Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink#1(2009)

In the wake of the Final Crisis, Tattooed Man returns home to Liberty Hill, a dangerous urban suburb of Washington D.C. There, he attempts to be a hero, including by foiling a bank robbery. Although Mark is happy with his honorary membership in the Justice League of America and the accompanying salary, Mark’s wife, Michelle, worries that his membership in the league will be short-lived. She tells him that most heroes come and go, but the ones who stay are those who do more than stop bullets and leap tall buildings. The ones that last are those that show people how to be better. She is also concerned that Mark is not taking enough of an interest in the life of their son. Her worries prove well-founded as Mark’s son, Leon, is falling into a life of crime and soon seeks membership in the Avenue Reds. The Reds give him a strange dagger which he is to use to kill a member of the rival gang, the Ded Boyz. Later, when the body of the Boyz member, Diamond, is discovered stabbed to death, a crooked police chief, Louis Halstead, who is working with the Boyz, wants to pin it on Mark to get rid of him before he can interfere with his criminal activity. Mark is questioned and released. That night, Mark awakens to find that one of his tattoos has separated itself, seemingly without Mark’s bidding. The skeletal Ronin Samurai tattoo, called Kabuki Dan, is sitting at his kitchen table and wants to talk.