I come back to life when the sleeper nuke Doc Apocalypse hid in the subway system goes off and destroys the city. Except I’m not really dead before that. I’m stuck in the Frozen Zone of the city with a few thousand other popsicles who got caught in the crossfire back when the Union of Soviet Super Comrades brought the Cold War home to us.
One minute I was standing there in the flower shop, a bouquet of flowers in my hand for Penny. The woman who had just sold me the flowers told me with a smile to have a nice day. Then there was the sudden white light as the Comrades’ flash freeze hit. And for the next twenty years I was a block of ice in the flower shop, a bouquet of flowers for Penny frozen in my hand.
Then there’s another flash of light, this one from Doc Apocalypse’s nuke, and the ic
