Countdown #5 Countdown #5

Countdown #5 Countdown - End Times

DC Comics
May 2008
Modern Age / USA / English
Comic / 32 pages / 76194126083900511 / $2.99
Credits View More ↓
Writer Scott Beatty, Paul Dini, Adam Beechen
Penciller Jim Starlin, Tom Derenick
Inker Wayne Faucher, Rodney Ramos
Colorist Pete Pantazis, Hi-Fi Colour Design
Letterer Travis Lanham
Cover Artist Scott Kolins
Editor Elisabeth V. Gehrlein, Mike Carlin
Characters View More ↓
Batgirl (Cassandra Cain)
Holly Robinson
Mary Marvel (Mary Batson)
Firestorm (Jason Rusch)
Atom (Ray Palmer)
Una (Luorno Durgo)
Donna Troy
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
Flash (Earth-51) (Barry Allen)
Batman (Earth-51) (Bruce Wayne)
Red Robin (Jason Todd)
Forager II
Jimmy Olsen
Mr. Freeze (Victor Fries)
Batman (Bruce Wayne)
Buddy Blank (Earth-51)
Tommy Blank (Earth-51)
Blue Beetle (Earth-51) (Jaime Reyes)
Brother Eye (Earth-51)
Dr. Light (Earth-51) (Arthur Light)
Joker (Earth-51)
Lex Luthor (Earth-51)
Martian Manhunter (Earth-51) (J'onn J'onzz)
Robin (Earth-51) (Tim Drake)
Superman (Earth-51) (Kal-El / Clark Kent)
Wonder Girl (Earth-51) (Cassandra Sandsmark)
Wonder Woman (Earth-51) (Diana)
Plot
Una accompanies Buddy Blank through the riot infested streets of Metropolis as more and more people succumb

to the effects of the Morticoccus virus, helping him get to the apartments where his daughter and grandson live

Across the world, the heroes attempt to combat the effects of the virus but most of them, as well as the super-villains,

contract it, turning on each other.

The Challengers can do little apart from watch the city and the planet fall to pieces.

Buddy and Una find his grandson alive but the apartment has been infested with rats which attack Una. Reaching the roof

to escape, they discover Buddy's daughter who has mutated due to the virus and attacks them. Una sacrifices herself,

giving Buddy her flight ring so he can escape with his grandson while she dies protecting them.

Buddy travels to the Command D Bunker where he had worked on the Brother Eye project and from there he watches the

world powers blame each other for the virus and, eventually, launch nuclear weapons against each other.

The Challengers, realising there is nothing they can do, leave the Earth via Boom Tube.