Comic Title: Cosmic Odyssey #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: August 30, 1988 Shipping Date August 30, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #7

Shipping Date September 1, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Copyright Date October 4, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $3.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Disaster"
Pages: 48

Feature(s):
New Gods (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Jim Starlin
Penciller: Mike Mignola
Inker: Carlos Garzon
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Steve Oliff

Reprinted In:
Cosmic Odyssey TPB (1992)
Cosmic Odyssey:The Deluxe Edition HC (2017)
Green Lantern:John Stewart – A Celebration of 50 Years HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• New Gods (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Orion (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Lightray (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Highfather (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Forager (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)

Guest Star(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Batman (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• John Stewart (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Starfire (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Adam Strange (last appearance in Millennium #8; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Demon (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)

Villain(s)

• Darkseid (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• The anti-life entity (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)
• Several Thanagarian warriors (next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #3)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Jason Blood (last appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #602)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #425; next appearance in Batman #426)
• Sardath (last appearance in Swamp Thing #58; next appearance in Invasion #1)
• Alanna (last appearance in Swamp Thing #58; next appearance in Invasion #1)

Other Character(s)

• The inhabitants of Xanshi (die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Jason Blood and Etrigan are united once again in this story.

This story is continued from Cosmic Odyssey #1 and continues in Cosmic Odyssey #3.

Synopsis:
Four teams of heroes have been dispatched to four separate worlds in order to stop the anti-life entity from destroying the universe. On Thanagar, Superman and Orion find that the entity is using mind control to turn the winged warriors against them. On the planet Rann, the people have been struck by waves of incredible madness. Adam Strange the hero of Rann remains unaffected likely due to his Earthly origins. Starfire and Lightray help him track down a bomb created by an aspect of the anti-life entity. Back on Earth, Batman outfits Forager with appropriate fighting gear. He then uses his intelligence network to track the anti-life entity aspect to Arizona.

Finally on the planet Xanshi, J'onn J'onzz and John Stewart find the people afflicted by a plague. John uses his power ring to whip up a cure. He then protects himself and J'onn from weather that has been altered by the entity. Overconfident in his power ring, John leaves J'onn behind only to discover that the entity knows the ring's weakness. The bomb which is about to destroy the planet is yellow. John is unable to stop it, and the planet Xanshi is engulfed in a fireball. The bomb turns the planet into anti-matter and it streaks from orbit into its sun. The collision effectively destroyed the entire solar system. John and J'onn survive, but the Martian Manhunter blames the Green Lantern for the destruction.

Back on New Genesis, Highfather and Darkseid inform Jason Blood that he must once again be joined to the demon Etrigan in order to save the universe. Blood concedes to his fate and merges with the now revitalized Demon.