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DC ONE MILLION #2
STORY Title: "The Day After Tomorrow"
CREDITS Writer: Grant Morrison
Cover Art: Semeiks / Rollins
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DC ONE MILLION #2
STORY Title: "The Day After Tomorrow"
CREDITS Writer: Grant Morrison
Cover Art: Semeiks / Rollins
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PREVIEWS BLURB
"While the core JLA members fight for their lives in the distant future, the frighteningly powerful Justice Legion A rushes to save our world from the chaos they've unwittingly unleashed. But as humankind falls victim to the futuristic Hourman Virus, will the Earth's remaining defenders help the Justice Legion A -- or destroy them? Meanwhile, the immortal villain Vandal Savage's bid to seize the moment destroys one major world city and threatens to decimate another three!"
CHARACTERS
FEATURE CHARACTERS
Big Barda, Huntress II, Martian Manhunter, Oracle, Plastic Man, Steel III, Zauriel
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VILLAINS
- Vandal Savage (Vander Arg, an immortal caveman)
- Solaris I (a sentient star)
GUEST APPEARANCES
- Justice Legion A (as seen last issue)
- Atom II (Ray Palmer, returned to adulthood after the events of TEEN TITANS #24. A member of the original JLA)
- Blue Beetle II (Ted Kord, cameoed last issue. A former member of Extreme Justice and JLI)
- Firestorm II (Ron Raymond together with Firestorm I, Martin Stein, was a member of the original JLA)
- Ray II (Son of the original Golden Age Ray I, he was a member of the JL Task Force)
- Hunter (Rip Hunter, famed time traveller from the Silver Age.)
- Liri Lee (possibly died this issue but hard to tell for a time traveller)
- Matthew Ryder (the creator of the Linear Men and an expert in time travel technology)
- Waverider (the Matthew Ryder from a timeline that no longer exist. He is an energy being composed of chronal energy).
Asrenal (Roy Harper, captured by Vandal Savage last issue) Jesse Quick (captured by Vandal Savage last issue) Supergirl (Linda Danvers, captured by Vandal Savage last issue) OTHER CHARACTERS
- US President (nuff said)
- General Wade Eiling (a four start general and head of the militaries meta-human capacity, next seen in JLA (third series) #24)
- The Ultramarine Corps (Eiling's new meta-human squad designed to match the JLA, next seen in JLA (third series) #24)
NOTES
Orion and the founding members do not appear this issue.
The Blue Beetle uses the password Kha-ef-re for his electronic notepad. This was the phase used by his predecessor, Dan Garret, to access his superpowers.
The Kingdom and the anomaly that the Linear Men are studying is a build up to the Kingdom Event. In the NEW YEARS EVIL: GOG one shot we say Gog murder the future Superman in the Kingdom Come universe. However he is alive and well in the 853rd century. This anomaly is due to how the Kingdom Come Universe (here just called the Kingdom) relates to the normal DC Universe. The answer lies in something called Hypertime which is to be introduced in the Kingdom Event week.
It is show as if Tempest has died in the Rocket Red armour in Montevideo but it is later revealed that he used his powers to escape at altitude.
The Atom is featured on this issues cover. It has been stated on the internet that Grant Morrison wanted to get the future Atom into the story but there wasn't space. He would have the ability to split and shrink, so he would become two half sized people, four quarter sized people and so on.
SYNOPSIS
The Justice Legion find themselves trapped in this era by the acts of Solaris whose Hourman Virus will kill all living things and machines within twenty four hours unless the Legion manage to find a way to defeat it. At the same time a black market Rocket Red battlesuit programmed by Vandal Savage to detonate in Washington was sent off course by the Hourman Virus effecting it circuitry. Instead the suit crashed into the Uruguay capitol, Montevideo exploding as a nuclear bomb.
The combined factors of a nuclear capable Vandal Savage and the Hourman Virus (which increases paranoia and aggression) serve as a dangerous mixture. Some of the more impulsive superheroes from this era blame the Justice Legion before they are carolled by the Martian Manhunter. Both groups then work together to help the survivors in Montevideo. Meanwhile the non-founding members of the JLA are trapped in the Watchtower and begin to look for methods to rescue the founding members from the future.
The power hungry Vandal Savage threatens world leaders with further strikes unless they surrender. To send them a further method he straps Supergirl, Arsenal and Jesse Quick into more remotely controlled Rocket Red suits and launches them at targets throughout the world.
QUOTE
"So you swim through a girl's bloodstream and suddenly it's a date, huh?" - Oracle to the Atom
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