DCeased: Unkillables #3 Synopsis and review

The end is near! This is it, the finale issue of Tom Taylor’s follow up to his hit DCeased mini-series. Delayed by the real world Covid pandemic, issue three was worth the wait. Their hideout invaded the ragtag group of heroes, antiheroes, villains and children are forced to flee in one Batmobile and two buses on a thirty-mile death race from Blüdhaven to the safety (they hope) of the Gotham garden zone. Brought to detailed and gory life by Karl Mostert’s pencils this trip is all action and heartbreak. Opening with a fight between at infected Bane and Solomon Grundy that is punctuated by the most original head butt I have ever seen, things are off to a gruesome start. Children are snatched from their bus by the infected mirror master whose ability to travel through reflective surfaces make him near impossible to stop until Cheetah puts a clawed hand through his head. Things go from bad to worse when an infected Wonder Woman arrives on the scene and destroys the Batmobile driven by Red Hood and Ravager. The very nature of the world of DCeased means things were never going to end well for most of our cast. Wonder Woman is held at bay by Grundy, Cheetah and Creeper, for a time. Deathstroke and Jim Gordon make a rescue attempt to save Red Hood and Ravager taking a bus and moving the balance of the children to the other remaining bus. Deathstroke holds off the masses of infected for a time until he faces am unstoppable foe. Wonder Woman eventually attacks the bus with the children inside leading to a surprise reveal of the identity of our narrator. All in all, a great wrap up to the series. Next up in the DCeased universe is DCeased: Dead Planet a six part series coming in June.