JUSTICE LEAGUE #61 by Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, Ram V and Xermanico. The team has ended up on Naomi McDuffie's homeworld where they find themselves split up and having issues with their powers. Superman’s heat vision has gone crazy, Black Canary's canary cry is supercharged, and Naomi's hands started disappearing. While Superman and Black Adam battle Brutus, the others team up to lend a hand before Brutus heads back to Earth to make it his new home. In the backup, Justice League Dark, with Ragman’s help, figure out why Merlin attacked the bookshop. This leads them to a fictional library, where Merlin plans on regaining his original spell book.
JUSTICE LEAGUE: LAST RIDE #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Miguel Mendonca.
Sometime in the future, the Justice League has
disbanded, the Green Lantern Corps has been shut down, and Lobo has killed the
New Gods. He has been captured, but Hal Jordan, who is planning on rebuilding
Oa on the moon, insists the League needs to come together to see the Lobo stay
alive to make it to some sort of cosmic trial. Batman rebuffs the idea and goes
back to patrolling Gotham. Mr. Freeze is loose and Batman engages him, with
Superman taking Freeze out, much to Batman;s dismay. That leads to an argument
between the two, where Superman admits he sent Martian Manhunter to his death,
which seems to have been the reason the team broke up. Eventually, Batman
decides to join up, saying they need to take Lobo to Apokolips.
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #1 by Darrick Robertson. In a
tale set in the past, Batman battles The Joker, who has a new batch of gas he
plans to unleash on Gotham. In the end, Batman and The Joker are in a
helicopter when The Joker unleashes the gas in the cockpit, sending the pair and
the copter into the water below.
MAN-BAT #4 by Dave Wielgosz and Sumit Kumar. In their fear-induced fantasy, Kirk
and Francine finish Scarecrow's sonic cannon. But during the process, the
consciousness of the Man-Bat is trying to break free so he can stop all of
this. He succeeds and he explains to Francine what is happening. Batman shows
up and takes down Scarecrow. But then decides to challenge Man-Bat, who injects
himself with Venom, creating a monster Man-Bat.
MILESTONE RETURNS INFINITE EDITION #0 by Reginald Hudlin,
Denys Cowan, Chriscross, Jim Lee, Ryan Benjamin and Khoi Pham. In Dakota, a BLM
protest ends badly as police unleash an untested gas which transforms people,
one of whom is Virgil Ovid Hawkins
who gains electromagnetic powers
and transforms into the hero Static. This is the event that has come to
be known as The Big Bang. Elsewhere, Curtis Metcalf reacts to the incident and suits up as the superhero
Hardware, confronting the police and putting them on notice. Meanwhile, Icon and Rocket save some captives in a
jungle and then enjoy tacos. In the end, Holocaust forms The Blood Syndicate.
In the backup, originally published online during the DC Fandome event, we
learn Icon is an alien from another world who shows Rocket the various heroes
of Dakota including Static, Hardware, Xombi, and the Shadow Cabinet.
MISTER MIRACLE: THE SOURCE OF FREEDOM #1 by Brandon M. Easton and Fico Ossio. Shilo Norman is doing a
pay-per-view escape show with surprising success. He meets with his agent, who
chides him about not being willing to reveal his identity to the public, saying
he won’t do that because of the way Thaddeus Brown was treated when he revealed
his identity as a African American. Later, he saves some squatters during a
fire and meets firefighter Denise Dorian. His agent meets with her and arranges
for her to go on a date with him, which doesn’t go well because of his ego.
Later, he finds his apartment trashed with graffiti calling him a thief. That’s
when N’vir Free, the only child of Scott Free and Big Barda shows up, claiming
to be the rightful heir of the Mister Miracle mantle.
THE NEXT BATMAN: SECOND SON #2 by John Ridley and Travel Foreman.
The Fox family is gathered at Tam’s
bedside after being poisoned by The Ratcatcher. Tiff asks if having the
actual toxin would help with a cure, which sends Luke as Batwing out after the villain.
Jace goes to work at FoxTech, although he also moonlights as a masked
vigilante. Commissioner Renee Montoya promotes a pair of officers to detective,
declaring that ALL masked vigilantes are to be apprehended. “Even the
goods ones,” she snaps, which is probably a questionable call, emphasis on the
“Question” part. In the end, Batwing fails to find the cure, leading to
Tiff embracing Jace.
NIGHTWING #80 by Tom
Taylor and Bruno Redondo. The police show up to question Dick about the dead
body they found that links to Dick. Barbara has to vouch for him and he sends
Tim undercover at the tent city. Two of Blockbuster’s thugs show up, leading to
a fight between Nightwing and them. A fire starts at the tent city, leading to
Dick and Tim rescuing people. That’s when Heartless shows up.
ROBIN #2 by Joshua
Williamson and Gleb Melnikov. Damian wakes, finding out you don’t die on
Lazarus Island. Actually, you can die twice and on the third time, your soul
leaves you forever. The last survivor gains immortality. The only rule is you
can’t kill someone at night. The odds on favorite is Connor Hawke, who is
working for the League of Shadows. Later, he meets with Flatline and they
discover the biggest Lazarus Pit he has ever seen. In the end, Robin and
Ravager head to a tiki bar, where all the competitors are gathered.
STARGIRL SPRING BREAK SPECIAL #1 by Geoff Johns, Todd Nauck and Bryan
Hitch. Green and Red Arrow are training when he reveals that he and Roy were
the Green Arrow and Speedy in the Seven Soldiers of Victory, due to being
thrown into the past by a Clock King trap, making him the Golden Age Green Arrow.
That is when a new Crimson Avenger shows up saying that Lee Travis needs their
help. Courtney and Pat head to Myrtle Beach to meet with Greg Saunders, the
former Vigilante. While waiting for him, he tells how the original Crimson
Avenger and his partner Wing died. The current Crimson Avenger shows up and Pat
and Courtney are transported to a meeting with Green Arrow, Red Arrow,
Vigilante and the Shining Knight. That sends them on a mission to find Clock
King and save Lee Travis’ soul. They battle Clock King, find Lee Travis on the
boat, which as a time vessel built by Per Degaton, who tells them to save Wing.
They can’t save Lee, but his body is eventually found. In the end, Emiko tells
Courtney that she has a lead on finding Wing. In the backup, set in 1940, Per
Degaton enlists Clock King’s help.
SUICIDE SQUAD #3 by Robbie
Thompson and Eduardo Pansica. Amanda Waller wants
Bolt on the team, at any cost. Nocturna meets with Peacemaker and tells him
that something is not right with Connor. Waller sends them out after Bolt with
two new members: Keymaster and Branch. Things go bad fast, with Keymaster dying
when Waller explodes his brain bomb. Connor shows up and tells Bolt to run. She
escapes, Peacmaker knocks out Branch and then finds himself getting beaten up
by someone who says they can get the team into Titans Academy: Red X.
SUPERMAN #31 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Scott Godlewski
and Norm Rapmund. Superman and son meet Faldr and discover he has been taken
over by Shadowbreed. Jon takes Prince Qarath O Bakkis to find Faldr’s lab, while Superman
heads off, meeting with the citizens, only to discover the entire population
has been taken over by the Shadowbreed. That leads to him being infected. Jon
discovers Qarath O Bakkis has sold them out and is in cahoots with Shadowbreed.
He races off to try and save his father. In the backup, Loose Cannon doesn't trust the new Gangbuster
and that leads to a brawl where Gangbuster is critically injured. So what does
Projectress have to do with this?
THE SWAMP THING #3 by Ram V and Mike Perkins. Levi Kamei submits to an MRI to find out
why he's having nightmares and blackouts. During the exam, Levi starts
transforming, sending both Jennifer and himself into The Green. In the process
of trying to find her, he runs into Poison Ivy, explaining that he is looking
for Jennifer. She explains they have to be careful of the Wodewos. Elsewhere,
Jennifer about to be trampled by the Wodewos, but she gets saved by the
Floronic Man, who offers to get her back home. Ivy takes Levi to a throne where
Evil Ivy sits. The two Ivy's start to fight, which is broken up by a human Alec
Holland, who proceeds to tell Levi about the nature of The Green and the
forthcoming contagion.
TEEN TITANS ACADEMY #3 by Tim Sheridan and Rafa Sandoval. The
Suicide Squad, along with Red X, have come to Titans Tower to capture Bolt.
Waller’s rationale appears to be that she provided legs for Alinta when she
lost the use of hers. Crush and her team, along with many of the new recruits,
fight the Squad as Red X reveals he is a double-agent working for the Titans.
The Squad teleports out and Crush quits the team. In the end, the “Bat Pack”
try to discover who Red X really is.
WONDER GIRL #1 by Joëlle
Jones. In a flashback, a young Yara Flor, her mother and some Amazons are surrounded
by soldiers in the jungle. Yara’s mother dies, but Yara gets away with her
adoptive aunt. In the present, Yara heads to Brazil for a tour and, when she
steps on Brazilian soil, the powers of Heaven and Earth find that an ancient pact
has been broken, leading to the forces throughout the various kingdoms working
to kill her before her presence brings death to the gods.
WONDER WOMAN #772 by Michael Conrad, Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire, Travis Moore and Paulina Ganucheau. Diana has made her way inside of the Snake, Nidhogg and has grabbed the Valkyrie key. Siegfried shows up to warn Diana, as does Thor and Odin, who gets crushed, leading to Diana going back into battle and dying again. She discovers the shadow figure that she sees at each death is Deadman, who again tells her this isn’t her place. This leads to her confronting her evil self. During their battle, Diana knocks Dr. Psycho out of her and self and they disappear. Odin arrives and takes her to Fortress Vakyrie. In the backup, Diana finds a long-lost tome, which she hides from Oenone.
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