Another installment of my favorite weekly serial. And I have an extra added bonus with this one, in that Phil Jimenez does all the interiors. It's like a slice of warm apple pie with a big chuck of ice cream on top. It just doesn't get any better. There's a lot going on in this issue also. We start out with Ollie announcing his bid for the mayoral race in Star City.Then we find Firestorm trying to put together a rag-tag Justice League. So far it consists of himself, Firehawk, Black Bison (or Super Chief), the Bulleeteer and Ambush Bug. Next we have Jonn Jonzz rapaging through the old Justice League headquarters, the mountain one. He's feeling guilty about Blue Beetle. To that end, he's been using his alias' in the govt. to get Checkmate disbanded. He's vowed not to rest until Checkmate has been eradicated from the earth. And all this pent up rage has been used to make a monument to all the fallen heroes. Next we find Black Adam, Isis and Osiris dissolving their relationship with the heroes of China. They're calling themselves the Black Marvel Family now. Back in Metropolis Firestorm and gang are fighting some bad guys, and a slew of Luthor's everyday heroes try to come to their aid. Firehawk puts it best, "Oh, good God! Help like this, we don't need! Where'd the all loser squad come from?" Apparantly is was all set up by Skeets. He's trying to draw someone out. But we don't know who it is yet. But, since whoever he's looking for isn't there, he decides to up the ante he starts taking out all of Luthor's losers. He also takes out the Super Chief. We get a glimpse of Ralph Digby. Jonn gets some bad news when he finds out that Checkmate is going to be reinstated under a United Nations sanction. And finally we see Amanda Waller, back at Belle Reeve trying to put together a team to go after Black Adam. Her lead is the Atom Smasher. Lots of action, lots of heroes, and it comes out every week. What more could you ask for?
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