52 - Week Fifty Two - DC

This issue finally wraps up our weekly series. Well . . . at least until Countdown comes out next week. These guys really must be a glutton for punishment. It's ok for us though. Anyways, this issue ties up a lot of loose ends, but at the same time, in doing so, opens up some new ones. Our main focus this issue appears to be with Rip Hunter, Booster Gold, and Skeets. Mr. Mind has taken over Skeets. While doing so he has also metamorphoses into some kind of creature that feeds off of time. One year ago, at the end of the Crisis, a new multiverse was created. 52 universes identical to ours, but on a different vibrational plane. Now Rip, Booster, Supernova and the Red Tornado head, have traveled into that multiverse, following Mr. Mind, trying to save them. What has happened is that Mr. Mind has gone to various planets, feeding off their chronal energy, but in doing so, has changed them. And this is what's going to make each of the 52 universes, that started out identical to ours, similar, but different. Now there's a Nazi planet, a WildStorm planet, a Charleton hero's planet, a Shazam! planet, and so on and so on. A lot of planets similar to ones we've seen before, but we haven't seen in a while. Like since Crisis on Infinite Earth's some 20 or so years ago. Nobody's supposed to find out about the Multiverse, but during the course of this issue, Sivana and TOMorrow find out about it. Anyways, long story short, with Sivana's suspendium and Skeets old shell, Rip and Booster capture Mr. Mind and send him back in time. He sends him back to the beginning of the year, before he's formulated his plan and changed. He's back in his worm form, and Sivana finds him and captures him. Booster's relative Danny decides that he wants to keep his Supernova identity. And now the 3 of them are going to be like a police force for the Multiverse. The other things that get wrapped up: Checkmate is put together under the UN, John and Natasha have opened up their new Steelworks and are talking about what's going to happen to Infinity Inc., someone new has taken the Amulet of Isis, the Dept. of Metahuman affairs have decided to go after Wonder Woman, Ralph and Sue Digby have been turned in to ghost detectives, literally, and Renee has accepted her role as the new Question. Also with the help of Will Magnus a new Skeets is built. Will had a copy of his hard drive from before, but he won't remember anything from the past year. Like I said it answers a lot of questions, but asks a lot of new ones also. Overall this has been a fantastic series. I'm really looking forward to Countdown, which is really just an extension of this book. And I'm looking forward to seeing what they're going to do with this new Multiverse.