Countdown #30 - DC

Ok, here's what's going on this issue. Karate Kid, Una and Buddy Blank have gone to find Brother Eye. Brother Eye instantly recognizes that Karate Kid is infected with the OMAC virus. However, it's been mutated. It's terminal. "Infection incomplete. compatible with secondary virus . . . interesting . . . it seems the great disaster has come to me." We see the aftermath of the Green Arrow / Black Canary wedding from Piper and Tricksters point of view. They actually help save some people because Joker has a bomb planted there, and they end up throwing it at Poison Ivy. Then they take the Porsche and bolt. But what we didn't see in the Wedding Special is that they had another passenger. It looks like one of the Royal Flush Gang. Man, those guys are like cockroaches. We also see a little bit of Cadmus' testing on Jimmy. It appears that whatever they're doing has activated multiple powers of his. He's shooting beams from his eyes, his body mass is growing and fluctuating, he's sent off an energy being from himself and he's turned like liquidy or rubbery or something and flushed himself down the drain to get away. Holly Robinson is on the final leg of her journey . . . or test. They've almost reached the shores of Themyscria, but the waters are guarded by giant sharks. Their final test is to swim to the island. And they don't seem to have much of a choice. But most of the book is taken up by the search for the Atom storyline. Our Challengers have come to Earth 15. The little symbol on the front cover helps. This one is pretty peaceful, but it's different in it's members of it's JLA. Batman is Jason, Wonder Woman is Donna, Green Lantern is Kyle, Superman is Zod and the Atom is Jessica Palmer, an 18 year old girl. I assume that she's Ray's daughter, or niece or something. Anyways, they realize that this world won't help them find their Atom, he's not here. But before they leave, their JLA counterparts give their Challenger counterparts a little advice. Specific advice for each one. They're also confused by the Jokester. But then they realize he's not the evil one that they're used to. Paul Dini is assisted on the scripts for this issue by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. And Keith Giffen's artwork is finished by Jesus Saiz. Over all a fantastic book. Pretty soon this books name is going to change a little bit to Countdown to Final Crisis. I'm not sure what that's all about. But you know it'll be good.