ACTION COMICS #1008 by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve Epting.
Adam Strange goes to the D.E.O. and meets with Director Bones, which is a short
meeting as the big blue light from last issue shows up and destroys the D.E.O.
and almost all within it. Elsewhere, Amanda Waller meets with Sam Lane, before
they encounter the mysterious blue light. When they awake, Waller shoots Lane.
Lois Lane finally makes her way back to the Daily Planet, here she finds her
old desk occupied by Robinson Goode. In her new space, she and Clark find a
scared Jimmy Olsen, who is still suffering from the blue light attack that
wiped out Kobra. Amanda Waller arrives and declares that Leviathan has arrived.
ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS #7 by Peter J. Tomasi and Carlo Barberi. A captured Joker Jr. is
being interrogated about the location of the Super Sons by two other prisoners:
Rex and Grundette. Flashing back a week, we see that Jon was being held in
solitary confinement to dampen his powers. Robin is out in Levitztown, looking
for Jon, beating up some villains for answers. AL-X, a Green Lantern in
training, sends Robin off to meet Gizmo, who Joker Jr. had previously met with.
Gizmo sends Robin off to an obvious trap, where Rex and Grundette are waiting.
Just as things look grim, Jon appears, having gained his strength back from a
stray ray of sunlight in his cell.
AQUAMAN #45 by Kelly
Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha.
Andy and Caille take a boat ride, where Caille explains how the world was created by the gods known as Father Sea
and Mother Salt. When the gods killed Father Sea, Mother Salt killed all the
new gods, became Namma, creating the sun and humans in the process. Namma was
then separated into seven parts and sent around the world. She has been able to
assemble six of them, needing just one piece to be complete. It turns out that Caille is not Namma’s daughter, but the
last part she needs to become a restored Namma.
BATGIRL #32 by Mairghread Scott and Norm Rapmund. Batgirl
has made her way into the Gotham News Service where Cormorant is poised to kill
Alejo. This leads to an uneasy alliance between Batgirl and Bard. Cormorant
makes his way into the live interview and Bard takes a bullet to save Alejo.
Just as he is ready to kill her, Batgirl shows up and cripples him, but he
still manages to take her hostage. Batgirl tries to make a deal with him but
Bard assassinates him before things get out of hand. Alejo is saved, ut Batgirl
still doesn’t trust Bard. And who is the person behind Cormorant anyway?
BATMAN #64 by Joshua Williamson and Guillem
March. Part One of THE PRICE. Batman is still troubled by the massacre at
Sanctuary, that resulted in the deaths of Wally West and Roy Harper, among
others. Over at the Flash Museum, there is an attack, which leads to Batman and
The Flash teaming up to save everyone. Batman reveals this is just another
calculated attack by Gotham Girl, designed to hurt Batman. Gotham Girl has been
busy: she has resurrected her brother. Continued in THE FLASH #64.
BATMAN #65 by Joshua Williamson and Guillem
March. Part Three of THE PRICE. Gotham Girl relates her origin story, which
isn’t the real story. She monologues that she needs a real origin. Meanwhile,
Batman and Flash continue their fight with the clones, who eventually burn
themselves out by using their powers. At Central City Police Department, Gotham
Girl and the Flash fight, but the Hank arrives and beats down The Flash. But
Hank’s powers burn out and he dies again. Batman arrives and that leads to a
distraught Gotham Girl powering up.
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THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #3 by Scott Snyder and Jock. Batman and Gordon meet with James Jr.,
trying to convince him to go back to his murdering ways to defeat the Batman
Who Laughs. James Jr. declines but then the Grim Knight shows up and kidnaps Gordon.
Elsewhere, the Batman Who Laughs meets with Penguin, kills an elderly Bruce
Wayne and tells Penguin to look for a traitor in his organization named Matches
Malone. Batman again meets with James Jr., but gets a call from Alfred saying
the Joker made his y off the table, attacked Alfred and escaped. In the end,
Alfred goes in the Bat Cave and finds that Batman has embraced the Dark Side.
BATMAN BEYOND #29 by Dan Jurgens and Brett Booth. Joker has
captured Robin and is prepared to kill him with a crowbar on live tv unless he
reveals who the mysterious “Bruce” is.
Batman shows up to rescue him, but finds he is not there. In actuality,
Joker has made his way to the Batcave, as Robin gave up Bruce Wayne’s secret.
The former Batman and The Joker duel with crowbars and, just before the clown
is ready to kill his long-time enemy, he has a heart attack and dies.
CATWOMAN
#8 by Joelle Jones and Elena
Casagrande. Mrs. Creel meets with a mysterious woman who has a special elixir
she needs. She also sees an artifact which the source of the elixir is. Penguin
hires Catwoman to obtain the artifact while Creel uses the elixir to resurrect
her dead son. Catwoman makes her way through the stronghold of the guardian of
the artifact, fighting with her to obtain it. Although she is beaten badly,
Catwoman gets the upper hand and is given the artifact, despite the warning
that it will only bring problems. Catwoman takes it back to the Penguin, who
apparently has double crossed her.
THE
CURSE OF BRIMSTONE #11 by Justin Jordan and Denys Cowan. Annie and Joe battle
the Salesman’s followers, leading to the rift being opened. In the end,
Infernal crosses over, stating that it’s a pleasure to finally meet Brimstone.
DAMAGE #14 by Robert Venditti and Aaron Lopresti. Damage
fights his way through Monster Island before finally getting saved by
Congorilla. When his human host wakes up, he tells his story to Congo Bill.
Bill locks himself into a special cage as his mind is transferred into
Congorilla, who proclaims that they’re all monsters here.
DEATHSTROKE #40 by Christoper Priest, Fernando Pasarin and
Carlo Pagulayan. Two-Face has helped Rose get free and now sends her home.
Deathstroke continues to try to break out Arkham and that means fighting a true
Rogue’s Gallery of villains, ending up with him facing Hugo Strange, who shoots
himself in the head. Deathstroke remarks how the gun which was used to kill
Two-Face was actually filled with non-lethal gel bullets. Devon shows up and
they make heir way out to go battle aliens, complete with a Fourth Wall break
involving Rob Liefeld. They take down the aliens and shut the portal down,
which is an old television set. In the end, Robin and Kid Flash investigate the
Arkham breakout, which will lead to a crossover between this title and TEEN
TITANS.
DETECTIVE COMICS #998 by Peter J. Tomasi and Dough Mahnke.
Battle battle Strange for answers into the mysterious events of the recent
past, which leads the Dark Knight to tell a tale of teaming up with Etrigan to
fight demons. That leads him to meet with Cyborg’s father, who turns out to be
an illusion. It looks like the real villain here…is a younger version of Batman
himself.
DETECTIVE COMICS #999 by Peter J. Tomasi and Dough Mahnke.
Batman faces his younger self, which turns out to be, just like everything that
has happened over the past few issues, a self-immersive computer program called
2.1 Landscape. Batman runs it every year on his birthday to make him a better
detective and crime fighter. In the end, after his team gets him out of the
machine, he goes out to dinner with Leslie and Alfred.
THE FLASH #64 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. Part Two of THE
PRICE. Gotham Girl is with her brother,
who may be resurrected, but is looking ill. Behind her is a mysterious figure
who apparently is behind it all. Meanwhile, Batman and The Flash are investigating
the attack at the Flash Museum, before heading off to the Caribbean, where they
investigate a castle filled with articles about the Justice League. Heading
into another room, they find the lab filled with clones and Venom, meaning Bane
may be the mysterious figure back Gotham Girl’s actions. Barry finds Psycho
Pirate’s mask and asks Batman if he ever sent Gotham Girl to Sanctuary. Gotham
Girl shows up and inserts another dose of Venom into the machines, bringing the
clones to life. Gotham Girl reveals her next target is the Central City Police
Department, before heading out and leaving Flash and Batman to deal with their
attackers. Continued in BATMAN #65.
THE FLASH #65 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. Batman and the Flash
battle Gotham Girl to try to save her. Troubled by Wally’s death, Flash is
determined to save her life when she is in danger of dying from using her
powers and being affected by the Venom Toxin. Iris is there and she tees off on
Batman for letting Wally die at Sanctuary. Gotham Girl, who has no memory of what
she has done, is put into stasis until she has been cured. Flash and Batman get
into a fight over the whole Sanctuary thing, which leads to Flash racing out of
the Batcave. In the end, set in the future, Batman has a discussion with Batman
concerning events we have yet to see and asks if we can trust Barry. The Year
of the Villain is coming…
GREEN ARROW #49 by Collin
Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Javier Fernandez. Count Vertigo continues to demand
Roy Harper so he can have his revenge for being imprisoned. The two battle
until finally Ollie tell him that Roy is dead. Vertigo, upset that his revenge
can’t be obtained, tells Ollie that Roy is another citizen that he couldn’t
save, which causes Ollie to snap and he prepares to kill Vertigo until Canary
intervenes. In the end, a mysterious robot arrives to meet with Canary with
orders from the government to destroy Green Arrow.
THE GREEN LANTERN #4 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. In a
space bar, a Blackstar tells a tale of how one of her people saved a planet that
was threatened by sun-eaters. A four-armed space man tells a tale of how three
Green Lanterns actually went to another planet that had been threatened by
sun-eaters. Jordan’s plan is to get some good deeds done before being taken
into custody for killing a prisoner. A Green Lantern that is a sentient star
arrives and diverts the sun-eater so it can be taken into custody. It is
revealed that Jordan was taken into custody by the Guardians and was taken away
for mental therapy. Jordan is then revealed to be the four-armed space man and
the Blackstar is really Countess Delzebeth. Jordan is here to join th Darkstars
and is offering a power ring in exchange for his admission to the team.
HARLEY QUINN #58 by Sam Humphries and John Timms. The
Harley/Batman team-up continues as they try to find who killed Dr. Regelmann.
Along the ay, she stops a wife beater. Batman brings her to Arkham, even as she
admits to knowing ho did this. It turns out Lord Death Man as responsible,
which leads to the new Dynamic Duo to take him down. Batman lets her go and she
meets with Mirand’r who congratulates her on passing the first trial. But there
are three witches who are still not happy Harley messed with Captain Triumph.
HAWKMAN #9 by Robert Venditti and Bryan Hitch. Carter meets with Xanadu and explains
that the Deathbringers are coming. No sooner does that happen when the
Deathbringers show up, leading to a fight between them and Hawkman. During the
battle, Carter’s old friend Idamm shows up, leading to a fight between
them. Idamm gains the advantage and is
ready to kill Hawkman.
HEROES IN CRISIS #6 by Tom King,
Clay Mann and Mitch Gerads. During a series of flashbacks, we see moments with
Wally, Harley and Gnarrk, during their time in VR at Sanctuary. In the end,
Gnarrk dies, Roy is near death and Wally is comforting him when he takes an
energy blast to the chest. Booster walks in with his energy weapon ready and
sees Harley, with both saying neither is supposed to be there.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #17 by Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung. Martian
Manhunter is on Mars in the Sh’Anne Valley when he is forced to team up with
Lex to survive. J’onn recalls being in the scientist lab as a child and being
befriended by a young boy named Albie. J’onn agrees to work with Lex if he helps
him find Albie. The pair team up to survive before both men get transported back
to their respective bases. In the end, it is revealed that the scientist is
Lionel Luthor and Albie was Lex.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #18 by James Tynion IV and Pasqual Ferry. Luthor and Brainiac team-up to find
how to bring Perpetua back to life. Brainiac reveals he wants Perpetua and her
power for himself and reveals how Vandal Savage was the first to discover the
Nth Metal, leading to a lifelong search for all the keys of Totality.
Eventually, Savage turns on Lionel, turning him into a broken alcoholic. This
was the reason for Lex killing Savage as revenge. In the end, the pair focus
their minds onto the orb to bring Perpetua back to life.
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