JUSTICE LEAGUE #72 by Brian Michael Bendis, Szymon
Kudranski, Emanuela Lupacchino and Wade Von Grawbadger. While meeting with
Justice League Dark, Zatanna has a vision of a defeated Justice League beaten
by Black Adam. Adam leaves a Justice League charity event to go to Kahndaq,
where he meets and battles Xanadoth-one of the
original Lord of Chaos. Zatanna visits with Madame Xanadu while, at the Tower
of Fate, Nabu decides to part ways with Khalid. Zatanna summons Justice League
Dark to Madame Xanadu’s where Xanadoth has arrived…and so has Black Adam.
JUSTICE LEAGUE 2021 ANNUAL #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sanford
Greene. In the future, Buddy Blank, the One Man Army Corps, finds Hawkgirl
encased in some sort of techno amber. In the present, there is a welcome home
party for Wonder Woman but that comes to a quick end when O.M.A.C. arrives,
looking very confused. Because of a temporal anomaly that is taking people out
of time and putting them in the present day, the team goes about searching for
answers, taking them into conflicts with various incarnations of Epoch, the
Lord of Time. Hawkgirl ends up defeating Epoch with a device he gave her in the
future while one of the disappearing versions of him tells Batman to find and destroy
the Gold Lantern ring. In the end Hippolyta decides to come and go, asking her
daughter to go back to her place in the League. The ring…it’s apparently
already here. Time for the search to begin. To be continued in JUSTICE
LEAGUE VS. THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES.
JUSTICE LEAGUE INCARNATE #4 by Joshua Williamson, Dennis
Culver, Chris Burnham, Mike Norton and Andrei Bressan. The Crisis on Infinite
Earths, and the death of The Monitor, led to the end of the Multiverse. The
Great Darkness took advantage of this. The next crisis led to the creation of a
new Multiverse and the creation of 52 worlds. Fina Crisis eventually led to The
Metal Was, which reset the Multiverse again and removed Earth-0 from the center
of the universe. Earth-Omega, in actuality a fragment of The Great Darkness
imprisoned by Quintessence, fell under Darkseid’s control after he killed
Quintessence. Darkseid then took control of The Flash to break open The
Multiverse, allowing him to control The Great Darkness. Based on all of this, Doctor
Multiverse explains that this is why she believes that Darkseid must win.
Darkseid’s army arrives while Thomas Wayne delivers what he calls a sedative to
Doctor Multiverse. But President Superman sees
otherwise and Wayne says the only choice is to kill her. Darkseid responds by
using his Omega Beams to kill Wayne. Darkseid
seizes the crack from Doctor Multiverse heading off with his army to Earth-7
before the Gentry can finish the Oblivion Machine. While the team picks
themselves up, to Darkseid battles the Open Hand, but the crack just powers up Open
Hand who stomps on Darkseid. In the end, the heroes have problems as the Great
Darkness have descended upon many of them.
MONKEY PRINCE #1 by Gene Luen Yang and
Bernard Chang. As a young boy, Marcus Shugel-Shen encounter Batman tormenting
Marcus’ father, who works for the underworld. As a teenager, he struggles with
that memory, which has left him with a deathly fear of water. He meets Mr. Zhu,
the school janitor who tries to be his mentor, conquer his fear of water and
gives him a special can of soda. Later, his classmates discover that Marcus has
now grown a furry tail. After being tormented by bullies, he makes the decision
to dive int the school pool and passes through a water curtain, where he meets
a transformed Mr, Zhu, now known as Shifu Pigsy. He also learns his true father
is Sun Wukong-The Monkey King. Shifu transforms Marcus into the Monkey Prince and
he attacks the bullies. But Batman and Robin show up, with Batman decapitating Monkey
King with one of his batarangs.
NIGHTWING #89 by Tom
Taylor and
Bruno Redondo. In a flashback, Batman and Nightwing work
together to help a young and scared Jon Kent. In the present, Jon goes to the
Fortress of Solitude to seek consolation from his holographic father following
recent events in SUPERBOY: SON OF KAL-EL but realizes he misses his real father
and needs solitude. At the same time, Kelex visits Dick and Barbara and informs
them that Jon needs him. Dick has a meeting with Jon and “Gossamer” when Aerie
and Wink arrive, informing them of The Rising killing former Titan Risk. Later,
Jon meets with Nightwing and tells him that The Rising is killing superheroes
across the world. They follow a strange energy signature and that takes them
directly to Lexcorp.
NUBIA & THE AMAZONS #5 by Stephanie Williams, Vita Ayala and Alitha Martinez. Nubia is
trapped behind Doom's Doorway, forcing her to face-off against Medusa. Nubia
uses the staff she had been gifted by Io to transform Medusa back into human
form and saving the previously petrified Amazons. A human Medusa is invited to
join the Amazonian population to make amends on her life. In the end, Hippolyta
returns, demanding to speak with Queen Nubia. Continued in TRIAL OF THE
AMAZONS #1.
ONE-STAR SQUADRON #3 by Mark Russell and
Steve Lieber. Superman shows up at a HEROZ4U meeting and delivers an ultimatum
to the executives: stop turning heroes into employees. Their answer: ignore the
problem. Power Girl gets the office to sign a letter stating their group
displeasure of Red Tornado. Jack 'O Lantern goes to save the crew of a shipwreck,
but gets called away to appear at a Halloween party. This gets Superman
involved again, telling the board that the Justice League is pulling its
sponsorship for HEROZ4U. The board needs a scapegoat, so they call Red Tornado
into their meeting, demand he fires half the staff and fire Power Girl too.
ROBIN #11 by Joshua
Williamson
and Gleb Melnikov. The Lazarus
Island Tournament is over Ra's Al Ghul and Talia Al Ghul have come to the
island to stop Mother Soul . In the process, it is revealed that Master Dusk
has fled, leading to Flatline, Connor Hawke, Ravager, and Respawn teaming up
with Damian to track him to Corto Maltese. Along the way, Respawn reveals his
identity to Ravager and they leave the group. Lady Shiva meets with Connor and
reminds him that there are no League members to help him. The team takes out
Dusk fairly easily, leading to them all ending up back on the island to celebrate.
Damian and Flatline kiss before Damian heads home, with a vial of Lazarus resin
and possible pans to resurrect Alfred.
ROBINS #4 by Tim Seeley and Baldemar Rivas. With
Tim still held hostage by Jenny Wren, the rest of the team goes after Anarky.
They catch him, but Spoiler arrives and demands they release him, as he is not
their immediate problem. Back at home base, Spoiler reveals that this all had
to do with Mr. Neg implanting memories into the minds of the Junior Super
Criminals to control them. Batman discovers that Cormac Dodge, the Escape
Artist, may ultimately be responsible. In the end, Dick wakes up on a mission
as Agent 37, thinking everything he has been experiencing has just been a
stressful dream.
SUICIDE SQUAD #12 by Robbie Thompson, Dennis Hopeless, Eduardo Pansica, Dexter
Soy and Marcelo Maiolo. On Earth-8, the Suicide Squad takes on the Lightning
Strikes. Major Force loses control and kills one of the Lightning Strikes
team, leading to a battle between himself and the rest of Task Force X. Black
Siren uses her power and takes out Major Force. On Earth-0, Amanda Waller is trying
to finish her work before getting into confrontation Rick Flag and his Suicide
Squad. As Waller starts to flee, Rodriguez initiates a block on the Earth-8’s
teams brain bombs. Waller contacts her team and, despite pleas, only brings
Match home, leaving the remainder of the team on Earth-8. Flag and his team get
to Waller, but she too disappears with her team, appearing on Earth-3. On the
island, thing go badly as Flag and his Squad get eaten by Clayface of Earth-23.
To be continued in WAR FOR EARTH-3.
SUICIDE SQUAD: KING SHARK #6 by Tim Seeley and
Scott Kolins. The Cordyceps Queen has taken over most of the inhabitants and
has her sights set on the Well of Evolution. Defacer, Orca and King Shark team
up to take down Vik and ultimately the Queen. In the end, the trio comes back
to Earth and King Shark makes a deal with Waller: put me back on your team and
let Defracer go. In the end, Orca and Decfacer forge an uneasy friendship
before Defacer goes off on a mini vacation with King Shark to Hawaii. In the
future, we see the Legion of Super Animals who have a familiar shark themed
battle hymn.
SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW #8 by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. While Supergirl battles
for her life in space, Ruthye duels with Krem as she looks to avenge her
father. Supergirl is saved by Comet, who dies in the battle and transforms back
into the man he once was before being transformed into a horse. She comes back
to the planet and finds that Ruthye cannot bring herself to kill Krem. She
explains that Krypto is with a space veterinarian as she decides she is going
to kill Krem. Ruthye talks her out of it, deciding that killing him won’t make
things right. They decide to imprison him in the Phantom Zone for 300 years. In
the far future, they release him, where he reveals he is a changed man. Ruthye,
who once wrote a book explaining that Supergirl had killed Krem on that beach, bludgeons
to death.
SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #8 by Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey. Jon and Jackson team up
to stop the sea creature’s assault, even as another member of the Gamorra Corps
is killed. He eventually convinces the Corps to stop their attack, allowing
them to leave and the creature to go back into Arthur Curry’s care. Despite his
est efforts, people do die, leaving Bendix to make the case that these heroes
are responsible for the ills in the world. He introduces the solution: The
Rising. Continued in NIGHTWING #89.
TASK FORCE Z #5 by Matthew Rosenberg, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Matt
Santorelli and Jack Herbert. The two teams, one led by Red Hood and the other
by KGBeast, face off with each other with everyone being dispatched except for Red
Hood, KGBeast and Madam Crow. KGBeast tells Crow to get Waller so he can show
off their trophies. Meanwhile, Dr. Shelley runs off during the battle and runs
into Bloom. Later, he arrives at Powers International where he explains to Geri
Powers that Shelley is dead and he knows Powers is her clone. He wants to
finish the work on the Lazarus Resin but she explains everyone who could do it
is dead, at which point he produces the head of Man-Bat. Red Hood and Deadshot
wake up, having been captured by KGBeast. Waller orders them killed and
Deadshot steps up, saving Jason. As KGBeast tortures Jason, Two-Face shows up,
with Mr. Freeze and a newly reanimated Bane.
TEEN TITANS ACADEMY #12 by Tim Sheridan and Tom
Derenick. Titans Tower has been destroyed and possibly killing Gar ad Victor in
the process. Nightwing demands Red X remove his mask and it reveals he is
Brick, who is convinced Nightwing is his father. The real Red X arrives, admitting
he was behind everything. He also admits he doesn’t know who Brick’s parents
are and calls him a failure before killing him. Matt blasts Red X with some
sort of heat vision, forcing Red X to transport away, promising to be back for round
two. Nightwing says he may have to get help from someone more dangerous than
Red X. In the end, they all agree to rebuild.
TITANS UNITED #6 by Cavan Scott and Jose Luis. Lady Vic and Starfire battle each
other before they turn thei attention to the aliens invading Earth. They head
off to battle Backfire and Superboy, freeing the captured Titans in the process.
As Superboy and Red Hood battle, Superboy finally breaks his deprogramming and
teams up with the Titans. But things get worse as there is a Citadel invasion
fleet enroute.
WONDER WOMAN #784 by Michael W. Conrad,
Becky Cloonan, Vita Ayala, Marcio Takara and Skylar Partridge. Diana and the
Knight fight the mirror copies before she fights through and confronts the
Image Maker from Mirror World. After tormenting her with a vision of a happy life
with Steve, she fights through the illusion and defeats him, sending him back
to Mirror World. This leads her to a fight to the death against the Knight. He
pauses during the battle as Cizko tries to regain control of him. She removes
the Knight’s helmet to reveal Siegfried. In the end, Siegfried is being cared
for by Deadman in a hospital and Diana is off to Themyscira. Cizk o has decided
to rebuild Villainy Inc., starting with a rebuild mirror Wonder Woman. In the
backup, the final path to the Trial of the Amazons concludes as sides as drawn
with Artemis siding with Queen Atlanta. To be continued in TRIAL OF THE AMAZONS #1.
WONDER WOMAN: EVOLUTION #4 by Stephanie Phillips
and Mike Hawthorne. Diana is burying Vanessa when she is confronted by a young
version of herself, who transports her to the Hall of Justice. There she is
introduced to a Xarrian terrorist who has been sentenced to death. Diana objects,
but Superman says that is part of Xarrian law. This leads to her fighting with
the League, insisting it is wrong to kill one to save millions.
WORLD OF KRYPTON #3 by Robert Venditti and
Michael Avon Oeming. General Zod uses his security forces to violently stop a
protest. Later, Jor-El tells the Science Council what is happening to Krypton, with
the leader of the Council resigning his seat and insisting Jor-El is the best
to lead them. After the meeting, Jor-El adopts a dog known as Krypto. In the
end, Zod visits Jor-El, saying he is going to explain how to save Krypton.
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