52 #4: Dances With Monsters
Written by Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison
Art Breakdowns by Keith Giffen, Pencils by Joe Bennett, Inks by Ruy Jose, Colors by Alex Sinclair, Lettering by Nick Napolitano, Cover by J.G. Jones
Editors: Jann Jones, Stephen Wacker, Harvey Richards

Plot Synopsis: Montoya continues her one-woman stakeout on 520 Kane St. Halo and a group of scientists are at work just outside Earth’s atmosphere in outer space searching for the heroes that journeyed into space to battle the Crisis and didn’t return. Despite being told to come home and stop searching, some of them refused to abandon them. Luckily, for just as the order to return to Earth came in, Halo detected a Zeta Beam attempting to enter into Earth-Space. Meanwhile on Earth, Fire tries to get Booster to join her and the Martian Manhunter’s rescue team, but Booster says his schedule is packed. This doesn’t make Fire pleased and she calls Booster on it, saying she thought he had changed. Booster then went off, saying how he did his part, jumping to the future and back to save the world. Fire then storms out of his apartment, leaving a blazing hole in Booster’s door. Montoya continues her stakeout but nothing's happening. The Question checks in and urges her to quit smoking. He leaves telling her to keep up the good work and they’ll talk later. a ill and hallucinating Steel works on building a new set of armor. He begins questioning why he even put on the armor in the first place. As he realizes he’s been talking to himself, he finally notices how weak he is and sees his hand turn from brown flesh into silver metal. John Henry Irons screams in agony as a wave of destruction erupts through his lab. Ralph Dibny meets with the Cult of Kryptonian Worship expecting answers. He tries to get them to revive his dead wife Sue, but is left alone in a pool missing his wedding ring. Finally a hulking green skin monster appears at the warehouse. Montoya follows him and tries to subdue the monster with help from The Question. Montoya is able to zap him with some high tech weaponry in the crates in the warehouse. With some help Halo is able to rescue a group of heroes out of the Zeta Beam, one of them being Alan Scott.

Some Annotations/Reactions
Pg. 1 Sundollar Coffee Shout Out.
pg. 3 Zeta Beam appears. All the wonders of teleportation, but with horrible consequences if things go awry.
pg. 6 Booster is still troubled over Ted's death. But again he's obsessed with fame. However he did help save the world in Infinite Crisis by finding a new Blue Beetle. Also Did he really expect Rip Hunter to have a listed number? Really?
pg. 8 Nice doodling Renee.
pg. 15 I think it was Luthor that made Steel sick in order to get him out of the way. Notice he touched his shoulder and got all buddy-buddy in the lab scene in issue #3.
pg. 22 Not the same monster as on the cover. Annoying.
pg. 26 Man those heroes are eff'd up.

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