mean, there (if I remember correctly) he was basically acting helpless so that someone would spill the beans around him - here, on the other hand, he just went up to talk to the guy who he'd been hired to help; I fail to see how it would help the situation for him to pose as a murderer. (Of course, I'm not Sherlock Holmes, so I could be wrong, but...) No, I think that something happened so quickly that even his analytical mind was unable to keep up, a situation which he is NOT used to, and as a result, he's temporarily at a loss for words. (I'm reminded of the sequence in 'The Great Mouse Detective' where Rattigan outthinks Basil, who is deeply shamed and humiliated, and basically stays that way until events force him to get over himself. Since that was a Holmes pastiche, this may not be a coincidence.) My guess is that either A: in the solitude of the prison. he'll have time to pull himself together and work things out, or B: he'll have to enlist Watson's help, basically making him play the role of detective for once. Either way, it'll be interesting to watch.

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cricharddavies
2009-05-01 04:59 pm UTC (link)

Consider that within a few minutes of his final problem with Moriarty, he'd come up with and begun to implement a plan for dealing with the rest of the Professor's organization -- a plan that required the world to believe that he'd suffered a failure almost as serious as this one.

He's Sherlock Holmes. He's the man Batman wants to be when he grows up. He is that damn good or he's not Sherlock Holmes. This is not to say that he's infallible; were that the case, the name Irene Adler would mean nothing to anyone. He errs. But I find it much more plausible that this is another case where his apparent error is voluntary and the opening of a door to perception.

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psychop_rex
2009-05-01 05:16 pm UTC (link)

Well, sure, but the key term there is 'within a few minutes of'. Holmes doesn't have minutes here - he has seconds. The shot is fired, somehow the gun gets in his hands, and moments later - note, the gun is still smoking, so it can't be more than ten seconds, if that - the door is broken down, and in come the cops. Had Holmes had even a minute to figure out what was going on, I have no doubt that he would be his usual, composed self, but that many things happening within a matter of a few seconds is enough to stagger anybody. And at this point, he'll have to come up with some pretty good evidence pretty quickly, or his protestations of innocence will sound like the same things all crooks say. THAT is where the proof of his Holmesian brain will come in, I'll wager - proving his innocence while stuck in a jail cell.

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