Final Crisis Vol 1 2

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"Ticket to Blüdhaven"

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Final Crisis Vol 1 #2
August, 2008

Executive Editor

Dan DiDio

Cover Artists

J.G. Jones

Writers

Grant Morrison

Pencilers

J.G. Jones

Inkers

J.G. Jones

Colourists

Alex Sinclair

Letterers

Rob Leigh

Editors

Eddie Berganza, Adam Schlagman

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Appearing in "Ticket to Blüdhaven"

Featured Characters:

• Nix Uotan
• Dan Turpin
• Green Lantern (John Stewart)
• Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
• Sonny Sumo
• Superman
• Batman
• Wonder Woman

Supporting Characters:

• Super Young Team
  • Most Excellent Super Bat
  • Atomic Lantern Boy
  • Crazy Shy Lolita Canary
  • Shiny Happy Aquazon
  • Well Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash
• Big Science Action
  • Rising Sun
  • Ultimon (In flashback only)
  • Hammersuit Zero-X (In flashback only)
  • Junior Waveman (In flashback only)
  • Goraiko (In flashback only)
  • Cosmo Racer (In flashback only)
• Green Lantern Corps
  • The Alpha Lanterns
    • Alpha Lantern Investigator Kraken
    • Alpha Lantern Boodikka
    • Alpha Lantern Green Man
    • Alpha Lantern Varix
    • Alpha Lantern Chaselon
  • Opto309V
• Flash (Wally West)
• Flash (Jay Garrick)

Villains:

• Megayakuza (Final appearance; Dies)
• The Secret Society
  • Libra
  • Lex Luthor
  • Gorilla Grodd
  • Doctor Sivana
  • Ocean Master
  • Vandal Savage
  • Talia al Ghul
  • Clayface
  • Deathstroke
  • Effigy
  • Human Flame
  • Killer Frost
  • Mirror Master
  • Shadow Thief
  • Weather Wizard
  • Zoom
• Mad Hatter
• The New Gods of Apokolips
  • Darkseid
  • Granny Goodness
  • Glorious Godfrey
  • The Evil Factory
    • Simyan
    • Mokkari

Other Characters:

• Martian Manhunter's funeral
  • Justice Society of America
    • Doctor Mid-Nite
    • Green Lantern
    • Hourman
    • Mister Terrific
    • Stargirl
    • Wildcat
  • Justice League of America
    • Black Canary
    • Black Lightning
    • Firestorm
    • Hawkgirl
    • Red Arrow
    • Red Tornado
    • Vixen
  • Booster Gold
  • Green Arrow
  • Geo-Force
  • Metamorpho
  • Ice
• Black Racer

Locations:

• Mars
  • Martian Manhunter's grave
• Earth
  • Metropolis
    • Daily Planet building
    • Metropolis docks
  • Central City
    • Secret Society HQ
  • Tokyo
    • The Bar
  • The Hall of Justice
  • Blüdhaven

Items:

• Radion bullet

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "Ticket to Blüdhaven"

At a metahuman nightclub in Tokyo, the Super Young Team is enjoying a night out while Rising Sun gives a television interview denouncing them. Sonny Sumo then enters the bar and orders ice water. When a cyborg named Megayakuza attacks him, he rips the man's heart out and goes to the toilet to avoid the crowd. There he is met by Mister Miracle, who shows him the last Mother Box in existence, and informs him that the gods of Apokilips are stalking the Earth to unknown purpose. The Super Young Team volunteer to help.

Nix Uotan gets up and goes to work. He remembers the events of the trial as a dream and tells his workmates in the Big Belly Burger all about it. In his off-time, he recites from a dictionary, hoping to find his Monitor's Word of Command and regaining his power. He has also taken up drawing, and already has sketches of Overman and Overgirl (from Earth-10), and Captain Adam (from Earth-4).

Dan Turpin is attacking the Mad Hatter asking what he knows about the missing children. Turpin uneasily realises that he is enjoying the violence, but only stops when he gets the Mad Hatter's drop-off contact - Blüdhaven. He goes there, remarking that "all roads lead to Hell."

The heroes of the world mourn the passing of Martian Manhunter. Superman gives a moving speech; however, the villains of the Secret Society are now scrambling to join up and have their opponents killed. Human Flame remarks that he owes Libra, and Libra leads him away to discuss precisely what the Human Flame owes.

At the Hall of Justice, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are discussing the murders of Orion and Martian Manhunter. They are joined by Hal Jordan and Alpha Lantern Investigator Kraken. Kraken dismisses the League's efforts, referring to them as "the local crimefighting club". At the crimescene, John Stewart continues to search for a weapon, but when he discovers a bullet made of Radion, buried in undisturbed fifty-year-old strata, his rings switches off and he is attacked by someone in a Green Lantern uniform; he manages to get in one good punch before they defeat him. Later that night, Hal Jordan is formally accused of killing Orion, as a relapse to his time as Parallax.

Superman leaves the Hall to begin his day shift as Clark Kent, and Batman goes to talk to Kraken. Kraken reiterates her theory that Jordan is to blame, but then she whispers that someone is "eating her mind." Batman reacts by sealing the Hall of Justice. Kraken incapacitates him and reveals her true identity: she is Granny Goodness, taking a living host to do her work.

In Blüdhaven, Turpin meets the Reverend Godfrey Good, who refers to him as 'sir'. Turpin is led through racks of horrific technology and slave pens, where he meets Kamandi. In the centre of the complex, he is shown the lab called the Evil Factory, where the other New Gods are preparing to grow a new body for Kalibak. Here, Turpin realises the horrible truth - Darkseid is in his head.

At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent has handed in Martian Manhunter's obituary. Lois asks Jimmy Olsen to courier some picture down to the presses. However, as he leaves, 'Olsen' is revealed as Clayface - and the top third of the Daily Planet building explodes, leaving Superman alone in the wreckage covering his wife and co-workers.

The Flashes are investigating the Secret Society's hideout, where there was a minor earthquake around the time J'onn J'onnz died. Searching the building, they find Martian blood, a copy of the Crime Bible, and Libra's Mobius chair. Wally West gives a theory: what if the bullet that killed Orion was fired backwards through time itself? As they discuss this, the chair opens a Boom Tube and lightning discharges around them. They then see three things: the first is a bullet made of Radion; the third is the Black Racer of the Fourth World; and the second is Barry Allen, shouting one word - "Run."

Notes

• DC Comics Solicitation: Meet Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team and their languid leader, Most Excellent Superbat! Join legendary wrestler Sonny Sumo and super escape artist Mister Miracle as they team to face the offspring of the Anti-Life Equation! See Earth's superheroes mourn one of their oldest allies! Witness costumed criminals sinking to new depths of cowardice and depravity as Libra takes things too far! Uncover the doomsday secrets of the poisoned city of Blüdhaven! Learn the shocking identity of the prime suspect in the murder of a god! And read on if you dare as Batman becomes the first of Earth's champions to face the Fallen of Apokolips. All this and a spectacular return from the dead...

Trivia

• All of the characters in Nix Uotan's sketches have a bearing on Final Crisis. Two of the characters (Overman and Captain Allen Adam) appear as heroes in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1, which also features the evil Monitor and the 'man in red', who is one of the inhabitants of Limbo. Overgirl cameos in the next issue of Final Crisis, and locating her will be Overman's reason for helping the Monitor Zillo Valla.

See Also

• Discuss Final Crisis Vol 1 2 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Final Crisis series

Recommended Reading

Final Crisis

Event Synopsis: D. O. A.: The GOD of WAR! There was a war in heaven, and Evil won. A mysterious and long forgotten supervillain named "Libra" has returned to Earth, and is assembling a new Secret Society of Super-Villains for unclear purposes. He has promised an "end to the age of superheroes," and to every villain who helps him their heart's desire. When asked what his team is for, Libra ambiguously responds "Anything you want. Anything at all." The full extent of his capabilities are unclear, but he has already slain the Martian Manhunter, at the behest of one of his line-up's villains, The Human Flame. Libra claims to be serving a higher power, although exactly what is unclear. In Blüdhaven, Dan Turpin meets a new crimelord, "Boss Dark Side," who appears to be a human reincarnation of Darkseid himself. "Dark Side" has been abducting metahuman children, and giving them to "Granny," brainwashing them into evil creatures beyond the point of redemption; he has been teaching them how to use the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid tells Turpin that there was a war in heaven, and that he won. The "future belongs to Dark Side now." Meanwhile, the Monitors have been growing increasingly different as their realities do. Whereas once they were 52 identical beings, now time has entered their world after their interactions with mortals, and they are aging, and falling in love, and becoming capable of betrayal. For what have been deemed his failures in the Multiverse, Monitor Nix Uotan is given the harshest punishment for a monitor. He is stripped of his powers, and sentenced to a life of mortality on Earth as a human. Ticket to Blüdhaven In Tokyo, Sonny Sumo agrees to team up with Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman) and the Super Young Team in response to the news that the New Gods of Apokolips have come to Earth. However, the evil Gods have already prepared their base; in the atomic ruins of Blüdhaven, where they have trapped hundreds of people to transform into slaves, among them Batman. The gods can only act in the world through human agents - grim news for Dan Turpin, who has been selected as a host by Darkseid. The Secret Society has expanded with the news that they killed the Martian Manhunter. Lex Luthor does not approve of Libra or his policies, but Vandal Savage has sided with Libra. The Human Flame is about to discover the price of his request to kill the Martian Manhunter, while the Society targets its next victim - the Daily Planet, workplace of Clark Kent, which is destroyed by a bomb set by Clayface. The investigation of Orion's murder continues to drag on, through several disturbances: the assault on John Stewart at the crime scene, the double-cross of Alpha Lantern Investigator Kraken, the sublimation of Orion's corpse back to the Source, and the discovery of a good candiate for murder weapon - a bullet made of Radion, a substance fatal to New Gods - in undisturbed fifty-year-old soil. Batman's only theory, before being kidnapped, was that the bullet was fired backwards through time itself. Nix Uotan has adjusted to his newfound humanity, searching for his Monitor's "word of command" while sketching the images of otherworldly superhumans which he gets occasionally gets. In Central City, the Flashes have tracked a small earthquake to the site of the Martian Manhunter's murder. Searching the crimescene, they find a Crime Bible, specks of Martian blood, and a replica of Metron's Möbius Chair. The replica chair suddenly the focus of a Boom Tube which, out of which comes the Radion bullet, chased by the long-dead Barry Allen and the mysterious Black Racer of the Fourth World. Know Evil SHADE hits the Dark Side Club, finding Boss Dark Side's corpse. Command-D Bunker is taken over by a crimelord. Question encounters a falling woman called Uberfraulein, who dies saying "the sky is bleeding". Jay Garrick tells his wife of Barry Allen's return. Libra enslaves the Human Flame with the Anti-Life Equation. Clark Kent keeps Lois alive and Zillo Valla offers him the chance to save her. The Alpha Lanterns arrest Hal Jordan, while a protective shield around the Earth means nothing can get in or out until the Alpha Lanterns come back. Wonder Woman believes the events are the work of the New Gods. Alan Scott invokes Article X, which allows for the drafting of superheroes. Wonder Woman investigates Command-D. Mary Marvel appears and infects Wonder Woman with a plague from Darkseid. In the bunker, Mokkari spreads the Anti-Life Equation via email to the entire planet. The Flashes have run a month into the future. Barry remarks that it was impossible to save Orion, and he doesn't know why he was brough back. Then he looks up - the sky is red, and Wonder Woman is leading a group of murderous superwomen to kill both Flashes... Submit Followed by synopsis of issue Darkseid Says Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 5 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 6 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 7 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue

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