What a fun book this would be the write and draw. I mean who else gets to tackle 3 Supermen fighting each other? Or who else gets to draw a whole platoon of Captain Atoms? Or variations thereof? Keith Champagne and Scott McDaniel have got to be having a ball with this book. It was kind of anti-climatic though, because I think we've seen the Supermen fight in almost every issue of this series. But . . they did do a good job this issue distracting Monarch, while the new Vampire Batman secreted away with all of Monarch's reserve. Those were the heroes that lost. But, they didn't die, so Monarch was keeping them is stasis so if he needed them later they would be easy to retrieve. I also liked the way they figured out that even though Monarch had destroyed the power source of the belt that Ray Palmer built, that one of the other Captain Atoms could use his own inherent energy to power it. Which is what Breach has done. Essentially, by the end of this book, both sides actually had a victory. Monarch put his little army together. His own little Justice League, if you will. Seriously, it consists of a Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Star-girl, Green Lantern, Flash . . and a couple of others. So he got what he wanted. And, all the heroes that lived through the battles ended up getting away. So maybe they'll go out to warn their respective worlds. But it seems like Monarch did this whole thing so that he could have the strength to take on the Monitors. But I'm not quite sure what he hopes to plan to gain by taking them down. Well we still have 17 issues of Countdown to go. So I'm sure we'll find out. This was a great mini-series, though.
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