With this issue, we finally catch up with Ray Palmer. Basically, after Jean went away, he just wanted to get away from it all. On one of his trips he ran in to this sorceress. It was the one our Challengers ran in to in the microscopic universe. She gave Ray the low-down on the multi-verse. So he decided to learn how to slip between worlds on a quantum level. He was looking for a place to call home. He finally ended up on Earth 51. It was much like our. Soon he found their Ray Palmer. He had also discovered the multi-verse, and was getting ready to test a portal that he designed to access it. He wasn't so lucky though. It blew up in his face. So Ray decided he was going to take his place. But this Ray hadn't even met Jean yet. So that was the next thing he set out to do. Then he began juggling his life, with the experiment that this world's Ray Palmer had begun, and a life with this world's new Justice League. The project turned out to be a necessity. Ray had discovered the multi-verse, but he had also discovered a flaw. Our Ray had to continue his work, " . . if I didn't . . the consequences could be catastrophic. Not only for this world, but for all the universes." As he's discovered in his house, by our Challengers, he's relating this story to his friends Barry and Ralph and their wives. Finally as he's telling it he stops and asks, "How do you . . . ? Who the hell are you anyway?". Bob replies, "I am a Monitor. My sole purpose is to become aware of and eliminate multiversal anomalies. Ray Palmer who is not of this Earth . . . . consider yourself eliminated." Where did that come from? I thought he was looking for Ray to help him, or at least to help the multi-verse. What gives? Well as we near the end of this series, and the Great Conflict, I'm sure the stuff's going to be coming at us fast and furious. It also seems like something is going to have to go on after this series, because it looks like we have more questions now than we did before. Keep it coming. 17 issues to go. Woo-doggie!
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