ACTION COMICS #1064 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. HOUSE OF BRAINIAC PART ONE. It appears to be a quiet day in Metropolis until an army of Czarnians and robots attack. Superman deduces this is the work of Brainiac, who then orders General Chacal to begin what he calls Phase Two., He begins capturing people, starting with Mercy and Lena Lex dons a virtual armor an attacks the Czarnians More friends and family connected to Superman are captured including the Warworld children. Lex sacrifices himself and is captured, knowing his daughter had also been captured. Brainiac knows that Superman will come for him and he has an army of Brainiacs to assist him in the fight. To be continued in SUPERMAN #13
BATMAN #146 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez, and Michele Bandini. The Warden explains how he was ultimately responsible for Zur and Failsafe being unleashed. He had The Joker kidnap Alfred, some time before his death, and after he discovered everything about Zur’s plan, he invaded the Batcave and discovered Failsafe. It was The Joker who convinced The Penguin into faking his own death. During a battle between The Joker and Batman, the villain implanted a phrase that was to ensure The Warden was kept safe. While Failsafe, masquerading as Batman and being the ultimate vigilante with Damian by his side, the real Batman breaks out of his cell, even as Punchline is being brought into the prison. She gets free and releases all of the prisoners, seemingly ready to attack Batman until the robot guards come into play. Failsafe breaks into Harley apartment and apprehends her, telling her justice has come to Gotham. Later, Damian finds Amazo 3.0 in the Batcave, with him being told they need an army. News of the prison breakout and especially bruce Wayne leads Failsafe to meet with Superman and says that he will win. Also, Vandal Savage turns himself in and seeks asylum.
BATMAN AND ROBIN #8 by Joshua Williamson and Nikola Cizmesija. Flatline’s sister turns out to be following in the family business and, even though Robin and Flatline have taken down her crew, Flatline takes down Robin, as she does not want to see her sister go to jail. Damian pursues the pair and Flatline double-crosses her sister, leading to her arrest, going as far to make a deal with the D.E.O. to protect her. Meanwhile, Batman meets with Shush, where she convinces him to team-up against Man-Bat.They go to Man-Bat’s hideout, now vacated, and find that he was trying to find a way to distribute his drug across Gotham. Man-Bat’s cult member arrive, leading Batman to convince Shush to flee, but she is attacked by Man-Bat, who wants her punished for her betrayal. Batman saves her but flies off as he is chained to Man-Bat. In the end, Damian goes back to school with his the new student: Flatline.
BATMAN DYLAN DOG #2 by Roberto Recchioni, Gigi Cavenago, and Werther Dell’Edera. Batman and Dylan Dog, with an infected Catwoman, race to one of Batman’s hideouts where they deduce that she has been dosed with Xabaras’s regenerative formula mixed with Joker Toxin. The pair fly to Xabaras’s old abandoned house. There they find Groucho, who has also been infected, along with more infected. They fight the creatures and subdue Groucho, taking him back to the hideout and test an antidote on both, which seems to work. Groucho reveals that The Joker wants to resurrect Christopher Killex. , who was a serial killer that skinned his victims to find where the soul was hidden. The pair go to investigate and discover Killex’ grave is empty. That leads them to visit a medium named Madame Trelkovski who reveals that his soul would be in the deepest rings of Hell, leading the pair to get John Constantine and The Demon involved. They travel to Hell, where John calls upon philosopher Epicurus, who tells them that Killex’s soul has left Hell. That sends Dylan and John off to meet Lucifer.
BATMAN: OFF WORLD #4 by Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke. Batman continues his journey on the War Storm, taking out allies of Blakksuns. Weeks earlier, he told Ione that he was not going home but continuing on this mission, offering for her to join him, which she refused. The Blakksuns hire a Thangarian known as Stormchaser to pursue Batman and eliminate him. As the two battle, Alfred frets that he can’t track Batman in space while Ione sits in a galactic bar and hears the news that Stormchaser is after Batman.
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #26 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. With green-Mite and other heroes having been killed, by other villainous Mites, the World’s Finest heroes team up to stop the invading Mites and their Earthly counterparts. Mxyzptlk gives Robin super powers to help battles Sinestro and Sin-Mite. Sinestro tells Batman and a super powered Robin that Earth’s heroes are being tested. By his master to find out who the greatest hero of all is.Over in Central City, Superman and Bat-Mite team up to battle Kadabra. Bat-Mite sets Superman up with special bat armor he constructed for Batman’s birthday. They all head to Metropolis where Parasite and Para-Mite are causing havoc, but he turns our heroes into graffiti on a wall.
BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #12 11 by Karl Kerschl, Rob Levin, Delilah S. Dawson, Zipporah Smith, Herik Hanna, Mike Norton, Serg Acuna, Karl Mostert, and Charlie Adlard. Bruce, bitten by Anastasia, is at Isla’s house and pursues her, injuring her dog in the process. Maps arrives and injects him with an antidote. He is picked up by an ambulance, actually Alfred driving an ambulance, and taken back to the Batcave, where he devices a plan with Maps, dressed as Robin, being the distraction. Once inside Anastasia’s, she rescues Tristan. Batman faces off with Mother and destroys her by dragging her outside into the sun. In the end, Isla goes to visit Bruce at the hospital only to learn he is off on a yacht with a model. In the second tale, False Face looks to scam someone only to cross paths with the Gentleman Ghost, who he learns is related to the intended victim, causing False Face to correct things. In the third tale, Artemis continues her journey, which runs her into soldiers who apprehend her and give her a choice: reveal where Bama-Mighdall is or die. In the fourth tale, Freddie Lafonta has been murdered and now it is up to Swamp Thing to allow him to cross to the next place. In the final tale, Batman visits with a criminal he has had interactions with in the past but who seems to have given up his ways. In actuality, it is all a ruse and Batman sees through it. He cuts the crook a break, even though it appears the crook is readying for a big score.
BIRDS OF PREY #8 .by Kelly Thompson and Javier Pina. The Birds are masquerading during a fashion show when a group of male models get mind controlled, leading to the Birds to try and restrain them. But they suddenly turn into something alien and that leads Dinah to use her scream to defeat and eliminate them. Soon, a mysterious portal opens and takes Batgirl. Dinah goes to follow, ordering the others not to go in after her. Of course, they ignore that.
BLUE BEETLE #8 by Josh Trujillo and Adrian Gutierrez. Nitida has forsaken her scarab and aligned herself with Victoria Kord. Jaime meets with Shepherd Ood, who tells Jaime that he thinks it is time that the Horizon find a new home. Xiomara interrupts their meeting to inform them that Roma has left and is not coming back. Xiomara and Jaime track her down and meet with her and she informs them that Victoria now has the scarab. They make their way to a Kord Industries presentation where Victoria shows off Pinnacle: “the champion we truly need”. Overthrow, whose father was killed many years ago by Ted, arrives and disrupts the presentation. But Pinnacle captures him and blows off Overthrow’s arm, saying it is waiting for the next objective.
CATWOMAN #64 by Tini Howard and Carmine Di Giandomenico. In Veronica Viceroy’s office, Flamingo meets with a group of villains, declaring that Catwoman cannot be killed. Meanwhile, Selina steals the Ferris Ultraviolet X-40 and heads into space, with the goal of dismantling a satellite that was connected to Viceroy’s operation. While she seems to succeed, the Demolition Team arrive there to stop her. The team tussles with her and she defeats most of them. One of the team members, Rosie, ends up out in space with her as the rest of the team prepares to leave. She makes the decision to let the team rescue her and Selina flies into the atmosphere, burning up on reentry.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1084 by Ram V and Javier Fernandez. Having survived his ordeal in the desert, Batman is back in Gotham. He meets with Jim Gordon and The Question, giving the latter a drive that contains security footage showing that the Orghams were directly involved in the murder of Henry Fielding. He tell Jim what he encountered during his journey and we find that Talia has the corpse of Arzen Orgham, who was killed by his own mother. She intends to bring him back to life to fulfill a promise. He makes a statement letting the Orghams know he is back and later meets with Selina. In the end, she gets a visit from The Joker. In the backup, Cassandra battles with her mother and helps to defeat those transformed by the Orghams. With the battle ended, Shiva and her men load Arzen Orgham’s body on her boat.
THE FLASH #8 by Si Spurrier and Ramon Perez. Because of the continued use of the Speed Force, it appears that time and space are collapsing. Wally West is missing and now Barry Allen and many of the Flash Family are racing around the world trying to save people and put things right. Barry confronts a group that is trying to repair a Chronon Hemorrhage and seal the rift, while also noting that Barry is Prime Target 2. He gets saved by the unlikeliest of people in the form of many of his rogues gallery. Elsewhere, Amanda Waller and her team bursts into a podcast recording, arresting Jimmy Scorch and Iris Allen. Commandeering the microphone, Waller tells the world that reality is collapsing and it is because of the speedsters. But where is Wally? Continued in FLASH 2024 ANNUAL.
FLASH 2024 ANNUAL by Simon Spurrier, Scott Koblish, Amancay Nahuelpan, George Kambadais, and Tom Derenick. While the Flash family races between disasters caused by the issues with the Speed Force, Barry races between places, leaving only the briefest of traces to be seen by Wallace and Avery. Wally is still missing and out of sync with everything, spending time in the garden of statues and sculpting, while also seeking out The Stillness. He eventually moves between moments in time to look in on his family, including his son, daughter and wife. Irey is creating a solution to make the powerless have power. As it turns out Mirror Master has had a hand in it. Avery and Wallace manage to become in phase with Wally, who finds himself in the Apparatus of Existence, where he learns the blobs he has been destroying are actually embodiments of emotions. He observes Jai and Mr. Terrific as they examine the brain of the Ultra-Humanite, which speaks and tells them to save the world they must kill Wally. Wally’s journey takes him to the Source Wall. When he observes Linda, she is with Waller, who tells her that Wally needs to stop using the Speed Force. Wallace and Avery end up out of phase where they are see that Abra Kadabra and Folded Man are also involved with everything. They find themselves caught by giant spiders and then rescued by The Pilgrim, who takes them off the board and places them with the other speedsters they have taken off the playing field. Wally finally meets with The Stillness who tells him they are doing what they do because they are bored. They also show him how Linda tells Waller she doesn’t know where Wally is or care. Devastated, he ends up back in the garden and says that it is time to stop. Continued in THE FLASH #9.
GREEN ARROW #11 by Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse. Oliver and his family battle the Justice League created by Sanctuary, eventually stealing the mask and getting out. Oliver tells Waller he has completed the mission and he transports away. Then there is a flashback to who Mark Merlyn is and how he trained Oliver Queen and eventually became his enemy. Merlyn met with Waller and, after their last confrontation, ended up trapped in a vortex, plotting and planning. Now is the final confrontation and with Merlyn having the mask, he is using the hard-light constructs of Oliver’s family to kill him.
GREEN LANTERN #10 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, and Kevin Maguire.Hal and Jo meet with members of Resistance Corps on Oa, where he learns that what has happened with the destruction of the power batteries is due to Lord Premier Thaaros. Later, they meet with Baz who tells Jo that he found Keli in the sciencells, where many of the Lanterns are also being held. Hal attacks the scientists, allowing Baz to free keli while Hal battles Manhunters. As they flee, Hal rescues Razer to try and gain information. Meanwhile, Cruz is sent to meet with the Council of Unseeing. In the backup, a HOUSE OF BRAINIAC tie-in, Guy kidnaps Lobo from his role in Intergalactic Wrestling, only to be attacked by Space Dolphins.
GREEN LANTERN: WAR JOURNAL #8 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Montos. Shepherd goes to Guy Gardner’s house and meet with guy virtually. On the dark star of the Fenn, John battles against the children of the Radiant Dead, who claim they want the Exile. During the battle, they flee, leaving John with the residents of Fenn, who want to know if he is truly The Builder, as he was referred to during the battle. Byla-Voq visits John and tells him that John needs to find a way to help him destroy the Dark Star if he wants to get back home. In the end Meanwhile, on Earth, John’s mother is threatened by the spirit of her late husband; obviously Varron in disguise. John’s construct sister creates soldiers to protect the perimeter against him if he returns. In the end, Guy directs Shepherd to the Book of Oa, which he claims has all the answers.
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