Written by Steve Orlando
Art by Davide Tinto
Published by Image Comics
To solve a problem that has beaten you before may require a shift in perspective. Doing so may unlock a fuller understanding of the how and why of a situation, which may take you to the root issues and therein the solution.
Commanders In Crisis #8 operates on this theme, as our heroes continue reach the point in their fallow period of separation and defeat where the light at the end of the tunnel emerges.
Where does that light come from?
From learning more truths about themselves and embracing their weaknesses to better their strengths.
Prizefighter, for example, meets a hero native to this reality, American Dreamer.
At first, Prizefighter is defensive and doubles down on his exploits despite this world teetering even closer to extinction. But once he stops shielding his ego, Prizefighter admits his mistakes in his home reality.
The two of them take a different literal journey of discovery through a blend of science and magic that brings them to a maze-like pocket universe, and a new enemy. Through battling that enemy, American Dreamer and Prizefighter understand the nature of hatred and death embedded within the Extinction Society.
Frontier and Thunder Woman continue their quest to resurrect empathy. They travel to prehistoric man’s discovery of fire to learn more about how beings from the Lightning World – where ideas themselves live as godlike entities – descend to humanity.
However, Frontier realizes that Thunder Woman’s idea of how the concepts come to Earth is biased by her own perspective. The duo observe that the interaction is actually an exchange. The idea alone isn’t enough to shift humanity. Action tethers the idea to us.
Armed with new perspectives, Prizefighter and Frontier both return to the Crisis Command stronger, more powerful, and humbler. “Maybe we can stop the Extinction Society,” Prizefighter says. “But stopping the cosmic sepsis? Really saving this place? Those answers won’t come from us.”
The heroes now know they don’t have all the answers. Nor all the ideas. And definitely not all the actions needed to save this reality.
The team is reassembled! Will they find a new way to inspire the people of this reality to save it?
May the endgame begin.
