Chapter two of JLA Annual #1(plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg) picks up with the JLA's efforts to track down Doctor Destiny. The first team we follow is Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Adam and Firestorm, with Firestorm carrying the others in a "nuclear air-bubble." Gee whiz, I love Comic Book Science!
Hawkgirl has rigged up a sensor to detect Delta Waves, brain waves that are generated when we sleep. So there are moments when Comic Book Science sort-of, kind-of matches up with real-life science. Of course, in this case, we have an alien with a delta wave detector being carried in a bubble made of nuclear energy--proving that in the end Comic Book Science beats the snot out of real life.
The detector brings them to a sleep research facility at Ivy University. It's not Dr. Destiny's HQ, but he is still monitoring the League. So he brings the dreams of the sleeping subjects to life and has those now solid dreams attack the heroes.
The heroes fight back against the dreams until Firestorm puts a stop to it by freezing up the mind-machines to which the sleepers are attached, waking them up in the process. This causes the dreams to fade away. The heroes are victorious and have confirmed that Dr. Destiny is definitely out to get them.
It's a good chapter, which includes some fun banter between the Hawks while they are in the air bubble. A longer fight scene would have been nice, giving a greater sense of a real threat to the heroes, but what we have looks cool and I do appreciate that the story as a whole had to fit into a certain page count.
Next week, we travel to New York City to see what Aquaman, Green Arrow and Black Canary are doing.
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