Written by Bryan Hitch
Penciled by Fernando Pasarin
Cover by Fernando Pasarin
Published Mar 1, 2017
Cover by Fernando Pasarin
Published Mar 1, 2017
15 minutes before the events unfolded from the previous issue, Batman arrives at the Infinity Corporation. They tell him he has about 15 minutes to exist and he asks if he's the only one left. They tell him Superman is still in the current timeline but the rest of the league is unreachable. Apparently the stones have been talking to them, but Supes is a required part of the equation. Batman tells them he'll do what he can. After he leaves, the employees wonder if they should "tell him the truth" but they decide the time isn't right.
In Atlantis about 47,000 years ago, Aquaman tells the Atlantians that he'll one day be their king. For now though, they await the queen's childbirth and have carved some signs into the earth stone. He tells them he JUST used the Zodia crystal to save the earth which is apparently not very important to them at this time anyway. In DC about 500 years from now, the Lanterns battle the um, Lantern police and demand they bring them to whomever is in charge, which is apparently inside a gigantic battery. Simon asks them if the Guardians know and they tell him they don't care. The world had fallen into chaos but one Green Lantern chose to stay behind. Suddenly their story is interrupted by Molly transmitting on their watches. Back at Infinity Corp. they show Batman and Supes the message from Molly to each member of the league. She tells them that they need to put their devices in the temporal cores of each machine in their time periods... Ancient Atlantis, Ancient Greece, Barry Allen's Flash creation period, future Washington DC and the 30th Century. The magnitude of their missions begins to sink in. Batman asks if they can use the stones to help the League but they tell him that it isn't possible while Superman keeps asking about his wife and son. Batman asks the people at Infinity why they're helping but they won't say.
They link the group Molly mentions called "The Timeless" to the events and Superman asks if there's a control center in the floating ship outside their building. They tell him that there is a point of higher temporal energy. He tells them that he's going to go and discus things. Flying towards them, he says that he's come to talk and that looking for a fight is a bad choice. Suddenly a huge being tells him he is always, everywhere, and has been waiting for Superman. The next page reveals a massive embryonic being tethered by cables and tubes. It ominously says it's "time to save history" and with that, we're left to be continued.
You know, the writing in this series has been and continues to be stellar. The art is where it takes a step back however. Superman looks like a confused Rob Riggle and Aquaman kinda looks like Sylvester Stallone does now, in the new Rocky and Rambo movies with the fat muscley face. It's not noticeable enough to screw up the story for me and probably won't be but if I had to find something to complain about, I guess it would be that. Overall however I still give it an 8/10, and if there's one book you need to keep you sort of caught up on the DC universe, this is still definitely it.
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