Written by Ian Edginton and Christos Gage; Art by Leandro Fernandez and Francisco Paronzini and Mike McKone and Andy Lanning; Cover by Leandro Fernandez

StormWatch receives a distress call from the Earth's surface and an old ally rears his head – Jon Drake, leader of The Establishment! But the happy reunion doesn't last long as he brings news of newly awakened Soviet-era doomsday machines preprogrammed in the event of a nuclear war to seek out and destroy the United States! And the fourth chapter of the Marc "Backlash" Slayton back-up story concludes, by Christos Gage and Mike McKone!