Immortal Man has returned to New York City and proceeds to answer a distress call from the skyscraper of Doc Fate. Once inside, he is greeted by Lady Blackhawk and her Blackhawks Squadron. He is then introduced to 18 year old Al Pratt. He is The Atom and the only person to ever complete the Iron Munroe Bodypower course. He is also soon warned to stop reading a comic book that Fate claims is the most dangerous thing in the room. It seems that Doctor Fate has managed to get all worldwide conflict to end. He notes that a parallel Earth on the edge of Bleed Space is on a collision course with their Earth. They form the Society of Super-Heroes and prepare to protect their Earth. On the other Earth, Vandal Savage learns from Felix Faust that the two Earths crossing paths only happens once every hundred thousand years. The cursed comic book has told him that they are all part of a Multiverse. Vandal Savage decides this allows him to conquer each one, leading him to conquer the United States of America. Five years pass and the battle between worlds rages. Green Lantern is dead and a creature called a Makara has burned The Atom. Doctor Fate tries to heal him as he shows him his Transmatter Cube and explains how the Monitor Race died and Nix Uotan became the protector of the Multiverse, making every super-hero his child.
Blockbuster bursts into the temple to try and kill The Atom. Al promises to hold the creature back while Fate continues to work on the Transmatter Cube. Al, uses the forbidden martial arts move known as the Deadly Atom Punch to kill Blockbuster. Vandal Savage battles the Immortal Man when the Blackhawk Squadron arrives to distract him long enough to continue to buy time for Doctor Fate. Faust and his Necro-Men break into the temple and Fate pistol whips him until he passes out. That is when Parallax attacks and eventually killed. Lady Blackhawk and Lady Shiva battle and Shiva is knocked into an alligator filled-infested swamp. He cuts then to pieces with her sword only to be shot to death by the Blackhawk Squadron. Meanwhile, Immortal Man and Vandal Savage, two enemies given eternal life by a meteorite, begin their dance of death. Green Lantern returns to destroy the entity of fear. He tells Al that using the Makara Plasma from Parallax will produce the energy they need to run the Transmatter Cube, which has the ability to bridge worlds. Fate believes that they can use the cub to contact others and recruit them to their cause. Vandal Savage attacks but is impaled on a spear Immortal Man has created. His death summons the god Niczhuotan and has caused the heroes of this world to become killers. This all led to a five-year war which also awakened Nix Uotan, the last remaining Monitor, who cannot be stopped by the Society of Super-Heroes. And hopefully, the heroes of the other worlds Uotan will go to can stop him.
Remember a great book by Rick Veitch called 1963? Well, picture that title with bits of the NEW 52 Universe thrown in and not as humorous and you have this book. Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse have thrown characters into a blender and shot them out into a weird world with the 52 Universes. Morrison has dug into comicdom and twisted things together with bits from classic literature and world religions to turn out this bizarre tale which is designed to be connected with the rest of the series. You will find your head in a whirl if you try to make sense of this in the here and now. I believe each title needs to stand on their own and then it will all come together in the end. Will this effect the NEW 52 Universe? We’ll have to wait and see. Somehow, I believe it will.
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