Tanker trucks scattered like children’s toys at Christmas, the fallen power lines crackling blue-white energy across shimmering pools of volatile gasoline. The sparks lit the fuel and the flames spread too quick for the Oddities to combat them. The ensuing blast rocked the street, shattering windows and sending deadly shards flying like shrapnel.

“Arrrrgh!” The mighty arms of Jungle Jim tore a manhole cover from the ground, using it as a massive shield to bear the brunt of the explosion. He grit his teeth against the shower of glass and cursed in the tongue of his people. Somewhere, the voice of the Disconnected Man boomed above the chaos.

<< JIM! THE CREATURE! >>

The mighty genius neanderthal saw the creature and before his mind could grasp the enormity and horror of it, Jim launched the manhole cover like a giant discus. The iron plate cut through the air and hit the creature in the throat with a resounding CLANG! and yet… and yet the CREATURE DID NOT DIE!

“Why won’t it die?” asked Drake Mallard, aka the Deadly Duck. He stood bare-chested in the street, flaming motes of debris from the blast raining down like hot snowflakes only to hiss against his personal force field. The Insomiac looked on, aghast.. “It’s the Creature That Didn’t Die!” he exclaimed from under his mask. The eldest member of the Oddities, the tireless avenger knew much about the creature, save for its mysterious vulnerability… the one thing on Earth that could defeat it!

<< I AM RESEARCHING THE WEAKNESS NOW ON THE QUINARY COMPUTER >> The Disconnected Man’s presence announced. He spoke to his team through a complicated ear piece he designed back in his lab on the Alter-Earth where he resided. Here, he was just a disembodied voice. But his intellect was such that even a parallel dimension could not keep him from assisting his comrades.

And what of the Creature That Didn’t Die? Well, dear readers… that would be telling!