JSA All-Stars! Because DC got it in their heads the market would support two JSA books! The team is trying to deal with a bunch of orphaned children who had been cared for by Brainwave Jr. in the nation of Parador. Except the kids have merged/evolved/been possessed by some ancient gods and come to Los Angeles to build a new temple. Power Girl tried to fight the lot of them by herself the issue before.
It did not go well. I know, a Kryptonian fighting magic, and it ended poorly? Go figure. Citizen Steel's attempt to come to the rescue got him smacked towards the ocean. Fortunately the rest of the team's able to catch him in their jet while Atom Smasher gets big and tries his hand at god-fighting.
Right about the time he's getting pummeled, Cyclone shows up, throwing whirlwinds around. She'd been feeling sick lately, which I think would be resolved in a few issues, and involve clones. The team's not really getting anywhere like this, and citizens at risk of being crushed as they rush to pray to these gods for the restoration of things they lost.
So Brainwave asks everyone on the team to think of something from their past they need to let go, and just, you know, do that. He takes the effect and somehow spreads it among the crowd, and it breaks the gods' hold. They shrink back down, but when Brainwave demands they return the kids, he finds out they are the kids. There's no going back. Uh-oh, sounds like someone's got a regret they need to let go of, but it's time for beach volleyball!
This was during the stretch when DC was doing back-up features in some of their books, and JSA All-Stars' involved Liberty Belle and Hourman chasing some "staff of life." They started in competition with Injustice Society members Tigress and Icicle, but they'd teamed up by this point.
There was someone else after the staff too, who could transform into a blue cloud? Blue flame? (Man, I do not remember any of this storyline.) Anyway, he turned solid long enough to try and stab Tigress, but Hourman took the hit instead. The blue cloud's guy dad has similar powers and manages to get the staff away, although the effort kills him. But the staff keeps Hourman alive to get treatment, and he sneaks it away later on to make sure Tigress doesn't have any complications having her and Icicle's kid.
[6th longbox, 70th comic. JSA All-Stars #11. "Apostasy: Glory Days Part 4", by Matthew Sturges (writer), Freddie Williams II (artist), Richard & Tanya Horie (colorist), Pat Brosseau (letterer). "The Inheritance: Pass It On", Jen van Meter (writer), Travis Moore (penciler), Dan Green (inker), Allen Passalaqua (colorist), Pat Brosseau (letterer)]
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