Wonder Woman #329 – “Of Gods and Men” – Gerry Conway/Don Heck
This one starts with Ares (the god formerly known as Mars) and Hades in the Underworld making a deal. Apparently, the Anti-Monitor has taken over the underworld and instead of fighting him, Hades has decided to ally with him. On Paradise Island, Wonder Woman makes peace with her mother Hippolyta, telling her she still loves her. But Hippolyta still despairs about the Crisis, believing it means the end for the Greek gods and the Amazons. Kore (aka Persephone) shows up to tell Hippolyta that death will bring no release. Before Hippolyta can gather her thoughts, some of the fallen Amazons rise and attack her, acting like whacked-out zombies. Wonder Woman fights them off and Kore finally sends the animating spirits back to the Underworld, freeing the Amazons. Kore explains about her husband’s
alliance with the Anti-Monitor. In Washington (which is being devastated by Crisis fallout), Steve Trevor tries to save Lauren Haley, but she falls into a fissure and dies. Etta and her boyfriend Howard find Steve and they discuss the weirdness that’s tearing everything apart. Wonder Woman shows up and she and Steve start making out. (She revealed her secret identity to all of them last issue.) Wonder Woman tells them about the Crisis and how Hades and Ares are trying to destroy everything. She has to go fight them and Steve volunteers to help. They take off, leaving Etta to wonder if she’ll ever see them again. Wonder Woman and Steve go to Olympus, which is deserted and smashed to shit. A statue of Ares attacks and Wonder Woman shatters it, but the real Ares and Hades show up with legions of undead warriors taken from the Underworld. Wonder Woman is ready to fight Ares and Hades, but she’s not alone: Kore brings her fellow Amazons to join the fight and they attack.
Wonder Woman tells Steve to help Kore find the Olympian gods, who Ares claims are now “bloodless” forever. The Amazons have an uphill fight, since any of them that fall rise again as undead warriors for Hades and Ares. As the fight rages, Steve tries to find the missing Olympians and Kore uses 
sex (or love) to distract Hades. Wonder Woman engages Ares hand-to-hand (and kicks his ass) while Steve figures out where the Olympians are … inside their statues. Kore convinces her husband to break his alliance with Ares and promises to help fight the Anti-Monitor for control of the Underworld. Hades agrees and the zombie-warriors vanish (or turn back to normal in the Amazons’ case), ending the fight. Steve topples Zeus’s statue onto Ares, freeing Zeus, who soon puts things right. Zeus admits that the Crisis might actually herald the end of everything, or at least the end of the Greek gods, so Steve asks Wonder Woman to marry him. They’re married by Zeus in Olympus and Diana wonders what the future holds for them. Steve reminds her of all the obstacles they’ve overcome to be together (including him
dying several times) and says they’re destined to be together until the end of time. In a way, he’s right, but the end of time would come sooner than he thought. This is the last issue of Wonder Woman and in 1987, a new series began, starting from scratch. Not only did the old Wonder Woman cease to exist, because of the Crisis retcons, she never existed. She was retroactively wiped from continuity, meaning none of her adventures (or those of the Earth-2 Wonder Woman) ever happened. Eventually, she would be restored to the DC Universe (after Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis), but for the next couple decades, this version of Wonder Woman was only a fond memory in the hearts of comics fans.
Green Lantern #197 – “2” – Steve Englehart/Joe Staton/Bruce Patterson
This story continues straight from last issue, with two Green Lanterns (John Stewart and Guy Gardner) facing off. John is the “official” Green lantern, but Guy was revived from his coma and given a ring by some renegade Guardians who want to fight the Anti-Monitor instead of blandly accepting the end of the multiverse (like most of the Guardians were prepared to do). Guy has been tasked with collecting some heavy-hitters to destroy a moon of Qward in the anti-matter universe; his first recruit (who he basically recreated) is the Shark, but John doesn’t want Guy taking such a dangerous villain with him. The two of them fight, finding themselves evenly matched until John’s compassion betrays him.
He opens a breathing hole in the energy bubble Guy has around the Shark, which enables Shark to bust free. Guy uses the distraction to pin John under a green energy vise and explains to Shark about the Crisis threatening the multiverse. Shark realizes he has to help stop the Anti-Monitor, so he agrees to go with Guy. John tunnels under the earth to escape John’s trap and goes into space to look for Hal Jordan. (John stuck Hal in a force bubble last issue and sent him into orbit to keep him safe.) But the bubble is now empty and no trace of Hal remains. John’s ring can’t locate either Hal or Guy and John wonders what his next move should be. Meanwhile, Katma Tui (who 
was ordered to remain on Earth by the Guardians) sends her energy form to check out her own space sector. The Crisis has devastated Sector 1417 too and she runs into Salakk (who’s still kind of a dick, but has lightened up a bit) and Eddore, who tried to help out. Katma realizes John was premature in believing the Anti-Monitor defeated. On Earth, Guy breaks Hector Hammond, Sonar, Blindside, and Throttle out of prison to add them to his strike team. When Hammond starts using his mental powers to try and usurp the leadership role, Guy shuts down his psyche. John is tracking Guy’s jailbreaks and figures he’ll go for Goldface next. He’s right and he chases Guy after he liberates Goldface. Katma joins John and they capture Guy and the villains. But Hal shows up out of nowhere with a ring of his own and
tells them he’s on Guy’s side. Hal explains that the last renegade Guardian (the others having all been wiped out in the Crisis) took him to the remains of Oa and gave him a power ring, telling him about Guy’s mission to destroy the moon of Qward. Hal was convinced there might be a chance to stop the Anti-Monitor and agreed to place himself under Guy’s leadership (even though he thinks Guy’s time in a coma has warped his mind). Hal tells John and Katma he believes in Guy’s mission and is willing to go along with it, although it involves super-villains. Katma and John decide to let Guy and company go, hoping they really can stop the Anti-Monitor. As John and Katma are wondering at how mixed up everything seems, things get worse … Sinestro shows up and says they have to stop Guy and Hal from completing their mission.
Firestorm #44 – “An East Wind Blowing” – Gerry Conway/Rafael Kayanan/Mike Machlan
This one starts with Firestorm trying to stop an unseasonal tornado in Pittsburgh (which is caused by Typhoon, who regained his powers last issue, but Firestorm doesn’t know that yet). Firestorm doesn’t have the power to counter a tornado, so he drains some from surrounding buildings and manages to disrupt the vortex. The effort involuntarily splits Firestorm into Ronnie Raymond and Professor Stein, and when they try to merge back into Firestorm, they can’t. Having
confirmed Firestorm’s presence in Pittsburgh (and observed him in action), Typhoon turns back to his human identity of David Drake and picks up his kids in the park where he left them. The kids are wondering when they’ll see their mom again, but David has no plans to ever let that happen. Back in New York, David’s ex (Sarah) and her new boyfriend (Lou) are trying to get the cops interested in the kidnapping, but the officer in charge isn’t too sympathetic. Sarah wonders if divorcing her husband remotely and keeping the kids away from him 
contributed to him going nuts. In Manhattan, Ed Raymond and his fiancée Felicity Smoak meet Felicity’s lawyer, who assures her the case against Firestorm for ruining her business will go ahead. (The lawyer also seems a bit sinister, like he’s hot for Felicity or something.) Ed invites Felicity on a trip to Pittsburgh to see Ronnie (who neither of them know is Firestorm) and she agrees. At Vandemeer University, Professor Stein finishes his first day teaching and is pretty freaked out, wondering if he can really connect with the students at his age. His teaching assistant (Wendy, who looks kinda like Mary Jane Watson
here) invites him out to get his his mind off his worries (which include his problems as Firestorm, but of course he can’t discuss that with her). Ronnie finds Cliff Carmichael rifling through his room and starts beating the shit out of him, but for some reason Ronnie is the one who gets in trouble from his football coach. Meanwhile, David’s kids still want to see their mother and he finally gives in, turning into Typhoon and heading back to New York with them. We’ll see how that reunion goes next issue.
Vigilante #26 – “Into the Night” – Paul Kupperberg/Tod Smith/Rick Magyar
This one starts with the new, homicidal Vigilante scaring info out of a street punk. The punk tells Vigilante about Santiago’s hideout on a farm upstate, so Vigilante lets the guy live. Adrian Chase (the original, now-retired Vigilante) wants to stop his deadly namesake, so he rigs up a computer system to go through all of Santiago’s records. Adrian finds out about the upstate farm too and figures he can find Vigilante if he keeps an eye on Santiago, since Vigilante wants to kill the drug lord. But the strain of hunting for Vigilante—and the guilt from his own costumed career as a justice-seeker—are really getting to Adrian. At
the courthouse, he’s snappy with his bailiff (Dave Winston) and arranges with another judge to cover his case load for a week so he can take some “personal time”. Vigilante’s not the only one who wants to waste Santiago; Electrocutioner is still looking for him too. Electrocutioner catches Santiago’s new lawyer when he lands in New York in a helicopter, but accidentally fries him before he can reveal Santiago’s whereabouts. Electrocutioner forces the chopper pilot to take him to where Santiago is hiding out. Upstate, Vigilante is close to Santiago’s hideout, but he’s spotted by a couple of local cops. He knocks one 
of them out and takes off and they realize who he is (since he’s the subject of a statewide warrant). News gets back to New York quickly and Lieutenant Stein decides he wants to be there for the Vigilante manhunt, especially since he’s heard rumours about Santiago hiding upstate. By the next day, the local sheriff has a posse of hunters helping him comb the woods for Vigilante. Santiago notices the disturbance, but figures he’s safe when he hears they’re just hunting for a fugitive. Santiago doesn’t know that Vigilante has found him and is closing in, dressed like one of the local hunters. Adrian hears about the manhunt in a local diner and heads into the woods to look for Vigilante. He finds him just after Vigilante takes out one of Santiago’s perimeter guards. Adrian tackles his counterpart (who recognizes him) and
they have a running fight through the woods until Adrian finally tackles him. The noise is heard by the posse and Santiago’s guards, but Santiago is distracted by the helicopter returning. But instead of his lawyer, Electrocutioner jumps out and attacks Santiago, frying him to a crisp in the name of justice. While Electrocutioner is fleeing the scene, he runs across Adrian and Vigilante struggling to kill each other in the woods. There’s an extra story about Marcia King’s psychiatrist (who’s deduced Adrian’s secret from Marcia’s sessions) and how he had a shitty, abusive childhood and wishes he could dispense justice like Adrian did.
Warlord #102 – “Deathwatch” – Michael Fleisher/Paris Cullins, Martin King/Pablo Marcos
This one starts with Travis Morgan heading out on his quest to find a cure for the aging curse afflicting his daughter Jennifer. Morgan is running low on ammo for his .44 Automag, so he makes a detour to the site of his crashed plane to pick up more bullets. When he arrives, he finds a cult using the plane as an altar and trying to sacrifice a woman (which is reminiscent of how he met Tara way back in issue 3). Morgan drives off the cultists and saves the woman, who turns out to be Zupara, a very proud Amazon Queen. She’s not eager to ride with a man and stalks off haughtily,
until Morgan points out that her home valley is a hell of a walk. Morgan picks up his last box of bullets and realizes he’ll have to start rationing them. Back in Shamballah, Machiste feels guilty about not going with Morgan on his quest, but Tara points out that he has his own kingdom (Kiro) to worry about. In the jungle, Zupara tells Morgan about her Amazon tribe and how she was attending her mother’s funeral rites when a river serpent attacked and she was swept over a waterfall, to be captured by the cult. Morgan and Zupara end up getting 
captured again, this time by slavers. On the road to Kiro, Machiste and Mariah run into a seer, who predicts great triumph when they return to Kiro. After Machiste and Mariah move on, the “seer” releases a messenger bird with a note. In the slavers’ camp, Morgan and Zupara work loose from their bonds while the slavers gamble for possession of Morgan’s gun. The gun goes off, scaring the shit out of them, and Morgan and Zupara kick their asses and escape. They head to a town for a meal, but when a drunken asshole puts the moves on Zupara, she starts a brawl and they’re forced to flee. In Kiro, a couple of
guys in the palace receive the bird with the seer’s note and plan on how to stop Machiste from making it home. Zupara and Morgan reach her home valley, but Morgan is detained because men aren’t allowed on Amazon land. Zupara orders him freed, but another Amazon challenges her right to be Queen. They end up fighting on a log above a pit of fire and after almost falling to her death, Zupara wins. She lets Morgan go free, but warns him not to return to Amazon lands.