Another cool Andy Kubert cover on this issue. That guys really been getting around the DC Universe the last couple of months. I'm just glad to see him here. This series is heating up fast. Probably because there's only 4 issues. The contestants are fighting each other. They don't have much of a choice. But, they're also trying to scheme to try to come up with way's to get out. We see the Ray's fight each other. One of them is Apollo. Only 1 of them dies, the Nazi one. But Apollo is knocked out. And I think, if I understand everything correctly, Monarch is hanging on to the ones that aren't killed just in case he decides he needs a spare. Nice planning there. Next we see the Blue Beetle's fight. The one that wins is actually made up of a couple thousand little small Beetles. It quickly overpowers the one . . . . the young rookie one. It's a little harder with the smarter more experienced one. He does beat him. But the Blue Beetle had started to build something back in the holding pens. As he's dying he asks for someone to find it and finish it. Finally we have the Green Lantern fight. 2 Hal Jordans and 1 Bruce Wayne. Of course the Bruce character takes control. He tries to get them to fight together to beat Monarch, but their willpower just isn't strong enough. So Bruce disengages the safeties and takes his ring to critical mass. He tries to take out Monarch by himself. He doesn't, but, he does hurt him. He ruptures his containment cell. Meanwhile back in the place where they're holding the bodies of the fallen, one of the Batmen comes back to life. Apparently before he was beaten, he was bitten by the Red Rain Batman. So now he himself is a Vampire. I wonder if Monarch took this little possibility in to account? The story is shaping up quite nicely. I like what Keith Champagne is doing and I've always been a fan of Scott McDaniel's. It'll be interesting to see how this all washes out.
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