Wednesday, November 10, 2021

DC UNIVERSE Month 45, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE: LAST RIDE #6 by Chip Zdarsky and Miguel Mendonca. Hal and Bruce have found Darkseid’s cones, but Hal isn’t himself, as he’s revealed to be possessed by Darkseid, who now has the power of the Green Lanterns. The rest of the team battles Cyborg Superman and Vril Dox, who also has the Lantern power. Superman gets stabbed by a Krytoknife, but continues to fight. While Darkseid is preparing to lauch an attack from a reborn Apokolips, Superman saves Hal and Batman. It is revealed that Lobo let himself be captured because he was hired by Darkseid to set this trap. Superman offers Lobo money to switch sides, which he does. The team regroups as Darkseid meets with Granny Goodness and they lead the attack on the League. A reborn, Lantern empowered Martian Manhunter arrives…but what side is he on.

LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #6 by Becky Cloonan, Matthew Rosenberg, Dike Ruan and Cian Tormey. Batman deals with a traumatized Solomon Grundy, who is troubled by mirrored images of his former self. In the second story, Gotham has flooded because some criminals have blown up the dam to engage in a heist. So it’s a team up between Batman and Killer Croc to take the bad guys down.

NIGHTWING #85 by Tom Taylor and Robbi Rodriguez. Barbara sends out a message to everyone that the Oracle Network has been compromised, leading her to trash her system. The only way to take down Seer is to shut down Oracle 2, so she and Dick go off to meet Tim. They get to the Oracle 2 warehouse and get dosed with Fear Toxin. When they recover, Barbara and Dick kiss before learning that Seer is broadcasting from a spaceship. In the end, Seer sets off an explosion in the Watchtower where the Batgirls are.

NUBIA & THE AMAZONS #1 by Stephanie Williams, Vita Ayala and Alitha Martinez. On Themyscira, the Well of Souls starts giving birth to more Amazons. They begin their journey by adjusting to new life, as they have no memory of their past lives. But one has troubling dreams about the end of times, which may actually be coming true.

ROBIN #7 by Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov and Max Dunbar. Damian battles with Respawn, who desperately tries to hide his space and it costs him a life. Damian calls out Mother Soul, revealing he knows her true identity as Ruh al Ghul: Ra’s al Ghul’s mother. The whole reason for the tournament is to feed the island with death energy. The tournament continues with the final four. Flatline faces off with Damian, resulting in her death. Meanwhile, Hawke takes down Ravager, leading to the final face-off between Robin and Connor Hawke.

SHAZAM! #4 by Tim Sheridan and Clayton Henry. Adam reveals that the Apocalypse will be brought about by the actions Billy is engaging in now and will be brought about by Raven. After a meal and cocoa, Adam gets Billy to channel his power and he is back to full power. After facing off against Pride and realizing he cannot save Freddy, he and Black Adam Jr. team up to continue their fight to stop the future from happening. In the end, the Titans meet with a recovering Dane, whose true self seems to have awakened, meaning the end of days may already be starting.

SUICIDE SQUAD #8 by Robbie Thompson, Eduardo Pansica and Dexter Soy. Peacemaker battles Swamp Thing, who removes the brain bomb that was forcing him to do Waller’s bidding. While one of Waller’s own conspires with Talon to bring her down, the team continues to battle in Hell. The end result is she gets a way to seal off access to Earth-3. She also has a cache of Lazarus Resin, meaning death is no longer a way out of the Suicide Squad, as she resurrects Culebra. Peacemaker, now free of Waller, meets with Flagg and his new Squad.

SUICIDE SQUAD: KING SHARK #2 by Tim Seeley and Scott Kolins. Shark battles a giant jellyfish while Vik and Shawn conspire to make certain he loses in the tournament. But he defeats Tiger Queen in the next round and their plan seems to be going sideways.

SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY #4 by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin. Inside the Bottle City of Kandor, Ultrahumanite prepares to take over Superman's body by putting his brain inside it. Lois Lane shows up with a White Kryptonite gun and takes the Ultrahumanite down. They discover this is all part of a plan by Brainiac. The rest of the team battles on various fronts, even saving Lia, who was kidnapped by Eclipso. The team joins together and heads to Warworld, in a thread which will continue in ACTION COMICS. In an interesting epilogue, set after those events, Superman and Manchester Back examine an artifact from the Source Wall that says “Lightray is”.

SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #4 by Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo. The Justice League arrives at the destroyed Kent farm and learns that someone dropped Faultiline here. Jon learns that Jay is a Post-Human and he and Jon meet with Aerie and Wink, who reveal that Bendix cheated to become President of Gamorra. Jon invades Gamorra and meets with him, but he has his people overload Jon’s powers.

THE SWAMP THING #8 by Ram V and Mike Perkins.Swamp Thing battles Parasite, learning his back story in the process. He learns the Green chose Levi, while his brother Jacob tried to force the Green's power into himself. The dark magic Jacob uses transforms him into Hedera, where he plans to use the power to save the planet. Levi battle Peacemaker where he removes the brain bomb and tells him to go make peace. In the end, orders go out to pick up Jennifer Reese.

TASK FORCE Z #1 by Mathew Rosenberg and Eddy Barrows. Crazy Quilt battles a reincarnated Man Bat and Bane, who are being handled by Red Hood. After his capture, Jason meets with Hanna Hobart and some of the people in charge of Project Halperin. After Crazy Quilt gives up information about who might have some quantities of Lazarus Resin, the team, made up of Red Hood, Bane, Arkham Knight, Man Bat and Bloom, confront Mr. Freeze. The team is decimated, Freeze gets away and Jason finds himself frozen…with a hungry Arkham Knight menacing him.

TITANS UNITED #2 by Cavan Scott and Jose Luis. The Titans go after a powered-up Kite-Man, eventually taking him down. They find a former Cadmus scientist who was responsible for helping them create sleeper agents to safeguard against out-of-control metahumans. Before he can reveal much more, an arrow from Lady Vic kills him. Connor and Starfire give chase, but Conner’s powers fail him and he gets captured by Blackfire.

WONDER GIRL #4 by Joelle Jones and Adriana Melo. Yara Flor, deemed to be Hera’s new champion, continues her training with Chiron on the outskirts of Mt. Olympus to become Hera's new champion. Later, while Joao sleeps, she is visited by Potira, who shows her why she needs to be the new champion. She is eventually returned and meets with Artemis and Wonder Girl. In the end, Chiron shows Yara off to Hera.

WONDER WOMAN #780 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Travis Moore and Steve Pugh. Diana finally returns home to the surprise and delight of most, except for Dr. Psycho. In the end, she goes to Themyscira, meets with Nubia and gets her lasso back. 

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