DC REBIRTH Month 14, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #10 by Steve Orlando and Andy MacDonald. Kingbutcher shows up and takes away his dream of relief from pain. Apparently, this is happening all of the city of Vanity where everyone is wishing for things and getting them taken away by the Kingbutcher. The team battles him and, in the end, he reveals what happens when their wishes come true. In Ray’s case, his mom wished for a new family.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #11 by Steve Orlando and Neil Edwards. Ryan is still trying to find the missing Ray Palmer but he and Frost go to Africa to meet with Freedom Beast, who mentions a connection to the Red, but that he can’t cure her. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is battling Kingbutcher. Ray steals the villain’s crown, which results in him being sent back to the Lords of Order. Ray’s mother is here and he walks away from her to join his superhero family like she went to her new family. In the end, Batman travels to Kravikoras to talk to Lord Havok about the Might Beyond the Mirror, the Kingbutcher needs to report to the Lords and Ryan finally gets a signal from Palmer.

NEW SUPER-MAN #13 by Gene Luen Yang and Billy Tan. Kenan tries to save his mother but Super-Man Zero beats him to the punch, freezing Kenan in the process. Avery chips him out and he goes to look for where his father supposedly is being kept at Loess Plateau, but finds nothing. After a conversation in his mind with I-Ching, the team goes off to find Super-Man Zero. At the Fortress of Sovereignty, Emperor Superman tells Dr. Omen to free all the super villains in the Crab Shell Dungeon or they will kill her husband. With the villains freed, the team arrives and Batman faces off against Rongpei who is now The Bane of China-Anathema. Kenan keeps him from breaking Baixi’s back and, with the help of Robinbot, the Justice League of China is ready to take down the villains.

NIGHTWING #24 by Tim Seeley and Miguel Mendonca. Nightwing is getting hold of Giz because he needs blue prints to get out of Tiger Shark's submarine. He runs the gauntlet, taking down Shado, Magog and Kid Amazo in the process, ending up with Blockbuster and a bomb. As Blockbuster flees, the bomb goes off. Meanwhile, Pigeon is on parole and shows up at Shawn’s Community Center.

NIGHTWING #25 by Tim Seeley and Minkyu Jung. Right before the bombs blow up, Nightwing finds Clock King and the time vest and they manage to get out in time. He also manages to freeze time and save everybody before it blows. Detective Svoboda revives him as Tiger Shark goes back to the Casino and unleashes two Tiger-Shark hybrids on Desmond. Desmond becomes Blockbuster and disposes of the animals and confronts Tiger Shark. Nightwing arrives as everything is over but promises to stay in Bludhaven and eventually take him out of the game. In the end, Dick tires to put things right with Shawn, but she tells him it’s over and she may go back to her past with Pigeon. Roland now runs the Casino and Tiger Shark is locked in a drained out aquarium. And, when his girlfriend arrives, we see Giz laying in a pool of blood.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #12 by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. Bizarro is dying and the Outlaws are doing their best to try and save him, but Ma Gunn doesn’t have knowledge about Kryptonians.Afrtemis and Red Hood head off to battle Solomon Grundy and are ineffective. Grundy arrives and puts Grundy down, but dies in the process. And that is when Lex Luthor arrives.

SUICIDE SQUAD #21 by Rob Williams and Gus Vazquez. The Squad, now led by Harley, is headed to Bulgaria to take on The People, where Enchantress turns their plane into a dragon. Cosmonut turns traitor again and announces he is now with The People. Harley kicks him in the head and proceeds to bash his head into pieces. The Squad enters the People’s compound where they face a time bomb ready to kill them all and Deadshot, following Harley’s orders, shoots Croc in the head. Meanwhile, Waller is testifying in front of Congress. When she is through, her plane gets hijacked by a member of the Annihilation Brigade and they take her to meet Direktor Karla

SUICIDE SQUAD #22 by Rob Williams and Augustin Padilla. Enchantress is upset that Killer Croc has been shot in the head by Deadshot and uses her magic to torture Deadshot while Harley and Katana try to figure out how to disarm the bomb. Meanwhile, Amanda has gotten free and hitches a ride with a family who is bringing her to the nearby military base. Karla has convinced her that they both want the same thing: eliminate metahumans. Back in Bulgaria, Harley discovers that Captain Boomerang killed Hack. Killer Croc wakes up and Harley reveals they can’t neutralize the bomb, so Enchantress stops torturing Deadshot and teleports them to safety. Harley beats and threatens to have Katana cut off his hands, but they leave him to freeze to death instead. In the end, Waller gives the team a new mission: detain Killer Frost and Batman.

SUPERGIRL #11 by Steve Orlando and Brian Ching. Kara flies into the dragon that is Psi. Xa-Du rams into the cliff that Batgirl and Ben, leading to Batgirl fighting with him. Supergirl convinces Psi not to kill Xa-Du and she just sends him adrift in the Phantom Zone. Our heroes leave the Zone and Supergirl gets fired by Cat Grant…literally!

SUPERMAN #26 by Michael Moreci and Scott Godlewski. Clark tries to teach Jon the difference between acting responsibly in his role as a hero and acting impulsively. He tells him a story of how Pa Kent used similar teaching methods and he turned out okay. In the end, Jon realizes that his grandfather was a great man.

SUPERMAN #27 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Scott Godlewski. After all the recent events, Lois decides the family needs dome time to relax. So she rents a Winnebago and it’s time for a family road trip. This turns into a history lesson as they travel from Niagara Falls to Sharon, Massachusetts to New York City to Philadelphia, learning life lessons along the way too.

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SUPER SONS #6 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. Jon gets to go out and patrol with Damian, who teases him for saving animals in trees and such. The Teen Titans show up for Damian, meaning Jon gets left behind. While they are on a mission and fight the Time Commander, Jon goes home.  In the end, a very old set of Teen Titans visits him.

SUPERWOMAN #12 by K. Perkins and Stephen Segovia. Lana is still looking for Skyhook and with the help of the Atomic Skull, she gets to find out what information Shockwave has on him. After a flashback involving Crash and John, Lana heads home to find out John is moving out because she had been secretive about the whole thing with Skyhook. Later, Crash faces off with Skyhook, but gets saved when Superwoman, Natasha and John arrive.  With the bqd guys taken down, Lana heads off to find the missing kid.

TEEN TITANS #10 by Benjamin Percy, Phil Hester and Khoi Pham. Aqualad is battling Black Manta, who is revealed to be his father and who wants the sea shell Jackson wears around his neck. His mother is freed and immediately heads to the Titans to ask for help. She reveals she is from Xebel and that Manta got into a relationship so he could gain this shell, which contains a magical black pearl. As the Titans head to rescue him, Manta has him on a mission with him to gain the treasure that Manta family Hs long sought. But they have to deal with a giant octopus to get it.

TITANS #13 by Dan Abnett and V. Ken Marion. The team is at Alton Laboratories in an effort to recover Karen's stolen memory.  But Mr. Binder initiates the H.I.V.E. Endgame protocol, which gives him all sorts of stolen powers to battle them. Wally saves the day, despite the damage it does to his heart. Nightwing finds that Karen’s engram has been removed, meaning someone is a traitor. Dick blames Lilith, asking how Psimon was able to turn her against them. Meanwhile, Malcom meets with Gnarrk to enlist his help.

TRINITY #11 by Francis Manapul and Scott Hanna. Although she was possessed by the alien, Wonder Woman now sees the metallic man is the real enemy Batman is trying to save Cyborg by getting him to the escape pods before the creatures can get in. Superman is slowing the ship’s decent and the heat of reentry burns the creatures off the Green Lanterns. The combined efforts of the Trinity stop the Watchtower from crashing to Earth. In the end, The Perfect get to live on Earth and White Mercy looks on approvingly.

WONDER WOMAN #26 by Shea Fontana and Mirka Andolfo. Wonder Woman is in Greece on a peace keeping mission, but she can’t save everyone. This leads her to a flashback of her as a child and she was forced to put her doll away and grow up. After the mission ends, Diana meets with General Picket and the Etta, who invites the Amazon to her brother's wedding, which our hero accepts.  She heads to medical to be checked out by Dr. Crawford who is ailing and pretty agitated by Dian’s concerns. At the wedding, Diana makes friends with a little girl, who discovers a bomb under one of the tables.

WONDER WOMAN #27 by Shea Fontana and Mirka Andolfo. The bomb explodes and Dina absorbs most of the damage, but Etta is seriously injured in the process. Back at the medical lab, Crawford sedates Diana so she can take her blood and inject herself to keep her from succumbing to Royer-Mays Syndrome. She turns into a powerful Amazon-like woman and battles Diana, who eventually is able to use her lasso to strip the DNA from Crawford. Rather than seek a solution, Crawford injects herself and commits suicide.

In the end, Etta is in recovery and someone wants Wonder Woman dead or alive. And that means there are going to be people lining up to take that challenge.