What an intense book. This issue starts world war III. And it's a war of Black Adam against the world. He's finally broken free of the scientists on Oolong island, and he's looking for some retribution for what was done to his beloved country, and his entire family for that matter. He's already made Biayla pay for harboring the Horseman that ran there to hide. He's attempted to make the scientists pay that created all this carnage and destruction, and set it loose on the world. Now he wants to make China pay for it's involvement. And every country in the world sends everything it's got after him. But Black Adam just mows them down like so much wheat. There's not much anybody can do to stand up against him. Billy even petitions the Egyptian gods, whom Black Adam receives his powers from to strike down with their lightning and remove his powers, but they just laugh at him. So he decides he's going to have to come up with a plan. Basically what he does is call down his own lightning, but then before it can transform him, he races it down to Black Adam, so it strikes them both simultaneously. This works, but he could change back anytime he wanted. So Shazam, being the new guardian of magic, decides he's going to change his magic word. And he'll never tell anyone what that is. On the final pages, T.O.Morrow has returned to his laboratory where he's been digging in to the Red Tornado head that he found, but before he can make any progress, Booster Gold and Rip Hunter show up to recruit him for the mission they're working on. Fantastic book. Justiniano does the finish art over Giffen's layout, and the end result is fantastic. What a perfect artistic choice for an all out carnage issue like this one. With another beautiful cover by J.G.Jones.
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