ACTION COMICS #1015 by Brian
Michael Bendis and Szymon Kudranski. Naomi lands in Metropolis and meets with
Superman. Batman checks her out with his detective skills and tells her that
she is not Leviathan. Later, Red Cloud battles Thorn until Superman arrives and
she takes him down.
AQUAMAN #52 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
and Robson Rocha. Aquaman, Aqualad and the Elder Gods battle the great sea
monster, with Ralph getting killed in the process. At the memorial service, a
stranger who says he is Tristram Maurer introduces himself to Aquaman.
Elsewhere, Black Manta has taken Luthor’s offer and prepares for an assault on
Aquaman.
BATGIRL #39 by Cecil CastelluccI
and Carmine Digiandomenico. Oracle continues to run simulations on how to
defeat Batgirl. But when these all fail to come up with a solution, she forces
the Terrible Trio to continue to look for answers or else. Batgirl patrols
Burnside and finds that everyone has been affected by Luthor’s offer. In the
end, Oracle lights up Burnside in the shape of a bat in an effort to find
Batgirl.
BATMAN #78 by Tom King and Clay
Mann. Batman and Selina share some quiet time before they head off to the City
of Bane. Before an issue ending kiss, he admits he is not himself without her.
BATMAN #79 by Tom King and Clay
Mann. Selina reveals that her contacts have found Magpie who has venom,
meaning this Dynamic Duo can get the venom and return to Gotham. They battle Magpie,
with Selena taking a diamond
necklace from Magpie’s neck, along with the venom. They tell her to go back to
Gotham and report to Bane.
BATMAN BEYOND #36 by Dan Jurgens
and Rick Leonardi. Flash has arrived to help
Ten in her battle with False Face and Splitt. He learns that Splitt is dying
and tries to help save them by using a huge power source. But False Face shows
up and the device explodes, killing Splitt and False Face. If that’s true, how
does Terry end up back in his own body? I the end, a new Batwoman is planning to
start her career. But who is she?
BATMAN/SUPERMAN #2 by Joshua Williamson and David Marquez.
Batman and Superman battled an infected Shazam, with Batman taking the worst of
it. After, he wakes in the Fortress of Solitude and the pair work out a plan.
Superman visits the captive Batman Who Laughs and allows himself to be
infected. Elsewhere, an infected Jim Gordon meets with a mysterious stranger.
CATWOMAN #15 by Ram V and
Mirka Andolfo. Catwoman battles Lock-Up, forcing him to reveal ho his employers
are. She breaks into a dinner arty held by some of Creel’s associates. She has
the file she was looking for and claims she lets them operate at her
convenience now. In the end, Karen Rain shoots Catwoman again, but this
Catwoman in the Gentleman Ghost. Rain is revealed to be False Face. Ghost gets
the file and False Face is alowed to go free.
DEATHSTROKE #47 by Christopher
Priest, Fernando Pasarin and Carlo Pagulayan. Slade is alive and wakes up in the
company of Hosun, who apparently is not surprised. Slade realizes who was
responsible for everything. Slade attacks him, tracks him down and shoots him.
Meanwhile, Rose confronts Red Arrow, but lets her live. In Arkansas, a strange
shooting looks like a major development as a mysterious doctor gets involved.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1011 by Peter J.
Tomasi and Christian Duce. Bruce continues to recover in the company of World
War II pilots Hiroshi and Clarence. That as earlier, but now he has sewn
bat ears on a pilot’s helmet and is taking on Deadshot. Deadshot gets hit with
the fallen WWII plane that Bruce rigged up, but not without Hiroshi getting
shot by Deadshot. Batman takes down Deadshot, Hiroshi lives and, despite a
rescue team arriving, decides to stay on the island with Clarence, In the end,
Mr. Freeze sends out his associates to kidnap women who match his wife’s
attributes.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1012 by Peter J. Tomasi and Doug Mahnke.
Mr. Freeze’s associates have been kidnapping
people to freeze them and see if Luthor’s serum works. But they all died, so
now he has them capturing women that look similar to Nora. One of their kidnapping
results in the woman getting injured, so they leave her behind. Because of it,
Freeze kills the henchman. When the woman wakes, she calls police. Luckily,
Batman is listening to the police dispatch.
DIAL H FOR HERO #7 by Sam Huphries, Joe Quinones, Colleen
Doran, Michael Avon Oeming, Erica Henderson and Stacey Lee. With everyone in
Metropolis being turned into superheroes, we get the origins of Sir Prize,
Phantasma, Lucy The Monster Hunter, and Guardian Angel. In the end, the
Operator reveals that his legacy was creating Mister Thunderbolt.
DOOMSDAY CLOCK #11 by Geoff
Johns and Gary Frank. The scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock to one
minute to midnight and it looks like the end of the world may be looming. Alfred
reads Rorschach’s journal and goes to find Reggie Long to tell him that he and Batman believe him. Ozymandias has set up a
headquarters in an abandoned storage area and has Imra and Johnny locked up. He
tells her that Nite Owl and Silk Spectre adopted Marionette’s son. The file
that he found in the Oval Office and he the one whose manipulation of Ronnie
led to the Moscow event that discredited Superman. The blue energy that caused
the explosion was from Bubastis, but was designed to make the heroes think it
was Dr. Manhattan, leading them to the battle on Mars. Saturn Girl says she has
seen the future and Adrian’s plan won’t work. He asks her if Superman remembers
he and, when she answers no, she fades from existence, leaving only her Legion flight ring behind. He walks past a crying Johnny
Thunder, who sits in his cell with the Green Lantern beside him. Lex tells Lois about Ozymandias
coming to his office, and how he was shot when the Comedian showed up. Lex
takes Lois to his secret vault, where he reveals that he was present when Wally
West came back during REBIRTH. He found chronal debris that included the Justice Society film he sent to her. He also
found the picture of Jon and Janey Slater, along with several others from various
points in time. He refers to them as “breadcrumbs”. In New York, Wonder Woman
is battling Black Adam, believes the “Supermen Theory” and is preparing for
war. The Amazons show up and takes Diana back home, leaving “man’s world” to figure
everything out. The Army breaks into the Hall of Justice to bring Superman to
the president. He flies to the White House, where he finds Black Adam preparing
to attack. Superman flies off to where Dr.
Manhattan is waiting for him.
In the back-up, the Jon and Janey photographs are
revealed. One is from Carver Colman’s home from April 18, 1938-, the day the Golden
Age Superman debuted. Another is from Carver Colman’s dressing room after the Academy
Awards. A third is from the train wreck in July 1940, which was when Dr.
Manhattan moved Alan Scott’s Green Lantern and caused the JSA to never be
formed. A fourth is from November 1940 from
Wesley Dodds house, who dreamed about Jon named him Dr. Manhattan. A fifth is
from 1955 when Dr. Manhattan sat alone in the diner and realized Coleman was
going to die. The sixth is from Smallvile in 1956 when the Silver Age Superman
debuted. The seventh is from Smallville in 1986, when the post CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Superman debuted. An eighth photo was found in Reggie Long’s cell in
Arkham. The ninth was found recently in the Congo Basin. A tenth
was found in a movie theater showing a NATHANIEL DUSK movie marathon. The
eleventh was found in the Joker’s safe house following his encounter with Ozymandias,
Marionette, Comedian and Mime. The twelfth was found following Wally West’s
return. It shows Jay Garrick and Barry Allen from the FLASH OF TWO WORLDS story
from THE FLASH #123. Lex muses how he believes that Jon is the cause of the DC
Universe’ revisionist reality.
EVENT LEVIATHAN #4 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex
Maleev. While the heroes continue to try and deduce who Leviathan is, Lois is
camped out at Wayne Manor, where The Silencer is watching her. A team led by
Zatanna meets with Lois and tells her they know who Leviathan is and that Lois
won’t like it. Batgirl may have the answer, but her transmission to the heroes
breaks off before she can reveal it.
THE FLASH #78 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval.
Psych has used his powers, which has Steadfast to unleash his powers. Fuerza attacks
Psych, but he uses the Sage Force to get away, which alerts the Black Flash. Commander
Cold reveals that the Speed Force is dying Black Flash will try to kill all the
possessors of the other forces in order to save it. Barry has a plan and, when
the Speed Force dies, so will Black Flash. Black Flash is pursuing Psych and
Barry gives chase, but can’t catch up. Once he arrives, he finds Psych dead.
This is where the issue leaves us. Meanwhile, the Rogues find Mirror Master,
who refuses to join them and they leave to find Golden Glider.
THE FLASH #79 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval.
Flash returns to the secret lab with the dead
Psych and Fuerza attacks Barry, blaming his death on the fact he would not let
them come along. Barry has now gotten faster with Psych’ death. In an autopsy,
they find that Psych’ Force was severed from his body. Iris arrives and
explains how bad a shape Wally is in following the events in HEROES IN CRISIS. Hunter
Zoloman arrives and kidnaps Steadfast, but it seems that Black Flash is in
pursuit. Elsewhere, the Rogues find Golden Glider and convince her to join
them.
THE GREEN LANTERN #11 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. The Lanterns from the
Multiverse meet with The Golden Lantern-the guardian of the Cosmic Grail. He
leads Hal to meet with the Star Sapphire of another
Earth. It gets revealed that the Cosmic Grail is actually broken and the Golden
Lantern has been kidnapping Lanterns to act as his Knights of the Cosmic Grail.
The Lanterns of the Multiverse arrest him and then head off to battle Qwa-Man.
HARLEY QUINN #65 by Sam Humphries
and Sami Basri. Harley is mourning her mother, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t
end up continuing her trials. She meets with Mirand’r, who explains she died
but ended up being saved by the Lords of Chaos and Order. Harley decides that
she needs to move on and that leads to her passing the final trial. She will
now be the Angel of Retribution, which is going to be presented to her by the
Lords of Chaos and Order.
HARLEY QUINN & POISON IVY #1 by Jody Houser and Adriana
Melo. Coming out of HEROES IN CRISIS, Poison Ivy, who was murdered and then
reborn as a true plant creature thanks to a flower Harley had given her. Lex
Luthor’s robot emissary shows up and gives Ivy some fertilizer that stabilizes
her and allows her to be more like a human again. But her powers go out of
control, thanks to Dr. Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man, and one-time university
instructor to Pamela Isely (if that continuity holds, and I think it has for
this story,) who is part of this new Legion of Doom Lex Luthor has arranged
from beyond the grave. So that will be a thing.
HAWKMAN #16 by Robert Venditti and Pat Olliffe. In the past,
Hawkman and The Shade team up to battle Gentleman Ghost. In the present,
Hawkman and The Shade are in the Shadowlands, battling their way through and
having to deal with a Shadowlands dragon. In the end, Hawkman is back in our
world and ready to take on The Shadow Thief.
INFERIOR 5 #1 by
Keith Giffen, Jeff Lemire and Michelle Delecki. Welcome to Dangerfield, Arizona
in a post-INVASION world. A young girl is menaced by a small person named
Billy ho is wearing a bag with an X on it. In Dangerfield, a young man named
Justin, whose dad was killed in Metropolis during the invasion, lives in a
dilapidated home with his mother. A girl named Lisa is in a local comic shop,
complaining how bad issue #37 of INVASION is. Vance an Theresa, who he calls
Dumb Bunny, are shopping in a record store, unaware their actions are being
observed. Lisa meets with Helen and finds that Justin is a new kid who needs to
be warned. Perhaps too late, as Justin comes home to find his house covered in
red ‘X’s. Not long before, a person in a containment suit was talking with Billy
to ask if he had gotten Justin’s mom and was she still alive. In the back-up,
Peacekeeper meets with Amanda Waller and Rick Flagg. He visits a former cell of
the Dominators and finds a map…detailing Dangerfield, Arizona.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #31 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez. Lex Luthor and Perpetua are
hoping that the Anti-Monitor will come to their side. In the past, John Stewart
and Barry Allen meet with The Justice Society of America and explain what is
happening in the present. In the future, the Trinity has teamed up with Kamandi,
who explains what happened after the Great Disaster before they all have to
fight Brainiac’s robots. They discover that Brainiac has captured fragments of
Hypertime and imprisoned hundreds of possible futures. They commandeer his ship
and head off, only to encounter Justice Legion A, who are aligned with
Brainiac. The rest of the League is heading off to find the Anti-Monitor.
Shayne realizes that Lex and Perpetua are on their way to Godhead, so Starman
sends out a message to the other teams. The JSA/Stewart Allen team are in 1941
and Pearl Harbor is being attacked, with the help of the Legion of Doom. In the
end, at the End of the Universe, The Anti-Monitor informs Aquaman that his
former team is coming.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #32 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Howard Porter. Lex is under attack by Shayera
Hol and the Thanagarian Fleet, but their attack is useless. In the past, The
JSA team battles to save Pearl Harbor and gets much needed help from Aquaman.
In the future, the Trinity, after freeing Justice Legion A’s Hourman from
Brainiac’s control, battles alongside Justice Legion A and then faces Brainiac
One Million. Finally, Lex and Perpetua get a message from The Anti Monitor who
informs them that he is siding with the Justice League.
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #15 by James Tynion IV and Alvaro
MartÃnez Bueno. Eclipso is about to be unleashed by Circe, so Wonder Woman
instructs Bobo to help Swamp Thing to enter the green and find out what Circe
is up to. In the Amazon, Bushmaster and Jason Woodrue come upon the Parliament
of Flowers, where they encounter Swamp Thing. Woodrue infects Swamp Thing with
rot and he transports back to Justice League Dark. Khalid and Bobo find Man
Bat, who injects himself and transforms into a multi-headed monster. In the
Himalayas, Grundy and Klarion a guardian and his army of skeleton men. Beneath
the Hall of Justice, Wonder Woman has a treasure trove of magic artifacts including the black
diamond of Eclipso, which houses an Eclipso who is begging to be released. Kent
and Zatanna use their powers, amplified by the diamond, to transport Diana to
Witchfire. But all is not safe there.
JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #13 by Dan Abnett and Will
Conrad. With Jessica Cruz killed by Cyborg, Okkult, Dex-Starr and Arla Hax are trying to summon New Gods
to help fight Darkseid. They use the Summoner’s Omega energy to bring Jessica,
Blackfire, and the block to them, with the energy resurrecting Jessica through
her ring. She ties to contact the Justice League but Okkult is blocking her
transmission. Darkseid’s
paradeamons attack the ship and Jessica, firing Omega beams from her arm,
destroys them.
