THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #6 by Matthew Rosenberg, Ryan Cady, Will Robson, and Carmine Di Giandomenico. The Joker visits a comedy club and kills a comedian he does not like. Later he causes havoc and finds out that Los Angeles will be locked down, meaning he cannot take his flight to Gotham. Along the way, he runs into a Batman cosplayer and has to take pictures with him before he kills this Batman and then gets attacked by…is that Manhunter? In Gotham, Red Hood gets released because the mayhem n L.A. roves he dd not kill The Joker, who is very much alive. Under Gotham, Solomon Grundy is caring for the other Joker. In the backup, we get a retooled origin for The Joker, involving Haly’s Circus and his dead twin brother Edward.
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #3 by Geoff Johns, Mikel JanÃn, and Jerry Ordway. N 1944 the Unknown Soldier tasks Sgt. Rock and Easy Company with apprehending Per Degaton, who uses his machine to escape into 1947. He eventually comes bac to 1945, at the moment of Rock’s death before realizing something about Helena’s talisman. After explaining her situation to Deadman and Dr. Fate, Huntress helps the current JSA fight Angle Man. A little later, Degaton shows up and explains he is here to kill the JSA.
LAZARUS PLANET: REVENGE OF THE GODS #1 by G. Willow Wilson, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Cian Tormey, and Alitha Martinez. Wonder Woman and her confederates have to deal with gods' from all cultures as they attempt to exert control over all of Earth. Dana visits Hera and pleads for peace. But peace can only be attained by being transformed to save Earth. Continued in WONDER WOMAN #797. In the backup, a YouTube influencer decides to film himself exploring Themyscira. Both the influencers are killed and a mysterious stranger arrives, telling them they will need him as an ally for what is coming.
LAZARUS PLANET: REVENGE OF THE GODS #2 by G. Willow Wilson, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Cian Tormey, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Alitha Martinez. While Yara Flor fights monsters, Billy Batson has a encounter with the mysterious stranger, leading to he and Yara heading to Mt. Olympus. Shazam finds out that Hera has a collaborator in the form of the Wizard, who takes away Shazam’s powers. In the backup, the Amazons fight against the forces of Hades.
MILESTONE 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 by Evan Narcisse, Atagun lhan, Chriscross, Nikolas Draper-vey, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Geoffrey Thorne, and Sean Damien Hill. Daktoa heroes from Earth-93 meet with current Dakota heroes to save both their worlds. In the second tale, Batman Beyond meets an older, wiser Static. n the third tale, set in the 1993 Dakota, Raquel Ervin takes up the mantle of con. In the final tale, the Blood Syndicate try to deal with life after Holocaust. But Dharma has plans, looking to make the heroes of Dakota into his new Shadow Cabinet.
MONKEY PRINCE #12 by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. Ing Fire Bull is released from his prison and launches another attack. In the process he learns that Monkey king actually breathed Monkey Prince into existence as a clone and, when he went into the Phantom Zone, the clones went with hm. The Ultra-Humanite accessed the Phantom Zone and his “parents” found him there taking him bac to Earth and raising him. With his origin revealed, he and Supergirl work together to imprison King Fire Bull once more.
MUTLIVERSITY: HARLEY SCREWS UP THE DCU #1 by Frank Tieri and Logan Faerber. Harley opens an “old-timey Porta-Portty” that is labeled as The Way Back Booth. She ends up on a world where all of her friends are controlled by Starro. She fights them off and learns from a stranger that her interference eliminated all the heroes. Even more surprising is that the stranger is Harley herself.
NIGHTWING #102 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, C.S. Pacat, and Eduardo Pansica. Nightwing continues to try and protect Olivia from the Grinning Man, even after he disguises himself as Nightwing. They defeat him with the help of the Titans and, with Donna Tory’s lasso, he reveals he is working for Neron, leading them to decide to go to the Nether Realm. In the backup, Nightwing continues to investigate the doings at the circus and accuses the woman who runs it of sabotaging things.
POISON IVY #10 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. Ivy and Janet head to Gwendolyn Caltrope’s retreat, where Ivy is convinced strange things are happening. While there, Ivy sees the mysterious tree man. Everyone drinks a concoction, get very high and Ivy and Janet sleep together. In the end, they discover that this version of Lamia is growing wild and infected everyone.
PUNCHLINE: THE GOTHAM GAME #6 by Tini Howard, Blake Howard and Glen Melnikov. Punchline wakes to find she is being cared for by The Joker, who seems to have mellowed and not to Punchline’s liking. She runs off to confront Black Mask. That leads to an all out assault including Bluebird and Batman, but also those Royal Flush members still loyal to her. Blac Mask flees and cases of XO are taken by those under its control. Punchline ends up having Bluff electrocuted for his treachery. Blac Mask gets arrested, Punchline and her followers get away and it looks like Selna Kyle will eventually be brought not the mix.
STARGIRL: THE LOST CHILDREN #5 by Geoff Johns and Todd Nauck. The time lost heroes head off to save Emiko and Judy Garrick, but many of them are captured in the process. Emiko convinces Judy to use her powers to vibrate through a wall and free them, but also freeing Secret, Sparky, The Whiz Kid and a youthful version of Dyna-Mite in the process. Childminder has her army attack them just as Stargirl and the freed sidekicks arrive to lend a hand. In the end, Hourman arrives and insists that Emiko must come with the lost children to save them from complete obliteration.
STATIC: SHADOWS OF DAKOTA #2 by Nikolas Draper-Ivey and Vita Ayala. Virgil meets a new Bang Baby while continuing to befriend Quincy. In the end, a shadow organization is still making plans and that includes Quincy.
SUPERMAN #2 by Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell. The Parasite has evolved into multiple Parasites, each one draining Superman’s powers along with every power source they can find. As they feed, they continue to multiply. In the process, Superman rescues Mercy Graves at Super-Corp. He contacts his family and finds that Jon cannot find Lois. As Superman searches, he runs into Marilyn Moonlight, who uses her powers to recharge Superman. He finds Lois but she has been infected and the Parasites are not only multiplying but their disease is airborne. Also, the secret cabal continues to work behind the scenes and experiment on Bizarro.
TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #7 by Meghan Fitzmartin and Serg Acuna. T’s a date night for Tim and Bernard but their date brings them directly not an interaction with Bernard’s parents who are not happy with him with his father telling him he should never been born. Firefly shows up and so does Robin. Firefly is defeated but then Tim realizes that this may be something to do with the villain Phobia. He goes back and is captured, leading to Bernard helping to save the day.
UNSTOPPABLE DOOM PATROL #1 by Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham. Following the events in LAZARUS PLANET: DARK FATE #1, the new Doom Patrol has decided their new mission is to find and rescue any metahumans whose abilities make them freaks. But that mission leads them into a direct confrontation with Batman and Robin. They manage to find the metahuman they were searching for, named Degenerate, and he joins up with the team. Meanwhile, Peacemaker is planning to take down the team. And, if that wasn’t enough, Monsieur Mallah betrays and seemingly kills the Brain at the direction of General Immortus.
WILDC.A.T.S. #5 by Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen Segovia. With Cole apparently dead, the ladies of WildC.A.T.S. investigate his apartment and find a picture of Jason Halliday. In Ohio, Superman meets up with Marlowe’s newest team and meets Majestic, who claims he is Kryptonian, which Superman denies and that leads to a brawl between the two. Later Cray confronts Marlowe and Colt, anting to know how they know Halliday. Colt gets a call and he flies off to help in Ohio, which mean he now gets into the fight with Superman. Cray has a private meeting with Halliday but there is a battle with his bodyguard, Warblade. Voodoo and Ladytron dig up Cole’s grave, where they discover the body is Cole Cash but not THEIR Cole Cash. In the end, Cray and Warblade fight but Pike and Andromache arrive and she cut’s off Cray’s head.
WONDER WOMAN #797 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Josie Campbell, Caitlin Yarsky, and Amancay Nahuelpan. Wonder Woman has now become a god, thanks to a deal with Hera. In return, she is hung out on the Promethean Cliffs. She manages to escape, thanks to the mysterious hooded stranger and Ratatosk, and heads back to Themyscira to help her fellow Amazons defend against Hades' army of the dead. But Nubia insists she go back to man’s world to help there. In the backup, Mary Marvel teams up with a group of Amazons to fight Hades’ army, before heading back to man’s world to help there.
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