DC UNIVERSE Month 64, Part 2

KNIGHT TERRORS SPECIAL EDITION (FCBD 2023) by Joshua Williamson, Chris Bachalo and Howard Porter. Damian has a dream about his parents and his friends, but that turns into a nightmare. When he wakes, Batman visits him, but that is also part of the nightmare. When he finally convinces himself to wake up, he finds himself with his father and learns they had just captured Firefly and Killer Moth. To be continued in the KNIGHT TERRORS event.

MULTIVERSITY: HARLEY SCREWS UP THE DCU #3 by Frank Tieri and Logan Faerber. Harley has gone to Krypton and accidentally killed baby Kal-El, coming to Earth and being adopted by a couple from Kansas. With Superman erased, the pair head back to krypton again, where they act as nannies for Kal-El. Lara finds the pair and they explain they are here investigating a terrible case of Space Diarrhea, which convinces Lara to put Kal-El on the space ship. Next up, after explaining how she accidentally killed Barry Allen before he could become The Flash, the pair go to fix that and do, but with The Flash now smelling like monkey urine. Meanwhile, the Starros have access to a time machine and no one is safe.

NIGHTWING #104 by Tom Taylor, C.S. Pacat, Daniel Hor, and Travis Moore. Nightwing, with the amazing power given to him by Neron, sets about to help his teammates, while also trying to be as much like Superman as he can be.  Still trying to protect Blackbuster’s daughter, his powers run out and Neron has a proposal: keep the powers and give him the girl. He declines, using his “magic sticks” to send Neron back to Hell. Olivia is taken in by the Amazons for training and decides on the superhero name of Nightbuster. In Hell, Neron is visited by Raven, who turns him over to Blaze, who notices that part of her seems missing. In the backup, the mysterious bomber is found and all 13 of the bombs he has placed are handled. In the end, Jon uses his powers to correct a crooked carnival game and walks off with the prizes.

POISON IVY #12 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. After the encounter at the retreat, Ivy becomes one again with the green, even as her body fights the infection. Later, she works on an antidote to save the women from the retreat who have all been infected by the wild Lamia. With almost all injected with the antidote, Janet and Ivy head back to Gotham, where they discover that the infection is still growing along the route. In the end, Harley and Ivy are finally reunited.

STATIC: SHADOWS OF DAKOTA #4 by Nikolas Draper-Ivey and Vita Ayala. Static encounters the bogeyman and gets a taste of his powers. In the end, Virgil returns home to find that the authorities found Quincy and he is dead.

SHAZAM #1 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. Billy Batson, in his superhero persona, saves a young dinosaur and reunites him with a family of interstellar dinos that crash landed in the Yucatan Peninsula, eventually helping them get back home. Later, while relaxing in the clubhouse he has created inside the Rock of Eternity, he gets a visit from Freddy Freeman. With the world of magic changed by the Lazarus event, the pair try to readjust to their life as kids. Billy has even started a sponsored fancast where he reports about “The Captain’s adventures. When he learns of a devastating earthquake in Southern California, The Captain heads out to help. While he is being hugged by someone he rescued, he snaps and insults her and all the other spectators…live on television. Could this have something to do with the mysterious strangers seen inside the Rock of Eternity?

SPIRIT WORLD #1 by Alyssa Wong and Haining. Xanthe Zhou is a Spirit Envoy who saves a little girl from a flood in Gotham City’s Chinatown. When she goes home, she finds a visitor in the form of john Constantine. She tells Constantine that she needs to find a way back to the spirit world to save Batgirl, who ended up there during LAZARUS PLANET: DARK FATE. In the spirit world, Batgirl finds herself chased by hungry sprits who are trying to devour her. In the process, she gets taken in by Po Po and Bowen. Meanwhile, Xanthe and Constantine, after fighting The Collective, find a gate and pursue The Collective. But that trip ends abruptly when Xanthe is reunited with a mother she has not seen in fifteen years.

STARGIRL: THE LOST CHILDREN #6 by Geoff Johns and Todd Nauck. Stargirl fights Hourman and the Childminder, with Hourman aging Courtney 50 years so he can rejuvenate Childminder. Corky and the forgotten heroes arrive to join the fight, with Corky reviving Courtney. As Corky is about to save everyone, his older self, now a Time Master, arrives and explains that Corky stole the heroes and wants to send back the one that  keeps the world from being destroyed. Childmider reverts back to an unborn being in an egg in the process, Hourman is restored and the older Corky, , the one who reprogrammed Hourman, is sent back into the time portal. Wing is sent back into the time portal so he can destroy the Nebula Man, even though it will result in his death.  All of the lost children, except for Wing, come back to present day at their youthful ages. The Seven Soldiers of Victory reform and pay tribute to Wing, now known as the Unknown Soldier of Victory. And Jay Garrick gets to me his daughter. In the end, Corky deals with having to do the right thing, even if it cost Wing his life.

SUPERBOY: THE MAN OF TOMORROW #2 by Kenny Porter and Jahnoy Linsay. Superboy battles The Cosmoteers and is captured by them. The team heads off to attack Dominator x’s research lab with less than spectacular results. Superboy frees himself and join the cause., even as the Khunds get involved. With a power up, Superboy leads the attack.

SUPERMAN #4 by Joshua Williamson and Jamal Campbell. Clark meets with Lex, who explains that, when younger, he encountered Dr. Pharm and Graft. Superman finds their deserted lab and Lex realizes it’s a trap. Too late, he encounters Silver banshee, who has been corrupted by Pharm and Graft. During their battle, they cross paths with Jimmy, who confesses that he loves her.

TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #9 by Meghan Fitzmartin and Nikola Cizmesija. Batwoman frees herself from the clutches of the leader of the Chaos monsters and professes her innocence. Robin and Batwoman go to visit Bernard, who refuses to tell them about his experience with the Chaos monsters. Robin and her brawl, as she tells him that he can’t protect his boyfriend. Later, Robin goes to visit Batwoman but is attacked by the Chaos monsters.

TITANS #1 by Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott. Flash races off on the Cosmic treadmill after saying goodbye to his family. Elsewhere, Dick is trying to build his Titans team and Garth, who turns the invite down. With his team assembled, featuring Nightwing, Cyborg, Donna Troy, Gar, Starfire and raven, Titans Tower is opened. Gar and Raven have a telepathic conversation that results in a very public kiss. Oracle advises them of a category 5 event and they transport to fight Titano. Peacemaker arrives during the fight and wants to kill Titano but Nightwing objects and the Titans take the giant ape down. Peacemaker tells them that the President wants them to work for the government but is turned down. Back at the Tower, they discover a dead Wally West and realize they have a crime scene to process.

THE UNSTOPPABLE DOOM PATROL #3 by Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham. Robotman and Negative Man, with a a Meta who has been compromised by Starro, find themselves fleeing from Green Lanterns Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner. The Lanterns eventually catch up with the trio but are called away by a false message sent to the Lanterns by Starbro. Later, in Haiti, Mr. Droo gets a mysterious package and exclaims that he and his men have been recruited for war.

THE VIGIL #1 by Ram V and Lalit Kumar Sharma. Nia Saha meets with Dr. Sankaran. She has been tasked by the mysterious Mr. Lightless to observe the operation of The Vigil.  The team boards a ship that has been overtaken by pirates. One by one, they take out the pirates, eventually finding am ionic long-wave neuro-oscillatory transmitter. In the end, In the end, Rathi, the man Sankaran replaced, is tortured by a curious man looking for everything he knows about Mr. Lightless.

WE ARE LEGENDS #1 by Alyssa Wong, Ram V, greg Pak, Haining, Lalit Kumar Sharma, and Minkyu Jung. Xanthe and Batgirl Cassandra cain battle Goeng-Si in a graveyard. But, even with Constantine’s help, Batgirl is taken by a Collective to the Sirit World. Continued in SPIRIT WORLD #1. In the second tale, Red Hood follows some missing Lazarus Resin to a ship leaving Gotham. Once on the ship, he encounters The Vigil. Continued in THE VIGIL #1. In the final tale, City Boy encounters Nightwing and returns an old tiara to an elderly woman. Continued in CITY BOY #1.

WILDC.A.T.S #7 by Matthew Rosenberg, Danny Kim, and Christian Duce. Ladytron appears to be in trouble with Marlowe and the rest of Halo. But she later kidnaps Voodoo, bringing her to members of the teams including Spartan, who is now Michael cray, and Zannah and Caitlin, who are supposed to be dead. She is told that Waller was responsible for the bomb that killed The Void and that Grifter is bouncing from world to world, including fighting with the Seven Soldiers of Victory, battling with vampires and sitting in Kammandi’s world. Grifter is not dead, but keeps moving through different stages in time and space. During one of his trips, he is kidnapped and delivered to Helspont and his Daemonite followers. He also ends up in the Dceased Universe, where he is rescued by Damian Wayne and his team, which also includes Cole’s brother Max. later, Cole is told that, to save this world, they need to save The Void.

WONDER WOMAN #799 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Meghan Hetrick, Juan Ferreyra, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson and Paulina Ganucheau. Etta dreams of her first meeting with Wonder Woman during a picnic, where Diana is attacked by Cheetah, who is upset she did not get invited to the picnic. Siggy takes a bath and dreams of he and Diana fighting together to stop Ragnarok. Steve Trevor dreams of meeting Diana during a World War II air battle. On Themyscrira, Io dreams of Diana too. But Diana seems to be the worst of all of them as she won’t wake up at all.