I love the creative direction that they're taking with this book. I know it's only a mini-series, but . . . damn . . . it's good. Peter J Tomasi is doing an incredible job with the story. He really seems to have a firm grasp of the character. I love the way Black Adam puts himself at the mercy of the 2 human doctors. He needed some medical attention, as Teth-Adam, so he had to put himself at their mercy by changing and letting them operate on him while he was under. Then when he comes to, 2 hours later, he has the audacity to ask them why they didn't let him die while he was unconscious. As he drives away, he sees a military team that homed in on his magical surge, descending upon the medical center. "Gunfire. Pain. Destruction. Innocents. Death. Not my problem", he mutters to himself as he's looking back in the mirror. But then 2 seconds later he comes swooping in and takes out the commando's before they can harm the doctors. As he's carrying their limp bodies out the door, like so many rag-dolls, all he says is "You're welcome!". But then he finds out from one of the survivors that they found his energy because they hacked in to the JSA satellite, which has been tracking his movements across the globe. They've found a way to track the lightning. So as Mr. Terrific and the Atom-Smasher are watching the monitors, the next thing they see is Black Adam looking back at them through the satellite's cameras. Before he smashes the satellite, he borrows a line from Ryan Seacrest . . . . "Black Adam out!" Doug Mahnke is also doing a tremendous job with this story. His artwork is easily the best I've seem from him . . to date. The whole team, creatively, really seems to be putting their all into this book. And their hard work shows. If this team could stay on the book, I could really see this story expanding in to a regular series. It really is that good.
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