Dear FirstBorn:
I shall lament the loss of the few, the proud, the semi-permanently controlled in the Metrobay Universe. But such is life in such a world, and they had a good run. At least the story of them gaining their freedom was worth it.
I agree with you, with my entire villainous hearth. What is the purpose of catching some heroine if you can’t keep it?
However, that’s how Max – and by extension R.O.P.E. – plays the game: He uses the heroines as his playthings, and he lets her go so he can play with her another day. It’s his plan. Justified in Universe. But console yourself with
Akonkids marvelous last number of
http://www.mccomix.com/members/gallery2 ... itemId=819 Vanishing Act: As long as there is no sequel, Byron still has the vivacious, controverted, strongly independent and strangely compelling Vanishing Girl in her own
shrine – room – cell – new home.Now we get to see what their nefarious villains will do with them next! Additionally, one does have to wonder how *exactly* Preston is going to find his own place in such a world given his own *issues*.
And about Preston, I would bet for our troubled “hero” trying to change himself to his heroic secret identity…
forever. Exactly the reverse of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I think that would work just as well!