JUSTICE LEAGUE #52 by Jeff Loveness and Robson Rocha. Batman is controlled by Black Mercy and that causes him to see his dead mother, trying to convince him to stop being Batman. Wonder Woman breaks free and sets him free, allowing the team to get back to Earth and reflect on their mission and what the Black Mercy Planet made them realize.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #53 by Joshua Williamson and Xermanico. In the Dark Nights: Death Metal world, Nightwing, Hawkgirl, and Detective Chimp make their way to what is left of the Hal of Justice, where they find a cloaked and scarred Lex Luthor. He them that the mission is to get to Perpetua's throne and retrieve the Legion of Doom. That job has apparently fallen on Martian Manhunter, who realizes that The Omega Knight is the guardian and the Mindhunter is the warden.
JUSTICE LEAGUE ANNUAL #2 by Robert Venditti and Aaron Lopresti. There is a man dead deep in a sub-basement of the Hall of Justice. But they soon are attacked by the protocols designed to stop the various villains of the team. It turns out the mastermind of this is the disembodied head of The Eradicator. The team ends up working together to stop the assault and, in the end, Batman locks The Eradicator’s head in a vault.
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #26 by Ram V and Amancay Nahuelpan. Detective Chimp has found Constantine, who has been captured by Madame Xanadu. They ask how to defeat the Upside-Down Man and she draws tarot cards, basically telling them they need to believe in magic. What she doesn’t reveal is that John’s tarot card is Death. Bobo and John recruit Kirk and Dr. Fate and head off to the fight. They all team up and use their combined belief that their magic is stronger than that of the Upside-Down Man and defeat him, but not before he seemingly kills John.
JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #24 by Dan Abnett and Cliff Richards. Hax has revealed that she serves Darkseid, who is now the Lord of Time and convinces Gamma Knife to help Darkseid. The rest of the team figures they need to use one of Epoch’s time crystals to fix things. They hook Cyborg up to Epoch's time technology and bring back Starfire, Cyborg, Jess and Azrael from before they were controlled by Darkseid, meaning there are now two Jess's and two Cyborgs. So, the team is that much bigger as they attack Darkseid for a final battle.
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #9 by Brian Michael Bendis, Jenny Frison, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Klaus Janson, Arthur Adams, Joe Quinones, John Romita Jr., Nicola Scott, Jim Cheung, Emanuela Lupacchino, David Marquez, Gary Frank, Kevin Nowlan, James Harren, Mike Grell, Gene Luen Yang, Nick Derington, Tula Lotay, Michel Fiffe, Mitch Gerads, Ryan Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jordie Bellaire. The origins of the Legion heroes continues. Crav shows with his son in chains, saying it was he who betrayed the United Planets. Dream Girl arrives and she stands with Ultra Boy, saying she has seen the future. Then she announces that the Great Darkness is coming. Dr. Fate is summoned and he declaes that Dream Girl is correct. The White Witch is revealed as Modru’s daughter and claims Crav was seeking parts of Aquaman’s trident, because he knows the Great Darkness is coming. Gold Lantern contains Crav and sends him back to Rimbor. The trial is ended, the Legion lives on and Saturn Girl and Superboy kiss.
METAL MEN #10 by Dan Didio and Shane Davis. Jenet Klyburn reveals that Nth Metal Man has been manipulating Will Magnus and the Metal Men this whole time and that Will forgot to turn on their responsometers. In the Dark Multiverse, had built her own Doc Magnus, where this team fought the Dark Multiverse Metal Men and won, killing the living Doc Magnus. Platinum captured Plutonium, strapped him to a rocket and blew it up, sending the Metal Doc Magnus into space. There, he was picked up by the Thanagarians, who infused him with the Nth Metal. When he returned to his world, he found it destroyed and then created the Dark Multiverse Metal Men, who are currently led by a reborn Plutonium. Doc and the Metal Men head to the Dark Multiverse to face off against the Dark Multiverse Metal Men and save Tina.
NIGHTWING #74 by Dan Jurgens and Ryan Benjamin. Bea is searching for Ric, Red Hood and Tim face off against some of Joker’s followers. That’s when Ric, now Dicky-Boy, reveals his true self and battles the former Robins. Barbara manages to grab the memory crystal from the Joker and Bea shows up and tries to convince him to be Dick again. He finally snaps out of it, becomes Dick Grayson again and destroys the crystal. Batman shows up, Tim defuses the bomb at the Children's Hospital and Bea walks away, saving Dick but losing the man she loves.
RED HOOD OUTLAW #49 by Scott Lobdell and Paolo Pantalena. The team along with the time displaced Red Hood, Starfire and Arsenal, struggle to close the door to Trigon's domain. Bizarro has slain Trigon and now he’s been declared the king of the region. As the team is set to close the door, Bizarro appears and tells his teammates that he is going to stay in the domain. After a tearful goodbye, the doors to Trigon's domain and the Chamber of All, sending Red Hood, Starfire and Arsenal back to their own time.
SHAZAM #14 by Geoff Johns, Dale Eaglesham and Scott Kolins. Billy Batson takes on Mr. Mind and Superboy-Prime shows up to throw his support to the Monster Society of Evil. Billy defeats Mr. Mind, which also takes out the magically enhanced foes in the process. In the process, Superboy-Prime gains magic power and uses it to draw the power out of Billy's family. Black Adam arrives and he and Billy take Superboy-Prime out. Billy’s father no longer remembers Billy, leaving him and leaving Billy back with his foster parents. In the end, the Wizard reveals that Billy's greatest achievement will be redeeming the seventh champion: Black Adam.
SHAZAM #15 by Jeff Loveness and Brandon Peterson. Billy does what he does as Shazam, even though Billy the student is getting in trouble with his teacher for not finishing a report on Civil War reconstruction. Later he saves his teacher, whose building burns down. He saves her and then takes her out fr sa burger and encouraging conversation. In the end, Billy apologizes for how he treated her in class, but he still hasn’t done his report.
SUICIDE SQUAD #9 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo. Thylacine and Chaos Kitty kidnap a Senator, who later gets interrogated by Fin until he reveals the location of Ted Kord. After Zoe works on her shooting ability, the team goes off to Kord Defense, where they see Superman is already there and has captured Kord. Deadshot asks for some time alone and it’s revealed that Superman is really Black Mask in disguise, who shoot s Floyd between the eyes, sending he and Kord out the window towards the street below.
SUPERMAN #25 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Reis. While Lana Lang interviews Clark about the past, present and future, now that he has revealed his identity to the world, Synmar learns his people may have been killed because of Superman. This sets up Clark’s next adversary.
TEEN TITANS #45 by Robbie Thompson and Javier Fernandez. The team is forced to come back together to fight Gizmo. Along the way Red Hood shows up and tells them that Damian throwing distractions at them so he can get away from their hunt for him. In the end, they take down Gizmo and Superboy arrives, looking for Damian.
THE TERRIFICS #30 by Gene Luen Yang and Sergio Davila. Although the team has defeated Parasite, they have discovered he was working with someone else. The team discovers Sebastian Stagg was responsible and has put together his own team, the Stagg Circle, made up of Staggatron, Lobo, and Silas Stone. Staggatron breaks Parasite out of captivity and Stagg shoves a molecular destabilizer into him. He explodes, resulting in Parasite drones that begin changing the people it hits into monsters. Stagg says that he has a device that can fix this, but only if he gets millions in ransom. The Terrifics arrive, defeat the creatures and find a way to change them all back.
WONDER WOMAN #762 by Mariko Tamaki and Carlo Barberi. Diana forms an uneasy alliance with Maxwell Lord as she tries to stop all the mind control shenanigans going on. In the end, it’s revealed that Liar Liar is causing all the trouble in town. And Liar Liar turns out to be Maxwell's daughter.
WONDER WOMAN #763 by Mariko Tamaki and Carlo Barberi. Liar Liar tells Wonder Woman and Maxwell Lord about the day her mother died. And it turns out that, by using her psychic powers, she was responsible for the car crash that killed her mother. She tries to use her powers on Diana, but Max uses his power to silence his daughter. Diana takes her down and she is captured. In the end, Max remembers that Diana snapped his neck during Infinite Crisis, but still agrees to be a team player.
YOUNG JUSTICE #18 by Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, Scott Godlewski and Michael Avon Oeming. Tim Drake teams up with Stephanie Brown so that they can take down her father Cluemaster. In the end, Drake changes his name back to Robin and the New 52 version of Cassie arrives, saying she needs the help of Young Justice.
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