Infinite Frontier IS....ending next week. Yeah this is the penultimate issue and unless something happens the final issue is out next tuesday. As the penultimate issue this is it, all the players we have been following are here. The heroes on Planet-omega, the villains to fight them, Flash on a treadmill, and Darkseid a force in the background running all of this, and mysteries and secrets revealed. Basically its time for a big fight, and if you are a fan of the JSA you will no doubt appreciate this as I did. There plenty of action in it with our heroes and even a good number of callbacks to past run ins with certain characters such as Powergirl and Psycho Pirate. While I wish it was still Xermacio drawing I will say that the art works fine for this issue as clear fight scenes.
Now while I would normally separate this by character and story like I have the past few issues that is basically impossible here considering that the stories and characters have now converged on Planet Omega. So I'm just doing one big spoiler box for everything, hope it works out.
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Alright so first off no one is dead from the crash last issue, everyone made it out okay. So if you were worried you can relax. But Cameron Chase is taking a very Roy Thomas era Bone's to task for what he was doing. Because he made a deal with Darkseid, Psycho Pirate, and the Injustice Incarnate to close off the multiverse and doing it by sacrificing those with multiverse energy to Darkseid, which as Bone's explains to Alan and Obsidian was not supposed to be the whole JSA. He just felt like he could take his time since the JSA had been forgotten and erased and making them the perfect target. To bad X-tract went a little overboard.
Oh and it turns out that X-tract is an old employee of Bones, Cameron Chase....okay that is confusing how I said that, its actually a version of Chase from the original Earth-2 who came back into existence and was apparently an old friend of Bones. Which now asks a lot of questions of Director Bones and Agent Chase's relationship.
Luckily before things get serious Jade knocks out Bones, and catch the sight of Flash running while under the Pirates control. Of course Powergirl has a couple of things to say to him because she very much remembers their interaction from Infinite Crisis. Of course this fight is not just Psycho, the InJustice Incarnate shows up with a chained up Justice Incarnate tied up behind them. Time for a JSA slug out that lasts a few pages. Even President Superman tries to help out but he gets taken out by Machinehead who got his hands on the Earth-23 version of Kryptonite.
When its down to Jade and Roy we learn where all the chains are coming from...Earth Omega. It's creating chains to tie up everyone and the multiverse. Darkseid is literally chaining up the multiverse to grind it to a halt, and who knows what happens after that. But the final piece is Roy, because clearly he's not using the standard black lantern ring. Its an older energy disguised as a black lantern ring that feeds on Roy's past suffering. Psycho tries to get him to play ball but lets slip that Lian is not on the planet so Roy goes full zombie saving the JSA and Justice Incarnate from the chains to save the multiverse.
Unfortunately it may be too late because Darkseid IS....HERE!.
Now to wait and see how this all ends next week on this wild multiverse ride.