52 - Week Thirteen - DC

This books, as compared to my last entry, really gets you into the characters. This time were only dealing with 2 main stories. We have Black Adam and Isis, tearing across the Middle-East, searching for her brother Amon. As they're doing this they keep coming across slave rings of children and they decide that freeing all forms of child stavery that they find is equally important as finding her brother. Then Isis gives him the idea of having Kandaq standing for a new beginning rather that a place for all criminals to come for refuge. We also have Ralph Digby trying to dig futher into the Cult, by becoming embroiled in one of their ceremonys. He brings along GL, GA, Metamorpho and Azrael for the ride also. You think he did it for the backup, but really, he brought them because they've all been dead before, or associated with the dead. He brought them, really, so as they go through the ceremony they can tell him whether or not what their doing is possible. They're passing around "blood kryptonite" that supposedly takes a little of the life force of the person who touches it, so they can use that to bring his wife back to life. This is a trial ceremony for when they try to bring back Conner. This is when Ralph decides it's to hoaky to go any farther. He tosses the rock to MM and decides it's time for everyone to break up the party. The problem is that during the melee, Ralph thinks he sees the edifice of his wife trying to crawl to him. But by this time the building is coming down around them, so it's to late to try to go back to the ceremony to finish it. Also both sides are to embroiled in the battle to step back and calm down. So on the final page Ralph is left holding the burned up efigy in his arms. What I like about this book is that they really draw you into the characters. Which from what I understand is the focus of this book, take some of the lesser known DC characters and develop them in the abscence of the big 3. Plus I like that I get a shot of Vitamin DC every week. Can't wait for the next one.