>>5970567>Pencils: Jim Lee. Inks: Scott Williams. Colors: Alex Sinclair.>Alt-Text: Comic panel of a close-up of Superman’s face. His eyes are glowing and ivy vines surround him.Dialogue Samples: Robert Kanigher. Grant Morrison.
SFX: <span class="mu-s">FWOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH!</span>
You grip tightly to your Bat-Superman Harness as you blast through the sky.
You prepped for this situation, but that's not the same as <span class="mu-s">feeling</span> it.
Superman: Doing okay, there?
Batman: Just fine. The park is below.
You land in a realm time forgot. The air is thick with oxygen and pollen. Vines coil across lamposts like lovers.
Concrete walkways are overgrown with lichen.
Superman: This place is incredible. I’m seeing cellular complexes I’ve only theorized about.
Ivy: I’m glad to find an admirer of my work.
An ethereal voice whispers through the branches. You feel it just as much as you hear it.
Batman: What are you doing here, Ivy?
Ivy: Saving the world. Like we’re supposed to. It's not enough to tear down the “civilization” that descecrated this planet. We have to build something better.
She reaches out and a fruit tree spawns from the soil.
Ivy: The Green speaks to me. I see through every stem. I hear through every flower. This city has fallen to darkness! While the bloody ones fight amongst themselves we all starve.
Batman: The city was falling to Chaos! The Covens and I had to…
Ivy: Covens? You’re working with those pillagers?
Superman: Maybe I should handle the talking. Dr. Ivy. We’re on your side. We want to save this city, too. Let’s work together.
Ivy: I…don’t know you. But we’ve <span class="mu-g">felt</span> you. Your warmth flows through our phytochromes.
Superman: You can trust us. I-what’s happening?
Vines crawl across his skin. Aerial roots snake through the primary colors of his alien outfit.
Superman: Rapid growing microflora. Clever. The park is so full of it, I didn’t notice the spores on me.
He’s calm but almost immobile. You reach for him and find your boots stuck to the floor.
Ivy: How do you like my lichen? I tried decades to perfect the Asterochloris blend in a lab. Now I can do it just by breathing.
You struggle in vain as the organism covers your suit. You look on as Ivy stares at Superman.
Ivy: You know, Batman, lichen is neither plant nor fungus. It is a fusion. The fungus provides protection and the algae nutrition. Combined life. We can do the same, Superman. I can feel the sun inside you. You will power Earth’s Green Utopia.
You can't move. You’ll have to solve this issue with not with gadgets or combat, but words.
>Superman Unchained>Vote Title: Scott SnyderTry to snap Superman out of it. He’s stronger than he thinks he is. You know he’s healed enough to break free.
>Fruit of the Earth>Vote Title: Greg RuckaTell Ivy that you and Superman agree with her, but that you can only help her willingly.
>Human Nature>Vote Title: A.J. LiebermanTell Ivy the mutagen has warped her mind and that remaking the world in her image by force is wrong.
