the Death of the New Gods #2 - DC

Another fantastic story-line and book. If you haven't seen Jim Starlin's work in a while, you kind of forget just how good the guy really is. Well I'm here to tell you, this guy is brilliant. Fantastic story and art. I'm sure Matt Banning's inks help, but still it's a beautiful piece of work. We're coming at this story from several different angles. First we have the New Genesis side of things. They're trying to figure out what's going on and why such a large number of their young gods are coming up dead. Actually, they don't know how or who. Their first assumption is that it's Darkseid, but luckily there's some level heads that prevail in their analysis and planning. If it was up to Orion, he's just go straight to Apokolips and start "chewing gum and kicking ass". We also see the story from our Earth's point of view. After all there are quite a few that have taken up residency here. Specifically Mister Miracle who is distraught over the murder of his wife Big Barda. So the Justice League has shown up to try to help figure this out. Their working the angle from our planet, but Superman has gone to New Genesis with Scott for Barda's funeral. But Apokolips is having just as much trouble as New Genesis hanging on to their people. Big Barda after all was from Apokolips. And we find out this issue that Desaad's replacement, Justeen, has also been killed. So whoever's doing this doesn't appear to be taking sides, as far as New Genesis and Apokolips is concerned. For some reason when Superman and Scott show up, it really sets off Orion. There's a big battle between the two powerhouses, and Metron has to step between them to be the voice of reason. After Barda's funeral, Himon and Takion go to the wall for clues. But what they notice there is a second wall. "By the stars, Himon! Don't you understand what we are looking at?! Gaze upon our fallen comrades! These are all the victims of our mysterious assassin! This is the killer's trophy wall!" So whoever is doing these killings seems to be tearing down the Fourth World from both sides. They're powerful enough to get to these people, and they're powerful enough to kill them. Scott was just in the other room when it happened to Barda, and he didn't hear a thing. And we're still no closer to finding out who's doing it. I can't overstate how incredible of a job Jim Starlin has done on this book. It really is amazing. We're only on issue #2, so there's still time to get caught up.