Kids, they grow up so fast, right? One minute you’re watching them take their first steps and watching out for their welfare…the next, you’re watching them fire their first radioactive blasts and they’re protecting you from strangers. Superheroes have secret identities to protect their loved ones, but as you saw in an earlier preview, Firestorm is actually two dudes, and keeping their other lives private proves a lot harder when a parent is kidnapped by unknown parties. Something tells us there’s more than just Multiplex behind this crime.

Read our exclusive preview below, then find out the answer on Wednesday at your local comic book shop.

If you’re keeping count, this is the sixth cover where the villain is right behind the hero, but the first one where he could also be right in front of him.

That’s a lot of Kirby crackle.

When the police arrest supervillains, they must have some tool for unbending girders, right?

“So, do you two have a cute meeting story, or…oh REALLY? Hostage situation?”

Dont trust him! He used an ellipsis before he answered you!

When Multiplex gives himself orders, how does he establish a hierarchy of command?

Thanks, DC, for another cool preview! Go read the rest in The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #18, out on Wednesday

Whoa…we had this exact dream last night.

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