DC REBIRTH Month 17, Part 2

HARLEY QUINN #29 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Mirka Andolfo, Michael Kaluta and Tom Derenick. As Harley continues her campaign for Mayor, the current Mayor enlists the help of Scarecrow to take her out of the game. During a three-way televised debate, Harley gets hit with Fear Gas and begins to hallucinate. As a call for an ambulance is made, Ivy steps up and kisses Harley with her special lipstick, bringing the candidate back to normal.

HARLEY QUINN #30 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and John Timms. Harley has Ivy use her powers to expand Central Park by a few blocks, looking to gain sound ground in the election. The Scarecrow uses his fear gas on the Mayor in an effort to get paid, resulting in a nightmare where he is humiliated by Harley Quinn. Harley meets with Mason and they renew their love interest but, in the end, she is forced to drop out of the race because Mason has been kidnapped.

THE HELLBLAZER #15 by Tim Seeley and Jesús Merino. John dives into a dead body to confront the Nordic dwarf brothers, where he convinces them to let him drink a bottle of mead that lets him remake the world in his image. He finds himself a successful rock star before Superman and the League show up to talk with him. He beats up Superman and finds that, in this reality, Margaret is a drunk. He convinces her to drink the mead, which restores everything to where it was and saves her life in the process. In the end, the two end up together, but he leaves her because it’s the right thing to do.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #30 Written by: Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin. Simon and Diana have been possessed by The Darkness. Meanwhile, Sovereign has arrived and has Aquaman tell Mera how he used parts of Cyborg’s body to recreate himself. Then he takes Sovereign to see not until Sovereign reveals herself as Hippolyta. In the end, she tries to convince Diana to let the Darkness envelop the world and that may just happen.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #31 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasari. As the team and their kids battle the Darkness, the Darkness tries to convince the League why they should kill their kids. Batman arrives just as Mera runs a trident through Future Aquaman and resurrects Simon. Hunter is ready to kill Wonder Woman until he learns that Diana had sacrificed herself in the future to save him. They all figure out that it takes love to defeat the Darkness and channel that feeling to do so. The twins, along with Future Aquaman take the Darkness away by Boom Tube and everyone else go back to their own timeline.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #16 by Steve Orlando and Felipe Wantanabe. Dr. Aut, through his journal, reveals how he got Ray to come to the Microverse and how they made their way to the Ignition point. Once there, he reveals how he knows nothing can save the Multiverse and he plans on letting it die, with or without Ray’s help. He puts Ray in prison and reveals his new persona of The Null. Ray manages to get a message out to Ryan, gets free and uses his Bios Belt to transport Aut away. In the end, and back in the present, Aut reveals himself as The Null and proclaims the end of the world is coming.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #17 by Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis. Aut shrinks the League to smaller than microscopic size while Ray and Ryan fight Aut to save them. Ray manages to restore the League and then shrinks himself and Aut in size, where he tries to shows him that the damage to the Microverse isn’t as bad as Aut believes. That doesn’t work and Ryan leaves Aut shrunk, while enlarging and destroying the machine, thus saving the Microverse. Ray reunites with Preon, but stays behind while telling Ryan that he is truly the Atom now. In the end, we visit the Ghost Zone where Afterthought and an old villain from MIDNIGHTER plot.

NEW SUPER-MAN #16 by Gene Luen Yang and Brent Peeples. Kenan finds himself in Chinatown in 1937 where Slam Bradley shows up to battles “the yellow peril”. His Fu Manchu looking guide explains that really they are just Chinese citizens and their evil look is just an illusion. Kenan takes down Bradley and his guide reveals himself to I-Ching, who turns into All-Yang. Later, they visit a German gentleman and he is incinerated by All-Yang, who explains he was an officer who stole the image of the Red Jade Dragon from the Chinese back in 1900. He sends Kenan back to the real world with instructions to retrieve the Red Dragon and then not only free Master I-Ching but unleash his final super power. He wakes to find himself in a fluid tube where his mom has been letting him heal for the past two weeks. He enlists the rest of the Justice League of China to help him, but they run into the REAL Justice League on the way.

NIGHTWING #30 by Tim Seeley and Miguel Mendonca. Nightwing saves a local Senator from the Kobra cult when Raptor arrives and tries to take the Senator out. Nightwing to the rescue, but Raptor escapes after causes some havoc. The Senators response after it is all settled is to announce he is going to be harder on crime by shutting down the city’s Rec. Centers and shelters. Nightwing means with Detective Svoboda, who tells him she can’t help him anymore because it could cost her her job. In the end, Nightwing meets the Run-Offs, who refuse to help him, so he sells his soul to Blockbuster by promising to leave Bludhaven forever in return for tracking down Raptor.

NIGHTWING #31 by Tim Seeley and Miguel Mendonca. Raptor attacks Desmond, leading to the latter changing to Blockbuster in front of a huge crowd. Meanwhile, Nightwing and Huntress go after the Whale Enders Gang, who are looking to steal horseshoe crabs from a medical supply company. The leader injects herself with the serum from the crabs, turning into a monster and then passing out. Elsewhere, Defacer finds out that Pigeon is working with Raptor. In the end, Dick is back at the casino when an out of costume Raptor steps up to the table.

RAGMAN #1 by Ray Fawkes and Inaki Miranda.  Rory “Twig” Regan and a small group of soldiers enter a tomb in the Israeli Desert looking for treasures and find a mysterious stone container. They get attacked by strange red eye soldiers and killed, except Rory who gets enveloped by rags which have come from the container. Switching to the present day, Rory, who works at a junk shop with his dad, is undergoing PTSD therapy in Gothsam. Back at the store, Rory finds some of the rags he brought back from Israel and he consumed by them. Amidst flashbacks of the slaughter in the desert, Rory finds himself battling another raglike creature. Later, he returns to the shop, to find it in flames.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #15 by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. Batman’s team is concerned there has been no crime in Gotham and learn that the Outlaws have handled that. Later, Bizarro, who may be losing his intelligence, allows himself to be captured by Batman’s team. The Outlaws come to his rescue, but still get taken out by Batman’s group. In the end, Batwoman says it is time to call HER.

SUICIDE SQUAD #27 by Rob Williams and Barnaby Bagenda. A killer spider robot shows up at Belle Reve and is taken out by Deadshot. Upon examination, the word ARGENT is found on the robot. After finding out where it came from, the team is launched into space to dock at an old space station. Once there, they face a monster and a robot, under orders by President Truman to protect the craft. The monster is part of the security in place by those living here: Captain Rick Flag and Doctor Karin Grace-the ORIGINAL Suicide Squad. Later, they find a photograph book with a picture of the original leader of Task Force X, King Faraday.

SUICIDE SQUAD #28 by Rob Williams and Elonora Carlini. While part of the team finds themselves being attacked by killer robots, Harley Quinn, Katana, Croc and Boomerang find out the Red Wave monster, a threat faced by the original Suicide Squad in their first adventure, infected them Flag and Karin, but they took the creature’s heart and they ended up being immortal. Flag explodes the brain bombs at 50%, knocking them out and taking them on a flight to the moon to take on the Red Wave. In the backup, set in post war days, Faraday meets the original Suicide Squad and sees a captured Starro the Conqueror.

SUPERGIRL #14 by Steve Orlando and Jose Luis. In events that occur after NEW SUPER-MAN #11, Supergirl meets with Kenan Kong and I-Ching in an effort to get control of her powers. Rocket Red #77 gets shot down over Mongolia, leading to him looking to defend himself. Supergirl and Kenan arrive to calm things down and that leads to a battle. She eventually uses freeze powers to destroy his armor and convince him that he should be helpful. In the end, they all help to fix the damages that were caused. Back in National City, Cat informs Ben and Linda Danvers that it is time for a counterstrike against Supergirl.

SUPERMAN #32 by James Bonny and Tyler Kirkham. With Lois saved, Deathstroke beats a hasty retreat, leading Superman to stay with Lois. She goes to cover a fire at a propane factory and that’s just designed by Deathstroke to bring her and Superman out. Slade is ready to kill Lois when the factory explodes, leaving Superman to save Lois and Slade to get away. He leaves a note saying "Game Over Boyscout", as we learn all of this was set up by Amanda Waller.

SUPERMAN #33 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Doug Mahnke. While the people of Apokolips are in disarray with no Darkseid to lead them, Superman and Lex take out some crooks together. Later, some denizens of Apokolips try to take Lex back to their planet and he sends out a distress call to Superman just before it happens. But Superman ignores them, as Lex is known for sending out distress calls on the Apokolips frequency before. Lex Bots finally track down Superman and he and Jon make a Mother Box which transports the whole family to different places on Apokolips.

SUPER SONS #9 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. Damian and Jon find themselves fighting Ygarddis' army, who plans on defeating them, following them back to Earth and taking over our planet. Kraklow arrives and reveals that Hard Line and Big Shot aren't even real-just clay memories that think they are real. Krakalow. He turns out to be good after all, and defeats Ygarddis, sending the boys back home. In the end, the girls use the clay to create their own mini version of a superhero team to continue the fight against Ygarddis.

SUPERWOMAN #15 by K. Perkins and Sam Basri. As Lana struggles woith her identity, she gets a visit from Lois. Later, Maxima reveals all sorts of Black Holes appearing throughout Metropolis, which seems to be the result of a villain know as Midnight, who absorbs energy and powers from people she consumes. Lois visits Steel and they are attacked by Midnight, leading to Jon being absorbed by Midnight. In the end, Lois arrives back with her friends to inform them that Steel was taken.

TEEN TITANS #13 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. Kid Flash returns to the team and that leads Damian to declare Starfire the new team leader. But he will only rejoin them if Damian apologizes to him. Meanwhile, Damian tries to get Emiko to join the team and, after she turns him down, they end up trying to stop a huge tidal wave she may have unknowingly caused

TITANS #16 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. While most of the team fights Psimon, Mister Twister, The Key and the possessed Gnarrk and Herald, Kid Flash feels th loss of the other Wally West. The teams battle when the mysterious person behind all of this arrives-the Donna Troy known as Troia.

TRINITY #14 by Rob Williams and V Ken Marion. Batman and Wonder Woman are battling against the possessed Superman and Bizarro. Batman leaves with the possessed Jason Todd in tow, so he can perform some tests on him. Meanwhile, Constantine is bleeding out, but Zatanna comes out of her trance to save his life. Circe sends Zatanna into the Pandora Pit, which results in a Demon Zatanna. She arrives at the Wonder Woman battle and drags Wonder Woman, Superman and Deadman back into the Pandora Pits. As Batman fights Bizarro at the Batcave, Circe pushes R’as in to Pits, claiming she can now be whole again.

WONDER WOMAN #32 by James Robinson and Sergio Davila. Wonder Woman, Steve and company have gone to Paria to track down some Parademons. They find them because they give off the same Apokolips energy signatures that was found on Hercules everyone else that Grail has killed. Later, she meets with Hercules' lawyer, who shows her his house and gives him a letter Hercules wrote. It seems she has a twin brother and that leads to her and Blake heading to Greece to find Jason.

WONDER WOMAN #33 by James Robinson and Emanuela Lupacchino. We follow Grail as she moves about the world, killing off the old gods so Darkseid can continue to grow up.

She even destroys the Atomic Knights that A.R.G.U.S. sent to stop her. In the end, she and Darkseid wait to make a move on Jason.

DC REBIRTH Month 17, Part 1

ACTION COMICS #989 by Dan Jurgens and Viktor Bogdanovic, Jor-El shows his son all the ills in the world, including a country about to fire chemical weapons on the rebels, which causes the Man of Steel to head there and stop them. Meanwhile, an agent of Oz has started shooting up the Daily Planet to convince them to stop printing what he calls "fake news". Lois convinces him that she will write an article that he is dictating to tell “the truth”. When she finishes, he attempts to blow up the building and Superman shows up to stop him by tossing him out the window. The terrorist blows up, but Lis and the Planet is safe. In the end, Jor-El tries to convince Jon to come with him to a new planet where everyone has super powers.

ACTION COMICS #990 by Dan Jurgens and Viktor Bogdanovic. Superman continues his battle to try and settle the war in Logamba, which he does by gathering up all their weapons and destroying them. Back at the Fortress of Solitude, Jor-El continues to try and convince Jon that he and the family need to leave Earth for his vision of a new Krypton. Superman arrives in Metropolis where Agents of Oz are trying to kill everyone in the city with a deadly gas. After taking them down, Jor-El arrives with Jon, who tries to convince his dad that leaving Earth IS the right thing to do.

ALL STAR BATMAN #14 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Rafael Scavone and Sebastion Fiumara. Batman is carted off by Briar and the Knight, but apparently Alfred shoots the plane down. He lands on an island, finds a banged-up Bruce but then has to fight the Knight, who is Briar’s son. Bruce helps distract the Knight and we learn is he has been created from Alfred’s leftover cells. In the end, the Knight slays his father and goes off as the new First Ally. In the backup, Batman faces off with Lady Vik, who ultimately kills her father. For killing her mother. She meets with Penguin and delivers the coordinates for the Genesis Engine.

AQUAMAN #29 by Dan Abnett and Stjepan Sejic. While Aquaman and Dolphin bond, Vulko and Ondine finally make their way forward with the help of one of the Shade, who leads them to the Treasury and they find the weapon they need. Meanwhile, Mera and Garth continue to fight with Loke and his followers. Garth gives Mera an amulet that allows her to pass through the Crown of Thorns. In the end, Krush arrives to tell Corum Rath that Aquaman is still alive and Commander Murk stabs him through the head.

BANE CONQUEST #6 by Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan. After getting introduced to the Naja-Naja of Kobra, we see Bane and company taking one of the surviving members of the Triad hostage, looking for information. Since Bane and Kobra are in competition with each other, Dionysus devises a plan to kidnap Naja-Naja. They do, but that doesn’t mean Kobra knew this would happen and show up n the end to take their leader back.

BATGIRL #16 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. Back many years ago, Batgirl and Robin have a lengthy chat with the guys trying to allegedly kill her friend Ainsley. It turns out that Ainsley got addicted to the nanobots she had designed and ended up dying from it. Back in the present, Dick and Barbara tussle with the folks at the half-way house Ainsley was at and find they are all under the control of the Red Queen. After getting the situation under control, they discover the Ainsley’s sister Edith is the Red Queen, trying to avenge her sister’s death.

BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #15 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Roge Antonio. A “super-flu” has hit Gotham, leaving the Comissioner in the hospital. But it has also hit Alfred, Batman and almost every man in Gotham, including villains. The team, with the addition of Harley Quinn, Catwoman.  Batwoman, Orphan, Spoiler and Gotham Girl, prepare to investigate. That’s when Wonder Woman shows up and joins in too.

BATMAN #32 by Tom King and Mikel Janin. Joker, Riddler and Batman all fight each other until Batman pulls out a knife and threatens to stab Riddler. Joker stops the blow with his hand, explaining “that’s funny”. The war ends and, back in the present, Bruce again proposes to Selina and she says yes.

BATMAN #33 by Tom King and Joelle Jones. Batman and Catwoman head through the desert to meet with King Tiger, who leads them into Khadym: a place that is off limits to the outside world. It is also where Talia Al Ghul is. Meanwhile, Alfred informs Dick, Jason, Damian and Duke about their “father’s” intentions with Selina to mixed reactions.

BATMAN THE DAWNBREAKER #1 by Sam Humphries and Ethan Van Sciver. In this DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in, we see the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne as it happened on Earth-32.  Bruce is given e Green Lantern ring, transforms into a Green Lantern and kills Joe Chill. He then proceeds to go about being a vengeful vigilante, killing The Penguin, Scarecrow, Bullock and even Jim Gordon. The Guardians catch wind of it, and Bruce kills all of them, along with all the Corps. Becoming Batman The Dawnbreaker, he destroys the world and then is brought into the Dark Multiverse fold by the Batman Who Laughs. He travels to Coast City and attacks Hal Jordan, who is transported to safety by Dr. Fate, leaving Batman The Dawnbreaker to rule Coast City.

BATMAN THE DROWNED #1 by Dan Abnett and Phillip Tan. In this DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in, we meet Bryce Wayne of Earth-11. As a defender, Bryce put on a costume when Aquawoman arrived to conquer the surface world. Bryce killed her leading to Atlantis submerging Gotham. Bryce performed surgery on herself and took some pills which allowed her to breathe underwater and also gave her super powers, allowing her to create a Dead Water army. She defeats Atlantis, but drowns her world in the process. She creates her own special Bat Signal to let the universe know she is in charge of Earth-11. The Dark Multiverse Batman Who Laughs arrives and sends her to drown Amnesty Bay. Aquaman and Mera fight her, resulting in Aquaman being wounded and Mera turned into a Dark Multiverse creature. Dr. Fate arrives and takes Aquaman away while Bryce lights her light to say she controls Amnesty Bay now.

BATMAN THE MERCILESS #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Francis Manapul. A DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in. Welcome to Earth-12, where Batman is seen holding the dead body of Wonder Woman. In return, he puts on an ancient helmet which totally corrupts him and he kills Ares along with anyone else who stands in his way. The Batman Who Laughs tells him about the Dark Multiverse and he heads to Langley where A.R.G.U.S., the D.E.O., Task Force X, Cadmus and the government have come together to seek a solution. General Lane drops a Valhalla bomb on Langley to try and stop the Merciless, who absorbs the bomb. In the end, we learn that Wonder Woman survived the battle with Ares and tried to remove the helmet. This only made the corrupt Batman mad and he killed her.

BATMAN BEYOND #13 by Bernard Chang. Batman has to shut off some switches in Gotham and tangles with Hacker and then Freon, who is convinced Batman killed her fiancé. Hacker and Shriek team up with Terry to stop Freon, just in time for Terry to go to the end of Matt's Tri-Ball game.

BATWOMAN #8 by Marguerite Bennett and Fernando Blanco. Kate has been captured and drugged by The Scarecrow and spends the issue having bad hallucinations. She eventually comes out of it and she and Colony Prime break free. The Scarecrow hits them with another toxin bomb and they hallucinate some more.

BLUE BEETLE #14 by Christopher Sebela and Scott Kolins. After watching a bad movie about an alien invasion, Jaime and his friends go on a cross-country road trip, to celebrate the fact he will soon graduate and get to work for Ted Kord. In the end, they four encounter real aliens and it’s up to Blue Beetle to stop them.

CYBORG #17 by John Semper Jr. and Will Conrad. Cyborg convinces his other world counterpart to give him the OTAC virus antidote, which they try on Exxy with positive results. The two head off to fight the two Anomalys, with Cyborg manipulating code to wipe this world’s Anomalys out. The Digiverse god, disguised as Blue, teleports our world’s Anomaly away. Back in our world, Anomaly's cybernetic followers arrive and threaten to kill all of humanity if they don’t produce their leader.

DARK NIGHTS METAL #3 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. In Smallville, the Trinity, along with Lois, are watching Damian and Jon play guitars. But, with a cry of "Carpe Diem", Barbatos bursts forth from batman’s chest and battles all. In actuality, Superman and Wonder Woman are in Metropolis where it’s been turned to Hell on Earth by Barbatos.  Superman flies off to battles Barbatos in Gotham with little success and Flash arrives to take him to the Oblivion Bar. There we meet the Shadowpact, including Deective Chimp, as Kendra and Nightwing explain what has been happening in the spin-off titles. Green Arrow shows off the arrow he found that is made of Nth Metal. Superman deduces that Bruce’s Carpe Diem was a secret signal telling him he was in trouble, so, as the Dark Multiverse Batman and his Robins show up at the bar, where they kill Nightmaster, the heroes go to the points where the Nth Metal can be found. With the help of Cyborg, Superman crosses over to the Dark Multiverse, only to find out that he read Bruce’s warning wrong and this is really a trap.

DEATHSTROKE #24 by Written by: Christopher Priest and Diogenes Neves. Willow continues to look for Claire, but it looks like she may be falling into some kind of trap. Meanwhile, Wally is spending way too much time spying on Team Defiance. Kid Flash takes some fatherly advice from Deathstroke, even as he tries and often fails to be a kid hero. In the end, Deathstroke is kidnapped by the team that’s out to finish him off.

DETECTIVE COMICS #966 by James Tynion IV, Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira. After an intro in the Gotham City of the future, where Batman is an armed vigilante, we go back to Oz's Prison, where both Tims find themselves fighting Doomsday. Later, Future Tim explains how he became Batman, even going so far as to kill Damian when he was too out of control. He also explains that all that happens in the future is Batwoman’s fault. They escape Doomsday and head back to Gotham, where Future Tim tells our Tim to patch things up with Conner Kent, who doesn’t exist in this timeline anymore. Then he takes down our Tim and heads off to kill Batwoman.

DETECTIVE COMICS #967 by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez. As Bruce continues to mourn Tim, Alfred receives Tim's distress signal and Bruce races to the hospital. Tim is revived, explains what has happened and tells him that Kate is going to be killed by Future Tim. Kate is meeting with Belle when she gets called to the Belfry and finds Tim alive. Meanwhile, as the team heads off to find Future Tim, we see that he is spying on Spoiler,  before he heads to Wayne Manor to see Alfred. The team arrives, just in time for Future Tim to activate Brother Eye.

THE FLASH #32 by Joshua Williamson and Christian Duce. We begin with Barry and Wally working together to take down Black Spider and his gang. Later, Barry and Kristen go to Iron Heights, where we see that the warden has no respect for them and even less for the prisoners. He especially hates The Flash. Meanwhile, Copperhead deals with failure by killing one of her men. In the end, Barry gets a surprise visit from Meena.

THE FLASH #33 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. A DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in. Following events in DARK NIGHTS METAL #3, the Justice League, with the exception of Flash and Steel, get sucked away by a Boom Tube and the Murder Machine and the Devastator arrive. After a bit of a fight, Barry runs to Central City, but ends up falling into the Darkness. All of the League end up in a Batcave battle against their respective Dark Knights.

GREEN ARROW #32 by Ben Percy, Joshua Williamson and Juan Ferreyra. A DARK NIGHTS METAL tie-in. Mr. Terrific teams up with the Gotham Resistance to take on the villains of the Dark Multiverse, even as Croc has been captured and begs to be killed. The team gets to Bane’s Sixth Ring and face off against the Dark Multiverse version of Damian, leading to our Damian accidentally getting shot by Green Arrow. But Damian uses that arrow to slay the Dark Multiverse Damian, revealing how the Nth Metal can kill these creatures. Dr. Fate shows up and spirits them all away to safety, even as Ollie proclaims that they now know the secret of how to kill the bad guys.

GREEN ARROW #33 by Ben Percy and Jamal Campbell. Now that he has been cleared of Wendy Poole’s murder, even though she doesn’t appear to be much help due to her current mental condition, Green Arrow and Emi are back to crime-fighting. He meets with Dinah and they rekindle their romance. Meanwhile, the Ninth Circle gives a vote of no confidence for Moria Queen and Broderick. In Japan, Shado battles some ninjas and we learn that Dante is still alive.  In the end, Ollie is at his own graveside when he gets a visit from his mother.

GREEN LANTERNS #32 by Sam Humphries and Scott Godlewski. Our heroes are trying to enjoy a nice pancake meal, when they receive a distress call that takes them away from their meal. Soon after, Simon takes them to a party where he feuds with Nazir. In the end, the two friends make up and Sion and Jessica try the pancake thing again. But, once again, they get called away…

GREEN LANTERNS #33 by Tim Seeley and Eduardo Pansica. Simon and Jessica ae sent to evacuate the planet Mol which is about to go Super Nova. The Ungaran Regent and his daughter watch from their warship. As Jessica tries to create a construct to keep the Mols safe, the warship gets damaged by a blast from the Super Nova and it appears that the Regent’s daughter may be dying from her injuries.

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #30 by Robert Vendetti and Patrick Zircher. Guy and Kyle resume their normal patrols while John sends Hal to Earth to talk wih Superman about his recent dealings with Sinestro and Parallax. Superman turns into Parallax and they fight, until it’s revealed that this was all in Hal’s mind. Speaking of minds, it seems that Hector Hammond is partly responsible for these weird messages that Hal has been receiving.

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #31 by Robert Vendetti and Patrick Zircher. Hector Hammond is being controlled by aliens from the planet Kroloter and is telepathically begging for help. Hal and Superman show up, but the aliens activate the “God Brain” and that results in Hal finding himself in Coast City with his family and Carol Ferris. Both eh and Superman figure out it’s a dream and snap out of it, leaving the aliens to surrender. However, Hammond kills the aliens before being forcing Superman to shoot him with his laser eyes. In the end, Hammond gets taken to S.T.A.R. Labs and Hal goes to visit Carol, but gets called away before he can see her face to face.