ACTION COMICS #1036 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Sean Lewis, Daniel Sampere and Sami Basri. Superman and the Authority head to Warworld to confront Mongul. When they arrive, they discover a path leading them to the seat of power that is littered with the bodies of the Phaelosians. Once the arrive, they encounter Chaytil and are forced to battle their way to the Mongul-Who-Is, who promises to kill Superman. In the backup, Guardian summons a digital demon and ends up fighting it in a Dark Web world to save the missing children.
ACTION COMICS #1037 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Shawn Aldridge, Miguel Mendonca and
Adriana Melo. As Superman and The Authority prepare
to take on Mongul on Warworld, the ruling council of the United Federation of
Planets decides to not send the United Order to help. The team battles Mongul
and his minions with disastrous results as June and Apollo quickly fall.
Manchester Black discovers the minion who is controlling the other creatures
and beats him to death with a stick. Lia takes on another of the creatures and
dies in Superman’s arms. Distracted, Superman is stabbed through the chest by a
Kryptonite spear wielded by Mongul. In the end, the United Federation of
Planets decides to do nothing. In the backup, Martian Manhunter investigates a
recent theft of an artifact in the Metropolis Museum. And that’s when the Human
Flame shows up.
AQUAMAN/GREEN ARROW: DEEP TARGET #2 by Brandon Thomas and
Ronan Cliquet. Arthur and Oliver, still with broken memories and in each
others’ roles as Aquaman and Green Arrow, are attacked in their jet by a team
of mercenaries. They bail out with the co-pilot, who reveals that its’ possible
the pilot set them up. Landing on a deserted island, a mysterious enemy kills
the co-pilot and attacks the pair.
AQUAMAN: THE BECOMING #3 by Brandon Thomas and Scott Koblish.Mera is interrogated by Atlantean intelligence while
Jackson is on the run from Atlantean security. After healing at Happy Island,
he makes several short transporter jumps before ending up near Titans Tower
West. Once there, he is attacked once again, but his mother arrives and helps
out. In the end, he discovers his attacker is Delilah-Jackson’s sister.
ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE WORLD #2 by Dan Watters and Dani. A street thug searching
for a high gets one from escaped Arkham resident Double X. Meanwhile, Dr. Joy
meets with the Ten Eyed Man, who is troubled by the ghost of Amadeus Arkham,
and he produces a map of Gotham which supposedly shows where the escaped Arkham
prisoners are. Azrael goes on a hunt for the escapees, which leads him to where
Double X is held. There is a battle between the pair as the ghost also appears.
In the end, Double X is captured, the ghost is still on the loose and Azrael’s
next target is Dr. Joy.
BATMAN #116 by James
Tynion IV, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jorge Jimenez and Jorge
Corona. Peacekeepers have invaded Eden to capture or kill Queen Ivy, but
Ghostmaker is there to battle them. Ivy’s wrath is unleashed and, because her
vines are wrapped in Gotham’s bedrock, it triggers a small earthquake. Miracle
Molly and Batman track down Scarecrow, who tries to unleash his control on
Molly. Peacekeeper-01 shoots Scarecrow, which stops his attack on Molly.
Peacekeeper-01 claims he is better than Batman and the pair brawl, while Molly tries
to stop Crane’s machine. In the end, Queen Ivy is becoming unhinged. But maybe
the surprise appearance of Harley, the Gardener and the other Ivy will stop
her. In the backup, the Batgirls come under attack by the Peacekeepers, but
survive the demolition of Oracle’s headquarters.
BATMAN #117 by James Tynion IV, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jorge Jimenez and Jorge Corona. Simon Saint is
desperately trying to keep things together when the Bat Family, wearing
Peacekeeper armor, arrive to shut the Magistrate down. Elsewhere, Batman and
Peacekeeper-01 battle each other while Molly tries to shut down Scarecrow’s
device. But she is having second thoughts and doesn’t immediately disarm it. Batman
takes down Peacekeeper-01 and then desperately convinces Molly that Fear State
is ending and she needs to shut the device down. At the same time, Harley
reunites the two Ivy’s, who uses her powers to generate pheromones to mellow
out the fear that Gothamites are feeling. The pair reunite with a long-awaited
kiss as Fear State comes to an end. To be concluded in BATMAN: FEAR STATE OMEGA
#1. In the backup, the Batgirls continue to hide from Seer who, even though
Fear State has ended, continues to be a menace.
BATMAN FEAR STATE:
OMEGA #1 by James
Tynion IV, Ryan
Benjamin, Christian Duce, Riccardo Federici, Guillem March and Trevor Hairsine.
A month after the end of FEAR STATE and Scarecrow is finally being
transferred to the newly constructed Arkham Tower. He tries to break out and is
apprehended by Batman, who personally delivers him. Miracle Molly testifies
about how Simon Saint used the Unsanity Collective to support his need for the
Magistrate. She is sent to Blackgate, where she will serve time for her crimes,
while the other Unsanity Collective leaders are allowed to remain free. While
Nightwing and the Batgirls succeeded in taking down Skybase-01, the ship is
still in Gotham Harbor and still needs to be cleaned up. Simon Saint is under
arrest but may be released under house arrest and looks like he may end up
working for Amanda Waller. Poison Ivy has had her two halves restored, but she
lets The Gardener know she is not happy that she was responsible for messing
with her mind and will use her powers to save the world. Peacekeeper-01 has
broken free and is on the loose. Batman meets with Clownhunter, who refuses to
join Batman’s team, as he blames Batman for everything that has happened in the
last year. But Ghostmaker arrives and tells Clownhunter he will train him.
BATMAN 2021 ANNUAL #1 by James Tynion IV and Ricardo
Lopez Ortiz. As Batman and Ghostmaker they take down
Firefly, Ghostmaker tells Batman about his most outstanding feat, where he
battled his way through an army of enemies to take down Madame Midas. It turns
out that, when Ghostmaker was a child, Madame Midas brutally forced
Ghostmaker’s father to sell his company to Midas’.
BATMAN: THE DETECTIVE #6 by Tom Taylor and Andy Kubert. Batman and his allies
race to stop Equilibrium from levelling London by
using a cluster of remote-controlled military drones she bought from the United
States government. But Nightwing and Barbara have managed to hack the drones,
leaving her defeated. Ducard tries to shoot her, but Batman stops him.
Defeated, she tries to kill herself, but Batman stops her, promising Ducard he
will get her help. In the end, Batman sees the prison release of the woman who
torched the building but who also also saved the life of the man who eventually
killed Equilibrium’s husband and son.
BATMAN: REPTILIAN #5 by Garth Ennis and
Liam Sharp. Batman tells Croc that the creature wants him to impregnate it. The
pair escape and Batman uses the Batmobile to try to get Volkov there to take
the heat off of them. But things go awry and the creature heads back towards
Croc.
BATMAN: REPTILLIAN #6 by Garth Ennis and
Liam Sharp. While Volkov gets ejected from the Batmobile, Batman triggers a
bomb, apparently killing himself and the creature. Batman survives, takes down Volkov and tases
Croc, taking him into custody. In the end, Batman leaves Croc with the concept
that he may actually be a hermaphrodite, and this may happen again.
BATMAN SECRET FILES: THE GARDENER #1 by James
Tynion IV and Christian Ward. Batman meets with Dr. Bella Garten, who reveals
her origin story. After her parents died in a car crash, she was raised by
groundskeepers named Garten. They fostered her interest in botony and
eventually ended up working in a scientific program with Jason Woodrue, Alec Holland, Linda Holland and
Pamela Isley, who she ended up in a relationship with. When she realized what
the program leaders were doing, making monsters out of seeds, she decided to
leave and unsuccessfully tried to get Pam to do the same. Pam stayed behind
and, through experiments on her, got turned into the villainous Poison Ivy. Eventually
Ivy meets Harley and the two become a couple. Recently, Ivy, who has embraced
the green, met with Garten, who decided to grow a new Ivy containing her best
aspects.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: AUTHORITY SPECIAL #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Trevor Hairsine, Jonathan Clapion, Scott Hanna, Rain Beredo and Ben Templesmith. Batman teams up with Superman and the Authority as they head to the Shadow Earth in the Dark Multiverse to face the Empire of Shadows, controlled by the al Ghuls. Their plan is to invade Earth-Zero and are using the body of the Fuginaut as their conduit. The team transports to Shadow Earth and quickly end up in a fight, with the al Ghuls capturing June, to use her to transport to Earth-Zero. The team defeats the al Ghuls and promises to stop them if they ever try to come to Earth-Zero again. In the end, Shadow Earth’s Bruce Wayne promises to encounter the heroes in the future,
BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #9 by Alyssa Wong, Dan Watters, Sam Johns, Brandon
Thomas, Vasco Georgiev, Nikola Cizmesija, Karl
Mostert and Cian Tormey. Batwoman and Red Alice team up to battle Seer. Despite
the pressure put on her, Beth struggles to shut down her Red Alice persona,
forcing Seer to flee. Un the end, it appears the Red Alice persona may still be
bubbling under Beth’s surface. In the second tale, Tweedle Dee has become
seriously ill and Tweddle Dum will do anything to save him, but the health care
system stops him at every turn. Story three involves Azrael finding that
Bullet-Tooth has been resurrected by a doctor using a version of Lazarus Resin.
But the results don’t last long and Bullet-Tooth dies again. The doctor
responsible doesn’t get more than explaining the Resin when he is beheaded
by…an avenging angel? In the last tale, the Outsiders fight in the past to
change their future. They do, somewhat, but the fight in the future will
continue.
BLACK MANTA #3 by Chuck Brown and
Matthew Dow Smith. Gentleman Ghost send Manta to Ancient Atlantis where he
learns that the leaders are planning to go back to the land of the first
weapons of the Atlantean masters. In Themyscira, the strange visitor secures
transportation to the civilized world, where she attacks Manta. He disables her
transport but goes to save her as she wears the Orichalcum. In the end, Devil
Ray invades Atlantis.
BLUE & GOLD #4 by Dan Jurgens, Kevin Maguire, Ryan Sook and Norm
Rapmund. Booster and Ted are doing their first interview for their new business
when Booster starts talking about their Justice League International days.
Booster saved Ted’s life, while Ted tells it the other way around. In the end,
Guy Gardner shows up to set the record straight: he saved them both. Either
way, the interview has helped create a line of folks looking for their service.
But that also includes Princess Omnizon, which is probably bad news.
CATWOMAN #37 by Ram V
and Nina Vakueva. The final
battle of Alleytown comes to an end as Billy attempts to get Ivy out of town.
He ends up being stopped by Penguin and his crew, who capture her, all thanks
to Riddler’s double cross. But Selina’s plan included expecting the double
cross and it turns out that Ivy is actually Clayface, forcing Riddler to hide
from the Magistrate. Resigned to give herself up, she gets an assist from
Ghostmaker and lives to fight another day, with her Alleytown friends by her
side.
CHECKMATE #6 by Brian
Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. With a blackout at the Hall of Justice,
Talia is revealed as the traitor. Checkmate defeats her and she transports
away, meaning the mission to gain the Heroes Network is a failure for
Leviathan. Meanwhile, Mark Shaw continues to go
after the "Snowman's Ticket"-Leo Lane. But Lane shoots Shaw and
wounds him, forcing him to flee back to Markovia. Once there, Nakamura tells
him he isn’t the one and kills him. Superman meets with The Guardian and
retrieves Shaw’s body while Waller meets with Checkmate. Mr. King, the team’s
benefactor, is revealed to be Kamandi, who has travelled from the future to
hope to prevent what happened to cause The Great Disaster in his time. In the
end, Talia returns to Leviathan and takes her followers to the Lazarus Pits.
CRUSH & LOBO #6 by Mariko Tamaki and
Amancay Nahuelpan. Crush is in Space Vegas where she masquerades as someone
else and gets a date with Q&&7. They end up in a comedy club and, after
a comedian heckles Q&&7, Crush trashes the comedian. Q&&7
leaves, realizing this is not her true date. Disappointed again, Crush heads
for a final confrontation with Lobo.
DEATHSTROKE INC. #3 by Joshua Williamson
and Howard Porter. Deathstroke and Black Canary capture the Queen of Fables and
she takes her back to T.R.U.S.T. while Slade continues his journey through this
fantasy land to take on Cheetah. After battling through her cat guards, he
confronts Cheetah before destroying the fable that allows her to maintain this
illusion. Before she is captured, she promises to reveal everything about
T.R.U.S.T. if he lets her go. Back at T.R.U.S.T., Canary discovers that the
painting of her parents is a fake and Juliette is actually Libra. She reaches
out to Oracle, but their communication is spotty. As Oracle tells her to take
down Slade, he shows up poised to kill Canary.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1045 by Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora. Nakano is unconscious and Batman is trying to revive
him. Once awake, he is told about the parasites and how Vile is responsible,
leading to Nakamo firing back at Batman for not telling him about this before
it got out of control. As they flee the sewers, the eggs begin to spread, with
the creatures tentacles going after civilians. As the creatures attack, Nakano
tries to help by shooting it with a taser. That is when Nightwing flies in with
a Magistrate aircraft and destroys the monster, which gives the Magistrate gets
credit for saving the city. In the end, Batman and Nakano cut a deal to work
together, even though Nakano ants to enhance his target list.
DETECTIVE COMICS 2021 ANNUAL #1 by Mariko
Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg and David Lapham. In the past, Bruce Wayne sees his
father save the life of Peter Faust, who had shot two people. In the present,
it is revealed that Faust eventually killed himself several weeks before A-Day.
Batman and Nightwing investigate the case of The Meager Man, who has been
killing people while dressed in a winged suit made of chicken bones. They
capture him and discover this is Peter Faust’s son. He breaks free from police
and injures two policemen in the process, leading to the duo to capture him
again. In the end, Faust is transferred to Arkham Tower where Dick thinks that
this will be the start of a new day in Gotham. But The Forgotten, who Faust met
while on the run, looms large.
THE FLASH #776 by Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin. Flash and Dr. Fate need to head to a strange
two-dimensional causeway to stop Eclipso. But they can’t do it alone and it
takes the help of you-the comic reader-to make their way to that causeway. With
our help, they do get to Gemworld, only to find out they are too late and
Eclipso has won.
FUTURE STATE: GOTHAM #7 by Joshua Williamson,
Dennis Culver, Giannis Milonogiannis and Riley Rossmo. Jason battles WarMonger
while his mind control forces the Bat Fsamily to battle each other. Jason
manages to get the Arkham Knight armor off of WarMonger and breaks his control
on the Bat Family. As the team vows to keep fighting for Gotham, Jason goes to
meet with his mysterious contact but come up empty. It turns out the mysterious
stranger he thinks is Bruce Wayne is really…Hush. In the backup, Batman battles
a group that has been kidnapping bats.
GOTHAM CITY VILLAINS ANNIVERSARY GIANT #1 by Danny DeVito Wes
Craig, G. Willow Wilson, Phillip Kennedy johnson, Nadia Shammas, Joghua
Williamson, Stephanie Phillips, Dan Watters, Mairghread Scott, Dan Mora, Emma
Rios, Riccardo Federici, Max Raynor, Max Fiumara, Skylar Patridge and Ariela
Kristantina. In this collection, we get eight tales of Batman villains. In the
first, Penguin and Catwoman fall in love and steal a vaccine that ends a
worldwide pandemic. In the second, the Scarecrow introduces an app which
furthers of fear plans. In the third, Ivy infiltrates a chemical pant and
unleashes a poison which kills everyone except for the one person she decides
to save. In the fourth, the villainous Red Hood lets his ego get in the way of
business and it costs him his life with his partners. In the fifth, the Mad
Hatter schemes in a plot which continues in ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE
WORLD. In the sixth, Killer Moth tries to change his ways after meeting
Harley Quinn. In the seventh, Batman plays a game of chess, figuratively and
literally with Ras al Ghul. In the final tale, Talia recounts her origin in
preparation for the upcoming Shadow War.
GREEN LANTERN #8 by Geoffrey Thorne, ChrisCross
and Marco Santucci. John Stewart continues his
journey as he becomes a “new god”. This takes him to Anticitus, where he saves
Kilowog and Hannu before entering a portal which takes him to meet those who worship
the Lightbringer. Meanwhile, Jo Mullein continues to investigate the death of Guardian
Koyos and the explosion of the Central Power Battery. In the end, Peya Fel
believes she finds the answer but, before she can reveal it she is struck down
by…Guardian Koyos?
HARDWARE: SEASON ONE #3 by Brandon Thomas and
Denys Cowan. Hardware is on the run from Alva, but this leads him to Alva’s
former partner Asher Sims. Sims gives him free reign of his laboratory but Alva
contacts Sims and offers him a deal that may result in Sims betraying Hadware.
HARLEY QUINN #9 by Stephanie Phillips and Riley Rossmo. Harley escorts Ivy to
the garden to meet with Queen Ivy. Of course, that means having to get through
Keepsake first. Meanwhile, Kevin races into the burning S.A.F.E. Headquarters
to save people, including Lockwood. Things go south and Lockwood deserts Kevin,
who gets saved by Sam.
HUMAN TARGET #1 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. Christopher Chance
masquerades as Lex Luthor and a would-be assassin tries to kill him, but Chance
succeeds in disabling and killing him. Later he meets with Luthor, only to
discover he has been poisoned by someone who thought they were poisoning Luthor.
Dr. Mid-Nite reveals he only has 12 days to live and discover who in the
Justice League is responsible for his upcoming death.
HUMAN TARGET #2 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. Chance gets a visit
from Ice, who had been called in by Doc, leading to them going off and
discussing their past and not so much the case. She reveals she was not ever a
Norwegian princess, but a Norwegian girl who, after her powers manifested,
killed her father and grandfather. During her superhero career, she died
fighting the Overmaster before coming back during the reset. She also learned
Lex was responsible for the Overmaster coming to Earth and that Fire wanted to
kill Lex. In the end, he reveals that he masqueraded as Doc, because he wanted
to meet the person he thought might have poisoned him.
I AM BATMAN #3 by John Ridley and Stephen Segovia. The
Seer sends out multiple groups of the Moral Authority to the juvenile detention
center to break out Morris Caulfield. But that assault leads to Jace Fox showing
up as his mother is inside the center. One of the assault team gets inside,
forcing Mrs. Fox to kill him. She confrots Batman, but he convinces her to put
the gun down. In the end, Simon Saint promises that the Tyler Arkadine won’t
say anything to the police and his prediction is correct as Arkadine turns up
dead.
ICON & ROCKET: SEASON ONE #4 by Reginuld Hudlin,
Leon Chills and Doug Braithwaite. Xiomara and Mrs. Erwin get free from the
creature just as Icon and Rocket arrive. He battles the creature, that
eventually flees. Later, Icon and Rocket reveal all and Rocket’s mother gives
her blessing to allow Icon to continue to train her. In the end, it seems more
enemies are coming…
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