DC UNIVERSE Month 10, Part 2

NEW CHALLENGERS #5 by Aaron Gillespie, Scott Snyder and V Ken Marrion. The two versions of Prof battle each other on the top of the giant Skeleton. A distorted Bethany has her head shot off by our Bethany, while good Prof explains what happened to the Challengers while stuck in the Dark Multiverse. Prof was injured but used the Dark Energies to heal himself. The bad Prof tries to explain how this Prof is just using them to achieve his on goals. The last artifact piece gets put in place, we see the original Challengers are captive inside the skeleton and it looks like the Multiverse may come apart.

NIGHTWING #48 by Benjamin Percy and Amancay Nahuelpan. Nightwing finds himself on the Isle of Harm, where he needs to win their deadly motorcycle race, in order to save the lives of Vicki Vale and Willem Cloke. After a bar fight that results in someone being shot and killed, the race begins. It’s a deadly that includes a number of villains including Pyg and his Dollotrons. As the race continues, the Silencer makes her appearance alongside Nightwing.

NIGHTWING #49 by Benjamin Percy and Amancay Nahuelpan. Nightwing and Silencer team up to continue the race, after she reveals that she killed the villain in the previous issue. At the end of the race, which Dick wins with Silencer’s help, he meets with Cimialcinnus, who is the Celtic God of Paths. Nightwing gives Cimialcinnus the access icon to the Dark Web and the issue ends in a flash of light, with Cimialcinnus saying the race is not over yet.

PLASTIC MAN #4 by Gail Simone and Adriana Melo. Sammy Mizzola has tried to recreate the condition that has affected Eel O’Brien on his girlfriend Janet, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, Plastic Man is trying his best to be a surrogate father to

Pado Saskatoon. Members of the Secret Six arrive, trying to take Plastic Man in regarding the murder. He discovers that Obscura has been behind the Cabal all along may actually be behind it all.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #26 by Scott Lobdell and Pete Woods. The Red Hood, on the run for attacking The Penguin, crosses paths with an FBI agent who is hunting him. He saves her from a gang of bikers who are connected to Underlife and that leads him into a confrontation with an Underlife boss and a corrupt cop. In the end, he visits the FBI agent in the hospital and heads off, in his new costume, to dish out his own brand of justice to villains.

RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #8 by Marv Wolfman and Pop Mhan, In China, Shing Jie battles a Shadow Rider and gets help from red Devil, who fails and gets Jie killed in the process. Baron Winters dismisses him from the Night Force team and brings in a new recruit: Klarion the Witch Boy. Together with Raven and Klarion go to Manhattan and help Zach Zatara save. a young man named Robert who is there with his husband Luis. Back at the mansion, we learn that Robert has powers and Luis has been with him to keep an eye on him. When the Shadow Riders arrive, Skye gets involved and Robert uses his powers to drive them back. But it isn’t over yet as the young boy who has spent his life in a coma looks to be prepped for the ultimate evil to use him as their pawn.

SIDEWAYS #8 by Max Raynor, Trevor Scott, and Dan DiDio. Sideways and the remainder pf the Seven Soldiers head off to the Dark Multiverse to find the missing Guardian, who is being held in Sheeda Lair. They are attacked by giant spiders and Zatanna decides that this is not Sideway’s place and transports hi away. He ends up in the Kingdom of the Benevolence where he meets with Perrus the Benevolent, who claims to be his protector and will protect him until his dying day.

THE SILENCER #9 by Dan Abnett and Patch Zircher. Hope and Quietus have switched bodies, but that means they continue to fight with each other. Mr. Gunn gets into the fray, even as Wishbone, who is pulling the strings, sends one of her followers, now turned into a giant lizard, to the scene, leading to Gunn getting eaten in the process. But ow the creature moves on…to Action Land.

SUICIDE SQUAD #46 by Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, and José Luís. SINK ATLANTIS Part Three. Aquaman and Dolphin head into the Lower Trides to recruit King Shark and his followers to help stop the Suicide Squad in their efforts to attack the risen Atlantis. They head off to the Silent School which Master Jailer has found a way to break into the Silent School, despite some protests from Harley and Deadshot Urcell, who is behind much of this, tries to convince Satanis that they can rule together, and he kills her. Aquaman and King Shark arrive and Dolphin goes off alone to take on Satanis. In the end, Mera and the U.S. Ambassador meet while a tidal wave looks to be taking aim on Atlantis.

SUPERGIRL #22 by Marc Andreyko and Kevin Maguire. Supergirl and Krypto head to Mogo, when their ship is destroyed, resulting in them being saved by Jon Stewart and Kyle Rayner. On Mogo, she meets with C’zal, who makes note of the axe she carries with her. That night, she sneaks into the archives, her axe grows and that leads to a guard arriving. The Lanterns arrive and, thinking she is a threat, try to subdue her. Krypto arrives and the axe transports her away, where she meets with the holographic image of Appa Ali Apsa, who is a Guardian who claims he was part of the Cabal that was responsible for Zaar. He wants her to hunt down The Circle: the remaining members of that Cabal.

SUPERMAN #3 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Reis. Superman and Livewire meet up in S.T.A.R. Labs, which, like the rest of Earth, is trapped in the Phantom Zone. Superman reveals he has no idea how to get them all home. Meanwhile, Rogol Zaar meets with Jaz-Ur, who unleashes his minions upon him, to disastrous results for them. Zaar convinces Ur that they need each other, leading to them teaming up to take on the heroes of Earth. War is on the horizon.

TEEN TITANS #22 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. The team is still dealing with the death of Roundhouse and that means they go into intense training sessions. Meanwhile, Robin visits with Black Mask, who admits that The Other is real. Later, the team takes on Golden Glider and Swerve, with Glider leaving Swerve to fight alone. After the fight, Robin meets with Red Hood, who reveals the next target of The Other is Commissioner Gordon. Kid Flash goes to meet with Roundhouse; family, only to find that Roundhouse is alive and at home.

THE TERRIFICS #8 by Jeff Lemire and Dale Eaglesham. The team, along with Tom Strong, breaks free of the giant tree holding them and learn that they are no longer connected to each other. Splitting into multiple teams, they head off to arious dimensions. Phanton Girl and Rex Mason end up at the Aztech Empiure, where they discover Tesla Strong. Pneuman and Plastic Man go to Funnyland, where they battle with Duckter Dread and save Solomon, with the help of Warren Strong. Mr. Terrific and Tom end up in Slaughter Swamp, where they cross paths with Swamp Thing.

TITANS #25 by Dan Abnett, Brandom Peterson, and Guillem March. The team battles a giant robot before Nightwing and Ms. Martian end up at an old woman’s house and get sucked into her television. This leads to a series of channel changing moments payed out on the woman’s television while Donna Troy battles the Blood Cult, which to destroy the machine which is causing the disruptions. Upon defeating the Cult, she meets with Ben Rubel, formerly from SUPERGIRL, whose is the person who can stop all of this. Together, they destroy the machine, the robot is destroyed and Martian and Nightwing are freed. Despite all of this, the Cult still exists, as the followers bow to “Mother”.

TITANS #26 by Dan Abnett and Brent Peeples. Most of the Titans are in Norway, where they discover and entire town of nearly 1,000 are dead. They get attacked by some monsters and, after defeating them with the help of Ben Rubel in the Boom Room, they learn the monsters are the murdered people. What that means is the Blood Cult is involved. In the end, Rubel promises Miss Martian that he won’t reveal her secret.

THE UNEXPECTED #4 by Steve Orlando, Yvel Guichet, Cary Nord and Scott Hanna. Huntress and The Signal cross paths with Neon and Firebrand, leading to a fight between Huntress and Firebrand. Neon breaks up the fight, telling them that the Isotope was nearing the point of exploding. As they try to work together, Synn and his army arrive to attack. During the fight, Neon is able to use his powers to transport the villains away. With the team at Caste Frankenstein, they are visited by Hawkman.

WONDER WOMAN #54 by Steve Orlando and Raul Allen. Diana, Artemis, and Atalanta fly to Qurac to drop Atalanta back with the people of Bana-Mighdall.  When they arrive, they note that the people of Bana-Mighdall have gathered. When they meet with Queen Faruka II, they see that her advisor is Rustam. The Queen shoots Atalanta, wounding her and throw Diana outside the castle. Diana breaks back in and frees Atalanta. Meeting with the queen, it is revealed that Rustam and Atemis have taken the war party out and that the queen plans to kill Rustam once she is done with him. Diana races out to confront the army and finds herself siding with them in their fight with the Quarci military.

WONDER WOMAN #55 by Steve Orlando and Raul Allen. Diana tries to convince Artemis to side with her and uses her lasso to convince her to jump back to her side. They team up to fight Rustam, with Diana eventually using the lasso on him, where he reveals he lied to the queen to convince her to start this war. Diana and Artemis break into the castle to free Atalanta, with Din having to restrain Artemis from killing the queen. In the end, Atalanta becomes the ruler and Diana gives Artemis the Golden Prefect.