ACTION COMICS #1052 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Dan Jurgens, Leah Williams, Rafa Sandoval, Lee Weeks and Marguerite Sauvage. The Superman Family continues to battle with Metallo who, despite being launched into deep space by Superman, discovers that he needs an upgrade. After talking with his “sister”, who insists he kills the whole Superman Family, he goes recruiting his own family of super-powered beings…or they will be when he is done. In the second tale, Jon makes friends with the mysterius alien girl, but that get interrupted by Killamex, who is here to capture her. When the attack happens, Jon calls for his father and then Lois is surprised by a visit from…Doombreaker. In the final tale, Power Girl and Omen have a new client and she is Supergirl. A trip into the Mindscape takes the girls to Argo City, as they try to solve her physical and emotional issues.
BATGIRLS #15 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Neil Googe. Cass goes searching for Steph while Steph’s father tortures her. Cluemaster reveals that he did in fact die but was brought back to life after having his dead body kidnapped and then getting dosed with Lazarus Resin. Cass finds Steph and, during a battle where Cluemaster sets off a bomb that lights his cabin on fire, he accidentally shoots his own daughter. Steph gives her a tiny bit of Lazarus and then saves Steph. In the end, Grace O’Halloran receives a gift: a severed head wrapped with a bow and a note saying ‘READ ME’.
BATMAN #132 by Chip Zdarsky, Mike Hawthorne and Miguel Mendonca. Bruce continues to find his way in an alternate Gotham where Bruce died and there never was a Batman. Jewel has saved him and now, the skeletal Jim Gordan suggest she be named Panic Attack. Bruce, in disguise, goes a a gala fundraiser where he dances with Selina Kyle, who recognizes him and is surprised, considering he is supposed to be dead. He sees someone he believes is The Joker and a battle ensues between Selina, Bruce and Punchline, resulting in Bruce getting shot and getting away at the same time. He resolves to become…a bat. Also, Red Mask visits The Judge, Harvey Dent, and gives him an ultimatum. In the backup, Tim, with the help of Mr. Terrific, uses Failsafe’s gun to venture into the Multiverse in search of Batman. But where he ends up brings him face to face with Toyman.
BATMAN INCORPORATED #4 by Ed Brisson and John Timms. While Ghost-Maker heads back to base, the rest of the team is having their own issues with the castoffs from Luthor’s failed Batman experiment. Phantom-One and Black Mist make their move, taking down Ghost-Maker. Black Mist who was trying to be the Batman of Dublin, was critically injured by Tommy Tivane, and eventually faked her own death to rebuild herself. When she saw Ghost-Maker abandon Phantom-One, she saved him. Now, with Batman Inc. in disarray, they have tasked Clownhunter to finish off his mentor.
BATMAN INCORPORATED #5 by Ed Brisson and John Timms. The team has been captured and Ghost-Maker is facing death at the hands of his protégé. He explains that he had to make a choice in the past: save Phantom-One or ten people in danger of dying. Clownhunter reveals he cannot do this, leading to a fight between Ghost-Maker and Phantom-One, with Phantom-One gaining the advantage. Ghost-Maker turns the tabeles and allows the critically injured Phantom-One to be taken away by the Black Mist, The Fallen, Fissure, Hollow, and Onyx; all of whom have the reasons for having eliminated those connected to Ghost-Maker. In the end, Jiro returns to Japan, only to find that Dr. Wu had visitors…and not good ones.
BATMAN: LEGENDS OF GOTHAM #1 by Andy Diggle and Karl Mostert, Red Hood teams up with Katana and Black Lightning to make his way into a special auction where the hero secrets that Leviathan stole are up for grabs. That leads them to an Orbital Crypto Bank where Red Hood secures the data chip, which he later destroys. In actuality, he didn’t get to destroy the real chip, which now appears to be in Talia’s hands.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #12 by Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino. Back in the day, Dick Grayson and Supergirl go out for the worst date ever, including some craziness resulting from an escaped monkey.
BATMAN VS. ROBIN #5 by Mark Waid and Mahmud Asrar. Demon Nezha has transferred his soul into Batman's body and now Robin must try to save him with the help of the Bat Family and Monkey Prince, who is able to create clones of Damian. The arrival of Zatanna, Enchantress and Pigsy helps, as they remove Nezha from Batman’s body, but at the cost of Batman’s life. Damian calls upon all of Gotham and anyone that can hear him to use their positive energy, which brings Batman back to life. In the end, everyone is evacuated from Lazarus Island and there is no longer any Lazarus Resin on Earth…maybe.
BLACK ADAM #8 by Christopher Priest, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira and Montos. Jasmin and Kenisha are trying to get Malik’s ring back, but war has destroyed the store. Luckily, he’s nice enough to give the girls the ring. Later, Anu and Ishtar arrive, wondering what War’s game plan is. Black Adam tries to make up for destroying a plane by saving another one. With Malik in a coma, Adam tells how he once became ruler of Egypt. In the end, it seems that the people are not fans of Black Adam.
BLUE BEETLE: GRADUATION DAY #4 by Josh Trujillo and Adrian Gutierrez. Brenda and Paco think it’s a great idea for them to team up with Fadeaway, who confesses that his grandfather was the original Fadeaway Man. He is asking for Jamie’s help in recovering his grandfather’s artifacts and Jamie agrees to help. That leads them to Kord Industries, where Jamie finds Xiomara, who continues to warn him about his scarab. Jamie finds the missing stuff Fadeaway is looking for, but accidentally kills the power at the lab, allowing Xiomara to get free. Fadeaway also splits, leaving Jamie holding the blame when Victoria and Ted arrive. All of this will lead to a direct confrontation with Batman and the Justice League.
CATWOMAN #52 by Tini Howard and Sami Basri. With Selina still in prison, Eiko and Dario work together to try to take down Black Mask’s organization from the inside, which also allows Dario to gain some revenge on his ex. In prison, Selina turns down help from a lawyer and decides to train the criminals she is in with, including Hopps, Lisa Foss, Marquise, Lady Clayface, Fright, and Scorpiana, how to be really effective criminals.
DANGER STREET #3 by Tom King and Jorge Fornés. Lady Cop continues to search for the ‘Blue Man’. Metron reveals to Highfather and Darkseid that he is aware that Atlas is dead but there is someone on Earth who can still keep the sky from falling, leading to Orion being contacted. Starman and Warlord meet with Cecil Sunbeam on his movie set. Manhunter tries to murder Commodore Murphy, which is stopped by Codename: Assassin. The surviving Dingbats decide they need a gun and, after Non-Fat ends up in Lady Cop’s office, he sees a picture of Starman and now he knows who they should be searching for.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1069 by Ram V, Simon Spurrier, Caspar Wijngaard, Dexter Soy, Stefano Raffaele, Miguel Mendonća. With the help of the Ten-Eyed Man, Harvey helps Batman fight back against the Azmer infection. Barbara has discovered that there is some kind of power source on top of some ley lines in Gotham. Beneath the city, many folks are being held captive but Shoes manages to escape. When guards go after her, they run into Solomon Grundy. In the backup, psychiatrist Annabel Mead has been captured by Mr. Freeze and becomes part of his experiments, leading to her meeting Earworm.
THE FLASH: ONE-MINUTE WAR SPECIAL #1 by Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarin, Serg Acuna, Lisandro Estherren and George Kambadais. On the Fraction’s home world, they figure out how to tap into the Speed Force. They can now colonize the entire star system, but doing so destroyed their own world environment. The Fraction's Empress orders the captain of her guard, Vel Anthro to find new worlds with resources they need, which leads him to Earth where they find “organic conduits”. In the second part of the story, Dark Wu drains Avery’s soul into a gem, so he can use the sun’s powers to destroy the world and make him a god. When the Fraction arrive, they kidnap Wu and Avery must keep them from activating the gem. She is able to shoot the gem and free her soul as the Fraction flies off. In the final part, set in the future, the as-yet unborn third child of Wally and Linda has been kidnapped by the Fraction and it’s up to Jai, now known as the adult hero Surge, and Irey, currently the adult Flash, to try to find him. They reach out to Impulse who arranges for Gold Beetle to help. Jai recalls her as being a girl he once fell in love with and she kisses him, reminding him that this was the first thing she would do when they met up again. Together, they go off to rescue Jai’s brother. To be continued in THE FLASH #792
THE FLASH #792 by Jeremy Adams and Roger Cruz. Barry, still reeling from Iris’ death, joins the Flash Family to stop the Fraction. Bart and Wallace try to get into the Fraction’s vehicle to develop a way to reverse what they have done and unfreeze the world while the rest of the Flash Family break into Mister Terrific’s lab to set up a base. Bart and Wallace get inside one of the tanks, but Miss Murder has tracked them down and follows. Once inside, they steal a battery that disrupts the ship they are in. The battery gets cracked open and they find a person inside. Miss Murder arrives and the three escape from her in a tank, where they find the frozen forms of Grodd, Captain Atom and Superman inside.
THE FLASH #793 by Jeremy Adams and Roger Cruz. The speedster that Bart and Wallace have freed tells the Flash Family how the Fraction uses the Speed Force in search of “organic conduits” like themselves. They deduce that they need to destroy the spire to unfreeze the other heroes. They install the battery in a car, believing they can use it to get inside and use one of the Fraction’s engines to destroy the spire. The team attacks the spire, while Irey is left behind to watch over the frozen heroes. Once inside, Wally gets blasted by a Fraction cannon and seemingly destroyed. Meanwhile, Miss Murder is chasing after Irey.
GCPD: THE BLUE WALL #5 by John Ridley and Stefano Raffaele. Danny Ortega has gone off the deep end and killed Benny Montoya and Sondra Wright, and his manifesto is directly aimed at Renee and GCPD, who let the racial harassment go unnoticed. Later, police end jp in an ambush, with Danny killing them, including Lieutenant Caruso. After crossing paths with Eric, he runs off, leaving Eric to call info intel on Danny’s vehicle. In the end, Renee breaks her vow and has one last drink after Two Face offers to find and kill Danny for her, to apologize for everything he had done to her.
GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE #5 by Tom King and Phil Hester. Queenie reveals how she ended up having an affair with Richard Wayne, and how Johnny blackmailed her and ended up being shot by Richard Wayne. The plan was for Wayne to kidnap his own daughter, get the ransom money and then meet Queenie two months later in Central City. But that’s not how it happened as the girl ended up being murdered and was buried in Queenie’s uncle’s back yard. After a visit to his mother, who plays Tarot cards to reveal her fortune, Slam goes after Loder, who he believed murdered the girl. He says he did not kill her and reveals that Richard Wayne has no money and that he works for Mrs. Wayne. So, did Mrs. Wayne kill her own daughter?
HARLEY QUINN #27 by Stephanie Phillips, Matteo Lolli and David Baldeón. The Harley Who Laughs is threatening to kill Ivy if our Harley didn't hand over the rest of the Harleys. Harley explains that every universe needs an Ivy so who is the Harley Who Laughs Ivy? Harley and Old Lady Harley go to the Harley Who Laughs's universe, where they beat up The Joker of the universe’ followers and rescue the Ivy Who Laughs.
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