Wow! It seems that Cain . . Vandal Savage . . has remade the world in Darkseid's image. I'm not sure what our little group of revolutionists can do from this point. At the end of this book . . it appears that all is hopeless. But . . we still have one more issue to go. And as you should know . . from the out-come of a lot of NFL games this year . . a lot can happen in the last 5 minutes. Greg Rucka is doing a tremendous job of interpreting this tale. It'll be very interesting to see what happens to the Spectre/Crispus Allen and Radiant/Sister Clarice after all of this plays itself out. During this tale, it appears that Radiant has Cain in a stand-off. He has gathered up a lot of people that have been converted by the anti-life equation, but Radiant holds them off, with her energy, while freeing and protecting a handful of those converted inside, what looks like, a church. During that time, the Question/Renee tries to figure out the secret of the Spear of Destiny. She knows that it is the key somehow, and that she's immune to it's power, but . . she hasn't quite figured out how those pieces all fit together yet. Also during all of this, Cain has made the Spectre his slave by separating him from his host, Crispus. Anyways, it seems as if the Question is about to figure something out when Radiant goes outside and puts herself in Cain's line of fire. I think she knows what Renee is about to do, or supposed to do, but she can't tell her herself. So, I'm thinking, that this ploy, putting herself out there in front of Cain, is a sacrifice play that she's making so Renee can do what she's supposed to. She actually kind of goads Cain into using the Spectre's obedience to make him recreate everything. That's why, at the end of this issue, it appears that all is lost. But I'm thinking, this is all part of Radiant's plan, and Renee's epiphany. Next issue, I'm hoping, we'll see how it all fits together. It shouldn't be to hard they just have to . . . figure out how to put Crispus and the Spectre back together, then get the Spectre to un-create what he's created . . they have to figure out how to put down Cain, and separate the Spear of Destiny from his grasp . . and they have to figure out how to free the converted from their anti-life slavery. It shouldn't be too hard to pack all of that into 1 issue. Right? Also, I'm sorry . . I can't finish here without praising Philip Tan for his amazing work. The pencils, and images, in this book are absolutely perfect. You can just feel the frustration and anger and hopelessness exuding off of these pages. Philip does an incredible job of creating images of all of the emotions entwined in this story. His image of the Huntress jumping down and attacking Cain was fantastic. I can't wait to see what they do for the final issue of this series. It's truly a masterpiece.
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