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Well, this is where we left Black Hand last time, looking straight out from the page and talking to someone named "Reader". What is that all about?
In addition to his awesome power of cliches, Olympic-level note-taking skills, and an 89-cent pen flashlight ("Flashlight? Flashlight! FLASHLIGHT!!!" see at 4:18) with which he sucked up morsels of Green Lantern energy like a leather-tanned old man searching for nickels with a metal detector on the beach, he had one other power. An amazing power. The most rare and unusual in all comics. The power of...
TRANSQUARTOMURALISM!
Yes, Black Hand was not only aware of his status as a literary character, he perceived the Fourth Wall and YOU ... AND he read your mind through it. Eat your heart out, Grant Morrison.
"The usual things. You know. Like villainizing in a business suit, in my personal LEGO shop." Creepier than Alan Moore, weirder than Grant Morrison, able to violate the fourth wall in a single balloon... it's Black Hand.
I'll forgo the obvious "closet joke" below...
Mothers of Coast City: heed the warning signs of corruption. If your child hangs its clothes with the hangers facing the wrong way, kill it immediately. Society will thank you.Even in defeat, he still had the power to violate the Fourth Wall, and what's even creepier...
He still does.
