ACTION COMICS #1022 by Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita. Conner and Superman are trying to
figure out where Conner came from and who he is when Jon and Brainiac-5 arrive
from the future. They all head to Smallville, as Conner says that is where he
was raised by the Kents. The Kents are elated to see Conner, leaving Superman
confused, as he doesn’t know Conner or why he has no memory of him. Meanwhile, Perry
White and his staff are trying to deal with the revelation that the Daily
Planet is now owned by a gangster. Lois gets a tip as that leads her to
Leone’s mansion, but what she and Jimmy find is…Red Cloud, who has a love/hate
relationship with Lois.
AQUAMAN #59 by Kelly
Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha. Aquaman has hunted down Orm, blaming him for
the kidnapping of his daughter. Orm claims no knowledge and offers to help, as
he has changed since becoming a father. Back in Amnesty Bay, the search
continues and Caille demands the gods do something to help. That leads to
Aqualad and Caille to go on their own search, finding part of Black Manta’s
destroyed ship. The A.I. goes a step further and Black Manta arrives. Elsewhere,
we see that Lernea, one of Orm’s followers, releases
the kidnapped Andy to the sea, which Orm says is for the greater good.
AQUAMAN #60 by Kelly
Sue DeConnick and Miguel Mendonca. Aqualad and Caille bringing the Black Manta
A.I. to shore, although Aquaman is not happy about it. They fix the machine and,
with Aquaman’s telepathic help, use it to find Aquaman’s daughter. The Old Gods
decide that they need to take Andy away to somewhere that her kidnappers can’t
find her. Elsewhere, Dolphin is tasked to find Lernea, who is beside herself as
Andy is missing. The Old Gods take Andy to Mother Shark, who reaches out to the
comatose Mera to inform her that Andy is safe. This brings Mera out of her
coma. She meets with Vulko who informs her they are to be married…tomorrow.
BATGIRL #46 by Cecil
Castellucci and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Batgirl and Batwoman are dealing with
Dasha Berlova. It appears Dasha's mother and people in their village were
turned into molten metal and she is using the homeless to gain their life force
and bring them back to life. Batgirl breaks free and she and Batwoman fight KGBeast.
Dasha discovers the electricity and morphing metal is in her and she gains
power. KGBeat changes his mind, deciding he doesn’t want to die here. They all
work together to shut off the power and stop Dasha. In the end, Dasha goes to
Arkham and things heat up between Jason Bard and Barbara. But Barbara goes home
alone and has a surprise visitor…The Joker.
BATMAN #92 by James Tynion IV and Guillem March. Police are
visiting The Penguin in Gotham Hospital, where they charge him with murder. At
the same time, The Riddler appears on all the video screens in Gotham, who has created
a crossword using Gotham City blocks as the grid for the game. He blocks all of
Batman’s communication and tasks him with solving the puzzle. Meanwhile, Catwoman
and Harley Quinn are traveling through the sewers to contact the Underbroker
but find themselves fighting zombies on the way. Once there, they encounter
members of the Joker’s Gang and his new “partner”, Punchline. Back with Batman
and Deathstroke, they take the Bat-Train towards Riddler, which angers him and
he considers cheating. Suddenly Batman appears behind him, saying he recognized
his lair from the video. He tranquilizes Riddler and Deathstroke and hears a
voice from behind him, revealing they are in Bruce Wayne’s office. The Designer
is there and reveals that he knows who Batman really is.
BATMAN #93 by James Tynion IV and Guillem March. Batman and the
Designer face off at Wayne Enterprises, where he has Batman explain what he
believed was the Designer’s plan. Penguin would control the politics of the
city, Selina would steal his money, Riddler would kill Gordon and control the police,
and The Joker would kill Batman and Robin. While the pair fight, Selina and the
Underbroker steals Bruce’ money. Harley Quinn fights Punchline, who slits
Harley’s throat. Just as Selina finishes the money transfer, Punchline shoots
her, as the Underbroker reveals the money didn’t go to Selina. Batman discovers
the Designer is just a reanimated corpse and Deathstroke stabs Batman. In the
end, The Joker has Wayne’s billions.
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #12 by Bryan Hill and Dexter Soy. We find the team back
in the Batcave with a new “member”:
Shiva. The team heads off to face Ra's, who has discovered a long-buried
spaceship. Upon their arrival, they discover that Ra’s has killed everyone,
including Kaliber and Ishmael. They play a video message from Ra’s, where he reveals
he has powered up, destroyed a village and all in it and will do the same to
all cities unless Batman disbands the team, gives Duke, Cassandra and Sofia to
him and orders Jefferson to kill Shiva.
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #13 by Bryan Hill and Gleb Melnikov. Black Lightning meets
with Batman and are joined by Martian Manhunter, who explains that he knows
what weapon Ra’s has obtained. At home base, Cass and Duke train
and Shiva has a heart-to-heart with her daughter, promising to train them both
and help them get revenge. In the end, Jefferson gets a power upgrade to combat
Ra’s, who is counting on the power of the Lazarus pit if his plan fails.
BATMAN BEYOND #43 by Dan Jurgens and Sean Chen. In the Himalayas, Zeh-ro has
come home, thanks to The Master. Batman is back in action, taking out a gang of
Slamjackers. Dick demands Elainna never become Batwoman again, although Barbara
Gordon doesn’t agree. With the Bat Cave destroyed during the battle with Blight,
Bruce moves into The Batsuite: a new headquarters hidden holographically in
Wayne Tower. Batman goes after more Slamjackers, which leads him into a
confrontation with Goliath, who leads Batman to a badly injured Damian Wayne.
BATMAN BEYOND #44 by Dan Jurgens and Sean Chen. Terry and Goliath race back to Bruce
with the injured Damian when he is forced to battle members of the League of
Assassins. Meanwhile clean-up in the Batcave continues and Dick shows his
daughter something she believes is “perfect”. Terry gets back to the BatSuite
and Damian is placed in a recovery tank which is fueled by fluid from the
Lazarus Pit. Damian is resurrected and reveals that Mr. Zero is looking to
start a new Ice Age.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN #9 by Joshua Williamson and Clayton Henry.
Bodies wired with technology begin washing up on the shores of Gotham. Batman
heads off to destruction being caused by the Atomic Skull. Skull, who recently
was a member of the Metropolis Police Department, apologizes for everything and
says to beware because the person controlling him is going to use Batman to get
to Superman. He then explodes, killing himself and burying Batman. Superman breaks
off date night with Lois and flies to Gotham. At Gotham Harbor, the villain
of the piece, the Ultra-Humanite, is revealed and he is building an atomic
army.
CATWOMAN #22 by Paula Sevenbergen and Aneke. Taking place
before the recent storyline, Catwoman comes across a group of escorts/burglers
known as the Dust Bunnies. She gets sprayed with a mind sanitizer and is
kidnapped. But apparently it doesn’t work on women, so she breaks free and
defeats the crooks.
CATWOMAN 80TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL by Paul Dini, Ann Nocenti, Tom King, Jeff
Parker, Liam Sharp, Mindy Newell, Chuck Dixon, Will Pfeifer, Ram V., Ed
Brubaker, Emanuela Lupacchino, Robson Rocha, Mikel Janin, Jonathan Case, Lee
Garbett, Kelley Jones, Pia Guerra, Fernando Blanco and Cameron Stewart. Ten
stories from different incarnations of Selina Kyle/s life highlight this issue.
Included are a Batman '66 story, a
battle with Clayface, a strange adventure at a comic convention, a Bat/Cat story continuing from BATMAN ANNUAL #2
featuring the birth of baby Helena future and the lead-in to CATWOMAN #25, with
Selina on her sister on the road from Villa Hermosa to West Memphis and back to
Gotham again.
DARK NIGHTS DEATH METAL #1 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. Sgt. Rock begins the story
with dietary advice. Next, we go to Hell, which used to be Theyscira, where Diana
talks with the withered form of Swamp Thing while she cuts apart her Invisible
Jet. Three versions of Batman, one of which is a dinosaur, arrive with a
prisoner. Batman telepathically contacts her and tries to get her to remember
who she once was. Later, The Batman Who Laughs has gathered his dark Justice
League and reveals that Perpetua has destroyed Earth-22. When the final eight
Earths are destroyed, he and his team will remake the universe. Batman
arrives and uses the Black Lantern ring to resurrect some long dead Revolutionary
War soldiers and join the fight. Meanwhile, off in deep space, Lobo has found
something that could liven things up. Back in Hell, Diana goes to visit the
prisoner, who turns out to be Wally West. Wally explains that all power in the
universe revolves around positive energy and crisis energy and Perpetua started
this universe with crisis energy. If the create an anti-crisis they could stop
things. That’s when The Batman Who Laughs arrives and Diana destroys him. The
goblins seek out the body of the final Bruce Wayne to prepare him. In the end,
Batman gathers up the dismembered form of Sgt. Rock and they go off to join the
final fight.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1022 by Peter J. Tomasi and Brad Walker. Batman has been captured by Two Face, who is about to drop our hero into an acid vat.
Batman cuts himself free and destroys the vat leading to the death and disfigurement
of most of the followers. Batman goes after Two Face’ gang and captures his
right-hand man, who explains finding Two Face after he had shot himself in the
head in BATMAN & ROBIN #28. He and another homeless person decided to nurse
Two Face back to health when . the Joker showed up. The Joker had Hugo Strange
put a device in his brain that would make the bullet "jump when we say
jump". He also used a device from Mad Hatter to make him forget The Joker
was behind it all. In the end, in the present, The Joker has found another pawn
to use.
THE FLASH #753 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. After
illustrating the many deaths of Eobard Thawne, it is revealed that his many
deaths have created a time paradox that allows him to be continually reborn. In
the present, Barry is using his newly made Cosmic Treadmill in order to find
Eobard and ends up in the 25th century, where he goes to the Flash
Museum to discover how the Reverse-Flash defeated Paradox. Black Hole arrives and they capture Barry, as they are
here to deal with any speedster threat. A
temporal shift occurs and Barry escapes to his childhood home. He wants to stop
the death of his mother, but he remembers what happened with Flashpoint and is forced to wait outside
until Thawne kills his mother. The pair fight, as Barry explains he is here to
stop Paradox. There is another temporal shift and Thawne says that they will
team up and, in exchange, he will help
Barry defeat Paradox. In the present, Paradox forces Godspeed to use the
Cosmic Treadmill and they travel back in time to when Flash defeated King Cold.
Paradox kills them both, allowing him to get stronger, as he has erased them from
the timeline.
THE FLASH #754 by Joshua
Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. In the 25th Century,
the new team of Barry and Eobard go to the remains of the Flash Museum where
Thawne retrieves his lightning rod, which he had used to drain Paradox’ energy
until he was weak enough to be captured. Meanwhile, Paradox and Godspeed travel
through Flash’s history, killing him over and over again. He detects However,
no matter how Flash moving through the time stream and they follow. Flash and
Thawne have come back in time to before Paradox became a villain. Eobard
reveals that his plan is to kill him before he can become Paradox. Barry
objects and they fight, until Paradox arrives and removes him from reality.
Paradox grabs the rod and destroys it, before declaring he will remove the
people that love The Flash from reality and begins to use his powers to wipe
out the universe by wiping out the time stream.
THE FLASH #755 by Joshua
Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. Flash,
Reverse-Flash and Gospeed end up in Paradox’ pocket universe, since their world
has been destroyed. As Paradox attacks, Eobard returns to the day Flash fought
Turtle and, instead of killing the man who would become Paradox, he saves him,
thus erasing Paradox from reality. Eobard returns to them and by the three of
them running together, they return to the present. Iris greets them and she and
Barry embrace. August asks if Eobard knows who killed his brother. Eobard
reveals it was him and then breaks Godspeed’s neck. Eobard flees, saying it’s
time he creates a Reverse-Flash Family.
THE FLASH #756 by Joshua
Williamson and Christian Duce. Many years ago, Reverse-Flash
meets with Grodd. Two years ago, Reverse-Flash meets with Captain Cold and
Golden Glider. He also meets with Trickster and looks to free Turtle. In the
present, Flash deals with August’s death and
informs Avery and Wallace about that and that Thawne is alive again. In the far
future, Thawne continues to put a family together with two people who may be Wally
Wood’s kids.
THE FLASH ANNUAL #3 by Joshua
Williamson, Stephen Segovia, Brandon Peterson and Carlo Pagulayan. Captain
Boomerang is in police custody and tells a tall tale of how The Flash, who was
out to capture Digger, joined up with the new Suicide Squad on a mission.
Deathstroke arrives and apparently kills The Flash and Digger saves the day.
But that’s not what happened, as the police reveal they saw Digger beaten down
by Deathstroke. As Boomerang is being led to prisoner transport to send him
back to Belle Reve, he is picked up by The Flash, who reveals he was able to
vibrate to make it look as though Deathstroke had killed him and that it was
The Flash who transported the team and the jet they were after out of the desert.
He then saved Boomerang from being killed by Deathstroke and also dropped off the
captured Deathstroke with the cops. Flash returns Digger to his home in
Australia and tells him to live am honest life. Boomerang receive a message
that confirms he has rejoined the Rogues.
GREEN LANTERN 80TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL by James Tynion
IV, Geoff Johns, Cullen Bunn, Dennis O'Neil, Ron Marz, Peter J.Tomasi,
Charlotte (Fullerton) McDuffie, ChrisCross, Robert Venditti, Mariko Tamaki,
Sina Grace, Gary Frank, Ivan Reis, Doug Mahnke, Mike Grell, Darryl Banks,
Hi-Fi, Josh Reed, Fernando Pasarin, Rafa Sandoval, Mirka Andolfo, and Ramon
Villalobos. This is an all-star collection featuring tales of Alan Scott, Hal
Jordan, Sinestro, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Kilowog, John Stewart, Jessica Cruz
and Simon Baz
GREEN LANTERN: SEASON TWO #3 by
Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. Hal gets involved with the repercussions around the X-300
planes teleportation drive and how Jillian
“Cowgirl” Pearlman, Gil Hernandez and Jonathan “Herc” Stone are missing while Shane
“Rocketman” Sellers has been injured. Also, a sentient cloud creature has
appeared, poised to attack a nearby city. Hal flies into an other dimension
where he finds Cowgirl and Pearlman and that Gil is dead. They escape back to
Earth, discovering the connection between the cloud creature and past events at
Wonder Mountain. In a brief epilogue, and Powerlord discuss how the wedding of Hyperboy
and Princess Illistra must go on, even if it means killing another Green
Lantern.
GREEN LANTERN: SEASON TWO #3 by Grant Morrison and Liam
Sharp. Green Lantern meets with The Flash and they meet
with Hal's ex-girlfriend Olivia
Reynolds, who gets grabbed by a Golden Giant. This leads the heroes to a
fabricated planet populated by the Golden Giants, who just want to use everyone
as their toys. They all must complete tests to keep the Giants from possibly
invading. Olivia unleashes her U-Mind talent, which means she has the power to destroy
universes. Once back home after defeating the Giants, Hal and Barry reiterate how
it’s important that she forgets her power. In the end, Hal gets attacked by Lady Q, who is determined to kill him.
HARLEY QUINN #72 by Sam Humphries and Abel. Harley is getting beat
in the wrestling ring but gets some help from Booster Gold, who allows them to
escape. She meets with Alicia’s daughter and promises that she will prove that
Baby Face murdered her mother. They end up in a cult community where Harley
figures that Jonathan Wittleson killed Alicia. After she and Booster almost
share a kiss, she goes and confronts
HARLEY QUINN #73 by Sam Humphries
and Sami Basri. Harley has beaten down Wittleson's hired hands and is ready to
take him down with this piece of Apokoliptic tech she stole from the cult. He
reveals a suicide note from Alicia, effectively ending the case. He also
reveals he is the money man behind the wrestling business and is Harley’s
biggest fan. She visits Becca and reveals all, leading to Becca throwing a fit.
Harley visits Charity XO, who tells her future. She gets back in the wrestling
ring and fights a huge Nazi wrestler, who is wearing the Jade Feather. As she
beats him down, he reveals that Alicia was murdered…by Granny Goodness.
HAWKMAN #23 by Robert Venditti, Marcio Takara and Fernando
Pasarin. This issue features how Hawkman
and Hawkwoman's past incarnation met in Spain in 1650 during the Black Plague.
In the present, Carter is how free of the infection of the Sky Tyrant but they
have landed where it all began: in the realm of the banished
Lord Beyond The Void.
HAWKMAN #24 by Robert Venditti and
Fernando Pasarin. Hawkman and Hawkwoman are in
the realm of the Lord Beyond The Void. He recalls how they met and says he was Ktar
the Deathbringer. This leads the slaves to attack him, but the Deathbringers
save him. He declares he is no longer Ktar the Deathbringer and they attack
him. Hawkman and Hawkwoman battle and defeat all the Deathbringers,
essentially freeing the slaves. That is when the Lord
Beyond The Void arrives.
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