A major DC superhero was murdered in the latest Human Target

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From the first pages of Tom King and Greg Smallwood's Human Target, we've known that a DC character was going to die.

The series revolves around the titular Christopher Chance, who has been poisoned in an assassination gone wrong. Chance has 12 days (in 12 books) to live - and to solve his murder. But by the end, we are absolutely certain he'll shuffle off this mortal coil.

But in Book Six, on sale on March 22nd, we learn that he's not the only one.

Thus far in the series, someone attempted to kill Lex Luthor via a poisoned cup of coffee. It would have worked, too, had Chance not been disguised as Luthor to foil a different, unrelated assassination attempt. Chemical analysis of the poison in Chance's system linked it to a mysterious radioactive chemical found in another dimension, one that had been visited by only a few people from the main DCU dimension. And those people just happen to have all been members of the Justice League International.

So, Chance has been investigating JLI members issue by issue, including Martian Manhunter, Booster Gold, and most noticeably, Ice. Ice has gotten closest to Chance in the course of the investigation, sharing with him her past and an intimate relationship. As if sleeping with the woman who may have potentially killed him wasn't bad enough, Chance has also drawn the ire of another member of the JLI, Guy Gardener. Believing Ice to be his and his alone, Gardener makes repeated attempts to intimidate Chance but doesn't do anything too violent.

At the end of Book Six, that changes. Furious at both Chance and Ice, Gardener attacks with the full strength of a Green Lantern. He manages to hold off Ice's incredible abilities with his power ring until Chance takes a shot at him with his