Secret Six

Secret Si by MELINDA Schmidbauer

One of our Facebook member posted that Secret Six was rapidly becoming one of his favorite comics. After this latest issue, I am tending to agree with this. Issue 9, a tie-in to "Battle for the Cowl" features the three of the Secret Six thwarting a kidnapping in Gotham. Ragdoll dressed as Robin and trying to quip like the '60s TV version of same was simply priceless. At the same time, Bane and Catman striving to be more like Batman, in spite of their more lethal tendencies, shows that these "villians" are not the typical one-dimensional Gotham villain.

Catman's line "One saves a terrorist, one kills a terrorist. Who did more for the world in the end?" strikes a note that Mark and I have talked about before. Wouldn't Gotham be better off it the Joker was killed? But that crosses a line. In the DC Universe, maybe that is the line that separates the hero from the villian.