A four-issue limited series written by Jim Starlin, penciled by Mike Mignola and lettered by John Workman, it tells a story spanning the DC Universe[1] involving a wide variety of major characters including Superman, Batman, and the New Gods.

Darkseid then tells the group that Metron was trying to discover new information about the Anti-Life Equation when his mind was shattered and he became comatose.

Martian Manhunter probes Metron's mind to find out what he discovered and learns that the Anti-Life Equation is alive.

Metron tracked the flight paths of the four aspects and Darkseid tells the heroes that they are currently located on Earth, Rann, Thanagar and Xanshi.

Orion and Superman will go to Thanagar, Lightray and Starfire to Rann, Batman and Forager to Earth and The Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern to Xanshi.

Immediately upon arrival on Earth Batman makes a phone call to "a friend" requesting this unknown person keep an eye on Darkseid.

In Book Two: Disaster, Superman and Orion arrive on Thanagar where they are met with force - the Anti-Life Aspect has seized control of the Thanagarians' minds.

As they head to confront the Aspect, it creates a hurricane in their path and strikes J'onn with a bolt of lightning, destroying the Anti-Life Catcher weapon built by Darkseid.

Martian Manhunter finds Green Lantern on a piece of rock in space and tells him: "Thanks to your arrogance and stupidity, I have now seen two worlds die.

Meanwhile on New Genesis, Darkseid and Highfather reveal that Jason Blood must reunite with Etrigan to secure the barrier between dimensions.

In Book Three: Decisions, Lightray and Starfire receive word about Xanshi while caring for the injured Adam Strange.

Starfire, who was feigning injury, suddenly flies up and grabs Lightray while the fiery flight emission she produces ignites the Aspect, blowing it and the bomb up before it had a chance to arm itself.

Orion will proceed ahead and keep the Thanagarians busy while Superman burrows beneath the ground in order to sneak in.

Instead, he finds that Orion has killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of Thanagarians for Superman to fight the Aspect without distraction.

Forager suspects that the Aspect will be using a dead Gotham City police officer as a host, but Batman disagrees.

Fate saves Darkseid and Etrigan, then combines their collective power and takes the fight straight to the Equation.

A huge explosion occurs and Fate, Highfather, Orion, Etrigan and Darkseid all return to New Genesis, with the Equation unable to follow them.

The ring flies away and with tears in his eyes, John Stewart puts the gun to his head, while the Martian Manhunter watches from a distance.

Orion walks away and as the heroes prepare to return to Earth, they discover that Darkseid is missing as are the weapons that had the imprisoned Aspect within them.

On Apokolips, Darkseid shows DeSaad a small piece of pure Anti-Life and on New Genesis, Highfather instructs Orion to return Forager to the Insect Empire.