The Return of Ralph & Sue
DC fans haven't seen much of Ralph Dibny (formerly the Elongated Man) and his wife Sue lately. And rightly so, since both characters are quite dead, one having been given an aneurysm by a microscopic serial killer in Identity Crisis, and the other slain by a demon in the final pages of 52.
But the Dibnys, one of comics' most beloved mystery-solving husband-and-wife duos, have emerged again in the DC Universe; and unlike the reintroductions of most superheroes to which we've become accustomed, Ralph and Sue are actually still quite dead.
The team at DC has kept quiet about Ralph and Sue since we saw them reunited in the afterlife as 52 drew to a close. But they've since reappeared in the pages of Chuck Dixon's Batman & the Outsiders, not through time travel or magical reincarnation or some such crap, but as ghosts. And just like Deadman, another of DC's incorporeal sleuths, the Dibnys seemingly have the ability to possess living human bodies temporarily, as demonstrated when the two are revealed at the end of last week's Batman & the Outsiders #5, leading all readers keeping up with the story to collectively mutter "Oh, now all those random strangers helping out in the last few issues finally make some sense".
kid_ampersand
Posted to Comics on 25 March 2008
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