![]() Several months ago, I brought myself to read through James Robinson’s brilliant Starman series. With its great supporting cast, the character Mikaal Tomas stuck out to me. ![]() One of the many superheroes to once call himself Starman, Mikaal turned against his conquering alien race and sided with Earth. Eventually, this led to the extermination of his kind and the truth that Mikaal was the last of his people. This made me realize how overused this idea was. So many aliens in the DC Universe were the last of their kind. Other than Mikaal, we have Superman, Martian Manhunter, Lobo and even Kilowag. I got the feeling that these guys need their own story based on this. When I came across DC Universe: Last Sons at the local Barnes and Noble and saw that this was essentially what I was asking for, I realized I had to read it. Even without Mikaal and Kilowag there, I was still interested. Besides, it was about time I read a book that didn’t have pictures in it.īy the way, this is filled with spoilers. If you want a review that doesn’t tell you that Xemtex’s robot friend dies, go here. If you take that guy’s word for it, continue. It didn’t take me long at all to realize that this story was really a retread of the two-parter from Superman: The Animated Series called “The Main Man”. In it, Lobo was hired to take in Superman and hand him over to an alien collecting the last of various races. With Lobo being the last Czarnian, he too was captured, leading to him and Superman teaming up in order to escape. Rival bounty hunters got involved, but in the end, Superman and Lobo beat the big alien villain and went their separate ways. Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked. With Kurt Russell, Zo Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito. ![]() Solid episode.Īs Last Sons begins, Lobo takes on his latest bounty: a gang of outlaws led by the reptilian Xemtex. Death Proof: Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Once finished with them, Lobo is told by his agent Tartan Quarantino about a million cred bounty specifically chosen for Lobo. The criminal in question? An Earthling everyman named John Jones. As any comic reader knows, John Jones is the low-profile alter-ego of J’onn J’onz, the Martian Manhunter. So the secret identity of a superhero is wanted for unnamed crimes from part of the galaxy that he had never encountered and Lobo has been hand-picked and overpaid to take him in. It’s a set-up if there ever was one, but the Main Man refuses to notice. Not only is he playing into the hands of the mysterious Alpha being, but there are other threats. For one, the remainder of Xemtex’s gang is out there, looking for revenge and a group of bounty hunters led by a guy named Angel Eyes is interested in stealing Lobo’s bounty. Now that the basic story is out of the way, let’s cover the main strength of this book: the characters. Superman: You may have noticed a lack of his mention in the above paragraph. That might surprise you, considering he gets top billing. Dubrovnik, the center of the Republic of Ragusa, was among that era's wealthiest merchant cities, and it wanted to maintain that status.īut it was a small city and it couldn't afford to simply shut down as the large merchant cities of Venice or Milan did, so city leaders came up with a plan to force visitors to wait on one of the many desolate islands off the coast for 40 days before they were allowed to come ashore.Sorry to say, Superman’s appearance in this is a borderline cameo. She says it all started in 1377, when the Black Death was on its way to killing a third of Europeans. "Torture, or cutting your nose or your ears off." Ivana Marinavić, the head of educational programs at the Lazarettos of Dubrovnik, the first buildings ever constructed for the sole purpose of quarantining, lists some of the consequences for breaking quarantine in the 14th century: The first people to ever be quarantined - more than 500 years ago - had a nice view but not-so-nice consequences if they decided they had had enough of it. This is the view from one of the quarantine cells.ĭUBROVNIK, Croatia - The first state-imposed quarantine happened here, in present-day Dubrovnik, Croatia, an ancient walled city atop the cliffs of the Adriatic Sea. For nearly three centuries, the Republic of Ragusa, where modern-day Dubrovnik is centered, forced visitors to spend 40 days on the remote islands off the coast of the walled city, but in the 17th century, the city built the Lazarettos, a series of buildings immediately outside the city where visitors had to quarantine.
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