crying over some dead opera lovers.' references the origin of Batman, where Batman's alias, Bruce Wayne, witnesses his parents' murder in a back alley after an opera. The cover references the famous panel in the comic ' Spider-Man No More!'.The title is a reference to the 1963 Johnny Cash song, Ring of Fire.The statue fountain in the Demoman's front yard is still spouting water from the neck from when he decapitated it with the Eyelander in the WAR! Comic.Demoman is wearing a Badlands Brawlers T-shirt, the same team name that appeared in the WAR! Comic.Demoman's Eyelander is shown to be fully sentient and capable of speech it was previously shown to be simply haunted and only whisper 'heads'.The back page of Pyro's newspaper is the second page of the advertisement for Lecture Valley.Without it, Pyro sees everything as dull and grey, but still cartoonish. It is revealed that fire itself causes Pyro's vision of the world.Soldier is missing the vertical flap down the middle of his coat.A similar tie-wearing bear also appears in similar celebrity handshake photo in Tom Jones’ home on page 38. Unlike most of the photos that show Saxton Hale fighting some animal, a photo is seen that shows Saxton in a celebrity handshake pose with a tie-wearing bear.On the title page, the Hat-Wearing MAN magazine can be seen.Reddy's ties, both changing from blue to black on page 23. The colors of several characters' ties inexplicably change between panels - Gray Mann's tie changes from gray to blue after he burns his hands on page 15, and it is black on page 24.While they deliberate as to where the remaining mercenaries are, they find a newspaper saying that the Scout and Spy have been arrested and will be hanged for large-scale acts of vandalism. Demoman mentions that Medic now has 'a fancy job', while Miss Pauling worries as the Engineer has become especially hard to find. The team, now consisting of the Soldier, Pyro, Demoman and Miss Pauling, make plans to fly to Siberia and Australia to pick up Heavy and Sniper, respectively. An unseen figure explains that all the other Australium sites have been emptied as well. It is revealed that Gray's life-extending machine is powered by Australium and that his own supply is starting to run low. Co's entire supply of Australium has been taken, presumably by Her. Miss Pauling explains that the Administrator, whose current whereabouts are still unknown, gave the order to reassemble the mercenaries. They lure Pyro from his job as CEO of Frontier Engineering by setting fire to a nearby building, while Demoman readily joins them despite becoming overweight and even more of an alcoholic. Soon enough, Miss Pauling, dressed as a police officer, 'arrests' Soldier and tells him that they need to find the rest of the team.

The Soldier kills Tom, and Merasmus calls the police. Six months later, the Soldier is now leading a tour of celebrities' homes where he, and a group of elderly women, run to Tom Jones's home where Merasmus is living. Hale leaves the country, and Miss Pauling finds that the Administrator has also vanished, leaving the message 'Miss Pauling. Saxton refuses to fight her, and thus the company is transferred to Gray, who fires the mercenaries. Gray, however, reveals that his pre-teen daughter, Olivia, is the owner of Gray Gravel. Challenge' if the CEO of another company defeats Hale in unarmed combat, they take over. Headquarters, he is confronted by Gray Mann who has come for the 'Mann Co. The comic opens with Saxton Hale jumping from a plane with the pilot, Jerry, and the stuffed and mounted yeti he fought and captured a year earlier on the eve of the Robot War and had recently killed with his bare hands at Yeti Park.

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