Wonder Woman #36 – “Changes in the Wind” – George Perez, Mindy Newell/Chris Marrinan/Steve Montano
This one starts with Hermes standing naked on the roof of Steve’s building, receiving a message from a dove sent from Themiscyra. Steve tells Hermes to put some clothes on and Hermes relays Diana’s message to him. Diana has arranged for Hermes to bring some representatives from the United Nations to Themiscyra for a big feast to formally announce their acceptance of the world at large. That sounds nice, but on Paradise Island, there are still some Amazons who are wary of allowing outsiders (especially men) to set foot on their sacred
isle. At Harvard, Julia gets good news about her research application. On Themiscyra, Menalippe (the Oracle) has a weird dream and starts babbling gibberish in her sleep. When Penelope tries to wake her, she receives an electric shock and is knocked out. When the other Amazons find them, Menalippe is strangely calm even though she’s kneeling beside one of her injured sister Amazons. That makes Diana wonder, but Menalippe accuses her of letting the outside world make her too suspicious. In Boston, Vanessa hangs out with Lucy, but when she tries to be friendly with Eileen, she’s kinda pissed off 
that Vanessa has been ignoring her lately. She does introduce Vanessa to her father, but Vanessa’s not impressed since he’s “only” a janitor. After getting a message from Steve, Diana returns to Boston and finds Steve’s apartment has a big hole in the wall. Steve tells her Hermes has been losing his powers and was trying to prove he wasn’t completely powerless yet, but ended up crash landing through the wall. Steve tells Diana that Hermes needs to talk to someone like her, who can understand his problems. Julia tells Vanessa about her expedition to Turkey (to look for the original location of Themiscyra) that’s being funded by the National Geographic Society, but Vanessa isn’t paying much attention. She gets more distracted by a letter
confirming she’s been accepted as a counsellor-in-training at Camp Monroe. Diana finds Hermes among the ruins of his temple and watches as he tries to regain his power through his caduceus by praying to Aesculapius. But it doesn’t work and when Diana approaches, Hermes goes nuts and starts pounding her. She calms him with her lasso, but he tells her he can’t take the dignitaries to Themiscyra now because he’s pretty much lost all his powers (and he confirms his mortality by cutting his arm on Diana’s tiara).
Firestorm #91 – “Confrontation” – John Ostrander/Tom Mandrake
Last issue, a radical environmentalist named Mai Miyazaki was almost killed trying to confront oil rig drillers. Her boat was set on fire and she fell into the sea, but instead of dying, her mind merged with the spirit of the ocean, creating a Water Elemental calling herself Naiad. She instinctively lashes out at Firestorm (since he’s now a Fire Elemental), but he points out that they should be allies not enemies. Naiad is still pissed off at the depredations humans have visited upon the seas and wants to destroy humanity (much like Firestorm did before he remembered his own humanity). 
But Naiad’s threat to destroy people gets the attention of Earth’s Air Elemental … the being once known as Red Tornado. Elsewhere, Captain Atom feels a pull from something, but decides his current duties take precedence. It’s the twisted landscape in Ogaden that’s calling to him and Swamp Thing is already there, investigating this aberration in the Green. Off the Alaskan coast, Firestorm uses his powers to get rid of the pollution
around the oil platform and to absorb the fire burning on the sea’s surface. He figures that’ll calm Naiad down, but now she and Red Tornado are squaring off. He separates them and points out that he’s cleaned up the oil spill. But Naiad is connected to all the world’s waters and feels the pollution like acid in her blood. She’s ready to wipe out humanity to save the planet and Red Tornado now agrees with her, feeling his own brand of pain from the pollution in the air. Firestorm appeals to their humanity, but Naiad rejects who she used to be, and Red Tornado points out that he was never really human to begin with. They combine their powers to bury Firestorm at the bottom of 
the ocean and head off to destroy Japan. At Vandermeer University, Dr. Lagrieve gets some test results that confirm his suspicion that Killer Frost (both versions) was created by an intelligent artificial virus. He’s even more suspicious of Dr. Morrison, who claimed his own tests were negative, and who (coincidentally) used to work at the same lab as Crystal Frost, the original Killer Frost. Before Lagrieve can figure out what to do with this information, he’s shot by a mystery gunman.