G.C.P.D.: THE BLUE WALL #3 by John Ridley and Stefano Raffaele. While Montoya wrestles with the potential menace of Two-Face, Officer Ortega thinks about filing a report concerning the racial abuse he has been getting from fellow officer; an act he is talked out of. Later, he is out on assignment and kills a perp, which he does easily. Montoya starts her own investigation into Two-Face, including a face-to-face meeting where he explains he is a different person now. In the end, Montoya comes hoe and, finding her fish has died from being overfed, questions if she has what it take to do the job.
GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE #3 by Tom King and Phil Hester. Slam Bradley continues his search for Helen Wayne, who he is dedicated to finding, dead or alive. He gets a visit from Constance Wayne, who is convinced that Helen is dead. She gives him some money to go find her killer. This leads Bradley to a number of places before getting a possible lead from Madame Shirley, who gives him information on Queenie Lydell, who may have been the woman who attacked him previously. He burst in and kills James Lydell, who did not have Helen Wayne, but was trying to protect a child of his own. He looks into the back yard and, finding a shovel, digs up a fresh grave, only to find an object, possibly Helen Wayne, wrapped in a blanket containing the symbol of the Court of Owls.
HARLEY QUINN #25 by Stephanie Phillips and Matteo Lolli. The Harley Who Laughs, who has been travelling through alternate universes to kill all the Harleys, arrives to kill Old Lady Harley. She manages to escape through the Multiverse and lands with the real Earth-0 Harley, resulting in a team-up to stop The Harley Who Laughs. The three of them battle and, just when Harley is ready to take out her revenge on the villain who killed her before, there is a dimensional rift and suddenly we have a host of Multiversal Harleys.
I AM BATMAN #16 by John Ridley and Christian Duce. Tanya’s executive assistant is murdered by someone saying he will pay. Tiff confesses that she has been acting as a masked vigilante. There is another attack at a startup company funded by Foxtech, killing eight. Batman stops the assassin, but he kills himself before Jace can get any truthful information. Later, there is a family meeting where they receive a video from someone saying they want money to free Jace’s mother. When he claims that his mother is right there during the meeting, it is reveals that Tanya is not really Jace’ mother.
JOHN STEWART: THE EMERALD KNIGHT #1 by Geoffrey Thorne and Marco Santucci. Esak and his army is going through the Universe in an attempt to eradicate all species. John and his cadre of Lanterns have to team up to defeat Esak, even to the point here John uses his powers to split himself into two John Stewarts. In the end, Esak is defeated for now, meaning John can go home and visit his wife.
THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #3 by Matthew Rosenberg, Francisco Francavilla, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Red Hood battles a Joker on Harley’s boat, but the clown escapes by diving into the frigid water. Later, two fisherman find his frozen form and The Joker makes his way into a hospital, holding it hostage until a doctor fixes him up. When he finally leaves, after ‘convincing the doctor’ to give him a brain transplant, he discovers the police outside of the hospital, arresting Red Hood. Over at The Hal of Doom, The Joker and his clowns meets with Lex Luthor and his team, that now includes Punchline. They send him on his way. In the backup, The Joker gets beat up by Big Barda and cuts sliced in half by a train. After a desperate search for a surgeon to put him back together, he ends up reassembled with the legs of a gorilla.
MONKEY PRINCE #9 by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. Marcus’s family travels to Metropolis where his parents take a job working for Lex Luthor. King Fire Bull arrives to steal a special Lexcorp project and snaps Marcus’s mom’s neck in the process. .He finds that Lexcorp is breeding Bizarro clones and decides to eat them to gain powers of some sort. His father takes him and his crippled mother to meet his Grandpa Gerard, who hopefully can heal his injured daughter. Supergirl investigates what happened at Lexcorp and that leads her to Gerard’s, where she faces off with Monkey Prince. Before too much can happen, Gerard transforms himself into the Ultra-Humanite. Elsewhere, Nezha’s minions kidnap Pigsy.
NIGHTWING #99 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo. Based on testimony from Maroni, numerous arrests are being made in Bludhaven and all seems right in the world. Tony Zucco shows up at the office of his daughter, the Mayor, saying he got out of jail on good behavior and that tomorrow he will be worth millions, inviting her to join him so they can take advantage of the shift in power with the death of Blockbuster and the arrest of Maroni. His plan is to rob a vault deep under a shack near a lighthouse. Nightwing stops the theft and is told by the Fisherman, who was guarding the vault, that there was a safe in there with his name on it. With Zucco back in prison, Melinda tells him that she is not his daughter and that John Grayson is. And she has officially changed her name to Melinda Grayson-Lin.
POISON IVY #7 by G. Willow Wilson and Atagun Ilhan. Ivy starts a new job at a fracking company called FutureGas after she encounters another Woodrue inspired creature who may have been transformed from a human into a creature by whatever FutureGas is making. She investigates the office of Ms. Crawley, who runs the company, only to be captured by Crawley, who informs her she was also working with Woodrue. In the end, Ivy is undergoing a nasty transformation.
PUNCHLINE: THE GOTHAM GAME #3 by Tini Howard, Blake Howard and Max Raynor. Following the events in CATWOMAN #50, Punchline is working with Professor Pyg as she plans her next move. That also means dealing with a dead but very talkative Joker, who she cuts up and then proceeds to dump the body parts. While she is doing the deed, Bluebird intervenes and the pair battle with Punchline getting away. In the end, Harper’s brother gets a text message from Bluff, asking that they meet up. What he discovers is that Bluff is still tied to Punchline and this just manages to get Cullen captured by her and Bluff.
STARGIRL: THE LOST CHILDREN #2 by Geoff Johns and Todd Nauck, Courtney and Emiko head out on one of Oliver Queen’s boats to search for the missing sidekicks. While enroute, Stargirl receives a garbled message of warning from Air Wave and, shortly after, their boat explodes. They end up on an island where the beach is made of Miraclo. They get attacked by giant walking eggs that capture Emiko. Courtney fights off the other robots and is visited by Air Wave, Wing and some of the other sidekicks, telling her that this is Orphan Island and the only way off of it is by dying.
SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #18 by Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey. The Justice League arrives to help rebuild the Kent house in Smallville, with Batman adding another level of security by covering the house in a special shield. Later, there is a bomb threat against The Daily Planet and it appears that Luis Rosas is responsible. While evacuating Planet staff members, Clark and Jon hear Jimmy’s signal watch and Jon heads out, knowing it’s a trap. He catches up with Rosas, but his powers fail and he is shot in the chest. Luckily he is wearing a special belt designed by Brainiac 5 and also a protective vest given to him by Nightwing. The pair go after Rosas and capture him. In prison, Rosas is visited by a virtual Lex Luthor, who tells him he is proud of him.
SWORD OF AZRAEL #5 by Dan Watters and Nikola Cizmesija. Brielle undergoes a painful transformation that wraps her into her own suit of armor, making her Sariel. She reveals that the Templars now have the Angel Maker. Also, Bane’s daughter Vengeance is somehow connected to them. Meanwhile, Jean Paul confronts Father Valley, who reveals he sent Sariel to him and that it was Jean Paul’s father who named him Father Valley. After the pair fight, with Jean Paul defeated Valley, he finally realizes his mission and asks Father Valley to join him on it.
TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #4 by Meghan Fitzmartin and Riley Rossmo. Tim continues to solve the mystery of the murders. While having dinner with Bernard, Tim figures things out. He decodes the cypher figuring them out from clues to books that are missing from his collection, which brings him down to three potential victims: Carol Donovan, Kathy Horne, and Wallace Supes. With the help of the Batgirls, he narrows it down and they head to Wallace Supes, only to find him already dead. Then they get attacked by a giant virtual shark, eventually finding a mysterious white disk that eliminates the threat. In the end, Tim gets a call from the villain, who has kidnapped Bernard.
WILDC.A.T.s #2 by Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen Segovia. Zealot rescues Grifter and Fairchild from the cultists and the Court of Owls. Later, while recovering, he gets a visit from Maxine, leading him to a meeting with the Halo Corporation where he encounters a bunch of strangers Doctor Amelia Shelly and Delia Shelley (from Task Force Z and Project Halperin), Doctor Ivo, Doctor Morrow, Veronica Cale of Empire Enterprises, Doctor Tyme, and Mrs. Fries (AKA Mrs. Freeze). He also meets a female Deathblow, which is Michael in a new body. That night, he and Voodoo go looking for the Court of Owls. Across town, Marlowe survives an assassination attempt thanks to Zealot and Spartan. In the end, Marlowe unveils his new team: the 7 Soldiers of Victory, including Mister Majestic, Maul, Spartan, Pike, Mother One and two other unidentified individuals.
WONDER WOMAN #794 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Emanuela Lupacchino, Wade von Grawbadger. With Cizko defeated and the Brazilian Lab shut down, Etta sends Cheetah and Siegfried on a mission to investigate the International Milk Company's primary production facility. The guards quickly find them and a battle occurs, with Phobos and Deimos coming forth from the milk vats. Wonder Woman arrives and defeats the Greek gods. They all head to the Hall of Justice but the temple of Olympus lands on Earth, leading Diana to enter it and meet Eros, who promises Diana that Olympus will be reborn and Hera will sit on the throne once more. But Yara Yar arrives and is there to stop it. In the backup, Antiope finally leaves and Diana thinks about the future while reading ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
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