ICON VS. HARDWARE #5 by Reginald Hudlin, Leon Chills, Yasmin Flores Montanez, and Denys Cowan. Rocket battles the ‘mean girls while Xiomara is fighting Vandal Savage. Between the two of them, they take Savage’s powers and he disintegrates. Elsewhere, Brainiac’s robot arrives in Dakota and S.Y.S.T.E.M. arrives to stop him, but they are destroyed in the process. Icon and Hardware arrive and, working together, they defeat and destroy the robot. Hardware tells Icon that the only way to stop him is to kill him, after which he is told to mind his own business and Hardware leaves. Icon visits Rocket and she tells him this team is through. At Alva Industries, he is working on his cloning process while, at the Shadowspire, the decision is made to remake the Shadow Cabinet.
JAY GARRICK: THE FLASH #2 by Jeremy Adams and Diego Olortegui. In the past, the Justice Society fights Nazis and their secret weapon, Ro-Bear. They defeat them and Ro-Bear insists that the secret lab they found, with the logo ISA on it, means the death of them all. Currently, Judy goes to the mall with Courtney, despite Jay’s concerns he heads off for a sneak peek to see what they are doing and finds that Ro-Bear is there to attack them, leading to a team up from the three heroes. The villain disappears and Judy wants to know what the heck is happening.
THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #12 by Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico. The Gotham Joker rallies his troops and later meets with Jason Todd, telling him that he wants Jason to kill the other Joker. The other Joker is on his way to Gotham on a train he has commandeered, leading to a confrontation between the pair. Jason gets involved and the Gotham Joker is captured. But Jason gets betrayed and the two clowns attack each other while Firefly ends up being Jason’s transport away, whether he wants to be or not. The pair of Jokers agree to jump off the train as Jason aims the Joker blimp at the train, blowing it up in the process. In the end, The Joker emerges from the wreckage carrying the head of the other Joker. But which joker survived and who is REALLY the real one?
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. GODZILLA VS. KONG #2 by Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce. As Superman faces off against Godzilla, which does not go well, it is revealed that other creatures are attacking Central City, Gotham, and Themyscira. Hawkgirl heads to Metropolis to assist Superman, Flash, Green Lantern and Supergirl go to Central City. While Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl and Green Arrow go to Themyscira, the Bat Family, with help from Cyborg and Black Canary. As they face their creature, Jason disobeys orders and shoots the creature in the eye, which only makes it angrier. Cyborg builds a sonic amplifier and, coupled with Canary’s scream, that takes the creature down. On the way to Themyscira, Ollie observes an island that should not exist and stays behind to investigate. At the Legion of Doom’s headquarters, Manta reveals that he believes Toyman is responsible, having using the Dreamstone. Back in Metropolis, The Captain arrives and utters his magic word, which wounds Godzilla but also results in Superman being taken down while saving the transformed Billy Batson.
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA # 7 by Geoff Johns and Marco Santucci. In Los Angeles, a vigilante is loose…a vigilante wearing the face of a harlequin and following in his mother’s footsteps. Meanwhile, the heroes go after Solomon Grundy. During the process of trying to subdue him, Salem uses her powers and accidentally burns Grundy to a crisp. As a result, Dr. fate takes Salem to the gates of Limbo Town. She fights back, saying she doesn’t want to go home. Instead, she wants her people to remove her curse and wants Fate’s helmet. He sends her away and then receives a vision telling him to save Grundy. At that moment he is visited by Animal Lad, Rainbow Girl, and Stone Boy, who tell him they need him to come to the 31st Century with them. At Belle Reve, Mister Terrific, Power Girl and Johnny Thunder meet with Icicle and encourage him to join the Justice Society. At the Cold Coast Facility for the Criminally Insane, Dr. Mid-Nite meets with Jean Loring, asking her what it was like when she was possessed by Eclipso. She tells her to go find the person who insisted they go after Eclipso in the first place.
NIGHTWING #108 by Tom Taylor, Michael W. Conrad, Serg Acuna, and Stephen Byrne. Nightwing discovers that Travis was the person responsible for Lucas being tossed overboard and he reveals that Beatrice’ brother sent him. The team sail to Blud’s hold: a full blown city hidden inside the base of a cliff. They make their way towards the seat of power inside the place when the door opens and Bea’s brother shoots and kills Lucas. Nightwing unleashes a smoke bomb and fights against Dirk’s thugs. Bea goes after her brother and is run through with a sword, before being dumped into the sea below.In the backup, during a night at the movies with Barbara, Dick encounters Hatch marlin: the man who has been pulling the strings with his various attacks on Dick. Dick quickly takes him down and, unable to get back into the movie, ends up spending the night with Barbara and the rest of the Bat Family.
OUTSIDERS #1 by Jacksin Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Robert Carey. Batwoman is in the devastated area of Vahkar where she is greeted by Luke Fox, asking her to join his new team. He takes her to meet Drummer, who is described as the world’s greatest living archeologist. Together they go into a large craft, described as being fifty miles long. In an effort to find their missing team members. Drummer informs them that the craft is known as The Carrier. Luke speaks to the craft, telling it he will help it find its’ home. . The other teams members are rescued, even as Drummer stays behind. Inside The Carrier, she discovers a group of costumed heroes in stasis and then opens a backpack…which contains a book called Planetary Guide.
THE PENGUIN #4 by Tom King and Rafael De Latorre. The Penguin and his team travel to the St. Claire in Las Vegas to meet with the woman who was his wife. The Help goes to murder her when her bodyguard takes him down. As it turns out, all of The Penguin’s team is taken down, especially after Victory spilled was captured and told the plan. As he begs for his life, St. Claire shoot shim, ordering her bodyguard to call janitorial to clean things up. After several weeks in a hospital, the pair meet again, where he asks her to join him and they can run Gotham together. In the end, the final step for the partnership happens, with The Help killing St. Claire’s bodyguard.
POISON IVY #16 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara. The Lamia continues to spread and Ivy goes on a journey with Chuck, infected by the spores. Along the way, she meets Undine. But this is simply a hallucinogenic dream for Chuck, who soon succumbs and becomes a walking infected zombie. He meets up with a host of the infected and they slowly make their way towards Gotham.
POWER GIRL #3 by Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica. In Metropolis, Lilith is dealing with people who have been possessed by Blue Earth, who insist that they are fighting back against the Kryptonian virus. Back at the Fortress, Superman finds a sad Power Girl sitting with the dying alien lion who she names Hamlet. After baring her soul to hamlet, she falls asleep. When she wakes, she finds Hamlet gone, eventually finding him on the edge of an ice cliff where he has come to die. Kara stays with in until he passes, which breaks her heart. Later, she sees Hamlet’s corpse is gone and goes looking for him, only to find he is infected with the virus. She tells Kelex to get Superman and, when he arrives, he sees that she has been scratched by Hamlet and she is now infected by the virus.
STATIC: SHADOWS OF DAKOTA #7 by Nikolas draper-Ivey and Vita Ayala. Forty years ago, Fallon Lennox began her journey into morality; something she pursued throughout her adult life. Ten years ago, while doing highly illegal experiments into how a brain could be transferred into a computer, Dr. Alva meets with her and convinces her to work for him. Currently, she is ready to experiment on Ivan’s brother Adam when Ivan and Static arrive. She takes a serum that allows her to create an electro-concussive force field. But Virgil manages to get around it and forces Lennox to relive her most painful memories, mentally crippling her and allowing Adam to be freed. In the end, Ivan tells Virgil he will be back if things get out of hand yet again. Then Virgil delivers the eulogy to Quincy’s funeral. While it looks like Lennox is going to get an audience with Dr. Alva.
SHAZAM #5 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. Billy is trapped in space and dying, so Mary Marvel calls down the lightning which turns him back into The Captain. Together they team up and defeat Queen Bee and her minions, forcing Garguax to vomit up the warp drive. This distraction gives Queen Bee a second chance at attacking and the gorillas realize they have a chance at the drive again. Ted drops the drive and sets it off, causing the moon to spin out of control. It tales all of the Captain’s powers to stop it. Later, back on Earth, Billy meets with the Gods and gives them a demand: let him control his powers or else he quits. Freddy arrives and declares that, if Billy does not want to power, he will take it.
SPEED FORCE #1 by Jarrett Williams and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Wallace and Avery Ho are playing video games when they have to go out and battle the super speedsters called The Bros. They speed off, causing Avery and Wallace to visit Mr. Terrific and Roundhouse. The Bros are on a version of treadmills in an operation being run by…The Music Meister.
STEELWORKS #7 by Michael Dorn and Sam Basri. Nat and Lana attack Walker’s giant robot while John and Superman take a break, trying to figure out the best plan of attack. Nat begins to get weak from the effects of the effects of the Genesis Radiation, but Lana keeps up the attack. Inside Steelworks, the Super Kids reveal that the younger heroes are being affected the most by the Zero-Point energy because the Genesis field originated on Warworld. Shawn Kerry shows up, wanting to make up for everything he did and reveals that the Termophasic radiation Walker used to create the Silver Mist can also allow the heroes to temporarily phase through the Genesis Radiation. Kerry enters the robot and removes the Zero-Point device, killing him in the process but stopping Walker and the robot. In the end, John reveals the world isn’t quite ready for ZPE and he and Lana go back to discussing wedding plans.. .
SUPERMAN #8 by Joshua Williamson, Gleb Melnikov, and Norm Rapmund. In the past, a young boy named Sammy Stryker is told he has Tactile Telekinesis: something Lex Luthor plans to capitalize on. Today, the grown up Sam is looking to kill Luthor when he is met by Dr. Pharm and Mr. Graft, who show him the person Lex has become. Superman, while helping to clean up the wreckage in Metropolis, meets with Lutho, who explains that Sammy’s father created the prison that Lex is in. Sammy shows up and attacks lex’ daughter. But Superman and Superboy have a plan and they drag Sammy out of the prison. In the process, lex tells Superman he locked Sammy up because he was responsible for killing his father. Sammy frees himself and heads back to Luthor while Superman heads to Supercorp to get a Luthor invention: Kryptonite gloves. The gloves slow Sammy down just enough for Supoerboy to capture him. but the cost to Superman is high, as it looks like he is suffering from Kryptonite poisoning.
TITANS #5 by Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott. Following the defeat of the Demolition team, the Titans head to meet Levi Kamel: the current Swamp Thing. He goes with them to Borneo where Starfire uses her powers to provide sunlight and energy to bring the green back to life there.I n the Titans Trophy Room, Linda tries to kill her husband, but Nightwing explains how all of the weapons there had been neutralized. She then tries to kill him with the parasite, but Wally’s speed allows it to miss him and Nightwing electrocutes it. In the end, the head of the Church of Eternity plans to unleash his master plan.
TITANS: BEAST WORLD #1 by Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis. Brother Eternity has sent his ‘Forevernauts’ to Titan, where he claims they will help that dreams of a better world will come about. There they find markings on the wall of a temple and Brother Eternity begins speaking in ancient Tamanmean, which causes Titan to shake and kills the Forevernauts in the process. Being broadcast live on television, this is observed by the Titans and Donna Troy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire head off to investigate. Once there, Starfire declares this is not a moon, but a prison for a god. Later, Starfire reveals to the heroes of Earth that this is called the Necrostar and almost half of the Tamaraneans died fighting it thirty million years ago. It was only defeated by Starro, who weakened it enough that her ancestors could freeze it in a prison, which it has now been unleashed from. While most of the heroes go off to stop the spores the creature is unleashing onto Earth, corrupting the population, as had been done to Linda West in THE FLASH, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy team up, with Gar becoming a whale, before transforming himself into a version of Starro and also unleashing a multitude of mini Starros. Calling himself Garro, Beast Boy heads into space to attack Necrostar. As his mini Starros manage to free the citizens from the spores, Garro sends Necrostar to the coldest place in the known universe, the Boomerang Nebula. Then he is visited by Doctor Hate who, after saying Amanda Waller thanks him, causes Beast Boy to lose his humanity and only Garro remains which causes all the mini Starros to begin to take control, starting with Black Adam.
THE VIGIL #6 by Ram V and Devmalya Pramanik. Castle faces off against Mr. Wall, using Arclight’s powers to destroy him. In the end, Castle tasks the team with regrowing Dynamo, who was turned to dust by Wall earlier. As the team takes off in their spaceship, fish fall from the sky. The team is travelling ow…in The Bleed.
WESLEY DODDS: THE SANDMAN #2 by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossimo. It’s the summer of 1940 and Wesley Dodds’ home has burned to the ground. While sifting through the rubble, he discovers that his journey, a mask and some of his gas guns have been stolen. That night, he goes to police headquarters to photograph some evidence there. Later, he confronts some of Igor Kluge’s associates looking for information, only to be told that Kluge was only a soldier and not the mastermind. Elsewhewre, someone has outfitted themselves as The Sandman.
WILDC.A.T.S #12 by Matthew Rosenberg, Danny Kim, and Tom Derenick. Maul, currently the home of Michael Cray, has been captured by Halo. Backlash visits him, staying he has been undercover with Halo for the last two years. Simultaneously, the team outside the building, Fairchild, Maxine, and Spartan battles Void, while Voodoo, Zealot, and Grifter battles Halliday and the Court of Owls. In Elias Park, some of the Justice League fight against the Seven Soldiers. Voodoo gets injured, leading to Zealot killing Warblade. Backlash shows up to lend a hand. Zealot leaves and Grifter is captured. But he tells Halliday to watch the news, where he sees an interview where Cash outs his teammates, Halo and Halliday. With Maxine badly injured, Caitlin throws a bag of radioactive stuff at Void, turning her back to an old woman, leading to Maxine blowing herself and the Void up. Two weeks later, Marlowe, Colt and Voodoo are on a beach, Caitlin is back in school, and Midnighter may not be himself, or soon may become inhabited by Cray. Maxine enjoys her best life, Cash has been incarcerated, and Zealot hides in the shadows.
WONDER WOMAN #3 by Tom King, Josie Campbell, Vasco Georgiev and Daniel Sampere. Diana heads to Southhide Defense Industries to meet with Sarge Steel. She makes her way through his soldiers and gets to see him, , demanding a lead on Emelie. He has called out his army but she has her invisible plane. He stands down and tells her that, wherever she is, she is carrying an Amazon child in her belly. Meanwhile, the old man uses the Lasso of Lies to get a soldier to kill himself, blaming Wonder Woman for his suicide. In the backup set in the future, Damian and Jon are babysitting Diana’s “daughter” Lizzie. With Jon off to handle a situation, Damian now has Lizzie, who accompanies him on a mission as Wonder Robin. Together the face off and defeat Killer Croc.
WORLD’S FINEST: TEEN TITANS #5 by Mark Waid and Emamuela Lupacchino. The Titans offer a potential recruit named Haywire to ride with them but that goes south because of his questionable actions and the team dismisses him. Months later, he shows up with a team of his own, that he calls the Anti-Titans. And, with the team in disarray, he may be able to take them all out.
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