Wednesday, October 4, 2017

DC REBIRTH Month 16, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #14 by Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis. While the rest of the team gets attacked by the Null Army on the surface, Ryan heads off to talk to Moz-Ga.He pleads with Moz-Ga, who says he can’t wish that the Microverse would be okay, but he can lead Ryan to Ray Palmer. Ryan makes his way back to the surface in a Bio-Ship, just as Batman calls for Action Code: Blackout, which takes down the Null Army. The ship takes the team to Ray, who is shocked to see Aut with them, claiming he has doomed them all.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15 by Steve Orlando and Felipe Wantanabe. Ray Palmer is upset that the League brought Aut to the Ignition Point.  In a flashback, we see how Palmer discovered the Microverse, making contact with Aut in the process. The duo meets up with Preon and they all head to the Ignition Point, but they get caught in a Quantum Storm. Preon uses the Bio Belt that Ray made for her to escape the storm. Ray and Aut make it to the Ignition Point and discover that someone was responsible for all of this and it wasn’t a natural disaster.

NEW SUPER-MAN #15 by Gene Luen Yang and Brent Peeples. Deadshot has used Katana’s Soul Taker to apparently kill Emperor Superman sword and then stabs Kenan with it too. I-Ching battles his evil self while the China White Triad shows up with orders to kill everyone. The Justice League of China along with Dr. Omen, arrive to join the battle and also get Kenan out of the fray. The Evil I-Ching arrives and turns Emperor Superman into Emperor Doomsday. After being patched up by his parents, Kenan heads back into battle, only to fall to Emperor Doomsday. He awakes in 1937 in American Chinatown.

NIGHTWING #28 by Tim Seeley, Javier Fernandez and Miguel Mendonca. Mr. Minos, who we believed was dead, has been masquerading as Tiger and selling weapons to the Second Hand. It turns out that Minos is merely a hologram created by Cadmus. The Skull Girls find the real Lotti and also find a way to hack into the device that is strapped to the captive Nightwing’s head. They have also found a way to get into Minos’ system and upload a virus, which distracts him long enough for the real King Tiger to show up and kills the hologram. In the end, Shawn keeps Mouse from killing Blockbuster while  Huntress and Nightwing end up making love. Unfortunately Shawn sees it.

NIGHTWING #29 by Tim Seeley and Paul Pelletier. In Part 2 of this DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in, Nightwing joins up with the Gotham Resistance to battle Mr. Freeze. We also see that the cut he received on his forehead from Doctor Hurt has opened up again and was providing him with trippy visions of the Dark Multiverse. The team ends up at the Riddler’s Labyrinth where they are attacked by Dark Multiverse Robins. They find a secret Court of Owls made of the Metals of the Mantling and that leads them back into battle with Mr. Freeze again. In the end, it seems the Dark Multiverse Batman has managed to possess members of the Suicide Squad and the Teen Titans.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #14 by Scott Lobdell and Joe Bennett. Red Hood and Artemis stop Professor Pyg and his dollotrons from ripping off an armored truck and cure the dollotrons with a cure created by the now brilliant Bizzaro. Red Hood and Artemis head back to their headquarters when they are picked up by a tractor beam which takes them to their NEW HEADQUARTERS, thanks to Bizzaro. They discover that Zsasz has escaped Arkham and he is stopped quickly thanks to Bizarro's quick response program.  Later, Bizzaro checks in with the computer, where he is told that his brilliance won’t last forever.

SUICIDE SQUAD #25 by Rob Williams, Giuseppe Cafaro and Agustin Padilla. Waller has been possessed by Gulag and that leads Harley to unleash weapons to stop her. As Waller is about to press the button that will initiate the Squad’s brain bombs, Captain Boomerang arrives to save the day. Katana uses her sword to exorcise Gulag from within and Waller, pretty pissed off, rallies the team to head out and kill the People. Boomerang takes out Tunguska, then find that Direktor Karla has committed suicide. Harley hacks into the computer system and explodes the brain bombs on the Suicide Squads that were created across the world by Karla. In the epilogue, Batman and Frost meet with Waller and send her packing. And Rick Flag makes a reappearance with original Squad member Karin Grace, who insists they need Waller’s help.

SUICIDE SQUAD #26 by Rob Williams and Stjepan Sejic. In Part 3 of this DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in, Amanda sends the team to Gotham, where the Dark Multiverse has invaded. Damian Wayne, Nightwing, Green Arrow, Harley Quinn and Croc team up to penetrate the mysterious mountain in Gotham, only to find a possessed Poison Ivy awaiting them, along with an equally evil Starfire. They also end up fighting the transformed Teen Titans and the Suicide Squad, where Croc sacrifices himself to save the rest of the Gotham Resistance team. The other get free and encounter the Mad Hatter before Nightwing tells Robin that he believes Batman is dead. In the end, Mister Terrific arrives with a plan to help save the day.

SUPERGIRL #13 by Steve Orlando and Robson Rocha. Supergirl fights the Emerald Empress but, when the frozen Cyborg Superman appears, the crowd turns ugly against our hero. When Indigo arrives to join the fight, Supergirl discovers that the Eye of Ekron is controlling the Emerald Empress. Meanwhile, Selina and Magog battle Lar-On, while Ben Rubble shuts down the Catco app. Supergirl destroys the Eye which causes the Emerald Empress to disappear. Indigo fights with Supergirl and has the upper hand, until Kara’s father destroys the automaton. In the end, Cameron Chase, Eliza and Jeremiah all resign from the DEO. Chase heads off with Kar-On while Kara’s “parents” start a new life. Indigo and It seems that the New Director, Mr. Bones, has taken control of Indigo and Magog and is working with Mokkari. It is revealed that Zor-El appears to kill him in the end.

SUPERMAN #30 by Keith Champagne, Ed Benes, Tyler Kirkham and Philip Tan. The Parallax controlled Superman battles with Sinestro and luckily the Weaponers of Qward arrive to help. They transport Sinestro and Superman to the Anti-Matter Universe, where Sinestro tries to extract Parallax from Superman by showing us all of Clark’s deepest fears. Parallax leaves Clark’s body and moves about through a group of the Weaponers. A restored Superman breaks free from Sinestro’s construct, steals his ring and uses it to contain Parallax, giving the creature a promise that he won’t let Sinestro abuse him again. Sinestro and Lyssa Drak transport out of the Anti-Matter Universe and Superman is sent back home by the Weaponers.

SUPERMAN #31 by James Bonny and Tyler Kirkham. Superman is at S.T.A.R. Labs where a researcher is threatening to blow up the place because he didn’t get the promotion he feels he deserved. Meanwhile, Lois and Jimmy are in Bolivia, where she has a meeting with a drug lord. Unfortunately, we discover that Deathstroke murdered them, which leads to her wanting to interview him. That leads to her heading off to Prague where, after he saves her from The Throng, he takes her to an observation tower and rants her the interview. Later, back in Metropolis, Deathstroke meets Lois and reveals that she is next on his contract hit list.

SUPER SONS #8 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. Our heroes get saved from a creature named Ygarddis by two girls named Big Shot and Hard Line. It seems Ygarddis is a living planet that destroyed their planet known as Eoroe, which was filled with heroes. He ate the planet and everyone on it except for the girls and a hero named Kraklow, who worked with some kind of magic clay. They can sure use Kaklow now as the book ends with Ygarddis arriving with all of the heroes he ingested as his army.

SUPERWOMAN #14 by K. Perkins and Stephen Segovia. Supergirl and Lana battle the transformed Amos, who they defeat and bring to him to the Scabbard, where they try to reverse the Red Sun poisoning. That is when Maxima shows up and they all fight. We discover there are two Maxima’s and the good Maxima arrives to send the evil one back to their planet. The trio go back to check on Amos and we see that someone is watching Lana.

TEEN TITANS #12 by Benjamin Percy and Mirka Andolfo. . In Part 1 of this DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in, the Teen Titans go to Gotham City where a giant mountain has appeared. Damian enters the Riddler’s Labyrinth, where he gets saved by Green Arrow. They get joined by Harley Quinn and Killer Croc where they face a possessed Riddler in a killer robot. Now sooner do they defeat the Riddler, then they run into Mr. Freeze.

TITANS #15 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. Nightwing has been caught by Roy and reveals he has been a spy for the H.I.V.E. When he and Wally were captured by the Fearsome Five, Gizmo put nanite spyware in him. He just discovered that and now has figured out where Bumblebee's memories are being held.  After Tempest reveals he is in love with Lilith, they head off to gather the memories, they get a distress call from H.I.V.E. and they head there. They arrive to discover that Herald, Gnarrk and Psimon, who recently got teleported out of Riker’s Island, are all being mind-controlled. Herald stabs Nightwing, leading Waly to race them backwards in time. Unfortunately, this is too much for Wally’s heart and he dies in Dick’s arms.

TRINITY #13 by Rob Williams and V. Ken Marion. While the Trinity battles the possessed Outlaws, Constantine is transported to Northern Victoria Land where he confronts a demon before seeing what Circe and Ra’s al Ghul are up to. They now have Zatanna and Deadman in their possession and Ras stabs John in the chest, which allows them to take control of him too. He reveals that Deadman will be able to take possession of Superman and they send Boston Brand away. He arrives at the battle and takes possession of Superman

WONDER WOMAN #30 by Shea Fontana and David Messina. Sasha arrives to tell Steve and Etta that General Thomas is keeping them there, but she has picked her side and releases them to help Diana. Meanwhile, Hamilton Revere reveals that he has tried to synthetically create Wonder Woman's DNA, but has failed because he doesn’t have the god powers in the mix. Either way, he has created soldiers with enough powers to challenge her. Etta and Steve arrive and Diana is able to use the Perfect to return the soldiers to normal. Revere gets taken away by the people who used to work for him while Etta blows up the compound, keeping Diana’s secret safe.

WONDER WOMAN #31 by James Robinson and Carlo Pagulayan. We are introduced to Paul Jackson, who lives up in the woods by himself. Soon Grail shows up and he is revealed to be Hercules. She drains him of his life force, so she can give it to baby Darkseid, who is now becoming a teenager. Meanwhile, after defeating Giganta, a probate lawyer arrives to tell Diana that she's sole heir to Hercules' fortune.


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