There's always a " Triumph of the Will " in any given multiverse.

[thanekos]

And Forerunner (basically, a genetic grab-bag of DCU alien powers, last of a kind created by the Monitors to serve them; at this point, she's working against them, because she was told that her life was manipulation by...), working for Monarch (Monarch, yup.), got to visit it.

(oh, totally forgot- slight spoilers for new x-men noir. you know, mark of cain.)



So Forerunner starts butchering Nazis, all in a bid to lure out.. them:



Nazi Justice League, everybody!

No Lantern, though.

Anyhow, their Flash is soon taken out, belying his intimidating pose:



Ow.

(Yes, Forerunner can do a running monologue while taking on an alternate Justice League.)

Their Hawkpeople fall in short order as well:



this is, after all, only twelve pages.

As does their Wonder Woman (here a valkyrie) who gets to trade points of view with Forerunner in the process.



Finally their Superman goes at her, and gets kryptonite knives in the chest for his trouble.

At which point Monarch picks them up, some meh dialogue is had, and man I hope Multiversity's good.

bonus: Remember X-Men Noir?

How it ended with costumed detective Thomas " Angel " Halloway and sociopath Scott " Cyclops " Summers hitching a ride with bootleggers Captain Logan and Eugene Judd to get away from the interplay between New York Chief of Detectives Eric Magnus and Charles Xavier's School of Crime?

Well, in the sequel, Mark of Cain.. they've all got to take miscellaneous jobs to survive.

Like, say, stealing the famed Gem of Cyttorak from its jungle temple.



... clever, van Lente. Clever.

and no, whatever the Jagganath is, it's not Cain Marko; he's confirmed on-panel dead as of this issue.

Halloway, who learned a few of his tricks from Marko, wants to track down his murderer... so he gets himself sent to Genosha Bay prison, where Marko was murdered.

There, he finds that the warden, Emma Frost, has some plans for him.

What he doesn't find is that " Professor " Xavier and the late Magnus's daughter, Wanda, are also there.

Along with some of Xavier's... newer pupils.

(Basically, Xavier thinks that sociopathy is the next stage of human evolution. Yeah.)



Huh.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Somehow the Nazi JL still aren't as creepy as Lightning Force, the Nazi Excalibur.

[neuhallidae]

Because they don't have a Kitty equivalent when they show up here. What happened to Kitty was the scariest thing about Nazi Excalibur.

[crinos]

Indeed. Although Nazi Kurt in Thriller garb did offset the horror somewhat.

[janegray]

What happened to her? D:

[neuhallidae]

They shaved her head and tattooed it with a Star of David, gave her a hooded robe to wear because she wasn't allowed to have a proper outfit, and she was really thin and miserable and generally abused by her teammates and commanders, as she was more or less their slave who was useful in a fight.

[janegray]

...Ew.

[proteus_lives]

Those were great issues.

I loved Mengele-Moira.

[thokstar]

Obligatory Shiver

[halialkers]

For some reason I see that timeline's Nu-Raven saying this at a rally:

"SIEG HEIL!"

"See guile? Where?".

[darkblade]

I have to admit the two lightning bolts making an "SS" on Nazi!Flash's chest is kind of clever.

Man, I can tell my newer fandoms are encroaching on my older ones ...

[box_in_the_box]

... Because now, when I hear "Monarch," instead of thinking of Millennium and Zero Hour, I think of THIS guy:

Re: Man, I can tell my newer fandoms are encroaching on my older ones ...

[darklorelei]

You weren't alone.

I DEMAND THE VENTURES' MONARCH BE THE ARCHVILLAIN OF THE NEXT DC CROSSOVER

[box_in_the_box]

What? Say that Superboy Prime punched him into our reality, I don't care.

Actually, it'd be awesome to see him and Luthor in a one-upmanship contest.

IT WOULD BE A DEADLY GAME OF CAT AND ALSO-CAT

Re: I DEMAND THE VENTURES' MONARCH BE THE ARCHVILLAIN OF THE NEXT DC CROSSOVER

[xammax]

21 would be a Nazi killing bastard!

Sure they're evil, but not enough for him.

[box_in_the_box]

21 would be all calm until someone said something that contradicted previously published continuity, and then he'd flip his fucking shit and start getting into nerd!rage arguments with them over it.

[stig]

And they would capture Killer Moth and lock him in the interrogation room forever, like the upside-down guy in Life of Brian.

Also, there'd probably be a brief Monarch/Black Manta confrontation.

[box_in_the_box]

OH COME ON

THIS GUY IS SUCH A WEENIS

Guy Gardner would be all up in Dr. Girlfriend until he heard her voice. :)

[darkblade]

Even that would just make him pause a moment and then carry on.

[krassock.livejournal.com]

I love that Nazi Wonder Woman costume.

[koschei]

Yes. It's hillarious that for once, the evil version of the character is actually wearing more than the good version.

[stig]

I much preferred Morrison's iteration of Ubermensch. He was a much more interesting character.

[whatistigerbalm]

How fast must these people be speaking to fit all those arguments and counter arguments into what's presumably lightning-paced action?

[kamino_neko]

You might want to note the presence of the Mark of Cain pages outside the cut - it's kind of annoying to run across even that minor a spoiler for a brand new book unwarned.

On a different note - I wouldn't count Marko out, just yet. Remember, the first series opened with the 'death of Jean Grey', which turned out to be false. And he was 'crushed beyond all recognition' and identified by his papers. It's not impossible he just wanted to disappear, or he faked his own death, at Xavier and Wanda's behest to lure Halloway in. (Or both.)

On a different different note. 'Something new...something different' really made me laugh. (And geeze, how shiny is Storm's head?)