JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. GODZILLA VS. KONG #3 by Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce. Flash heads off to iron heights prison to fight the creature there but he also has to fight off the escaping prisoners. Captain Cold freezes The Flash and, when he finally gets free, the villains have gotten away and he has to free Green Lantern from a creature. Supergirl and Green Lantern show up to lend a hand but she suddenly leave when Supergirl realizes she cannot hear her cousin’s heart. In downtown Metropolis, Atom Smasher attacks Godzilla as Billy stands over Superman’s fallen body. But Godzilla bites Atom Smasher and he also falls, causing Billy to turn into The Captain and, with Supergirl’s help, knocks the creature out. She instructs Hawkgirl to take her fallen cousin to the Fortress of Solitude. On Skull Island, Kong attacks a giant creature as Green Arrow watches. Kong approaches and Supergirl arrives and smacks the giant ape on the nose, forcing him to walk away. At Themyscira, Donna and Diana use their lassos to secure a mammoth-like creature, but it eventually turns away and leaves. Later, The Captain meets with Batman, Batwoman, Black Canary and Cyborg, where he tells them that Superman is dead. In the end, Lex Luthor has arrived in the Chihuahuan Desert and finds a device, which makes him very happy.
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA # 8 by Geoff Johns and Mikel Janin. Last night in Moscow, a woman wearing an outfit with a Lantern design on it demands to see her father and kills a group of soldiers. Huntress reveals to the JSA that the woman’s name is Ruby Sokov and she is searching for the Red Lantern, who Alan Scott declares is dead. Huntress reveals that he is alive in her time and Alan, who has history with him, goes after Ruby, telling her that her father is dead, even after she creates a construct of him. They go to a bar to talk, telling her he wants to bring her to the JSA to meet with Huntress. Meanwhile, the team continues to work to get other villains to be deprogrammed, including Michael Mayne: the Harlequin’s son. Elsewhere, a Legionnaire is upset that the JSA got to Ruby before he did.
NIGHTWING #109 by Tom Taylor, Stephen Byrne, and Sam Basri. Bea has been stabbed by her brother and tossed into the sea below, leading Dick to go after her, saving her and patching up her wound. She decides she needs to go after her brother and also agrees to release Dick from his debt and will give him his box once this mission is done. She proceeds to tell him how Hendrik Blud slayed a sea creature and made it a haven that he protected. She also explains how she became part of the family because she was adopted by his descendant after she stole a superyacht. Dirk is in the process of going to Bea’s ship and taking control of it and her crew. Dick arrives, defeating most of Dirk’s crew. Dick has back-up in the form of Bea and some of her crew, allowing her to defeat her brother. In return, Bea gives him access to the box, where he finds a CD-ROM disc. When he plays it, he sees it has video from the night his parents died and sees that Tony Zucco was responsible for sabotaging his parent’s trapeze. In the backup, Damian is investigating the Beast World events and a mysterious woman forces one of the Starro creatures into his mouth and he turns into a two legged cat.
OUTSIDERS #2 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Robert Carey. Kate Kane tells the Outsiders about an event in the Enlil Triangle that she once investigated as a Navy cadet and they were attacked by a sea monster, leaving her as the sole survivor. The trio heads there, even though Drummer is concerned that Kate only wants to get revenge on the creature for the deaths of her friends. Once there, they find they area is being guarded by the New Challengers of the Unknown, who order them to turn back. The Outsiders plane is amphibious and goes underwater with the Challengers following and destroying the craft’s engines. They end up in a bed of monster bones and the Challengers tell Batwoman this is where Aquaman dumps the bones of the monsters he kills. One of the Challengers decides to destroy the graveyard and The Outsiders but the sea monster arrives. Drummer finds out that the monster is a child of these creatures and is protecting the grave. The Challengers eventually depart and Drummer credits Kate for not giving in to revenge.
THE PENGUIN #5 by Tom King and Rafael De Latorre. The Black Spider is taking out other villains and then meets with the Cobblepot children who berate him for his actions, deciding to only pay him with half the venom he should receive. The venom, it turns out, is for his lover On his next mission, his quarry ends up in the river and Batman shows up, causing him to dive in the river to flee. Back in his apartment, he finds his lover gone, with two stuffed penguins left behind. He takes a severe beating from the Cobblepots before they take him to his lover, who has also been beaten. In the end, he decides to join The Penguin and be his man on the inside of his children’s organization.
POISON IVY #17 by G. Willow Wilson and Luanna Vecchio. Janet wants to tell Ivy about her and Harley kissing the night previous but can’t. Ivy goes to Slaughter Swamp to continue her experiments and finds the Killer Croc ate some of the mushrooms, which means he is not infected, but is apparently immune. She tries to take blood from him but he is afraid of needles. While she is suffering from the infection, some of the infected arrive and she and Croc fight them. As she is being attacked by Chuck, Grundy arrives and he and Croc begin to fight. But now they must put their differences aside because there are a lot of infected here..
POWER GIRL #4 by Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica. Kara is infected and now meets with the creature that had possessed Hamlet inside her mind. . She sees her cousin and attacks him. Inside her mind, the creature instructs her to kill Superman so he can be free. Omen arrives and manages to get the creature, that is not a virus, out of her friend. As she heals, Superman reveals it was not a virus but a symbioship. In the Fortress, Kelex attempts to put Hamlet to rest, but the symbioship in him leaves and attaches itself to Kelex, while also connecting to Kelex and becoming Symbio. Superman arrives and Kelex is still infected.
SHAZAM #6 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. Freddy offers to take the powers, but this is just a ruse and the pair stage a fight, where it is revealed that Mercury is behind this whole thing, saying he could redistribute the gods powers. The rest of the family and the dinosaur arrive carrying weapons they took from the Rock of Eternity. Using weapons and skills, the combined family fights the gods, turning Zeus into a duck. Solomon is not participating in the fight and Billy follows him, where he admits that this was done to remind humans that gods do exist. He apologizes and says he can fix it. The solution is to increase the captain’s wisdom, which Solomon says will continue on and eventually cause Billy and The Captain to separate. The captain stops the fight and tells the gods that they need to earn the respect of humans. Later, at the Rock of Eternity, the dinosaur asks to be the caretaker and Billy agrees. But his bosses are not pleased and they come to Earth, landing in Khandaq, where they will have to deal with Black Adam.
SPEED FORCE #2 by Jarrett Williams and Daniele Di Nicuolo. Wallace and Avery comes back from their battle with Mas Y Menos as everyone seems attracted to this new musical app called Symphonee. Wallace and Connor go to the Fortress of Solitude, where they ask Kelex to try and find Mas Y Menos. But Connor seems distracted by this new app and he decides to watch television with Kelex. Back at Mister Traffic’s lab, Avery, Mister Terrific and Roundhouse get attacked by T-Spheres. Wallace searches in the ocean, which is where Kelex has said that Mas Y Manos is. Meanwhile, the CEO of Symphonee, The Music Meister, makes his move.
SUPERMAN #9 by Joshua Williamson and Bruno Redondo. Following his defeating of The Chained, Superman is in a coma and suffering from extreme Kryptonite poisoning. Perry suspends his campaign for Mayor to help take care of Metropolis on the ground. Lex meets with his mother, who informs him that his daughter has graduated high school years ago because of her intellect and is working at Supercorp The Chained is being held there and Lena meets LL-01: a program designed to answer any of her questions. Superman awakes from his coma and insists that he needs to go back out and confront Pharm and Graft before they attack their next target: Marilyn Midnight. Graft meets with Marilyn and tries to convince her to join him. That is when Superman arrives in one of Lex’ battle armors. He attacks Graft but Graft fires a ray at Marilyn, causing an explosion that makes Marilyn and Superman to disappear. Somewhere, in the time of the Old West, an elderly woman and her two young sons are riding a train and being protected by the heroes Nighthawk and Cinnamon. A mysterious rider approaches the train and Nighthawk and Cinnamon go to meet him, but he heats up their guns, forcing them to drop them. It turns out to be Superman and he tells them he is here to rob this train.
TITANS #6 by Tom Taylor and Nicola Scott. Continued from TITANS: BEAST WORLD #2 and #3. In the past, a young Starfire watches as her parents are killed by invaders and she becomes a slave, until she finally breaks free. Now, she is fighting against a Black Adam who has been turned into a lion by the Starro creatures. Back at Titans Tower, tempest arrives with Brother Eternity and they make their way inside along with the beasts. Brother Eternity finds Batman and plots, while tempest tries to drown his comrades. Starfire arrives and confronts Brother Eternity, just as one of his allies arrives: Xand’R, who she has not seen since the attack on her planet.
TITANS: BEAST WORLD #2 by Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis. Cyborg and Raven are trying to communicate with Gar, who has been taken over by Starro. Back on Earth, Animal Man is dealing with feeling all these creatures as they make their way into the Red. In Bludhaven, Batman and Nightwing try and rescues citizens with Batman get infected in the process and he turns. Which much effort, Nightwing apprehend his mentor. In Khandaq, Donna and Starfire need to save citizens from a turned Black Adam when Oracle tells them that the creatures that the spores will cause their hosts to seek stronger sources. Meanwhile, Waller and Peacemaker meet with the President, telling him that he should give her the authority to take control of the situation.
TITANS: BEAST WORLD #3 by Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer. Starfire uses her powers to blast all of the Starros. The Flash and Impulse shows up to help evacuate citizens while Donna gets called into space by Raven, leaving Starfire to deal with Black Adam. At Titans Tower, Batman has been detained and Detective Chimp shows up, demanding to speak to Nightwing., telling him that something is driving these creatures. Donna secures Garro and orders the others to go help on Earth before someone else steps into this. Starfire battles Black Adam, who suddenly flees. Creatures attack an airliner when Power Girl shows up to fight the creatures but ingests a spore and turns. Luckily Jon shows up to deal with her. At Stryker’s Island, Amanda Waller shows up and meets with Lex, saying she needs something he stole from Batman and tells him she plans on killing Beast Boy.
TITANS: BEAST WORLD CENTRAL CITY #1 by Si Spurrier, Jarrett Williams, Alex Paknadel, A.L. Kaplan, Scott Koblish George Kambadais, and Serg Acuna. The Starro spores have landed in Central City and the Flash Family needs to band together to save the city. Barry learns that Godspeed has been taken over by the spores, turning him into a wasp with him stinging people and capturing them. Wallace and Avery team up to face off against Fadeaway Man, who was turned into a squirrel.. After defeating him, a spore infects Avery and he uses a move from a video game to free her. Jai and Maxine are out on a “not date” when Godspeed attacks, stinging Jai and causing Maxine to use her animal powers to send him away. Aji, slowly dying, calls on the lightning from the Speed Force to jump start his heart and defeats some of Godspeed’s transformed victims. Iris gets turned into a cuttlefish and, when the creature leaves her body , trying to attach itself to Barry, the Flash Family arrives and Jai crushes the creature. Elsewhere, Circuit Breaker teams up with the Pied Piper to battle a group of transformed people, including Impulse. Who was turned into a lizard. Circuit Breaker finds a way to capture Impulse and ride him like a horse to their next destination. Maxine eventually convinces the Flash Family to let the spores take them and she uses the power of the Red to transform them into huge insects, allowing them to capture many creatures. To be continued in TITANS: BEAST WORLD.
TITANS: BEAST WORLD GOTHAM #1 by Chip Zdarsky, Grace Ellis, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Sam Maggs, Kyle Starks. Miguel Mendonca, Daniel Hillyard, Ivan Shavrin, PJ Holden, and Kelley Jones. Continued from TITANS: BEAST WORLD #2, Nightwing pursues a changed Batman with an unexpected assist from a turned Killer Croc, who gets attacked by the lupine Batman. Nightwing eventually catches him and he is transported to Titans Tower. In the second tale, a crook is going through therapy when he reveals he saw a giant rabbit, that turns out to be a transformed Harley Quinn. She shows up at the doctor’s office and steals the man’s phone, bringing it to Ivy. In the third tale, a transformed Red Hood must fight his way through other transformed folks to get back home. In the fourth tale, Huntress gets transformed into a giant cat and she faces off with Cassandra Cain, who uses a laser to distract and entertain her friend. In the final tale, Stephanie faces off against a transformed Killer Moth
TITANS: BEAST WORLD TOUR METROPOLIS #1 by Nicole Maines, Steve Orlando, Dan Jurgens, Zipporah Smith, Joshua Williamson, Fico Ossio, Anthony marques, and Edwin Galmon. Nia and Yvette are having lunch when Nia sees incoming explosions in the future, which sends her out to try and stop it before it happens. Jon arrives and she tells him they need to evacuate A-Town, which he refuses to town because of the panic it will cause. Jon uses the internet to get the message out, so people don’t freak out because the message is coming from someone they trust, despite the current sentiments put in place by Blue Earth. Jon and Dreamer team up to take down a transformed Livewire. The videos go viral and Amanda Waller sees it and makes plans. In the second story, Bippo encounters a transform Jimmy Olsen, who is now a giant Turtle Boy. A transformed Power Girl arrives and the spore leaves Jimmy, transforming him back to his own self. In the final story, Lois is at the Fortress of Solitude and is observing what is happening in the world. Superman is almost transformed by the spores, but an implanted nanobot releases shock waves to send the spores away. Through it all, Brainiac observes and plans..
TITANS: BEAST WORLD WALLER RISING #1 by Chuck Brown and Keron Grant. Deadeye is at his day job in an ambulance trying to save a shooting victim when he is contacted telepathically by Waller, telling him he needs to go after Doctor Hate, who has stolen a Phantom Zone projector from her and fled to Tinasha. This also happens to be where Val-Zod and Red Tornado from Earth 2 are stranded. Doctor Hate arrives and kidnaps Val-Zod. He finds himself in the realm of The Kingdom and speaks with Gallous, who tells him the bomb hate has is enough to crack the Kingdom open. Later, in the Red Sea, Doctor Hate attacks Black Manta, who was supposed to sell him a Mega-Bomb. Batwing and Vixen head there and find the result of the attack on Manta and convince him to join them. Vixen needs to Later, he sends out the Lords of Chaos against a bunch of Metas including Nubia, Dr. Mist, and Freedom Beast. Deadeye heads to Tinasha, where he meets Val-Zod, Nubia and others, causing them to team up and battle the Chaos creatures, with Deadeye saving the day. Later, Waller meets with Doctor Hate, where she yells at him for interfering with her plans. Deadeye, revealed to be her nephew, calls her and she tells him to pick a side. He ends up siding with his new friends in an effort to build their own team.
WESLEY DODDS: THE SANDMAN #3 by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossimo. Wesley goes to the morgue and, along with coroner Hubert Klein, examines the charred body of Igor Kluge. Together, they learn that Kluge was dead before the fire. Later, after looking over some police files, he learns that Kluge was dishonorably discharged from the military. Sandman goes back to the burned apartment and is attacked by someone else who is worrying a version of the Sandman attire and also his gas gun. During the battle, both men lose their masks and, as the villain flees, Wesley is overcome by the gas.
WONDER WOMAN #4 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, and Belen Ortega. Wonder Woman visits with a terminally sick child, whose only request is to visit Themyscira. Despite the objections of the Amazons, Diana and Jack are allowed to stay on the island, where he enjoys the time of his life with his hero. At the same time, Waller meets with Steel, telling him to activate his list of soldiers. . Meanwhile, The Sovereign meets with the President, forcing him to kiss his ring. The president later goes on a television broadcast, revealing that Wonder Woman was responsible for the soldier’s suicide and she is now considered an enemy of the people. In the backup, Lizzie finds herself in a gladiatorial battle against Damian and Jon. But this is all a dream as she has been Black Mercying. The pair try their hardest and eventually pry the creature off Lizzie, waking her from the dream..
WORLD’S FINEST: TEEN TITANS #5 by Mark Waid and Emamuela Lupacchino. At the moment in Star City, a villain named Seismic has captured Oliver Queen and is calling out the Terror Titans. The Terror Titans attack Seismic and he disappears, being replaced by Kid Flash, who was actually Seismic in disguise. Together, they work as a cohesive team to take down the Terror Titans. Mal and Karen go on another date, Donna and Aqualad admit they should just be friends and Dick needs to tell Batman that he revealed his secret identity to his teammates, which buys him a month out of uniform. Five weeks later and the Titans are back in action.
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