Irredeemable #13 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors) & Ed Dukeshire (letters)

The Story: Bette Noir reconnects with her father and gives us a flashback of the initial rampage of the Plutonian from the heroes’ point of view.

What’s Good: I enjoyed seeing the depiction of the Plutonian’s destruction of Sky City from the heroes’ perspective.  As with any crisis, when the information is coming in real-time, you are going have pretty big gaps in your information, so it was pretty realistic to see them trying to locate Plutonian to come help them with the disaster before they knew he was the cause of the disaster.  Even then, they think he must be some villain with shapeshifting abilities (because haven’t we all seen that situation play out in comics….).

Of course, once they realize that Plutonian is behind the mess, the heroes all ask Bette if she knows of any weaknesses Plutonian has because she “knows him the best.”  Little to they know how well she “knows” him.

One other cool item is that I seem Waid possibly reinventing this series’ story yet again with the ending that shows a comatose Cary (who was abducted by Orian the Demon), flopped next to that weird binary/digital character (who kidnapped Encanta) while the robot Modeus (who snuck off around issue 5 or so) looks on.  WTF?  The neat thing is that I’ve heard people who don’t want to read this series say, “That’s just a ‘What if Superman was evil?” story.  Who needs another one of those?”  That IS how this series started out, but it has successfully changed gears a few times since showing that Waid has a lot of story to tell.