Lone Justice #26

Russ Rogers (2:31 PM on Tue Jul 7, 2009)

Lone Justice hasn't just been consistently punctual, it's been consistently excellent too!
http://www.comicmix.com/news/2009/06/09/trevor-von-eeden-...

This situation presents a new problem for Octavius. The last time vagrants were confronted by a Vigilante Mob, Octavius made the costume change to Lone Justice, to give his shouts to stop the air of authority the costume and hero-persona lend. But if Octavius puts on the Lone Justice costume now, the Police will come and bulldoze the Hooverville just to get at him! It's Lone Justice that has to stay hidden, not Octavius.

Here's a scenario. What if someone (like the REAL Scion, because I don't think that was the Real McCoy that got blowed up) saw Octavius run into the burning building and save those two people. That was certainly a daring and heroic act! What if that person thought, "Wow! Only someone as brave and crazy as Lone Justice would run into a burning building like that! Could that man be Lone Justice?" So what if they saw Octavius Brown leave the scene of the fire and go back to the shanty town? And what if that person (maybe Scion) sent in the Goon Squad just to draw out "the anonymous hero" who might be Lone Justice? The Goons are wearing masks around their faces similar to Scion's!

I'll go farther. What if the fake Scion was sent on the crazy, explosive car chase through the streets for the expressed purpose of drawing Lone Justice out of hiding! The car crashed into and destroyed a soup kitchen. This goes along with my theory that Scion is trying to do some violent social engineering, tying to permanently rid the city of "undesirable elements."

I've written a whole scene, a whole scenario in my head that is either not in the book or will be revealed later. Again, I love to guess at where things might be headed. But, I've been regularly surprised, so I hope I'm not playing spoiler now.

As usual, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.