Val is angry. So is Tiberius.
Blacktop Bill wants to kill things.
Great combination, right? Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Batman, Swamp Thing), Tony S. Daniel (Detective Comics, Teen Titans, The Tenth), and Tomeu Morey (Superman, Action Comics, Dark Knights: Death Metal), have turned up the gas and set us on a roller coaster of an issue. With Sundog Convoy once more in peril, it is up to Val, Em, and Bailey to get the hell out of Eden and to discover a place called “Eos” which may be the source, the prime source to rejuvenate the planet.
But this place is supposed to be a myth, right? Well, Tiberius hired Blacktop Bill to actually kill his own brother and get the journal. However, Tiberius doesn’t seem to please at Bill’s lust for murder and lack of judgment. This is cast off to the side once the true plans are revealed. Sundog Convoy’s savior is now their enemy, escape is the only way out.
Tiberius provides a bona-fide Grade A villain speech, but not for necessarily evil intentions, but what he was given the skills to do. As second-fiddle to his genius brother, Tiberius is forced to be more management and financial advisor to the projects. Even the project which ended the world. I guess even a little counseling wouldn’t have resolved this major family conflict. But hiring a homicidal maniac? Maybe not the best idea. But it becomes an idea Tiberius resigns himself to in order to eliminate any potential obstacles. Now he want to do his own research and perhaps rebuild the world with his imagination.
The only hope is escape, and the escape leads to the destruction of the facility in incomprehensible gory fashion. Those colors, those designs of death and dismemberment are cringeworthy awarding. Flashbacks to Val’s initial escape are brought to the surface, a lot of PTSD for sure. The final pages show us the end of one character, and a reunion with another.
Hope is fought for, and possibly won.
