New Gods #17 DC Comics (1977)
New Gods #17 DC Comics (1977)
Orion rages over his foolishness. Jezebelle Of The Fiery Eyes calms Orion, then convinces him to return to New Mexico. Orion takes to the air to depart, but, along with Jezebelle Of The Fiery Eyes, is struck down by a hidden laser. Meanwhile, Darkseid, Titan, and Desaad tend to the captive Brigadier General Maxwell Torch. Using Desaad's mind probe, Darkseid plumbs the depths of Torch's mind, in search of a piece of the Anti-Life Equation. Torch proves more resistant than expected, lapsing into unconsciousness from the strain. Orion and Jezebelle Of The Fiery Eyes are placed into Desaad's Memory Machine. On New Genesis, Izaya leads Lucifar to a funeral procession, so that the boy may see how the New Gods deal with death. Forager's Mother Box alerts him to the peril Orion and Jezebelle Of The Fiery Eyes are undergoing. Escaping from the underground scientific facility known only as "The Project", Forager tracks the distress signal. Under the relentless beam of the Memory Machine, Orion is forced to relieve the most painful memory from his past. Violently torn from his mother, Tigra, Orion was forcibly taken away from Apokolips. Orion would live out his days under the care of Izaya, the High-Father of the New Gods, as part of a peace treaty, that ended the war between New Genesis and Apokolips.