Countdown to Final Crisis #5 - DC

This issue, as well as the last, is told from the perspective of Buddy Blank. On this world Buddy is a scientist at Cadmus and is present when our Challengers arrive with their doomsday prophesies. Cadmus and Dubbilex do everything they can to try to figure out this Morticoccus and hopefully synthesize a antidote. But, from the moment the heroes arrived on this planet . . they doomed it. Val is already dead, so the virus is looking for a new host. When they try to tap his spine, the virus actually manifests itself in the shape of a giant tape-worm of sorts. It's actually very powerful. Buddy chronicles the fall of their civilization. But he's worried about his daughter and grandson. When everybody else at Cadmus gives up and decides they want to spend their final moments with their loved ones, Buddy also decides to make sure his kin is ok. With Una's help he does make it to their apartment. While the boy is ok, his daughter has been infected. As well as every cat, dog and rodent in the building. They travel to the roof to escape, but that where they find his infected daughter. Una probably could've handled her own against just the woman, but then the rodents start swarming over her and it's all she can do to keep her head up. Before she goes down though, she tosses he Legion ring to Buddy and tells him to save his grandson. He doesn't really want to, but he knows there's no hope for her. Luckily, since he worked for the government, he knows where all the bases are, and he goes to the Command D Bunker and decides to make it their new home. From there he reactivates Brother Eye so he can use it's satellite imagery to view what's going on in the rest of the world. As he's looking at his sleeping grandson, he's thinking, "I can only hope that one day, he'll forgive me . . . for making him the last boy on Earth." Now that sounds familiar. Either this is the world from the original OMAC series, by Jack Kirby . . . or . . it's the world of Kamandi. Pretty sneaky there. By the by, when the civilization is pretty much gone, and there's nothing else they can do, the Challengers use the mother-box to create a boom-tube to take them elsewhere. The question is . . where did they go? I like that this book is keeping up it's momentum, right to the very end. They actually have Jim Starlin doing the pencils on this issue. Fantastic! Only 5 more issues to go.