dont know if anyone still talking about the ish....but Im bored at work....and........
Actually ROY and I both read this ish the day it came out (it was lovely he held my hand and everything) and both noted the Batman.... doubt Rags messed up It was Dr Light's memory and it could be fucked up....but i doubt it... Take a closer look at Batman in that flashback I may be mistaken but it appears the Caped Crusader was hit by an arrow....a GREEN arrow. My take is that perhaps Bats objected to the mindwipe so they wiped his as well...now the pre-solicted covers to IC#5 or #6 show a distraught Bats....now that could be due to the loss in War Games or it could be Bats has been hoodwinked by his pals in the JLA and realizes it. I can't imagine that Metzer would use IC to deal with Batman's loss in War Games. The only fault in this is the fact that after the Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA would Bats wonder why they never figured out he was Bruce Wayne? He may be in on the gig as someone else posted.
Back to the rape debate, while I doubt any would argue that a mature audeince disclaimer would have been appropriate but then some people would bitch "DC DID THAT JUST TO SELL THE ISSUE". Dave the rape WAS essential to this storyline and it had to be Sue. I dont know how closely you read this but recall that this happened in the past during the satellite era. That said heres my points.
WHY a rape? What horrific crime could occur that would make the heros so upset that they needed the villians mindwiped? Villians have found identies out in the past and those crafty heros always found a way to either hoodwink the villian. Or in the case of the Flash Heat Wave unmasked him and didnt know who the fuck he was! A rape was essential because it is more an act of the humilation and Dr Light bragging about what he did. Then after that the heros would think...well we wiped Dr Light's memory that one time...why not again....
Why not the hero himself? Again this was set in the past and a hero on the team would have had to have deal with that for sometime. But devil's advocate lets say its all handled off handled (which again works easier for Sue), think of it from a reader's perspective...if Elongated-Man is raped noone would take it seriously and laugh at what a pansy he is. Unfortunately thats the common thought about male rape. Think about Deliverence did they have hunky Burt Renolds bummed by rednecks or the wimpy Ned Beatty? Not to mention the anger it stirs up inside if you think of it as YOUR loved one getting raped. Most males would never imagine themselves as even a remote possibilty of getting raped being an issue (save prisoners) because they're too tough to let it happen. And as mentioned DC doesnt even have a mainstream gay character and you want them to do a homosexual rape?
Why Sue? Again its in the past at the time Ralph was the only hero in the JLA whose identity was none to all. It would have been commonplace for Sue to have been on the sattelite while the team was away. It wouldnt make sense to have Carol Ferris on the satellite as not everyone knew Hal was GL.
Is Dave effected by his daughter's birth? He would be a heartless man if he wasnt (waitaminute he IS a lawyer). C'mon Dave not the fact that your babies are girls but more the fact that your act of sex created something you love and care about regardless how much she resembles a toad. Dont you think that maybe even unconsciously you are effected by the depravity of the act of rape in comparrison to the fact that sexual intercourse with someone you love gave birth to your loving daughter?
