DC UNIVERSE Month 20, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #13 by James Tynion IV, Mark Buckingham and Daniel Sampere. The team tries to regroup from the recent end to the Lords of Order, while trying to convince Kent to once again take up the mantle of Doctor Fate. He agrees to stay behind to work with Khalid. Elsewhere, Zatanna meets with John Constantine, who reveals that he was aware of everything coming and that his part was put in play by Zatanna’s father. Meanwhile, Lex meets with Circe and presents an offer.

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK ANNUAL #1 by James Tynion IV, Ram V and Guillem March. Dr. Oleander Sorrel is a scientist who appears to have an origin very similar to that of Alec Holland, complete with being turned into a plant creature. He begins to recreate his family from his memory, which is when Swamp Thing gets involved. Along the lines, Jason Woodrue comes in and tries to convince the Sorrel creature to continue on his mission. Swamp Thing deduces that Sorrel actually didn’t die in an explosion, but actually committed suicide by immersing himself in his plant chemicals. Swamp Thing saves Sorfrel’s wife from the swamp while Woodrue gives in to his hunger and eats Sorrel, transforming him. Circe shows up with a proposition for Woodrue.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #11 by Dan Abnett and Will Conrad. Lex Luthor wants to make an Offer to Darkseid, but Brainiac insists that Darkseid is out of the game because he is too weak and can’t get better because Brainiac has hidden all the relics needed to achieve Sepulkore. But Darkseid’s Odyssey team has retrieved ten relics and Darkseid himself has retrieved 50.  He tells the tem he is no longer a threat, but if they don’t help him, everything dies. Most of the team turn their back on him, but Cyborg goes to talk with him. Darkseid explains that Victor Stone is truly dead and he ws chosen by Darkseid because he is more machine than anything. Cyborg begins “pinging” and tries to fight against Darkseid. But, in the end, Cyborg has been taken over and attacks Jessica.

LOIS LANE #1 by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins. Lois is on a quest to find out what happened to a fellow reporter from Russia who has died of an “alleged” suicide. She sends The Question off to get some answers. In the end, Lois gets into a verbal debate with the White House Press Secretary about separating children from their families, which leaves the hite House looking bad.

NAOMI #6 by Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker and Jamal Campbell. Dee gets the alert and heads to see Naomi's parents and  Annabelle.  Meanwhile, Naomi is on her birth world with Zumbado who killed her parents and was responsible for the chaos the planet is in. Zumbado insists that he was friends of her parents and she needs to let her anger out. Realizing Zumbado is the villain here, she battles him. Akira arrives and sends her back home. She promises lots of training and work to be a true superhero.

NIGHTWING #62 by Dan Jurgens and Ronan Cliquet. Ric continues to adjust to his new life and ratchets up his relationship with Bea. In the end, Lex Luthor brings an offer to a new player: Talon.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #36 by Scott Lobdell and Pete Woods. Penguin, who was freed by Bunker, has Jason at gunpoint as Jason swears that he is just a hired hand of Red Hood. Jason’s dog saves the day and Jason explains how Penguin’s European contacts have been cut loose by Red Hood. Bunker arrives, allowing Penguin to escape and says he freed Penguin because he thought Red Hood had gone straight. Bunker leaves as Wingman arrives, with Jason explaining the shot Penguin with a blank, but the blast shattered his monocle and that caused his injury. He turns over the club to Suzie Su as he and Wingman head out, as Jason plans on handling other business on his own. Wingman is revealed to be Willis Todd. In the end, Luthor arrives with an offer to Red Hood.

RED HOOD OUTLAW ANNUAL #3 by Scott Lobdell, Adam Pollina and Pete Woods. What has happened to Bizarro and Artemis is finally revealed. They end up lost in the Multiverse in a place where the superheroes lost their powers and are all dead, while regular people gained all the powers. They meet up with a small band of “good” folks with powers, but Artemis and Jack Knife still manage to get captured. Six months later, Bizarro is ready to free her, even as Artemis and Jack are brought before a powered up Sam Lane, who plans to open the gates of the Multiverse and drop his genetic bomb on all of the worlds, with the help of a mutated Luthor who has reconstructed the Quantum Doorway. Bizarro arrives with the heroes, defeats the villains and delivers a jewel which ill help to reverse the effects of the genetic bomb. Then he and Artemis leave through doorway, which will hopefully bring them back to their earth.

SUPERGIRL #32 by Marc Andreyko and Kevin Maguire. Supergirl, Jon, and Krypto have been being tracked by Gandelo to the Throneworld of the Trillium Collective. Once there, they are attacked by a horde of aliens. Kara gets free and stops the Gandelo, who again tries to flee. And that is when Rogol Zaar arrives and calls for his axe, so he can kill Gandelo, but Supergirl intervenes. Zn’dr arrives and this helps Kara get the axe. Gandelo attacks Zaar who kills her with his bare hands. Kara and Zaar struggle for control of the axe, but Jon and Krypto arrive and Jon uses his sit to teleport them away, but the axe is left behind in Zaar’s control. In the end, Lex Luthor’s craft meets with Brainiac-1 and delivers an offer from Luthor.

SUPERMAN #13 by Brian Michael Bendis, Brandon Peterson and Ivan Reis. It’s the last days of Krypton and Jor-El is having issues with the Science Council not wanting to meet with him. He meets with The Circle, who proceed to tell him he is wrong about Krypton’s impending destruction. A member of The Circle asks Jor’El if he knows who Rogol Zaar is and that leads Jor-El on a search for him, narrowly avoiding a Thangarian assignation attempt. Krypton starts to crumble and he meets again with member of The Circle, who explain it’s too late for Krypton. Back in the present, Superman asks his father why they have come to the remains of Krypton and or-El explains that this is here it all ends. In the end, Luthor's drone goes to Lois Lane’s apartment and presents a mysterious box to her.

SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #1 by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber. In the beginning, we see how one of Jimmy's ancestors got killed over a land dispute. Next we see a conversation between Julian Olsen and Lex Luthor, where it is explained that the Olsen’s had a role in establishing and developing Metropolis. That when Luthor reminds him that Jimmy, something of an Internet celebrity, got turned into a giant turtle while in space and while crashing to Earth, ended up destroying the “Luthor Lion”. Perry White complains about how much Jimmy’s stunts have cost the Planet, but he is the only one making money for The Planet, so Leone agrees to keep him on, but send him far away from Metropolis. So he ends up in a rundown hotel, where he posts a Planet headline showing tat Jimmy Olsen has been murdered.

TEEN TITANS #32 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. Crush has been beat bloody by Lobo, but she recovers. That’s a good thing because Lobo is back to complete his mission. Dkinn finally unleashes Crush’ big bad chain, and that takes don Lobo. Djinn uses her powers to change Lobo and, in the end, he is on the moon, where Luthor meets with him and presents him with an offer.

THE TERRIFICS #18 by Gene Luen Yang and Stephem Segovia. The team continues to battle against the avatar of the Noosphere, even as the Noosphere attempts to take over everyone through their electronic devices. Mr. Terrific allows Metamorpho to bond with him and he enters the Noosphere, eventually giving it a T-Sphere to call home. That decision, even though it solves the crisis, leads to a war of words and opinions between Mr. Terrific and Ms. Terrific. In the end, Luthor has an offer for Bizarro of Earth-29.

WONDER TWINS #6 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. The heroes of Earth have 30 days to stop the Scrambler from taking control of everyone on Earth. It seems like an impossible task and, at the end of the 30 days, the countries of the world decide to come together for the betterment of mankind. But just before it is scheduled to go down, the Justice League busts the Scrambler and Polly, who were discovered by Zan who became a water droplet and literally made his way through every house in the city. Zayna insists that Polly is her friend, leading Polly to deny it. Scambler ends up in prison, but he still may be able to activate his Scramble through electronic mail.

WONDER WOMAN #74 by G. Willow Wilson, Jesus Merino and Xermanico. Wonder Woman and company fight a fake Hippolyta and, during the process they fall off a cliff, only to be rescued by Antiope. We learn that when Ares died and Themyscira was torn apart, General Antiope and Philippus led the survivors to Dimension Chi. But Grail is also there and has captured Hippolyta.  and imprisoning her in the process. Now they band together to free the Amazons.

WONDER WOMAN #75 by G. Willow Wilson, Xermanico, Jesus Merino and Vicente Cifuentes. Wonder Woman gets reunited with most of her Amazon sisters who have not joined Grail. That leads to a massive battle between both sides with Grail fleeing and threatening to kill Isadore. Just as she is about to strike, Nubia changes sides and defeats Grail. In the end, mother and daughter reunite while Luthor’s craft meets with Cheetah with an offer.

YOUNG JUSTICE #7 by Brian Michael Bendis, John Timms, Dan Hipp and David Lafuente. The team has been bounced into The Multiverse where they first land in a strange cartoon world populated by childlike versions of the Justice League. They next go to Earth-26, where they meet up with Captain Carrot and his Zoo Crew. Then they are transported to Earth-22 where they meet with the heroes of KINGDOM COME. After joining together to battle and defeat the Sons of the Bat, Dr. Fate sends them home. Only problem: he thinks he sent them to the wrong Earth.