In the interests of truth in advertising, I should make clear that rather a lot of this is not in the book; DePaul's experiences with and feelings about the Council weren't dealt with, for example, although Busiek may have been planning to do more with that eventually, since he did flag up that DePaul was a highly unusual clone, and he must have got that way somehow. (I've never managed a coherent explanation of that for myself; I'd be very curious indeed to know what Busiek had in mind--though perhaps I don't want to know, since it would probably contradict about half the above!) Additionally, POWER COMPANY was mediocre a lot of the time, though it was occasionally inspired.
That said, as you may have gathered, I was passionately obsessed with DePaul, and far be it from me to discourage anyone from wanting to read about him! *g* And Christine and Asano really do show up wanting to kill him (here (http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=63065424397%205), although sadly that plot didn't get as much of the issue as that cover would suggest) and hung around for a bit afterwards looking for evidence that--well, that they'd be justified in shooting him, basically. Which they never come close to getting--DePaul is not a nice person, and has certainly committed a variety of criminal acts in his past, but there's absolutely no justification for killing him out of hand except that he's a brainwashed minion of the Council, and he isn't. I always desperately wanted to see Skyrocket made aware of that situation, since she couldn't stand DePaul either but would have had to defend him from people she very probably had been thinking of as heroic (it's not canon that she read Christine's book, but she did acquire knowledge about and an opinion on Paul Kirk from somewhere). Alas, they never try anything when she's around.
*thinks* Oh, right--and Ollie shows up to make trouble at one point. If you needed incentive. *g*
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That said, as you may have gathered, I was passionately obsessed with DePaul, and far be it from me to discourage anyone from wanting to read about him! *g* And Christine and Asano really do show up wanting to kill him (here (http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=63065424397%205), although sadly that plot didn't get as much of the issue as that cover would suggest) and hung around for a bit afterwards looking for evidence that--well, that they'd be justified in shooting him, basically. Which they never come close to getting--DePaul is not a nice person, and has certainly committed a variety of criminal acts in his past, but there's absolutely no justification for killing him out of hand except that he's a brainwashed minion of the Council, and he isn't. I always desperately wanted to see Skyrocket made aware of that situation, since she couldn't stand DePaul either but would have had to defend him from people she very probably had been thinking of as heroic (it's not canon that she read Christine's book, but she did acquire knowledge about and an opinion on Paul Kirk from somewhere). Alas, they never try anything when she's around.
*thinks* Oh, right--and Ollie shows up to make trouble at one point. If you needed incentive. *g*