JUSTICE LEAGUE #35 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Francis
Manapul. The 1941 Starman
tells the League that their Starman is dead. All across the Universe and the
Multiverse, Perpetua’s symbols lights the sky. On Earth-19, Perpetua arrives,
even as Batman calls for the members of Justice Incarnate. She wipes out that
Earth, leaving 51 worlds. Kendra and Shane try to reach the League, but her
ship is damaged and crashes,
JUSTICE LEAGUE #36
by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Francis Manapul and Howard Porter. While the
Trinity tries to formulate a plan, Lex and the Legion celebrate their victory.
But Perpetua turns the tables on them, turning Brainiac One Million into her
throne and subdues Sinestro, Grodd and Cheetah, using them to power her chair. Kendra
and Shane run afoul of the Anti-Monitor, who has betrayed his brothers and
sided with his mother. Back on Earth, Luthor and his army shows up in their
flying Hall of Doom. The League has an answer: a flying Hall of Justice.
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #17 by James
Tynion IV and Javi Fernandez. In the distant past, Circe made a deal with
Hecate which gave her the power she has used for centuries. In the present,
Wonder Woman is fascinated by the Black Diamond of Eclipso, causing Bobo to
realize that Diana isn’t really Diana. Circe reveals herself, casts a spell
that silences Zatanna and regresses Bobo. Circe’s minions in the form of Grundy,
the Floronic Man and Midnite arrive as Zatanna grabs a knife and slits open the
mouth that Circe sealed, allowing her to cast a spell taking the Black Diamond
from Circe and lock themselves into the vault. In the Collective Unconscious,
Diana confers with Witchfire and, even though things could be worse, an old
enemy is primed to make sure it does get worse.
JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #15 by Dan
Abnett and Will Conrad. The giant block has transformed into Eskaton with the
goal of killing Orion. As Jessica and Hax try to flee, Orion, Blackfire and Dex-Starr
come together to fight the Eskaton. Dex-Starr cuts a deal that, if the creature
stops its’ attack, they will take it to Darkseid, who is still making plans
with Cyborg. The creature reverts back to the giant box and apparently the ship
is in trouble, leading to Gamma Knife, who may very well be the Green Lantern
recently introduce in FAR SECTOR, to head towards it.
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan
Sook. In the Sewers of Bludhaven, Ultra
Boy is pursuing a demon gangster named Mordru, who has stolen an ancient
artifact. Karate Kid, Wildfire and Starman arrive, forcing Mordru to retreat.
The artifact turns out to be Aquaman’s trident. Meanwhile, Saturn Girl
transports Superboy to the city of New Metropolis where he meets the Legion of
Super-Heroes including Rose. In the end, just as the other Legionnaires arrive
with the trident, the Horraz arrive to take it back. At the same time,
Madamhonor President is made aware that Superboy was pulled out of the Time Stream,
breaking the number one rule of the United Planets. And she is also told of the
stolen artifact.
LOIS LANE #5 by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins. Renee
breaks up a meeting that revolves around the business man that was recently
killed. She kidnaps one of the men and tortures him to find out who is worth so
much money to be killed. Elsewhere, Lois meets with a Washington aide and finds
out there is a memo she needs to find.
METAL MEN #2 by Dan Didio and
Shane Davis. In the bowels of Challengers Mountain, the Metal Men band together
to contain the Nth Metal Man, injuring Lead and Mercury and killing Gold, But
Magnus uses the Absorbascon to control the Nth Metal Man. Later, a giant flying
creature comes out of the pit and flies off, spreading radiation as it goes. And,
somewhere in an undisclosed location, Chemo awakes.
NIGHTWING #66 by Dan Jurgens
and Ronan Cliquet. While the Nightwings save people, William Cobb has captured
Ric and Beatrice, where he is implanting false memories of Dick Grayson inside
him. In these memories, Cobb takes in Dick after his parent’s death and begins
training him to be an assassin, eventually leading to him killing Bruce Wayne.
In the end, Dick Grayson, in full Talon wear, confronts the Nightwings.
RED HOOD OUTLAW #40 by Scott
Lobdell and David Messina. Jason and his team of trainees continue to investigate
what Shay Veritas is up to. In the end, Jason and Clara come across Artemis and
Bizarro, who knocks Jason out.
SHAZAM #8 by Geoff Johns and
Scott Kolins. Eugene and Pedro are in the Wozenderlands with the wizard and the
rabbit, where they lean that each of them…plus an as yet seventh family member
are destined to sit on each of the seven thrones. Meanwhile, Billy’s dad has
come to the foster home looking for his son, but leaves empty handed. Sivana, influenced
by Mr. Mind, conspires with Black Adam and brings about a The Seven Sins to
work with him. Billy finds himself in the Darklands, where the Ghost of
Champions is asking for a favor to bring him back to life. The dead direct him
to the house where Tawny, Darla and Freddy are and they escape back to the real
world. Billy goes after his father and fights Black Adam. The Seven Sins grab
his father and drop him from the sky, resulting in Mr. Batson changing into…a
member of the Shazam family.
SUPERGIRL #36 by Marc Andreyko and Eduardo Pansica. Brainiac-1’s robots are
attacking Supergirl, but that battle is only in her mind. But Brainiac-1 is
exploring the Fortress as Krypto desperately tries to wake her. She wakes and
flies off to find Batman battling Hawkman. She rescues Batman and they go off
to find Superman, who is fighting Infected versions of Donna Troy and Blue
Beetle. Blue Beetle throws a Batarang at Superman, which she catches, turning
her into one of The Infected. She wakes to find King Shazam standing over her. Realizing
her powers have increased to maximum power, she goes after Brainiac-1, killing
him. She realizes she needs no one andm with Krypto crying and whining, she
flies off.
SUPERGIRL ANNUAL #2 by Robert
Venditti and Laura Braga. Kara is a young girl on Krypton, where she is playing
a version of hockey. After winning the match, she meets with a boy named Rix
and the planet is rocked by an earthquake and she begins having horrific
visions. Over the course of the next few days, she continues to have visions
while the planet continues to have earthquakes. While caring for her cousin
Kal, Rix comes over and they share a kiss. After having another episodic
vision, Kara wakes in her parent’s lab, where they tell her she needs to leave
to escape Krypton’s destruction. She changes into her Infected form and Krypton
explodes. She awakes to find The Batman
Who Laughs and gives her orders to follow him. This takes her to the Fortress
of Solitude, where she is fully infected and attacks her cousin Kal.
SUPERMAN #17 by Brian
Michael Bendis and Kevin Maguire. All the recent issues have been solved: Rogol
Zaar is gone, Jor-El is dead and Jon has gone to be with the Legion of
Super-Heroes. Superman meets with Lois, who shows him the lead lined box Luthor
gave her and explains that what’s in the box is something she needs to publish
in The Daily Planet. After discovering a secret S.T.A.R. Labs base, he meets
with Zod and the Kara, who he explains that he needs to tell the truth and it
will affect her. Next time, Superman reveals his identity to the world.
SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #5 by Matt Fraction and Steve
Lieber. Timmy Olsen continues to prank Batman, Clark discovers that the body in
Jimmy’s grave is an artificial decoy corpse, Lex continues to see the connection
between the Luthor’s and the Olsens, and Batman pranks Jimmy back.
TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE: BLACKEST NIGHT #1 by Tim
Seeley and Kyle Hotz. In the Dark Multiverse, Apokalips
has been taken over by the Black Lanterns.
All of Earth’s heroes are dead from Nekron’s attack, except for Dove and Lobo
who, along with a limbo tethered Sinestro, who has both White and Black Lantern
rings, head there. It is revealed much of what has happened is because Sinestro
refused to share the power of the rings, resulting in everyone’s death. They
meet up with the only surviving New God, Mister Miracle, who uses his skills to
get the team away from the zombies, including his wife Big Barda and Darkseid,
who has become the God of Death. Scott plans to use Dove to transfer the Source
energy combined with Sinestro’s white Lantern ring to resurrect the dead. But
before they can accomplish it, Darkseid kills Lobo, creating multiple versions
of himself. Darkseid tries to convince Sinestro to join him but, after Scott
kills Dove, realizing his plan would not work without killing Barda, Sinestro
uses his powers to create new life. But they are all patterned after Lobo, meaning
they are bloodthirsty killers. He tries to escape by tearing a hole in space
and time, but Tempus Fuginaut seals the hole.
TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE: INFINITE CRISIS #1 by James Tynion IV and Aaron
Lopresti. Tempus Fuginaut examines what happened in the Dark Multiverse version
of Infinite Crisis. Blue Beetle kills Maxwell
Lord and, with the help of Brother Eye, takes over Checkmate. Booster Gold
visits him and Beetle tries to convince him to join him, but fails. Later, they
Checkmate discovers a dead Luthor an Black Adam, finding another Lex, Alexander
Luthor and Superboy Prime. Alexander wants to wipe out the world and start over
and begins his purge by killing Lois and Clark of Earth-2. That sends Superboy
Prime into a rage and he kills Alexander. Prime and Beetle team up, but that
brings the Teen Titans and the JLA together to stop them. When they arrive, they find
the One Beetle Army Corps and the heroes are forced to battle an army of O.M.A.C.S.
Booster tries to stop Beetle and Ted kills his best friend. In the end, the O.M.A.C.s
kill all the heroes and Beetle is now the ruler of the world…as an O.M.A.C.
TEEN TITANS #36 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. Roundhouse is still locked up in Damian's
dungeon with his former teammates guarding him. The team continues to try to
get Djinn out of her ring. Elsewhere, a mind-controlled Crush is destroying the
city. The team goes after her, but quickly get defeated and captured by Crush
and Lobo, who brings the fallen heroes to…The Other.
THE TERRIFICS #22 by Gene Luen Yang and Stephen Segovia. Mr.
Terrible, Bizarro and son travel to the planet Bgtzl, where they steal the
Phantom Zone crystal and use the time machine. This brings us to Metamorpho who
has found himself as a child version of Metamorpho. In fact, the entire team
have become children and they realize that Bizarro has turned the entire worls
upside down. Rex gets his powers back, but Bizarro and Mr. Terrible create a
Time Vortex and Paula is sucked into it. So pleased with what they have done, Bizarro
and Mr. Terrible create a Time Loop to relive this day forever.
WONDER TWINS #9 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. After
helping the League, the Twins meet with Polly, who they have gotten out of
prison. She reveals that her dad created Colonel 86 back in the day and they
reveal that they believe he is in the Phantom Zone and can get him back. It is
also revealed that the Twins grandfather used the disruptor to sentence people
to the Zone and they were forced to leave for Earth because of the shame their
family had brought. Elsewhere, The Scrambler gets some computer time and
someone who just bought an old computer gets access to Colonel 86.
WONDER WOMAN #82 by Steve Orlando and Kieran McKeown. Cheetah
is running wild on Themyscira now that the Dark Fates have freed her. Diana is
relaxing with Etta when she learns that Cheetah is loose, so she heads to China
to get a secret weapon. Cheetah continues her rampage and wants to kill off all
of Diana’s gods, starting with Hera. But she crosses paths with Maggie. Just
when things seem desperate, Diana arrives and says it’s time to finish this.
YOUNG JUSTICE #10 by Brian Michael Bendia and John Timms. Two months ago, Jinny broke about a robbery. Following that,
her mother gives her a chest containing her inheritance-a chest from Jonah Hex
filled with all sorts of artifacts. In the present, on Earth-3, the heroes of
this world and Young Justice team up to save the day. After a tearful goodbye
between Tim and the Earth-3 Stephanie Brown, the team comes back home. But home
is in Oregon and they meet…Naomi.
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