Chapter Summaries

Andrew questioned Loki about how he had entered this universe and learned that Loki’s connection to its God of Lies might be tied to a mastermind causing worlds to merge. Andrew altered the God of Lies’ Divine Kingdom and erased Loki’s memories of their discussion, leaving Loki to carry on as usual with the Evil God Mask’s reluctant cooperation.

• Andrew summoned Loki through the Evil God Mask and knocked Barbara and Poison Ivy unconscious while wiping their memories.
• Loki said he had awakened in the God of Lies’ body without knowing how he arrived in the universe, and Andrew explained that worlds were merging and transferring their disasters into the larger universe.
• Andrew suspected another, unusually powerful Loki might be behind the world fusion and asked Loki to help investigate the mastermind.
• Loki revealed that the God of Lies’ Divine Kingdom was ruined, and Andrew sent his Grim Reaper clone to alter it before erasing Loki’s and the mask’s memories.
• Andrew told Loki to act as usual and let him cooperate with the Evil God Mask, then returned the mask to Poison Ivy.

Andrew revealed that he had become Mechanical Trigon, spared Raven and Zatanna, and invited them to help build a Steel City in Hell. After reviewing his gains from the battle, he went to Gotham as the city began reconstruction and the President announced a new agency to handle Mythological Monsters.

• Mechanical Trigon tricked Raven with an illusion of his injuries, then trapped her and Zatanna in black mud and threatened to make them help destroy the world.
• Zatanna opened a Gate of Hell to call Andrew Wang for help, but Andrew told Trigon to have fun, revealing that Mechanical Trigon was Andrew in disguise and on their side.
• Mechanical Trigon freed Raven and Zatanna, asked Raven to help build a new city in Hell, and agreed to teach both women as potential Subordinate Gods.
• Zatanna explained that she had joined the Justice League to ask Andrew to rescue her missing father, and Andrew promised to help in a few years.
• Andrew reviewed his gains, including Mechanical Trigon, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Rock of Eternity, and a Curse that would keep Chthon out of the Universe, then headed to Gotham for a reconstruction meeting.
• The President arrived in Gotham, comforted citizens, and announced an Argus-managed agency to deal with Mythological Monsters.

Batman learned that Hell’s Demon Kings were preparing to invade Earth and began studying Mechanical Superman technology after refusing Trigon’s untested training systems. Meanwhile, Andrew and Diana visited the Miu Star people’s island, where Diana wondered how they had made it feel so alive.

• Batman toured Steel City and discovered Mechanical Trigon was mass-producing troops with materials from Darkseid and the Parallel Universe.
• Mechanical Trigon told Batman that the Demon Kings would launch an all-out assault on Earth before the year ended, while Maze explained Lucifer had left Hell and was now on Earth.
• Mechanical Trigon offered Batman several untested enhancement systems, but Batman refused them and chose to study Mechanical Superman technology at the Academy of Sciences.
• More than a month after the Grim Reaper’s worship took root in Narnia, the Miu Star people rebuilt their home on an island while Aslan regained divine power.
• Andrew and Diana visited the Miu Star island, and Diana asked the Miu Star Prince how he had made the island feel alive.

Andrew and Diana established plans for a pearl research partnership with the Miu Star people, then traveled to the Watchmen World. They arrived amid escalating nuclear tensions and encountered Rorschach as he investigated The Comedian’s death.

• Andrew asked the King of Miu Star to restore his cloned Transformation Beasts, and the king agreed in exchange for half of them and a promise that Andrew would make no more clones.
• Andrew and the King of Miu Star agreed to establish a Pearl Research Center to develop Pearl Weapons, with Andrew also offering help locating the Miu Star people's souls.
• Andrew and Diana stayed in Narnia, where Diana told Andrew she wanted to remain his only woman in that universe.
• Andrew sensed the Watchmen World forming as a subsidiary universe and took Diana there through the Inter-Universe Portal.
• Andrew and Diana learned from a newspaper that the Doomsday Clock stood five minutes to midnight and saw a magazine feature about Doctor Manhattan.
• Andrew recognized Rorschach on the street and explained that he was investigating the recent death of The Comedian, whom police had called a suicide.

Andrew and Diana went to meet Doctor Manhattan while seeking a way to prevent nuclear war. Doctor Manhattan realized they came from another universe and activated the research center’s defenses, intending to drive them out.

• Andrew gave Rorschach a coin, and Rorschach dismissed him as a naïve rich kid in his diary.
• Andrew and Diana discussed the illegal status of superheroes and agreed to seek Doctor Manhattan’s help preventing nuclear war.
• Doctor Manhattan told Second Silk Spectre that the future had completely vanished after Rorschach left, then sent Rorschach away after he asked about The Comedian’s murder.
• Andrew and Diana approached the research center, and Doctor Manhattan had the soldiers welcome them inside; Rorschach followed them back into the facility.
• Doctor Manhattan identified Andrew and Diana as visitors from another universe and activated the research center’s defenses to confront them.

Andrew and Diana met Doctor Manhattan and offered to help prevent nuclear war, but he rejected them and tried to remove their projections. After they escaped, Doctor Manhattan warned King Pharaoh about them, while Andrew and Diana considered how to stop the looming war.

• Rorschach triggered an alarm at the research center and fled from the guards as Andrew and Diana met Doctor Manhattan.
• Doctor Manhattan refused Andrew and Diana's help, insisting that the future was predestined and threatening to imprison or kill them if they stayed.
• Diana's Mirage Magic projections vanished under Doctor Manhattan's gravity field, and a Quantum Bomb hidden in Andrew's projection exploded before Manhattan could track them.
• Doctor Manhattan told King Pharaoh about the visitors and urged him to find them, while King Pharaoh continued preparing his plan to avert nuclear war.
• Andrew and Diana reunited with the fleeing Rorschach, and Andrew explained that the United States and Soviet Union's nuclear weapons could destroy the world if war broke out within days.

Andrew and Diana agreed to help Rorschach investigate the Comedian’s murder and find a way to protect the world from nuclear war. After reconstructing the killing, they summoned the Comedian’s soul, while Doctor Manhattan sensed something amiss and examined fate.

• Diana diverted Rorschach’s pursuers with a phantom, and Andrew and Diana explained that they had come from another universe to help save the world.
• Andrew described a plan to protect ordinary people from war using an inexhaustible energy source and a willing superhero, and Rorschach offered to help investigate the Comedian’s murder.
• At the Comedian’s apartment, Andrew used a device to reconstruct the killing and revealed that a powerful figure had defeated the Comedian and thrown him from the window.
• Andrew offered magic as another investigative method, and Rorschach chose to summon the Comedian’s soul with Andrew’s Soul Summoning Mirror.
• As a figure appeared in the mirror, Doctor Manhattan sensed something was wrong and examined fate.

Andrew and Diana summoned The Comedian to learn who killed him, but Doctor Manhattan ended the questioning and challenged them on Mars. While Diana fought Doctor Manhattan, Rorschach visited Nite Owl II and learned that Laurey planned to break up with Doctor Manhattan.

• Rorschach questioned The Comedian about his murder, but The Comedian would not name his killer and asked whether the others would sacrifice a few to save many.
• Doctor Manhattan shattered the mirror, sent Rorschach away, and confronted Andrew and Diana over their attempt to change the universe’s fate.
• Doctor Manhattan transported Andrew and Diana to Mars, where Diana attacked him while Andrew watched and brewed tea.
• Rorschach visited Nite Owl II and found him with Second Silk Spectre after they had fought the Knot-Head Gang.
• Laurey told Rorschach she planned to break up with Doctor Manhattan because they saw the world differently and he would not prevent a future nuclear war.

As nuclear war threatened, Rorschach, Nite Owl II, and Second Silk Spectre suspected King Pharaoh was behind The Comedian’s murder and Doctor Manhattan’s disappearance. On Mars, Second Silk Spectre urged Doctor Manhattan’s duplicate to help save Earth and investigate King Pharaoh, while Diana continued fighting Doctor Manhattan.

• After the President threatened retaliation, King Pharaoh received Doctor Manhattan’s completed reactor at the Antarctic Base and ordered his staff to extract its energy, planning to silence everyone involved afterward.
• Rorschach showed Nite Owl II and Second Silk Spectre a simulation that made King Pharaoh look like The Comedian’s killer, and they set out to find him.
• Nite Owl II and Second Silk Spectre donned their costumes and joined Rorschach aboard the airship, but discovered King Pharaoh was in Antarctica.
• A government official told Second Silk Spectre that Doctor Manhattan had vanished after a woman accused him of causing cancer, part of King Pharaoh’s plan to remove him from Earth.
• Doctor Manhattan’s duplicate appeared and took Second Silk Spectre away to talk, while Rorschach and Nite Owl II flew toward Antarctica to find King Pharaoh.
• On Mars, Second Silk Spectre urged Doctor Manhattan’s duplicate to help save Earth and investigate King Pharaoh, as Diana continued fighting Doctor Manhattan.

Andrew disrupted Doctor Manhattan’s personality and gave him a chance to choose humanity, then hurried with the others to stop King Pharaoh’s plan to destroy five cities. Rorschach and Nite Owl II infiltrated the Antarctic Base and uncovered evidence of the planned attacks.

• Doctor Manhattan restored Second Silk Spectre’s buried memories, and Andrew used a device to roll his personality back to his earlier, more human self.
• Andrew returned Second Silk Spectre to age eighteen and learned from his communicator that King Pharaoh planned to kill tens of millions of people.
• Doctor Manhattan took Andrew and the others to the Antarctic Base after they agreed to deal with King Pharaoh.
• King Pharaoh prepared five quantum-energy devices for detonation in major cities and intended to blame Doctor Manhattan for the destruction.
• Rorschach and Nite Owl II infiltrated the Antarctic Base, where Rorschach used Andrew’s bead to hack a computer and reveal the attack plan.

King Pharaoh revealed his plan to destroy five major cities to prevent nuclear war, and the Watchmen split over whether to stop him. Doctor Manhattan sided with King Pharaoh and demanded the others stand down, leaving Diana and Rorschach ready to fight.

• King Pharaoh admitted killing The Comedian and fought Rorschach and Nite Owl II after revealing that the five devices were bombs.
• Andrew and the group from Mars arrived, but King Pharaoh used a tachyon weapon to destroy Doctor Manhattan’s body and the lynx before Manhattan reconstructed himself.
• Diana subdued King Pharaoh with the Lasso of Truth, and he explained that he planned to sacrifice tens of millions of people to unite humanity against a common enemy.
• Nite Owl II and Second Silk Spectre withdrew, while Doctor Manhattan stopped Rorschach’s shots, freed King Pharaoh, and ordered the others to leave and keep the plan secret.
• Diana challenged King Pharaoh to continue their fight, and Rorschach vowed to expose the plan if it succeeded.

Diana used her War Domain to battle Doctor Manhattan while Andrew moved the reactor and gave Rorschach an optimized doomsday serum after King Pharaoh shot him. Rorschach killed King Pharaoh and repeatedly evolved after Doctor Manhattan injured him, then broke free from a wall as Manhattan tried to annihilate him.

• Diana raised a War Domain that strengthened her and restricted Doctor Manhattan’s abilities, then led an army of war aura against him.
• Andrew teleported Doctor Manhattan’s reactor, while King Pharaoh disarmed Rorschach and shot him after he refused to compromise.
• Andrew offered Rorschach a serum, and Rorschach accepted; the coin dissolved into his body and awakened the doomsday gene.
• Rorschach survived King Pharaoh’s bullets and killed him with Heat Vision, then charged Doctor Manhattan and evolved through repeated injuries.
• Doctor Manhattan exploded Rorschach and sealed him inside a wall, but Rorschach regenerated, broke free, and attacked again as Manhattan sent converging energy waves to destroy him.

Rorschach grew stronger by repeatedly fighting Doctor Manhattan’s duplicate while Diana and Andrew put their plan to save the world into action. Andrew revealed that nuclear war had already begun and that Diana’s War Space had contained it, leaving the United States and the Soviet Union to continue fighting safely inside it.

• Diana helped Rorschach attack Doctor Manhattan’s duplicate, and Rorschach evolved new powers as he survived hundreds of lethal assaults.
• Andrew told Diana that nuclear war had already started, while she realized she had unknowingly helped save the world.
• Andrew used Diana’s image to announce the War Space, which diverted the missiles and warships into the Mirror Dimension and prevented the nuclear exchange from harming reality.
• People praised Diana as the Goddess of Salvation, and her reputation and strength grew as she gained the world’s favor.
• The United States and the Soviet Union sent forces into the War Space, while Andrew explained that Rorschach needed an enemy and Doctor Manhattan needed defeat to regain his humanity.
• Andrew promised to transfer control of the War Space to Diana so she could study war force and improve her strength.

Diana and Rorschach defeated Doctor Manhattan, breaking his divinity, and Andrew helped restore him to human form. With the fighters reunited and the nuclear threat still unresolved, Andrew offered to explain his plan.

• Diana joined Rorschach in fighting Doctor Manhattan while Andrew and the others salvaged equipment from the Antarctic Base.
• Rorschach grew powerful enough to resist Doctor Manhattan’s quantum attacks and struck down his true body.
• Doctor Manhattan conceded defeat, and Rorschach collapsed from mental exhaustion after dying and reviving over a thousand times.
• Second Silk Spectre helped Doctor Manhattan, who promised to live and think as a human and let fate go.
• Andrew gave Doctor Manhattan a device that restored his human form and stabilized his divinity sickness.
• Rorschach asked Andrew for his plan to stop nuclear war, and Andrew offered one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

Andrew and Diana helped avert nuclear annihilation by establishing the War Space, where nations could fight without endangering civilians. After spending more than two months in that world, Andrew returned to the DC Universe while Diana stayed behind to train, and he found Tony Stark nearing completion of his Anti-Demon King Battle Suit.

• Doctor Manhattan confirmed that nuclear war had begun but that Diana’s War Domain and the War Space had saved the world.
• Andrew tasked Rorschach with maintaining the War Space, and Rorschach agreed to oversee its reactor and train there.
• Andrew and Diana traveled while Doctor Manhattan chose an ordinary life with Second Silk Spectre; Rorschach and Nite Owl II remained behind.
• More than two months later, Andrew prepared to return to the DC Universe, while Diana decided to stay and train in the War Space until the final battle.
• Andrew returned to Narnia World and found Tony Stark working obsessively on the Pearl Weapon and his nearly finished Anti-Demon King Battle Suit.

Andrew learned that Anubis was reviving and planned to turn Earth into a Divine Kingdom, so the Grim Reaper clone asked him to investigate and control events. Andrew went to Egypt, where he joined Evelyn and Jonathan in their search for City of the Dead and its Book of the Dead.

• Andrew learned from the Grim Reaper clone that Anubis might revive, reclaim part of the Grim Reaper’s Godhood, and raise an army on Earth.
• Andrew agreed to investigate Anubis’s tomb and considered capturing Imhotep and the Scorpion King, then returned to Earth and found the superheroes training for the coming battle.
• Andrew teleported to Egypt and found Evelyn and Jonathan trying to bargain with a warden for O’Connell’s release.
• Andrew predicted that the warden’s crimes would be exposed, and the warden’s superior called moments later to confirm it.
• Andrew offered to free O’Connell in exchange for joining Evelyn and Jonathan’s expedition to City of the Dead, where he intended to find the Book of the Dead.

Andrew traveled by yacht toward the City of the Undead with Evelyn, O'Connell, and Jonathan, then captured men in black who had boarded to kill him. Their leader, Adesbay, claimed the attack was meant to save the world, and Andrew ordered O'Connell to question him.

• Evelyn asked Andrew how he freed O'Connell, and Andrew joked that he could predict her future, including a marriage to O'Connell.
• O'Connell joined Andrew and Evelyn and agreed to help find the Book of the Dead beneath the Grim Reaper statue in the City of the Undead.
• Jonathan tried to steal from Andrew, got bitten by a harmless snake, and was left anxiously standing still while Evelyn and O'Connell played along with Andrew's prank.
• Adesbay and his men in black climbed aboard the yacht, but Andrew's Armed Robots and drones forced them to surrender.
• Andrew ordered his robots to restrain the intruders, then stopped them from throwing Adesbay into the river when Adesbay claimed he had come to kill them to save the world.

Andrew learned that the Tomb Keeper clan had attacked O'Connell's expedition to keep Imhotep sealed, but he insisted on going to the City of the Undead to retrieve the Book of the Dead and stop another group. As Andrew's party set out by vehicle, Benny guided Hafiz and his red-scarved men toward the same destination.

• O'Connell recognized Adesbay as the man who had led the attack on his earlier expedition, and Andrew had him taken to the cabin.
• Adesbay explained Imhotep's history, the Scarab Punishment, and why his clan had guarded the City of the Undead; Evelyn refused to return the key.
• Andrew learned that Benny was leading another group toward the city and decided to go there with Adesbay's men to stop them and obtain the Book of the Dead.
• Andrew's party went ashore, bought vehicles, and drove toward the City of the Undead, while Jonathan wondered whether Andrew could become his wealthy brother-in-law.
• Hafiz, the British Museum curator, traveled with Benny and a woman toward the city, and Benny asked him for the promised payment.

The Curator’s armed expedition reached the City of the Undead to find Imhotep’s coffin, while Andrew and his allies rushed to stop them. Evelyn recovered memories confirming she was the Pharaoh’s daughter, and The Curator sent mechanical spiders into the tomb to search for coffins.

• The Curator, Nath, and Benny reached the City of the Undead, where The Curator’s forces drove off the Tomb Keeper clan with armored vehicles and soldiers in Exoskeleton Armor.
• Adesbay told Andrew that The Curator’s group had reached the city and was likely searching for Imhotep’s coffin, so Andrew revealed that he had more than a hundred Armed Robots.
• Andrew tapped Evelyn’s forehead with a hammer, breaking her mental barrier and restoring memories that confirmed she was the reincarnation of the Pharaoh’s daughter.
• Andrew gave O’Connell and Adesbay helmets to control Armed Robots, and they led the robots toward the City of the Undead.
• The Curator’s group opened a passage underground, and The Curator deployed mechanical spiders to search the tomb for coffins.

The Curator and Nath used alien technology to locate Ardeth Bay’s coffin and resurrected him, while O’Connell’s group watched the events through a tablet. Evelyn regained her former fighting skills through a memory, and the story left the two groups preparing to clash over the books and the newly awakened high priest.

• The Curator used tiny scouting spiders to find a golden chest and Ardeth Bay’s sealed iron chest, then had mercenaries open the golden chest and take seven jars.
• The Curator revealed that the iron chest was protected by magic, scattered his men, and began a spell as Imhotep Bay and Si Yimo arrived and attacked.
• The Curator’s spell struck the iron chest with lightning, and Ardeth Bay climbed out of his coffin while Nath and the Curator celebrated his resurrection.
• Ardeth Bay attacked the mercenaries who had taken his organs, but his damaged body proved too weak to withstand the Armed Robots’ gunfire.
• O’Connell watched the battle through a tablet, while Evelyn regained her former-life fighting skills and learned that she was meant to retrieve the Book of the Sun, not the White Book of the Dead.
• Shi Zhonglan and Si Yimo moved to attack The Curator, while the Tomb Keeper clan’s cavalry charged toward the battlefield.