This is a nice 1 issue story about Alan Scott. He has to look up an old adversary of his, Johnny Mimic. He has the ability to recreate any crime just by looking at it and walking through it. The problem is, with that intimate of an association with a bad event, it tends to have negative affects on him. At the very least his psyche can slip in to the role of the perpetrator. Anyways, SHADE has had something stolen from it's lab, and Father Time is pissed. So he asks, putting it nicely, for Allan Scott to get Johnny Mimic to do his thing and find his missing piece of technology. Johnny doesn't want to do it. He's knows what it's going to do to him and his wife. Their relationship is already tenuous. But, as I said, it was a request from Father Time . . . but then again . . . it wasn't. So after telling his wife what's going on, she's kick him out of the house for good. Now he has nothing, so . . . . why not go with Alan. Long story short the device that was stolen was the HERO disk. You know . . . "Dial H for HERO"? Well I guess SHADE has it. Err . . . had it. Comes to find out that the scientist that was studying, dialed in, and came up with time powers. He jumps forward in time, but Johnny knows where he's going to land, and skewers him. He then takes the dial, tries to make an escape, but in the process gets Alan to destroy the disk. "Had to make you . . . bust the gizmo . . . couldn't let them . . . have it. Greenie. . . . they killed the last guy who owned it. Tell her I did good . . . don't let her know . . . I was . . . such a heel . . .", says Johnny with his dying breath. So Alan issue a warning to Father Time, that he'll be watching SHADE. It actually was kind of a touching story. Tony Bedard wrote it, and Dennis Calero did the pencils. Overall, a nice book.
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