COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE #1

COVER TAGLINE: The Space Adventurers from 52 Return! The Origin of Forerunner Revealed! TITLE: The Home Front: New Kids on the Block RELEASE DATE: August, 2007 COVER DATE: October, 2007 WRITER(s): Adam Beechen PENCILER(s): Eddy Barrows INKER(s): Julio Ferreira COLORS: Richard Horie; Tanya Horie LETTERS: Phil Balsman EDITOR(s): Eddie Berganza; Adam Schlagman COVER: Oclair Albert; Ivan Reis; Rod Reis PRICE: $2.99 U.S./$3.50 Canada CHARACTERS: Animal Man; Cliff Baker; Ellen Baker; Maxine Baker; Sardath; Starfire (Koriand'r); Adam Strange; Alanna Strange; Aleea Strange PLOT: Animal Man, Starfire and Adam Strange are all adjusting to being back home after their long battle with Lady Styx. Things are definitely not as they were and that is becoming more and more apparent as Adam finds that he has been replaced as Rann's protector. The people have elected the actor, Steven Hazard as their new protector. Hazard (who decides he wants to be known as "Champ" goes about his first mission by murdering a normally peaceful Sandswarmer. Angered by his replacement's careless actions, Adam accepts his forced retirement Back on Earth Kory is getting used to her domesticated role since her powers are no longer available to her. Ellen (Buddy's wife) seems put out by the attention Starfire is getting from Buddy.

TITLE: Forerunner - Part One: The Origin of the Species WRITER(s): Justin Gray PENCILER(s): Fabrizo Fiorentino INKER(s): Fabrizo Fiorentino COLORS: Richard Horie; Tanya Horie LETTERS: Pat Brosseau EDITOR(s): Eddie Berganza; Adam Schlagman CHARACTERS: Forerunner (Viza Aziv); Monitor; Monarch PLOT: After Earth became uninhabitable it was renamed "War World" and used as a battleground for warring factions to fight their battles. The surviving members of the armies were left behind to survive in the roughest terrain they'd ever come across eventually forming a lineage - a group of warriors known as Forerunners. Eventually the Forerunners would take the planet as their own defeating anyone who dared oppose them. However Viza Aziv becomes the last of her kind when, while away on a mission, her entire planet is wiped out by the Monitors. Alone and betrayed, Viza joins forces with Monarch in his battle against the Monitors.