JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE ATOM REBIRTH #1 by Steve Orlando and Andy MacDonald. Ryan Choi is attending Ivy University where he gets to work with his idol, Professor Ray Palmer. A year into his time there, Ryan is called to Palmer’s office where the Professor shows him that he is The Atom. For the next year, Ryan watches and assists The Atom until he disappears one day. When Palmer finally contacts him, he explains he needs his help to save the universe. Ryan straps on a shrinking belt and heads off to save his friend.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: KILLER FROST REBIRTH #1 by Steve Orlando, Jody Houser and Mirka Andolfo. Killer Frost is supposed to be released from Belle Reve today, based on an agreement between Waller and Batman. But Waller has “lost” some of the release paperwork and is refusing to feed her the heat she needs. She also has moved her into a cell with Heatstroke, which gives her cohorts access to Frost. As much as she does not want to, she uses her powers to feed some energy from her attackers and survive. In the end, Batman gets her out and trusts her when she swears that her hunger is under control.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: THE RAY REBIRTH #1 by Steve Orlando and Stephen Byrne. We begin many years ago with a young boy watching movies in the dark and his mother brings him a birthday cake with no candles. This is Ray Terrill and he's allergic to light and could explode if exposed to it. Ten years later, he decides to finally leave his home, at night, and take his chances, but he means a group of kids and when one of them offers him a light, he explodes again, this time turning invisible. He decides to stay that way so he can watch people. That lasts for four more years when he gets to see his old friend and lifelong crush Caden, who he thought he killed as a boy, running for Mayor. He watches him at a speech but, when someone pulls out an energy sword and plans to attack Cade, he finally reveals himself as a being of fire and defeats the would-be terrorist. Caden thanks his mysterious rescuer and calls him a Ray of Hope for the city.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: VIXEN REBIRTH #1 by Steve Orlando, Jody Houser and Jamal Campbell. Mari McCabe is a super model and an activist who grew up in Africa and was left an orphan because of poachers. But she was left a totem by her mother that allows her to channel animals and use their powers for good. She stops a criminal named Spiderbite and then reveals herself to the world as Vixen.
MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO #4 by Steve Orlando and Fernando Blanco. Midnighter finishes off Mawzir and moves on to try and rescue Apollo, who is in the middle of a game with Neron where he is forced to put his soul on the line. Midnighter arrives, but it appears to be too late as Apollo has lost his soul to Neron.
NEW SUPER-MAN #7 by Gene Luen Yang and Billy Tan. Lex Luthor is in Shanghai to award Kenan, Wonder-Woman and Bat-Man for their rescuing the airliner last issue. Later, he tries to get the trio to spend the New year’s holiday together, but they leave him hanging and Baixi and Deilan go off to the Academy of the Bat, where Bat-Man trained. Inside, they find all of the potential people trying to be him, leading to a battle for the cowl with Baixi against Rongpei. Meanwhile, Kenan goes to I-Ching’s studio, where he discovers that he can’t impress I-Ching, who we last saw in WONDER WOMAN, because I-Ching is blind. I-Ching will train Kenan, but first HE must be blind.
NIGHTWING #12 by Tim Seeley and Marcus To. We begin with Nightwing investigating a crime scene, before going off to meet with Jim Nice and set up a meeting with The Run-Offs. In the meeting, they explain that they were trying to smuggle guns and that ended badly, so someone is killing off members of the gun running group and making it look like The Run-Offs are responsible. Nightwing and The Run-Offs go to confront Forsyth and that’s when Orca and The Whale's Enders gang show up. The Run-Offs help to take them down, only to find that this was a distraction, allowing someone dressed as Thrill Devil to run down Forsythe.
NIGHTWING #13 by Tim Seeley and Marcus To. Nightwing and the Run-Offs find
Forsythe who, before he dies, explains that the next target is probably Mayor Madrigal. As Nightwing heads to City Hall, Detective Svoboda notices that this is similar to a homicide from years before and she may enlist DeFacer’s help. At City Hall, the killer is wearing a Nightwing disguise and throws the Mayor out the window. Luckily, DeFacer catches him in mid-air, allowing Nightwing to reveal the killer as Jim Nice. He gets away and that means the police arrive thinking Nightwing is the killer. He bails and meets with DeFacer, who has brought Detective Svoboda with her.
RAVEN #5 by Marv Wolfman and Diogenes Neves. Raven is still dealing with the giant orb and it doesn’t take long for people, inclduing her family, to figure that Raven is Rachel. Her cousin heads down to the incident and gets caught by the orb, which causes her to almost release her Trigon side. Mary-Beth gets sucked in and she finally submits and is taken inside the orb.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #6 by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. Black mask is ready to shoot Red Hood when a falling Bizarro and Artemis distracts him long enough for Jason to turn the tables. Jason has a plan and that is to keep on fighting Black Mask until the techno virus takes him down. Eventually, he falls down and begins to foam at the mouth as he begs for a cure which Jason denies him. Now he no longer has control of Bizarro and it looks like the Dark Trinity will now be going on a mission for Artemis.
SUICIDE SQUAD #9 by Rob Williams, Si Spurrier and Riley Rossmo. Set many years ago, Amanda Waller sends her first Suicide Squad team, the same team that Max Lord broke out of prison, on a mission to stop a North Korean dictator on the island of Jangsun. Besides the team from The Catacombs, there is another member called Cyclotron. On the island, the team defeats the gods that Jangsun created but Cyclotron tries to convince the others that they can use the machine to make themselves gods. Waller tells Lobo that she will double his deal if he kills Cyclotron, which he does. But it turns out that Waller had made Cyclotron a living bomb to act as damage control and eliminate the team and all inhabitants. They are all caught in the explosion but survive, leading to Waller having them brought back to Belle Reve for a future mission.
SUICIDE SQUAD #10 by Rob Williams, Si Spurrier and Giuseppe Cafaro. Rustam, having escaped from Eclipso during the JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD, has gotten access to a nuke and taped a photograph of Amanda Waller’s kids to it. She arranges to have her kids brought to an undisclosed location while Croc is sent after Rustam. Waller’s daughter wants to know what she has been doing for the last three years a good portion of their family had been killed by terrorists. A courier arrives with a tablet and Rustam reveals that the only reason he taped the photo on the nuke was to bring Waller and her kids together. The kids scream at her for ruining their family and walk out on her.
SUPERGIRL #5 by Steve Orlando and Brian Ching. Over in National City, the Cyborg Superman is confronting Jeremiah Danvers when Supergirl shows up just in time to save Cameron Chase. Then she goes off and saves Ben Rubel, who just got tossed out a window by one of the Cyborgs minions. Then she heads back into downtown to save her foster father from her real father, who claims he is doing all of this for her. And he may be right as their home is coming into Earth’s atmosphere.
SUPERMAN #14 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Ivan Reis. Clark is driving home when he is met by an injured Red Son Superman who explains the Gatherers are coming and they are after Kenan Kong. The gatherers arrive and the two Suprman team up to defeat them. The Justice League Incarnate arrive, made up of the Superman of Earth 23, Mary Marvel of Earth 5, Aquawoman of Earth 11, Red racer of Earth 36, Green Lantern of Earth 20 and Machinehead of Earth 8. They explain that someone is capturing Supermen from across the Multiverse and Kong is next. They are too late to save Kenan from being captured and taken through a portal by the Gatherers. In the end, we see some of the captured Supermen, including Val -Zod from Earth-2 and Captain Carrot from Earth-26, who gets transformed back into an actual rabbit.
SUPERMAN #15 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Ryan Sook, Ed Benes, Clay Mann and Jorge Jimenez. On Earth-14, the Gatherers kill the Justice League of Assassins and captures Squad Superman. At the House of Heroes, the Justice Incarnate and Superman are trying to figure out a plan to get to as many Earths as possible and save the other Supermen. So they gather up the other Supermen and bring them back to the specially designed space ship while they plan to attack the villain known as Prophecy. Acting as bait, Superman teleports all the Supermen away so he can battle Prophecy by himself.
SUPERWOMAN #6 by Phil Jimenez and Matt Santorelli. With Lex trapped in a Hypercube where he chats with the head of Kryptonite Man, while Lana is being saved from the Superwoman clone by one of Lena’s Bizzaro Women. Bizzaro Woman, after seeing the ghost of Lois, brings Superwoman to Steelworks. Once she recovers, Lana goes to Lex and finds out that he was responsible for accidentally paralyzing his sister while trying to cure her. Lana finds his actions reprehensible but is willing to try to free him. That may take the help of a certain glowing skull and a Bizarro Woman-but at a cost.
TEEN TITANS #4 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. Damian is giving himself to Ra’s to save the life of his teammates. Demon's Fist arrives and that leads to a duel between Damian and Mara that ends with him getting knifed in the back. There may be some dissention in the ranks as Demon’s Fist questions Mara’s character. The rest of the team heads to Infinity Island to see if they can help, eventually busting Damian out of prison.
TITANS #7 by Dan Abnett and Lee Weeks. The Titans have made their way to Manhattan, where they are fighting bad guys. After dispatching him, Superman shows up and he and Wally proceed to race. When they stop, Superman admits that he knows Wally from his timeline. Back in New York, Garth grows a new Titans Tower and the team hires a lawyer named Dale Cendali while the Duncans prepare to meet with someone from Meta Solutions-someone from the Titans’ past.
TRINITY #5 by Francis Manapul. Poison Ivy tells a tale of meeting a small child and then tries to explain to Lois why she has put the Trinity into a deep sleep, even though she doesn’t know why a farmer like Clark is friends with Bruce Wayne. Meanwhile, the Trinity is fighting Mongul in their dream world, although Mongul tells them they are actually in HIS dream and the child is his child. She is the White Mercy it is revealed that she has the ability to channel dreams and nightmares from Mongul’s world. Mongul used Ivy to get the Trinity and he plans on stealing Superman's solar power, allowing his child to rule the world. That makes sense as Ivy explains to Lois and Jon that the solar energy provided by all three will allow her daughter to come home. And apparently, she is inside of Clark.
WONDER WOMAN #14 by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott. This is the YEAR ONE FINALE. Ares threatens to harm Steve Trevor until she cuts a deal with him. He wants directions to Themyscira and she agrees to give it to him. But when he tries to read her mind, he cannot believe that she doesn’t know the way. She battles him and eventually dispatches him, even if she doesn’t kill him. The owl uses a cell phone to show them that there is going to be a multi-faceted attack on several cities by the Sear group and Diana and Steve head off to stop it, ultimately ending up at a school to stop the final attack. In the end, Steve, Barbara and Diana share Tequila Sunrises and Diana learns the world has named her Wonder Woman.
WONDER WOMAN #15 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp. In the first installment of THE TRUTH, Diana is in Nightsong Hospital where she is trying to sort out all of the memories she has. Meanwhile, Colonel Maru is explaining how she lost Wonder Woman and it seems the team at Empire Industries are not too concerned as they plan on getting what they needed through Barbara Minerva. Steve meets up with Etta and Barbara, but their reunion is short-lived as the Poison Brigade shows up at the motel. While Steve and Etta escape, Barabra, once a member of Godwatch, stays behind. When the Brigade busts in, Barbara asks to be taken to Veronica Cale. In the end, Etta and Steve meet with a Minotaur in disguise and living on the streets.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
DC REBIRTH Month 8, Part 1
ACTION COMICS #971 by Dan Jurgens and Stephen Segovia. Last issue, Superman agreed that Luthor should be killed to keep him from becoming Darkseid. Well, that was all a ruse to fool his captors and he breaks the weapon that gave him to kill Lex. That leads to Superman fighting L'Call and Zade while Lex gets away, restoring his suit’s powers. He and Superman open a Boom Tube but L'Call manages to disrupt it and they end up lost on a distant planet that orbits a red sun. So it’s up to Lex to save the day as Superman is powerless and L'Call and Zade have arrived. Back on Earth, Lois and Jon are in this planet’s Lois apartment when Clark Kent shows up and wants to know what’s going on.
ACTION COMICS #972 by Dan Jurgens and Stephen Segovia. The powerless Superman and Lex continue to battle against L'Call and Zade. Superman promises that he will never let Luthor become the future Darkseid and tells L’Call to look into his orb and see what his future holds. Convinced, he lets them go, although we see that he has an uphill battle in his future including moments with Mr. Oz and the Cyborg Superman. But Luthor also decides things are important as he turns a new leaf and arranges to have the New 52’s Superman’s cape delivered to Perry White in a glass case. Meanwhile, Lois blows off “Clark kent” and he begins to wonder why Lois is lying to him about stuff.
ALL STAR BATMAN #6 by Scott Snyder, Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Batman is in Alaska chasing after Mr. Freeze and discovers that he has been reanimating the dead in hopes to save his wife Nora. Freeze plans on unleashing a bacteria that will destroy the world but, in the process, he plans on freezing himself until after the world ends. But Batman has brought in a virus that will thwart his plans. Then Batman locks himself in a cryogenic chamber with Mr. Freeze as jets come to bomb the madman’s lair. In the Cursed Wheel back-up, the Riddler has a building ready to explode on the anniversary of Zero Year if Batman can’t figure out his puzzle. Time runs out for the Dark Knight and it looks like the Duke may be caught in the explosion.
AQUAMAN #14 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. As the Aquamarines head into action, Aquaman has to explain to Joanna Stubbs how her dad died because there was fast growing coral inside his head that was used to kill him. The Aquamarines arrive and start killing Atlanteans, leading to a battle between Aquaman, Mera and the Aquamarines. Defeating the assassination attempt, Arthur tells his people that he is going to make one last attempt to stop a war with the surface world and, if he fails, he will step down. Aquaman and Rowa find where N.E.M.O.is and Aquaman burst in, ready to battle Black Manta and Black Jack.
AQUAMAN #15 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. Aquaman attack N.E.M.O. and battles with Black Manta who decides the best way to protect the secrecy of the organization is to blow up the secret base. Aquaman escapes and, along with Superman, visits the President and explains that he could kill him because of the Aquamarines being sent to assassinate him. Instead, he surrenders, leading to a joint press conference where Superman gives Aquaman a new Justice League teleporter card. In the end, Mera is told she still must be vigilant of the Prophecy and it seems like Black Jack lives to fight another day.
BATGIRL #7 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. Barbara Gordon is back in Burnside and dealing with two criminals breaking into the local pet store and leaving dog doo that the people living in Burnside don’t bother to clean up. The next day, Frankie buys Barbara a coffee, makes her aware that the landlord is doubling their rent and she is moving out to move in with her girlfriend Malaya. At Burnside College, Babs enrolls in some Library Science classes and later, goes to a charity event at Club Angelfish, where she runs into Alysia and Jo, who are talking starting a family. There are a bunch of hipsters complaining about the number of homeless people cluttering Burnside, which upsets her and impresses Ethan Cobblepot, who asks her on a date. On her way to that date, she sees a group of hipsters using an app to have a homeless person and this forces her to take action and finds that he is being taken to Fright. With help of the homeless guy, she takes down Fright and her crew with enough time to make her date with the son of the Penguin.
BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #6 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Roge Antonio. Huntress is confused to find that Fenice is her mother, who was believed to be dead. The team k, with the help of some of Oracle’s Mafia clients, battle the snakes in a movie theater. Huntress catches up with Fenice and reveals her true identity. Fenice reveals that she and Santo were having an affair and he was responsible for the hit that killed her family. Santo begs for mercy and reveals his men had gone rogue and he wasn’t responsible for the hit. In the end, the rest of the Birds arrive, along with Jim Gordon and GCPD and they take all the bad guys into custody. So now there is a team and a new Oracle, who may still be doing someone else’s dirty work.
BATMAN #14 by Tom King and Mitch Gerards. Catwoman helps Batman catch a bunch of criminals before making love on a roopftop.
BATMAN #15 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Picking up where we left off, Batman and Catwoman dress and she flees. Batman visits Jim Gordon and inquires about Holly Robinson, who Batman goes and visits. Holly slices him open and flees, leading to Batman chasing after her but passing out from his injuries. Luckily Catwoman saves him and brings him back to the Bat Cave. She explains that Holly is responsible for killing the 237 Selina is accused of killing and then she leaves, leaving Batman a sad hero.
BATMAN BEYOND #4 by Dan Jurgens and Pete Woods. Terry and Dana are still strung up and having balls of acid thrown at them. Terry sees Matt running around and this gives him the will to break free. He catches up with Matt, who gives him the prototype Bat suit that he brought, which pisses Dana off who now realizes that Terry is Batman and never told her. Putting on the suit, he proceeds to take out the Jokerz, but Terminal flies away with Bruce Wayne. In the end, terry figures out who The Joker is and realizes that Bruce Wayne lives.
BLUE BEETLE #5 by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins. Doctor Reyes is working on Blu and another member of the Posse when Mordecai shows up and attacks, killing Blur’s friend. When Jaime gets wind of it, he turns into Blue Beetle and comes to her aid, which is a mistake because it’s Blue Beetle that Mordecai wanted. Ted Kord's arranges for Jaime's sister and father be put in safe keeping while Mordecai tries to rip the scarab off Jaime’s back. Luckily the Posse come to Jaime's aid, allowing Jaime to blast Mordecai back to his master. And Dr. Fate makes a mysterious cameo.
CYBORG #8 by John Semper Jr., Paul Pelletier, and Will Conrad. A holographic projection of Cyborg convinces a tech thief by the name of Exxy to break into S.T.A.R. Labs and help bring Cyborg back on-line. Once awakened, the pair must flee, as they are attacked by the creature that is NOT Victor’s father, who reveals himself as OTAC. This scares his real dad really badly!
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #4 by Marc Andreyko, Aaron Lopresti and Rodney Buchemi. In present time, Hawkman and Adam discover that Despero has taken over Rann and is having a huge Zeta portal built for him. We also find out that Sardath is not dead and is working on the project with Despero. Flashing back in time, Hawkman and Adam go to Kalador to find out Despero’s plan from the planet’s last remaining elder. In the end, the zeta-beam device transports Nth metal from Ryngor onto Despero, making him more powerful. It also causes the moon to explode and kills a lot of Thanagarians in the process.
DEATHSTROKE #10 by Christopher Priest and Cary Nord. We begin in Serbia where Deathstroke is all about getting his hands on Dragas. After seeing how he met Aeline at the end of that mission, we move to the here and now, as Slade and Dex meet and plans are put into place. Jericho who is being looked at by Dr. Villain who explains how Jericho and Rose got their abilities. Rose has gone to Minneapolis to visit family. In the end, Red Lion arrives to spring Slade from prison.
DEATHSTROKE #11 by Christopher Priest and Denys Cowan, with inks by Bill Sienkiewicz. Jack Ryder is here covering another unnecessary death due to gun violence. At the same time, someone has hired Deathstroke, who is sending a message by taking out gang-bangers and criminals in general without using a gun. Ryder goes to visit a woman whose boss was just killed by Deathstroke and gets shot by her in the process, causing Ryder to turn into The Creeper just as Deathstroke arrives. The two fight and The Creeper offers to team up. As it turns out, Deathstroke is the transplanted Reverand from Philadelphia and Slade kills him because he was “diluting the brand”. When Ryder asks Slade what the answer to gun violence in Chicago is, Slade tells him it’s “better aim”.
DETECTIVE COMICS #948 by James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett and Ben Oliver. After a flashback with a quiet moment between Jacob and Kate Kane, we go to present day where Batman calls Kate away from a visit with her dad. He has her meet him in Monster Town-the are a that was affected during the Monster Men story and is now quarantined so A.R.G.U.S. can clean it up. Seagulls are eating the flesh of one of the dead creatures, which are filled with Venom, and turning them into hybrid seagull-like humans. In the end, Colony Prime shows up at the Belfry in an attempt to free Jacob Kane. Batman and Batwoman arrive and suddenly have the Belfry’s technology unleashed upon them.
DETECTIVE COMICS #949 by James Tynion, Marguerite Bennett, Ben Oliver, and Szymon Kudranski. We begin two years ago as Kate gets a visit from Batman, who warns her to stop watching him. Little do either of them know that The Colony is watching it all happen. Back in the present, Kate is battling Colony Prime while Batman tries to heal the Belfry, which is out of control. Kate and Batman lure Colony Prime into the Mud Room where it all goes bad for him. He injects himself with Monster Venom and transforms into a monster and escapes. Kate visits her father and he asks her if she is ready to fight the war, which she says she is. This will lead directly into BATWOMAN REBIRTH.
THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #1 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman and Will Conrad. Beginning in the present in December of 2012, Captain Atom explodes and it leads to Dr. Megala and General Eiling believing Atom has died because of it. We move back to 23 minutes earlier where Captain Atom is trying to save an ocean liner in trouble and realizes that he may have some sort of “quantum fever”, which is affecting his powers. Luckily Superman, Green Lantern and Cyborg show up to help and escort him to The Continuum in Kansas, but he blows up on the way and accidentally destroys a city in the process. He goes inside the The Continuum, which takes us back to the beginning of the book. Atom is not dead: he’s been thrown back in time to 1994 to the exact spot where The Continuum will eventually be built.
THE FLASH #14 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine DiGiandomenico. The Flash is fighting it out with Paper Cut, Sand Blaster and Bone Dry, eventually defeating them and getting them into Iron Heights. But there is still the mystery about where the Rogues have gone. Flash does some asking around and comes up with a bunch of dead ends.He ends up in the deserted Polar Ice building where he finds evidence that shows they had recently been here. He trips a booby-trap and that blows up the building along with key evidence. The Rogues have planned this and watch it all happen. The Flash has taken the bait.
THE FLASH #15 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine DiGiandomenico. The Rogues have made their way to a museum in Corto Maltese for a great heist. Flash arrives to stp them and battles them fiercely, until he realizes that they are all mirror constructs of the Mirror Master, who uses mirror images of The Flash to attack him and also creates a Mirror Monster. Mirror Master then steals the Statue of Mercury and escapes into the Mirrorverse. Flash realizes that this has all been a diversion and, when he returns to Central City, he sees the thefts and destruction they have created while he was gone.
GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #5 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl and Adam Archer. It seems that Colton was expelled from Gotham Academy because of an attempted theft of Professor Silversmith’s goggles and stealing a map that belongs to Headmaster Hammer that had been stolen by Mr. Scarlet. While Pomeline and Tristan break into the Wedgewood House, Colton goes on trial and the map has disappeared again, which has ended up in Pomeline and Tristan’s possession. But then it looks like Eric may be looking to steal it…
GREEN ARROW #14 by Ben Percy, Eleonora Carlini, Carlos Rodriguez, and Gus Vazquez. Oliver looks like the guilty party who has been gunning people down with arrows and he is currently trapped at Queen Industries Field, where he’s chasing after the real killer. The police arrive and corner both men and Green Arrow takes a bullet the Chief. The bad guy turns out to be Malcolm Merlyn-the original Dark Archer and gets away during the process, as Black Canary reveals herself to be the rookie policewoman in disguise.
GREEN ARROW #15 by Benjamin Percy and Juan Ferreyra. While Ollie and Dinah recover from the Dark Archer incident, Sergeant Notting and his crew are killing off prisoners at the Detention Center. This leads to Arrow and Canary getting involved in a high-speed chase and all. And just when you think Notting is going to succeed in killing off out heroes, the NEW Red Arrow arrives in the form of…Emiko!
GREEN LANTERNS #14 by Sam Humphries, Eduardo Pansica and Ronan Cliquent. Frank Laminski has exploded and become an Indigo Lantern in the process. He develops compassion and removes the ring, which means the greedy Frank comes back. He demands his ring, but Jessica wears it and is engulfed by all the color spectrums before she removes it and gains willpower in the process, using her Green Lantern ring to subdue Frank. Lantern Isamot Kol and Lantern Vath Sarn arrive and complain about being sent out on an alleged emergency. Rami arrives, telling everyone he has taken down Volthoo, but plans to stay on Earth to train Simon and Jessica. Actually, Volthoom has captured Rami’s energy and is now masquerading as the Guardian.
GREEN LANTERNS #15 by Sam Humphries, Tom Derenick and Miguel Mendonca. Jessica spends the entire issue trying to work through her anxieties. In the end, Simon shows up at her house and makes her pancakes. That’s when Batman contacts them and says he needs their help in Gotham City.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #12 by Robert Vendetti and Ethan Van Sciver. The Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps work together to fight Larfleeze and his orange army while Hal, Kyle, Sayd and Ganthet head to help. The Lanterns begin breaking Larfleeze’ collection of specimens, including a miniaturized Starro and a miniaturized New 52 Lobo. Hal and company arrive and they all fight against Larfleeze’ army, resulting in him destroying Brainiac, although he in turn becomes one of Larfleeze’s constructs. Larfleeze flees while the two Corps, Green and Yellow, agree to work together as one.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #13 by Robert Vendetti and V. Ken Marion. On Xudar, sixty years from now, Grandma Somar tells her grandchildren a tale of when Starro came and attacked their world, killing her parents. Luckily, the Green Lanterns came and saved the day. But they soon found themselves captured by Larfleeze and it took the help of Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner to save them. She tells of conflicts we have yet to see involving a Sinestro Corps led by a Xudarian and the reappearance of Evil Star. In the end, Somar and Zumol relive their glory days as Green Lanterns.
HARLEY QUINN #11 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and John Timms. The Joker meets Harley in her apartment, but agrees to leave and meet her at the New York Aquarium the following day. On his way out, he bumps into a jealous Red Tool, who visits Harley before they decide to go and break into the chained door in the wax museum’s basement. Once inside, a giant, pink-tentacled monster attacks them but they blow it up with a hefty bunch of hand grenades. She heads up to bed, but Red Tool changes the time on her alarm clock so that she misses her meeting with Mr. J., which Red Tool goes to instead.
HARLEY QUINN #12 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, John Timms and Chad Hardin. We begin with the Mayor’s new assistant greeting a freight container of vampires she has had imported into the city. Over in Coney Island, Harley is still asleep while Red Tool meets with and fights with The Joker. Harley wakes and realizes she is late, so she heads to the Aquarium and sees the fight.. She begs Red Tool off of a severely beaten Joker and they take him back to her place, where he swears he is a changed man. She responds by having him moved out into the middle of Brooklyn traffic with a sign that says “Brooklyn sucks!” hung on him. But the worst is yet to come…next issue.
THE HELLBLAZER #6 by Simon Oliver and Pia Guerra. Mercury is being chased around by a multi-eyed monster, when she wakes up to find she is on a train with Constantine. She reveals that this was not a dream, but her memory of being in The Rot. While there, she met the good Djinn and managed to get him out of The Rot, despite telling Constantine otherwise. Over at the Tate Club, Clarice is hosting a party thrown by the bad Djinn who tells the party goers that he will lead them back to paradise.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #12 by Tim Seeley and Christian Duce. Set before the first issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD, Amanda Waller has Maxwell Lord in chains at a Task Force X Black Site after he struck her at the end of a mission. We find out that Maxwell’s father committed suicide when he was young and that his mother was all about power and money. We also sees how he used his power of suggestion to help him climb the ladder of power at Checkmate. After showing us his run-in with the Justice League during the Apokolips invasion, he uses his powers to get Waller to tell him about The Catacombs prison. He uses his talent to escape his prison. He heads to his parents’s grave as he looks at the list of the prisoners he is planning on springing from The Catacombs.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #13 by Tim Seeley and Scot Eaton. Taking place after JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #5, Master Chief Steve Trevor is set to go home to his sister, niece and nephew when Superman crashes into the White House and his plans get changed. Maxwell Lord is changing everyone into Eclipsos and they are all after Steve, including Wonder Woman. He eventually gets home to find that his family has changed…and then he does too.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #3 by Joshua Williamson and Jesus Merino. Batman is being held in restraints at Belle Reve, but it doesn’t take him long to break free and meet up with Waller. While this is going on, the Suicide Squad shows up to see the Justice League as captives. Eventually, the League is released. While Waller fills everyone in on the mission at hand and the players involved, Max Lord has the escapees from The Catacombs on a South Pacific island. He fills them in on his mission: retrieve a particular weapon and kill Amanda Waller. Waller reveals that Lord’s team is really the FIRST Suicide Squad.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #4 by Joshua Williamson and Fernando Pasarin. Max and the escapees break into Belle Reve, leading to a big, issue long fight. The escapees are eventually defeated, complete with Lobo getting his head blown off by one of Waller’s brain bombs. Max makes his way to the secret vault and makes Killer Frost break into it, so he can retrieve The Heart of Darkness. It makes him into Lord Eclipso…and he manages to corrupt most of the Justice League in the process.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #5 by Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha. Maxwell Lord is sitting in the White house with his personal bodyguard, Superman. In thirteen minutes time, he has had his Justice League make the entire world safe. He orders Superman to go get Waller so he can show off, but she is stuck in what’s left of Belle Reve with Batman, Deadshot, and a headless Lobo. Superman arrives and takes her away even as Lobo, with his head grown again, joins with Batman. Flag and Katana soon appear, revealing that Polaris and Rustam escaped. Cyborg is possessed, but is fighting to keep his humanity and reveals vital information about Max.. Batman enlists Deadshot, Harley, Killer Frost, Croc, Boomerang and Lobo and welcomes them to the Justice League. Waller is brought to Maxwell, who reveals the chaos that is Washington to her. Batman’s “League” arrives and does battle with the Justice League as Maxwell is transformed into Eclipso.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #6 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. As the battle rages, Eclipso turns Batman’s “League” into his Eclipsos, leaving only Batman, Lobo and Killer Frost to fight them all. Killer Frost creates an ice prism which, when Superman's heat vision hits it, becomes like sunlight and reverses the Eclipso effect. The restored teams come together to allow her to take some of their life energy to defeat Eclipso and restore Lord. In the end, Batman demands that Waller let Killer Frost go with him. Then he also recruits Lobo for his new Justice League of America. Maxwell Lord is locked up and Waller tells him she has a place for him in Task Force XI.
ACTION COMICS #972 by Dan Jurgens and Stephen Segovia. The powerless Superman and Lex continue to battle against L'Call and Zade. Superman promises that he will never let Luthor become the future Darkseid and tells L’Call to look into his orb and see what his future holds. Convinced, he lets them go, although we see that he has an uphill battle in his future including moments with Mr. Oz and the Cyborg Superman. But Luthor also decides things are important as he turns a new leaf and arranges to have the New 52’s Superman’s cape delivered to Perry White in a glass case. Meanwhile, Lois blows off “Clark kent” and he begins to wonder why Lois is lying to him about stuff.
ALL STAR BATMAN #6 by Scott Snyder, Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Batman is in Alaska chasing after Mr. Freeze and discovers that he has been reanimating the dead in hopes to save his wife Nora. Freeze plans on unleashing a bacteria that will destroy the world but, in the process, he plans on freezing himself until after the world ends. But Batman has brought in a virus that will thwart his plans. Then Batman locks himself in a cryogenic chamber with Mr. Freeze as jets come to bomb the madman’s lair. In the Cursed Wheel back-up, the Riddler has a building ready to explode on the anniversary of Zero Year if Batman can’t figure out his puzzle. Time runs out for the Dark Knight and it looks like the Duke may be caught in the explosion.
AQUAMAN #14 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. As the Aquamarines head into action, Aquaman has to explain to Joanna Stubbs how her dad died because there was fast growing coral inside his head that was used to kill him. The Aquamarines arrive and start killing Atlanteans, leading to a battle between Aquaman, Mera and the Aquamarines. Defeating the assassination attempt, Arthur tells his people that he is going to make one last attempt to stop a war with the surface world and, if he fails, he will step down. Aquaman and Rowa find where N.E.M.O.is and Aquaman burst in, ready to battle Black Manta and Black Jack.
AQUAMAN #15 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. Aquaman attack N.E.M.O. and battles with Black Manta who decides the best way to protect the secrecy of the organization is to blow up the secret base. Aquaman escapes and, along with Superman, visits the President and explains that he could kill him because of the Aquamarines being sent to assassinate him. Instead, he surrenders, leading to a joint press conference where Superman gives Aquaman a new Justice League teleporter card. In the end, Mera is told she still must be vigilant of the Prophecy and it seems like Black Jack lives to fight another day.
BATGIRL #7 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. Barbara Gordon is back in Burnside and dealing with two criminals breaking into the local pet store and leaving dog doo that the people living in Burnside don’t bother to clean up. The next day, Frankie buys Barbara a coffee, makes her aware that the landlord is doubling their rent and she is moving out to move in with her girlfriend Malaya. At Burnside College, Babs enrolls in some Library Science classes and later, goes to a charity event at Club Angelfish, where she runs into Alysia and Jo, who are talking starting a family. There are a bunch of hipsters complaining about the number of homeless people cluttering Burnside, which upsets her and impresses Ethan Cobblepot, who asks her on a date. On her way to that date, she sees a group of hipsters using an app to have a homeless person and this forces her to take action and finds that he is being taken to Fright. With help of the homeless guy, she takes down Fright and her crew with enough time to make her date with the son of the Penguin.
BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #6 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Roge Antonio. Huntress is confused to find that Fenice is her mother, who was believed to be dead. The team k, with the help of some of Oracle’s Mafia clients, battle the snakes in a movie theater. Huntress catches up with Fenice and reveals her true identity. Fenice reveals that she and Santo were having an affair and he was responsible for the hit that killed her family. Santo begs for mercy and reveals his men had gone rogue and he wasn’t responsible for the hit. In the end, the rest of the Birds arrive, along with Jim Gordon and GCPD and they take all the bad guys into custody. So now there is a team and a new Oracle, who may still be doing someone else’s dirty work.
BATMAN #14 by Tom King and Mitch Gerards. Catwoman helps Batman catch a bunch of criminals before making love on a roopftop.
BATMAN #15 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Picking up where we left off, Batman and Catwoman dress and she flees. Batman visits Jim Gordon and inquires about Holly Robinson, who Batman goes and visits. Holly slices him open and flees, leading to Batman chasing after her but passing out from his injuries. Luckily Catwoman saves him and brings him back to the Bat Cave. She explains that Holly is responsible for killing the 237 Selina is accused of killing and then she leaves, leaving Batman a sad hero.
BATMAN BEYOND #4 by Dan Jurgens and Pete Woods. Terry and Dana are still strung up and having balls of acid thrown at them. Terry sees Matt running around and this gives him the will to break free. He catches up with Matt, who gives him the prototype Bat suit that he brought, which pisses Dana off who now realizes that Terry is Batman and never told her. Putting on the suit, he proceeds to take out the Jokerz, but Terminal flies away with Bruce Wayne. In the end, terry figures out who The Joker is and realizes that Bruce Wayne lives.
BLUE BEETLE #5 by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins. Doctor Reyes is working on Blu and another member of the Posse when Mordecai shows up and attacks, killing Blur’s friend. When Jaime gets wind of it, he turns into Blue Beetle and comes to her aid, which is a mistake because it’s Blue Beetle that Mordecai wanted. Ted Kord's arranges for Jaime's sister and father be put in safe keeping while Mordecai tries to rip the scarab off Jaime’s back. Luckily the Posse come to Jaime's aid, allowing Jaime to blast Mordecai back to his master. And Dr. Fate makes a mysterious cameo.
CYBORG #8 by John Semper Jr., Paul Pelletier, and Will Conrad. A holographic projection of Cyborg convinces a tech thief by the name of Exxy to break into S.T.A.R. Labs and help bring Cyborg back on-line. Once awakened, the pair must flee, as they are attacked by the creature that is NOT Victor’s father, who reveals himself as OTAC. This scares his real dad really badly!
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #4 by Marc Andreyko, Aaron Lopresti and Rodney Buchemi. In present time, Hawkman and Adam discover that Despero has taken over Rann and is having a huge Zeta portal built for him. We also find out that Sardath is not dead and is working on the project with Despero. Flashing back in time, Hawkman and Adam go to Kalador to find out Despero’s plan from the planet’s last remaining elder. In the end, the zeta-beam device transports Nth metal from Ryngor onto Despero, making him more powerful. It also causes the moon to explode and kills a lot of Thanagarians in the process.
DEATHSTROKE #10 by Christopher Priest and Cary Nord. We begin in Serbia where Deathstroke is all about getting his hands on Dragas. After seeing how he met Aeline at the end of that mission, we move to the here and now, as Slade and Dex meet and plans are put into place. Jericho who is being looked at by Dr. Villain who explains how Jericho and Rose got their abilities. Rose has gone to Minneapolis to visit family. In the end, Red Lion arrives to spring Slade from prison.
DEATHSTROKE #11 by Christopher Priest and Denys Cowan, with inks by Bill Sienkiewicz. Jack Ryder is here covering another unnecessary death due to gun violence. At the same time, someone has hired Deathstroke, who is sending a message by taking out gang-bangers and criminals in general without using a gun. Ryder goes to visit a woman whose boss was just killed by Deathstroke and gets shot by her in the process, causing Ryder to turn into The Creeper just as Deathstroke arrives. The two fight and The Creeper offers to team up. As it turns out, Deathstroke is the transplanted Reverand from Philadelphia and Slade kills him because he was “diluting the brand”. When Ryder asks Slade what the answer to gun violence in Chicago is, Slade tells him it’s “better aim”.
DETECTIVE COMICS #948 by James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett and Ben Oliver. After a flashback with a quiet moment between Jacob and Kate Kane, we go to present day where Batman calls Kate away from a visit with her dad. He has her meet him in Monster Town-the are a that was affected during the Monster Men story and is now quarantined so A.R.G.U.S. can clean it up. Seagulls are eating the flesh of one of the dead creatures, which are filled with Venom, and turning them into hybrid seagull-like humans. In the end, Colony Prime shows up at the Belfry in an attempt to free Jacob Kane. Batman and Batwoman arrive and suddenly have the Belfry’s technology unleashed upon them.
DETECTIVE COMICS #949 by James Tynion, Marguerite Bennett, Ben Oliver, and Szymon Kudranski. We begin two years ago as Kate gets a visit from Batman, who warns her to stop watching him. Little do either of them know that The Colony is watching it all happen. Back in the present, Kate is battling Colony Prime while Batman tries to heal the Belfry, which is out of control. Kate and Batman lure Colony Prime into the Mud Room where it all goes bad for him. He injects himself with Monster Venom and transforms into a monster and escapes. Kate visits her father and he asks her if she is ready to fight the war, which she says she is. This will lead directly into BATWOMAN REBIRTH.
THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #1 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman and Will Conrad. Beginning in the present in December of 2012, Captain Atom explodes and it leads to Dr. Megala and General Eiling believing Atom has died because of it. We move back to 23 minutes earlier where Captain Atom is trying to save an ocean liner in trouble and realizes that he may have some sort of “quantum fever”, which is affecting his powers. Luckily Superman, Green Lantern and Cyborg show up to help and escort him to The Continuum in Kansas, but he blows up on the way and accidentally destroys a city in the process. He goes inside the The Continuum, which takes us back to the beginning of the book. Atom is not dead: he’s been thrown back in time to 1994 to the exact spot where The Continuum will eventually be built.
THE FLASH #14 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine DiGiandomenico. The Flash is fighting it out with Paper Cut, Sand Blaster and Bone Dry, eventually defeating them and getting them into Iron Heights. But there is still the mystery about where the Rogues have gone. Flash does some asking around and comes up with a bunch of dead ends.He ends up in the deserted Polar Ice building where he finds evidence that shows they had recently been here. He trips a booby-trap and that blows up the building along with key evidence. The Rogues have planned this and watch it all happen. The Flash has taken the bait.
THE FLASH #15 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine DiGiandomenico. The Rogues have made their way to a museum in Corto Maltese for a great heist. Flash arrives to stp them and battles them fiercely, until he realizes that they are all mirror constructs of the Mirror Master, who uses mirror images of The Flash to attack him and also creates a Mirror Monster. Mirror Master then steals the Statue of Mercury and escapes into the Mirrorverse. Flash realizes that this has all been a diversion and, when he returns to Central City, he sees the thefts and destruction they have created while he was gone.
GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #5 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl and Adam Archer. It seems that Colton was expelled from Gotham Academy because of an attempted theft of Professor Silversmith’s goggles and stealing a map that belongs to Headmaster Hammer that had been stolen by Mr. Scarlet. While Pomeline and Tristan break into the Wedgewood House, Colton goes on trial and the map has disappeared again, which has ended up in Pomeline and Tristan’s possession. But then it looks like Eric may be looking to steal it…
GREEN ARROW #14 by Ben Percy, Eleonora Carlini, Carlos Rodriguez, and Gus Vazquez. Oliver looks like the guilty party who has been gunning people down with arrows and he is currently trapped at Queen Industries Field, where he’s chasing after the real killer. The police arrive and corner both men and Green Arrow takes a bullet the Chief. The bad guy turns out to be Malcolm Merlyn-the original Dark Archer and gets away during the process, as Black Canary reveals herself to be the rookie policewoman in disguise.
GREEN ARROW #15 by Benjamin Percy and Juan Ferreyra. While Ollie and Dinah recover from the Dark Archer incident, Sergeant Notting and his crew are killing off prisoners at the Detention Center. This leads to Arrow and Canary getting involved in a high-speed chase and all. And just when you think Notting is going to succeed in killing off out heroes, the NEW Red Arrow arrives in the form of…Emiko!
GREEN LANTERNS #14 by Sam Humphries, Eduardo Pansica and Ronan Cliquent. Frank Laminski has exploded and become an Indigo Lantern in the process. He develops compassion and removes the ring, which means the greedy Frank comes back. He demands his ring, but Jessica wears it and is engulfed by all the color spectrums before she removes it and gains willpower in the process, using her Green Lantern ring to subdue Frank. Lantern Isamot Kol and Lantern Vath Sarn arrive and complain about being sent out on an alleged emergency. Rami arrives, telling everyone he has taken down Volthoo, but plans to stay on Earth to train Simon and Jessica. Actually, Volthoom has captured Rami’s energy and is now masquerading as the Guardian.
GREEN LANTERNS #15 by Sam Humphries, Tom Derenick and Miguel Mendonca. Jessica spends the entire issue trying to work through her anxieties. In the end, Simon shows up at her house and makes her pancakes. That’s when Batman contacts them and says he needs their help in Gotham City.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #12 by Robert Vendetti and Ethan Van Sciver. The Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps work together to fight Larfleeze and his orange army while Hal, Kyle, Sayd and Ganthet head to help. The Lanterns begin breaking Larfleeze’ collection of specimens, including a miniaturized Starro and a miniaturized New 52 Lobo. Hal and company arrive and they all fight against Larfleeze’ army, resulting in him destroying Brainiac, although he in turn becomes one of Larfleeze’s constructs. Larfleeze flees while the two Corps, Green and Yellow, agree to work together as one.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #13 by Robert Vendetti and V. Ken Marion. On Xudar, sixty years from now, Grandma Somar tells her grandchildren a tale of when Starro came and attacked their world, killing her parents. Luckily, the Green Lanterns came and saved the day. But they soon found themselves captured by Larfleeze and it took the help of Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner to save them. She tells of conflicts we have yet to see involving a Sinestro Corps led by a Xudarian and the reappearance of Evil Star. In the end, Somar and Zumol relive their glory days as Green Lanterns.
HARLEY QUINN #11 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and John Timms. The Joker meets Harley in her apartment, but agrees to leave and meet her at the New York Aquarium the following day. On his way out, he bumps into a jealous Red Tool, who visits Harley before they decide to go and break into the chained door in the wax museum’s basement. Once inside, a giant, pink-tentacled monster attacks them but they blow it up with a hefty bunch of hand grenades. She heads up to bed, but Red Tool changes the time on her alarm clock so that she misses her meeting with Mr. J., which Red Tool goes to instead.
HARLEY QUINN #12 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, John Timms and Chad Hardin. We begin with the Mayor’s new assistant greeting a freight container of vampires she has had imported into the city. Over in Coney Island, Harley is still asleep while Red Tool meets with and fights with The Joker. Harley wakes and realizes she is late, so she heads to the Aquarium and sees the fight.. She begs Red Tool off of a severely beaten Joker and they take him back to her place, where he swears he is a changed man. She responds by having him moved out into the middle of Brooklyn traffic with a sign that says “Brooklyn sucks!” hung on him. But the worst is yet to come…next issue.
THE HELLBLAZER #6 by Simon Oliver and Pia Guerra. Mercury is being chased around by a multi-eyed monster, when she wakes up to find she is on a train with Constantine. She reveals that this was not a dream, but her memory of being in The Rot. While there, she met the good Djinn and managed to get him out of The Rot, despite telling Constantine otherwise. Over at the Tate Club, Clarice is hosting a party thrown by the bad Djinn who tells the party goers that he will lead them back to paradise.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #12 by Tim Seeley and Christian Duce. Set before the first issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD, Amanda Waller has Maxwell Lord in chains at a Task Force X Black Site after he struck her at the end of a mission. We find out that Maxwell’s father committed suicide when he was young and that his mother was all about power and money. We also sees how he used his power of suggestion to help him climb the ladder of power at Checkmate. After showing us his run-in with the Justice League during the Apokolips invasion, he uses his powers to get Waller to tell him about The Catacombs prison. He uses his talent to escape his prison. He heads to his parents’s grave as he looks at the list of the prisoners he is planning on springing from The Catacombs.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #13 by Tim Seeley and Scot Eaton. Taking place after JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #5, Master Chief Steve Trevor is set to go home to his sister, niece and nephew when Superman crashes into the White House and his plans get changed. Maxwell Lord is changing everyone into Eclipsos and they are all after Steve, including Wonder Woman. He eventually gets home to find that his family has changed…and then he does too.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #3 by Joshua Williamson and Jesus Merino. Batman is being held in restraints at Belle Reve, but it doesn’t take him long to break free and meet up with Waller. While this is going on, the Suicide Squad shows up to see the Justice League as captives. Eventually, the League is released. While Waller fills everyone in on the mission at hand and the players involved, Max Lord has the escapees from The Catacombs on a South Pacific island. He fills them in on his mission: retrieve a particular weapon and kill Amanda Waller. Waller reveals that Lord’s team is really the FIRST Suicide Squad.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #4 by Joshua Williamson and Fernando Pasarin. Max and the escapees break into Belle Reve, leading to a big, issue long fight. The escapees are eventually defeated, complete with Lobo getting his head blown off by one of Waller’s brain bombs. Max makes his way to the secret vault and makes Killer Frost break into it, so he can retrieve The Heart of Darkness. It makes him into Lord Eclipso…and he manages to corrupt most of the Justice League in the process.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #5 by Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha. Maxwell Lord is sitting in the White house with his personal bodyguard, Superman. In thirteen minutes time, he has had his Justice League make the entire world safe. He orders Superman to go get Waller so he can show off, but she is stuck in what’s left of Belle Reve with Batman, Deadshot, and a headless Lobo. Superman arrives and takes her away even as Lobo, with his head grown again, joins with Batman. Flag and Katana soon appear, revealing that Polaris and Rustam escaped. Cyborg is possessed, but is fighting to keep his humanity and reveals vital information about Max.. Batman enlists Deadshot, Harley, Killer Frost, Croc, Boomerang and Lobo and welcomes them to the Justice League. Waller is brought to Maxwell, who reveals the chaos that is Washington to her. Batman’s “League” arrives and does battle with the Justice League as Maxwell is transformed into Eclipso.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE SUICIDE SQUAD #6 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. As the battle rages, Eclipso turns Batman’s “League” into his Eclipsos, leaving only Batman, Lobo and Killer Frost to fight them all. Killer Frost creates an ice prism which, when Superman's heat vision hits it, becomes like sunlight and reverses the Eclipso effect. The restored teams come together to allow her to take some of their life energy to defeat Eclipso and restore Lord. In the end, Batman demands that Waller let Killer Frost go with him. Then he also recruits Lobo for his new Justice League of America. Maxwell Lord is locked up and Waller tells him she has a place for him in Task Force XI.
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