Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #6 - DC

To start out this issue, we learn about this Neon the Unknown. He's not unknown anymore. At least not to us. Anyways, he comes from pretty humble beginnings, and his whole shtick seems to come from this oasis that he stumbled upon one day in the desert. It gave him powers, which he used to help the world and the Freedom Fighters from time to time. He stayed normal . . human . . also, until he was at Pearl Harbor and got blown up. He didn't die, but when he woke up back at the oasis . . he was changed. Less human than before. Happy tries to force him to come back to help his son, but when finally realizing he's not going to be able to do that, he decides to taste of the waters himself. "Let's see what it does to me." Meanwhile, Emma and Lester are trying to use her father's notes, and experiments, to figure out a way to return all these people back to normal. But, of course, things don't go exactly as planned. Instead they end up creating a monster that is the embodiment of all the guys mushed together. It's like a collective of souls, or body mass, or something. It seems very angry, and agitated, for obvious reasons, but it also knows that Emma is it's only hope. Meanwhile the Red Bee has taken the rest of the Freedom Fighters hostage. She's about to have the Human Bomb destroy them when he turns on her. He hits her with the blast instead. It releases everybody, but they still have 2 problems. One, she's called up on the rest of her swarm, which is quite massive. And 2, Uncle Sam seems intent upon protecting her. But on the final page of the issue, Happy finally shows up. And it appears that the waters have indeed changed him. There's only 2 issues left, but there's still a lot of stuff up in the air. Dave Johnson provides the fabulous cover this issue. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti are still at the creative helm. And Renato Arlem is doing the art. I love this book, and these characters. With all the fantastic ideas floating around in here, I kind of feel like these guys are the Doom Patrol of the new age.