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Last issue, Black Adam suffered a loss beyond imagining; this issue, Black Adam strikes back, hunting down Death, the last surviving member of the terrorists that brutally attacked Black Adam’s new family. In his rage, Black Adam succeeds in vanquishing his enemies but not without demolishing everything and everyone around him, including millions of innocent men, women, and children. Yes, that’s right: Black Adam kills millions of people in the nation of Bialya as he searches for Death, who has been given sanctuary by the leaders of that nation at the behest of Intergang.
The action in this issue comes fast and furious as Black Adam descends into madness and it reaches a creepy crescendo when the monstrously mutated Death confronts Adam, claiming to have been made even stronger by Adam’s murderous rampage. The art in this issue is serviceable, as it with the vast majority of 52, but page 18 succeeds in capturing a moment of pure dread and foreboding as Death takes on Black Adam against a backdrop of crows and flames.
It’s curious to me that no one--not the Justice Society, not Green Lantern, nobody--actually stepped in to try and stop Black Adam’s rampage before it pinwheeled so out of country. After all, if politics was the main concern, Adam had pretty much decimated Bialya’s government within twelve hours, so who in that country would oppose the heroes of other nations coming to stop him? Regardless, the destruction of an entire nation can’t help but attract international attention; and in this case, every country, from the United States to China, starts preparing for war with the seemingly unstoppable Black Adam.
Over the last several weeks, Black Adam’s country of Kahndaq has suffered unimaginably at the hands of Death and the other Four Horsemen. Where was the Justice Society in all of this? As the quick scenes with JSAers Alan Scott and Atom Smasher in this issue seem to indicate, the JSA is finally coming; but to what end? Politically, what are the repercussions of Black Adam’s single-minded pursuit of a terrorist, and his attack on this country that was giving aid and comfort to that terrorist? I can’t wait to find out.
52 Week #45
“Every Hour Wounds, The Last Kills”
Written by: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid
Art Breakdowns by: Keith Giffen
Pencilled by: Chris Batista and Jama Igle
Inks by: Rodney Ramos
Colors by: Alex Sinclair
Lettered by: Ken Lopez
