Crazy men with portals inside them that think they’re gods, and the evil organizations that love them
149. Doom Patrol #2 by Paul Kupperberg and Steve Lightle
I can say one thing about the DC Universe: a lot of evil people easily build private armies and expansive headquarters without anyone noticing. As many spy agencies as exist in the DCU, none of them seem to do a particularly good job keeping up with them.
Case in point: Kalki. He’s built an entire vast research facility beneath Jamaica, populated it with numerous guards, and Valentina Vostok — head of the still yet unnamed agency responsible for watching superhumans in the United States — doesn’t know a thing about it until she stumbles upon it in this issue.
I think the United States and the Soviet Union of the DCU’s 1987 really need to rethink their intelligence strategy.
While Valentina’s realization of the base’s location is an important part of the issue, it’s not where we start the story. Instead, we pick up with the guards of the base being attacked by an energy blast.
Joshua Clay broke free of his containment tank, blasted his guards, and now faces down a second wave of enemy soldiers. Celsius is locked in her own containment tank, conscious but with her powers suppressed…
