PropertyValue
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  • Salvation Run Vol 1 1
Letterer1
  • Steve Wands
Inker1
  • Walden Wong
Recommended
  • * 52 * Countdown * Flash: The Fastest Man Alive * Secret Six (Volume 2) * Villains United
Inker1
  • Walden Wong
Writer1
  • Bill Willingham
Penciler1
  • Sean Chen
Image2Text
  • Textless
Colourist1
  • John Kalisz
Writer1
  • Bill Willingham
StoryTitle
  • "Brave Hellish New World"
Editor1
  • Joey Cavalieri
  • Stephanie Buscema
Penciler1
  • Sean Chen
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * :* :* :* :* :* Supporting Characters: * * Adversaries: * * * * * * & * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Other Characters:
  • The following characters all appear in flashback
  • * :* :* * * * * * * * * * :* :* :* :*J.J. Thunder and the Thunderbolt :* :* :* :* :* Locations: * :* * Items: * * * * Vehicles: * None
Letterer1
  • Steve Wands
Colourist1
  • John Kalisz
Editor1
  • Joey Cavalieri
  • Stephanie Buscema
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CoverArtist
  • John Kalisz
  • Sean Chen
  • Joe Corroney
Country
  • USA
Executive Editor
  • Dan DiDio
Issue
  • 1
Speaker
  • [[W:C:dc:Richard Flag, Jr.
Volume
  • 1
Title
  • Salvation Run
Month
  • January
Synopsis
  • An explosion heralds the arrival of a new group of criminals, and the next morning the Rogues go back to find them and explain the danger. Some of the new arrivals do not believe them, but when a burrowing monster attacks Girder, they save him, proving their case. Still, the villains complain of the fact that Checkmate promised them a dull prison world - and we see that they are being spied upon by two mysterious beings, who reveal that Checkmate had not been lying to them, and that when the planet had been investigated for eligibility it had in fact looked extremely safe. We are warned that sentences will be lifelong and harsh - but they will not necessarily be lengthy!
  • While they are camped that night, the five criminals ponder their situation. They remember Rick Flag's admonition that the governments of Earth had reached the limits of their patience, and were using the Boom Tube to rid themselves of the criminals - who after all, had escaped from every conventional prison on Earth. Since most supervillains express some desire to conquer the world, giving them a prison world of their own was considered a parting ironic stab. We also learn in flashback that Checkmate had told them the world was perfectly safe and had all of the tools they would need to survive and reestablish society, not wishing them any ill will, just wanting to get rid of them on Earth.
  • In a darkened office, Amanda Waller and Rick Flag, Jr. are discussing a recent solution to the growing problem of supervillains: dump them on a planet somewhere in deep space, and forget about them. Despite some ethical concerns the plan is to go ahead.
  • Two weeks later, the Keystone City Rogues are wandering the surface of the planet they have christened "Prison World". Despite the constant danger of attack by biomechanical horrors, they are wandering - Abra Kadabra's futuristic intellect has allowed them to converse with local pygmies and learn a rumor of a 'Safe Zone', a miles-wide district where the hostile biomechs have been cleaned out. They know the planet will eventually kill them - a point brought home by the fact that Abra Kadabra breaks his arm in the next attack.
Image
  • Rogues 0005.jpg
Notes
  • --11-14
quotation
  • You've each tried to conquer the world before, now we're granting your wish. A world of your own to conquer.
Publisher
  • DC Comics
Year
  • 2008