KNIGHT TERRORS #3 by Joshua Williamson, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Caspar Wijngaard. Batman and Sandman fight their way through the creatures from the Land of Slumber in an effort to free Mr. terrific. Luckily Damian Wayne arrives to lend a hand, allowing the overwhelmed heroes to escape, but without Mr. Terrific. Deadman again looks into Insomnia’s dreams and sees how he had a grudge against the Justice League and, during a brutal and bloody therapy session, cut off his own eyelids. Sandman put Batman/Deadman and Damian to sleep so they can find the Nightmare Stone, believing it to be located somewhere between waking and dreaming. It leads them to the House of Horrors where Deadman is forced to relive his death and tear out the heart of his dream self. The heroes come out of their slumber with the Nightmare Stone, but Deadman may have plans for it.
KNIGHT TERRORS #4 by Joshua Williamson, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Caspar Wijngaard. Sandman, Damian and a Deadman inhabited Batman have made their way to Arkham Tower, with Batman possessing the Nightmare Stone. Along their journey, Insomnia impersonates Batman and Damian stabs him, temporarily sending him away. Next he tends Deadman with an apparition of Dove. Eventually, they find Christopher Lukas: AKA Insomnia. Deadman leaves batman’s body and, with the Nightmare Stone in tow, heads into Lukas’ mind to free him from the Lazarus curse. There he sees how Lukas’ family was killed in an explosion and the Justice League never showed to help. Insomnia meets Deadman and then kills himself, releasing all the nightmares into the real world. To be concluded in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ACTION COMICS #2 by Leah Williams, Phillip Kennedy Johnson. Mico Suayan, Fico Ossio and Vasco Georgiev. Power Girl continues to try and find a way out of her endless dream where Omen is her enemy. She finally finds the power source for the Kryptonian spaceship and breaks free. But, once she wakes up, she sees that something bad is happening right now in the real world. Weeks later, there is a Kryptonian artifact that becomes attached to a scavenger and will represent a problem in POWER GIRL #1, coming next month. In the backup, the Superman Family are forced to fight Cyborg Superman and other creatures in their nightmare world, including Mongul Who Was. Henshaw’s nightmare revolves around his wife and it is she who manages to defeat him, allowing the children to wake from the nightmare. But the nightmare for this world is not over just yet. Both stories are to be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ANGEL BREAKER #2 by Tim Seeley and Acky Bright. Angel Breaker and Raptor, along with the children of the Kobra Cult, look to find a way out, even as one child is slain and another is eaten by a giant cobra. Arlun West is with Angel Breaker. In the end, Raptor and Angel Breaker defeat Nanny Gillo, with West being the only child to survive the ordeal. Raptor gives the Asclepius to West, knowing that he and Angel Breaker will fall asleep, telling him to find other heroes..
KNIGHT TERRORS: BATMAN #2 by Joshua Williamson, Guillem March, and Trevor Hairsince. In the Nightmare World, Batman had become Joe Chill and killed his parents, leading to him battling nightmarish versions of a young Bruce Wayne. He breaks free and ends up at the Black Door, where he confronts Insomnia. He makes his wake through the door in his own mind and manages to wake up and find himself in Arkham Tower. His son is there, telling him this is the real world and that they lost the fight. Is this real or is Batman still stuck in his nightmare. In the backup, Black canary and Roy find themselves trapped in their own nightmare involving zombies in the swamps before canary’s scream wakes them. But it looks like it is not over yet. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: BLACK ADAM #2 by Jeremy Haun. Black Adam fights through his nightmare, eventually ending up at the Rock of Eternity and meeting with the wizard, who tells him he is always destined to fail. The wizard becomes a nightmare creature and Adam fights against him, finally waking and finding himself in Khandaq, where he must fight another creature. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: CATWOMAN #2 by Tini Howard and Leila Leiz. Batman and Catwoman find a younger version of The Joker, who reveals he has plans for Sister Zero. Later, the pair, in civilian clothes, meet with Maggie, so Selina can tell her The Joker is coming for her, who ignores Selina’s warnings. While in a confessional booth, Selina attacks the priest, who turns out to be The Joker. But Maggie does not believe Selina and orders her to leave. The Joker has poisoned the communion wine and his followers Naja and Lachesis attack the heroes, poisoning Selina in the process. Meanwhile, Sister Zero confronts The Joker, who reveals he has poisoned the wine. Batman injects anti-venom but it is too late. As she seemingly dies, she actually comes out of her nightmare, realizing what she must do. To be continued in BATMAN/CATWOMAN THE GOTHAM WAR: THE BATTLE LINES #1
KNIGHT TERRORS: DETECTIVE COMICS #2 by Dan Watters and Riccardo Federici. As jim Gordon continues to fall apart, mentally and physically, he is forced to fight a monstrous version of a man called Blake. With Blake blown up and Gordon taking tremendous damage in the process, the Pentapriests of the Fifth Dimension arrive and reveal they gave out three gifts, the third of which went to Barbara, who he finds that she too is broken like glass. She reveals that she found a interdimensional artifact on the Dark Web and used it, resulting in the Pentapriests appearance and the granting of wishes. She denounces them, breaking even more as she does. The Pentapriests now demand he wakes up and he does. In the end, someone goes into a watch shop and buys a mysterious watch, meaning this may not be the last we see of the Pentapriests.
KNIGHT TERRORS: THE FLASH #2 by Alex Paknadel and Daniel Bayliss. Barry continues to fight through his unending nightmare to save Wally, but all attempts fail. He finally ends up in the 25th Century, where he battles Eobard Thawne, taking all of Thawne’s Speed Force with him. he races to save Wally but discovers that the monster responsible for slowing down Wally’s Speed Force is the accumulated versions of Barry, from so many attempts. It turns out that it’s Wally who eventually saves Barry. Wally explains that Barry has been running non stop for hours in some kind of trance and now needs to fill him mentor in on what had happened regarding Insomnia. To be continued to KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: GREEN LANTERN #2 by Jeremy Adams, Alex Segurs, Eduardo Pansica, and Mario “Fox” Foccillo. Barry faces off against a Nightmare version of Parallax, using all of his power to defeat the nightmares and come back to the waking world. In the backup, Sinestro fights through his nightmare, breaking free and finally seeing his purposes in life.
KNIGHT TERRORS: HARLEY QUINN #2 by Tini Howard, Leah Williams, PJ Holden, and Hayden Sherman. Harley continues to deal with the horrors of being on alternate Earths. She ends up as the Heroic Harlequin, fighting Brainiac in a Sixties comic book style. Later, she ends up with housewife Ivy, who gets knocked out by a returning Brainiac. Back at her apartment, she finds Ivy has been reduced to a bowl of lettuce and proceeds to slam her hand in the refrigerator to attempt to wake up. She ends up with Lady Quark, who sends her off on a mission to Warworld to save the Multiverse. In the backup, Harley and her future alternate version board a ship powered by all the various remains of Harleys past.
KNIGHT TERRORS: THE JOKER #2 by Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Raffaele. The Joker, in his nightmare, is leaving a double life where he runs Wayne Enterprises by day, where he finds himself interviewing potential employees including Mr. Freeze and Scarecrow, and has become Batman by night. He even coaches the Wayne Enterprises baseball team, where his anger leads him to kill Jimmy Olsen while umpire Insomnia watches. That night, he has dinner with Bruce Wayne before waking to find himself back at Wayne Enterprises. That night, his son finds the dead Batman after it has fallen out of a closet. Joker meets with several criminals and cooks up a special gas, convinced he can use the gas to show the world that the “real Batman” is alive. As Batman, he runs into his gang members who release the gas to subdue him as he has ordered. This allows him to wake and he decides to go back to sleep.
KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHTWING #2 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Nightwing is rooming with Jonathan Crane in Cell #666 in Arkham, where he has been incarcerated for killing Batman. Also in Arkham are twisted versions of Batman’s Rogues Gallery and a somewhat robotic version of Barbara Gordon. He intentionally starts a riot and he and Crane look for a way out. crane gets a radio message from Basil, who he is trying to find but, when they do, he is a version of a walking decayed creature. They eventually find Barbara and free her, even in her cybernetic state. This turns into visions of the circus and Nightwing must face Batman. With sharp claws, batman attacks and this begins to turn Nightwing in a cybernetic creature, only to be saved by Barbara. He leaves the circus and finds Barbara, who has been saved by the Batgirls. As the circus tent burns, Crane opts to stay behind, allowing Nightwing to escape with the Batgirls.
KNIGHT TERRORS: POISON IVY #2 by G. Willow Wilson and Atagun Ilhan. Ivy has settled into the comfort of the nightmare she shares with Harley. But when Harley decides to kill some weeds, Ivy reacts and realizes this Nightmare World is not what she wants in life. The nightmarish versions of Batman and Selina team up to subdue Ivy. Meanwhile, Janet finds herself captured by Mad Hatter and Batgirl, finding a way to break free and get to Ivy. The pair team up to fight these nightmare versions and eventually force themselves to wake up.
KNIGHT TERRORS: PUNCHLINE #2 by Danny Lore and Lucas Meyers. Punchline finds herself trapped by Batgirl and Oracle’s computer. Once freeing herself, she meets Insomnia, who continues to torment her before the robotic zombie Batgirl finds her. She fights back, destroying her enemy and finding her way out of the computer. This allows her to wake from the nightmare, where she finds herself among her crime cohorts. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: RAVAGER #2 by Ed Brisson and Dexter Soy. Ravager battles herself and the minions of the Murder man in the Nightmare World. Meanwhile, in the real world, Stormwatch is trying to find a way to wake her up. Ravager fights against herself and the Murder man who admits she is the conduit that will let him into the real world. She defeats him and is awakened by Peacekeeper-01, with her asking if anything else came through with her. He tells her no but we see a single drop of blood moving on the counter she lay upon. To be continued in BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #4.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ROBIN #2 by Kenny Porter and Miguel Mendonca. Tim and Jason are stuck in the own individual nightmares and struggle to find a way to break out. They manage to connect with each other in the nightmare world and find a way to team up to defeat each other’s worst fears. Breaking free of their prison, they make it back to the waking world and resume their crime fighting ways.
KNIGHT TERRORS: SHAZAM #21 by Mark Waid and Roger Cruz. Mary is trapped in the Nightmare World and fights a dark version of Captain Billy. Later, she manages to individually invade the nightmares of her siblings and frees them into fighting through their individual and collective nightmares. When she finally wakes, she sees that Captain Billy has made his way from the Nightmare World to the real world. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: SUPERMAN #2 by Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly. Supergirl is in the midst of a nightmare involving Krypton, including her father’s death at the hands of Doomsday. As she tries to flee, she finds Kal-El, realizing that she has managed to break into his nightmare. While this nightmare goes on, Aquaman and Mera, in the waking world, search the world with a sleeping Superman in tow, looking for any other heroes who may be awake. In the nightmare, Superman and Supergirl end up in a Western town, inspired by something Marilyn Moonlight had told Kal-El. They travel through several places, eventually ending up at the Daily Planet, where he rescues Lois from a paper monster. They get attacked by the Super-Reaper. They get him to Supercorp and try to devise a plan to wake up the world, but a creature sent by Insomnia attacks them. Luckily, Superman defeats the Super-Reaper just in time as he wakes and saves Aquaman and Mera. He returns to where this all started: the Hall of Justice.
KNIGHT TERRORS: TITANS #2 by Andrew Constant and Scott Godlewski. The team finds themselves battling twisted creatures at an equally twisted Titans Tower. Once they have defeated them, they discover they are all wearing inmate uniforms, leading Raven to reveal that Titans Tower was previously Bludhaven Private Prison and that the mysterious woman is actually a personification of the tower and they are stuck in her dream. The woman slashes at her surroundings, leading to her finding herself in the prison and finding herself where she meets her tortured self and manages to heal together. That moment brings the team back to the waking world and off to join the other heroes in a battle against Insomnia. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: WONDER WOMAN #2 1 by Josie Campbell, Stephanie Williams, Meghan Hetrick, and Juan Ferreyra. Wonder Woman battles twisted vsiions of herself before finally defeating it and saving Detective Chimp, bursting out of the snake that ate her. With her lasso and her will, she finds the other trapped heroes and they break free of their slumber, only to find that their nightmares have now become real and are menacing the real world. They team up to stop the monsters but know that the rest of the world is also in trouble, so they head on to Gotham to continue the fight. In the backup, Nubia fights a monstrous version of Gaia. She destroys the creature but that leads to her being tormented by the souls that were left in the Well of Souls. She wakes alongside of Io, realizing the nightmares have invaded the real world. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: ZATANNA #2 by Dennis Culver and David Baldeon. Zatanna fights against The Rustbringer: a corrupted version of Robotman. It also brings her into contact with a corrupt version of her dead father. She finds herself trapped in the maze and it seems she is destined to become the Dame of Death. But her magic prevents that and she is able to free Cliff from his being The Rustbringer. Dubbing themselves Hex and Violence, they head off to fight Insomnia. To be continued in KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END.
KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END #1 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, and Trevor Hairsine. The nightmares are loose and the now woken superheroes must fight against them even as Insmnia controls the Nightmare Stone and holds Deadman captive. In return for giving him the Nightmare Stone, Insomnia gives Deadman a wife and children, patterned after his own family. Deadman finds peace with a family he never had until Sandman snaps him out of the dream and he fights back. When he reaches Insomnia, he tries to reason with him and Insomnia tears him to pieces. The heroes locate the dead body of John Dee and find his Dreamstone and Sandman decides he will use it. Deadman returns, showing he faked his death. Grabbing ahold of Insomnia, Deadman sacrifices himself to make everything end as Insomnia is sent away by the Dreamstone. Lukas is happy to be with his family again but that is only part of his nightmare as they attack him. With the crisis over, Zatanna sends Wesley Dodds back to his restful eternal sleep. Then Batman collapses and he is rushed to the Hall of Justice, where he will sleep until he is finally rested(which turns out to be close to eight weeks). In the end, Amanda Waller continues her fight against the heroes by gifting the Helmet of Hate and the Nightmare Stone to her newest creation: Doctor Hate. To be continued in BEAST WORLD.
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