52 - Week Thirty Six - DC

You've all seen how much I rant and rave about this series. I love it. But one thing I haven't said much about are these stunning J.G.Jones covers. They're phenomenal! How can the guy put out such masterpieces week after week? I guess he's a machine. But this guy deserves some serious props. We start out this issue with Lobo taking are space pirates, not really, to Lady Styx. This is one seriously messed up chick. If you can call her that. Anyways, Lady Styx's intentions are just to kill them all. So one of his floating dolphins, supposedly translating what the Lady says, goads Lobo into action. Remember he's been converted to some religion that worships non-violence. So Lobo takes out all of her followers, but then the guy looking for his emerald eye, comes crashing into the temple, and he and Lady Styx go careening off into their sun. But I doubt this is the last we've seen of them . Or at least Lady Styx. But then something happens to Animal Man, and it looks like he dies. His wife, back on earth, senses it. Then we see Renee Montoya, who's tired of sitting around waiting for "Charlie" to die, decides she's going to take matters into her own hands. She finally figures out that the only thing that may save him is to actually take him back to Nada Parabat. So after a heated discussion with Kate, she starts on her journey. Then we get a glimpse of Osiris. He's reeling from the actions he took last issue that ended up with him tearing a man in half. He's being comforted by his pet crocodile. And finally, Supernova and Rip Hunter are hiding out in the bottle city of Kandor trying to rebuild, or power, the chronosphere. Apparently there's something that Rip thinks is seriously messed up in the time stream and he needs to fix it. But, in order to do so, they have to hide out from Skeets, whom apparently, for some reason, is trying to stop him. What they don't know is that Skeets is right outside the bottle. Fantastic book. Great characters. A stunning cover. And a beautiful backup origin story, about Powergirl, by Adam Hughes. What more could you ask for?