- Writer: Joshua Williamson
- Artist: Daniel Sampere
- Colorist: Alejandro Sanchez
- Letterer: Tom Napolitano
- Cover Artists: Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sanchez
- Editors: Chris Rosa and Paul Kaminski
Cover: In the centre, back lit by the burning Titans Tower, are Deathstroke on the left and Nightwing on the right.
The crowd of villains watching them in the foreground are mostly indistinguishable now, but Prometheus is identifiable as second head from the right.
Variant Covers can be found at the bottom of the page.
Page 1 – Panel 1: The captions in green are being spoken by Pariah who we see here on his pre-Crisis world being lauded for his scientific acomplishments. The person he’s addressing is the Great Darkness.
Page 1 – Panel 2: This is a recreation of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1 Pages 2 and 3 – Panel 13; note the “After Perez” text in the bottom right.
As Pariah says he was “forced to watch” here, the original panel in CRISIS also has him state he is “forced to observe“.
Page 1 – Panel 3: Here we see Pariah in his Multiverse-2 hideout, working on his machine. In the background are the silhouettes of his Dark Army. From left to right are Darkseid; Doomsday; Ares; and Nekron.
Page 1 – Panel 4: The gift from the Monitor was the ability, as mentioned above, to be drawn to witness the infinite Earths dying without being consumed by them. Once the Crisis is ignited on Earth-Zero, he and his army will be drawn there.
Pages 2 and 3: Credits for this issue.
Page 4 – Panel 1: The aftermath of the opening attack on Titans Tower, as seen at the end of the previous issue.
On the floor is Nightwing; holding his left leg is Roundhouse; holding his right is Bratgirl; and keen to fight is Gorilla Gregg. The latter three are students at the Tower.
Page 4 – Panel 2: Roundhouse mentions how many bad guys there are; if you want to check, take a look at Pages 28 and 29 of the previous issue.
Page 4 – Panels 3 and 4: Nightwing surprises everyone by regaining consciousness and gets an update of what’s gone on. The Chupacabra that Bratgirl mentions is another student who unwillingly delivered a bomb to the Tower at the end of the previous issue. The speaker off panel is . . .
Page 5 – Panel 1: . . . Lionmane. Behind him, left to right are Hyena, Girder, Shrapnel, and Hellhound.
Page 5 – Panel 2: The bad guys kidnap the students.
Page 5 – Panel 4: And Nightwing proves that even battered and blown up, he can still take down a two-bit villain like Hellhound.
Pages 6 and 7 – Panel 1: The villains have taken over Titans Tower. Click the image below for an enlarged version that’s numbered, with the key below.
1) Count Vertigo 2) Tress 3) Girder 4) Firefly 5) Shaggy Man 6) Donna Troy 7) Matt Price 8) Copperhead 9) Multiplex (only listing him once!) 10) Stitch 11) Prankster 12) Black Ice 13) Red Arrow 14) Roundhouse 15) Hyena 16) Bratgirl 17) Dr Phosphorous 18) Carmen Leno 19) Raven 20) Bonny Hoffman 21) Felix Faust 22) Shrapnel 23) Gorilla Gregg 24) Deathstroke 25) Cyborg 26) Crazy Quilt 27) Tattooed Man 28) Arsenal 29) Starfire 30) The Key 31) Tooby 32) Phobia
Pages 6 and 7 – Panels 2 to 9: In the crosshairs left to right are Firestorm; Aqualad; Batman (Jace Fox); Wonder Girl (Yara Flor); Robin; Blue Beetle; Supergirl; and Dr Light.
Pages 6 and 7 – Panel 10: Left to right are Dollmaker being hit by Megabat; behind him is Typhoon chasing Bolt on the right.
Pages 6 and 7 – Panel 12: Nightwing has fought Deathstroke as a member of various versions of the Titans.
Page 8 – Panel 1: Prometheus on the left and Phobia on the right bring in the unconscious body of Beast Boy whom Deathstroke shot in the head at the end of the previous issue. In the background bottom left are two of Multiplexes selves; top left is Prankster; and top right is Dr Destiny.
Page 8 – Panel 5: In a reversal of Nightwing meeting Hellhound just a couple of pages ago, Prometheus stops Nightwing with a kick.
Page 8 – Panel 6: Ever the detective, Nightwing realises simply killing the heroes is not Deathstroke’s goal.
Page 9 – Panels 1 and 2: Deathstroke is using Nightwing to make a point – if Nightwing dies, that sends a bigger message than the death of every student in Titans Tower.
Page 9 – Panel 3: Deathstroke hands Nightwing his batons, challenging him.
Page 9 – Panel 4: And Black Spider notes that Deathstroke is going off-script.
Page 9 – Panel 5: Deathstroke doesn’t care, but he does want an audience.
Pages 10 and 11: No individual notes on panels here as the two expert hand-to-hand combat fighters go at each other until . . .
Page 12 – Panels 1 and 2: Nightwing wins, putting Deathstroke down on his ass.
Page 12 – Panel 4: Hyena threatens to kill Bratgirl.
Page 12 – Panels 5 and 6: But Deathstroke concedes the first round to Nightwing before subverting the win with a second round.
Page 13 – Panel 1: Nightwing in the foreground with different panels behind him showing some of the heroes captured on pages 6 and 7. Spiralling in clockwise from top left is Gorilla Gregg; Arsenal; Beast Boy; Donna Troy; Starfire; Tooby; Bratgirl; Raven; Cyborg; Roundhouse in the middle being held by Girder; and then Patch.
Page 13 – Panel 2: Nightwing offers himself up in place of everyone else.
Page 13 – Panel 3: An offer Deathstroke is happy to accept.
Page 13 – Panel 6: But just as he fires . . .
Page 14 – Panel 1: . . . in swoops Jon Kent, current holder of the Superman title.
Page 14 – Panel 3: Nightwing and Superman stand together.
Page 15 – Panel 1: Superman takes down Hyena and frees Bratgirl.
Page 15 – Panel 2: Outside Titans Tower, someone with a red cape watches.
Page 15 – Panel 3: Again, Nightwing shows his first concern is the safety of the students. Left to right are Cyborg, the “Vic” Nightwing refers to; Roundhouse; Patch; and Starfire, the “Kory” Nightwing refers to. In the background two of Multiplexes duplicates are having a rough time.
Page 15 – Panel 4: That spit-curl sure looks familiar.
Page 15 – Panel 5: Nightwing squares off again with Deathstroke. To the left of the panel is Black Spider, to the right is another Multiplex. Deathstroke boasts he was ready for Superman’s arrival.
Page 15 – Panel 6: And on queue, the watching from outside bursts into the top of Titans Tower . . .
Page 16 – Panel 1: . . . as Cyborg Superman lands in front of Deathstroke.
Page 16 – Panels 2 and 3: Quick as a speeding bullet, he grabs Superman and takes the fight outside.
Page 17 – Panel 3: Cyborg Superman posed as the real deal way back in the 90s Reign of the Supermen storyline.
Page 17 – Panel 5: As the fight continues, the Titans get their students out of the tower. We’ve seen all of these earlier, but left to right are Patch; Cyborg; Gorilla Gregg; Matt Price; Black Ice; Starfire; Roundhouse; Raven; Tress; Tooby; Donna Troy; Red Arrow.
Page 17 – Panel 6: Once again Nightwing confronts Deathstroke, with Phobia to the left, Warp and Multiplex to the right.
Page 17 – Panel 7: Deathstroke’s speech is interrupted by . . .
Page 18 – Panel 1: Pariah, speaking to him from Multiverse-2 who needs the heroes alive to build the Crisis.
Page 18 – Panel 4: Responding to the new orders, Deathstroke has Warp get the villains out of the tower.
Page 18 – Panel 6: The villains leave through Warp’s teleportation wormholes. Left to right are Phobia; HIVE Queen; Multiplex; Deathstroke; Crazy Quilt; Carmen Leno; Dr Destiny; Multiplex again; and Prometheus.
Page 19 – Panel 1: Deathstroke mentions survivors being “turned over to the Darkness.“
Page 19 – Panels 2 to 6: Cyborg Superman and Superman fight until Superman sends them both crashing into the tower.
Page 20 – Panels 1 and 2: As Cyborg Superman struggles to continue the fight, Cyborg of the Titans comes along and finishes it.
Page 20 – Panel 4: Cyborg and Nightwing help Superman back on to his feet.
Page 21 – Panel 1: Left to right in the ruins of the tower are Bolt; Tress; Red Arrow; and Nevermore.
Page 21 – Panel 3: Black Ice; Starfire; and Tooby.
Page 21 – Panel 4: Raven cradling Beast Boy.
Page 21 – Panel 5: Gorilla Gregg quits the Titans as Roundhouse looks on.
Page 21 – Panel 6: Saying “I told you so” off panel is . . .
Page 22 – Panel 1: . . . Black Adam who told Superman he was not a leader in the previous issue.
Page 22 – Panel 3: Patch on the left; Matt Price in the middle; Megabat on the right.
Page 22 – Panels 4 and 5: Black Adam lays claim to leading the new Justice League.
Page 23 – Panel 3: Far off in space we find a captured Green Lantern Kyle Rayner in the midst of breaking out.
Page 23 – Panel 4: Kyle mentions John Stewart and Guy Gardner, two other Green Lanterns of Earth.
Page 24 – Panel 1: Fellow Green Lanterns Hal Jordan on the left and Sojourner “Jo” Mullein on the right.
Page 24 – Panel 4: The “everything went nuts” is a callback to the United Planets taking over the majority of the jurisdiction of the galaxy, the assassination of one of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the reassigning of the majority of Green Lanterns to other duties, as detailed in GREEN LANTERN.
Page 25 – Panels 1 to 3: Hal gives Kyle the bad news about the Justice League.
Page 25 – Panel 4: The speedsters hunting for Barry Allen as seen in THE FLASH. Left to right are Jesse Quick; Wallace West; Wally West; Max Mercury; Irey West; and Jai West.
Page 25 – Panel 5: The Dark Army. Left to right are Eclipso; Doomsday; Nekron; Pariah; Neron; Ares; Upside-Down Man; Empty Hand; and Darkseid.
Page 26: The Green Lantern Corps reassembled. I’ve split the page left and right using Hal Jordan and his speech balloons as a divider so the numbers in the image below work top to bottom down the left of the page, then top to bottom down the right.
1) Kilowog 2) Penelops 3) Lok Neboora 4) Medphyll 5) Space Ape 6) Larvox 7) Jo Mullein 8) Isamot Kol 9) Salaak 10) Arisia 11) unknown 12) Chaselon 13) Jessica Cruz 14) Simon Baz 15) Hannu 16) Apros (mostly hidden by Hal’s speech balloon) 17) Two-Six 18) Guy Gardner 19) Rot Lop Fan 20) unknown 21) Hal Jordan
There are a few Lanterns in the background that might be identifiable but I think are too generic to be certain of. If you have any ideas, use the Contact Me page as always.
Variant Covers – due to the number of different covers, I’ve added them here so they don’t interfere with the main text.
Crisis on Earth-Prime 