Some thoughts about Heroes in Crisis #7

Can the heroes figure out what's actually happening?

Wally West has been in Sanctuary for a while now and everyone else is just starting to realize that his role in this case is much bigger than they thought.

You might think that the story would actually progress at this point but you would be wrong.

Tom King delivers a new chapter of this series and while there are a few glances that something is actually happening, is actually not once you think about it. Let's start from the beginning with the rather stupid and useless fight between Booster Gold and Harley Quinn, a fight that was supposed to bring the truth from both parts and I can't help but wonder, did neither of two think about just speaking to each other to realize if they were sincere? Once again, this puts two characters wildly out of character in the worst ways since Booster would have been the first to try to be rational and Harley can also be pretty logical when written well, all of this just to create a vain sense of tension in the story. Even for "forced hero fights in events" this is really pushing it (also, I'm not exactly a fan of how Batgirl punched Blue Beetle for no reason).

Second, we learned that, of course, Wally's death was really what it seemed. Again, this could initially show some sort of plot progression except for the fact that this has been HEAVILY telegraphed in all the previous issues and thus doesn't come as a surprise which makes you realize that this is an incredibly basic "murder story". Not to mention that Wally's segment takes a huge part of the issue and doesn't really show anything interesting until the last sections which makes this yet another decompressed read.

Good things? Well, I admit that I kinda chuckle when Harley called Batgirl and herself "The Dynamicker Duo" despite that the former didn't want it. That's it.

Clay Mann, Travis Moore and Jorge Fornes share the pencils and their work is surprisingly consistent over the course of the read with clear storytelling and good expressions.

Aside from that, nothing really changes, nothing ever changes.