Vol. 35The Merlin Pursuit

Su Ming uncovered Desaad’s role in attacks across worlds, brought down Vought’s Clone Superman scheme, and pursued Darkseid and Merlin through multiple universes. The volume ended with Su Ming questioning Pennywise in Derry Town after saving George from the sewer.

  • Lorna and Su Ming’s team traced the attacks to Doctor Bedlam, and Deathstroke trapped Bedlam while Batwoman captured his spirit.
  • Su Ming accepted Lex Luthor’s support and entered a new Multiversal System with Lorna and Bobo.
  • Su Ming recruited Annie January and exposed Vought’s crimes, while Vought’s Clone Supermen killed Homelander and were defeated.
  • Su Ming and Bobo found Desaad’s cloning factory in the Cretaceous Period, where cloned Supermen and Deathstrokes ambushed them.
  • Su Ming killed Desaad and learned that Darkseid occupied a boxed multiverse, then returned to Earth-0 and assigned investigations to the Justice League.
  • Su Ming rescued Peipei in the Dark Tower Multiverse, killed a duplicate of Marden, and declared the start of his game with Merlin.
  • Su Ming and Magik distributed Compound V as Deep Sea Fish Oil to Mist survivors and then traveled through a glowing passage to Derry Town.
  • Su Ming stopped Pennywise from taking George and questioned the creature about its nature, Roland, and the Dark Tower.
Chapters 3405–3504 Read from ch. 3405

Arc 137The Bedlam Maze

Deathstroke and his allies defeated Doctor Bedlam, restored Earth’s electricity, and traced the attacks to clones created by Desaad using Lex Luthor’s technology. Su Ming accepted Luthor’s help and traveled with Lorna and Bobo into a new Multiversal System to investigate another Earth.

  • Lorna and Su Ming’s team traveled to Antarctica, where Polaris hurled the Liquid Metal Robots into space and Su Ming identified Doctor Bedlam as the enemy behind the cloaked Floating City.
  • Su Ming led Deathstroke, Batwoman, Lorna, and Detective Chimp through Doctor Bedlam’s maze, where they fought a Black Diamond golem and endured Bobo’s complaints about the attraction.
  • Deathstroke trapped Doctor Bedlam in the maze, and Batwoman stabbed him with Black Diamond, capturing his spirit while Strangle confirmed his host was brain-dead.
  • Detective Chimp stabilized the Floating City by experimenting with Doctor Bedlam’s Father Box, and Batwoman reported that Earth’s power and communications had returned.
  • Su Ming and his allies examined the attackers’ remains and learned that Desaad had dispatched clones to target Poison Ivy, while a strange beetle suggested a connection beyond Earth.
  • Lex Luthor admitted that his Superman-cloning technology had enabled Darkseid’s clones, then offered Su Ming transportation and support in exchange for New Gods samples and Liquid Metal Robots.
  • Lorna fashioned Black Matter armor from Liquid Metal and salvaged materials, and Luthor brought the group to Divinity before Su Ming, Lorna, and Bobo entered a new Multiversal System.
  • Su Ming, Lorna, and Bobo encountered a curious runner on the new Earth, then left in a reinforced limousine as the Adjutant began teleporting them toward their scanned destination.
Chapters 3405–3429 Summaries Read

Arc 138The Fall of Vought

Su Ming recruited Starlight, exposed Vought International’s corruption, and destroyed its plans to replace The Seven with Clone Supermen. After Desaad escaped to the Cretaceous Period, Su Ming and Bobo pursued him to a cloning factory, where Desaad’s forces appeared to be waiting in a trap.

  • Su Ming recruited Annie January for Sky Dome Group, and Homelander attacked her helicopter before Su Ming reflected his Heat Vision and showed Annie evidence of Vought’s crimes.
  • Su Ming and Bobo targeted The Seven, incapacitating Saturn Hunter, Translucent, Queen Maeve, The Deep, and Lamplighter, while Vought’s press conference descended into scandal.
  • Vought introduced Clone Superman as a replacement for The Seven, but Strangle killed a board member and Su Ming spread footage of the company’s crimes online.
  • The Clone Supermen killed Homelander, and Su Ming confronted Desaad at Vought’s ruins before Desaad escaped through a Boom Tube.
  • Su Ming and Strangle killed the remaining Clone Supermen, while Bobo and Cloak returned with A-Train’s head and Su Ming welcomed Polaris and Starlight.
  • Su Ming left Polaris to support Starlight and traveled with Bobo to the Cretaceous Period, where they located Desaad’s underground cloning factory.
  • Cloned Supermen and hundreds of cloned Deathstrokes attacked Su Ming and Bobo in the cave, but Su Ming turned the attacks back and suspected Desaad had prepared a trap.
Chapters 3430–3454 Summaries Read

Arc 139The Dark Tower’s Game

Su Ming killed Desaad and pursued leads on Darkseid, then entered the Dark Tower Multiverse to investigate Merlin’s influence. After finding a stranded girl and killing a duplicate of Marden, he declared the start of his game with Merlin.

  • Su Ming defeated Desaad, learned from his memories that Darkseid occupied a boxed multiverse, and returned to Earth-0.
  • Su Ming met with the Justice League and assigned investigations into Cyborg’s Mother Box, Grail, Desaad’s memories, and Constantine’s disappearance.
  • Su Ming visited Ozymandias in Kahndaq, used a Tachyon Emitter to summon Doctor Manhattan, and learned that the true Darkseid had transcended human understanding.
  • Darkseid remade Psycho-Pirate after explaining that the apparent realm beyond the universe was only part of the sentence “Darkseid Is.”
  • Su Ming traveled to the Dark Tower Multiverse, fought Super Mutants, and rescued Peipei, a girl transported from 1998 Earth.
  • Su Ming brought Peipei to Gilead, left her supplies, and reasoned that Merlin had used her to draw him into the multiverse’s events.
  • Su Ming recruited Magik and went to find Marden, whom he suspected was part of Merlin’s trap.
  • Su Ming killed Marden with laughing gas, discovered that he was a physical duplicate, and announced the start of his game with Merlin.
Chapters 3455–3479 Summaries Read

Arc 140Mist, Fish Oil, and Pennywise

Su Ming and Magik crossed strange worlds while searching for doors and clues to Merlin’s plans, using the Mist-bound town to distribute Compound V as Deep Sea Fish Oil. They entered Derry Town, where Su Ming stopped Pennywise from taking George and began questioning the creature about its nature and the Dark Tower.

  • Su Ming and Magik searched the Overlook Hotel for hidden rooms, found Constantine, and used his spell to reach Room 217, where Constantine drove off Jack’s frozen zombie.
  • Su Ming and Magik passed through the Door of Light, found a deserted hamlet and a windmill containing Northern Central Positronic Group technology, then emerged into a storm and Mist in the wrong world.
  • Su Ming and Magik fought the Mist’s dog-spider monsters and reached a barricaded supermarket, where Scarlett refused them entry until a manager offered supplies in exchange for medicine.
  • Su Ming secretly substituted diluted Compound V for medicine, and David, his family, and other survivors gained superhuman abilities after drinking it as Deep Sea Fish Oil.
  • Su Ming sent the survivors out into the Mist with directions to seek more fish oil, then ordered the Adjutant to distribute billions of doses across North America.
  • Magik found a glowing passage behind a supermarket cold-storage door, and she and Su Ming emerged in Derry Town, where a newspaper warned of heavy rain and flooding.
  • Su Ming and Magik followed George to a sewer, where Pennywise tried to lure him with his paper boat and a balloon, but Su Ming seized Pennywise and sent George home.
  • Su Ming and Magik questioned Pennywise in a secluded grove, where he claimed to be Derry Town and death, mentioned Roland, and transformed into a giant spider while describing how adults’ dark fantasies made them easy to manipulate.
Chapters 3480–3504 Summaries Read
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