Wonder Woman #42 – “The Silver Wing of Terror” – Mindy Newell, George Perez/Chris Marrinan/Romeo Tanghal
This one starts with Silver Swan (who we last saw in issue 16) practicing her deadly attack on a Wonder Woman android. She practically obliterates the target, but her boss (Henry Cobb Armbruster) gives her shit and slaps her around because the face is still intact. You’d think Silver Swan would just waste Armbruster, but apparently she’s in love with him, so she takes his abuse and actually flies off crying. Armbruster is still looking for Buchman so he can get back the files Buchman took. Speaking of Wonder Woman, she’s on the phone with Steve
and senses some tension when she brings up Etta. Before she can learn more, Steve has to hang up to defend Hermes from some assholes in the bar. Steve gets knocked around a bit before Hermes decides to help him pound the assholes. Meanwhile, someone (a man and a woman) broke into Julia’s place and ransacked it. The cops speculate about a connection to Wonder Woman and we soon see they’re right. Wonder Woman is out at Julia’s cabin when she hears a disturbance and finds some hooded scumbags shooting a guy. She pounds the gunmen and the victim turns out to be Buchman, who begs her to protect the records. Wonder Woman heads into the cabin just in time to stop more 
guys from killing Maxine, who gives her the records and asks her to help Val before she kills all of them. Wonder Woman starts putting things together and when she hears Silver Swan’s sonic attack she heads out to confront her. Wonder Woman gets blasted and realizes Silver Swan is stronger than she thought. Silver Swan threatens Buchman and Maxine tries to get through to her, even offering to give her the pouch with the records in it. But when Silver Swan figures out it’s just a distraction so Wonder Woman can attack her, she freaks and unleashes a huge sonic blast.
Green Arrow #32 – “The Canary is a Bird of Prey Part 2” – Mike Grell/Grant Miehm/Frank McLaughlin
This one starts with Dinah (Black Canary) Lance waking up from a nightmare about Green Arrow being in trouble. Her instincts tell her the dream is no coincidence, so she goes to the cops, but they’re not interested in her hunches. Of course, we know from last issue that Green Arrow is in trouble; he was snooping around Reggie Mandell’s drug operation and got caught. Reggie is worried that Arrow might know something about the big drug shipment that’s coming in, so he has Arrow tortured, but he refuses to
talk. Black Canary figures out where Arrow might have gone and heads down to the neighbourhood, asking around about him. The neighbourhood is tense because of the recent drive-bys, which were arranged by Reggie to distract everyone while the drug shipment comes in. The cops know about the shipment and want to intercept it, which is why they’re reluctant to show a presence in that area. The locals are too scared to talk to Black Canary and she gives them shit, saying that if they don’t protect their homes no one else will. As Reggie prepares for the drug deal, Black Canary takes out his guards one by one and 
takes their guns. She rescues Green Arrow just as he’s about to be killed (wasting goons left and right) and they end up cornered by some of Reggie’s men. Just when things look the worst, the cops show up (although Reggie gets away). Turns out a neighbourhood kid took Canary’s words to heart and called the cops. So, this story is basically a reverse of the Long Bow Hunters mini-series, with Green Arrow getting tortured and Black Canary using deadly force to rescue him. I wonder if he’ll have PTSD like she does, or if he’ll bounce back because he’s such a manly man?
Firestorm #97 – “Shadowland” – John Ostrander/Tom Mandrake
This one starts with Shango (one of the African gods known as Orisha) arriving on Earth to look for his fellow god, Obatala, who’s been missing since he came to live among humanity ages ago. Obatala is needed back in the gods’ home of Ife to help stop the great shadow that threatens to overwhelm the place. Shango attracts the attention of the local cops, but he shrugs them off and goes to look for Obatala. In Ife, the land is near to being overrun by the Orisha-nla, shadow copies of the Orisha spawned by the darkness. Firestorm leads some of the Orisha against their
dark counterparts, including a dark copy of Firestorm himself. The Orisha have trouble fighting themselves and Firestorm’s double can absorb his strength, so the fight is an uphill one. Shango finds Obatala in his mortal form, that of a doctor named Efraim Ngai. But when Shango explains things, Ngai isn’t keen to go with him, pointing out that he can do more good on Earth helping mortals. Shango is dismissive of mortals until Ngai points out that the gods are the ones who abandoned humanity, not the other way around. Ngai does agree to return to Ife, since its destruction might impact Earth. When they return to Ife, Obatala embraces the shadow instead of fighting it, which 
stops the conflict immediately. Obatala explains that darkness is a necessary part of life, just as light is. The shadows were attacking because they had no names, no identities of their own, but now that Obatala has named them, they’re willing to settle in Ife and live in harmony with their opposite numbers. The Orisha agree, but Firestorm’s doppelganger isn’t so peaceful. He christens himself Shadowstorm and says he’ll continue feeding the anger and hate that he’s made of, no matter who it hurts. Shadowstorm takes off and Obatala brings Firestorm back to Earth. Shango comes too, hoping to learn more about humanity.