CHARACTERS: Gog; Magog (Lance Corporal David Reid); Hawkman (Carter Hall); Amazing-Man (Markus Clay); Damage (Grant Emerson); Wildcat (Tom Bronson); Judomaster (Sonia Sato); Citizen Steel (Nate Heywood)

PLOT:
After witnessing the horrific events of 9/11, David Reid is compelled to continue his family's legacy and join the armed forces. He is one of the first Marines to touch down in Iraq and it's there that he acquires his meta abilities after being stabbed in the arm by an artifact that had been looted from an Iraqi museum.

His body now surging with plasma energy, David is outfitted with a special arm device allowing him to release the burst of energy as a projectile weapon. Declining to join Captain Atom's group of meta-military, David instead returns to his original unit - now an elite squad known only as "Epsilon." But now David is a member of the JSA. More importantly he has become the resurrected right-hand man for Gog and he continues to fight to make a difference in people's lives.

Still following in the foot steps of Gog in the Congo, Magog and the other JSA members find the Lulonga River has been poisoned. A major tributary, it forms the backbone of the Congolese transportation and economics and is now teaming with dead human and animal corpses. Although initially appearing unaware of the plight surrounding him, Gog temporarily stops his march towards Kahndaq to form a make-shift canyon for the water to flow into and be purified. Finding the militia responsible for the poisoning, Gog transforms their bodies into clean water that washes into the gorge and begins diluting the tainted water. In death they will undo the damage they caused in life.

After having to be physically restrained from killing those responsible, Magog's old walkie talkie suddenly crackles to life. Epsilon must have arrived nearby and from the sounds of it, they're in trouble. David temporarily departs from his JSA team and heads out looking for the Epsilon unit.

Sent to the Congo to stop a dangerous rebel leader, the Epsilon helicopter had been shot down. David sets out to find those responsible, finding his former teammates tortured and killed along the path towards the Congolese rebel base. Once there he breaks the JSA code of no killing and slaughters the rebels leaving them to lie in their own unmarked mass grave. He returns to Gog and the JSA drenched in blood and clutching a fist full of his teammates dog tags.

Gog reverts the now purified water stream to it's original course. David steps into the water and allows it to wash away the blood from his armor. He re-emerges refreshed and ready to continue their journey towards Kahndaq.

CHARACTERS: Starman (Thom Kallor)

PLOT:
Starman returns to the sanitarium where the JSA first found him to collect his belongings. His lifelong battle with schizophrenia cured by Gog, the Legionnaire explains how he came to the 21st century in the first place.

His ability to control gravity beginning to exhibit itself at a young age, Thom Kallor spent most of his youth being tested and experimented on. This of course left the young Xanthuan scarred and he was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and prescribed a strict regimen of pills to keep the condition at bay. Thom would grow up to his abilities as a Legionnaire. Though he would be voted out of the Legion after killing a man in self-defense, Starman would return and redeem himself during something known as the "Legion of 3 Worlds"

It was then that the three Braniac-5's would send him back to the 21st century cloaked in a suit that doubles as a map of the Multiverse. Tasked with using his abilities of worm hole travel to complete an unmentionable task, Starman stands poisoned on the verge of completing his mission. Although without the crutch of insanity he finds himself unsure as to whether or not he can carry out his objectives.

Finishing packing up his things, Starman requests some help from his doctor. He needs a recommendation for some kind of job... and a shovel.