by Trishbot » August 3rd, 2010, 10:40 am
A lot of us come here to get our mind control fixes and enjoy some hot, naked hypno heroines.
Few of us I believe expected to become emotionally drawn in to these stories or to have our heartstrings tugged like this.
I'm sure I'm not the only person that was shocked by the outcome of this story. "Bad endings" have happened before, like the recent "Vanishing Act", but never did they have the gravity, sacrifice, and personal sense of loss and longing like this story had. And yet, looking back, the previous chapters were littered with the signs and the inevitable outcome.
That said, the issue had several excellent bits in it, and also opened up a lot of new questions.
1. I enjoyed how Duality Dame's final fight had her referencing the very lessons she taught Jade Lightning. It was great to see how practical and universal her lessons were, and it was clever to see them brought up during combat against the demon. Even the techniques she'd used to "safely" defeat opponents was well done.
2. The montage of everyone important to her from her past really resonated with me. It struck me very much as a "life flashes before your eyes" and gave her closure in the face of her own demise. She talked often about her "legacy", and if this truly is the end of Duality Dame, she left one hell of a legacy, that's affected the entire League and even the Superheroine Squad at Metrobay.
3. This story has frequently skipped around and hinted at some big revelation Duality Dame had about Emerald Tiger and her father. What was the "promise" she made to The Masked Merc? It's also rather tragic and ironic that when Duality Dame offered to tell her, Emerald Tiger rejected it and said she could tell her later....
4. This story really hammered home just how close Duality Dame and Emerald Tiger were. They'd always been shown as close, but when you factor in how Duality Dame viewed her surrogate daughter and how it was Duality Dame, not her own mother Kat Krusader, that trained and raised her to be a superhero, it really makes the final moments very bittersweet. I don't see Emerald Tiger taking the outcome well at all, and I'm eager to see how these events shape her down the line.
5. As others have mentioned, Duality Dame isn't necessarily "dead" (I think), but what DO you do with a body without a mind or soul? Just put it in storage? Put some computer chips in there to make her a cyborg? At this point, Duality Dame is almost a symbol to the others, so her "death" could be catastrophic.... would the heroines try and hide this from the others by manipulating her body? And what happened to her soul? Was it "killed" off? Or was it sent to some limbo? There's a lot of possibilities on Duality Dame's ultimate fate, both body and mind, and I'm sure we'll be hearing more ideas one what should be done. I don't doubt we'll see Duality Dame back in action at some point, somehow.
Overall, what an emotional rollercoaster of a story. It was full of humor, horror, tragedy, love, action, mind control, eroticism, and depth. I can't see what the follow up to this is.