pencil: Chris Weston

story: Mark Millar

inks: Garry Leach

colors: David Baron & Wildstorm fx

New York is completely submerged by the tidal wave and the Authority can only save a limited number of people.
Soon after, a volcano erupts in the heart of San Francisco, causing more casualties.
When they finally have a moment of calm, they try to find out who is behind those disasters.
Midnighter speaks with the former Doctor in prison and discovers that it is the Earth itself that wants to destroy humanity.

pencil: Sean Phillips

story: Joe Casey

colors: Dan Brown

VooDoo begins shopping in Miami with Halo's credit card, attracting the attention of Smith, Marlowe's serial killer.
A pair of agents from the National Park Service are investigating the serial killer.
Voodoo is picked up by Smith in a shopping mall.

pencil: Cully Hammer

story: Warren Ellis

inks: Karl Story

colors: Brian Stelfreeze

Jack Hawksmoor vents his anxieties by running from one city to another.

pencil: Brian Stelfreeze

story: Brian Azzarello

inks: Karl Story

colors: Brian Stelfreeze

Zealot faces two gangs of thugs, in different eras: one in feudal Japan, where she demonstrates her samurai skills, the other in the present, where she uses martial arts.

pencil: Georges Jeanty

story: Paul Jenkins

inks: Karl Story

colors: Brian Stelfreeze

Engineer suffers from loneliness and is sexually repressed, due to her powers.
She tries to talk to Midnighter about it, but he ignores her.
After trying to have sex with an overweight Mexican man, who runs away as soon as she returns to liquid form, she has to settle for masturbation.