| General | Only pages 19-22 are dealt with here. |
| 19:2 | It appears that Dr. Fate’s return may have (temporarily) knocked out the monitors above Lyta’s head, similar to an electromagnetic pulse. |
| 19:3 | How Christ-like. Playing up the family resurrection schtick a bit heavy, aren’t we? |
| 20:3 | Foreshadowing, perhaps: you don’t focus on a kiss like this unless there’s something notable about it. In this case, it seems he thinks he’s kissing his wife but he’s actually kissing his mother. |
| 20:4 | This explains the sudden appearance of the helmet in JSA #42: Hector can materialize it at will. |
| This is (allegedly) the skull of Prince Wrynn, whose crystallized remains were left behind when Mordru took over his corporeal form. | |
| 21:1-2 | No “Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth” or other alliterative utterances? Aww. |
| 21:4 | Many doctors and scientists in comics are at the very least highly skeptical of the uses of magic, if not downright opposed to them. Dr. Mid-Nite may be less so, but he’s still apt to be concerned when Dr. Fate blasts his patient with something and she starts writhing all over the bed. |
| 21:5-6 | It’s not yet clear why Hector is crying. Is it because he fears he has utterly lost Lyta? That he has focused on a fake Lyta, and thus wasted time and may lose the real Lyta as a result? That he focused erotic feeling on his mother rather than his wife? Just that Mordru fooled him? |
| And what’s all this about Dove being Hector’s mother? <Need to check the first JSA TPB to get details on Hector’s mother.> She was dead (killed by Monarch) long before Hector was reborn, although we’ve since seen an alternate version of her in Extant’s palace in Hypertime, a Dove who also got killed. This could be another Hypertime Dove, or given Mordru’s out-of-time influence, it could be the original, somehow saved from her death. | |
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Dawn probably isn’t actually turning into Dove at the moment, since that’s only supposed to occur when she says the word. The costume is needed to make sure the reader’s catch the extra impact of the revelation. (Or it’s possible that she has been trapped in the Dove form all this time.) |
