THE HUMAN TARGET #12 by Tom King and Greg Smallwood. Christopher Chance is dead and Ice needs to deal with the consequences. Martian Manhunter meets with her and threatens an investigation but she tells him that he will reveal his affair with Fire, so that means she wants to run her own investigation into Chance’s death. A month after Chance’ death and Ice is planning to dispose of his ashes when Guy shows up. She ends up hitting him with the bottle containing the ashes, which are now spread over him. Before he died, Chance asked for one last favor. In the end, she meets with Lex Luthor and it appears she may have finally been able to poison him.
I AM BATMAN #18 by John Ridley and Christian Duce. Batman, with the help of is sister and Nobody, who is actually Hadiyah, succeed in saving Jace’s birth mom. He meets with her after and she promises to try and be his mother. Jace decides to leave to figure out his life and his sister comes with him.
ICON VS. HARDWARE #1 by Reginald Hudlin, Leon Chills, Denys Cowan and Yasin Florez Montanez. Icon has sent Rocket to school in Switzerland, where she finds it difficult to fit in, especially when a group of girls may have caused one student to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Hardware becomes suspicious of Icon and begins to investigate him. But he also travels into the past to find out why his father left his family when he was a child. He meets with his younger self years later and convinces him to steal Alva’s gas, but that results in Alva being killed in the process. A year later, Hardware runs Alva industries and there is a super-powered war going on, even though the Big Bang never happened. That leads to a visit by Icon.
THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #5 by Matthew Rosenberg, Francisco Francavilla, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. A group of boys break into the house that once belonged to The Joker, only to find Jervis Tetch there. That’s when The Imposter Joker arrives, dressed as Batman, saving the boys. Tetch reveals the real Joker is back in Gotham and he’s not happy about an imposter running around. Later, a Joker traps the Imposter, who gets acid thrown in his face and shot in the face for his troubles. The Joker who did the shooting is seemingly run over by a train. In the end, the Joker who was shot, revealed to be Clayface, calls the real Joker in Malibu, who decides he needs to do this himself.
LAZARUS PLANET: DARK FATE #1 by Tim Seeley, Dennis Culver, A.L. Kaplan. Alyssa Wong, Baloemar Rivas, Chris Burnham, A.L. Kaplan, Haining. IN the first story, Huntress must stop a riot at Arkham begun by a newly powered Killer Moth. In the second tale, the Doom Patrol, Elasti-Woman, Robotman, Negative Man and The Chief (currently Crazy Jane), are sent to take down an Army general who has developed strange powers due to the Lazarus Rain. To be continued in UNSTOPPABLE DOOM PATROL #1. In the third story, actor Jules Jordain gets new energy powers and adopts the name of Circuit Breaker. To be continued in DC PRIDE 2023. In the final tale, the hero Envoy must stop an attack from the spirit world and gets help from Cassandra Cain and John Constantine. To be continued in SPIRIT WORLD #1.
LAZARUS PLANET: LEGENDS REBORN #1 by Alex Segura, Alex Parknadel, Greg Pak, Dennis Culver, Clayton Henry, Christopher Mitten, Mikyu Junk and Jesus Merino. In the first tale, Renee Montoya dons The Question’s mask to investigate a monster that is on a killing spree after being transformed by Lazarus Rain. In the second story, Raven and Gar, actually Trigon, face off against Trigon’s sons. The third tale features City Boy: a new hero who tows the line between hero and crook. In the final tale, Firestorm gets reborn in the merging of Ronnie Raymond and Dr. Ramirez after the apparent death of Professor Stein.
LAZARUS PLANET: NEXT EVOLUTION #1 by Ram V, Brandon T. Snider, Chuck Brown, Delilah S. Dawson, Lalit Sharma, Laura Braga, Alitha Martinez, Ted Brandt and Ro Stein. Red Hood faces off against a new team called The Vigil: Arclight, Saya and Dodge. In the second tale, Flatline battles Ubu, only to find Ra’s al Ghul at the end of her journey. In the third story, Deadeye meets with Amanda Waller on the Astral Plane before facing off against the Amalgam Man. In the final tale, Red Canary teams up with Sideways to stop some of those folks changed by the Lazarus Rain.
LAZARUS PLANET: OMEGA #1 by Mark Waid, Gene Luen Yang, Riccardo Federici, Mike Perkins and Billy Tan. The heroes face off against King Fire Bull. Elsewhere, Black Alice sacrifices herself to free the magic users, most powerful of which is The Spectre. With King Fire Bull dispatched, the world goes back to normal, except the magic users powers have been restored in new and different ways, with many of the heroes powers temporarily scrambled. Batman is restored, mostly, and that will lead into BATMAN VS. ROBIN #5. In the backup, Shifu tells the Monkey Prince how King ire Bull came to be. The Red Boy, after the death of King Bull Demon and Princess Iron Fan, he trains with Nezha. When the pair go after Darkseid, Darkseid reveals that what happened was because of Nezha’s own thirst for power. When Red Boy turns on Nezha, he is defeated and later is reborn as King Fire Bull, with an appetite for vengeance against Nezha.
MONKEY PRINCE #11 by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. Winston and Gerard install the Phantom Crystal, opening a portal to the Phantom Zone. But since half of this is made from Earth materials, they need to get the other half of the Phantom Zone Projector from the Hall of Justice. When Marcus returns to the Hall, he finds it in ruins as Winston and the Ultra-Humanite reassemble the Phantom Zone Projector. Winston accidentally activates the Projector, causing Marcus to jump into the Phantom Zone where the Monkey King awaits. After a confrontation, it is revealed that Winston and Laura had kidnapped Marcus from his father. Sun Wukong says he cannot leave to help fight against King Fire Bull, but he teaches him how to create perfect clones to find him. When he arrives home, Gerard injects him with nanites, saying he will torture him if he disobeys Gerard.
NIGHTWING #101 by Tom Taylor, C.S. Pascat, Travis Moore and Eduardo Pansica. Blockbuster’s daughter, Olivia Desmond, is in the care of the Titans. But Lord Neron has a plan to have a shapeshifting demon called the Grinning Man get into Raven’s safe space and capture her soul. In the backup, set after the events in NIGHTWING 2022 ANNUAL, Nightwing and Jon Kent team up to investigate accidents at a circus, which results in a bomb going off under the big top.
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IVY #9 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. Harley comes to
visit Ivy and Janet and their relationship is rekindled. Harley also says she
has been tracking Ivy all this time and shows her how a garden has sprung up in
Montana, proving Ivy can change the world. Harley heads back to Gotham and Ivy
decides to follow her and take Janet with her.
PUNCHLINE: THE GOTHAM GAME #5 by Tini Howard, Blake Howard and Glen Melnikov. The battle at Port Royal between Black Mask and his team and the Royal Flush Gang continues, even as the ‘Aces High’ initiative has been activated, unleashing Ace Android. Nightwing and Bluebird arrive to free Cullen and they get attacked by the Ace Android, that splits into two. Bluebird initiates an anti-nanobot field that causes them to dissipate. Punchline decides it’s time to retreat but not before she is shot by Black Mask, resulting in the surviving gang members to leave her behind. She ends up wounded in a dumpster and gets found by a homeless person…who turns out to be The Joker.
STARGIRL: THE LOST CHILDREN #4 by Geoff Johns and Todd Nauck. Corky Baxter explains that, because of FLASHPOINT and DOOMSDAY CLOCK, Rip and his team ended up in the Divine Continuum. And, because of Batman’s events in FLASHPOINT BEYOND, the timeline was screwed up and the Childminder took advantage of it, capturing the children. They gather together and make an assault on the castle. At the castle, Childminder sets Judy Garrick on the treadmill in order to bring her mentor and buyer here. When the buyer arrives, it is revealed to be Hourman.
STATIC: SHADOWS OF DAKOTA #1 by Nikolas Draper-Ivey and Vita Ayala. A new group, led by someone or something, is targeting Bang Babies and now Static gets involved to solve the mystery and save those individuals.
SUPERMAN #1 by Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell. Clark Kent is bck in Metropolis, doing what he does best: stopping crime and working as a reporter, under interim Editor in Chief Lois Lane Kent. Lex is in prison and is whispering warnings to the Man of Steel about a massive threat on the horizon. Mercy Graves has rebranded Lexcor as Supercorp and wants him to work there, with some of the best scientists in the world. He heads off to confront Luthor but is caught in a battle with Parasite that overwhelms him. In the end, Superman is being held captive and being experimented on my two unknown enemies.
TIM DRAKE #6 by Meghan Fitzmartin and Riley Rossmo. Tim is forced to face his fears and Moriarty to save the life of Bernard. Moriarty transforms himself into Batman, meaning Robin must battle “Batman”. He defeats the Clayface-like villain and he and his friends find the bombs, saving the boats and Bernard.
WILDC.A.T.S #4 by Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen Segovia. Grifter finds himself battling in the middle of an ethnic cleansing civil war and is losing, He crosses paths with Angel Breaker and eventually ends up back at headquarters, where the team shows that Cash has died. Elsewhere, the Seven Soldiers are becoming the public face of HALO and Majestic reveals he is a son of Krypton too.
WONDER WOMAN #796 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Amancay Nahuelpan and Paulina Ganucheau. The Olympian Gods continue their invasion of Earth, resulting in all of humanity being compromised by Eros's love spell and a Titan destroying all it sees. Yara battles her former lover Eros while Siggy and Steve go after the Titan. Both teams win their battles, but Diana warns this is only the beginning. On Olympus, Zeus is slain by his wife, who becomes the Queen of Olympus…with the great Wizard Shazam by her side. In the backup, Young Diana has a final meeting with Persephone, who reveals she can never leave the caves of Themyscira.
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