ACTION COMICS #1048 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Mike Perkins, and David Lapham. Luthor meets with Metallo, telling him he is dying but he can get him a new body if he helps Lex. He rebukes him. Meanwhile, Lois takes the Warworld children to a zoo, where they meet Bibbo. While there, a Boom Tube opens, with Desaad, Orion and Kalibak looking for Superman, who arrives soon after. Metron also arrives, angry at Superman and accusing him of taking the Fire of Olgrun. They also explain that because he used the fire to save Osul-Ra’s life, the boy is Olgrun’s heir and they must take him. That leads to a fight between Superman, Orion and Kalibak. In the end, we learn Metallo’s sister did not come to visit him and it seems Luthor may be responsible for that. In the backup, Supergirl tries to help Thao-La with her new powers even as Chaytil comes to Earth to avenge Mongul.
BATGIRLS #11 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Neil Googe. The girls, along with Kyle and Maps head to the Gotham City Zoo to investigate the Hill Ripper's latest clue. Steph and Kye end up together on something resembling a date while Cass and Mas go deeper where they encounter Killer Moth. Cass goes into action, revealing her identity to Maps. Later, another clue is unraveled and the girls head to the home of Hattie Elwood, who they find has been dead a long time. But they also find the planning board and see that Grace is the next target. Unfortunately, they find out the person with that planning board is none other than The Riddler.
BATMAN #128 by Chip Zdarsky, Leonardo Romero, and Jorge Jimenez. Superman and the Justice League take on Failsafe, with Superman being stabbed by a Kryptonite dagger. Robin flies Zur-En-Arrh Batman and the injured Superman out of danger, while the League fights a losing battle. Zur-En-Arrh Batman decides he needs to get away from Failsafe so Tim can take Superman to his Fortress. He ends up in Atlantis, where Aquaman tells him that Gotham has fallen. In the backup, Batman is undergoing his special treatments, which means visiting Zur-En-Arrh. He also has to deal with a series of gruesome murders that may or may not be connected to The Joker.
BATMAN: FORTRESS #6 by Gary Whitta and Darick Robertson. Batman and his team fight an ice guard as they attempt to break into the Fortress of Solitude. The creature wraps up Jackson before it is defeated, meaning the team must carry him to their destination. They find their way in, only to have it blocked by a deep chasm with a Phantom Zone at the bottom of it. As they attempt to cross using an arrow line that Emiko has deployed, with Jackson left on one side, Lex’ sit out of power and D’Ayl’s ring out of power, the line breaks and Batman falls into the Phantom Zone.
BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 by Ed Brisson and John Timms. In Dublin, Back Mist and The Knight investigate the execution of Tommy Tivane. In Buranda, Ghost-Maker and the rest of the team investigate what was once one of Luthor’s labs. Ghost-Maker gets a call from The Knight that sends the team to Dublin to investigate. They soon learn that many people across the globe are being killed; all of whom are Ghost-Maker’s mentors. That leads the team across the globe to seek answers. Ghost-Spider ends up in China, seeking Skyspider, but it looks like she may have found him first.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #8 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. David Sibela, Boy Thunder from an alternate Earth, is getting used to being here and training with the Teen Titans. The Key initiates an attack on Gotham City that causes everyone to have a fear of open and closed spaces, and that leads to David having to try and save a group of trapped coal miners. He cannot do it and has moments where he remembers not being able to act on his home planet. Superman races to the scene and finds that he WAS able to do it. Blue Beetle manages to develop a serum to counteract the effects of The Key’s work, freeing everyone. Batman and Superman investigate The Key’s fortress to find nothing. In the end, The Key meets with the person who had him go on this mission and it turns out to be…The Joker.
BATMAN: THE KNIGHTS #10 by Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Bruce battles Anton, defeating him and becoming The Demon’s Heart. Following that, Anton and Harris Zuma leave. Bruce, while meeting with Ra’s, reveals that Anton had told him about Ra’s missiles and Bruce destroys them. Bruce battles Ra’s and, during the fight, Talia stabs Bruce. Anton comes on scene and rescues his friend, taking him out of the burning facility. Later, Anton declares they will never see each other again. Bruce returns home, where he is greeted by Alfred. In the end, Bruce makes his way into the cave, where he thinks about his future.
BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #20 by Jim Zub, Chris Burnham, Nadia Shammas, Joey Esposito, Max Dunbar, Jahnoy Lindsay, and Vasco Georgiev. In a world of ancients, a different kind of Batman battles the evil that is Arkham. In the second story, Alfred solves the mystery with the help of the followers of Lord Dagon. The third story portrays Bruce and Talia as parents concerned about their injured son. In the final tale, Batman gets involved in a series of murders of some of Gotham’s elite. Upon returning home, he finds his parents in their bedroom…very much alive!
BATMAN VS. ROBIN #2 by Mark Waid and Mahmud Asrar. Nezha’s team of magic based villains are collecting magical artifacts, so he can siphon off energy and pace them all into the Helmet of Fate. Damian and Mother Soul watch as Nezha torture Black Alice. Elsewhere, Felix Faust is tortured by visions of the past until Batman can get him to power down. This leads to Batman and Alfred encountering Abel in the House of Secrets. There, they see a vision of Damian and company battling on Lazarus Island. Later, Cain takes them to the House of Mystery where they are entertained with a play starring Mother Soul and the Lazarus Demon. Next stop for them is with Mildred, Mordred and Cynthia: the hosts from The Witching Hour. This takes them to a vision of Damian unleashing Nezha from his tomb. This takes them to Damian being possessed and he takes on his father and Alfred, forcing them to flee. Mother Soul presents him with his own Batsuit and his own “accessories”: Stephanie, Tim, Dick, and Jason. In the end, Alfred tells Batman he is always by his side, but his shadow seems to suggest he may be Nezha in disguise.
BLACK ADAM #5 by Christopher Priest and Rafa Sandoval. Sargon is visited by Nergal, who saddles the sorcerer with the power of the real Sargon of Akkad. In Egypt, Black Adam is attacked and destroys the plane, killing the pilot, which brings Bruce Wayne into things. Adam meets with Wayne, who explains he may be allergic to the Nth metal in his ring. Malik heads to his apartment to save his sister and her baby, but Sargon is already there. In the end, Adam has been taken down by Batman.
CATWOMAN #48 by Tini Howard and Nico Leon. Selina and Valmont head to Tuscany, where they meet with Mia Tomasso in an attempt to get her to intervene to save Dario’s life. That leads to a meeting with Don Lorenzo Tomasso and his wife Victoria, which goes nowhere. Meanwhile, in Gotham, Black Mask takes Dario away from Godard, meaning the game has changed and Selina takes her mission directly to the Don and his wife. To get to Dario, Valmont calls in a favor, but that happens to be Flamingo. They get attacked on the plane, Flamingo destroys the plane’s controls and that means Valmont and Catwoman are forced to bail out…and share a kiss.
DARK CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #5 by Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere. Black Adam battles against the Secret Society, who have been corrupted by The Great Darkness, freeing himself in the process. On Earth Batman, Batman battles Green Lantern Hal and The Flash Barry, who eventually snap him out of his trance and show him his Bat Family. Next stop: Superman’s false world, where he reveals that he is already aware of the changes in the world. Meanwhile, the surviving Titans gather at the Hall of Justice, along with the Titans Academy students and Gar, who now sports an eyepatch. Jon Kent and his team, fresh from
DARK CRISIS: THE DEADLY GREEN #1, arrive with Pariah’s machine. Deathstroke and the Secret Society launch an attack and the combined might of the Titans face them. While that battle rages, Superman and the Justice League face off against Pariah, but he leaves them and heads to Earth Zero, where we find that the Great Drakness has spread and it appears that all the villains have been corrupted by it.
DARK CRISIS: THE DEADLY GREEN #1 by Ram V, Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Daniel Bayliss, Tom Derenick, George Kambadais, and Brent Peeples. Alan Scott and his children meet with some of the remaining heroes, including John Constantine and both Swamp Things. Splitting into teams, they all head off into different realms, with Constantine confronting a number of magic creatures including the Upside Down Man. With an assist from Swamp Thing, Jon Kent manages to make his way through a dreamscape where he is able to grab ahold of Pariah’s machine that once started the First Crisis. While they figure how to manipulate it, Constantine says that they are the corruption within The Darkness.
DARK CRISIS: WORLD WITHOUT A JUSTICE LEAGUE-GREEN ARROW #1 by Stephanie Phillips, Dennis Culver, Clayton Henry, and Nik Virella. In this world, a Robin Hood inspired Green Arrow meets Black Canary, leading to them facing off against a much more violent version of Green Arrow. Thanks to Canary, they defeat him, while Arrow’s bard reveals himself to be…Oliver Queen. In the backup, we see the adventures of Black Canary and Green Arrow on Earth-Back Canary 1 and Earth-Green Arrow 1. In the end, Pariah decides he needs a special prison for these two as love seems to win out.
DARK CRISIS: YOUNG JUSTICE #5 by Meghan Fitzmartin and Laura Braga. Kid Mxyptlk shows up with his version of Cassie alongside. He tells them that he gave them a word, because they had been replaced or removed from the timeline. Cissie, the real Cassie and Red Tornado show up to lend a hand. Fake Cassie is defeated and the team, with help from Impulse and the Speed Force, manage to get back to what should be Happy Harbor. What they discover is that Kid Mxyptlk, has followed them there.
DEATHSTROKE INC. #14 by Ed Brisson and Dexter Soy. Slade is still on the hunt for Campbell, but three of Walsh’ enhanced soldiers are here to stop him. Sade kills Bolster but is killed by Stock. They report to Walsh, but Slade still lives and kills Stock. Then he takes down Muzzle, leading to Slade finally getting to Campbell, who says everything was Walsh’ idea. He executes Campbell and prepares to go after Walsh, until he finds that Muzzle is not dead and now has Wintergreen hostage.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1065 by Ram V, Simon Spurrier, Hayden Sherman, and Rafael Albuquerque. Prince Arzen and his family have arrived, but so has Ra’s personal guard Ubu, looking to blow everyone up. As her officers insists on calling Batman, Montoya denies their requests. Luckily Batman shows up anyway and battles Ubu. He defeats the guard, but almost drowns until he is saved by Gordon and his new protégé. They take him back to Gordon’s apartment and bandage his face in the dark, to hide his identity. Meanwhile, the family offers Mr. Cummings a ot of money to make him go away and they can take over the Arkham real estate. In the end, Ubu seeks safe passage out of Gotham and deals with Harvey Dent. But Harvey leaves him with a wolflike member of the League, who kills him. In the backup, Harvey is ordered to kill his therapist and that results in a battle with his own evil conscience to do the right thing.
DUO #6 by Greg Pak and Khoi Pham. The Immutables battle the Irredeemables while Tinker gets involved, just concerned with the two groups killing each other. He challenges David/Kelly to go off and save civilians but our heroes make the choice to take down the Irredeemables. Tinker shoots David/Kelly and subdues them, which would allow one of the Irredeemables to kill them. Marius pushes the creature into the portal and orders Tinker to seal it, with him inside. The other Immutables wish David/Kelly luck, he destroys Tinker’s creations, and prepares to fight the good fight for the future.
THE FLASH #787 by Jeremy Adams and Fernando Pasarin. Wally West and his children are watching television when suddenly WAM-Wrestling Across the Multiverse comes on. Immediately, they become fascinated by it, until they realize the battle is happening in THEIR downtown. That leads to The Flash getting in the middle of it and teaming up with Omega Bam Man as they battle for the WAM Tag Team championship. When all is said and done, they become champions.
FLASHPOINT BEYOND #6 by Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan, Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Mikel Janin, and Gary Frank. Batman faces off against Rip Hunter for control of the snow globe that contains the Flashpoint Universe. He is responsible for the return of the Flashpoint Universe to find a way to bring his father back to life. Inside the Flashpoint, Joker/Martha Wayne tries to convince her husband to take a trip in her time machine to save Bruce’s life. They share a kiss, but not the same mission, even though Two-Face holds her own son hostage. Two-Face destroys the time machine and Joker kills Two-Face. As the house collapses in flames, Thomas, Martha, and Dexter leave together. In our universe, the snow globe has now stabilized and Rip and company head back to their time lab. In the end, Martha is kept in her own private cell in the Batcave and Dexter has become Robin. In the Time Lab, the Time Capsules have failed, meaning the team that will become the new Justice Society is being pulled back into the time stream. Those members are: The Golden Age Mister Miracle, Betsy Ross, Moly Pitcher, Ladybug, Salem the Witch Girl, Cherry Bomb, John Henry Jr., The Golden Age Red Lantern, Judy Garrick, The Harlequin’s Son, The Golden Age Aquaman, Quiz Kid, and The Golden Age Legionnaire. In the end, Cleopatra Pak and her pet Bubs need to find a way to find The Watchman.
FUTURE STATE: GOTHAM #18 by Dennis Culver, Justin Greenwood, and Cliff Chiang. In the final showdown, the team faces off against the Joe Chill inhabited Damian and his followers. Dick, declaring himself to be Batman, faces off against Damian, who unleashes Hellfire upon him, which is growing weaker and takes Dick as a host. Dick sacrifices himself to destroy Hellfire Chill, turning the world to color yet again. Jason arrests Hush, leading to a spike in his approval rating while Magistrate’s plummets. In the end, Jace and Jason, along with Mother Panic, become the new protectors of Gotham. In the backup, a young Dick and Batman battle Clayface.
G.C.P.D.: THE BLUE WALL #1 by John Ridley and Stefano Raffaele. The Gotham Police Department has a new graduating class and the story follows three of those rookies: Samantha Park, Danny Ortega and Eric Wells. Ortega ends up posted to Tricorner: the toughest slot in the city. Wells becomes a prole officer, trying his best to keep the recently released out of trouble. Park is out on her first trip when they get notified of a suspect. She follows a youth meeting the description and pulls her gun on him. But she does not fire, as it’s the wrong person She is praised as a hero by Renee Montoya and trotted out as a publicity stunt. She later confesses she did not shoot because she was scared. Later, a similar situation, and again does not pull the trigger. The suspect fires at her and misses…but someone else is shot in the process because of her inaction.
GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE #1 by Tom King and Phil Hester. It’s 1961 and a young Helen Wayne has been kidnapped from her parents, Richard and Constance Wayne. This leads Private Investigator Slam Bradley into the mystery. The Waynes believe that their daughter was kidnapped by the Bat-Man, based on a note with his symbol, asking for$100,000. Later, Slam’s partner turns up dead, shot by Slam’s own gun. In the present, an aged Bradley tells Batman that he doesn’t know the entire story.
HARLEY QUINN #23 by Stephanie Phillips and Matteo Lolli. Harley is dead and the Quintessentials are having a funeral for her. But, not really, as she has risen from the dead and the Quintessentials see her as a cult leader. She apologizes to Kevin about their being there and thanks hi for resurrecting her. Damian shows up, looking to kill her because she has been exposed to the Lazarus it. They fight and she wins, leading to them talking it out later. Elsewhere, a masked figure is intent on killing all Harley’s and takes out one of the cultists. In the end, Harley decides that if Gotham wants her so bad, then maybe this “new” Harley should go back to them.
THE HUMAN TARGET #8 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. Chance and Ice are visited by Rocket Red, who knocks them out and then spends the entire day knocking Chance out in between trying to find out what he did to his friend Guy Gardner. In the end, he apologizes to him, as a message has come in from the Justice League saying Guy is off planet. Ice reveals she was responsible for the fake voice message. Either way, Chance only has four days left to find a way to live.
I AM BATMAN #14 by John Ridley, Christian Duce, and Tom Derenick. Batman solves Anarky’s murder and it turns out ot be Tony, the leader of the activist group Anarky was a part of. Renee is heading back to Gotham, but not before she has a meeting with Hadiyeh, who she apparently has past history with. Meanwhile, Tiff masks up and attacks some muggers, which leads her into a direct confrontation with Chubb, who she knocks out. Later, Batman is shown the masked woman’s picture and realizes who it is. He has a conversation with a seemingly possessed Whitaker, who calls Batman a coward. Incensed, Batman assaults him and may have killed him.
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