Crisis Counseling

DC's "Final Crisis" is finally coming in August. This week DC started releasing books with the tag line of "Sightings". Basically any book with that tag line are suppose to be some sort of tie-in to "Final Crisis". Just like we continue to cover Marvel's "Secret Invasion", we will also be giving you up to the minute coverage with "Crisis Counseling".

This week we got a taste of Libra in the pages of "Justice League of America" #21. I hate to make the comparison but the whole scene with Libra and the villains of DC was very reminiscent to that of the Hood from the pages of New Avengers last year. Basically Libra saves the hide of Z-list villain, the Human Flame, and offers him his heart's desire. All the Human Flame has to do is join up with Libra and become a follower of Darkseid. The cool part about this scene is that we get to see that not only is Libra trying to recruit some lower level bad guys, he's going for the heavy hitters too. Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grood, and Dr. Polaris are just a few we see. The scene ends with a tease that Martian Manhunter is running on borrowed time. The Human Flame wants revenge on Martian Manhunter and Libra wants to prove that he's not just blowing smoke up the ass of these villains. This equation can only end up equalling the death of a certain underutilized green martian.