PLOT:
Easily one of the most hated men in the country, Mike Miller wakes up from his coma after the events of Final Crisis with a million dollar bounty on his head and a wicked sense of entitlement. After all, isn't it about time that
things started actually going his way? He thought that once he introduced Libra to the rest of the super-villains that things were finally looking up - how could he have known that Libra was going to
double-cross them all and turn everyone into a slave of Darkseid? And after the death of Martian Manhunter? Fugheddaboutit. Every cape in the world wants a piece of him now! So, Mike Miller does what any person would
do in this situation - he socks his attending nurse in the jaw and takes off like a madman running for his life!
He needs to escape. That much is clear. Get outta dodge - maybe start over in Belize. So the first place he goes is to look up some tweaker named Joey who owes him money. While Joey has a spare change of clothes, he doesn't happen to have a
spare pile of cash to pay off Mike. So he fills him in on this potential job knocking over the
Kyrgyzstani mob for somewhere in the neighborhood of $50k. Two guys armed with pistols taking on a squad of drug running mobsters armed with fully automatics. What could go wrong?
Well, it turns out that tweakers aren't exactly the best company to have in a stand off and when a stray bullet from Joey's gun ends up flying through the trachea of the lead
Kyrgyzstani mobster things
get ugly real quick. Joey and Mike lead the mobsters on a chase that takes them of all places, a
children's theme restaurant named the Barnyard Burger where another shootout breaks out. This time, Joey isn't so lucky and he winds up
biting the big one and keeling over dead in some children's ball pit. "Kids are short and they run fast. They'll be fine." Miller rationalizes as he heads off into the night with the cash after partially igniting the face of one of the mobsters and leaving
a beloved children's fast food icon a smoldering mess.
The fiery shootout reminds Mike that he had better return to his roots and retrieve his old
prototype Human Flame outfit from his ex-wife's basement. The only problem there? The ex-wife. So, Mike tricks her into believing that he wants
to get back together and that he had been staying away for their own protection (yadda-yadda-yadda) before tying his ex up, stealing the outfit and making off with the family car (his daughter's bicycle still attached to the rear).
It isn't long down the road before Mike runs afoul of the Kyrgyzstanis again. But this time he's got his old suit and those mobsters are in a world of hurt. The only catch of course is the reason why he stopped using this prototype in the first place -
it's propensity to EXPLODE! The incendiary tanks blow sending both Miller and the
Kyrgyzstani mobsters flying and things at this point look like they can only get better... maybe.
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