DCeased: Unkillables #2 Synopsis and review

Issue two of DCEASED: Unkillables picks up right where it left off with The Red Hood and crew settle in with their young charges.

Issue two of DCEASED: Unkillables picks up right where it left off with The Red Hood and crew settle in with their young charges, while Deathstroke holds up with a group of villains that include Lady Shiva. Red hood and gang are bonding with their charges when they hear the announcement that the heroes of earth are evacuating the planet and the closest meeting site is Gotham. Realizing they could not make it with the kids in tow the four heroes decide to stay and defend the children.

            Meanwhile on the villain’s island Lady Shiva has Mirror Master locate her daughter Cassandra Kane AKA Bat-Girl, who is hold up with Red Hood and the children. Mirror Master transports Shiva to Cassandra’s location with an offer to come with her to safety. Cassandra refuses, leading to a fight and eventually Shiva’s return to her hideout without her daughter. Back at the hideout Vandal Savage backstabs Deathstroke buy trying to dissect him to find out the source of his immunity, having done the same to the Creeper. Savage is literally backstabbed by Ravager who frees her father just in time for the hideout to be invaded by an Anti-life virus infected Wonder Woman. Fleeing through Mirror Master’s mirror the group, minus a ripped in half Savage, the villains arrive in Mirror Masters last destination, the hero’s building.

            The two groups make a kind of piece and over the next few months the group train the children to survive and some of the toughest villains in the DC universe bond with the kids. But knowing this is a Tom Taylor comic things go bad quickly. Taylor is a master of dark alternate takes on superheroes. See his run-on Earth two and Injustice: Gods Among Us.  Karl Mostert’s art fits the book with his detailed pencils and kinetic, vivid violence. Issue two has the kind of R rated deaths and gore you’d expect from a zombie survival book. The fact that it stars well known DC superheroes makes these scenes more shocking. The tension is amped up and our familiarity with these characters makes it gut wrenching when things go bad. Well worth the price of admission.