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.
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