As the stakes and scope for Infinite Frontier begin to take shape, Mister Bones reveals he is working with a classic villain for his new mission.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Infinite Frontier #3, on sale now from DC.
While the Marvel Universe may have Nick Fury pulling the strings and working all the angles to keep his world’s greatest secrets safe, the DC Universe has seen Mister Bones and his role as the director of the D.E.O. take a similar, if slightly more sinister, path in recent years. Bones’ mission has since expanded to encompass the entire DC Multiverse since the reality-shaking events of Dark Nights: Death Metal and as the mysteries of the omniverse threat to upend life in the DCU, Bones has quietly gone into business with supervillains to further his own goals which may put him at direct odds with the DCU’s superhero community.
Ever since the start of the Infinite Frontier era, Bones has investigated some of the DC Multiverse’s biggest questions as alternate universes and divergent timelines begin to extend into a myriad of infinite directions. And in Infinite Frontier #3 — by Joshua Williamson, Paul Pelletier, Jesus Merino, Tom Derenick, Xermanico, Norm Rapmund, Raul Fernandez, Romulo Fajardo, Jr. and Tom Napolitano — shows just how far Bones will go to get what he wants in keeping the DCU safe. And not only is Bones willing to work with supervillains but he is not above using superheroes as bait in order to lure their compatriots directly into his clutches, effectively making his morals even more questionable than Nick Fury.
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After an attack on the Justice Society of America’s headquarters and the disappearance of several of the Golden Age superhero team’s younger heroes, Alan Scott and his son Obsidian launched their own investigation into who was responsible for the attack. This led them to a bunker underneath Bludhaven, with the father-son duo discover that the D.E.O. staged the attack to lure additional heroes they could control right into an elaborate trap. This came at the heels of the revelation that D.E.O. operative Cameron Chase had apparently faked her own death as she began working for Bones once again.
And even apart from the ambushes Bones sets for superheroes, the D.E.O. director’s choice in partners is also quite questionable as the extent of the organization’s mission throughout the cosmos is revealed. Newly minted Black Lantern Roy Harper is picked up by a D.E.O. spaceship, resembling those found by Green Lantern and Obsidian in Bludhaven. Commanding the vessel is none other than Hal Jordan’s longtime antagonist Hector Hammond, with the supervillain more powerful and healthy than ever as he confirms he is now working for the D.E.O. And while Roy is welcomed aboard the spaceship at first, Hammond reveals that the mission he now shares with Bones has him hunt down any figures in the DCU from alternate universes or that upset the balance of nature by rising from the dead like Roy.
Now working for the D.E.O., Hector Hammond has just joined forces with Mister Bones, himself a supervillain before eventually finding redemption as a member of Infinity, Inc. However, just because the two characters are now presumably working towards the greater good of the DCU doesn’t mean they are just as manipulative and scheming as ever. Even during simpler times, Bones was not necessarily a figure to be trusted and now, with Bones’ mission and the lengths he will go in order to accomplish it fully revealed, the superhero community would do best to stand on guard facing the D.E.O.’s new direction.
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