Grant
Morrison gives a Watchmen feel to his latest Multiversity issue Pax Americana. The first and last panel
begins and ends with the infinity symbol. The issue begins as the President is
assassinated by his own bodyguard Chris Smith the Peacemaker. The end of the
issue sees a young President kill his own father who was the superhero
Yellowjacket. The death of his father pushes him to build a superhero team led
by Captain Atom to redeem himself for killing father. We also find out Captain
Atom is missing for a year through an artificial black hole and Super-Hero has
become a dirty word. The Question tries to find out who killed Nora O’Rourke
who cracked Algorithm B the pattern that explains everything as well as trying
to find the answer of why Yellowjacket disappear. The idea of superheroes
failed a long time ago on Earth-4 which makes them succumb to the events in the
Multiversity. This issue is very dense and a different type of storytelling as
the climax is at both the beginning and end of the story.
