DC REBIRTH Month 9, Part 2

MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO #5 by Steve Orlando and Fernando Blanco. Midnighter is in Hell trying to rescue Apollo from Neron, leading to a bloody fight between them. But just when it looks like Midnighter will win, his seven minutes are up and he passes out. Apollo frees himself, but Neron is ready to make Midnighter play the unwinnable game. However, it looks like Apollo is fired up and ready to save his lover.

NEW SUPER-MAN #8 by Gene Luen Yang and Billy Tan. Kenan is trying his best to hit Master I-Ching, as he needs to hit him once before the Master hits him eight times. Meanwhile, Baixi is battling Rongpei for the rights to be the true Batman of China while Wonder-Woman is battling Alpaca, who turns out to be Baixi’s sister. Kenan hears cries for help and soon is out saving everyone he can, much to the delight of Master I-Ching, who allows him the one strike he needs to take him under his wing. Baixi wins his fight, but then Rongpei takes Schoolmaster O hostage with a threat to kill him unless Baixi gives him the cowl. He hands him the cowl, but it is booby-trapped, allowing him to save Schoolmaster. In the end, Baixi’s sister is sent to jail and Superman Zero has a visitor…is that Fu Manchu?

NIGHTWING #14 by Tim Seeley and Marcus To. The police are searching for Nightwing, who is hiding beneath Detective Svoboda's car. Nightwing, Defacer and Svoboda head to Jim Nice’s hideaway where we find that Cherry Annabel was helping Mayor Madrigal with his weapon smuggling ring. Nice sees this as a crime and is ready to kill her. She gets away and runs into our heroes, resulting in Nice teleporting Nightwing and himself to the spot where Nice killed his wife. Luckily, Svoboda shows up and causes the mirror he is holding to explode and weld to his face. In the end, Dick takes over Shawn Tsang's Run-Off support group and a mysterious person wearing what looks to be a version of Nightwing’s costume watches him.

NIGHTWING #15 by Tim Seeley and Minkyu Jung. 68 days ago, Dick Grayson started a relationship with the former Defacer. Through ups and downs, we see our couple still together. Yesterday, as Dick admitted to Bruce Wayne that he was in love, she is apparently kidnapped.

RAVEN #6 by Marv Wolfman and Diogenes Neves. As Raven tries to get into the mysterious energy dome, her Aunt Alice shows up and pleads with her to help save Mary-Beth. Everyone on the outside of the dome holds hands and their energy helps to free  the town.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #7  by Scott Lobdell, Mirko Colak, and Tom Derenick. Red Hood and Bizarro tell Black Mask's followers to get out of Gotham when Killer Croc shows up. Of course, it’s a mechanical Croc that gets dispatched fairly quickly. Later, we see Artemis looking at video of Bizarro’s origin and that leads jason to wondering if he should eliminate a potentially dangerous Bizarro and goes to talk to Alfred about it. Jason and Bizarro head out and Jason has a Kryptonite bullet in his gone. In the end, Jason can’t kill him and they watch the sunset together.

SUICIDE SQUAD #11 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr. and Eddy Barrows. Rustam is going about releasing every criminal everywhere, starting with those in Belle Reve and then those in Blackgate. With Amanda Waller on leave, Harcourt is left in charge. Meanwhile, the Suicide Squad is on a mission in Tibet, where they have been assigned to take down someone and steal a hard drive. But Deadshot is a little anxious and kills both the perp and the hard drive. Hack manages to gather some classified information about a spy within the Squad and she sends it off to Waller. In the back-up, the team gets a little r&r while Waller gets shot point blank in the chest.

SUICIDE SQUAD #12 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr. and Eddy barrows. Amanda Waller has been shot and, although a medical team struggles to save her, it appears that she has died. Meanwhile, Rustam has a new team of super villains he calls the Burneing World and they are all about beating up on the Squad. Once word arrives of Waller’s death, Rustan and company leave. In the back-up, Emilia Harcourt presides over Waller’s funeral, takes over Task Force X and introduces herself as the new leader. In the end, it looks like the only person who could have killed Waller…is Deadshot.

SUPERGIRL #6 by Steve Orlando and Brian Ching. As the government sends troops to help out in National City, the warship known as Argo City is on its’ way down to Earth and Supergirl battles with her father, the Cyborg Superman. Cat Grant convinces the Daily Planet to allow her to use their radio tower to let her app. broadcast a signal that shuts down the cyborgs. Her father is defeated by being overloaded and that means Argo City crashes into the sea. The next day, Kara, with ben’s covering up, convinces Cat to be a part of the Young Innovators. And we see that dad’s not dead…he’s just in stasis.

SUPERMAN #16 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Tony S. Daniel, and Clay Mann. Prophecy has Superman in his clutches and we are told he is capturing all these Super beings so he can take on some major Multiverse enemy. Superman gets tossed into a pit with all the other powerless Supermen and Superwomen. Elsewhere, the Justice League Incarnate try to come up with a plan, which leads to Red Racer putting a plan in place, at the cost of his life. But that allows the Justice Incarnate to track down Prophecy. All the Supermen and Superwomen get their powers allowing them to fight back. Prophecy disappears into a blue glow during the fight and the heroes win. In the end, Kenan Kong and Superman go back home to New Earth while we see that Mr. Oz has added Prophecy to his collection that already includes Doomsday and Red Robin.

SUPERMAN #17 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Sebastian Fiumara. Kathy shows up at Jon’s house to tell him that her grandpa Cobb went out  hours ago to find a stray cow and is still missing. They end up going to Deadman's Swamp, where a shadow man and giant animals chase them. They eventually get to an old mansion that attacks them and they manage to get saved by Grandpa Cobb. In the end, Cobb says that they were just hallucinating because of swamp gas. Once home, Jon goes to bed and we see the fake Clark Kent watching from Deadman’s Swamp.

SUPERWOMAN #7 by Phil Jimenez, Matt Santorelli and Jack Herbert. As the battle against Lena and her clones continues, it seems Lex is more useless than normal, as his suit is shut down and his legs won’t work. Kryptonite Man asks if he tried to reboot it, he does and viola-he can walk! Lena’s plan and her craft comes crashing down, Lois Lane-the live one-shows up and Superwoman seems to be suffering the same fate as her friend Lois did.

SUPER SONS #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. After seeing what appears to be a family on the set of a television show, we get a brief snippet of Robin and Superboy teamed together. We then shift back two days where Jon has to confront some bullies while heading home from the Hamilton School. Damian shows up and it turns out he has been disguised at the school bus driver and also the science teacher and has been spying on Jon. Later, Damian gets left in the Batcave while his dad goes on a mission and, being bored, he heads to Hamilton and meets up with Jon, who is in bed. With a little convincing, they head to the big city, where they run into Lex Luthor.

TEEN TITANS #5 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. The teen Titans have come together and they head off to battle Ra’s al Ghul Demon's Fist members. But rather than fight, they are told how they were taken from their parents and brought here, which leads to them turning from supporting the cause and teaming up with the Titans, which Robin fights his grandfather. Ra’s flees, taking a hesitant Mara with him, the Demon’s Fist heads off to find their destiny and Robin has a confrontation with his father. Three months later, they return to their new home: a new Titans Tower in San Francisco.

TITANS #8 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Mal and his wife meet with Peter Simon at Meta Solutions concerning her powers, when Mal reveals he has lost his powers. Meanwhile, the rest of the Titans are working through their various issues back at Titans Tower. While Mal is waiting for his wife to finish, he sees Mammoth hanging out in the waiting room and freaks out. The Titans catch up with him and follow him back to Meta where it looks like Psimon is making Bumblebee a part of his NEW Fatal Five.

TRINITY #6 by Francis Manapul and Emanuela Lupacchino. Mongul has possessed Clark kent to make his way into our world and that means that Poison Ivy has a problem. In the dream world of Black Mercy, Batman tries to convince White Mercy to help them get out. White mercy takes over Bruce’ body and meets her “mother”, which Wonder Woman stays inside the dream to save Superman. Bruce uses a Kryptonite necklace to save Superman, forcing Mongul out. With control broken, Lois gets free and everyone is saved. The Green eliminates Ivy's memories, so she feels no pain at the loss of her child, who may actually still be alive in The Green.

WONDER WOMAN #16 by Greg Rucka and Bilquis Evely. The first part of GODWATCH begins Veronica and Dr. Cyber discussing the Cyberwalker program and why Cyber hates Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, two mysterious twins manipulate Izzy to force Cale and Cyber to get them the location of Themyscira.

WONDER WOMAN #17 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp. In the second part of THE TRUTH, Castalia tries to chop down the mysterious black tree, but that just leads to the axe shattering. Meanwhile, Diana is in Nightsong Hospital where she is having a tea party with the snake that lives inside her arm. Elsewhere, Etta, Steve and Ferdinand find themselves under attack by Colonel Poison's team. To save them, Barbara Minerva agrees to let Veronica Cale  turn her back into Cheetah again. With the troops called off, the trio heads to Nightsong and Ferdinand hands Wonder Woman her clothes and her lasso.