The evil scientist dude, Stagg, has unearthed the Frost King's wife and kid. They were frozen in a block of ice below the Fortress of Solitude. So of course the Frost King shows up, as does Black Adam, since, well, this book has his name on it. There are also a bunch of other superheroes that show up at Stagg's lab for some reason. These are heroes you've never heard of and probably never will again. Multiplex? Dude's named after a movie theater. Catman? That has to be a bad joke. Is Catman a real superhero? Like he's actually been in other books? Do I have to look it up? Well, his first appearance was in Detective Comics #311 back in 1963 and he was a Batman villain. I'm guessing Catwoman came first. So who was the lazy idiot that created Catman? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel on brainstorming day that week. At the end of this issue, part 8 in the "Endless Winter" event, the Justice League shows up to fight and possibly defeat the Frost King. That, or to save him and defeat the evil Stagg. I will admit that at least the art in this issue is fairly decent. Brandon Peterson did the pencils and inks for the modern stuff (Marco Santucci is still doing the 10th century flashback stuff every issue). But back to more interesting things: Catman. Apparently, "a modern revival of the character in the pages of Green Arrow many years later depicted a Catman down on his luck, clinging to past glories, overweight, and pathetic." What past glories? I mean...he's in shape in "Endless Winter." Catman "was originally Thomas Reese Blake, a world famous trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime because he had grown bored with hunting and hand squandered most of his millions." Seriously, if you're ever bored, look up some lame comic book characters from the 60's and read their Wikipedia entries. They're hilarious. As for this issue? It's less entertaining than doing that. *1/2
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