DC UNIVERSE, Month 19, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #12 by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno. Wonder Woman and the new Lords of Chaos arrive on the scene to battle Nabu and his Lords of Chaos. Zatanna uses her spell power to restore Jason Blood and free Kent Nelson. Together they defeat the Lords of Chaos. With that, Wonder Woman declares they are ready to take on the Otherkind.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #10 by Dan Abnett and Daniel Sampere. Azrael and Jessica Cruz confront Brainiac’s Legacy weapons while Starfire and Cyborg battles Eskaton Demons. They both manage to escape with the relics they sought and join back up, where they eventually meet with Darkseid.

NIGHTWING #61 by Dan Jurgens and Ronan Cliquet. Ric shows up to lend a hand to Colleen as she battles the fire monster that he has named Blackburn. It turns out that Blackburn is an extension of the comatose Walter Stapleton and Melissa is his daughter. Zak gets injured and the decision is made by Blackburn is ready to die. Later, Zak recovers from his injuries and the doctors turn off the machines keeping Stapleton alive.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #35 by Scott Lobdell and Pete Woods. While on his boat, following a farewell to him from his associates, Jason Todd battles Essence, who he traps in the All Blade. Upon returning home, he is meant with a surprise: Penguin pointing a gun at him.

SHAZAM #6 by Mary Geoff Johns, Marco Santucci, Dale Eaglesham and Scott Kolins. Mary Marvel and Shazam are in the Magiclands and they head off to the Wildlands. But something goes wrong and they end back in their house, where Billy reunites with his father. His dad explains that Billy was born in Zumbrota Minnesota. His father then reveals that he was in prison, he is on parole and he is searching for Billy’s mother. Back at home, Mary utters that magic word and reveals her superhero identity to her foster parents. In the Gamelands, Pedro and Freddie meet the wizard d Shazam who gave them all their powers. At the Rock of Eternity, Black Adam wrestles with Dr. Sivana, who is being taken over by Mr. Mind.

THE SILENCER #18 by Dan Abnett and V Kenneth Marion. Honor has returned home to her family, as they prepare to leave their home for a new one. Before they leave, she has things to attend to. She heads to Maulmart to steal some intel, but runs into Rita and her mech in the process. Later, Deathstroke comes to her home, who tells her Leviathan has been taken out of the picture and wishes her a good life. As the family readies to leave, Honor knows that someday Talia will come after her and she promises that she will be ready.

SUPERGIRL #31 by Marc Andreyko and Kevin Maguire. Supergirl and Krypto meet up with Superman and Jon. Superman explains how they are in the middle of a three-way war between Zod, Jax-ur, and Rogol Zaar and Supergirl immediately takes off after Zaar. Riding an asteroid, Supergirl rips through Zaar’s ship and that leads to a battle in space between them. Supergirl joins with Superman to battle Zod and Jax-Ur. Zaar comes back and tries to retrieve his axe, but Supergirl and her family stop him and defeat him. She explains how Gandelo was responsible for the destruction of Krypton, leading to Jon wanting to join her in the search for Gandelo. Gandelo has been revived and decides to bring a war to the Kryptonians, but they are bringing the battle to her.

SUPERMAN #12 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Reis. Superman, Jon, Supergirl and Krypto find against the Khunds, Thanagarians, the Trillium Collective, Zod, Jax-ur, and Rogol Zaar. After defeating them, Supergirl and Krypto meet Jor-El, before heading off to find Gandelo. Superman reveals to Jor-El that Zod told him he needs help to permanently defeat Zaar. Just like that, they arrive at what is left of Krypton and are poised to find out the true origin of Superman’s birth.

TEEN TITANS #31 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. Lobo shows up at a Mini Market where he kills an alien hiding in plain sight. He gets a message from The Other for a job, where it is revealed that he will be hunting his daughter Crush. Right now, Lobo battles with Crush while the rest of the team tries to help her with less than successful results. Djinn shows up with the box containing Crush’ chain and suggests using that to take Lobo down. Right before Lobo is ready to kill Crush, Wally shows up and saves her. But Lobo has her scent and it looks like Crsh may be dead.

THE TERRIFICS #17 by Gene Luen Yang and Stephen Segovia. Stagg unleashes his minions before the team figures out that this Stagg is just a manifestation of the simulation. Noonosphere explains it must become divine to save the world while Biosphere, now named Mother Nature, appears on Metamorpho’s chest.  The team battles additional plagues before the herald shows up on Earth and prepares to help Noonospehere feed. That’s when the Terrifics arrive to try and save the day.

WONDER TWINS #5 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. Polly wins the Science Fair with her project on “Whether the Internet is Alive”. Elsewhere, Filo and The Scrambler discuss The Scrambler’s new plan, but Filo doesn’t think it’s viable, so he pulls his goods out of the League of Annoyance Lair, gets Polly and decides to leave ton. But Sylvia is there and uses her Kryptonian cell phone to send him into the Phantom Zone. Polly believes her father is dead and meets with The Scarmbler to ask him to fix the world’s problems. He mind-controls one million people and vows that he will control the rest of the world in 30 days if the world doesn’t change their ways.

WONDER WOMAN #72 by G. Willow Wilson, Jesus Merino and Tom Derenick. Wonder Woman and Maggie fight the Colossus and knock him into a mountain, causing the realm to shatter and Maggie to fall to her impending doom. Wonder Woman flies down after her and drops the sword so she can save her. Atlantiades arrives, saving the sword. The battle creatures and eventually find themselves in Dimension Chi: a place that almost cost Wonder Woman her life once before.

WONDER WOMAN #73 by Steve Orlando and Aaron Lopresti. In a tale from her youth, Diana tells what happened the last time she was in Dimension Chi: a dimension created by Hippolyta where every action was mirrored by her evil double. Eventually, Hippolyta, Diana and the Empress come together to defeat the evil creatures here. In the present, Diana finds a tiara and realizes that the Amazons may not be far away.

YOUNG JUSTICE #6 by Brian Michael Bendis and John Timms. Connor reveals that he was brought here and saved a young pregnant girl and then decided to pose as her husband. Teen Lantern reveals she is Keli Quintela and that she gained her powers by hacking into the Green Lantern power battery from her mother’s home in Bolivia. Jinny Hex reveals that she came to Metropolis to find out what is in the trunk she inherited. Then the team joins together to defeat Lord Opal, but there are consequences. Amethyst leaves Gemworld with Young Justice and, with that, her mother bans Amethyst for life from Gemworld.