Mitch Gerards provides the artwork for the cover with has Harley Quinn holding the Sanctuary mask on the floor with a cover and blood splattered around her. The first page with Clay Mann art has the tribute videos of Gnarrk, a teenage caveman frozen in ice and is wakened by the Teen Titans, yup like Encino Man (1992). The other is the Wally West Flash who was just shifted into this version of the DC Universe. Then, we have Harley Quinn and all are asked about the lives they have saved. Gnarrk is a little confused, Wally doesn’t want to boast, and of course Harley turns it on the interviewer. The rest of the comic book has art by Mitch Gerards. Next, we get a splash page of Gnarrk waxing poetic on a wooly mammoth and looking at the night stars. He is surprisingly more verbose with his quotation of Keats. We have the Flashes, Wally West and Barry Allen meeting in Rebirth #1 (2016). Wally asks about his family. Harley Quinn is bored hanging out with Poison Ivy who says the Trinity, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, will find her. These sequences almost seem random, but there is some sense to them.
Gnarrk is some thick grass is ambushed by a saber-tooth tiger and defends himself. He contemplates the prehistoric life. Then, we have Wally meeting his super friends, they hug him so we can see their back and Wally’s sad face. The rest of panel is blank, empty. The Joker tells a joke and Poison Ivy tells Harley to hit him, therapy, but there is a troubled look on her face. Gerards’ artwork tells all about the character in facial expressions. Gnarrk is riding the back of a wooly mammoth going over how life was simple without society forced on him. Wally goes over the battle with his fellow heroes, but is left behind thinking about his family. A splash page features Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy talking with the dialogue wrapped around them discussing Poison Ivy’s obsession with plants. Gnarrk has killed an antelope with a spear, but a rival caveman attacks him. He reflects that he always thought about death and now has to think about life. An overhead tracking shot of Wally walking with the Sanctuary robe and mask. In his room, he has taken them off, and feels lonely. A voice says he is not alone. A computer voice? The Sanctuary computer? It has been done before that artificial intelligence thinks the humans it cares for can only be helped by killing them. Could it be Booster Gold’s robot Skeets?
Night, in a field the Joker tells his jokes and his killed, Harley laughs, Poison Ivy imagines vines, and the scene repeats. Gnarrk dismounts the wooly mammoth, contemplation over, and exits the holograph room in track suit, but then there is an emergency. A splash page of Wally West in a surreal white background. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy hear the alarm and Poison Ivy leaves to check on it. This is actually strange since Harley Quinn is watching over her. Outside of Sanctuary, Gnarrk holds the bloody body of the Protector who is afraid, he tries to console him. He falls and says maybe he is thinking too much. Wally holds the body of Roy Harper and says he didn’t want to be alone. Then, Booster Gold enters and finds that Harley Quinn is there. There is a startling secret in that scene, but it looks like we see where we began with this series. It has the same confession question about how many the hero saved to Commander Steel, Blue Say, Solstice, and others. We get the title of this issue, "Who Is Saved?"
Four Pieces of Peach Pie out of Five!
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