Justice League: Doom Page #2

just to clear the decks...

...the payoff must be huge.

Inconceivably so.

Any who would like to continue working

with me are welcome to share in the riches.

After you've destroyed

the Justice League.

I don't see any of us looking for the exit.

Then it's settled.

Welcome to the Legion of Doom.

Master Bruce.

What is it, Alfred?

I have some unpleasant news.

No.

How could this have happened?

Where are my parents' caskets?

I don't know, sir.

We found it like this

just a few minutes ago.

I called the house right away.

Whoever did this is going to pay.

Perhaps I can help you with that.

When I said I didn't know

who was responsible for this...

...I may have been lying.

What?

Come on, John.

We actually surprised you?

It's been a busy week.

I'd forgotten it was my birthday.

Also, I'd never mentioned it

to any of you.

Your stalker knows all.

She really likes you, you know.

I didn't know how old you were,

so I just put a lot.

You're supposed to wait for us

to sing "Happy Birthday."

Ugh, I hope you at least made a wish.

I didn't order that.

It's from the lady.

Do you know her?

I do not.

Thank you for the drink, but I'm on duty.

I figured. It's a soda.

- Got a light?

- I don't smoke.

You seem very familiar.

You don't need a line, John.

I'm obviously interested in you.

I can't place your face.

That's unusual for me.

Really look.

Use your martian vision.

How do you--?

What do you want, Cheetah?

To hurt you, Diana. What else?

Hey, can we wrap this up?

We're blocking traffic,

and it's obvious what happened here.

Is it?

Come on, Allen,

don't do this to me again.

- The facts don't fit the scenario.

- You guys hear the news?

You mean the part where I blow

my date tonight and therefore die alone...

...because Allen turned my hit-and-run

into a homicide?

I'm serious. Mirror Master's robbing

the new maglev train from Keystone City.

Bag and tag everything, and be thorough.

This is a murder, not an accident.

- Where you going?

- Train station.

For what? It's a robbery in progress,

not a crime scene.

Mirror Master's there.

It'll be a crime scene soon enough.

Who's the officer in charge?

Special Agent Porter.

My office reached out to you.

An unknown number of heavily armed

militiamen have taken over the mine.

A salt mine? For what?

They call themselves

the Identity Brotherhood.

They plan to use the salt mine as their base

during the second American revolution...

...which is, they claim, imminent.

They've killed a dozen people,

wounded three of my men.

- Why not go in hard and take them down?

- I'd like to.

But they have at least six hostages,

workers, trapped down there with them.

We hoped you might be able

to take a more subtle approach...

...than the responses we have available.

Got it.

This is Green Lantern. I'm coming in.

If you harm any of those hostages,

you'll answer to me.

Back in five.

- Flash.

- Mirror Master's in here.

- One at a time.

- We're shipping old cash to the reserve.

- Old cash?

- It's being taken out of circulation.

It'll be destroyed

and replaced with new bills.

Unless Mirror Master steals it first,

which ain't gonna happen on my watch.

Yeah. I just untied you, remember?

You're lucky he let you live.

Stay here and I'll take a crack at him.

Took you long enough to get here.

I brought you something.

I thought this was a robbery.

It looks more like you're doing

the feds' work for them.

Hologram. Figures.

Which one of us is real?

I don't care.

What did you do with their bodies?

When we fought before, I broke the bat.

Today, I break the man.

Come on, I'm not gonna kill you yet.

What's in the box?

Dead grandma.

- What kind of sick--?

- Relax.

I got a little ahead of myself.

You can hardly blame me

trying to keep up with the likes of you.

She's still alive.

Don't move.

You really wanna hear all this first.

I call this my hostage box.

At the end of the countdown,

already in progress...

...the box will activate

and instantly kill the old woman...

...unless you use your super-speed

to get her out.

- It's a trap.

- Most probably...

...but you can't take that chance,

or pass up the challenge.

Are you fast enough, Flash?

Careful. It's bolted through your wrist.

- What?

- It's a bomb with a three-mile blast radius.

If you try to remove the bomb,

it explodes.

If you do nothing in 60 seconds,

it explodes.

Before you heroically leave the train

to protect the passengers...

...there's one last thing.

Once you start running,

if you decelerate--

It explodes.

You've got 12 seconds

to decide what to do.

I don't much care which way you go

because I'm not really here.

Why are you here, Ma'alefa'ak?

To buy you a drink.

It's laced with a chemical

that has an odd effect on martian biology.

You couldn't taste it over the soda.

It's a poison.

Oh, it won't kill you.

Your body will filter it out in a few hours.

Unfortunately, you'll sweat the poison

out of your pores.

It's magnesium, by the way.

No.

- John.

- That guy just fell down.

What's the matter,

can't hold your liquor?

- Stay back.

- Oh, man.

He's the freaking Martian Manhunter.

Listen, you must get everyone

away from me.

You're all in grave danger.

- Let's get out of here.

- Let's get out of here.

Hold on, John.

Stop, drop and roll, partner.

Hang in there, we'll get this--

He doesn't smoke.

I think that guy's gonna jump.

- Does anybody know him?

- I don't know.

- Can you see him?

- Working on it, Lois.

I think that guy works for our paper.

The bond issue should easily cover

the budget shortfall...

...into the third quarter

of our next fiscal year.

We all know the federal money

was a one-time thing...

- ...to help boost the economy.

- Hello?

It's me.

You know Henry Ackerdson?

Used to be White House beat,

got downsized.

- He was a good reporter. A real shame.

- It's about to be a bigger shame.

He's going to jump off of the top

of the Daily Planet.

I'm on my way.

That's far enough, Lantern.

You make a move, any move, and that drill's

coming down on their heads.

You're not in a position to make a deal.

Step away from the control panel...

...and you won't get hurt.

There's no other way out of this.

The shut-off is controlled

from one of the other consoles.

I'll tell you which one if you let me go.

That bracelet trick always impresses me,

but at least I got you once.

You drugged me.

Catch me if you can.

It's not possible.

- Wonder Woman.

- Look, it's Wonder Woman.

- It's Wonder Woman.

- No way.

- Wonder Woman.

- What's she doing here?

- Wonder Woman.

- Dude, she's so hot.

- Is it really her?

- Is that Wonder Woman?

Why is she looking at us like that?

- Hey, is that--?

- There he is!

Mr. Ackerdson?

May I call you Henry?

Call me whatever you want.

It doesn't matter.

Nothing does.

I'm going to have

to disagree with you, sir.

Everything matters.

Everybody matters.

Don't come any closer. I'll do it.

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