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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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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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