52 - Week Fifty One - DC

We're almost there. We're almost at the end. And things are starting to wrap up. Buddy finally comes home to his wife, thanks to the Sun-Eater's energy. But when he gets there he's so powered up that all they can do is sit and talk for a while. What's being dubbed as World War III is over, so people are leaving flowers at the Superman/Superboy shrine. Cassie talks to Diana, who then begins her role as Agent Prince. And Bruce, Tim and Dick are all there also, having returned from their sabbatical. And Kid Devil introduces himself to Ravager. Adam Strange has returned to Rann, just in time to handle some flame creatures that are attacking the city. He's been fitted with copies of his daughters eyes, so he can see again. But he passes on the creatures, letting some Green Lanterns handle it, so he can spend some time with his family. But everyone seems to be worried about the Emerald Eye. But Lobo has that, and he's returned to the Church of the 3 fish to bring it to them. He finds out that they only wanted it because the head fish knows that it's the only thing that can kill him. Which I believe . . Lobo then does. Meanwhile in Dr. Morrow's lab in the Rocky Mountains, we find that he's trying to figure out the mystery of the Red Tornado head. It keeps repeating "52. 52." We also find out that the reason Skeets has been acting so harebrained lately is because he's been hijacked by Mr. Mind. You know the mad scientist worm from Shazam!. Apparently he had to gestate inside of Skeets for 52 weeks, and now he's ready to come out as this really ugly, psychotic, killer-moth type creature. Booster Gold and Rip Hunter are there, the Red Tornado and TO Morrow, because they wanted to lure Mr.Mind there to free Skeets. So once Mr. Mind leaves him, they grab Skeets and jump in a time bubble. Rip says, " . . . we're going back. Back to where it all started." Which leaves us with a tremendous cliff-hanger for issue 52. I really, really like this book. And I'm really hoping, since there's only 1 more issue left, that they keep up the same intensity with the Countdown storyline. But I only have 2 weeks to find out.