WHO REMEMBERS RIP HUNTER? #1
This is it! A new editor-in-chief, a new DC universe! Per Degaton and the Red Morgue ravage the multiverse in search of time master Rip Hunter, when he was a baby! In a race against time, the android Hourman must resurrect the only team that can save Rip Hunter, and by extension, the multiverse!
On sale January 1 1 of 8 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
In this eight issue limited series, Per Degaton, the time travelling villain most commonly associated with the JSA, steps up his plans a notch. Normally, he and Rip Hunter keep each other in balance nicely, ensuring a stable timestream. However, things have changed. Degaton is set on eradicating his mortal enemy and is travelling the 52 worlds of the multiverse, in search of the baby that will one day become Rip Hunter.
Assessing the severity of this threat, Rip Hunter holes himself up in his own time bubble, thereby becoming immune to temporal changes, but the same thing that saves his life is also keeping him out of the game. How did Degaton finally come upon the info he needed to kill Hunter? Using time vision in the same manner as the Hourman android does, Degaton is able to look back on Hunter's life, and see him as a child. Now all he has to do is track that child down.
Hourman, also possessing this info, must endeavour to find the child and keep him out of the clutches of Degaton. To do this, he's going to need a team, and who better to recruit than Rip's old team The Forgotten Heroes? Animal Man! Cave Carson! Congo Bill! Dane Dorrance! Dolphin! Immortal Man! Rick Flag!
Okay, so maybe 'recruited' isn't the right word. More or less plucked out of their lives, without a say in the matter. Some are easily swayed to the cause while others, such as Rick Flag, are noticeably less amused. Thing is, he doesn't have much a choice, and under the guidance of Hourman, the team travel through the known universes in search of the 'timechild'.
The mini really gets to delve into these rather obscure characters. We haven't seen the Immortal Man since the final issues of
Resurrection Man, and he's as stoic as ever. Dolphin desperately wants to return to her husband and child. Animal Man has similar concerns. Flag wants to go back to his work, never having liked these people anyway. Dane Dorrance and Cave Carson are deeply fascinated by the adventure and Congo Bill, easily the most obscure member of the team, struggles with his terminally ill golden gorilla, to which he can transfer his mind. Through the course of the series, these characters grow close once more, united at least by the notion that they
must save Rip Hunter.
Now, rather than having the two teams confront each other in every issue, they literally travel through dimensions in search of the timechild, giving an overview of the new DC multiverse. At a few intervals, the two teams meet and fight, with the bad guys inevitably escaping. Their final confrontation is on Earth-52, where Per Degaton has finally found the young Rip Hunter.
In the climactic battle, the Forgotten Heroes are able to trap Per Degaton into a time loop, at the sacrifice of the Immortal Man, who acts as a jailer to Degaton. Rip Hunter is saved, but the adventure has caused a ripple throughout the multiverse. A positive one, yes, but a ripple that must be guided, and who better than these Forgotten Heroes?
WHO REMEMBERS RIP HUNTER? #8
This is it! The final battle! The Forgotten Heroes vs Per Degaton and the Red Morgue. The prize? The baby that will one day become Rip Hunter, Time Master, and with it the, multiverse! Don't miss the climax to the most anticipated series of the year 2008. Leads directly into the new ongoing series
Rip Hunter and the Forgotten Heroes!
On sale August 1 8 of 8 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US