Countdown to Final Crisis #15 - DC

Now that we're getting closer to the end, we're starting to take some interesting turns with these characters. Mary Marvel has landed on Themyscira. But luckily, she was found by Hippolyta and not the Female Furies. She takes Mary under her wing, sensing that she's been depowered, and gives her the lowdown on what's been going on on the island. Meanwhile, back on Earth 51, our group of Challengers are doing the best they can to protect Ray Palmer. It turns out that the Ray Palmer from this Earth was not the Atom, but he was a genius, and he had a genetic anomaly that made him super-immune. Anyways, the JLA of this Earth had a case involving the ultimate bioweapon. A doomsday germ called Morticoccus. The strange part was when they found out the germ's DNA structure mirrored Ray's. They never did figure out why, and simply isolated it. Shortly afterward, their JLA was visited by another from a different dimension. This gave Ray an idea. He figured if there were multiple versions of himself, then it could only be concluded that there were multiple versions of this Morticoccus. So his plan was to go to each of these different dimensions and "seed" someone with his own genetic immunity, giving each world a fighting chance should the bioweapon appear. Unfortunately he died before he could accomplish that. So Ray has been carrying on his work. Also unfortunately his inoculations left a mark on the recipients skin . . . like his Atom symbol. Which, of course, left a trail for Bob to follow. He's relating this whole story to Kyle. Meanwhile Donna is off fighting this world's Wonder Girl, Jason is having a heart to heart with this world's Batman, and Bob is back in the multiversal nexus watching his "family", but Superman-Prime has shown up, demanding that he be taken back to his own Earth. And . . Forerunner has also shown up. And finally we see that Brother Eye is in Bludhaven assimilating the material that it needs to become a fully self-functioning entity. That includes the Atomic Knights, Firestorm, and our band of hapless travelers, Buddy Blank, Una and Karate Kid. Basically, it looks like it's creating a "Death-Star". The issue ends with them concerned that it may have assimilated some Apokolyptian technology also. Not a pretty picture. Fantastic book. Like I said, since we're nearing the end, the surprises are going to be coming fast and furious. Are you ready?