A.D. AFTER DEATH BOOK ONE by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire. Scott Snyder is both madman and genius and his writing reflects that. The same is true with Jeff Lemire, as his art shows. This title is pure genius, mixing spot illustrations and pages of beautiful watercolors by Lemire with long bits of prose by Snyder. It stars Jonah Cooke as someone who is dealing with a future where mankind has found a way to conquer death. It is weird, quirky, and very character driven, as the story bounces from Cooke’s childhood to his adulthood. This is not a mini-series for everyone but is an amazing read nonetheless.
THE AMORY WARS: GOOD APOLLO I’M BURNING STAR IV #1 by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert and Rags Morales. If you are unfamiliar with the band Coheed and Cambria or how most of the bands early albums were based on a massive Science Fiction epic written by Sanchez, then you may not want to jump into this book at this time. This is actually based on the third album and, while I am a huge fan, this will truly be confusing for you. That having been said, the overall epic tells the story of the Kilgannon Family who have to stop archmage Wilhelm Ryan and save the universe. Ryder, who is a writer and clearly has personality issues, tells the story. The highlight, especially if you have no idea about the back-story, is Rags Morales’ incredible artwork. This is definitely a series to take a look at.
BLACK PANTHER & THE CREW #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Butch Guice. T’Challa, along with Luke Cage, Manifold, Storm and Misty Knight are taking it to the streets in this series that jumps from past to present. We start in the Bronx in 1957 and then jump to Harlem now, where this is unrest and riots. And we get robotic cops too! I’m liking this better than the other BLACK PANTHER titles, as it seems like it is going to be more action oriented and less political stuff. Guice’ art shines and Coates knows these characters well.
BLOODSHOT REBORN #0 by Jeff Lemire and Rentao Guedes. I have been a huge fan of Lemire’s run on all the previous Bloodshot series and especially love the character-this tortured man who has endured more than most men should have to. This book provides a great transition from BLOODSHOT USA into the upcoming BLOODSHOT SALVATION series and, for long-time fans, there is a huge plot drop that will totally change the future for the character. Follow Bloodshot, Bloodshot Squad (I kid you not), and Magic as they recover from defeating Project Rising Spirit. This is the perfect jumping on issue and now is the best time, especially with the buzz around the upcoming film starring Jason David Frank as the man with the Nanites in his blood.
CIVIL WAR II: THE OATH #1 by Nick Spencer and Rod Reis. Well CIVIL WAR II has come to and end and left many of our Marvel heroes changed “forever”. James Rhodes and Bruce Banner are dead and Tony Stark is in a permanent vegetative state. Steve Rogers has been made Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Maria Hill is on the run and Captain Marvel is trying to get the President to buy into the concept of a shield in space to protect the world from alien invaders(nothing like a parallel to a certain President trying to build a wall). In the end, we see that Steve has a secret agenda and his future vision he saw during the series was of an America run by Hydra. This was a great epilogue by Spencer to a lackluster mini-series that now sets up Steve Rogers as a true bad guy after having been tweaked by the living Cosmic Cube. I guess this will lead to another “universe changing event”.
THE CLONE CONSPIRACY OMEGA #1 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Peter David, Cory T. Smith, Mark Bagley, and Stuart Immonen, This one shot provides the wrap-up to the “Dead No More” storyline that ran through the Spider titles. Almost all of the resurrected people have died again, including Rhonio’s wife, which leads to the major confrontation in the first story. But The Lizard’s family is still alive and kicking and so is Ben Reilly, even though we all thought he died at the end of the saga. And we end with Kingpin getting Spidey to agree to a deal so he can find the ever-elusive Normal Osborn. That means this all leads to the new SCARLET SPIDER book, starring Ben Reilly, and also leads to the $10 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25. All in all, it’s a great jumping off AND a great jumping on point!
HULK #1 by Mariko Tamaki and Nico Leon. Bruce Banner’s cousin Jen, affectionately known as the She-Hulk, was critically injured during CIVIL WAR II and, when she finally came out of her coma, found out that Cousin Brucie was dead. Now she is trying to put her life back together by going back to work as a lawyer. Unfortunately, she now suffers from her cousin’s old problem of trying to control her anger, so she watches food videos. Really? Sorry…I’m not buying it, although I give Tamaki points for trying to show us Jen’s inner pain even if it feels really forced. Besides-it’s a Hulk title with no Hulk in it yet…
INHUMANS PRIME #1 by Al Ewing, Ryan Sook, and Chris Allen. Coming off the game changing events during IVX, this one-shot acts as the lead in to the new Inhuman themed series: ROYALS, SECRET WARRIORS, and BLACK BOLT. The Terrigen cloud has been eliminated, meaning that mutants are safe, even at the expense of the Inhumans, as there can never be any new Inhumans. Medusa and Black Bolt resign as Queen and King, Maximus is exiled and Marvel Boy shows up. Yeah-it’s that kind of read! Highlight is this amazing two-page spread featuring almost the entire cast. I have long been an Inhumans fan and had mixed emotions over the last two series. My hope is that this will be the first step in a new era.
JUGHEAD THE HUNGER #1 by Frank Tieri and Michael Walsh. Well, it’s about time! We have been waiting for so long for a new story in the Archie Horror line that I can’t tell you where the plot lines of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE and CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA left off. In this one-shot, there is a werewolf in Riverdale bumping people off and it’s a mystery as to who and who is next. It’s a fun, funky ride that also serves to whet my appetite for more and hopefully we’ll get some at some point. Until then, you’ll have to settle for this.
KAMANDI CHALLENGE #1 by Dan Didio, Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett and Dale Eaglesham. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for Jack Kirby’s KAMANDI series. KAMANDI #1 came out in that time when I stopped reading comics, which meant the first few issues I picked up as back issues when I got back into comics a year or so later. I was always a fan of Kirby’s work and this future tale with PLANET OF THE APES overtones fit my bill. So, when I heard about the Kamandi Challenge, where a dozen creative teams each take a chapter in a story that featured the PREVIOUS creative team dropping a cliffhanger on the subsequent team, I got really excited. Even with a series of amazing teams announced, the first issue proves why this concept may not work: it’s incredibly uneven. The first chapter by Didio and Giffen, providing a convoluted Kamandi origin featuring cameos by Mike Royer and The King himself, is weak The next installment by Abnett and Eaglesham has a better feel, even though I’m still not sold on the characterization of these classic characters. We’ll see what Peter Tomasi and Neal Adams have in store next issue…hopefully something good!
MONSTERS UNLEASHED #1 by Cullen Bunn and Steve McNiven. It’s the next BIG THING from Marvel and boy…I’m NOT thrilled! Monsters arrive all across the world and teams of Marvel heroes arrive to stop them. In the end, it may have something to do with the drawing ability of a young boy, who apparently can call of these creatures just by drawing them. McNicen’s art is dynamite but Bunn’s story is just silly, although I did like that he reintroduced Elisa Bloodstone into the Marvel Universe. The only thing we can hope for is that the classic Marvel Monsters like Fing Fang Foom arrive in full and that this DOESN’T act as the LEAD-IN to a lame new REGULAR SERIES, but I feel it will.
NEW ENGLAND TALES OF TERROR #1 by Rich Woodall, Ian Chase Nichols, Jay Kennedy, Chris Campana, Jeff McClelland and Joe St.Pierre. The newest title in the ever expanding Altered Reality Comics features four fun horror stories in the classic tradition. In addition to these four, there is also a pin-up by Kennedy and Nichols and an extremely killer, pun intended, cover by Joe St.Pierre, with inks by the legendary Ralph Reese. First available at TerrorCon 2017, copies are obtainable from ARCOMICS.NET. Check it out! In the world of gory horror titles, like CROSSED, this is a nice (mostly) all ages title to chomp onto.
RIVERDALE ONE-SHOT #1 by Brian E. Paterson, Britta Lundin, James DeWille, Will Ewing, Elliot Fernandez, Jim Towe, Thomas Pitilli and Alitha Martinez. The Archie World keeps getting more diverse as illustrated by the RIVERDALE television series, which is a different universe that any of the existing comic universes. This one shot highlights four stories featuring Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead as they appear in the television show. It will make no sense to you unless you have seen the show, so take that as advice. If you’re a fan of classic Archie, you will want nothing to do with this.
ROYALS #1 by Al Ewing and Jonboy Meyers. Welcome to the new era in the lives of the Inhumans. We have a whole bunch of old Inhumans, new Inhumans and Marvel Boy too. I would love to say I love this book, but I can’t get past Meyers’ art style, even with Ewing’ characterizations. So much for the next era…
SECRET EMPIRE #0 by Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuna. What happens when the living entity of the Cosmic Cube rewrites Steve Rogers’ personal history? You end up with CAPTAIN AMERICA: AGENT OF HYDRA. That’s the basic premise of this mini-series where Cap betrays everybody in the world. He traps Captain Marvel and Alpha Flight in outer space, sends New York into the Darkforce Dimension and prepares to take over Washington, D.C. This is Marvel’s newest Earth Shattering, Universe changing, event. It’s an interesting premise, although we can guess how this might go, complete with the living Cosmic Cube changing everything back and, POSSIBLY, that death of Captain Marvel on the steps of the capital that we all saw predicted in CIVIL WAR II.
THE SHAOLIN COWBOY: WHO’LL STOP THE REIGN? By Geoff Darrow. The legendary Shaolin Cowboy finds himself trying to heal himself, deal with ignorant tourists, a spectre from Hell and a giant crab. Yeah, it makes little sense unless you have read about our hero before. But, for newcomers, just know that it’s witty and looks incredible! And it’s worth your time…believe me!
STARSTRUCK-OLD PROLDIERS NEVER DIE by Elaine Lee and Mi. W. Kaluta. Back in the day, there was a really cool Sci-Fi series called STARSTRUCK. The bad news is that it ended. The good news is that it is back with the same wit and beautiful artwork that I remember. This is so trippy and beautiful looking that every panel is a treat. And for newcomers, there is even a detailed glossary each issue to help fill in the blanks. This is required reading and I cannot recommend this enough.
U.S. AVENGERS #1 by Al Ewing and Paco Medina. Oh look: ANOTHER Avengers title! In the race to see if they can have more titles than the X-Men, Ewing and Medina gives us the new team, led by former New Mutant and current head of the NEW A.I.M.(now known as Avengers Idea Mechanics), Roberto DeCosta, who now goes by the name of Citizen V. His team includes Iron Patriot, Enigma, Cannonball, Squirrel Girl, and General Robert Maverick, who is the new Red Hulk and they go off to fight the NEW Secret Empire. And he has merged with the government to form American Intelligence Mechanics. I expected this to be awful but was pleasantly surprised. Part of it is that I didn’t read Ewing’s run on the fourth series of NEW AVENGERS, so I missed all of that went on before…like the new Red Hulk and all. Personally, it’s like a Michael bay film-looks good and is less filling! And is probably enough to make me go find those NEW AVENGERS issues.
VAMPIRELLA #0 by Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton. How many times can Dynamite redo this classic character? Too damned many for my liking! This is now the FOURTH series since 2010 and enough is enough. At least she’s not playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Scream Queen any more. It’s 3,000 years in the future and a group of people find Vampirella’s tomb and then kill themselves, to provide her with the blood to resurrect her. Upon awakening, she finds that they have brought her a book showing her all the various different origins that has been thrust upon us over the years. Well, now she’s ready to take on this New World. While it’s not classic Warren vintage Vampi, it is a step up over recent incarnations. But can we PLEASE get her back in her classic costume too!?
WEAPON X #1 by Greg Pak and Greg Land. In the aftermath of the whole IVX event, all the X-teams are being shuffled around. There is a new Weapon X program and they are building killer cyborgs to hunt mutants. This leads to a new team of hunters made up of Old man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino, Lady Deathstroke and Warpath. Land’s art looks great, but is softer than normal thanks to the inks of Jay Leisten. I’m a big fan of Greg Pak’s writing, but this is bare bones at the moment, so it’s tough to judge where it will go. It looks worth a second issue.
THE WILDSTORM #1 by Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt. The name may be familiar and even the names of some of the characters may ring a bell, but this is NOT the Wildstorm Universe you might remember. They certainly do not resemble the New 52 versions of them. Zealot is here, as are Deathblow, Void, Voodoo, Miles Craven, Angela Spica, The Engineer, and Jacob Marlowe. The story is typical Ellis weirdness and Davis-Hunt’s art feels like classic Image. Do NOT expect this to be classic Wildstorm at all. This is going to be Ellis creating a twelve-issue event that may never ever connect to the DC Universe. But hey-with the announcement of the new DARK MATTER imprint, maybe that's okay!
X-MEN PRIME #1 by Marc Guggenheim, Greg Pak, Cullen Bunn, Ken Lashley, Ibraim Roberson, Leonard Kirk, and Guillermo Ortego. Storm tracks down Kitty Pryde, who has left the Guardians of the Galaxy, and tries to convince her to rejoin the X-Men. She ends up at X-Haven, which is in Limbo, and she gets associated once more with Peter, Shogo and Jubilee. She also sees the time-displaced X-Men, soon to be known as X-Men Blue. At the same time, a woman named Clara tries to convince Lady Deathstrike to kill mutants for her, which results in the long-clawed mutant getting captured. In the end, the Blue team hits the road, Kitty is poised to lead the Gold team, and X-Haven gets moved to Central Park. All in all, this is a jumping on point for all the new series.
X-MEN BLUE #1 by Cullen Bunn, Jorge Molina and Matteo Buffagni. For those who aren’t aware, some time ago, the Beast brought the younger versions of the X-Men forward and time and now they are stuck here. Until recently, they have been operating in the title ALL-NEW X-MEN. Currently, they have left X-Haven and gone after Black Tom, who has Juggernaut with him and who is truly pissed off that Cyclops killed Charles Xavier. But this is a different Cyclops, which doesn’t seem to make a difference to Cain Marko. Beast uses magic, there’s a skill I didn’t know he had, to send Juggernaut away and saves the day. In the end, it looks like Magneto is going to be this team’s new mentor. Oh…and we may have a visit from an Ultimate Universe Wolverine…
X-MEN GOLD #1 by Marc Guggenheim and Ardian Syaf. The X-Men are back together…sort of. Well, AN X-MEN TEAM is back together. This version is led by Kitty Pryde and features Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Old Man Logan(doing double duty in two titles) and Prestige, who was Phoenix(no…not that one, the other one!). There is the usual mutant hate issue, the NEW Brotherhood of Evil Mutants…and a bunch of graffiti that got Syaf fired! Oh yeah: a six-page recap on X-Men history, for those of us who have never read an X-Men comic before
Friday, April 21, 2017
Sunday, April 9, 2017
DC REBIRTH, Month 10, Part 2
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #2 by Steve Orlando and Felipe Watanabe. Batman has surrendered to Lord Havok and the Extremists, so he can save the world. A disagreement ensues and Havok kills Diehard before the Extremists teleport to Kravia. Lord Havok wants to make this the place he saves first, since he was heir to the King on the Earth-8 version. The JLA arrive there just in time to stop Deathbat from killing a bunch of Kravians. Unfortunately, the government of Kravia stop the JLA, as they were expecting the Extremists and approve of their actions. Lord Havok has been appointed King and it is up to the JLA to figure out how to help the people without creating an international incident.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #3 by Steve Orlando and Diogenes Neves.
Lord Havok gets in touch with the countries next to Kravia and tries to convince him to join his regime “or else”. JLA begins the resistance and team members pair up against Extremist members. While Lobo, Atom, Black Canary, The Ray and Killer Frost take on Tracer, Death Bat, Gorgon, Dreamslayer and Brute, Vixen, Batman and Bogna take on Lord Havok. Unfortunately, Havok has succeeded in forming an alliance with the surrounding countries. But Batman, carrying a red shield we last saw in REBIRTH, doesn’t seem to care.
MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO #6 by Steve Orlando and Fernando Blanco. Apollo heads back into Hell, where he finds Neron and Midnighter, it's a hell of an explosive entrance. They fight their way out of Hell and back to Midnighter’s apartment, where they kiss. In the end, we learn there may be more attacks in the future. But for now, Midnighter confesses his love for Apollo.
NEW SUPER-MAN #9 by Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdonavic. Kong Kenan and I-Ching have been sent by the Ministry of Defense to Metropolis to meet with Lex Luthor. Lex offer Kenan a shortcut to his learning by opening a certain door. I-Ching recommends he not take the opportunity but Kenan insists that he must and yanks the doors open. A skeleton in a Superman costume emerges and zaps Kenan with power. The Chinese Triad arrives, telling Kenan he has opened a portal to Hell. Snakepit closes the portal and Kenan loses his power. As the Triad begins to battle with Lex, Superman arrives.
NIGHTWING #16 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. Beginning with a flashback from a few days ago where Dick and Shawn are making out, we shift to Titans Tower where Damian is taking offense to Tweets suggesting Dick will eventually become Batman. Damian heads to Bludhaven to confront him about this when Dick gets a voice mail from Shawn saying she might be pregnant. He heads to her apartment with Damian in tow, only to find she is gone. Damian finds the pregnancy test Dick had brought to the apartment and decides that he needs to help. Meanwhile, a vigilante has arrived wearing a black and red Nightwing costume and calling himself "Deathwing".
NIGHTWING #17 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. As Dick and Damian continue to fight over who deserves the mantel of the Bat, they head to Paris, France, where they believe Shawn has ended up. Waiting for them is Deathwing, who locks Damian in a tomb and cuts Dick across his forehead, causing him to envision all these versions of him throughout the Multiverse. Eventually, Damian breaks free of the tomb and goes to help Dick. They take him down but not before they meet a Robin double. It turns out both of them are Dollotrons created by Professor Pyg, who likes Shawn’s art so much, he is going to use her to improve his art.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #8 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort. With Red Hood and Artemis in a bar, a fight breaks out and then Akila shows up. Well a fake Akila, who is actually the person they were looking for. Artemis tells how she used to train with Akila when she was younger and living in Bana-Mighdall. They were both trying to attain the title of Shim'tar. Akila became the Shim'tar and got possesion of the Bow of Ra, which immediately affected Akila. Eventually Wonder Woman showed up to stop the madness, with the Bow going missing in the process. Of course, Jason agrees to help her find it again.
SUICIDE SQUAD #13 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr. and Eddy Barrows. Rustam is trying to show Flag and Katana that they need to be together against the common enemy of Amanda Waller. But she is dead and it looks like Deadshot was the killer leading to Deadshot explaining that he made a deal with Rustam to get himself free. Hack realizes that Djinn is in their computer system, so Hack works her way in, only to have the brain bombs be shut off and the Squad goes free. In the backup, Harley, Hack and June end up at a Cajun dive bar and talk about what they are going to do with their freedom. Hack heads back to the Belle Reve computer room to find out who the team’s mole is. Harcourt shows up and Hack accuses her of being the mole. That’s when Boomerange arrives, admits to being the spy, and buries his boomerang into Hack’s chest.
SUICIDE SQUAD #14 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr., and Eddy Barrows. Hack is dead and Harley takes it out on Harcourt, demanding to see the security footage. Despite a call to her fellow members, Harley commandeers a jet and heads to Qurac, where Rustam and his team went after laying waste to Washington, DC.. Rustam beats on her and then Deadshot shoots her. In the backup, Boomerang challenges Killer Croc to a fight, because he’s despondent at having killed Hack. Enchantress arrives and convinces the three of them to go to Qurac, where they see that Amanda Waller isn’t dead.
SUICIDE SQUAD BANANA SPLITS SPECIAL #1 by Tony Bedard, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, and Howard Porter. The Splits get pulled over in downtown L.A., where they get shot at and eventually tasered. Meanwhile, the Suicide Squad is in tough shape on their latest mission so Amanda Waller manages to get the Splits out of jail, gets them a makeover, and they go off to help the Squad out of trouble. They meet up with the team, reveals their origin (they posted an ad on Kraigslist) and head off to free Flag from the robots who captured him. The combined team blows up the robot factory and the Splits ask for a favor that lands them in a gig where they are seen singing "Straight Outta Belle Reve" in their new style. In the backup, it’s 1954 and Snagglepuss is in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When he leaves, he meets Augie Doggie and tells him about an incident from his past that led to the worst disaster in the history of Kentucky Theater.
SUPERGIRL #7 by Steve Orlando and Matias Bergara. Supergirl and Dr, Veritas are in the Scabbard and trying to figure out what can be done for Lar-On the Kryptonian Werewolf. So, they decide to send Kara into Lar-On's mind and figure out why Lar-On is at war with himself. She finds that Lar-On's father was a major part of his mental problem, as he was always told he was no good. And a lot of it is because the moon reminds him of that time as a youth and then anger causes his transformation. Kara comes back, explains the problem and it looks like Dr. Veritas can fix it. In the end, Kara goes to Oceanside Memorial Park to say goodbye to her mother.
SUPERMAN #18 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN
SUPERMAN #19 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN
SUPER SONS #2 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. We begin with more of Reggie, who is now calling himself Kid Amazo. Back in Metropolis, Jon and Damian are dealing with being caught hanging off Lex Tower by Lex Luthor himself. Damian has planted a bunch of bombs and that means Lex is distracted long enough for Damian to download Lexcorp’s complete security log. When they go off to find Reggie, they discover that he has killed his whole family. The two boys fight over whose case it is and Damian notices that someone is missing from the group and Jon finds her…and Batman and Superman find their respective sons.
SUPERWOMAN #8 by Phil Jimenez and Jack Herbert. Lana, still in stasis until John Henry Irons can find a cure, spends the entire issue dreaming about her life and how she feels guilt over events that have happened, including the deaths of Lois and Clark. Meanwhile, Lex seals Lena away at Stryker's Island, while the Atomic Skull wants to talk to Bizarress #1.
TEEN TITANS #6 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. The Titans have settled into Teen Titans Tower and are being interviewed by local reporter Bonnie Chung, who disappears under the ocean during the process and gets taken to Alcatraz Prison. Aqualad arrives to start his time with the Titans and that, along with some mysterious things going on with bottled water, is a problem for his boyfriend, who breaks up with him. Oh yeah: the King Shark arrives too!
TITANS #9 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Our heroes meet up with the Fearsome Five. They learn that all but Psimon and Gizmo have given up their powers and has created Meta-Solutions to help people with powers from turning bad. Later, after the team discusses whether or not they believe the Fearsome Five, Dick and Wally break back into Meta-Solutions. They find that the building is shielded and they lose contact with the rest of the team, causing all but Mal and Kori to head out after them. Indeed, the Five is still in business and Karen decides she needs to head out to keep the rest of the team from being hurt.
TITANS ANNUAL #1 by Dan Abnett and Minkyu Jung. Garth calls out for anyone and everyone and that leads to Flash, Wally, Aquaman, Donna Troy, Wonder Woman, Batman and Nightwing to show up. It seems The Key is responsible for them all getting together and now they must try to trust each other to get out. Along the way, they need to face a fake Metallo, and some Parademons. And then Batman does some investigating and learns that Donna Troy isn't human, leading to Wonder Woman telling her that she is really made of magical clay. The find The Key, but he uses the powers he collected during the issue to open a door and escape to a place where a mystery being dowsn’t like failure. We end with The Key screaming…
TRINITY #7 by Cullen Bunn, Clay Mann and Miguel Mendonca. In Kahndaq, Ra's al Ghul has a meeting with Lex Luthor and they realize they have been called here by Circe, who shows them the Pandora Pits. They are forced to battle a Composite Trinity, meaning they must each defeat their specific enemies to proceed. They use their combined efforts to defeat the creature and send it back to the Pandora Pits. Although Luthor wants to destroy them, Circe shows them an etching that seems to say their choice has previously been made for them.
WONDER WOMAN #18 by Greg Rucka and Bilquis Evely. In GODWATCH Part 2, Veronica talks to her friend Adrianna, who has been dead for over a year and is now Doctor Cyber. Barbara Minerva goes off to meet with Veronica, whose strings are being pulled by Deimos and Phobos. Barbara heads off to a dig site in Africa and is visited by Diana. Thanks to the manipulations of Veronica, Dr. Cyber, Deimos and Phobos, Diana is kept from being able to help Barbara when she calls and, when she eventually finds her, Barbara has been transformed into The Cheetah.
WONDER WOMAN #19 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp. In THE TRUTH Part 3, Ferdinand has come to visit Diana and she realizes she is no longer crazy. With Etta and Steve in tow, she checks herself out. Meanwhile, Barbara Minerva has become Cheetah again and Veronica is trying to get her to a find a way to open a doorway to Themyscira. Cale directs Colonel Poison to put Godwatch protocols into effect. Wonder Woman and her friends show up at Empire Enterprises and encounter Doctor Cyber, who explains the she has been pulling Diana’s strings all this time. Ferdinand shuts Cyber down and they discover Sasha’s body. As they leave, a member of the Poison Brigade shoots Diana through the chest, apparently killing her.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #3 by Steve Orlando and Diogenes Neves.
Lord Havok gets in touch with the countries next to Kravia and tries to convince him to join his regime “or else”. JLA begins the resistance and team members pair up against Extremist members. While Lobo, Atom, Black Canary, The Ray and Killer Frost take on Tracer, Death Bat, Gorgon, Dreamslayer and Brute, Vixen, Batman and Bogna take on Lord Havok. Unfortunately, Havok has succeeded in forming an alliance with the surrounding countries. But Batman, carrying a red shield we last saw in REBIRTH, doesn’t seem to care.
MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO #6 by Steve Orlando and Fernando Blanco. Apollo heads back into Hell, where he finds Neron and Midnighter, it's a hell of an explosive entrance. They fight their way out of Hell and back to Midnighter’s apartment, where they kiss. In the end, we learn there may be more attacks in the future. But for now, Midnighter confesses his love for Apollo.
NEW SUPER-MAN #9 by Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdonavic. Kong Kenan and I-Ching have been sent by the Ministry of Defense to Metropolis to meet with Lex Luthor. Lex offer Kenan a shortcut to his learning by opening a certain door. I-Ching recommends he not take the opportunity but Kenan insists that he must and yanks the doors open. A skeleton in a Superman costume emerges and zaps Kenan with power. The Chinese Triad arrives, telling Kenan he has opened a portal to Hell. Snakepit closes the portal and Kenan loses his power. As the Triad begins to battle with Lex, Superman arrives.
NIGHTWING #16 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. Beginning with a flashback from a few days ago where Dick and Shawn are making out, we shift to Titans Tower where Damian is taking offense to Tweets suggesting Dick will eventually become Batman. Damian heads to Bludhaven to confront him about this when Dick gets a voice mail from Shawn saying she might be pregnant. He heads to her apartment with Damian in tow, only to find she is gone. Damian finds the pregnancy test Dick had brought to the apartment and decides that he needs to help. Meanwhile, a vigilante has arrived wearing a black and red Nightwing costume and calling himself "Deathwing".
NIGHTWING #17 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. As Dick and Damian continue to fight over who deserves the mantel of the Bat, they head to Paris, France, where they believe Shawn has ended up. Waiting for them is Deathwing, who locks Damian in a tomb and cuts Dick across his forehead, causing him to envision all these versions of him throughout the Multiverse. Eventually, Damian breaks free of the tomb and goes to help Dick. They take him down but not before they meet a Robin double. It turns out both of them are Dollotrons created by Professor Pyg, who likes Shawn’s art so much, he is going to use her to improve his art.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #8 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort. With Red Hood and Artemis in a bar, a fight breaks out and then Akila shows up. Well a fake Akila, who is actually the person they were looking for. Artemis tells how she used to train with Akila when she was younger and living in Bana-Mighdall. They were both trying to attain the title of Shim'tar. Akila became the Shim'tar and got possesion of the Bow of Ra, which immediately affected Akila. Eventually Wonder Woman showed up to stop the madness, with the Bow going missing in the process. Of course, Jason agrees to help her find it again.
SUICIDE SQUAD #13 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr. and Eddy Barrows. Rustam is trying to show Flag and Katana that they need to be together against the common enemy of Amanda Waller. But she is dead and it looks like Deadshot was the killer leading to Deadshot explaining that he made a deal with Rustam to get himself free. Hack realizes that Djinn is in their computer system, so Hack works her way in, only to have the brain bombs be shut off and the Squad goes free. In the backup, Harley, Hack and June end up at a Cajun dive bar and talk about what they are going to do with their freedom. Hack heads back to the Belle Reve computer room to find out who the team’s mole is. Harcourt shows up and Hack accuses her of being the mole. That’s when Boomerange arrives, admits to being the spy, and buries his boomerang into Hack’s chest.
SUICIDE SQUAD #14 by Rob Williams, John Romita Jr., and Eddy Barrows. Hack is dead and Harley takes it out on Harcourt, demanding to see the security footage. Despite a call to her fellow members, Harley commandeers a jet and heads to Qurac, where Rustam and his team went after laying waste to Washington, DC.. Rustam beats on her and then Deadshot shoots her. In the backup, Boomerang challenges Killer Croc to a fight, because he’s despondent at having killed Hack. Enchantress arrives and convinces the three of them to go to Qurac, where they see that Amanda Waller isn’t dead.
SUICIDE SQUAD BANANA SPLITS SPECIAL #1 by Tony Bedard, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, and Howard Porter. The Splits get pulled over in downtown L.A., where they get shot at and eventually tasered. Meanwhile, the Suicide Squad is in tough shape on their latest mission so Amanda Waller manages to get the Splits out of jail, gets them a makeover, and they go off to help the Squad out of trouble. They meet up with the team, reveals their origin (they posted an ad on Kraigslist) and head off to free Flag from the robots who captured him. The combined team blows up the robot factory and the Splits ask for a favor that lands them in a gig where they are seen singing "Straight Outta Belle Reve" in their new style. In the backup, it’s 1954 and Snagglepuss is in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When he leaves, he meets Augie Doggie and tells him about an incident from his past that led to the worst disaster in the history of Kentucky Theater.
SUPERGIRL #7 by Steve Orlando and Matias Bergara. Supergirl and Dr, Veritas are in the Scabbard and trying to figure out what can be done for Lar-On the Kryptonian Werewolf. So, they decide to send Kara into Lar-On's mind and figure out why Lar-On is at war with himself. She finds that Lar-On's father was a major part of his mental problem, as he was always told he was no good. And a lot of it is because the moon reminds him of that time as a youth and then anger causes his transformation. Kara comes back, explains the problem and it looks like Dr. Veritas can fix it. In the end, Kara goes to Oceanside Memorial Park to say goodbye to her mother.
SUPERMAN #18 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN
SUPERMAN #19 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN
SUPER SONS #2 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. We begin with more of Reggie, who is now calling himself Kid Amazo. Back in Metropolis, Jon and Damian are dealing with being caught hanging off Lex Tower by Lex Luthor himself. Damian has planted a bunch of bombs and that means Lex is distracted long enough for Damian to download Lexcorp’s complete security log. When they go off to find Reggie, they discover that he has killed his whole family. The two boys fight over whose case it is and Damian notices that someone is missing from the group and Jon finds her…and Batman and Superman find their respective sons.
SUPERWOMAN #8 by Phil Jimenez and Jack Herbert. Lana, still in stasis until John Henry Irons can find a cure, spends the entire issue dreaming about her life and how she feels guilt over events that have happened, including the deaths of Lois and Clark. Meanwhile, Lex seals Lena away at Stryker's Island, while the Atomic Skull wants to talk to Bizarress #1.
TEEN TITANS #6 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. The Titans have settled into Teen Titans Tower and are being interviewed by local reporter Bonnie Chung, who disappears under the ocean during the process and gets taken to Alcatraz Prison. Aqualad arrives to start his time with the Titans and that, along with some mysterious things going on with bottled water, is a problem for his boyfriend, who breaks up with him. Oh yeah: the King Shark arrives too!
TITANS #9 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Our heroes meet up with the Fearsome Five. They learn that all but Psimon and Gizmo have given up their powers and has created Meta-Solutions to help people with powers from turning bad. Later, after the team discusses whether or not they believe the Fearsome Five, Dick and Wally break back into Meta-Solutions. They find that the building is shielded and they lose contact with the rest of the team, causing all but Mal and Kori to head out after them. Indeed, the Five is still in business and Karen decides she needs to head out to keep the rest of the team from being hurt.
TITANS ANNUAL #1 by Dan Abnett and Minkyu Jung. Garth calls out for anyone and everyone and that leads to Flash, Wally, Aquaman, Donna Troy, Wonder Woman, Batman and Nightwing to show up. It seems The Key is responsible for them all getting together and now they must try to trust each other to get out. Along the way, they need to face a fake Metallo, and some Parademons. And then Batman does some investigating and learns that Donna Troy isn't human, leading to Wonder Woman telling her that she is really made of magical clay. The find The Key, but he uses the powers he collected during the issue to open a door and escape to a place where a mystery being dowsn’t like failure. We end with The Key screaming…
TRINITY #7 by Cullen Bunn, Clay Mann and Miguel Mendonca. In Kahndaq, Ra's al Ghul has a meeting with Lex Luthor and they realize they have been called here by Circe, who shows them the Pandora Pits. They are forced to battle a Composite Trinity, meaning they must each defeat their specific enemies to proceed. They use their combined efforts to defeat the creature and send it back to the Pandora Pits. Although Luthor wants to destroy them, Circe shows them an etching that seems to say their choice has previously been made for them.
WONDER WOMAN #18 by Greg Rucka and Bilquis Evely. In GODWATCH Part 2, Veronica talks to her friend Adrianna, who has been dead for over a year and is now Doctor Cyber. Barbara Minerva goes off to meet with Veronica, whose strings are being pulled by Deimos and Phobos. Barbara heads off to a dig site in Africa and is visited by Diana. Thanks to the manipulations of Veronica, Dr. Cyber, Deimos and Phobos, Diana is kept from being able to help Barbara when she calls and, when she eventually finds her, Barbara has been transformed into The Cheetah.
WONDER WOMAN #19 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp. In THE TRUTH Part 3, Ferdinand has come to visit Diana and she realizes she is no longer crazy. With Etta and Steve in tow, she checks herself out. Meanwhile, Barbara Minerva has become Cheetah again and Veronica is trying to get her to a find a way to open a doorway to Themyscira. Cale directs Colonel Poison to put Godwatch protocols into effect. Wonder Woman and her friends show up at Empire Enterprises and encounter Doctor Cyber, who explains the she has been pulling Diana’s strings all this time. Ferdinand shuts Cyber down and they discover Sasha’s body. As they leave, a member of the Poison Brigade shoots Diana through the chest, apparently killing her.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
DC REBIRTH, Month 10, Part 1
ACTION COMICS #975 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN.
ACTION COMICS #976 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN.
ADAM STRANGE/FUTURE QUEST SPECIAL #1 by Marc Andreyko, Jeff Parker, Dan Didio, Steve Lieber, and Phil Winslade. Adam Strange finds himself riding a Zeta Beam into the Lost Valley where he is found by Ug and Todd. Shortly there after, Dr. Quest, Race Bannon, Jonny, Hadji, and Bandit arrive. Slowly, Adam’s fractured memories come back to him and he recalls the battle with Despero and Hawkman, along with events in Ontario with Justice League Canada and also remembers Rann and Alanna. Meanwhile, there are F.E.A.R. Agents stuck here who seem to blame Dr. Quest for their predicament and are trying to catch them in the hopes that Adam’s Zeta Beam could get them out of the Lost Valley. Eventually Birdman shows up and uses his powers to charge up some fallen material that from Strange's Universe, which allows him to go back home. But not before the Agents of F.E.A.R. force them to open a vortex which sends them to the world of the the Herculoids. In the backup featuring Batman meets Top Cat, who tells him who he is and how he and his best friend Benny ended up in Gotham City. Only he can’t find Benny. When Batman leaves Catwoman arrives and offers assistance and a possible job down the road.
ALL STAR BATMAN #8 by Scott Snyder and Giuseppi Camuncoli. Batman battles a Blackhawks team that is using stealth technology to trick him into thinking they are his Bat allies. This leads him to a confrontation with the Mad Hatter, who has affected Batman’s mind and makes him think the doctors trying to help him are actually his Rogue’s Gallery. Ultimately, he breaks free of Hatter’s mind control, who tells Batman who the real mastermind is. In the Cursed Wheel backup, Duke figures out how the Riddler is manipulating things from his cell and that leads to a confrontation with his old friend Darryl.
AQUAMAN #18 by Dan Abnett and Scot Eaton. Although it seems like he’s in Bialya and it is being bombed by Khandaq, Aquaman is actually fighting the battle in his head, thanks to Warhead. Warhead then explains that he was used as a weapon by the Khandaqi army, but was injured and needed to repair himself. But Black Manta’s aquatelepathy woke him from his repair state and Aquaman, feeling sorry, offers him sanctuary in Atlantis.Fellner and his men finally break in and Aquaman explains that Warhead is seeking political asylum. In the end, Aquaman returns to Amnesty Bay and Major Ricoh of the Aquamarines meets with him concerning Dead Water.
AQUAMAN #19 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. Aquaman, Mera and the Aquamarines are on their way to Cape Valez to investigate something involving Dead Water. Once they arrive, they see that Scavenger, who was crippled previously by Dead Water, is running the operation. One by one, people are getting killed by Dead Water, leading to Aquaman to take the fight to the creature.
BATGIRL #9 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. Batgirl catches a crook in a Pronghorn uniform and using a Faraday Bag which hides all signals and waves, before heading off to teach a coding workshop at the South Burnside Elementary School. There she sees a new app called Doggo, where you get a virtual dog to care for and buy things with real money. In actuality, the app is all about data mining. Barbara goes home to find a crying Alyson, who is having marital problems with Jo. Later, she attends a charity ball with Ethan Cobblepot, where she learns that Doggo is part of Cobblepot’s company. She sneaks away as Batgirl and breaks into Ethan’s office, where she finds The Penguin.
BATGIRL ANNUAL #1 by Hope Larson, Vita Ayala, Inaki Miranda, and Elonora Carlini. Batgirl is in National City, helping Supergirl with a villain calling himself Red Spur. He gets away but Batgirl says not to worry as she hit him with a tracker and can pick him up tomorrow, so they get coffee. Babs agrees to help Supergirl to break into Cadmus lab and help her find a girl named Gayle who is speaking in Kryptonese and asking for her help. They run into a kid named Frostpoint who they take with them as they search. They find Gayle and she declares how she wants to go back to the Phantom Zone, because it’s safer there. Then she disappears. They break Frostpoint out and plan their next move, which will be in SUPERGIRL #9. In the backup, Barbara spend the night hanging out with her best friend Alysia, even though it may interfere with her crime fighting for the night. I the end, they end up on the roof of GCPD and turn on the Bat Signal…because they can.
BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #8 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Roge Antonio. Oracle and Batgirl are helping Nightwing track down a criminal named Gemini who has escaped from Bludhaven after killing all of her friends. It turns out she is a shape shifter who stabs him while disguised as Batman. The Birds show up and try to help, but Gemini blows up Nightwing’s motorcycle and escapes. Back at the base, Nightwing gets patched up and they all wonder what Oracle’s issue is, especially because we see him talking to himself and popping pills. Black Canary decides to go undercover at a meta-human Fight Club run by Roulette. Meanwhile, Blackbird is happy with Gemini’s advancements…so happy she steals them for herself.
BATMAN #18 by Tom King and David Finch. Besides seeing the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Bane’s youth, including their training, we get a full issue of Bane beating up Batman. When he refuses to release the Psycho Pirate, Bane orders Bird to kill the hostages. But Catwoman has arrived, freed the hostages, and subdued Bane’s men. Our last glimpse is a very angry Bane breaking into Arkham Asylum.
BATMAN #19 by Tom King and David Finch. Bane has entered Arkham and rapidly defeats Batman's Rogues Gallery in short order, leading to a final confrontation between he and the Dark Knight.
BATMAN BEYOND #6 by Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang. We flash forward decades from now as Curare is being chased through Neo Gotham by the League of Assassins. Back in the present, Bruce comes home to find that Terry, Dana and matt are all in the secret hideout, which makes him a little upset. Barabra learns that Terminal is truly dead and then gets a visit from Curare, who needs Gordon's help to contact Batman. Up on the roof, the League of Assassins attacks them, but Barbara manages to light the bat Signal, much to Terry and Dana’s dismay. Terry decides it is more important to kiss her than respond to the signal.
BATWOMAN #1 by Marguerite Bennett, James Tynion IV and Steve Epting. Someone is out to make a killing selling Monster venom on the Black Market. And Batwoman intends to stop it, along with her version of Alfred: Julia Pennyworth. The hunt leads Kate to return to Coryana, where she was saved from drowning by a woman named Safiyah. Safiyah was the assistant of a man named Rafael and the tow woman ended up in a relationship during Kate’s “missing year”. Arriving in Coryana and meets with Rafael, who collapses with a knife in his back and asking why she had returned.
BLUE BEETLE #7 by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins.Dr. Fate battles the transformed Scarab, Kent Nelson awakes from his slumber, Ted Kord saves Jamie and Arion is reborn.
BOOSTER GOLD/THE FLINTSTONE SPECIAL #1 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Rick Leonardi, and Pier Brito. Booster Gold has to go back 20,000 B.C. Bedrock to stop Gorak’s invasion in 2472 A.D. Gotham City. Unfortunately, Booster not only breaks his time machine, but he accidentally kills a Gorak here to spread peace in the process. He meets with the Flintstones and they promise to help Booster fix his time machine if he promises to leave. In the end, thanks to the wonders of time travel, everyone ends up in 2472, as does the now living Gorak, who manages to end the war. Of course, Booster finds himself very rich because of a deposit made into his bank account a long time ago. And he also gets to eat big ribs in the future. In the backup, we meet the Jetsons. Judy visits her grandmother who is preparing to end her life at Genysis Hall. In the end, grandma hasn’t ended her life, she has just shifted it somewhere else. Grandma is now Rosie the Robot.
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #6 by Marc Andreyko and Aaron Lopresti. While Hawkman battles Despero, Adam Strange and Thanagarian Green Lantern Kral are fighting the mind-controlled Kaladorians and Rannians. Sardeth is able to get control long enough to tell Adam to shut down the Zeta Beam. Hawkman give Despero his Nth Metal in the form of a spear through the head. Adam uses a spear to disrupt the Zeta Beam crystals and a large explosion kills Hawkman and seems to trap Adam Strange in the Zeta Beam. There is peace between Thanagar and Rann, but Despero lives to crush Hawkman’s bones.
DEATHSTROKE #14 by Christopher Priest and Joe Bennett. Jericho is popping pills and slicing his wrists while on the phone with Etienne, who is having an affair with Slade. In Minneapolis, Hosun is hiding from Deathstroke in a dog house, but joins Rose at a Pawn shop where they find a beat-up sword named Rose. Deathstroke gets hired by the government and runs into Power Girl Tanya Spears in this process. Injured, she takes him back to her lab, where he finds out that he is blind.
DEATHSTROKE #15 by Christopher Priest, Larry Hama, and Carlo Pagulayan. Rose has a premonition that where Jericho is covered in blood and a woman is dead. Meanwhile, Dr. Willhayne and Tanya are trying to find a solution to Slade’s blindness and that leads to her designing glasses that will allow him to see. Later, Tanya and Slade mix it up with an assassin named Deadline. Slade changes up his look and his name, as he now goes by the handle of Twilight and has a viscous dog with him. In the end, Jericho goes to Dr. Willhayne and asks him to bring a corpse friend back to life.
DETECTIVE COMICS #952 by James Tynion IV, Christian Duce, Fernando Blanco, and Alex Sinclair. Many months ago, Ra’s Al Ghul tried to convince Shiva into calling off her war on the League of Assassins. In return, he would tell her where her daughter is. She refused and we know how that goes. Back in present day Gotham, Orphan confronts Shiva on the rooftop and that doesn’t go well as mother beats up daughter. Batman and Batwoman arrive but so do member of the League who get their leader away but not before taking Batwing and Azrael. By the way, Batman is still wanted for the murder of the mayor. Later, Jacob tells Kate to run while Cassandra wants to know why her mother had to be a master assassin.
DETECTIVE COMICS #953 by James Tynion IV, Christian Duce, and Fernando Blanco. Renee arranges to get Jim Gordon out of Gotham for his own safety, but that leads to a meeting with Batman, who explains that the city needs to be evacuated to save lives. After a flashback to Cassandra and the original Orphan, she leaves Clayface…only to have him be attacked by the League. While Batman and Orphan duke it out on the rooftops, Batwoman goes to the Belfry and finds what is left of Clayface. She is captured, brought to where Jacob is locked up and stabbed by the League. While Batman heads to the Batcave, Cassandra goes off and has another losing battle with Shiva. When Batman arrives at the Batcave, he finds Ra’s Al Ghul waiting for him.
THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #3 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, and Will Conrad. Captain Atom, with a new “stable” look, and learns that everything from 2012 dealing with the project has been shut down and that his wife dies in 2010. General Eiling takes him back to Mesaplex and fills him in about what happened in 2012, when he lost control. Eiling explains that three people died in 2012 and he could be convicted of manslaughter. So he will reappear but will be rebooted as a new Captain Atom. In the end, Nathaniel finds that he has a seventeen-year-old son.
THE FLASH #18 by Joshua Williamson and Jesus Merino. After a nightmare involving Wally and his father, Wally and The Flash head to Belle Reve, where they break inso Wally can visit his father. Amanda Waller denies that Daniel West was ever brought here. This leads to the two speedsters heading down to Australia to meet with Captain Boomerang. That also leads to them being captured by The Weaver Clan.
THE FLASH #19 by Joshua Williamson, Jesus Merino, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Flash, Kid Flash and Captain Boomerang are tied up and facing a firing squad. Boomerang convinces them to let them loose so they can test out their gun, made from parademon weapons, that might kill The Flash. It’s a bad idea as Kid Flash gets freed and defeat the Clan. Boomerang then tells Wally how his father died a hero in NEW SUICIDE SQUAD ANNUAL #1. Later, Barry reveals his secret identity which, when he finds out that iris doesn’t know yet, pisses Wally off and he flees. In the end, the REAL Reverse Flash, who was killed by Batman Thomas Wayne during FLASHPOINT, arrives in Iron Heights.
GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #7 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl, Adam Archer and Msassyk. We find out that imaginary friend Amy is really Amity Arkham and Olive, despite not being aware of it, shoves The Symbolist to his apparent death. Luckily, Tristan has transformed and saved him. While Kyle and Maps search for Olive, Pomeline and Colton find a room filled with treasure, an altar…and the Book of Gotham, which connects the Arkhams to the Silverlocks. Bookworm shows up and knocks her and Colton out. Meanwhile, Batman talks to Professor MacPherson and this sets off Olive’s flaming rage!
GREEN ARROW #18 by Benjamin Percy and Eleonora Carlini. The book is filled with flashbacks of young Roy Harper and how he ended up as Green Arrow’s ward and partner. In the present, Roy makes his way to the Indian Reservation on the Spokane Border, where he reunites with his Native American brother Bird, who plays Roy for his father’s death. The Wild Dogs show up and so does Ollie. That’s when Roy says this entire thing is Ollie’s fault.
GREEN ARROW #19 by Ben Percy and Eleonora Carlini. The Wild Dog Militia is battling Roy, Ollie and the natives when Black Canary arrives to shows up and heps save the day. Ollie learns that Broderick is responsible for hiring the Wild Dogs, which means it is Ollie’s fault after all. In the end, after flashbacks showing Roy’s decent into addiction, Ollie, Roy and Dinah team up to take down the Wild Dogs once and for all.
GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST SPECIAL #1 by James Tynion IV, Christopher Sebela, Ariel Olivetti and Howard Chaykin. Hal Jordan is fighting with Larfleeze when Space Ghost shows up and, feeling that Hal has too much power, begins to find with him. They end up on a planet where the inhabitants do not believe that extraterrestrial life exists except for Mavon and his niece Keila. The army begins to attack so Hal creates a giant Batman construct to scare them away. Mavon has made an illegal spaceship to explore space and that leads to the army coming back. A battle develops and Mavon is critically injured, leading to the heroes to take him to space so he can die at peace as he floats through space. In the end, we see that Keila has grown up and she and her people are ready to explore space. And she wears the logos from both Space Ghost and Green Lantern. In the backup. Cat Russ and dog Reddy deal with their individual comedy career crashes before meeting up and putting their act together.
GREEN LANTERNS #18 by Sam Humphries and Robson Rocha. After the events if GREEN LANTERN #20, Volthoom has ended up in Dead Space with Nekron and he proceeds to tell the story of his ten billion-year life. Starting out on Earth-15 in the year 3079, we see the planet being destroyed and his mother giving him the Traveling Lantern to save his life by getting off the planet. He spends many years travelling through the Multiverse to try and find a way to save his Earth and get home. Eventually he ends up on Earth-0 and meets the race that would become the Guardians of the Universe. A ring got created and it ended up on him, making Volthoom the First Lantern. They inserted the great heart into him and he gave them the technology to make the power rings. He had an attitude turn and the Guardians created the first seven Green Lanterns to stop him and lock him in prison for billions of years. In the end, Volthoom begs Nekron to kill him, but he can’t be killed because he is connected to the Emotional Spectrum. But he sees Rami using the Phantom Ring to flee from the Dominators, and decides that he needs to gain revenge on the Guardians.
GREEN LANTERNS #19 by Sam Humphries and Ronan Cliquet. Dr. Neil Emerson tries to contain the personality of Dr. Polaris but Director Harcourt, the new director of the Suicide Squad, has her own plans for Dr. Polaris. Meanwhile, Simon is dealing with brother-in-law Nazir, who is having a hard time dealing with Simon’s fame. In the end, Polaris gets the upper hand and Harcourt calls the Justice League for help and get Simon and Jessica in return. They have little luck, as he wraps them into a bunch of cars and drops them into a river.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #16 by Robert Vendetti and Rafa Sandoval. Off on Planet Heep Arkillo and Guy Gardner are beating on each other. One punch from the Yellow Lantern and he thinks he may have killed Guy, but it leads to a flashback that explains Guy’s attitude and Guy comes back with vengeance. Guy eventually takes Arkillo down and gets him to yield. But it looks like Guy may be dead too.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #17 by Robert Vendetti and Ethan Van Sciver. Over on Mogo, the Lanterns have managed to stabilize Arkillo and apparently guy is not as injured as we all thought.. And he has one of Arkillo’s teeth as a trophy. He sits by Arkillo’s bedside, returns that tooth and tells him how he can’t wait to team up and beat up bad guys together. Ganthet and Sayd have sent Kyle off to resurrect the rest of the Guardians and Kyle tries to use Saint Walker to channel his power. But something goes wrong and the White Lantern ring vaporizes and each color goes off to find someone to bear those color spectrums. All but one-the green one. Kyle is now the possessor of a green ring and returns to his classic Green Lantern uniform.
HARLEY QUINN #15 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Khari Evans, John Timms, and Joseph Michael Linsner. We begin in Gotham City in 2167 where Devani is training for a fight that will “change the world.” She apparently has an issue with Harley as she blasts it with a ray gun in his finger. Back in the present, Atlee and Harley are getting beat up by Zorcrom. Harley gets Atlee to go find help while she convinces Zorcrom to put on some pants and follow her to Central Park so they can talk about how to slave the human race. He gets to try a hot dog and decides that he needs to needs to spare those responsible for them. That’s when a rabid squirrel bites him and that makes him bleed. Meanwhile, Atlee has convinced Power Girl, the Earth 2 one, to help and Power Girl gets hit in the face by the squirrel. They track the trajectory to Central Park where Zorcrom is wreaking havoc. If that wasn’t enough, Harley Sinn, a hired assassin, sees Harley Quinn on television, and that makes her want to change her plans.
HARLEY QUINN #16 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner , John Timms, and Joseph Michael Linsner. Zorcrom sends Harley for a ride and it’s up to Power Girl Karen to save her. Meanwhile, Zorcrom tells Atlee that he wants Power Girl as his queen, so it gets arranged for the pair to go on a date and, since his solar batteries are down, Power girl beats him up. Things get worse when Zorcrom contracts rabies from the squirrel that bit him last issue, gets pushed in front of a bus and a rat takes off with his eye. Meanwhile, we learn the vampires are really just cannibals. And over in Gotham City 2167, Devani Kage wins her fight and that gets her a chance t go back in time to meet her hero Batman.Instaead, she’s going to use that trip back to kill Harley Quinn-the person who killed Batman.
HARLEYS LITTLE BLACK BOOK #6 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Simon Bisley. We find Harley that, because she used one of the spheres she got from her adventure with Superman, she is on a prison spaceship.Meanwhile, Lobo finds that the ship Harley is on is within his ship’s range and there is a bounty on one of the prisoners. Lobo blows up the prison ship and that means Harley and Lobo get to ride off together. They end up on an island and it quickly becomes an episode of NAKED AND AFRAID, complete with Harley being attracted to The Main Man. They run into a great beast with lots of eyes and Lobo rips it to pieces, making him even more attractive to Harley. A little later, a giant water snake interrupts their love making session by eating Lobo until a naked Harley can get the creature to vomit him out. Soon, Catina Rev, the owner of that prison ship, runs into our happy couple and we find out that she and Lobo have some history together. Harley accidentally blows Rev’s face off and that leads to some pirates showing up and capturing the couple. Luckily Harley knows how to escape and frees herself and Lobo and they make their way back to Coney Island and Lobo figures it’s a cool place to hang for a while.
THE HELLBLAZER #8 by Simon Oliver and Philip Tan. We find Constantine in a holding cell and being interrogated by French police. Meanwhile, has slipped into a portal and Adnan convinces her to betray Constantine, before stepping back into our world and paying John’s bail. They go to a dealer of antiquities named Mademoiselle Misabel Lefebvre and John creates some magic that results in shoes with wings that end up running amok through Paris.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin. The Infinity Corps tell Batman what is going on and how Superman is the key. We bounce through time where Aquaman and the Green Lanterns convince the people in their timelines of their power. Molly sends a message to all the various heroes in their spaces in time making them aware of the upcoming battle. When Superman can’t get an answer to where his wife and son are, or to just about any other question, he finds out where the Timeless' hub is and goes there.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #17 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin. Superman demands that the head of the Timeless, Tempus, tells him where Lois and Jon are. Tempus explains that things have changed and that he wants to save the Universe. Throughout the time stream, Wonder Woman makes a deal with Zeus to free his brothers and sisters, while Barry Allen is dealing the The Timeless trying to steal the power of the Speed Force. In Ancient Atlantis, The Timeless is trying to steal the Earth Stones while, in the 26th Century, they are trying to steal the Green Light. While The Timeless continues to steal power, Tempus explains to Superman how he is going to transport Earth's solar system to the edge of the Universe to keep Earth’s heroes from screwing up the Universe. Alexis shows Superman a Supersuit that she claims belonged to her dad and offers it to Batman.
ACTION COMICS #976 is reviewed in a blog for SUPERMAN REBORN.
ADAM STRANGE/FUTURE QUEST SPECIAL #1 by Marc Andreyko, Jeff Parker, Dan Didio, Steve Lieber, and Phil Winslade. Adam Strange finds himself riding a Zeta Beam into the Lost Valley where he is found by Ug and Todd. Shortly there after, Dr. Quest, Race Bannon, Jonny, Hadji, and Bandit arrive. Slowly, Adam’s fractured memories come back to him and he recalls the battle with Despero and Hawkman, along with events in Ontario with Justice League Canada and also remembers Rann and Alanna. Meanwhile, there are F.E.A.R. Agents stuck here who seem to blame Dr. Quest for their predicament and are trying to catch them in the hopes that Adam’s Zeta Beam could get them out of the Lost Valley. Eventually Birdman shows up and uses his powers to charge up some fallen material that from Strange's Universe, which allows him to go back home. But not before the Agents of F.E.A.R. force them to open a vortex which sends them to the world of the the Herculoids. In the backup featuring Batman meets Top Cat, who tells him who he is and how he and his best friend Benny ended up in Gotham City. Only he can’t find Benny. When Batman leaves Catwoman arrives and offers assistance and a possible job down the road.
ALL STAR BATMAN #8 by Scott Snyder and Giuseppi Camuncoli. Batman battles a Blackhawks team that is using stealth technology to trick him into thinking they are his Bat allies. This leads him to a confrontation with the Mad Hatter, who has affected Batman’s mind and makes him think the doctors trying to help him are actually his Rogue’s Gallery. Ultimately, he breaks free of Hatter’s mind control, who tells Batman who the real mastermind is. In the Cursed Wheel backup, Duke figures out how the Riddler is manipulating things from his cell and that leads to a confrontation with his old friend Darryl.
AQUAMAN #18 by Dan Abnett and Scot Eaton. Although it seems like he’s in Bialya and it is being bombed by Khandaq, Aquaman is actually fighting the battle in his head, thanks to Warhead. Warhead then explains that he was used as a weapon by the Khandaqi army, but was injured and needed to repair himself. But Black Manta’s aquatelepathy woke him from his repair state and Aquaman, feeling sorry, offers him sanctuary in Atlantis.Fellner and his men finally break in and Aquaman explains that Warhead is seeking political asylum. In the end, Aquaman returns to Amnesty Bay and Major Ricoh of the Aquamarines meets with him concerning Dead Water.
AQUAMAN #19 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones. Aquaman, Mera and the Aquamarines are on their way to Cape Valez to investigate something involving Dead Water. Once they arrive, they see that Scavenger, who was crippled previously by Dead Water, is running the operation. One by one, people are getting killed by Dead Water, leading to Aquaman to take the fight to the creature.
BATGIRL #9 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. Batgirl catches a crook in a Pronghorn uniform and using a Faraday Bag which hides all signals and waves, before heading off to teach a coding workshop at the South Burnside Elementary School. There she sees a new app called Doggo, where you get a virtual dog to care for and buy things with real money. In actuality, the app is all about data mining. Barbara goes home to find a crying Alyson, who is having marital problems with Jo. Later, she attends a charity ball with Ethan Cobblepot, where she learns that Doggo is part of Cobblepot’s company. She sneaks away as Batgirl and breaks into Ethan’s office, where she finds The Penguin.
BATGIRL ANNUAL #1 by Hope Larson, Vita Ayala, Inaki Miranda, and Elonora Carlini. Batgirl is in National City, helping Supergirl with a villain calling himself Red Spur. He gets away but Batgirl says not to worry as she hit him with a tracker and can pick him up tomorrow, so they get coffee. Babs agrees to help Supergirl to break into Cadmus lab and help her find a girl named Gayle who is speaking in Kryptonese and asking for her help. They run into a kid named Frostpoint who they take with them as they search. They find Gayle and she declares how she wants to go back to the Phantom Zone, because it’s safer there. Then she disappears. They break Frostpoint out and plan their next move, which will be in SUPERGIRL #9. In the backup, Barbara spend the night hanging out with her best friend Alysia, even though it may interfere with her crime fighting for the night. I the end, they end up on the roof of GCPD and turn on the Bat Signal…because they can.
BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #8 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Roge Antonio. Oracle and Batgirl are helping Nightwing track down a criminal named Gemini who has escaped from Bludhaven after killing all of her friends. It turns out she is a shape shifter who stabs him while disguised as Batman. The Birds show up and try to help, but Gemini blows up Nightwing’s motorcycle and escapes. Back at the base, Nightwing gets patched up and they all wonder what Oracle’s issue is, especially because we see him talking to himself and popping pills. Black Canary decides to go undercover at a meta-human Fight Club run by Roulette. Meanwhile, Blackbird is happy with Gemini’s advancements…so happy she steals them for herself.
BATMAN #18 by Tom King and David Finch. Besides seeing the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Bane’s youth, including their training, we get a full issue of Bane beating up Batman. When he refuses to release the Psycho Pirate, Bane orders Bird to kill the hostages. But Catwoman has arrived, freed the hostages, and subdued Bane’s men. Our last glimpse is a very angry Bane breaking into Arkham Asylum.
BATMAN #19 by Tom King and David Finch. Bane has entered Arkham and rapidly defeats Batman's Rogues Gallery in short order, leading to a final confrontation between he and the Dark Knight.
BATMAN BEYOND #6 by Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang. We flash forward decades from now as Curare is being chased through Neo Gotham by the League of Assassins. Back in the present, Bruce comes home to find that Terry, Dana and matt are all in the secret hideout, which makes him a little upset. Barabra learns that Terminal is truly dead and then gets a visit from Curare, who needs Gordon's help to contact Batman. Up on the roof, the League of Assassins attacks them, but Barbara manages to light the bat Signal, much to Terry and Dana’s dismay. Terry decides it is more important to kiss her than respond to the signal.
BATWOMAN #1 by Marguerite Bennett, James Tynion IV and Steve Epting. Someone is out to make a killing selling Monster venom on the Black Market. And Batwoman intends to stop it, along with her version of Alfred: Julia Pennyworth. The hunt leads Kate to return to Coryana, where she was saved from drowning by a woman named Safiyah. Safiyah was the assistant of a man named Rafael and the tow woman ended up in a relationship during Kate’s “missing year”. Arriving in Coryana and meets with Rafael, who collapses with a knife in his back and asking why she had returned.
BLUE BEETLE #7 by Keith Giffen and Scott Kolins.Dr. Fate battles the transformed Scarab, Kent Nelson awakes from his slumber, Ted Kord saves Jamie and Arion is reborn.
BOOSTER GOLD/THE FLINTSTONE SPECIAL #1 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Rick Leonardi, and Pier Brito. Booster Gold has to go back 20,000 B.C. Bedrock to stop Gorak’s invasion in 2472 A.D. Gotham City. Unfortunately, Booster not only breaks his time machine, but he accidentally kills a Gorak here to spread peace in the process. He meets with the Flintstones and they promise to help Booster fix his time machine if he promises to leave. In the end, thanks to the wonders of time travel, everyone ends up in 2472, as does the now living Gorak, who manages to end the war. Of course, Booster finds himself very rich because of a deposit made into his bank account a long time ago. And he also gets to eat big ribs in the future. In the backup, we meet the Jetsons. Judy visits her grandmother who is preparing to end her life at Genysis Hall. In the end, grandma hasn’t ended her life, she has just shifted it somewhere else. Grandma is now Rosie the Robot.
DEATH OF HAWKMAN #6 by Marc Andreyko and Aaron Lopresti. While Hawkman battles Despero, Adam Strange and Thanagarian Green Lantern Kral are fighting the mind-controlled Kaladorians and Rannians. Sardeth is able to get control long enough to tell Adam to shut down the Zeta Beam. Hawkman give Despero his Nth Metal in the form of a spear through the head. Adam uses a spear to disrupt the Zeta Beam crystals and a large explosion kills Hawkman and seems to trap Adam Strange in the Zeta Beam. There is peace between Thanagar and Rann, but Despero lives to crush Hawkman’s bones.
DEATHSTROKE #14 by Christopher Priest and Joe Bennett. Jericho is popping pills and slicing his wrists while on the phone with Etienne, who is having an affair with Slade. In Minneapolis, Hosun is hiding from Deathstroke in a dog house, but joins Rose at a Pawn shop where they find a beat-up sword named Rose. Deathstroke gets hired by the government and runs into Power Girl Tanya Spears in this process. Injured, she takes him back to her lab, where he finds out that he is blind.
DEATHSTROKE #15 by Christopher Priest, Larry Hama, and Carlo Pagulayan. Rose has a premonition that where Jericho is covered in blood and a woman is dead. Meanwhile, Dr. Willhayne and Tanya are trying to find a solution to Slade’s blindness and that leads to her designing glasses that will allow him to see. Later, Tanya and Slade mix it up with an assassin named Deadline. Slade changes up his look and his name, as he now goes by the handle of Twilight and has a viscous dog with him. In the end, Jericho goes to Dr. Willhayne and asks him to bring a corpse friend back to life.
DETECTIVE COMICS #952 by James Tynion IV, Christian Duce, Fernando Blanco, and Alex Sinclair. Many months ago, Ra’s Al Ghul tried to convince Shiva into calling off her war on the League of Assassins. In return, he would tell her where her daughter is. She refused and we know how that goes. Back in present day Gotham, Orphan confronts Shiva on the rooftop and that doesn’t go well as mother beats up daughter. Batman and Batwoman arrive but so do member of the League who get their leader away but not before taking Batwing and Azrael. By the way, Batman is still wanted for the murder of the mayor. Later, Jacob tells Kate to run while Cassandra wants to know why her mother had to be a master assassin.
DETECTIVE COMICS #953 by James Tynion IV, Christian Duce, and Fernando Blanco. Renee arranges to get Jim Gordon out of Gotham for his own safety, but that leads to a meeting with Batman, who explains that the city needs to be evacuated to save lives. After a flashback to Cassandra and the original Orphan, she leaves Clayface…only to have him be attacked by the League. While Batman and Orphan duke it out on the rooftops, Batwoman goes to the Belfry and finds what is left of Clayface. She is captured, brought to where Jacob is locked up and stabbed by the League. While Batman heads to the Batcave, Cassandra goes off and has another losing battle with Shiva. When Batman arrives at the Batcave, he finds Ra’s Al Ghul waiting for him.
THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM #3 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, and Will Conrad. Captain Atom, with a new “stable” look, and learns that everything from 2012 dealing with the project has been shut down and that his wife dies in 2010. General Eiling takes him back to Mesaplex and fills him in about what happened in 2012, when he lost control. Eiling explains that three people died in 2012 and he could be convicted of manslaughter. So he will reappear but will be rebooted as a new Captain Atom. In the end, Nathaniel finds that he has a seventeen-year-old son.
THE FLASH #18 by Joshua Williamson and Jesus Merino. After a nightmare involving Wally and his father, Wally and The Flash head to Belle Reve, where they break inso Wally can visit his father. Amanda Waller denies that Daniel West was ever brought here. This leads to the two speedsters heading down to Australia to meet with Captain Boomerang. That also leads to them being captured by The Weaver Clan.
THE FLASH #19 by Joshua Williamson, Jesus Merino, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Flash, Kid Flash and Captain Boomerang are tied up and facing a firing squad. Boomerang convinces them to let them loose so they can test out their gun, made from parademon weapons, that might kill The Flash. It’s a bad idea as Kid Flash gets freed and defeat the Clan. Boomerang then tells Wally how his father died a hero in NEW SUICIDE SQUAD ANNUAL #1. Later, Barry reveals his secret identity which, when he finds out that iris doesn’t know yet, pisses Wally off and he flees. In the end, the REAL Reverse Flash, who was killed by Batman Thomas Wayne during FLASHPOINT, arrives in Iron Heights.
GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #7 by Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl, Adam Archer and Msassyk. We find out that imaginary friend Amy is really Amity Arkham and Olive, despite not being aware of it, shoves The Symbolist to his apparent death. Luckily, Tristan has transformed and saved him. While Kyle and Maps search for Olive, Pomeline and Colton find a room filled with treasure, an altar…and the Book of Gotham, which connects the Arkhams to the Silverlocks. Bookworm shows up and knocks her and Colton out. Meanwhile, Batman talks to Professor MacPherson and this sets off Olive’s flaming rage!
GREEN ARROW #18 by Benjamin Percy and Eleonora Carlini. The book is filled with flashbacks of young Roy Harper and how he ended up as Green Arrow’s ward and partner. In the present, Roy makes his way to the Indian Reservation on the Spokane Border, where he reunites with his Native American brother Bird, who plays Roy for his father’s death. The Wild Dogs show up and so does Ollie. That’s when Roy says this entire thing is Ollie’s fault.
GREEN ARROW #19 by Ben Percy and Eleonora Carlini. The Wild Dog Militia is battling Roy, Ollie and the natives when Black Canary arrives to shows up and heps save the day. Ollie learns that Broderick is responsible for hiring the Wild Dogs, which means it is Ollie’s fault after all. In the end, after flashbacks showing Roy’s decent into addiction, Ollie, Roy and Dinah team up to take down the Wild Dogs once and for all.
GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST SPECIAL #1 by James Tynion IV, Christopher Sebela, Ariel Olivetti and Howard Chaykin. Hal Jordan is fighting with Larfleeze when Space Ghost shows up and, feeling that Hal has too much power, begins to find with him. They end up on a planet where the inhabitants do not believe that extraterrestrial life exists except for Mavon and his niece Keila. The army begins to attack so Hal creates a giant Batman construct to scare them away. Mavon has made an illegal spaceship to explore space and that leads to the army coming back. A battle develops and Mavon is critically injured, leading to the heroes to take him to space so he can die at peace as he floats through space. In the end, we see that Keila has grown up and she and her people are ready to explore space. And she wears the logos from both Space Ghost and Green Lantern. In the backup. Cat Russ and dog Reddy deal with their individual comedy career crashes before meeting up and putting their act together.
GREEN LANTERNS #18 by Sam Humphries and Robson Rocha. After the events if GREEN LANTERN #20, Volthoom has ended up in Dead Space with Nekron and he proceeds to tell the story of his ten billion-year life. Starting out on Earth-15 in the year 3079, we see the planet being destroyed and his mother giving him the Traveling Lantern to save his life by getting off the planet. He spends many years travelling through the Multiverse to try and find a way to save his Earth and get home. Eventually he ends up on Earth-0 and meets the race that would become the Guardians of the Universe. A ring got created and it ended up on him, making Volthoom the First Lantern. They inserted the great heart into him and he gave them the technology to make the power rings. He had an attitude turn and the Guardians created the first seven Green Lanterns to stop him and lock him in prison for billions of years. In the end, Volthoom begs Nekron to kill him, but he can’t be killed because he is connected to the Emotional Spectrum. But he sees Rami using the Phantom Ring to flee from the Dominators, and decides that he needs to gain revenge on the Guardians.
GREEN LANTERNS #19 by Sam Humphries and Ronan Cliquet. Dr. Neil Emerson tries to contain the personality of Dr. Polaris but Director Harcourt, the new director of the Suicide Squad, has her own plans for Dr. Polaris. Meanwhile, Simon is dealing with brother-in-law Nazir, who is having a hard time dealing with Simon’s fame. In the end, Polaris gets the upper hand and Harcourt calls the Justice League for help and get Simon and Jessica in return. They have little luck, as he wraps them into a bunch of cars and drops them into a river.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #16 by Robert Vendetti and Rafa Sandoval. Off on Planet Heep Arkillo and Guy Gardner are beating on each other. One punch from the Yellow Lantern and he thinks he may have killed Guy, but it leads to a flashback that explains Guy’s attitude and Guy comes back with vengeance. Guy eventually takes Arkillo down and gets him to yield. But it looks like Guy may be dead too.
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #17 by Robert Vendetti and Ethan Van Sciver. Over on Mogo, the Lanterns have managed to stabilize Arkillo and apparently guy is not as injured as we all thought.. And he has one of Arkillo’s teeth as a trophy. He sits by Arkillo’s bedside, returns that tooth and tells him how he can’t wait to team up and beat up bad guys together. Ganthet and Sayd have sent Kyle off to resurrect the rest of the Guardians and Kyle tries to use Saint Walker to channel his power. But something goes wrong and the White Lantern ring vaporizes and each color goes off to find someone to bear those color spectrums. All but one-the green one. Kyle is now the possessor of a green ring and returns to his classic Green Lantern uniform.
HARLEY QUINN #15 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Khari Evans, John Timms, and Joseph Michael Linsner. We begin in Gotham City in 2167 where Devani is training for a fight that will “change the world.” She apparently has an issue with Harley as she blasts it with a ray gun in his finger. Back in the present, Atlee and Harley are getting beat up by Zorcrom. Harley gets Atlee to go find help while she convinces Zorcrom to put on some pants and follow her to Central Park so they can talk about how to slave the human race. He gets to try a hot dog and decides that he needs to needs to spare those responsible for them. That’s when a rabid squirrel bites him and that makes him bleed. Meanwhile, Atlee has convinced Power Girl, the Earth 2 one, to help and Power Girl gets hit in the face by the squirrel. They track the trajectory to Central Park where Zorcrom is wreaking havoc. If that wasn’t enough, Harley Sinn, a hired assassin, sees Harley Quinn on television, and that makes her want to change her plans.
HARLEY QUINN #16 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner , John Timms, and Joseph Michael Linsner. Zorcrom sends Harley for a ride and it’s up to Power Girl Karen to save her. Meanwhile, Zorcrom tells Atlee that he wants Power Girl as his queen, so it gets arranged for the pair to go on a date and, since his solar batteries are down, Power girl beats him up. Things get worse when Zorcrom contracts rabies from the squirrel that bit him last issue, gets pushed in front of a bus and a rat takes off with his eye. Meanwhile, we learn the vampires are really just cannibals. And over in Gotham City 2167, Devani Kage wins her fight and that gets her a chance t go back in time to meet her hero Batman.Instaead, she’s going to use that trip back to kill Harley Quinn-the person who killed Batman.
HARLEYS LITTLE BLACK BOOK #6 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Simon Bisley. We find Harley that, because she used one of the spheres she got from her adventure with Superman, she is on a prison spaceship.Meanwhile, Lobo finds that the ship Harley is on is within his ship’s range and there is a bounty on one of the prisoners. Lobo blows up the prison ship and that means Harley and Lobo get to ride off together. They end up on an island and it quickly becomes an episode of NAKED AND AFRAID, complete with Harley being attracted to The Main Man. They run into a great beast with lots of eyes and Lobo rips it to pieces, making him even more attractive to Harley. A little later, a giant water snake interrupts their love making session by eating Lobo until a naked Harley can get the creature to vomit him out. Soon, Catina Rev, the owner of that prison ship, runs into our happy couple and we find out that she and Lobo have some history together. Harley accidentally blows Rev’s face off and that leads to some pirates showing up and capturing the couple. Luckily Harley knows how to escape and frees herself and Lobo and they make their way back to Coney Island and Lobo figures it’s a cool place to hang for a while.
THE HELLBLAZER #8 by Simon Oliver and Philip Tan. We find Constantine in a holding cell and being interrogated by French police. Meanwhile, has slipped into a portal and Adnan convinces her to betray Constantine, before stepping back into our world and paying John’s bail. They go to a dealer of antiquities named Mademoiselle Misabel Lefebvre and John creates some magic that results in shoes with wings that end up running amok through Paris.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin. The Infinity Corps tell Batman what is going on and how Superman is the key. We bounce through time where Aquaman and the Green Lanterns convince the people in their timelines of their power. Molly sends a message to all the various heroes in their spaces in time making them aware of the upcoming battle. When Superman can’t get an answer to where his wife and son are, or to just about any other question, he finds out where the Timeless' hub is and goes there.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #17 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin. Superman demands that the head of the Timeless, Tempus, tells him where Lois and Jon are. Tempus explains that things have changed and that he wants to save the Universe. Throughout the time stream, Wonder Woman makes a deal with Zeus to free his brothers and sisters, while Barry Allen is dealing the The Timeless trying to steal the power of the Speed Force. In Ancient Atlantis, The Timeless is trying to steal the Earth Stones while, in the 26th Century, they are trying to steal the Green Light. While The Timeless continues to steal power, Tempus explains to Superman how he is going to transport Earth's solar system to the edge of the Universe to keep Earth’s heroes from screwing up the Universe. Alexis shows Superman a Supersuit that she claims belonged to her dad and offers it to Batman.
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