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Nothing like striking while the iron is hot, eh? Only three years after their debut in "52" and a month after the "Final Crisis Aftermath" minis made use of subsequent Grant Morrison-created properties/ideas, the Great Ten finally get their own ten-issue mini-series. While the delay makes the arrival of this first issue come with little fanfare, the quality is high and does the property justice as Tony Bedard jumps right in, tackling the inner turmoil of China and its place in the world as filtered through its premiere superhero team.

This issue centers on Yao Fei, the Great Ten's Accomplished Perfect Physician, as the Great Ten's latest mission in Tibet to quell a 'riot' mirrors a similar encounter Yao had 12 years previously when he was a member of the People's Liberation Army. The young Yao fled after killing a man, unwilling to open fire on unarmed civilians and was shot in the process. Taken in by an elderly woman, he learns that the man he killed was meant to be the seventeenth incarnation of the Accomplished Perfect Physician and, now, that burden was his to carry.

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