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Avatar Plugs Of The Week: Supergod #2 And Absolution #4

The first issue of Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastony's Supergod set up the format for this… one man telling the story of the end of the world to either another person, a recording device, or his own mind.

And the end of the world has been caused by governments engaging in a superarms race, creating superhumans who will, between them, end the world. And we're being given the story as to how this happened, and how the peculiarities of each nation are reflected in their hero creation of choice. So America gives us the white pecket fence ex-astronaut, Bionic Man and in India, something modelled on the Hindi pantheon of gods. This issue we also see the gods of choice from Russia, China and Iran, with their own particular solution to the worlds they find themselves in.
And a narrator struggling to tell a story as the end of the world begins to impinge on his attempt to form a coherent narrative.

Oh yes…

This issue is very much a turning point in Christo Gage and Roberto Viacava's supercop book. We've seen how one supercop crossed the line into relatively-sane Dexter territory in a way to assuage his guilt. And once that line been crossed, it can't ever be stepped away from. And the best laid plans of mighty mice and super men aft gan aglae.
John has been faced with a series of problems. But it seems that stamping each out only results in new problems to be stamped out and so on.

And this issue, as John goes all Jack Bauer on his suspect's asses, we see the actual reaction if such a person existed, by the official forces.

And it isn't pretty.

Tick, tick, tick…

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