Humanity First: Our Fighting Forces (Vol. 1)

==Solicitations==
HUMANITY FIRST: OUR FIGHTING FORCES #1
As Vandal Savage pursues his agenda to put Humanity First, Next Dawn proudly presents an anthology of must-read stories from the event!
“I, MONGUL”
Plot by EXCITER
Written and Art by MIKE MIGNOLA
Mongul’s eyes look out upon Warworld, the ultimate weapon.
It was long ago that Mongul found this planet-sized engine of destruction, at the time abandoned by its creators who were either gods or long-extinct conquerors. Mongul used Warworld’s incalculable armament to carve a path to glory for himself. He was unstoppable. None could defeat him. Not the Green Lantern Corps. Not the legions of Starro. He was the major universal power… until Vandal Savage and his Light. The accursed humans took Warworld from him. Worse still, Vandal Savage made sure that Mongul’s eyes would witness his beloved weapon wrested from his control forevermore.
For Mongul’s eyes now look upon Warworld from a severed head, placed on a pike, atop Warworld’s north pole…
“DON’T OPEN TIL DOOMSDAY”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by CHUCK DIXON
Art by RYAN OTTLEY
Doomsday. The very name sends fear radiating throughout the galaxy. A nearly unstoppable monster, the beast had no control over his hyper-violent disposition… until Hal Jordan finally ended his eternal rampage by infecting him with the Willpower Virus (GREEN LANTERN #33-34). For the first time in his millennia of existence, Doomsday had the capacity to control his rage… but could the Universe ever accept him after all the incalculable damage he caused?
Doomsday stayed, voluntarily, on Oa in a rehabilitation facility. Now Oa is under attack, but the Guardians of the Universe don’t want to risk unleashing Doomsday in the planet’s defense. What if he snaps back? It’s too dangerous, in their assessment. But does Doomsday have the willpower to do nothing while his friends are invaded?
64 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
HUMANITY FIRST: OUR FIGHTING FORCES #2
As Vandal Savage pursues his agenda to put Humanity First, Next Dawn proudly presents an anthology of must-read stories from the event!
“LOVE YOU TO DEATH”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by CHUCK DIXON
Art by RYAN OTTLEY
Carol Ferris was a businesswoman who dominated the field of aviation. Her on-again-off-again relationship with ace pilot Hal Jordan set her down a path that would eventually lead to the Star Sapphire Corps! As champion of these violet space warriors, Carol fought for “love” throughout the universe. Her mission eventually brought her to the most unexpected of places… Warworld. There, she brought the power of love to an impossibly hardened heart, making the former despot Mongul her paramour (see NEXT DAWN VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL #1)! For years, her love made him better. By Mongul’s side, she even helped defeat Starro (see GREEN LANTERN #8 & 13).
Now Mongul is dead: killed by Vandal Savage so the immortal fiend could usurp control of Warworld. And as the champion of love, she can’t let her lover go unavenged… but what can she do while stranded on a random planet after Savage stole her ring? And what lengths will she go to in order to get it back?
“THE SPEED OF DETENTION”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Art by JONBOY MEYERS
S'kidds'kakoth, a.k.a. S'kidd-Flash, came from a planet that worshipped the Flash. His holy pilgrimage involved ascending to the ultimate position of respect within his culture: the Flash’s sidekick! When he arrived on Earth, then W.O.A.H. Director Captain Atom cut him some slack and let him stay (see THE FLASH #33). But when Cap wouldn’t go along with the hardline Humanity First agenda, he was ousted from W.O.A.H. (see THE FLASH #37)… and now they’re cracking down on aliens!
W.O.A.H. sends its anti-speedster agent, the Turtle, to bring the youthful Savothian streaker in for processing. Can S’kidd avoid a one-way trip to the Las Tunas Non-Human Detention Facility?
"JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE RING"
Written by Grant Morrison
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Frank Quitely
Rhonda Pineda is a brilliant young woman. She not only claims to have created a size-changing belt using white dwarf star particles, but has been shown to be able to change size herself without the aid of an outside device. She has a seat on a cruiser heading towards the planet OA to joins the fight for Earth vs. the planet OA. OA is the home base of the Green Lantern Corps and luckily for expedition, they were able to get the ring from a dead Lantern. Luckily for the humans, the Lantern’s ring was out of power and the numerous meta powered humans on the ship were able to kill the powerless GL and acquire an actual Lantern ring. Although the ring is drained, Pineda feels that since she can shrink to a subatomic level, she can reduce her size and shrink herself into the ring to gather an idea how it works. Despite many warnings and orders not to do this, Pineda shrinks and disappears into the ring.
64 PGs./Rated T+ …$6.99
HUMANITY FIRST: OUR FIGHTING FORCES #3
As Vandal Savage pursues his agenda to put Humanity First, Next Dawn proudly presents an anthology of must-read stories from the event!
“THE HAUNTED STARSHIP”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by CHUCK DIXON
Art by RYAN OTTLEY
General J.E.B. Stuart’s ghost was separated from his body during the Civil War by a speedster employed by Vandal Savage (see THE FLASH #18). Subsequently, that ghost bonded to a tank, through which J.E.B. helped his descendant fight Nazis in World War II. Now, however, J.E.B. finds himself manifesting on a very different battlefield in a very different vehicle: a Green Lantern Corps Interceptor-Class Starship! And this heavy-armed space vessel, it seems, has been hijacked by forces loyal to that good-fer-nothin’ ninnymuggin that made him a ghost in the first place: Vandal Savage! Can J.E.B. successfully haunt the vessel enough to turn it from a battle asset to an enemy combatant and, perhaps, finally find eternal rest?
“FRAGMANITY FIRST”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Art by JONBOY MEYERS
You ever frag some royal cheesesuckers because a bastich paid you and told you they were tyrannical despots who grind up sweet, defenseless space dolphins with tuna salad as their chief national export, only to find out later that those cheesesuckers never even touched a single space dolphin? Yeah, we’ve all been there, right?
This caveman feeb Vandal Savage set me up and got me tossed in a fraggin’ speciality prison for aliens on Earth. Grub sucked. Luckily, my boy Fishstick broke me and Marty Manchild out (that’s when Aquaman liberated Martian Manhunter from prison, and accidentally let Lobo out too in AQUAMAN #22). Now it’s payback time! Sure, the Green Lanterns hassled me in the past, but I always had my paperwork in order. They weren’t so bad - certainly better than letting Captain Caveman take over and jack all their gear. So, I’m part of the Justice League now! Feel good story of the year.
But nobody told me these W.O.A.H. clowns had a metahuman that could turn off my healing factor…
“JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE RING” part two
Written by Grant Morrison
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Frank Quitely
Rhonda Pineda, known as Atomika, is inside a Green Lantern ring at sub-atomic size experiencing the force powering the ring in very unusual forms. Can she control or thwart this force in order to help Earth achieve its dominance over the universe? Or will the ring win her over to OA’s side?
Rhonda faces the spirit within the ring, a carefully designed counterbalance to a particular ring’s wearer. Can her scientific mind deal with what seems to be an example of alien AI? And when it starts learning about her faster than she can deal with it, can she even survive, never mind finding a way to defend against the ring’s energies?
64 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
HUMANITY FIRST: OUR FIGHTING FORCES #4
As Vandal Savage pursues his agenda to put Humanity First, Next Dawn proudly presents an anthology of must-read stories from the event!
“THE END OF THE RACE”
The Black Racer is an avatar of death. Nobody outruns him forever. Yet one person tried…
Vandal Savage had escaped death for 500,000 years. When the Flash siphoned Savage’s stolen life force and used it to vitalize a new world, the Black Racer saw an opportunity. Savage was now a mortal, and his race was over.
The Black Racer sped into the event and, before the Justice League could react, impaled Vandal Savage on his cosmic ski poles.
The long race is finally over. And, as always, the Black Racer wins…
But where is he racing to next?
"JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE RING" *Conclusion!*
Written by Grant Morrison
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Frank Quitely
Rhonda Pineda, known as Atomika, is inside a Green Lantern ring at sub-atomic size experiencing the force powering the ring in very unusual forms. At this point, the team she came to OA with has given her up for lost on a fool’s errand. “No big deal,” they said, “She just shrinks, what good is that?”
She’s experiencing existence as a totally new form at matter/energy because her size has gone beyond the planck length at which physical laws stop working as expected. She can see the beyond tiny wavelengths of the energy accessed by the Green Lantern rings. The smaller the wavelength the more powerful the energy. And Rhonda looks to shrink that wavelength even more using her belt’s abilities.
If she can manage to utilize the ring’s power and manage to increase the energy by shrinking wavelength, can Atomika fight the seduction of so much power, even from a depleted ring? And what will she do when she manages to find a ring with power still in it?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
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