Comic Title: New Gods #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1989
On Sale Date: February 7, 1989 Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #158

Shipping Date February 9, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #1

Copyright Date February 14, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date February 9, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #85

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Tales of Times Past and Future"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Jim Starlin
Plotter/Penciller: Paris Cullins
Inker: Robert Lewis
Letterer: Robert M. Pinaha
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Reprinted In:
New Gods:Bloodlines TPB (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• New Gods (last appearance in New Gods #1; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Orion (last appearance in New Gods #1; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Highfather (last appearance in New Gods #1; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Lightray (last appearance in New Gods #1; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Metron (last appearance in New Gods #1; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Forager (as a corpse; last appearance in New Gods #1; no further appearances)

Supporting Character(s)

• Forager (II; a female replacement of the original Forager; next appearance in New Gods #3)

Villain(s)

• Mantis (last appearance in Warlord Annual #6; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• The Monitors (exterminators; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• All-Widow (leader of an insectoid race; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• Prime One (All-Widow's second-in-command; next appearance in New Gods #3)
• A race of insect men (Forager's people; no further appearances)
• Akarl (a friend of Orion; dies in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Orion (during a battle with the insect men; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in New Gods #19)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Darkseid (in flashback to the Pact)
• Scott Free (in flashback to the Pact)

Synopsis:
Orion returns the body of Forager to his people, a race of insect men. He stays for the funeral and gains a new respect for their people. He then meets with the All-Widow and Prime One, the leaders of the insect race. He tells them the history of the war between New Genesis and Apokolips.

Orion had once hated the insect men. One of their raiding parties had been responsible for killing his childhood friend Akarl. In retaliation, he single-handedly slaughtered the entire party. He now learns that the raiding party was provoked when insecticide was used against them. Orion comes to respect their people and even comes to their defense when they are attacked by the Monitors.