THE JOKER #15 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Sweeney Boo. Gordon is back in Gotham and tells Batman that he doesn’t know where the Joker is. He reveals the highlights of what has happened for the last 14 issues. We see what happened on the plane where Cass was fighting Talon, who turned out to be a reanimated James Gordon Jr. Barbara breaks the planes window and the cold deactivates Talon. With Vengeance in hot pursuit, the group lock themselves in a chamber that contains the remaining members of the Sawyer family, who are quickly detained by Jim and Cressida. That leads to a face-off between Jim and Joker and Joker insisting someone has to die, kills Cressida. In the backup, Bluebird battles Punchline and she has one of the Roya Flush Gang film it and release it to the web, meaning she has found a way to reenergize her followers.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #4 by Brian Michael Bendis and Scott Godlewski. The teams are still split into different time periods. In the future, but the League’s past, Brainiac, Mon-El and Naomi are with Kamandi where they investigate an old Leviathan compound. In the Thirties, Gold Lantern meets Green Lantern Alan Scott. At Oaxam, Batman, Black Canary and the other Legion members meet with President Brande. In 1962, Colossal Boy, Dawnstar and Wonder Woman receive a message from Computo, as do the other groups, that they should all hold hands and they will be tethered back to the future. It works, but brings them back to the 21st Century, where the sky has gone completely dark..
MONKEY PRINCE #6 by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. Shifu Pigsy, realizing that Marcus has a dread fear of water, tries to teach him how to overcome his fear. Marcus's parents help Black Manta infuse a hermit crab with a silver-horned demon, turning it into a bio-weapon that attacks the city. Marcus becomes the Monkey Prince and defeats the creature. He also learns he can breathe underwater and thus loses his fear. Elsewhere, the monsters of the Trench are preparing to attack Atlantis, even as we see that there is a section of Atlantis populated with Chinese dragons. In the end, we learn that the Monkey King is trapped in the Phantom Zone
MULTIVERSITY: TEEN JUSTICE #2 by Danny Lore, Ivan Cohen and Marco Failla. Gigi continues her journey with the church while Raven and Troy go undercover. The rest of the team continues to train on Amnesty Island before heading to Zandia, where they find that so many of the residents have had their life energy drained. Later, team members discover that the heads of the Church are dead with their life drained and Raven reveals that his soul self, Troy and everyone else are gone.
NAOMI: SEASON TWO #5 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. Naomi, now imbued with new powers including “second sight”, fights the invaders from her home planet. In the end, Brustus and Zumbado are down for the count, as it Naomi and the invaders awaited the Justice League.
NIGHTWING #94 by Tom Taylor and Geraldo Borges. Mayor Zucco calls Commissioner McLean and tells him that the feds are coming for him, making him head out with the Blockbuster files. Then she calls Oracle and tells her that McLean took the bait. Nightwing jumps into action and takes down McLean and secures the files. Later, Maggie Sawyer is announced as the new Commissioner and she has brought Dan Turpin with her.to help clean up Bludhaven. Blockbuster calls the Mayor and informs her that he is at her mother’s house. He takes her to his hideout, where he reveals that Lester was the rat in his house. The Mayor calls her brother Nightwing and she learns that Lester is just a plant, revealing her as the rat. Lester blasts her and Blockbuster tells Nightwing that his sister can’t come to the phone right now.
NUBIA: QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS #2 by Stephanie Williams and Alitha Martinez. While recovering in the hospital, Nubia recalls her past life in ancient Madagascar. She discovers her issues are from the distant past and involve the goddess Sekhmet. And the amulet Nubia wears The hospital she is in is attacked by mercenaries, it's up to the Amazons and Hawkgirl to stop them. In the end, Zillah arrives and demands the amulet..
POISON IVY #2 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. Pam is still on the move to fins herself and initiate her plans for taking over the planet. She goes to a diner and meets an artist named Jenny, who has drawn an image of the Ancestor Tree that she wants to get a tattoo of. Pam recalls seeing it in the realm of the Green Man. The police sow up to arrest Jenny and Pam does her thing and kills the police. On the way out of town, she sees someone has painted the symbol of the Ancestor Tree on a wall and wonders if she is being followed to her next destination.
ROBIN #16 by Joshua Williamson and Roger Cruz.Connor and Damian interrogate a captured Lord Death Man, who explains that Flatline tried to kill him, as she has changed following the Death Tournament. After observing how things have changed on the island, Damian tells Mara that he and Connor are going off on a mission that takes them to Tokyo. A meeting with Hiro leads to investigating one of Lord Death Man’s hideouts, but that leads Damian into a confrontation with Flatline. When she asks where Lord Death Man is, Damian tells her that he is still on the island. On the island, Lord Death Man slips his bonds and meets with Mother Soul, who he shares a long kiss with.
SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #13 by Nicole Maines, Tom Taylor and Clayton Henry. The “Truth” is out about Jay, so Jon takes him to the Fortress of Solitude, where he discovers Nia Nal, also known as Dreamer, inside the Fortress. Days later, the Bat Family discovers that the Joker has been killed and Batman is searching for the killer. Bendix drops a giant Joker Gas creature on Gotham and that leads to a call out for the heroes to help evacuate the area. They do their best but The Rising arrives and battles them. Wonder Woman calls out for Superman and Jon comes to help. But it’s already too late as he is affected by Kryptonite particles in the gas and he is forced to watch Bendis assassinate Batman. It turns out this is the future from a week from now, thanks to the vision presented by Dreamer. Armed with this knowledge, Jon is ready to make the League aware. In the end, Bendix has captured Jay’s mother and is preparing to use her as a bargaining tool.
THE SWAMP THING #15 by Ram V and Mike Perkins. Swamp Thing, now powered by Green Lantern, meets with his brother Jacob, who is the current Avatar of the Green. Levi calls for a truce between the two and Jacob restores Levi’s connection to The Green. The Pale Wanderer arrives and tries to convince Levi that his efforts are useless. Trinity arrives and the pair start to work together to destroy the machine.
TASK FORCE Z #10 by Matthew Rosenberg and Eddy Barrows. Langston tries his best to resurrect Bane but finds this may be more difficult than thought; much to the dismay of Bloom. Bloom pays Jason a visit at the new headquarters of Task Force Z to gain hat is referred to as the “missing piece.” He uses a form of memory replacement to gain control of most of the team before leaving with a kidnapped Delia. In flashback to several months ago, Waller introduces The Thinker to Dent and company with the plan being to have him put Bane’s memories inside of a corpse there. In the end, they succeed in bringing “Bane” back to life. But this is not Bane, it is a resurrected Hank Clover Jr.-Gotham-with Bane’s memories.
WONDER WOMAN #789 by Michael W. Conrad, Becky Cloonan, Jordie Belaire, Emanuela Lapacchino, Eduardo Pansico and Paulina Canucheau. A giant version of Dr. Cizko, actually an illusion, is loose and his milk followers are with him, causing Diana to believe that the Duke of Deception is the newest member of Villainy Inc. She ends up battling Dolos. Sweetheart arrives with the crystal lens but it gets too hot and she drops it, meaning Dolos goes back to fighting Diana and loosing. Siggy and Steve get involved and Siggy has to subdue them as safely as possible. Doctor Poison arrives and subdues the heroes. At Checkmate Headquarters, Etta gets a visit from Professor Calculus, who subdues her and feveals that Dr. Poison has a cure for Steve and Siggy. Meanwhile, Cizko reaches out to “management”. In the backup, Diana has listened to Antiope’s messages and has decided to follow her on path. But what is Hippolyta going to say about it when she hears?
WONDER WOMAN: EVOLUTION #8 by Stephanie Philips and Mike Hawthorne. Wonder Woman battles Silver Swan and discovers that she had been infused with Diana’s DNA in an effort to create a new human race. To save her friend, Diana agrees, Diana agrees to a blood transfusion which moves the nanites into Diana’s system. In the end, Diana looks to the future with the nanites still in her system.
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