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.
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