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The Mist rises in New Gotham as Batman takes on this strange new foe! And Hawkgirl finds herself outnumbered as she confronts Fury and the new Amazons.

"In the wake of their devastating war with Apokolips, 12 ships of survivors have a chance to rebuild Earth-2 on a twin planet--but the fight isn't over. The chance to take control of a fledgling society is a tempting proposition for a swarm of new super-villains and internal threats, and the heroes of this new world must rely on one another to secure its promising future. How will Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkgirl and their allies rebuild an all-new society?"--

In this series finale, a new dawn rises on Earth-2. After a terrible struggle, the Wonders have restored their world, better than ever. Can they become the new heroes and caretakers the reborn planet needs to protect it from future threats? And what of the price they paid for peaceÑwhat is the final fate of the Earth-2 Batman and his legacy?

"Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family."

Earth 2: an alternate reality where the Crime Syndicate of Amerika, made up of the world's gravest super-villains, holds absolute power.

A new menace rises to threaten the fragile order the Wonders struggle to maintain. Emboldened by Green LanternÕs loss of power, the Ultrahumanite emerges from the shadows with an army of super-powered slaves. His goal is nothing less than reforming Earth-2 in his vision, utilizing the Amazonian technology that Fury had hoped to use to rebuild a better world.

Since the dawn of the Space Age, small cohorts of humanity have broadcast signals towards other stars, fabricated "space-time capsules" to "speak for Earth" aboard interstellar probes, deposited collections of "space oddities" on other astronomical bodies, and permanently incised the memory of our species across the deep-time legacy of the Sol System. Many of these purposeful "messages" are the consequence of age-old behaviors, traditions, and material practices using modern aerospace technologies. Most attempt to preserve narratives of human experience in social exchange devices for imagined, exotic audiences. Looking back upon this accumulative history of "messaging from Earth", how do we begin to interpret such an eclectic portrait of Earth for ourselves? Surveying and cataloguing the variety of these artifacts through a series of interdisciplinary essays and visual documentation, this volume chronicles our changing relationships, customs, and assumptions made within this material culture for our own eyes. What do these autobiographical accounts tell us about Terrans and our minds, set against the backdrop of our planetary history?