ACTION COMICS #1026 by Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr. Superman and the House of Kent fight the Parasite from another dimension, with Brainiac 5 blasting him and shrinking him to miniature. Superman flies off to battle Red Cloud, with Red Cloud choking hi out. Meanwhile, at the Daily Planet, Leone claims she is a victim of the evil alternate universe Lois Lane, raising questions by asking how did Sam Lane die. With that, after she fires Perry White, Lois is arrested.
AQUAMAN #64 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Miguel Mendonca. Orm’s interrupted the wedding and his Daigon forces have breached and invaded Atlantis. While the battle rages, Vulko frees Mother Cetea. Orm declares himself the ruler of Atlantis and that leads to a one-on-one battle between Arthur and Orm. Arthur gets distracted and Orm defeats him, daring him to call some fish, which looks like that is exactly what Aquaman will do.
BATGIRL #50 by Cecil Castellucci, Aneke, Emanuela Lupacchino and Marguerite Sauvage. We begin with James’ funeral, before Barbara and her father go to a diner, where her father badmouths Batgirl, leading to Barbara storming out. She meets up with Jason, who is trying to convince a young girl named Ryan Wilder (who will be the new Batwoman on the CW television show of the same name) to go to a homeless shelter. Later, Jason says he accepts full responsibility in framing her dad and wants to show Barbara he has changed. She gets a call and heads to the Batcave, where Batman tells Batgirl, Nightwing, and Tim Drake that he has lost much of his money and is no longer in control of Wayne Enterprise. After convincing Batman to give money to a homeless shelter, Batgirl tells Nightwing that things can’t just go back to normal and he will have to earn her friendship back. Days later, Batgirl apologizes to Jason and later Barbara tells him she wants to move forward with their relationship between them. While she is meeting with Congresswoman Alejo, protesters throw a rock through one of the office windows, Alejo, Barbara, and Jason then join the protestors in marching through the city. Jim Gordon is also there and she convinces him to join in the protest.
BATMAN #100 by James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez. Batgirl is back in the Clock Tower, where she takes back her Oracle persona, using the emergency channel to contact the Bat-Family and the police. Bullock decides to do the right thing, throws down his badge and orders his men to join him. Batman is dealing with the Joker, who has reanimated Alfred’s corpse. With his new Bat costume, Joker gets the advantage, until Batman kills the lights and fights back, although he gets stabbed by The Joker. Meanwhile, Punchline is pissed that the explosion at ACE Chemical happened sooner than planned and the Underbroker quits. That’s when Nightwing and the Bat-Family arrive. Back at the Batman/Joer fight, things look bad for our hero until Harley Quin shows up and shoots Mr. J. in the eye. She cuffs Joker and attaches the bombs to Joker and herself, making Batman choose who to save. Batman decides to save her and leaves Joker with the reanimated Alfred. The bomb explodes and we cut to a week later, as we learn Joker apparently escaped and Batman, now broke, must start over. In a series of epilogues, we meet the next villain, Ghostmaker. Batman tracks down Bao Pham, who is Clownhunter. He says he used to believe in Batman, but not anymore. In the end, two men are sitting in a coffee shop and one shows the other video of Punchline appealing to the public for leniency. Then he kills the other man with Joker toxin.
BATMAN #101 by James Tynion IV and Guillem March. While Bruce muses about the past, he and Selina also talk about the future and how things are going to change significantly. Flashback to a week ago where Batman is fighting with Grifter, until Lucius Fox stops them. Lucius has hired Grifter as his personal bodyguard, while he still deals with the effects of the Joker Toxin. The city is in the process of electing a new mayor and the Joker is still at large. With Selina having given Lucius the Wayne fortune, Bruce realizes he has had his ability to support his Batman persona cut dramatically. As Batman leaves, he meets Grifter and tells him he knows who he really works work and has a message for them. Back in the present, he tells Selina he needs to move into the city and they can’t tea up while she is still a wanted criminal. So they agree to meet back up in a year and make the needed decisions.
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #17 by Bryan Edward Hill and Marcio Takara. It’s the end of the road for the Outsiders. Bruce has set up a horse farm for Sofia, and the team decides what to do next. Bruce has tea with Shiva, who knocks him out with iocane powder. Hen he wakes, the only person there is Shiva, who explains that Jefferson, Tatsu, Duke have all headed off to Gotham and Cassandra is going to meet with Stephanie Brown. She also reveals that Sofia is going off with her, leaving behind a very upset Bruce.
BATMAN BEYOND #48 by Dan Jurgens and Paul Pelletier. Matt and Terry meet with Bruce, who suddenly attacks them, claiming they are here to kill him. Booster Gold shows up and pulls Terry out of the attack, explaining that they need to go back in time, because some villain had implanted a seed in Bruce’s brain long ago and today as the day it went off. He also tells Terry that Matt is dead and there’s nothing they can do. They head back to 2020, here they save a family whose house has caught fire during the heroes confrontation with the villain Blanque. One of the people is a young Warren McGinnis, who happens to be Terry’s father. That’s when Batman shows up and tell him to release the boy.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN #13 by Joshua Williamson and Max Raynor. Batwoman and Steel head to the moon, where they are forced to fight an army of robots. A rogue computer program hacked it's way into the Batcomputer and now Batman and Superman are being tested, mentally and physically, to defeat their robot copies of their Rogue’s Gallery. Batman puts a virus in the system, causing a Joker robot to come to their aid. Batwoman and Steel come to the rescue, but things aren’t done yet as the program has created a Batman/Superman mash-up.
BATMAN: THREE JOKERS #3 by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok. Batman, Batgirl Jason try to figure out who The Joker really is, although it seems Batman knows. He finds out that Joe Chill has been kidnapped and that he also ha written lots o letters, undelivered, to Bruce Wayne. They track The Joker to the Monarch Theatre, where he plans to drop Chill into a vat, turning him into the new Clown Prince of Crime. After a battle, Batman saves Joe Chill’s life and The Criminal Joker is killed by the Comedian Joker. In the end, Chill dies and Batman reads the letters, Jason writes a love letter to Barbara which she never gets to see and Batman reveals he has always known ho the Joker is, but he can never tell the world because of what it will do to his family.
CATWOMAN #26 by Ram V and Fernando Blanco. The Penguin is not happy about being played by Selina, so he hires a hitman named Father Valley. In the bad part of Alleytown, Selina meets with Pit and cuts a deal. In the end, Father Valley spies on Selina and Maggie.
DARK NIGHTS DEATH METAL #4 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. Batman and Superman are in tough shape as they are dealing with alternate versions of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS and FINAL CRISIS. Wonder Woman is dealing with the alternate INFINITE CRISIS, where Superboy Prime tells her that he promised The Batman Who Laughs Wonder Woman so he could be the hero of the one world left. Elsewhere, Harley, Swamp Thing, and Jarro face Robin King, who finishes off the disembodied Jonah Hex. Wonder Woman convinces Superboy Prime join the heroes and he destroys the antenna, which frees Batman and Superman and resets everything. Or not, as the world is still devastated and Wally, sitting in Metron’s chair, is no longer in the blue suit.
DARK NIGHTS DEATH METAL: ROBIN KING #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Riley Rossmo. Robin King gloats at his apparent victory and thinks back to how he came to be. Following his parents death, young Bruce Wayne decided to take down the heroes of his Earth. His actions bring attention to the Batman Who Laughs who convinces him to join him and doses him with a pill while he pits him in the Robin Pit, finalizing his transformation. In the back-up, the Signal and his team take down a Batman/Chemo mash-up to free Gotham Narrows.
DARK NIGHTS DEATH METAL: RISE OF THE NEW GOD #1 by James Tynion IV and Jesus Merino. The Chronicler moves through time and space, meeting with various characters and observing the cosmic battle between Darkest Knight and Perpetua. With him is the Codex Omniversa: a book which contains worlds he has witnessed rise and fall. In the end, he decides this world is worth saving. In the back-up, John Stewart and a handful of Lanterns make their way through the Bleed to meet with the surviving heroes from the other worlds of the Multiverse.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1028 by Peter J. Tomasi and Nicola Scott. Batman investigates a series of murders perpetrated as revenge by the son of a former policeman. In the end, the vigilante son is arrested and Christopher Nakano announces his candidacy for Mayor, claiming he wants to get rid of the “masked and dangerous”.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1029 by Peter J. Tomasi and Kenneth Rocafort. The Mirror is introduced, and his plan is to start a revolution where he and his followers can unmask and eliminate the Bats and his various teammates. Meanwhile, Bruce is boxing up the belongings the Wayne Manor as he prepares to move out and into the city. Later, he helps stop an apparent attack during a Nakano for Mayor gala. In the end, he goes to examine the Black Casebook, only to find it blank. It seems Damian has stolen the book.
THE FLASH #763 by Kevin Shinick and Clayton Henry. Barry and Iris are at the Central City Farmer’s Market when he realizes that his ring that holds his costume is missing. This eventually leads him to Trickster’s arcade and his ring is being offered as a prize. After a series of tests, Trickster has a final test: tell him why the ring is special. Barry tells him the ring has special powers. Trickster decides to use the ring himself, the costume comes out into his face, knocking him out, allowing Flash to regain the ring. In the end, Dr. Alchemy is in Iron Heights and has a plan.
THE FLASH #764 by Kevin Shinick and Will Conrad. The news reports that Dr. Alchemy is breaking out of Iron Heights and Barry races off. During the battle, Alchemy blasts him and Flash’ mask turn to Mercury. The CCPD shows up and shoots at Alchemy, who turns the bullets into gas that will kill the men. Flash uses his speed to disperse the gas. Alchemy is using the philosopher’s stone to achieve his tasks and that leads to Barry researching the stone. He heads to the museum to check out a Metal Men exhibit and hopefully talk to Will Magnus. There he confronts Alchemy, who has used his powers to drain the Speed Force from Flash’s body. He tells him that he could kill everyone in the building, but he would rather show the people there that The Flash can’t stop him.
GREEN LANTERN: SEASON TWO #8 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. In a tale this plays in reverse, the war in the Anti-World is coming and somehow Sinestro is now involved.
HAWKMAN #28 by Robert Venditti and Fernando Pasarin. Hawkman and Hawkgirl are in 1940 and Carter is remembering his death from Hath-Set. He is also having issues with the thought of actually dying and staying dead. The Nth Metal dagger has been stolen and is being used by Anton Hastor, the current version of Hath-Set, to find Hawkman. Hawkman uses his mace to psychically link to the dagger, which leads them to a train, where Anton has used the power of Anubis to make everyone on the train a zombie, that our heroes have to fight and kill. In the end, Hastor uses the dagger to stab and possibly kill Hawkman.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #54 by Joshua Williamson and Xermanico. Continued from JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #25, Cyborg and Starfire join the team of Nightwing, Hawkgirl, Bobo and Luthor. They have to make their way across the wastelands through a field filled with giant Starros. The giant stars are placing false memories in the heads of the team and it takes Luthor to snap them out of it to face off with Starro.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #55 by Joshua Williamson and Robson Rocha.
The team continues to fifth with the Starros, which have not combined to become
a giant Starro. They board Luthor’s pirate ship, which he has named Lana, and
head across Brimstone Bay to free the Legion of
Doom. Hawkgirl senses Martian Manhunter and heads off to free him. That results
in the team being attacked by the Omega Knight, as J’onn has been compromised.
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