As the damage to the universe begins to accumulate, the skies of Earth take on a deep red color, as though space itself were bleeding. Strange storms begin to form, with unusually-colored bolts of lightning.

Returning to the Earth dimension from a journey beyond, the Stranger appears in the shadows of a cramped little New York office - the windows' shades have been pulled, and the only light in the cluttered room is provided by a glowing disk, floating in the air before a figure kneeling on the floor ( Read more... )

The younger Mordru returns to the Rock of Eternity - greeting his elder counterpart with a curt nod ( Read more... )

The inside of this private hospital have begun to grate on him -- the lingering in the shadows, the waiting for the doctors and nurses to leave. Sometimes, he just wants to fold himself into the shadows and disappear entirely ( Read more... )

Ray Palmer's been freed, but the Justice League and their allies are now faced with both a dying and homicidal Enchantress, and a Chronos from somewhere further in the future that seems Hell bent on trapping everyone where they are in order to prevent some future event -- training his first sneak attack on the Cosmic Treadmill that helped bring ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when he's in the midst of working, he understands why Ray Palmer developed the ability to change size. It wasn't to fight crime, it was to get down to a decent size to work on nanocircuits. Which is what he's doing.

It turned out to be quicker to salvage parts and rebuild the chronometric tracker than it was to repair it, so that's what ( Read more... )

He doesn't know how long he's been here -- it's only by the grace of magic that the staff doesn't notice his presence. Which suits him -- he's not in the mood to talk. He can already sense his silence is about to be interrupted ( Read more... )

Shocking news tonight as sources at Ivy Town University confirm that renowned physicist Dr. Ray Palmer, best known as the size-changing superhero The Atom, died Friday night in his Ivy Town home. Police declined to comment on the matter, citing an ongoing investigation. As a member of the Justice League of America, Dr. Palmer had many enemies, most ( Read more... )

Ray holds an allegedly mystical golden dagger in his hand, and stares at it in disbelief ( Read more... )

Even by Detroit standards, it's not a great part of town. Most of the buildings surrounding "Descent," the bar where Palmer's supposed to be able to find Sabastian Faust, are abandoned, and the streetlights seem to all be malfunctioning as they near the place. The street's dark, save for the bar itself.

There, there's light and activity. Rough ( Read more... )