Comic Book Synopsis / Plot
By the year 2000, the organization of Doc Savage has grown to world-wide proportions with a small army of aides ready to respond to a fully automated call center. Doc himself is in Rwanda, rescuing his aides Roughneck and Axum from rebels who recruit children as soldiers; the Man of Bronze unleashes a sonic weapon that immobilizes the baddies.
Meanwhile, narrator Samantha (daughter of Rock and the late Torchy) stops by headquarters to see her dad while using the computer. Suddenly everything goes haywire; Happy looks into it and discovers a virus has invaded Doc’s computer systems: the call center is shut down and Doc and aides lose control of their plane and crash in the Sahara. This disaster spreads with medical procedures going wrong, planes crashing, ships sinking, everything exploding—all because Doc’s network has been compromised. Doc calls Happy and orders him shut down the entire system, blacking out the Northeastern United States, leading to panic and looting. Government agents from around the world search and the culprit is arrested—he’s a disaffected hacker in Russia who just wanted to cause chaos. Once Doc has his operation up and running again, he announces to his key team members that they must change their methods to prevent this from happening again. Samantha ends by telling us that this will lead to problems….