The introductory arc of the Freedom Fighters ongoing title continues with part four of “American Nightmare.” I’ve been a Freedom Fighters fan for a long time, and I hate to say this, but I’m giving serious thought to dropping this title. I’ve been following along with the previous issue, and I feel like I came in on the third reel of a movie here (yeah, I’m old. I remember when movies came on reels. Move on).In the issue we learn that the Golden Age hero Jester was part of a conspiracy known as the Arcadians, who have been manipulating history for centuries. The current Jester, shown last issue, is the original’s grandson. Enclave A, yet another top secret metahuman prison that no one has ever heard of, gets infiltrated and attacked, and the Freedom Fighters really do look like they are busily fighting nothing in the midst of the desert. You never see the bad guys, they never say anything, no attacks come in at the heroes, and the bad guys all teleport away. It’s like one of those movies where someone has an imaginary friend. There’s a lot of back story about Jester and the Arcadians, including seeing the first meeting of Jester and the Freedom Fighters.
In the present, the FF (yeah, I’m gonna call them that) use Phantom Lady’s tech to follow the bad guys that teleported away, and land in the middle of a riot/break out at Enclave A. There’s a lot of fighting, and the guards burst in with some kind of energy weapons powerful enough to drop Miss America, while the warden looks on, knowing who the heroes are and not caring. As the jail fracas continues, the GA Jester, gravely ill, waits for government agents to get into his mansion and then blows it, and himself, to bits.
What I liked and what I didn’t:
There just doesn’t seem to be a lot good going on here. The team isn’t working well together, another Golden Age hero goes bad, the story is confusing, and the art is odd. They actually manage to make Phantom Lady unattractive in her first panel, and that takes some doing. I was also really thrown by the fighting bad guys we the readers can’t see bit, as well as where this fight came from. I had high hopes for this series, but it’s just not meeting them. I’m having trouble believing this is the same team of writers I liked so much on Power Girl’s first year.
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