52 #1-13 Annotations

 

[VOL I - Summer]

52 #1 - "Golden Lads & Lasses Must..."

• Why is Ralph trying to off himself?
• What message was inscribed on Sue's tombstone? = #2
• Why does Vic Sage want to seek out Renee Montoya?
• Who kidnapped Sivana and why?
• Why is Skeets malfunctioning? Why did he get the events wrong? = could it be because of the new earth's new continuity?
• Where are the space heroes? = #5
• The Themyscira House becomes the Kahndaqi Embassy
• POV INTRO: Renee Montoya, Booster Gold, John Henry Irons, Black Adam, Ralph Dibny

52 #2 - "Looking Back At Tomorrow"

• Why are mad scientists being kidnapped?
• IQ, Doctor Death, Doctor Tyme, Doctor Cyclops, Mad Doctor, Sivana
• Why is the kryptonian symbol for resurrection on the tomb of Sue Dibny? = #4
• What is the secret within the building on Kane street? = #4
• POV INTRO: William Magnus

52 #3 - "New World Order"

• Is the corpse the GCPD and Maggie Sawyer find the body of Alex Luthor from E3, repurposed as Luthor's scapegoat?
• Intergang takes advantage of the fallout from the Crisis to make a move.
• Booster goes to locate Rip Hunter to fix Skeets.
• Mister Mind has cocooned...
• Black Adam makes a statement that he will not tolerate murderers and supervillainy, by ripping terra-man in half

52 #4 - "Dances With Monsters"

• Surveillance team on a satellite orbiting Earth searching for signals regarding the space team that went missing Halo, of the Outsiders, is on this team.
• What is happening to John Henry Irons? Why is he feeling sick? Who poisoned him? He appears to be literally becoming a man of steel, and having a Bulleteer-esque transformation like we saw in Seven Soldiers. = #8
• Why did Cassie and this weird Kryptonian cult trick ralph and steal his wedding ring?
• Who is this monster man that Vic and Renee fight?
• What were the weapons he was trafficking?
• The zeta beam brings back the missing heroes: Alan Scott is bleeding from his eye, Kendra is huge, Mal Duncan Herald has shrapnel coming out of his chest, bumblebee is unconscious and bleeding, and two unidentified individuals are fused together.
• What happened? = #5

52 #5 - "Stars In Their Courses"

• What chaos will unfold from Luthor's announcement of the synthesized metagene, where everybody can be a hero?
• So is John Henry not suffering from the ailment he had last issue? We see half his face covered in steel at the end of his sequence in #4, and when he puts on his mask we see the non steel side...
• Ali-Ka-Zoom! Is he sitting with Zee or Ystina?
• So everybody got messed up when the Zeta Beam caught Adam along with the whole super-space-squad, and this all happened at the same time that Alex Luthor's tower gets destroyed and destabilized the petri-dish at the center of the universe. Mal had opened up a portal to attract the stray beam, but like a prism of light it refracted and warped all of the heroes.
• Supergirl is still AWOL = apparently she gets teleported to the 31st Century and is hanging with the Legion.
• Steel got his hand bit off by the General during the JLA arc WWIII IIRC.
• Steel has talked to Pieter about his condition.
• What is the mystery behind Red Tornado's last words: It's coming... 52... 52...
• What did Red Tornado see?
• What planet are they on?
• Where did they get the ship?
• So Adam is missing two eyes, Alan is also missing two eyes, but he has an unknown eye.
• Who is on the planet with Buddy Kori and Adam?

52 #6 - "China Syndrome"

• Great Ten: August General In Iron, Immortal Man in Darkness, Socialist Red Guardsman, Thundermind, Ghost Fox Killer, Celestial Archer, Shaolin Robot, Mother of Champions, Accomplished Perfect Physician, Seven Deadly Brothers
• Super-Young Team of Japan!
• So this Coalition/Freedom of Power Treaty was formed by Black Adam as a way for countries to maintain their own borders and prevent American metas from interfering within their territories.
• So Lex is giving powers out to anybody?
• Who is watching T.O. Morrow? Are they the same people who kidnapped the scientists?
• HERE COMES THE CHALK BOARD!
• World War 3? *
• Dead by Lead?
• Further Time is different?
• The four horsemen will end her rain?
• He won't smell it?
• Find the last El?
• Time Masters -> Time servants?
• The Reach?
• The Tornado is in Pieces?
• The Scarab is Eternal?
• It hurts to breathe?
• Who is Super-Nova?
  
• Where is the Curry heir?
• I'm not kryptonite?
• 2000 years from now?
• What happened to the son of superman?
• Who is diana prince?
• Don't ask the Question, it lies?
• Immortal Savage?
• Khimaera lives again?
• The old gods are dead, the new gods want what's left?
• I'm supposed to be dead?
• Someone is monitoring us. They see us, they see me?
• Te vs (Au + Pb)?
• Secret Five?
• Where is the batman, who is the batwoman?
• The lazarus pit rises?
• Why is it all booster's fault? or is it skeets...

52 #7 - "Going Down"

• What is this fruit Kori and Buddy have been eating? I'm getting serious Island of the Lotus Eaters vibes... = #9
• Kate Kane, Kane Family: Renee and Kate secret romantic history...
• Cult of Conner...
• Booster exposed!
• Starfire discovers a giant spear, the spear of Devilance the Pursuer!
• Some have suggested that this planet-Eden is Adon from the Kirby Forever People mini series.

52 #8 - "Thief"

• Ralph meets with Ollie in Star City to crackdown on a Cult of Conner sect, only to find it abandoned. The cult is obsessed with the idea of resurrection.
• John Henry still dealing with the metagene everyman Luthor stuff. Realizes that he was probably infected by Luthor at the morgue.
• How did the samples at dr. Avasti's lab blow up?
• Natasha is recruited by Luthor and has a huge falling out with John.
• Buddy and Adam find Star, but are kidnapped by Devilance.
• New hero pops up in metropolis and is stealing Booster's thunder.
• Clark vows to find out who it is.

52 #9 - "Dream of America"

• John gets his ass handed to him on a platter by Natasha, now with superpowers.
• So Luthor has put together a new super-team. One of them is named Herakles.
• Buddy, Adam, and Star escape from Devilance.
• Devilance was hired to hunt them down because of what they saw when Alex Luthor's petri dish went boom. He says they saw beyond the veil and the walls of heaven, and only gods can have that knowledge. But who hired Devilance?
• The whole planet was a trap for the heroes!
• Question meets with Renee and tells her that the monster guy and the guns, its all a part of Intergang's invasion of Gotham City.
• Batwoman first appearance!

52 #10 - "Stop The Press"

• Why doesn't the living lightning come down when Black Adam says Shazam?
• Last we heard, Billy was the new Wizard.
• Freedom of Power treaty has expanded, Russia, China... I even see Sonar and Copperhead and what appears to be a new Ibis the Invincible.
• Adrianna Tomaz, the Egyptian girl who Intergang brought to Adam. Her family was slaughtered and her brother sold into slavery.
• The freedom of power treaty gives authorization for lethal action against meta-villains, and also seems to be a way to combat the massive amount of American metas.
• Loved the Clark Supernova sequence with Perry.
• So Clark has his powers gone for the time being.
• I enjoyed the Lois 'Post-Crisis-Trauma' stuff.
• Dick, Bruce, and Tim are still traveling the world.
• Booster is going broke as Skeets does not have a hold on accurate info on the 21st century.
• Addressing again that something is causing 21st century history to diverge from the 25th century records.
• Magnus meets with Morrow about the remains of Sivana's lab, and how he found a cocoon of mister mind. But how long ago did he escape? We saw his cocoon in #3...

52 #11 - "Batwoman Begins!"

• Great issue!
• Burglary at Ralphs storage unit. They steal Sue's clothes and dress them up on a straw mannequin along with the wedding ring they took from Ralph. Horrifying
• Renee and Vic meet with Kate who tells them who rented out the property on 520 Kane St.
• They are able to trace it back to a banking firm that is the spearhead of Intergang.
• Two members: Whisper A'Daire and Kyle Abbot.
• These intergang members can shapeshift into animalistic creatures. Whisper has low level psychic mind control.
• Mentions of Kahndaq, possible human trafficking.
• Batwoman! 

52 #12 - "Mighty"

• Renee meets with Maggie, who claims that she and Vic's incident last issue with Ferrick-Ridge has set the MCPD back.
• Renee and Vic resolve to follow their only lead, they are going to Kahndaq!
• Teth-Adam offers to give Adrianna powers of the Marvel Family, the powers of the ancient hero Isis!
• Billy is the new Wizard, but he's had some difficulties adjusting, hence the scene where Teth couldn't call down the lightning.
• Adrianna becomes Isis, but tells Adam that they must find her brother.
• Ralph tracks down Cassie, who reveals that she and the Cult are planning on a test-resurrection on Sue before they try to bring back Conner. Ralph agrees!

52 #13 - "Haystack"

• Jesus Christ! The horror!
• The ritual had to be fake... right?
• Was it Sue's soul that possessed the hay mannequin, or something else...
• Who was watching Ralph in that last page?
• Wholesome intermezzo with Black Adam and Isis searching for her brother, and a mention of Black Reign.