Manhunt

In every installment of Abandoned Love we will be examining comic book stories, plots and ideas that were abandoned by a later writer without actively retconnng away the previous story. Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature. Today, we look at how Martian Manhunter became part of Stormwatch and then, well, became NOT a part of Stormwatch. When DC launched the New 52 in 2011, one of the big parts of the company-wide reboot was that the characters from the Wildstorm Universe, who DC had acquired years earlier, were now integrated into the DC Universe as if they had always been a part of the DC Universe. One of the other major changes was that the entire DC Universe superhero history was roughly five years old and therefore, there really was no longer room for the original Teen Titans AND a current group of Teen Titans, let alone an original Teen Titans, then a New Teen Titans and then the current Teen Titans, so DC deci

Big-game hunter and private detective Paul Kirk has marshaled his skills to fight crime as the masked vigilante known as Manhunter. But now crime has reached epidemic proportions that may push him to the limits—and draw the attention of the Golden Age heroes Sandman and Sandy! Plus: a short story featuring Etrigan the Demon by writer Sam Humphries and artist Klaus Janson and a Golden Age reprint.

Martian Manhunter tries to halt Marvin the Martian’s determination for world domination. J’onn is conflicted with his own Martian identity as he attempts to stop the hapless, determined Marvin from blowing Earth to bits in order to gain a clear view of Venus. And the bonus Looney Tunes backup story features DC characters written by Jim Fanning with art by John Loter!

With the Living Mars and Earth only minutes away from an apocalyptic collision, the epic story of J’onn J’onzz takes a shocking turn that will change the course of the Manhunter’s life forever.

A hero falls when the tyrant Ma’alefa’ak seizes upon the spirit of Mars itself in a last, desperate effort to escape the dying planet and conquer Earth, and not even the power of J’onn J’onzz may be able to save the people of two worlds from annihilation.