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FACES OF EVIL:  KOBRA

The Man Who Murdered Prometheus

March 2009

Written by Ivan Brandon

Pencils by Julian Lopez

Inks by Mark Farmer

Cover by Andrew Robinson

Synopsis

Jason Burr awakens to worshipers of Kali Yuga.  Elsewhere, Superman deposits the Checkmate facility taking care of the Kobra babies to an undisclosed location.  Meanwhile, Burr begins to shape Kobra into his vision, where the followers of Kali Yuga are invisible to the world.  Now, Checkmate agent Bell reveals he is really Burr.  He takes over the Checkmate facility and sends a message to the world.  For those who followed his twin brother Jeffrey, they will pay the price.  This includes the heroes of the world.  And the babies.  Superman flies as fast as he can to the facility, buthe gets there too late.  The facility is destroyed.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This is an odd comic.  It has an interesting story of a man coming to terms with his brother’s legacy and his role as the leader of cult set against the backdrop of continuity established in the Checkmate series.  And then it completely decides to skip over that story to simply hit all of the relevant plot points.  So we don’t see Jason’s conversion from rejecting his brother’s claims to embracing Kali Yugi.  Or even see why he was leading Kobra differently than his brother.  Nor do we see Jason finding a way to infiltrate Checkmate as Agent Bell or finding a way to get placed as one of the guardians of the babies.  Or coming to the decision to attack when he does.  There is no sense of time to the story, such as how long it took to go from emerging from the water to destroying the baby facility.  Everything just gets glossed over in an attempt to fit all of it into a 22-page issue.  There is a part of me that thinks the story was pitched as a 6-issue mini-series, but DC decided to use it as one-shot instead.  Either that or the story had more but was truncated in order to incorporate the Superman section in order to deal with the babies and re-set Kobra within the DC universe.  Regardless, the story feels too short.  Having said that, it is still very good issue and it is very chilling when Burr reaches the execution stage and announces his plans to the world.  And I like the way Superman races to save the babies, but arriving too late even for someone with super speed.  As I said, a good issue.  I just wish Brandon had more room to tell the story properly.  

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