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sherkahn (sherkahn) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-23 11:01:00

Current mood:	amused
Current music:	Depeche Mode
Entry tags:	char: bane, char: catman/thomas blake, char: deadshot/floyd lawton, char: jeannette, char: ragdoll/peter merkel jr., char: scandal savage, creator: gail simone, creator: nicola scott, genre: previews, group: secret six, publisher: dc comics, title: secret six

Mommy, where do prunes come from? Secret Six #11
DCUBlog has 8 pages of Secret Six #11 previews.

One glorious page behind the cut.

I have to respect Mr. Smyth for his ambitions.
Sure, it's half megalomaniac and full on sociopath, but he's honest about it and willing to to be judged for it. And he's willing to pay for it.

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	thanekos 2009-06-23 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	how Apokoliptian a plot. (Reply to this)

	chengar 2009-06-23 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ragdoll, why must you be such a freaky freaking freak? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sistermagpie 2009-06-23 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	Better a freaky freaking freak than a nasty little prune, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-23 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	Is Bane gonna have to Batman a bitch??? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_octopusso248 2009-06-23 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	COMMENT WIN. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-06-23 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluefall 2009-06-23 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. Temi's stint as Wonder Woman must have been a bigger deal in-universe than it came across at the time, if half the team recognizes her from fifteen feet away behind her hair on a dark night. Cool. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-06-23 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe, but Scandal and Jean seem to be the only ones who recognize her. Jean we can chalk up to weird mystic senses. As for Scandal, her team thing is brains/being well informed, so it makes sense she'd recognize a one time replacement of one of the most well known heroines ever. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-06-23 02:40 pm UTC (link)

Eh, I think there's an implication that Blake recognizes her as well; they know the guy's a slaver, Artemis is obviously a slave, there's really no reason for him to wonder if there's anything to her past that unless she strikes him as someone he should recognize. Plus he asks Scandal and Jeanette specifically - "ether of you" - rather than posing the question to the Six at large, which suggests he's looking for confirmation (since as you say, knowing that kind of thing is what Scandal is for) rather than general information (which anyone might have).

Either way, for Jeanette to recognize her is still fairly significant IMO. "Wonder Woman" was portrayed as a very low-profile, lower-tier name in the WML years, and Artemis only held that title for about five minutes, during which she accomplished exactly nothing, saved no days, and rescued no kittens from no trees - not to mention that Diana was still operating in the high-profile JLA chair position and the rest of the cape community treated her like nothing was different, so to most of the world it would have looked more like a standard heroine costume change than "hey this Artemis dame is important" in any way. By the Jimenez era she'd become half the government of Themyscira, but I could certainly not pick out of a lineup the political leaders of countries far more active in Western affairs than the amazons ever were. So she's certainly not famous enough to recognize like this on her own merit.

Which means that if people know who she is, "Wonder Woman" and the people and culture orbiting that title are a far bigger deal in the DCU than previously advertised. Which, y'know. I can't say that bothers me.

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	thokstar 2009-06-23 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe Catman caught an unusual scent off of her? Tracking is his thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thebigapricot 2009-06-23 06:45 pm UTC (link)
	My guess was that knew her from the events in "the book by Will Pfeifer that I will not name but you know the one I am talking about." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khamelea 2009-06-23 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	I thought the pyramids had NOT been built by actual slaves. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-23 02:51 pm UTC (link)
	They weren't. Several of the blocks on the Cheops pyramid have graffiti by the workers describing themselves as "Friends of Khufu". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-06-23 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, but it was the slaves who wrote that graffiti, and they were totally being sarcastic. ... Or at least it'd be awesome if that was so. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	buttler 2009-06-23 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, but that was just the ancient Egyptian version of "Friends of Dorothy." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-06-24 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Corvée isn't slavery. Technically. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chengar 2009-06-24 04:54 am UTC (link)
	By the proper definition of slavery there's a substantial difference, but in the end either one involves doing lots of demanding, unpleasnt work for little/no pay whether you want to or not. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lissa_quon 2009-06-24 04:19 am UTC (link)
	Last I heard, it was decided that the pyramids and other monuments were built by farmers during the flood season of the Nile. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	brandiweed.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 03:15 pm UTC (link)
	I half-expect someone to make an icon of Ragdoll slumped in the corner of that first panel saying "People are sad and I don't know why." (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-06-23 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, Slavers. Like Nazis one of the few groups of people you can have no remorse when bad stuff happens to them. Like those sex traffickers from that Punisher Max storyline. (Reply to this)

	HaHa (Anonymous) 2009-06-23 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Knock yourself out, whitey."....i had to do a double take with that one, to say the least. (Reply to this)

retro_nouveau
2009-06-23 07:14 pm UTC (link)

Tom's looking a little more like Bane than he does like Floyd these days. Dippin' in the juice, Tom?

All of a sudden, "Smyth" triggered James St. John Smythe from A View To A Kill, and now I only hear Roger Moore when Smyth talks.

An Amazon in shackles. With Gail, everything old is new again. :)

Tommy and Arti could be brother and sister in the panel where he's asking about the redhead -- the one with long red strands dropping in front of her eyes, as he takes off his cowl and lets loose his own long red strands.

There is no other in any world like you, Ragdoll, you knucklehead. Yes, you're quite ... unique! Nyuk nyuk...

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	unknownscribler 2009-06-24 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Some very dead guards coming up I think. (Reply to this)

kamino_neko
2009-06-24 08:53 am UTC (link)

Ragdoll kind of has a point - I mean, I disagree that slavers are significantly less bad than the kind of scum they usually work for - and in this case, they kind of have proof that they're also murderers (and if they knew what the reader does...) - but they do regularly agree to work for some pretty high level scum.

On the other hand, even villains usually draw the line somewhere, and (especially given the histories of some of the Six), slavery's as good a place as any. But 'drawing the line somewhere' is kind of the dividing line between your typical villains, and the complete psychos, and we already know which side of the line Raggy sets on.

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psychop_rex
2009-07-16 06:53 am UTC (link)

You ask me, slavers are a hell of a lot worse than murderers. Murderers are horrible people, but at least what they do basically leads to the cessation of suffering, even if there's some sick stuff beforehand. Slavers, on the other hand, are right up there with serial rapists on the list of people who deserve to get the shit pounded out of them. They deal in human suffering. They exploit innocents who think they're on their way to a new life, and give them one - a life of hardship and exploitation, completely alone, without hope of reward or release, and with a beating, at least, to look forward to if they make a mistake. Slavers are pretty much scum. I'm not surprised that people are starting to have doubts.

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	kali921 2009-06-24 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	I find it freakishly odd that Ragdoll is a messy eater. I would have thought the complete opposite. (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-06-25 01:47 am UTC (link)
	Ragdoll wins in the "creepy" contest on this one. (Reply to this)

	faile_neume 2009-06-28 05:20 am UTC (link)
	SECRET SIX! GAIL! NICOLA! hugs BoP trade signed by Nicola I just want to give them all my money (even if it is not very much)! (Reply to this)