Actually, I kind of dig it! From 1986, Adventures of the Outsiders #33, "A Tiny, Deadly War!" Written and edited by Mike W. Barr, art by Alan Davis.
It's day one for the Outsiders without Batman, and they've got a tough one lined up: Geo-Force's homeland Markovia is under attack, by Baron Bedlam, the Masters of Disaster, and the Soviet army. Somewhat surprisingly, it's the Masters that give them the most trouble today: Windfall's air powers notice Metamorpho sneaking into camp as gas, and once he's frozen it's all downhill from there. She also has a bond with Halo: neither of them want to hurt the other, but Windfall was browbeat by her sister, New-Wave.
While the Outsiders are captured, their friend (and future member) Looker has a psychic flash, and leaves her fretting husband to come help. And bad guy the Bad Samaritan tries to investigate what Baron Bedlam's game is exactly, and learns...he's got Hitler in a tube! I doubt the Soviets are real keen on that either; so he's doubtless in for a kicking. Maybe: looking it up, it was building up to AotO #36, "Sympathy for the Fuhrer!" Um...no. Not at all.
Don't remember Looker having a husband. And why did they kick Batman out again? Was he his usually too-controlling self?
ReplyDeleteIt was a big plotline for her, actually- her husband preferred her as she was before she became Looker (plain but nice) and she preferred being Looker (pretty but vain). They almost divorced over it. And Batman left of his own accord- actually, he disbanded the team because they wanted to deal with the Markovia situation instead of his mission but they decided to stick together anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnd that Sympathy For The Fuhrer storyline was actually pretty good- Bedlam tried to make the clone like the original but when he saw what his genetic source had done, he shot himself instead.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the original Outsiders comic.