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.
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