Source: comixology.com
7. End Days
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Marco Rudy and Daniel Hor
After the apparent conclusion of the Doomsday thing, Superboy and Psionic Lad check out a ship that’s stranded in orbit, and The Red Mercy attacks Superboy.
The Red Mercy is related to The Black Mercy, the plant alien from Alan Moore’s classic For the Man Who Has Everything that gave the people it possessed visions of their greatest fantasies. It seems that the Red Mercy does the opposite. So Superboy has a vision of a world in which he kills everybody except Tim Drake, who raised a team of Earth’s last superheroes to fight him.
The Red Mercy also differs from the Black kind in that Black Mercy gives the victim artificial memories, whereas Red apparently doesn’t, which results in a very confused victim.
To be honest, this issue is kind of confusing. And the art, which is muddy and hard to follow at times, doesn’t help matters. I never really got a good sense of the vision, which was disappointing, because I’d been excited for the issue.
But we’re out of this weird set of one-shots, and we’re about to go into the series’ final arc, Rise of the Hollow Men.
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