Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #1

  You often hear that Lois Lane is an excellent investigative journalist. But you don't really get to witness her going off the grid by herself much because Superman is always there to bail her out. In Lois Lane and the Resistance, she finally gets that chance as in the Flashpoint, there is no Superman to answer her calls for help. 
    Stranded in Paris during the fall of Europe, Lois Lane is contacted by the Flashpoint's greatest hero, Cyborg, to make contact with a resistance leader in London, now the home of the Amazon's New Themyscira! But in order to win the right to move freely throughout the new nation, Lois must undergo loyalty training or face becoming an Amazonian science project that often result in hideous mutations. If Lois is to connect with the resistance, Cyborg is going to have to act fast as tomorrow is the day of Lois' turn on the operating table.
     Issue #1 was an action packed look at the underground movement in Europe following Aquaman's destruction of most of the continent. Now with the Amazons controlling the British Isles, it looks like the war between Atlantis and Themyscira is heating up. I felt like I was reading a DC Comics version of Mission: Impossible what with secret operatives, crazy gadgets and tons more espionage and trickery than I can count. 
    Writers Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett, the duo behind Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies, were the right choice to chronicle further escapades surrounding the Amazons. But something was missing to make this as good as an opening chapter as the work they did in Furies #1. This series doesn't have that breathtaking art that Furies does. But I don't think that it the only reason I wasn't 100% satisfied with this issue. Hopefully, by issue #2, I will be able to put my finger on it. All I can say for now is that I get the feeling that my objections have something to do with the cover...

   Worth Consuming

   Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.