MILESTONES IN HISTORY #1 by Reginald Hudlin, Alice Randall, Amy Chu, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Pat Charles, Karyn Parsons, Toure, Melody Cooper, Leon Chills, Jahnoy Lindsay, Eric Battle, Maria Laura Sanapo, Ron Wilson, Don Hudson, Jamal Yaseem Igle, Arvell Jones, Francesco Francavilla, Ray-Anthony Height, Dominike “Domo” Stanton and Denys Cowan. A comprehensive of African American history featuring tales about Dinkinesh, the Queen of Sheba, Hannibal, Alexander Dumas, Eugene Bullard, Katherine Dunham, Prince, Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison. In the end, Hardware steals a crate from an underground government facility to discover it is a time machine built by Benjamin Banneker. To be continued in ICON VS. HARDWARE.
MONKEY PRINCE #5 by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. The Shugel-Shen family has moved to Amnesty Bay and now Marcus is forced to try and fit into a new school. His parents are asked to unlock an ancient artifact by Black Manta. They agree but want to do it their way. One of Marcus’ new classmates turns out to be a demon and is forced to channel his powers to fight back against her. In the end, she meets with the man pulling the strings: someone from The Trench.
MULTIVERSITY: TEEN JUSTICE #1 by Ivan Cohen, Danny Lore and Marco Failla. On Eath-11, a girl named Gigi finds herself in the middle of a battle between Teen Justice and H.I.V.E. and lends a hand in saving Dr. Stone. Later, Gigi attends a meeting of the Church of Blood, run by Sister Blood. .Gigi later receives a letter from the church saying she has been accepted. It is revealed that Killowog is monitoring the situation for her boss, Sinestra.
NAOMI: SEASON TWO #3 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. Hawkgirl visits Naomi’s adoptive parents looking for her but she and Cyborg are at S.T.A.R. Labs fighting an interdimensional creature. After defeating it, she reveals that she is looking for her friend Dee, who apparently went off to her home planet to fight the Zumbado, who destroyed her home world and killed her parents. Later, Dee returns, badly beaten.
NAOMI: SEASON TWO #4 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. Finding Dee, she commandeers an ambulance and takes him to the Hall of Justice for treatment. He reveals that she was born with a blessing and a curse and only he can remove that curse. In the process, Dee opened a rift to Earth and Zumbado and his army are coming. When they arrive, Naomi finds that the League is not available and she is forced to fight the villains alone.
NIGHTWING #93 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo. Heartless tells Blockbuster he wants control of the city, which Blockbuster refuses. The two fight and The Heatless threatens to remove Blockbuster’s heart, telling him that if it won’t be given to him, he’ll just take it anyway before Blockbuster throws him out of his office window. The next morning, Dick is trying to clean the damage in Haven when he gets chased away by the police. Later, the police hold a press conference blaming the damage on the residents of Haven, but Dick confronts them and shows off surveillance footage that implicates the police in the damage. In the end, a badly injured Heartless is cared for by his man Gerard, who plugs him into devices and gets another heart off the shelf to replace the one that is failing on him.
NUBIA: QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS #1 by Stephanie Williams and Alitha Martinez. Nubia and a team of Amazons take a floating island on the start of a world tour to reacquaint the Amazons with the rest of the world. First stop is at the Hall of Justice. Late they go to Brazil to stand with protestors trying to stop the destruction of the rain forest. But someone sets off explosives, causing an avalanche that traps Nubia. Could this be connected to the mysterious person who is looking to acquire the special pendant Nubia is wearing?
POISON IVY #1 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. Ivy has been reunited with her other half and is now on a mission to return this world back to the Green, killing anyone who gets in her way. It’s all a part of her Sixth Mass Extinction plan, here everyone will become food for the Green.
ROBIN #15 by Joshua Williamson and Roger Cruz. Talia has turned herself in to the D.E.O. but Director Chase is more concerned with making contact with her son and where she can find him. At the moment he is battling Jokers and is getting an assist from the Bat Family. While eating pizza, Babs reveals that Talia has escaped D.E.O. custody. Batman and Damian interrogate her, revealing that Talia overpowered her and escaped. They find her t the docks waiting for her private submarine to come and get her. Batman insists on taking her in while Damian just wishes his parents would stop fighting and requests that she be allowed to leave, as his desire is to find his own way in the world. She is allowed to leave and later gets into a specially provided car, courtesy of the D.E.O. who now have a Lazarus Spy working for them. She has to work off her debt to Chase, who promises to leave Damian alone. In the end, Damian and Connor Hawke decide to turn Lazarus Island into a refuge for folks like them. Lord Deathman appears, saying that Flatline has gone crazy and is trying to kill him.
SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #12 by Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey. Superman returns Lachlan Shrapnel bac to his mother and then races off as he hears that the hideout where his mother, grandparents and Batman are holed up is under attack. He races there to find the “attacker” was only Krypto. He explains what he knows about Bendix’s plans and how he is working with Luthor. So Dick Grayson meets with Luthor, who plants a bugging device in Luthor’s office. Later, Luthor talks with Bendix, who reveals his forces are ready and a certain U. S. Senator, Faultline out of S.T.A.R. Labs, is under their control. Jon and Jay meet with the politician and reveal everything they know, including being involved with the people who were doing the human trafficking. Krypto notices something amiss and blasts the Senator, who transforms into one of Bendix’s drones. During the battle against the creature, Jay enters its’ brain and removes Bendix’s controlling device but at a cost as Jay loses his mask in the process.
THE SWAMP THING #14 by Ram V and Mike Perkins. Levi Kamei takes to with the help of Green Lantern to talk to a group of invading plant aliens looking to wipe out all traces of humanity on Earth. He learns that they have been called here by The Green who see humanity as a cancer that needs to eliminated. This is all caused by Palmer and the Parliament of Gears. Levi convinces Hal to let he and the alien being, that he calls Endeavor, to go to Earth, but needs more power, which Hal provides by giving him the power of the Green Lantern. Meanwhile, Trinity watches and plans.
TASK FORCE Z #9 by Matthew Rosenberg and Eddy Barrows. Spoiler meets with Jason and questions his actions. The team heads to the Snyder Ice Rink, where they find Sundowner who was left there as a trap for the team. They band together to defeat her, leaving Hanna dead again. When a mysterious sound is played, it causes bane to revolt and forces the rest of the team to flee to a new headquarters owned by Black Mask. Once there, they infuse the dead, including Sundowner, with Lazarus, bringing them back to full power. Meanwhile, Bloom continues his experiments and even does some detective work, getting into Powers’ files. In the end, he reveals that he has discovered the device put into the brains of Dr. Archeron’s patients which overrides their free will and calls them to the source of the sounds. To prove it, Bane arrives.
WONDER WOMAN #788 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jordie Bellaire, Emanuela Lupacchino and Paulina Ganucheau. After Steve secures samples of Cizko’s special milk he has been peddling, Etta examines it at Checkmate H.Q. Meanwhile, protestors at the Hall of Justice who want Wonder Woman out of the League are injured when Sweetheart, Cizko’s Wonder Woman, sets off an explosive device. Steve, Siggy and Etta try to help when Steve gets attacked by Dr. Poison, leading to Siggy assisting him. Later, Cizko broadcast his fake news, that Wonder Woman was responsible for the explosion. While Etta gets her hands on critical information involving the connection to Professor Calculus, Cizko gets a present in the form of Dolos-the Duke of Decption. In the backup, Young Diana continues her escapades with Antiope, who continues to show she has her own agenda for the future Wonder Woman.
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