Saturday, December 9, 2017

DC REBIRTH Month 18, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #18 by Steve Orlando and Hugo Petrus. Documentarian, John Porter, is making an insider film on the JLA. Well, it turns out that Porter is not who he says he is and that’s when Afterthought shows up. He quickly takes down the Batman-less team and it’s revealed that Prometheus is the cause for all their current and future troubles.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #19 by Steve Orlando and Hugo Petrus. Afterthought battles Lobo, before revealing his real target is Black Canary. Canary gets free long enough to use her Canary Cry to return Ryan back to our world and Killer Frost uses her powers to take down Afterthought. Unfortunately, he was only the bait for a bomb Prometheus has set. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is fighting Prometheus, who gives Vixen the option to destroy her Totem or die. Elsewhere, Dreamslayer leaves the doomed world of Angor and meets up with Blue Jay, Ray and Preon in the Microverse.

NEW SUPER-MAN #17 by Gene Luen Yang and Joe Lalick. The Justice League briefly fights with Kenan and is friends, until Kenan reveals he needs to find the Red Jade Dragon to get his final power and hopefully free I-Ching. The search takes them to Lex Luthor’s mansion where Kenana eventually grabs the Dragon. As he learns of his new power, the All-Yang brings him into the void and explains that he has killed I-Ching. If that wasn’t bad enough, he unleashes the Demi-Gods of China uipon him.

NIGHTWING #32 by Tim Seeley and Scot Eaton. Raptor confronts Dick at the casino and, it is revealed, that he slipped the Blockbuster serum into the drinks at the casino. Dick is now forced to stop all these people from killing him while not harming these innocents in the process. Meanwhile, the Run-Offs have hacked into Raptor’s computer and figured out his master plan. But they will need help, so they recruit Orca.

NIGHTWING #33 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. Nightwing gets saved by Roland Desmond, after which he reveals that he gave Raptor the Blockbuster serum. The two work together to keep the Blockbuster effected citizens off the street, but are too late. Luckily Stallion and Gorilla Grimm are on the case and trying to stop the flow of Blockbusters into Bludhaven. DeFacer contacts Nightwing and explains that Raptor and Pigeon are planning t release the formula throughout the city using birds.

RAGMAN #2 by Ray Fawkes and Inaki Miranda. Rory continues to battle both his PTSD and demonic brothers from the ancient cult of Ruah Tum’ah, as they try to get him to give up his rags.  He defeats them in the end and the voices in his head of his fallen comrades encourage him to continue the fight.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #16 by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. The Outlaws have been captured by the Suicide Squad, but both Jason and Artemis get free. They eventually find Bizarro, who is having a relaxing cup of tea with Amanda Waller. He has told her that he is aware of sub-atomic tremors in a power source that is in one of Harvest’s abandoned facilities. That could bring the world to an end, so they all team up and heads out into the snow to fix the problem.

SUICIDE SQUAD #29 by Rob Williams and Barnaby Bagenda. The team has landed on the moon and they have discovered a number of corpses of Task Force X operatives that died here. On the body of  an agent named Tungsten, they find the words FARADAY LIED scrawled upon him. That’s about the same time that Flag locks everyone in and releases the Red Wave monster. In the back-up, we see the early days of Faraday working with Task Force X, including missions involving the Black Triangle UFO and the War Wheel. We also learn that Rick Flag was the fourth man to land on the moon with Apollo IX and they encountered the Red Wave monster.

SUICIDE SQUAD #30 by Rob Williams, Philippe Briones and Wilfredo Torres. Rick Flag Sr. has been taken over by the Red Wave and there is a giant monster version of it too. Harley, Boomerang and Croc get taken down, but Harley manages to flee and hide, finding a bunch of DC Universe artifacts in the process. Katana tries to warn Karin that the monster is coming for it’s heart, but she has also been taken over by the Red Wave. She also reveals that half of the heart is on Earth, which the rest of the team learns when they find Faraday’s diary with a message warning anyone who reads it. Harley finds a magic mirror to the Phantom Zone and sees Rick Flag Jr. inside it. In the back-up, we learn that Faraday came back from the Apollo XI mission and was possessed by the Red Wave monster.

SUPERGIRL #15 by Jody Houser, Steve Orlando and Robson Rocha. Mr. Bones is the new head of the DEO, where he has Magog making a cell capable of holding Supergirl, once they catch her. He also has Dr.Veritas making weapons to help defeat her. Meanwhile, the DEO are all over Kara’s school, searching for answers and clues. In the end, a visitor from Supergirl’s past comes looking for revenge.

SUPERMAN #34 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Ed Benes and Doug Mahnke. The people of Apokolips realize that Luthor has lied about being their god, so he manages to use a Boom Tube to bring Superman there and show that HE is really their god. Elsewhere, Lois gets captured by the Female Furies and, when one of them is killed by a Dredge Worm, she joins them, earning Granny Goodness’ respect and made part of the team. In the end, Jon runs into some of Darkseid’s soldiers and the Hunger Dogs, forcing him to flee.

SUPERMAN #35 by Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi, Travis Moore and Stephen Segovia. Clark and Lex are trying to get away from the people of Apokolips, who think Superman is their savior. Kalibak arrives and has a plan to free his father by shooting the Chaos Cannon into the core of the planet.  Meanwhile, Lois arrives with the Furies and Kalibak decides that if he can’t have the throne, no one will and he fires of the cannon again. Of course, that results in the planet starting to split apart. Jon is off dealing with the Hunger Dogs, who he saves from being eaten by the soldiers and he comes riding to hopefully save the day.

SUPER SONS #10 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jose Luis. Damian, Jon, Bruce and Clark are hanging out together before they drive off and Jon shows Damian what it’s like to fly. Later, Bruce wakes Damian and takes him to the new underwater headquarters that he and Clark have designed for the boys. However, it comes with a price: Damian is going to be attending school with Jon, which doesn’t go over so well with a boy who claims to be smarter than all the teachers. Meanwhile, we see the future and Batman 666.

SUPER SONS ANNUAL #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Paul Pelletier. With Jon and Damian out stopping bank robbers, a per kidnapping occurs. Krypto reads the headlines in the paper and immediately sets about to reform, with the help of Detective Chimp, the Super Pets. When last they were together, facing off against Dex-Star and his evil pets, costing the life of Clay Critter. Despite bad feelings, the team comes back together and defeats an alien who has kidnapped all of the dogs around. In the end, the dogs are free and end up at Jon’s house while Titus and Krypto fist bump.

SUPERWOMAN #16 by K. Perkins and Stephen Segovia. Lois tries to explain that John Henry has been captured by Midnight. Traci 13 deduces that Lois is trying to tell them what happened by reciting binary numbers which leads Traci 13 to connect electrodes to her head and surf the Internet, leading her to discover Lena Luthor is behind Midnight. Lana goes off to confront Midnight, allowing her to take control of her body to save her friend.

TEEN TITANS #14 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. While Robin and Red Arrow try to stop the huge tidal wave that threatens Star City, the rest of the team convinces Kid Flash to join them and give an assist. Kid Flash uses his power to save the day, which frees the team up to take on Onomatopoeia. Red Arrow gets wounded and that sends Robin into a frenzy and, with the help of Kid Flash, they take down the serial killer. Wally gives Damian a flash drive with information on Deathstroke and the air shake hands. In the end, Emiko turns down Robin’s invite to join the team and Tim contemplates telling the Teen Titans he is alive.

TITANS #17 by Dan Abnett and Minkyu Jung. Troia explains that she is the Donna Troy from the future and she has travelled back in time to make sure Donna doesn’t have to watch al her friends die, as she herself is immortal. After explaining how each of the Titans will die, with Bumblebee being the last, Troia decides she needs to kill all of them now and asks Donna if she would like to help. Meanwhile, Kid Flash realizes that Wally can’t be dead because he can still feel the Speed Force inside of him.

TRINITY #15 by Rob Williams and V. Ken Marion. While Circe explains how she is dying and needs everyone’s life energy to survive, Batman, along with Red Hood and the Outlaws, who have been restored by the Dark Knight, show up to try and save the day.  looking awesome and ready for a fight. Circe creates a giant Ani-Men, which they quickly defeat. Zatanna heals Constantine while Ra’s rises from the pit, stabs Circe and throws her in, leading to Wonder Woman to save her life.

WONDER WOMAN #34 by James Robinson and Sergio Davila. We begin by seeing the night of Diana and Jason's birth how Jason was given to immortal Argonaut Glaucus to keep him safe from the gods. After catching up on their respective lives, Grail arrives, and Jason reveals his true self. He hates his sister because of everything she was given with him. He also reveals the extent of his powers and creates a tsunami to take her out. In the end, Diana finds herself at the mercy of Grail and Jason.


WONDER WOMAN #35 by James Robinson and Emanuela Lupacchino. Taking a step back from the current story, we travel to a time many years ago when Glaucus tells Jason about who he really is. He earns of his powers and Glaucus tells him he needs to keep that a secret. Hercules arrives to infrequently train Jason and, one day, Glaucus leaves and Jason begins his life as a fisherman. One day, Deep Six comes calling and Jason jumps into action.

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