Good question. I was under the impression that this one was supposed to deal with the mole, but the whole thing seemed pretty much unconnected to the whole mole plot. At first I thought the male looking android was supposed to be RT, but then he showed up at the end and appeared to be totally unconnected to the attackers, so I'm still kinda confused by the whole thing. Were they just androids who happened to be the same design as him, or is there supposed to be a connection there?And are we ever going to find out what the hell that big metal sphere thing is that Superboy's adopted as a pet?
So does this mean Red Tornado has been the mole all along? Am I right that he was a creation of Professor T. O. Morrow? Maybe Morrow had a back door into his programming and has subverted him.
Red Volcano
Red Torpedo
Red Inferno
Red Tornado
Now, couldn't the pet robot ball be the mole, or have some molish malware installed?
Now, couldn't the pet robot ball be the mole, or have some molish malware installed?
Now, couldn't the pet robot ball be the mole, or have some molish malware installed?
I thought there was suspicion about a mole in the team beforewas introduced.the metal sphere robot
RT was not unconnected to the attackers. When he arrived, he reached out to one of the androids and a spark passed between them. Then the other two androids woke up and all three of them -- including Red Tornado -- attacked the team again. The team woke up to find all three androids gone. So either that spark was the other two androids taking over RT, or, more likely given the timing, RT was the mole all along and he used monitor duty as an excuse to get away before the attack, and then revealed himself once his "siblings" were defeated.
So yeah, I'd say this episode was definitely connected to the mole story arc.
Agreed!Alpha Male was overall a very good episode.
the Brain (what a goofy villain!)
well... this might be the first time I've seen Captain Marvel with the exact same personality as Billy Batson.
Works for me. In addition to justifying his "sunny" personality (goofy and perpetually smiling), it differentiates him from Superman. Also, I like how he identifies with the other YJ members.Captain Marvel in the late 1980s
The first post-Crisis appearance of Captain Marvel was in the 1986 Legends miniseries. In 1987, Captain Marvel appeared as a member of the Justice League in Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis' relaunch of that title. That same year (spinning-off from Legends), he was also given his own miniseries titled Shazam! The New Beginning. With this four-issue miniseries, writers Roy and Dann Thomas and artist Tom Mandrake attempted to re-launch the Captain Marvel mythos and bring the wizard Shazam, Dr. Sivana, Uncle Dudley, and Black Adam into the modern DC Universe with an altered origin story.
The most notable change that Thomas, Giffen, and DeMatteis introduced into the Captain Marvel mythos was that the personality of young Billy Batson is retained when he transforms into the Captain; this change would remain for most future uses of the character as justification for his sunny, Golden-Age personality in the darker modern-day comic book world instead of the Golden Age depiction which tended to treat Captain Marvel and Billy as two separate personalities.
This revised version of Captain Marvel also appeared in one story-arc featured in the short-lived anthology Action Comics Weekly #623–626 (October 25, 1988 – November 15, 1988). At the end of the arc, it was announced that this would lead to a new Shazam! ongoing series, which failed to materialize.
Red Volcano
Red Torpedo
Red Inferno
Red Tornado
Ah, thanks!![]()
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