Reign In Hell #5 - DC

Right now, Hell is like a 'who's who' of the mystical heroes. Well, I guess they couldn't all be considered heroes, but they all are pretty powerful in their own right. Ibis, Sargon, Zatanna and Zatarra have all gotten together on Zatarra's request. It sounds to me like Zatarra wants to keep an eye on all of them. Especially Ibis who is a novice, and . . his power has been diminished because of Black Alice. She's also down here somewhere. Dr Fate is shaking it up with Blaze. He's also a relative novice, but . . he uses the distractions to his advantage. Blue Devil and Etrigan just got done duking it out. In the process they released Lobo from his cage. Apparently he's been here for years. Neron put a duplicate up into the real world so nobody would know he was missing. Now . . he's pissed. Anyways, it looks like Etrigan is taken out of it, but in the process of his recovery he take Danny out by what looks like him taking his soul. Maybe? I'm not quite sure, but . . Danny's done for now. Then we got Shadowpact mucking about also. I'm not sure what they're trying to do, but Rory, Ragman, basically overdoses when his suits starts to feed on all of the tortured souls that are dying around him. It almost consumes him completely. This issue ends with Zatanna coming toe to toe with Lobo. She seems pretty pissed . . she just had to obliterate her father's very essence . . but I don't know if she's ready for this kind of fight. In the back-up story, Dr Occult finally finds his Rose. But I don't think he's getting the answers that he thought he's get. Keith Giffen is doing a fantastic job writing this series. There really is a lot of depth to this story. And, the sheer amount of characters is staggering. Tom Derenick and Bill Sienkiewicz do the art on the opening story, and Chad Hardin does the art on the back-up. Both stories look, and feel, incredible. This is turning out to be a great mini-series, and I think it's going to have a big impact for a long time on the DC Universe. Plus . . . the main man's back . . . Lobo. The one and only!