Saturday, January 15, 2011

Aegis: Son of Olympus #2

As Alex hands-over the Atomic Skull to agents of the DMA, he notices a strange flash of light from a second-story office at the Theoretical Physics building, the dimensional travel effect the Angle Man is using to disappear from the scene of the crime... But Aegis is too fast for the villain to escape him, as the Son of Olympus follows him into the bizarre energy field.  What happens next can best be described as a psychedelic chase through the 52 variants of the strangest city in America --

--one page with the Atomic Knights and Kamandi looking-on, another page with the both of them being chased by a vampiric Ray Palmer, and so-on.  Eventually Alex catches the thief on Earth-50 (WildStorm earth) where an overly enthusiastic LadyTron tackles the guy "because he just *looks* guilty". He thanks her for the help, and she thinks that she'd love to catch-up with the "Greek Godboy" one day.

Back on New Earth, Angle Man admits to trying to steal a list of the Ivy U. grad students going to spend the summer at the Large Hadron Collider.  Before Alex can fly him back, however,  he makes the young demigod a proposal.  If he lets him go, he will give him undeniable proof that his mother (Elena Kostas) is still alive -- which really piques his curiosity since he watched his mom die of advanced breast cancer when he was 17 years old!  Stunned, he agrees, and the man also known as Angelo Bend hands him a DVD (out of nowhere apparently) and teleports away before he can do anything about it.

Epilogue 1 -- Alex at home watching surveillance video from a London street-corner camera monitoring a fistfight between The Knight and The Mad Mod.  Alex clearly recognizes a beautiful middle-aged woman in a dark overcoat in the background as his mother.  Before he can even think about it, Rebecca announces she's home, and he quickly shuts the lid on his laptop...

Epilogue 2 -- Angle Man arrives at a nondescript office "somewhere in America." There Kat Armstrong (Spy Smasher II) trains a large handgun with a laser sight on the thief.  Out of the shadows walks Col. Adam Armstrong who asks him how it went to which Bend replies, "mission accomplished, Colonel.  Your little seed of doubt worked perfectly."  He smiled, "now about my fee..."