Letters To New Outsiders #19

I'm glad you were happy with the newest member. Grace will be showing up in not only this book, but occasionally will be seen in the new Green Arrow series that will be coming out this fall.

A Skrull? What's a Skrull? Zee is just finding her own way now that she has tapped into powers she didn't even realize were out there. You can thank her sister, Tamara for that.

Thanks for reading and responding!

I also want to point out the House Of Mystery was a HUGE, and I mean HUGE help on this issue. His stuff in this issue was extrodinary. And of course, I can never say enough about Roy's covers. The man is amazing! Thank both of you and Ramon, who I hear had some input in this issue as well. What a group of talent I get to work with!

Grace was a surprise to me too, as I was expecting.....someone else. Heheh.

I doubt this "alliance" with the Government will last past the Crisis.

Babs seemed really strange this issue, assuming the Justice League was guilty. That's....weird.

Things are looking interesting though, oh yes indeed!

Babs point of view is that of a cops daughter. It isn't about being innocent or guilty, it's about doing what the law tells them to do. Granted, there's still a ton of internal conflict going on within her at the same time.

Thanks for reading and responding.

that's how I saw it. Sell outs.

(are we doing this everywhere?)

A sell out is a sell out by any other name!

(reading between the lines is for suckers!)

THEY ARE SELL OUTS!

I'll take sellouts for $500, starlord.

-UDC

Did the Outsiders sell out...?

I think what's important to remember is that the coming crisis is one of conscience as well as circumstance--- and not necessarily good versus evil. Is Faraday a villain, or just misguided? When does "I was just following orders" become no good as an excuse?

Batgirl's perspective doesn't bother me; as Brian pointed out, she's a cop's daughter, and has a healthy respect for law and order. It's Green Arrow that this crisis is going to tear apart.

Ollie is in a position we rarely see him in: he's leading and responsibile for a team that has already taken some pretty big hits. He's worried about Dinah, he's dealing with the fallout from Adrian's death and Huntress' trauma, and trying to protect his people from the media assault that wants to paint them as criminals (or at least accomplices to murder)--- has this forced him to compromise his inherent distrust for authority and government...? Is Ollie asking himself: "What's the greater good here? In whose interest am I obliged to act?"

I think this crisis will tear Ollie apart. I think it might actually have been a long time in the making, and the coming events just might be the catalyst for the Mike Grell-type Longbow Hunter to emerge in Oliver Queen--- and for me, that is going to be exciting to watch!

But where does it leave the Outsiders...? Was the death of Adrian Chase the beginning of the end for this team? I, for one can't wait to find out!

Good issue, fellas (even if the team seemed a little too at-odds with each other)! I loved the reveal of Cadmus' secret weapon and Ollie's mole (although I am not a fan of the character at all, she seemed to work well in this dynamic), not to mention the out-of-left-field appearance of Snapper Carr (was he a mole of Ollie's as well?)...! And just exactly what did the team see that surprised them so much about Faraday's super-soldiers?

Looking forward to seeing how the crisis plays out in this book!

Great cover, Roy! You really get a sense of isolation, confusion and paranoia... The look on Green Arrow's face says it all.

Snapper freaking Carr? There's a name I never expected to see, anywhere!

Good stuff, fits in perfectly after the Justice League isue. I wasn't too surprised by Babs' reaction, though I was surprised she didn't contact Batman and say "WTF?" You tied in a whole lotta plotlines here (like the Question's "last stand" a few months back) in a cohesive manner and made it all work well...and Grace was a good surprise too! I'm with Babs, I thought for sure that was Roy.

My only objection is talking about these identical super-soldiers but NOT saying who they resembled. C'mon, man, do we got a bunch of Boba Fetts running around inside Cadmus or what?