Wonder Woman #27 – “From Day Into Night” – George Perez/Chris Marrinan/Will Blyberg
This one starts with Steve Trevor and Etta Candy visiting Themiscyra with Diana. The Amazons have healed Steve’s injuries (from his fight with the Durlans last issue) and most of them are quite happy to meet the son of their former hero, the first Princess Diana. Even Philippus is welcoming towards him, despite her earlier reluctance to allow men on the island. Hippolyte offers to take Steve and Etta to the Temple of Hades so he can see the statue the Amazons put up to honour his mother. But another faction of
Amazons (led by Hellene) isn’t so sure about letting men come to Paradise Island, especially since Steve almost blew the place up while under Ares’ influence. Diana points out that Steve (like Heracles before him) repented his bad decisions, but Hellene knows not every man is as trustworthy as Steve. Back in Boston, Barry Locatelli is telling Lucy how he never really cared about Vanessa Kapatelis and was only using her to get Wonder Woman’s autograph. Lucy pretends to be into Barry, but is setting him up to have blue paint dumped on 
him by Vanessa and a bunch of other girls. Out in California, a military convoy is transporting some high-tech containers when they’re ambushed by a mercenary outfit who knock the soldiers out with gas. The mercs steal the containers, but one soldier is still conscious and is shot by one of the mercenaries … which was against orders, since they weren’t supposed to kill anyone. On Themiscyra, Steve visits the statue of his mother and thanks Hippolyte for bringing him and Etta to the island. In Boston, Vanessa tells her mom Julia about the trick on Barry as they arrive at their new townhouse. Julia is shocked to find out that Hermes has “assisted” the movers by bringing in all the Kapatelis’s stuff,
and even recreating the furniture and other goods that were destroyed by Decay in issue 4. In California, we see that the mercenaries were hired by Barbara Minerva (aka Cheetah), who’s having trouble walking. She pays them (vowing to herself to get revenge because they disobeyed orders) and opens the containers, which contain two Khunds held in stasis. She offers the Khunds a chance at revenge on Wonder Woman if they obey her. In Boston, Julia thanks Hermes for restoring her stuff (and for the new entertainment center he gave Vanessa) and seems to have gotten past her distrust of him. The Khunds wait for Wonder Woman to return from Themiscyra with Steve and Etta and 
attack them. Diana recognizes their attackers and fights them, but one goes after Steve and Etta. She ties one up with her magic lasso to keep him out of the way, but has to save her friends when the other Khund tosses them off a cliff. By the time they get back, the Khunds are gone, picked up in Cheetah’s helicopter. The Lasso of Truth compels the captured Khund to admit they plan to betray Cheetah, but she’s way ahead of them. She knows the only way to remove the lasso is if Wonder Woman unties it herself … or if the person being held is dead. Cheetah kills the Khunds and straps bombs to them, throwing them out of the chopper when Wonder Woman gets close. The explosions stun Wonder Woman and by the time she recovers, Cheetah is gone … with the magic lasso.
Firestorm #82 – “Back to Campus” – John Ostrander/Tom Grindberg/Sam De La Rosa, Arne Starr
This one starts with Emily Rice (Dean of Vandermeer university) showing Dr. Simon Lagrieve around the new Institute for Meta-human Studies which has just been set up at the university. Lagrieve has brought a couple of prisoners (Parasite and Killer Frost) from Belle Rêve for the IMHS to study. Lagrieve’s theories on Killer Frost’s powers impress Rice and she offers him the job of running the Institute (and he’ll accept, as we already saw in Suicide Squad 24 which takes place after this issue). Meanwhile,
Ronnie Raymond is getting used to being back at Vandermeer when he runs into Lorraine Reilly. She’s in perfect health and tells Ronnie how the Gene Bomb made her powers go wild for a bit, but also burned the radiation that was killing her out of her body. Ronnie relates how the Gene Bomb screwed up Firestorm’s powers too, making him accidentally transmute some innocent people in Moscow, killing them. The psychic backlash hit Firestorm hard and kept him from splitting for a while, but the memory is still there and Ronnie says he and Mikhail haven’t even tried to form Firestorm since … 
and he isn’t sure if they even can. In Moscow, Mikhail is staying at his brother’s place since his place was wrecked and his wife is still pissed off at him for not being around during the alien attack. Mikhail’s sister-in-law is suspicious about Nina’s attitude, since she doesn’t know about Mikhail being part of Firestorm (although his niece Serafina does). At the emergency shelter, Nina’s father (General Trofimov) shows up to take her and the kids home with him. At Vandermeer, someone replaces the explosive bracelet that the Suicide Squad uses to keep prisoners in line and Killer Frost gets loose, freezing her guards and saying she’d rather die than be a captive again.
Ronnie and Lorraine see her and Lorraine changes to Firehawk to fight Killer Frost … which could be a mistake, since Frost absorbs heat. Ronnie tries to form Firestorm, but it doesn’t work (even though Mikhail is willing), so Firehawk has to take Frost on alone. As Frost begins draining Firehawk’s heat, she yells to Ronnie about Niagara Falls (and we get a reference to the old “Slowly I Turned” vaudeville routine). Ronnie remembers how they beat Killer Frost at Niagara Falls (in issue 36) by dunking her in the water and letting her own powers freeze her up, so he douses her with an emergency fire hose to 
achieve the same effect. Dr. Lagrieve wants to know how Ronnie and Lorraine managed to stop Killer Frost, but Ronnie’s more worried about whether he’ll ever be able to form Firestorm again.