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Cover: Dietrich Smith & Walden Wong

The Next #5

Jan 2007 · DC · 2.99 USD; 4.00 CAD
“Just Killing Time Part Five: Falling Sideways”

Sion confronts the Next, wanting to return them, but they flee back to Earth, and find Superman waking up from his fight with Sion. Sion tracks them down, but they teleport away again, playing cat and mouse with Sion. Superman finally gets Metron's message. Sion finds them one more time, but Superman and the Next use his "cage" against him, trapping Sion. They realize that the rip in the continuum has created a new being, the Oblivion Shadow, one that threatens all life.

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writer Tad Williams · artist Dietrich Smith · inker Walden Wong · colorist Chris Chuckry · letterer Travis Lanham · cover Dietrich SmithWalden Wong

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colorist Chris Chuckry
letterer Travis Lanham
cover pencils Dietrich Smith
cover inks Walden Wong

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Sion confronts the Next, wanting to return them, but they flee back to Earth, and find Superman waking up from his fight with Sion. Sion tracks them down, but they teleport away again, playing cat and mouse with Sion. Superman finally gets Metron's message. Sion finds them one more time, but Superman and the Next use his "cage" against him, trapping Sion. They realize that the rip in the continuum has created a new being, the Oblivion Shadow, one that threatens all life.

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