Our Worlds at War Rant

So I was skimming through Our Worlds At War. Honestly, while I usually like crossover events, (I even liked Zero Hour for gosh's sake) I really didn't like this one.

It had some good moments, I particularly liked Geoff Johns's JSA tie in. Sand got to be particularly leader-y in that one. (I particularly liked the end, when Luthor asks about casualties: "You're forgetting who you're talking to. This is the JSA.")

But in general, I didn't like it. Even the great Sand-portrayal is tainted by the World's Finest follow-up, where Alan, Jay and Ted are grieving for Hippolyta. Jeph Loeb is give or take for me...when he's good he's very good. But here he wasn't. He botched Sand. How the hell do you botch Sand?! If you don't know what to do with him just keep him silent! It works fine!

He wrote him uptight! Uptight! Look, Sand is calm, polite, restrained, mouthy and sometimes an utter bastard. But in this, he's written like freakin' Cyclops!

Now I love Cyclops dearly, but Sanderson Hawkins is no fucking Cyclops, thank you!

Not to mention that the scene involved a man who grew up in the 1940s being uptight about drinking alcohol. Now I'm no historian, but that really doesn't make sense to me. Especially given that Alan, Ted and Jay were doing the drinking. Seriously. What the fuck?

But I digress.

Now I mostly hate Our Worlds at War for two reasons: first, that they killed Hippolyta, Aquaman and Guy Gardner but only Hippolyta hasn't come back. Second, that when they killed Guy Gardner, they did it in such a dumbass way.

THIS is Guy Gardner's death scene:



Now in and of itself, I have no problem with this scene. Guy Gardner, especially as Warrior, is kind of a magnet for gratuitous trouble. I have nothing against him getting stabbed by a giant spear and even with Booster Gold, not the brightest bulb in the box, thinking he's dead.

The problem is that he actually IS supposed to be dead. Seriously.

This is a guy who, in the last issue of Warrior, got his HEART RIPPED OUT of his chest by Major Force and GREW IT BACK. There is absolutely no way that Guy Gardner, at least in his Warrior identity could possibly be killed via human shish kabob. No way.

On the plus side, it makes resurrecting him easy enough. (I deny the existance of the Guy in Hell story, but I can perfectly buy him being thought dead while his body slowly regenerated from this.)

But honestly, I have this thing about my favorite characters. If they're going to die, or even be presumed dead, it should be a death freakin' worthy of them.

Or at least a death that seems like it could POSSIBLY KILL THEM!!!

Hmph.