Uncle Sam & the Freedom Fighters #3 - DC

At the end of last issue, Phantom Lady committed suicide. Of course, she did have a dependency problem. And, during the fake terrorist attack, she did kill someone. So I guess you could say, she was rightfully ambivalent. But Lester Colt, Doll Man, decides that he's not going to let another human being take their own life. He's been a soldier his whole life. It's one thing when a person dies in battle. When they die for a purpose, or defending a cause. But a selfish, wasteful act like suicide . . . he just can't let it happen. Partly, I think, because he feels a bit guilty about her reaction to recent events. "I should have taken the time to train Phantom Lady how to deal with life off the battlefield . . . . . Dying young isn't romantic . . . it's a waste." We then get Lester's origin. As a soldier he volunteered for the experiment, that Dr. Glenn and his daughter Emma were performing. He was to become the second Doll Man. The first, Darryl Dane, had gone AWOL. But someone broke in to the lab and stole the Doctor's work before it could come to it's true realization, or before Lester's condition could be reversed. We then see a plethora of new meta's coming to the forefront to take the limelight. But really it's marketing propaganda, to try to make the world forget about the Freedom Fighters. We also see that SHADE is running tests on Red Bee, to find out what the extent of her new powers and transformation are. But the man performing the tests is not who he appears to be, and when Jenna squawks about being held against her will, he sedates her and puts her in stasis. But at the end of the book she uses her new antenna to call on a swarm of mechanical bees, who come and break her out. And Uncle Sam and Doll Man jumped head first in to a heap of trouble. The VP was abducted and he was taken to one of the lower levels of the Pentagon. Once there they find a war-zone made up of miniaturized people. In order to find the VP, they have to shrink themselves down and go in to find him. They find that he was taken by an army led by Darryl Dane. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti do the scripts. And Renato Arlem handles the art chores. Overall I enjoy the book. I'm just not exactly sure where this particular series is heading. But we still have 5 issues to go.