Robert Leroy Parker breaks his partner, Sundance, out of the Hub City Central Facility by posing as the murderer's lawyer and sneaking plastic guns past the metal detectors. Vic pursues them to the rooftop where they board helicopter. Vic tries to ride it out but loses his grip falls on an elderly man who was waiting for the Angel of Death to fall on him. The man dies but the reporter survives. Vic tracks Parker to Seattle, reading the Watchmen on the plane, and wondering what it would be like to be Rorshach. Before he goes Tot warns him about keeping his anger and curiosity under control. In a sleazy bar he meets a man who promises to help him. The man cold cocks in the head. Vic is taken up in the mountain where the man and his friend are under orders from Parker to kill him. He is saved by the timely arrival of Green Arrow.

This issue's recommended reading: Watchmen by Moore/Gibbons

Also out this month: The Killing Joke...