Weird Science DC Comics: Secret Six #3 Review

In Secret Six #3, Senator Gravenport does his best to keep his fellow compatriots from asking too many questions about how Amanda Waller amassed so much power and wealth unchecked. It turns out Gravenport aided Waller when he was blackmailed for possessing…. unsavory material. One night, Gravenport is summoned to meet with CheckMate at an exclusive club to discuss their situation, but the shadowy leader of CheckMate isn’t interested in saving Gravenport’s neck.

Meanwhile, the Secret Six sneak into the same club to find intel that could help them locate Waller and put CheckMate down for good. The team enters the club in their most fashionable outfits, thanks to a magic spell from Black Alice to observe and mingle.

The rest of the evening is taken up with the team members bickering with each other (again) over past slights and differences in moral attitudes. In the case of Nia and Jon, a potential romantic conflict is rising. The issue ends when Nia spots and jumps Davenport, but her efforts are stymied by the shadowy leader of CheckMate – Banshee.

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The story goes nowhere and accomplishes nothing except provide an opportunity for a team of superheroes to sit around and spew catty grievances at each other. Plus, Nicole Maines unwisely chooses to stoke the possibility of a romance between Jon Kent and Dreamer. Nobody is looking forward to the amount of critical noise that pairing would generate.

One last point. Isn’t Banshee enjoying domestic bliss as a reformed criminal with Jimmy Olsen in the Superman ongoing? What is she doing here as a top person in CheckMate? Oy!