52 #14-26 Annotations

[VOL II - Fall]

52 #14 - "Sand & Rust"

• Vic and Renee arrive in Kahndaq.
• John has built a new suit for Nat, though she is part of Lex's new everyman squad.
• What appears to be the US gov wants Will's metal men as new age smart weapons.
• Haven has some crazy security systems: dogs and birds and chicks with Uzis riding bikes in ice cream cars.
• Morrow vanishes from his cell, leaving a letter to Will behind, a note written in machine code
• I love the question wordplay!
• "I swear before this is over I'm gonna hold his dead body in my hands."
• What's the deal with the rat poison?
• Mercury is back! Did Will use the machine code provided by Morrow?

52 #15 - "Outshined"

• THE DEATH OF BOOSTER GOLD!
• Everything is going downhill for him as he leaps into his last hurrah to gain some favor.
• Supernova has more of a personality in this, but we still don't know who he is.
• Sea monster hijacks nuclear sub into metropolis.
• Supernova zaps the monster away, but Booster tries to absorb the radiation into his forcefield and ends up getting skeletized!
• Renee and Vic escape from Kahndaqi prison.

52 #16 - "Uhebbuki"

• Black Adam proposes to Isis.
• Renee and Vic have been hiding out in the shipping container Tot Rodor sent them. She gets the kirby-tech gun!
• An answer to the rat poison! = an anti-coagulant to coat the shrapnel, maximum damage!
• The whole marvel family is here! Tawky Tawny, Mary, Freddy, and even Uncle Dudley!
• They are married, as the suicide bomber is killed by Renee.
• The bomber said an interesting prayer, mentioning Cain killing Abel. What secret lies in this new revamped Intergang?
• Uhebukki is I love you in Arabic.
• Adam Strange, Buddy Baker, and Kori finally leave the prison planet!

52 #17 - "Last of the Czarnians"

• Erik Storn = claws
• Eliza Harmon = speed
• Hannibal bates = shapeshifting
• Gerome McKenna = strength
• Jacob Colby = flight?
• Trouble in paradise for the Everymen, as the fast one Eliza claims she can't slow down after Luthor gave her powers. She uses a device/drug called sharp for relief.
• The space gang is caught in an asteroid field
• Buddy mentions the events of the 80's Animal Man series written by Grant, and he tries to rationalize the experience of meeting the writer.
• Adam Strange talking about how he gets zeta beamed away from Alanna before they start bickering as well as the fact that he likes being a loner is hilarious.
• Devilance tracks the ship down is about to strike until he is killed by Lobo!
• Was the asteroid field as trap for Lobo?
• Lobo has found religion?
• How does Lobo need these heroes' help?
• The remains of Red tornado are found by aboriginals in Australia! And all he says is 52...

52 #18 - "Dismantled"

• House of Mystery! Cain!
• Croatoan Society? Ralph, Detective Chimp, Terri Thirteen (could this just be Traci?), Tim Trench and Edogawa Sangaku
• Tim Trench was wearing the helm of fate, Terri touches him, and he becomes a puddle of water?
• So we're calling the shape-shifting intergang goons the "monster men"? Love it!
• Booster gold funeral = we get an appearance of Mind-grabber man from SS
• Skeets finds what appears to be an ancestor of Booster = Daniel Carter
• Ralph joins Shadowpact in Egypt to activate the Helm
• The helm reveals some secrets about the 10th age of magic, and how Tim trench tried to use the power of fate without any of the training, so he got liquified
• The helm wants Ralph to be the new bearer, and promises him powers (to possibly bring back Sue?)
• But the Shadowpact says Ralph is imagining the Helm talking to him...

52 #19 - "History Repeats"

• Skeets reveals that he had to watch the atomic lock while Booster entered the vault of rip hunter, so will we ever find out about the chalkboard + "all his fault stuff?"
• A big dump of reveals regarding whats going on with the space stuff...
• Lobo had an epiphany and turned into a priest of the triple fish god, with a talking dolphin as his servant
• The planetary debris they arrive on seems to be a refugee camp, refugees from an annihilated sector 3500 destroyed in something called the Stygian Passover.
• what was a new god doing on the fringes of space...
• lobo and fishy are going into sector 3500 on a pilgrimage to the three golden planets
• the person who put a price on our trio's heads is the same who destroyed sector 3500
• the emerald eye of ekron! used by emerald empress in the legion of superheroes future!
• Wonder girl, still crazy, thinks that Supernova is Conner...
• SKEETS IS EVIL!
• What secret did Hunter find out about Skeets?
• Daniel gets caught in a time loop vortex!

52 #20 - "God is Fragged"

• What does Supernova want with Batman's kryptonite gauntlet
• The Batman style crime busts are definitely Batwoman
• Luthor has a everyman power kill-switch!
• interstellar carrion that feeds on dying planets! Did someone send them?
• buddy gets space-fauna powers!
• lobo gets shredded
• Starfire can survive the power of the emerald eye
• the emerald head of ekron???
• was is lobo who ripped it out of Ekron's head, or did he acquire it from someone else?
• Is Ekron in league with the mystery villain and the stygian passover?

52 #21 - "Teambuilding Exercises"

• Trajectory is let back on the everyman team, which is now referred to as "Infinity Inc."
• Skyman, Nuklon, Starlight, Fury, Everyman, and Trajectory
• New version of Blockbuster
• Ralph and the Helm of Fate enter the Aztec Underworld...
• Ad-Hoc Titans group: Beast Boy, Raven, Hot Spot, Power Boy and Little Barda, Zachary Zatara
• So Luthor turns up Blockbuster (most likely controlling him the whole time) and turns off Trajectory leading to her demise.
• Titans lose a couple of members, but Gar pledges to help John Henry with his suspicions about the Everyman project and luthor.
• In Australia, a mechanic puts red tornado back together into a scrap body
• Is Johnny Warrawa the aboriginal guy we met back in #17, and Mungo is this white guy, or are there three people? Not sure why the art is confusing me. Or Johnny is this white guy who's in the shop and mungo is the one outside with the beer?

52 #22 - "Burial Ground"

• Luthor thinks Supernova is Superman, we obviously know it's not since Clark and him have interacted.
• Luthor is incompatible with the metagene therapy...
• Jon Standing Bear and this ginger chick who wants to join the Everyman program
• He's a descendent of Super-Chief! The Iroquois hero!
• Jesus christ, he kills his gramps and takes the sky stone.
• John Henry recruits a man named Ferry who claims that Luthor gave him powers and then took them away.
• Magnus calls his brother David who mentions the Moz-OC organization known as SHADE
• Some interesting retcons: all of the wild revamps of the metal men have been now labeled as a fever dream psychosis from Magnus' mental breakdown after the plutonium man went rogue.
• The US military besieges Magnus' home and send their soulless versions of the metal men to capture him. He and mercury fend them off, but something else attempts to intercept Magnus, taking out the military goons.
• It looks like a giant sentinel from marvel, but it blows up the house. 

52 #23 - "The Island of Professor Morrow"

• The monster men! So intergang is the one kidnapping mad scientists?
• Oolong island!
• Omni-Bot
• Baron Bug, Rigoro Mortis, IQ
• Book of Crime, religion of crime
• Amon Tomaz, Isis brother, gets handicapped by the monster men and whisper a'daire!
• Question grabs the crime bible
• Black Adam adds Amon to the family, he gets shazam powers. Takes the name, Osiris!
• What will the black adam family do in China?

52 #24 - "Just Imagine"

• Jason Rusch has put together an ad-hoc JLA, consisting of himself, Firehawk, Super-Chief, Bulleteer, and Ambush Bug.
• Ollie is running for mayor, and immediately declines the call to join the JLA.
• For the past six months, J'onn has infiltrated the US government in order to shut down Checkmate for good to avenge Ted Kord and the others who died at the hands of Max Lord at the Omac Project. He succeeds, but for how long...
• Love the memorial in Mount Justice.
• Black Adam has turned a new leaf! He's slowly removing the aggressive policies of the Freedom of Power, but the Chinese Great Ten feel that he's going soft, claiming that his actions will anger a number of powerful individuals.
• Ambush Bug has some fun meta lines in this.
• Time vortex unleashes temporal anachronisms onto the streets of metropolis. The source... Skeets!
• Who is Skeets attempting to draw out with this?
• Firestorm gets zapped, while Super-Chief is sent to the spirit realm. His ancestor, Flying Stag, reclaims the manitou stone and gives it to Ralph Dibny.
• The massacre in metropolis does wonders to Firehawk's political campaign, but we're okay with it given her doucheyness.
• Checkmate is granted authorization by the UN, all of J'onn's work has been undone!
• Amanda Waller doesn't buy Black Adam's change of heart, and she recruits Atom-Smasher to put together a new Suicide Squad to deal with him.

52 #25 - "Liminal Times"

• Bruno Manheim, leader of intergang, apostle of the religion of crime, and cannibal! We get a great description on how Darkseid communed with him, and we can assume that he's part of this whole religion being the god of evil and all that.
• Only other dead dude besides mirage I recognized was Kite man.
• Black Marvel family KO Sabbac, king of devils. Neron name-drops as well...
• Happy halloween judeo-christians!
• Ralph and the Helm of Fate have been loose in the magic underworlds for a while now, and we see the soul of Felix Faust, permanently imprisoned in Hell after a deal with Neron gone wrong.
• They turn around and leave, but we see the soul of Faust disintegrate...
• Who will Ralph bargain with for the resurrection of his wife?
• The ginger from #22 returns as Matrix!
• Alan Scott meets with Michael Holt. He reveals that he's been selected as the new White King of Checkmate, and will join if Michael becomes his Bishop. He wants to keep the organization in check and monitor Luthor's agenda.
• Courtney is in private school!
• So intergang wants Magnus to build a new Plutonium Man and Morrow finds out about the medication stifling Will's creativity.
• Manheim meets with the man behind the oolong island, Chang Tzu, a revamp of the Kanigher creation Egg Fu!
• Mentions of the Four Horsemen and Intergang mobilizing...

52 #26 - "Halfway House"

• The Black Marvels take Renee and Charlie to the Himalayas, where they rendezvous with Tot and freaking Richard Dragon!
• Isis gives Renee a rose...
• YOU ARE WRONG! with Jack Ryder AKA the Creeper!
• I guess Natasha's attitude is partly justified since it's all about teen rebellion and angst, and maybe she believes the Luthor doppelganger scapegoat he gave to the public...
• Sivana Family! I love it!
• Suspendium... We see Waverider! "I Know Why"... Could that be a future scene...
• Veronica Cale arrives on Oolong island!
• More Fawcett stuff! Crocodile men!
• Amon befriends him. He claims to be an experiment of Sivana, a mutated crocodile pulled straight out of the Nile six months ago...