52 - week 4 - DC Comics

Lots of stuff going on in this issue. We start out with, I'm guessing, detective Montoya doing some surveillance work for the Question. I've always felt that the Question was a severly underated player. Next we find Halo, up on a space station looking for some sign of the hero's return. Nothing for the last month until, uh oh, "I see a signal on the Zeta frequency!". Then we have Booster Gold arguing with Beatrice, who will end up as a checkmate knight, because he wants to expand his sponsorships, and she wants to do whatever she can to find the missing hero's. Next we have Steel doing a little introspection, whether he wants to or not, because he's apparently been drugged by someone. Won't find out this issue. Then we have Ralph Digby meeting up with Cassie, aka Wonder Girl, who is now part of a Kryptonian Death Cult, or is that a Ressurection Cult, whatever. I know she loved Conner, but he wasn't even really Kryptonian, technically speaking. And finally they capture and focus the Zeta beam, and find Alan Scott, Shayera Hall and Mal inside of it. Now that's just it in a nutshell, cause there's a lot of interaction between the characters and some movement along each of the subplots, but, that's alot for 1 book. Add to that the History of the DC Universe in the back, and you will definitely get your $2.50 worth. To bad more books couldn't be done like this. It's nice reading a title that comes out every week. I like it when Marvel goes twice monthly, but this is twice as good as that. Pun intended. But this book also opens up a lot of questions. Like, what's going to happen to Booster Gold? We're 3 months into 1 year later, and no sign at all of Booster anywhere around. We know what's going to happen to Allen & Beatrice, but why and how? Cassie will set aside her cultism and rejoin the Titans, maybe, but where did this cult come from and what are they trying to accomplish? In Steel's retrospective, you find out that he really is just trying to protect his neice, duh, but what does he know or how will his expertise shape the things to come? Come on, somebody doped him up for some reason. And we still don't know what happened to Superman, Wonder Woman or the Batman, or how Superman lost his powers. I'm hooked already. In case you couldn't tell. This is definitely a book worth getting, and find those first 3 issues, if you haven't already.