The Official "52" Thread

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I guess it pays to be hot and blond at DC.

 

Meet the leaders of the Justice League and Justice Society, respectively

 

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Week 48 Recap

 

Week 48, Day 1- 3

Gotham City: Nightwing and Renee are beating their way through the Gotham Underworld looking for Mannheim. ***this is over two pages and seven panels***

 

Week 48, Day 4

Gotham City: Batwoman is drugged and laid out on an alter by Whisper in preparation for the sacrificial prophecy with Abbot looking on in his wolfman form.

 

Nightwing and Renee have taken out a gang of Manimals and start to interrogate a squid-looking creature about Mannheim’s whereabouts. The squid-creature tells then that it is too late as they and Gotham will burn. Nightwing and Renee are then attacked from behind from a fire-breathing, flying demon that looks like a red bull [ENTER JOKE HERE] a vulture creature and a bull-creature. Renee shoots the vulture-creature and is then grabbed by the bull-creature while Nightwing is attacked by the red-bull demon. Nightwing kicks Red Bull away and is saved by Abbot who attacks Red Bull from behind. Renee kicks a mouse-creature and then shoots the bull-creature. When asked for an explanation, Abbot tells Nightwing that he is tired of prophecies and then asks where the vulture went to. The vulture creature is then shown on a device which he activates sending a huge pillar of fire into the night sky. From outside the group sees that there are a number of these flaming pillars all over Gotham digging their way down to create a pit of fire by dawn. Renee tells Nightwing and Abbot to take out the devices while she takes care of Mannheim. Renee takes out a face mask, triggers the gas and becomes the Question.

 

Renee arrives at Mannheim’s hideout in time to see the sacrifice in progress but is attacked from behind before she can fire a shot off at Mannheim. During the fight Renee is caught by a snake creature but is able to get herself free just in time to see Mannheim thrust the blade into Kate’s chest. Renee fires off a shot which takes Mannheim down and then fires again at the chains holding Kate down. Renee starts to pull the blade out of Kate’s chest but is stopped by Kate because it will make it worse. With her attention on Kate, Renee does not notice that Mannheim has gotten back up. He grabs Renee and throws her against a wall. Renee pulls out her gun only to have it taken away by Mannheim.

 

Mannheim: …I’ll take my gun back now, if you don’t mind.

Renee: Hey, all you had to do was ask.

Mannheim: Funny. Let’s see if you make a funny pile of dust.

***Mannheim takes aim at Renee***

Renee: I wouldn’t do that.

Mannheim: You wouldn’t? And why not?

Kate: She wasn’t talking to you, Bruno. She was talking to me.

 

Kate pulls the dagger from her chest and throws it at Mannheim imbedding itself in his back and taking him out. Kate drops to the floor.

Kate: Think maybe…I should’na done…that…

Renee: Stay with me Kate…stay with me..this time it’s different.

 

And from a downwards shot you can see Mannheim in a pool of blood and a bat flying up in the smoke.

 

 

Week 48, Day 5

Oolong Island: Egg Fu announces to the world that Black Adam belongs to Chang Tzu’s Science Squad and asks “How much am I bid?”

 

 

Week 49 preview

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=107765

 

 

 

 

 

In the remaining weeks, we'll come face-to-face with a double agent, we'll change the fate of one of our main players, we'll return to space, we'll attend a memorial service, and we'll go back to the beginning. Plus, someone will say this soon-to-be-famous catchphrase: "This isn't about raising the dead. It's more...inspirational."

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...and so begins the end.

 

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=144883253

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Week 49 recap

 

Week 49, Day 1

Oolong Island: The JSA arrives at Oolong Island but is unable to enter the labs and rescue Black Adam as the protective shields are up. As Alan Scott is telling Egg Fu that the JSA will take Black Adam by force, he is interrupted by the Socialist Red Guardsman of the Great Ten.

SRG: This Island and everything on it belong to us. If you set foot on this island or elsewhere on Chinese soil, it will be considered an act of war. Any attempt to retrieve Black Adam will be met with ultimate force.

 

Inside the labs, Egg Fu has left the monitors to find Doc Magnus to see if the Plutonium Man is ready. After Egg locates Magnus in his lab, he inquires as to Magnus being able to bring metal to life. Magnus explains how the Responsometer technology works and that the “Metal Men pretty much build themselves. And they can be any size”. At this point the Metal Men reveal themselves to Egg Fu and start to attack him in their mini forms. Doc Morrow hears the noise coming from Magnus’ lab and grabs a gun.

 

Meanwhile back outside, Alan tells the Guardsman that they are not there representing any nation and that they are free agents. Guardsman checks in with his superiors and is told that the orders are as given.

SRG: Move any closer and there will be war.

Alan: I can’t believe your leaders. Are you willing to start World War III over one man? Why?

***Thundermind’s eyes start to glow***

Alan:…because you’re covering something up, aren’t you? Chang Tzu is a member of the Great Ten.

 

Back in Magnus’ lab Mercury is blown apart by Morrow who has just entered the lab. Morrow points the gun – a particle wave pistol, which looks more like a riffle than a pistol - at Magnus and tells him that he wouldn’t lower the shields if I were you as the place is crawling with angry superheroes. Magnus tells Morrow that it has to stop and takes out a remote control from his pocket.

Magnus: …this control here operates Sivana’s teleport link to his Omnibot, currently in geosynchronous orbit above our heads. No one would know. I mean in all the confusion and chaos you could have gone anywhere.

Morrow: Why are you doing this to help me, Will? I…I’ve been absolutely rotten to you, my boy. I don’t deserve your loyalty.

Magnus: Maybe not…But like I said, you were the best teacher I ever knew. I try to overlook the whole psychopathic super-villain thing.

Morrow: Well. We all have our flaws ***Morrow leaves the gun and starts to teleport*** I was right about the tablets, though wasn’t I?

 

As Sivana packs up and gets ready to leave, SRG and Alan continue their conversation:

SRG: Chang Tzu a member of the Great Ten? Ridiculous.

Alan: Oolong Island was a Red Chinese stronghold from way back. Under Orders from Beijing, Chang Tzu and his crew used Intergang money to build Doomsday Weapons with only one purpose…the assassination of the Black Marvel Family. No one expected Black Adam to survive the attack, did they? But now you’re here to finish the job. Because if any of this gets out, if he gets out, your bosses are first on the firing line. And Chang Tzu knows that too. Chang Tzu holds all the cards. He wants to play us all.

 

Back at headquarters for the Great Ten, the Accomplished Perfect Physician and August General in Iron look on from to the showdown.

AGiI: How can the Green Lantern know all of this?

The monitor screen then moves in on Thundermind showing his glowing eyes.

 

Power Girl taken notice that the protection shield are down and informs Alan.

Alan: Tell your superiors this—Black Adam is ours. We’re taking him into custody. We’ll leave Change Tzu to you. And there won’t be a war.

 

Egg Fu and Professor Mortis locate Magnus in the hallways and try and stop him. Magnus aims the gun Morrow left with him in his left hand and holds up a tube with his right.

Egg Fu: You only have one weapon. And you are no match for Chang Tzu.

Magnus: I have a bullet. GO GET HIM LEAD.

***And with a blast, Lead is projected though the top of Egg Fu’s head leaving a big hole.***

Magnus, to the other scientists: Drop it. I have a particle wave ray gun and a bipolar disorder. I have no idea what it might do to you if I pull the trigger.

 

As Professor Mortis and the others run away, Egg Fu comes up behind Magnus.

Magnus: You shouldn’t have taken away my meds. I told you I do crazy things without my meds.

 

Magnus pulls the trigger, shattering the rest of Egg Fu except for his mechanical legs. The JSA then enter the labs and find Magnus who quickly surrenders to them. Atom Smasher continues on down the halls and runs into Sivana. Atom picks up Sivana and threatens to grind his bones to dust if he does not tell him where Black Adam is.

 

Atom Smasher locates Black Adam and frees him from the table where he was being tortured.

Atom: I’m here with the Justice Society. We’re going to get you out of here.

BA: You’re here with the Justice Society…?

Atom: They’ll take you into custody. They’ll keep you safe.

BA: I won’t stay in their custody, Albert. The ones who orchestrated the murder of my family still breathe. Justice must be had.

Atom: And what about the justice for all those innocent men, women and children they say you killed in Bialya? It wasn’t you was it? It was one of the Horsemen they built here. If you murdered that country…you know you could never go back. You could never watch over Kahndaq again. You could never protect your people. Tell me it wasn’t you.

 

Black Adam looks at Atom Smasher, starts to glow and tells Albert “They wanted a War, Albert. I’m going to give it to them. It’s not over”. And them proceeds to fly out of the building through the roof.

 

Metropolis:

Jade: Yes, it is, Nuklon. The whole world’s turned against Luthor and all of his Everyman experiments.

Nuklon: We’re more than experiments, Jade.

Jade: There are only a handful of us left.

Nuklon: But we can still be the future. We can still run in and save the day when it counts as Infinity Inc. We can still prove to the world that we can do it better than those stupid old men in the JSA. We only need the chance. A pissed off Black Adam is shown flying.

 

Next Week: World War III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Week 50 recap:

 

Week 50, Day 2

Egypt: Black Adam knocks Captain Marvel Jr. through a pyramid and Mary Marvel into the court yard of a palace.

 

Week 50, Day 3

Australia: A number of buildings in Sydney have been destroyed and are on fire including the famed Opera House. A number of the Global Guardians are knocked out and laying about while Captain Marvel takes on Black Adam.

 

Week 50, Day 4

Italy: Black Adam has taken out the Doom Patrol as well as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

 

Week 50, Day 5

Italy: The JSA are looking for Black Adam when Checkmate informs MR. Terrific that he is in China.

 

Week 50, Day 6 (night)

China: Black Adam is being pursued by jet fighters which are firing at him over Beijing. Black Adam grabs one of the jets and throws it at another on causing both to explode.

 

Thundermind: He has reached Beijing and he knows the part our leaders played in his betrayal. The karma of China’s Government has borne a bitter fruit, August General-In-Iron.

A.P.P: And how many innocent people will die unless we open our borders to the superhumans!

A.G.I: The Great Ten will stop him! Why else were we assembled? Socialist Red Guardsman you are authorized to attack.

 

Black Adam gets knocked from the sky by SRG and is attacked by Ghost Fox Killer on the way down. Upon crashing into the street BA is attacked by Seven Deadly Brothers

 

Week 50, Day 7

China’s Border: All of the superheroes are gathered together waiting to go into China. When asked by Jay why they just don’t go in Alan tells them…

 

“We’ve been warned; we make one false move and missiles start flying. This isn’t World War Two, Jay. This time there’s only us. Now hold the line till I give the signal! And get ready. I’m betting they’ll need the Justice Society soon enough.

 

Beijing: Black Adam has taken out the Seven Deadly Brothers, Ghost Fox Hunter and SRG. He is then attacked by Shaolin Robot which Black Adam quickly takes out.

***Oddly Shaolin Robot resembles a Dominator with the shape of the head and the red circle on top***

 

August General-In-Iron then sends in Yeti who is quickly taken out by Black Adam and killed when Adam breaks his neck. The Great Ten then loose contact with Beijing forcing A G-I-I to authorize the use of international help. Upon receiving the “word” the JSA rushes in and starts their attack on Black Adam.

 

Rock of Eternity: Captain Marvel crash lands in the rock. Captain Marvel is met by a number of magic users including Zatanna, Phantom Stranger, and Madame Xanadu. Cap had gone to meet with the Egyptian Gods to convince them to sever their ties with Adam and to send their lightning but they refused to make him mortal again and bless his actions. Upon being asked if there was no way to force the change Captain Marvel tells them to “Let me think…”

 

Beijing: From a building top Natasha and John Henry prepare a Thunder Missile to shot at Black Adam.

 

John Henry: Once this missile hits Black Adam, he’ll inhale the A.I. nanites inside. They’ll work their way to his brain, fuse onto his neurons and short-circuit his motor functions. Ready?

 

Natasha: Ready.

 

John Henry: Launch in 3…2…

 

***Just then Booster Gold appears out of a big blue flash of light and grabs the missile***

 

John Henry: Booster Gold?

 

Natasha: I thought he was dead.

 

Booster: Not Yet.

 

Natasha: Hey, you idiot! We need that!

 

Booster: Sorry, Kid. I need it more than you. Besides, it wasn’t gonna work anyway. Thrust Me---

 

***And in another flash, Booster is gone***

 

 

Meanwhile, down on the street Stargirl asks if anyone has seen Atom Smasher. Using his powers, Sandman informs her that he is”lying across the Earth with a dozen others. They’re falling fast.” Infinity Inc. is then spotted by Green Lantern and approaches them.

 

Alan: I’d heard you were among the few from the Everyman Project to retain your powers. Good. The World’s going to Hell. You said you’d be the first one to run into battle with Infinity Inc at your side. This is it, son, and we could use…

 

Nuklon: …I’m not. I’m not going in there against that. None of us are.

***Infinity Inc. runs away***

Wildcat: Figures.

Jakeem: So now what?

Alan: We do what the Justice Society always does. We keep fighting.

 

During the fight, Jay receives a telepathic message from Zatanna with a plan of action. Green Lantern and Power Girl fly up to Black Adam and carry him up towards the sky. During the flight Lantern receives a message from Zatanna to “stay on course. Captain Marvel is moving to intercept”.

 

Just before Captain Marvel reaches Black Adam he shouts “Shazam” and big flash of lightning lights up the sky.

Zatanna: The spell is working! If Billy were grounded, he’d be dead…

Madame Zanadu: He’s LOSING IT! Alan, hurry!

Zatanna: If we can’t force Adam to call down the lightning we have to bring him to it.

 

There is a big explosion in the sky, knocking those standing to the ground and from up in the sky, the mortal body of Black Adam falls. His attempts to change back do not work but he is saved when he is caught by a giant hand.

 

Down on the ground, Flash is running around looking for Green Lantern.

Flash: Alan? Cap? Did anyone see where they went? Anyone?

***Jay located Alan helping Captain Marvel to his feet***

Green Lantern: We’re—nngh—we’re all right, Jay. But Adam—I tried like hell to hold onto him, but that blast ripped him right out of my hands!

Flash: Then this isn’t over! Tell me we didn’t lose him after all that!

Atom Smasher: Sorry, Jay…the light, the shock wave…no one saw xactly what happened.

Captain Marvel: Flash, relax. He’s…not a threat anymore. If Adam even, survived that fall…and that’s a big IF…then we will find him and we will prosecute him no matter how long that takes.

Flash: How? All he has to do is shout one word, and we’re right back to—

Captain Marvel: I’m the Guardian of Magic now, Jay. That brings with it a new level of ability. True, I couldn’t get Adam’s Gods to rescind their gifts…so I did the next best thing. I changed his magic word.

Flash: To what?

Captain Marvel: I’ll never tell another living soul. I don’t dare. But I promise you this…he will never guess.

 

***Black Adam walks the streets of an Arabian town trying to figure out the magic word***

 

The Rocky Mountains: Morrow arrives in the Omnibot with Red Tornado’s head and enters a secret lair.

Red Tornado: 52. 52.

Morrow: Yes yes. Your language files crashed…52 what? What did you see out there in the great beyond? Let’s have a look. Uh…oh god. Oh dear God.

Rip Hunter: You got that right Morrow—Get you ass in gear, Prof. “Cause we’re already way outta time.

 

Morrow turns around to see Booster and Rip.

 

Week 51 preview

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming quotes:

 

“Here he comes. This is exactly how they said it would happen...and it all comes down to me...”

 

“Pray for the sake of the 52, we don’t screw up this time!”

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Week 51 recap

 

Week 51, Day 1

California: Ellen arrives home from dinner with a family friend, Roger. As Ellen approaches the front door to her house she notices a bright glow behind her. When she turns around and back down the porch to the yard, she sees Buddy glowing and floating above the ground. When Ellen starts towards Buddy, he tells her not to come any closer since he is still solar powered. Buddy sits cross-legged while continuing to float and eventually lands on the ground. Ellen and Buddy are joined by their kids wearing sunglasses. Unknown to them, Buddy has been followed home.

Voice 1: Target identified.

Voice 2: Wait until weak, then kill for bounty.

Voice 1: For Lady Styx.

 

Week 51, Day 2:

Metropolis, Superman/Superboy Memorial: A number of people, many of which are heroes, are gathering at the memorial to honor the one year anniversary of Superboy’s death. Donna (in her Wonder Woman outfit) meets up Cassie (In her Wonder Girl outfit).

Cassie: You heard about Ralph Dibny, Donna?

Donna: Fire told me.

Cassie: There’s something so strange about it all…now I’ll never be able to say I’m sorry.

Donna: You’ll find a way Cassie

 

During their talk Agent Prince looks on surveying the crowd. Jimmy Olsen spots Robin and asks him about his costume and why it is just red and black, to which Robin tells him that “They were his colors” while looking up at the statue of Superboy. Cassie still upset, takes off with Donna.

 

Week 51, Day 3

Rann: Sardath has performed a procedure on Adam Strange which has given him new eyes. The new eyes are based on a copy of his daughter Aleaa’s eyes and upgraded to allow Adam to “see across the entire electromagnetic spectrum”. Sardath then informs Adam that they have been under attack from the Flame Creatures for a few days now. Adam tells them that “all you have to do is cut off their oxygen…” When he asks about Kory, John Stewart tells Adam that she “said something about a jacket.” When asked about the Emerald Eye, Adam says that Lobo has it. Adam is then joined by his wife and daughter and the three leave together. When a Green Lantern is about to stop them, John Stewart puts his hand on the other Lantern’s shoulder and tells him “The man just flew across half the galaxy, blind, and saved us all from Lady Styx. How about you and me deal with the monsters this time?”

 

Week 51, Day 4

Space: Lobo and Fishy return from their pilgrimage for the Emerald Eye.

Lobo: After many adventures, me an’ Fishy secured th’ Holy Relic ya sent me ta collect. Though I hafta confess I had all kindsa trouble stickin’ ta my pacifist vows…Maybe now I’m done, ya might consider releasin’ me from my obligations. Why didja want this thing so badly, anyhow, exalted three-in-one? Don’t think I ever found that out.

Triple Fish: Why, it is because of the prophecy, my child. It is said that the Emerald Eye of Ekron is the only weapon in the universe that can kill me. Thought I’d best keep it safely where I can see it.

Lobo: Killya? Ya don’t say…

 

Lobo gives a big grin and the Eye shoots out a beam.

 

Week 51, Day 6:

Baker House: Buddy is telling his friends about what happened in space when the doorbell rings. When Ellen answers the door, she is met by two aliens holding guns at her; “Bounty for Lady Styx” “Die die die”. There is then a quick blast and both aliens are gone. Standing in the doorway is Kory who hands Ellen Buddy’s jacket and then passes out.

Ellen: Did Roger order a stripper?

Buddy: Ellen! Kory is space royalty.

Cliff: Wow, she’s like ET-- but with double dd’s! Can we keep her?

 

Week 51, Day 7

Rocky Mountains: Skeets is flying through some workshop. He comes across Morrow who is looking down with a gun in his hand.

Skeets: The android caught a glimpse of the garden. And made a map…

Morrow: Here he comes. This is exactly how they said it would happen. 52 worlds…52 Morrows…and it all comes down to me.

Skeets: I want that map!

Morrow: Err…Gentlemen?

 

Rip and Booster appear out of a doorway with Rip holding a huge gun.

 

Rip: Thanks for luring him, professor. We’ll take over from here. Pray for the sake of the 52, we don’t screw up this time!

Booster: Take it easy Skeets, we know your data got corrupted somehow…

Skeets: Skeets is dead, Michael. I ate him from within to make a cradle. A cocoon. Imagine my disgust! The mind of an alien genius trapped in the body of a lowly caterpillar! Until, irradiated with Suspendium particles, I began the transformation that now concludes. It’s too late to stop it. The 52 weeks of my gestation are complete. At last the chrysalis can hatch. Behold the metamorphosis of MR. Mind! I’m hungry. I’m so hungry I could eat a universe. I’ll start with yours, shall I?

 

Skeets opens up to reveal Mind reveals in his new form that looks like a cross between a Predator and the Alien Bug at the end of Men in Black.

 

Booster: Oh, dear god…

***Rip grabs Red Tornado’s head***

Rip: Too late. Again. Damn it! Booster, grab what’s left of Skeets and get into the Time Sphere! Morrow, activate your androids and get out of here! hurry!

Booster: It’s…it’s hideous…!

Rip: You haven’t seen anything yet. Come on! We stay here we lose!

Booster: Where are we going?

Rip: Back. Back to where it all started.

 

Week 52 Preview

 

 

 

 

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So the multiverse did return. Interesting.

 

Did anyone read Legion of Superheros 29? There was an awesome (and hillarious) random 52 tie in.

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We have reached the end of a highly enjoyable and fun experience

 

Week 52 recap (which doesn't do the book justice)

 

 

52 Week 52

 

A Year in the Life

 

Written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid.

Art Breakdowns by Keith Giffen

Pencils by Mike McKone, Justiniano, Eddy Barrows, Chris Batista, Pat Olliffe and Darick Robertson

 

 

Week 0, Day 0

Rip, Booster, the head of Red Tornado and the remains of Skeets are traveling in time to a year ago when the Multiverse was created. Rip explains to Booster that when all of the Earths collapsed back into one another after “Conner Kent sacrificed his life to save our reality” creating New Earth that “in a cosmic act of self-preservation, as you just saw, it began replicating”. There are 52 identical Earths in 52 identical cosmos all occupying the same space and each on their own vibrational plane. What Red Tornado saw was the same thing that Rip had seen being the creation of the multiverse and his computer brain had mapped it.

 

A giant Mr. Mind appears behind the Time Sphere. He tells Rip and Booster that he will be the dominant life form not only on Earth but on all Earths. Mr. Mind then regurgitates the Phantom Zone towards the Time Sphere looking to trap Rip and Booster in the Phantom Zone. Supernova then appears and is hit with the blast, from Mr. Mind saving the Time Sphere. Rip then turns to Booster and informs him that the technology in the Supernova suit is able to deflect and restore the Phantom Zone to its proper dimensional plane. When questioned by Booster about Supernova, Rip tells him – and Supernova takes off his mask – that it is his ancestor Daniel Carter in the suit. Rip explains to Booster how Daniel got imprisoned in “endless time loop of 52 seconds stolen from Earth’s timeline” and that he moved the time loop into the time stream in which they are at. Rip also informs Booster that he gave Daniel the Supernova suit because “it’s keyed to the Carter genetic code”. Mr. Mind then starts to alter his vibrational frequency to try and tear the Time Sphere apart. Rip has Red Tornado match Mr. Mind’s frequency for an Earth jump which ends up taking the Time Sphere and Mr. Mind to Earth 17. Upon their arrival Mr. Mind starts “eating years and events from this universe’s history altering the Earth. Red Tornado makes another Earth jump leaving the present Metropolis in shambles with knights riding on big dog like creatures.

 

Next they arrive at Earth 3 and spot the JLA. Mr. Mind starts eating and altering events causing the creation of the Crime Society.

 

Earth 10 is shown with the Freedom Fighters,

 

Earth 50 is the Wildstorm Universe,

 

Earth 5 is the Marvel Family Universe,

 

Earth 22 is the Kingdom Come universe,

 

Earth 2 is Earth 2 and

 

Earth 4 is the Charleston universe.

 

Rip then informs Daniel and Booster that they need to trap Mr. Mind because if he spawns where they are at that “Hyperflies will devour the consciousness of every living thing, and leave all of creation to rot in mindless darkness forever.” Booster then starts to doubt himself and what he can do when what little is left of Skeets tells him that he has “the utmost faith in” you. Booster quickly pulls himself together and grabs a hold of Skeets and tells Rip “One thing I do know is where to find the kind of energy source we need” and then jumps in time. Once Booster is gone, Rip finishes gearing up and jumps in time himself.

 

Booster makes his arrive on New Earth the day after the first Crisis. He appears behind Blue Beetle looking for his amulet in the debris of some ruined buildings. Booster tells Beetle that he bets “it turns up just where you least expect it”. When Beetle turns back around Booster is gone.

 

At the house of the Sivana Family, Sivana is gathering his family together to get into the Suspendium Globe to save them from what Sivana suspects will happen. Rip then appears and shoots Sivana in the leg and takes off with the Suspendium Globe himself.

 

Both Rip and Booster arrive back at the Time Sphere. Rip uses the Suspendium Globe to attract the Hyperflies as “artificial time. This stuff works like crack cocaine on a hyperfly”. Rip and Booster then use the Beetle Amulet to give the Supernova suit an extra power source to get Mr. Mind’s attention by creating a giant flash and then they disappear.

 

The Time Sphere returns to Rip’s lab at which time Rip starts to work on Skeets. Mr. Mind then makes his presence but he is much smaller upon his arrival starts to grow. Rip hands Skeets to Booster and tells him that he has reinforced his shell with Suspendium to help imprison him. Booster jumps towards Mr. Mind with Skeets half opened and slams Skeets closed with Mr. Mind trapped inside. Rip tells Booster that “The faster and harder it moves against the Time Stream, the more Chronal Energy the Suspendium will pick up. Move it with enough force and it becomes the only thing that can save the Multiverse…a Time Bomb that will end the threat of Mr. Mind”. Booster takes Skeets and throws him into the open hole in time telling Daniel to go long. Daniel/Supernova jumps in after it and heads back in time; “Danny, Rip’s calculated the exact time and place Mind has to end up! While passing Week 2 Day 1 it is shown where Mr. Mind entered Skeets in Magnus’ lab. Supernova continues back and grabs a hold of Skeets and spikes him into the ground in the desert on Week 1 Day 1.

 

Having heard the noise of the “Time Bomb”, Sivana goes to see what it was. As he approaches the crater of the explosion, Sivana notices Mr. Mind and picks him places him in a sealed tube.

 

Supernova then pops back out through the time hole and into Rip’s lab. Rip tells Daniel and Booster that no one can know what happened.

Booster: Hell with that. Modesty’s for the forgotten. I’m gonna make damn sure that everyone knows who rescued their asses.

Rip: Is there not enough credit in all of time and space to make you happy? Will you not rest until history finally recognizes that Booster Gold saved the---

Booster: Not me. Skeets. It’s not fair. He ought to be remembered. He was my best friend.

Rip: Is. While I was reinforcing him with Suspendium, I copied his mem-self into a leftover responsometer. Its crude—but we both know who can do the full restoration.

Rip Booster and Supernova then get into the Time Sphere and enter the Time Stream showing off the Multiverse and its different worlds.

 

Week 52, Day 6

Checkmate HQ: A Task Force is proposed to the creation of capturing Teth-Amon

Metropolis, Steelworks:

Natasha: Did they say what happened to Infinity Inc? No one’s seen them…

John: You ask me, Nat they’re long gone.

Kahndaq: A hand is seen reaching down for the Amulet of Isis which is sitting in some flowers.

Washington DC, Department of Metahuman Affairs: Nemesis and Agent Prince are in Sarge Steel’s office.

Sarge: …they’re tagging him “the Most Wanted Mortal in the World”. Someone will find Black Adam but I pray that someone isn’t us.

In an Arabic city you see a pair of legs with crocodile boots on.

 

Golden Rule Preschool, Sheffield Alabama: A huge fiery hole is in the center of a class room floor with the teacher showing two men a stack of pictures that all of her students drew just before the fiery hole happened. The spectral forms of Ralph and Sue are shown floating by the pit. Sue looks at Ralph and says “Honey, your nose is twitching…

 

Magnus’s House: Magnus is working on Skeets and tells Booster that before he fixed him, he had made a backup copy of his records and that he will remember everything except for the past year. Skeets is closed up and back to normal.

 

Week 52, Day 7

Gotham City: A razor is shown scrapping off the question mark on the Bat-Signal and replaced with the Bat-symbol. The person fixing the Bat-Signal is shown to be Renee in the Question outfit.

Meanwhile inside of Kate’s apartment, Kate is being visited by a doctor. She is told that she is recovering quickly but it will still take time. When asked if she remembers how she was stabbed or who brought her to the ER, Kate tells her “no”. The doctor leaves the apartment and when Kate closes the door her apartment lights up from the light of the Bat-signal. Kate looks out her window and sees Renee/Question standing by the Bat signal.

Renee: I have a question. Are you ready?

 

 

THE END.

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

 

That's one bad ass cover.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Wow, Skeleton Sue Dibny is the scariest looking character in a series full of alien monsters and paranormal spirits. Also I hope every Booster Gold appearance isn't going to be "_______ is dead! _______ was my best friend!"

[Kurt Angle Mark 0]

Great interviews with writers of 52

 

Grant Morrison

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=111900

 

Geoff Johns

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=111254

 

Mark Waid

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=111116