Daddy Issues
Writer:
Marv Wolfman
Artist:
Alisson Borges
Penciller:
Diogenes Neves
Inker: Ruy
Jose
Colorist:
Blond
Letterers:
A Larger World
Cover Artists: Jorge Jimenez and Blond
Cover Price:
$2.99
On Sale Date: December 21, 2016
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE BOTTOM**
She broods
in her bedroom all day long
Thinking
‘bout her poppa and singing this song
All the
teeny-boppers at the San Francisco wharf
Love to hear
that demonic magic go off
Rockin’
Raven,
Rock, Rock,
Rockin’
Raven,
Go, Rockin’
Raven
‘Cause
Trigon’s gonna kill us all tonight!
Explain
It!
So that growing, glowy thing down by the San Fransico
Wharf, the one that was possessing people and forcing them to enter an endless
carnival of tortures and horrors? It’s still there. It’s still sucking people into
it and scaring the bejeezus out of them. The authorities and news organizations
are on the scene, but it’s not like they can do anything. There’s even a
gut-wrenching scene of someone trying to save their sibling or whatever,
and…well, he doesn’t. Over at Lincoln Memorial Hospital Raven is tweaking out
because her soul self is traipsing around somewhere. Doctors are about to dose
her with a sedative, thereby knocking her unconscious and subjecting the world
to the evil whims of Raven’s dad Trigon the Literal Satan, but Raven thinks of
her bubbly new buddy Antt and is able to snap out of her freak-out before being
poked. By virtue of being there, Madison’s figured out that her pal Rachel is
really Raven of the Teen Titans, which is probably less immediately important
than the ransom being demanded of City Hall by some spandex suit-wearing
terrorists.
Oh, forgot about them, did you? They still claim
responsibility for the big white orb, and they still want five billion dollars
from San Francisco’s coffers. After knocking out Madison and Antt with wome
niceness magic, Raven takes off after the terrorists. She quickly discovers
that they have about as much to do with the murderous light show as I do with
personal hygiene. Raven uses her powers to scare these dopes into wetting
themselves, but stops just short of mashing them into jam smears when she feels
her Trigon sense tingling. This causes her to reflect on her beautiful, mundane
life, when she is shocked out of her reverie and levitated over to the Wharf with
a bunch of other nearby unfortunates! But before she can be sucked into the
glowing mass with the rest of the gang, she bangs up against the side, barred
from entry, as a voice booms “NO…NOT NOW…SOON…” Well, what was the fucking
point of that?!
And that’s it! Another issue in the can and we’re
essentially no further along than two issues ago, save for the fact that more
people have been subsumed by this light bulb and Raven is BFFs with Antt, I
suppose…we’ll find out when Antt wakes from her coma, if she ever does. Though
the absence of the Justice League is mentioned at the beginning of the book, it
just doesn’t stand to reason that such a big calamity as this wouldn’t be
attended to my some other hero by
now. This miniseries is titled “the White Carnival” but we understand as much
about said carnival of terrors and nightmares now as we did two issues ago. Art
and plotting is great, indeed I wonder if this story got a carnival shoehorned
into it due to the artist’s existing proclivity drawing fairground rides.
Whatever the case, the story isn’t interesting enough to warrant a look.
Bits and
Pieces:
Raven is back in action! And by that, I mean she kind of farts around for the whole issue and there's not a lot of development.
5.5/10
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