DC REBIRTH Month 15, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12 by Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis. Lobo is complaining he needs to get paid by Batman, while most of the rest of the team is mostly off saving folks in the Pacific Ocean and Pittsburg. Later, with Vixen, Black Canary and The Ray minding Sanctuary, Batman and the rest of the team head off in the Shrinkship to go to the Microverse and find Ray Palmer. They are attacked by aliens and their ship is shot down. Luckily they are saved by a hooded figure wearing a familiar belt. Could this be Professor Palmer?

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #13 by Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis. The mysterious person with the Bio Belt is Preon and she explains that she got the Bio Belt as a gift. She and Ray Palmer got separated during a Quantum Storm and they had been working with scientist Aron Aut. They were looking for the Ignition Point, which was where the destruction of the Microverse was happening. She sent the message in hopes someone would hear. They get transported to Moz-Ga, the Thinking Planet. The people here see Preon and the belt and attack her, hoping that she will save them. The League tries to protect her when she gets shot and suspended in time by Aron Aut. It turns out that Preon is a pirate who had betrayed Ray and Aut. A Quantum Storm hits, ripping Lobo to pieces while everyone tries to avoid it and everyone scatters.  With a kiss from Killer Frost, Ryan decides to shrink down and go talk to Moz-Ga, who hasn’t spoken in a thousand years.

NEW SUPER-MAN #14 by Gene Luen Yang and Billy Tan. Emperor Super-Man has gathered all the freed villains when the Great Ten arrive to do battle. Meanwhile, the Justice League of China is trying to put things back together in Shanghai from their recent battles. Wonder Woman partially transforms back into her human self but half of her is still snake. Amanda Waller sees this as a good time to send her Suicide Squad to Shanghai and take care of business for her.  Master I-Ching goes into a trance and meets with his evil self. The League heads to the Fortress of Sovereignty to take on Emperor Super-Man and, after beating off some villains, Baixi, confesses his love for Deilan, turning her back into a full-blown human again. Kenan finds the tubes containing General Flying Dragon along with Dr. Omen and frees them both. Robinbot takes them to safety and he heads off to fight the Emperor. At last, he is able to channel his love for his friends and use his heat vision, stunning Emperor Super-Man. Just then, Deadshot runs a Kryptonite sword through the Emperor’s heart while Harley announces that he isn’t the only Super-Man they were sent to kill.

NIGHTWING #26 by Tim Seeley by Javier Fernandez. It’s the day of Giz' funeral and many of the Run-Offs are blaming Nightwing for contributing to his murder. Meanwhiel, Dick is pretty upset by the whole thing and he gets interrupted in his shower by Huntress, who is here to help him because Giz’ murderer is a mobster. They end up in Sicily, where they find him beaten to death. They also find a thumb drive that reveals that he was an undercover Spyral agent. Could it be that the Second Hand is Spyral? Could be, especially since Agent One is involved. And Shawn may be back to being DeFacer as Mouse, Giz’ girlfriend, wants revenge.

NIGHTWING #27 by Tim Seeley by Javier Fernandez. Nightwing and Huntress battle Agent One and his Second Hand followers, before getting rescued  by the SkullGirls. They explain how tings had changed at St. Hadrians and that one of the four of them had disappeared. They break into St. Hardians and find Lotti. Only she is not really who she is and neither is Agent One, who has been strung up and tortured. Meanwhile, Mouse goes undercover at Roland Desmond’s casino in the search for some answers to Giz’ death.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #13 by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. Bizarro reveals his version of his origin, where he teamed up with Night Light, Wet Wet, Batman, Go Go, Sigh Borg, Rope Lady and Batman. Red Hood and Artemis are at Lex Corp, where they discuss their feelings towards their lost friend and Luthor looks at resurrecting Bizarro. He is disappointed to find out that this Bizarro is different from the one he knew before, who died during FOREVER EVIL. Well, he succeeds and turns over custody to Jason and Artemis. But are they ever surprised to find out that Bizarro is now a genius who wears Clark Kent style glasses

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS ANNUAL #1  by Scott Lobdell and Tyler Kirkham. Dimitri gets in touch with the former KGBeast, now just known as Beast, so he can gain revenge on the Outlaws. Meanwhile, Dick Grayson sees that the Outlaws are undercover as circus performers, so they can infiltrate the Russians. They convince Dick to join them and help them, which he does. The Russians ask the Outlaws to help them find something and that leads to a confrontation with the Beast. Nightwing arrives and, together, they take him down, along with the Russians. In the end, Dick and Jason have a better respect for each other…and Bizarro falls in love with the bearded lady.

SUICIDE SQUAD #23 by Rob Williams and Gus Vasquez. Suicide Squad is hunting down Killer Frost and that isn’t going well, even after she falls ill because Waller has injected El Diablo with a deadly pathogen which she has absorbed when she absorbed his heat energy. Things get worse for the Squad when Batman intervenes. That sneaky Batman has even hacked their brain bomb frequencies and he uses a high-pitched frequency to take them down…all except Katana. It seems that Waller never installed a brain bomb into her head because she knew that she would always be loyal. She slashes him with her sword and dumps him into the icy water, while she takes everyone else back to Belle Reve. Of course, Bats climbs out and boy-is he pissed!

SUICIDE SQUAD #24 by Rob Williams, Agustin Padilla and Juan Ferreyra. Amanda is proud of her team, as they have captured Killer Frost and she reveals that she is the first of the metahumans they will take down. Harley, Katana and Deadshot are pretty bothered by it all. Later, Waller talks with Direktor Karla and sends information that Karla is going to use with the Annihilation Brigade. Batman makes his way into Belle Reve to retrieve Killer Frost and, with the eventual help of Harley and Katana, they face off against Waller’s Suicide Suits. It turns out that Waller is actually being controlled by the Gulag and she is now responsible for launching the People’s war against the superheroes of the world.

SUPERGIRL #12 by Steve Orlando and Robson Rocha. Supergirl has been shot by Cat Grant but that’s impossible because she is really over at Oceanside Memorial Park revealing the newly created news app. Anyway, the shooting has totally affected Supergirl’s powers and they are going haywire even when she is back at school sometime later. That night, the Furious Four becomes the Furious Five by adding Solomon Grundy, while Selena visits Cat Grant. With her powers still on the fritz, Supergirl ends up tussling with Grundy while Cameron Chase gets a visit from the Emerald Empress.

SUPERGIRL ANNUAL #1 by Steve Orlando and Steve Pugh. Picking up from SUPERGIRL #12, Supergirl and Grundy continue their fight but, because of her powers being out of control, they are trashing the city. Indigo shows up, claiming she is the true hero of National City. The Emerald Empress cracks the D.E.O. Data Vault and Selena taps into Cat Grant’s mind to get access to the CATCO App, allowing footage of Supergirl meeting with the Cyborg Superman to be released to all subscribers. The Empress has a bone to pick because, sometime in the future, SUpergirl is responsible for the death of the Empress’ father. So she has lied to the rest of the Fatal Five to get them to be part of her team. Supergirl leaves and heads to Dr. Veritas, where she performs a dangerous operation to curtail the potentially deadly effects of having her cells supercharged. The procedure works to keep her from dying, but she is warned that her powers will continue to grow. Ben meets with Cat and, after a heated discussion, convinces her to help him save Supergirl. But, it turns out that she isn’t Cat at all. In the end, Supergirl confronts the Empress at the D.E.O. and the villain is prepared to kill Supergirl’s father.

SUPERMAN #28 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Scott Godlewski. The Kent family continues their cross country history vacation including a visit to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington and to Gettysburg, where they find a family who has a relative that died and never was found. Clark goes out looking that night, finds the body and brings it to the Watchtower for testing. After confirming who it is, he wraps the s=remains in an American flag and leaves them on a picnic table outside of the lodge the family is staying at.

SUPERMAN #29 by Keith Champagne and Doug Mahnke. Superman is helping to find a bunch of missing kids in metropolis. He finds some of the kids and discovers that they are being possessed by Parallax. To save the children, Superman offers himself up to the creature and is soon possessed by Parallax. That is when Sinestro appears and claims Superman has something that belongs to him.

SUPER SONS #7 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jorge Jimenez. Jon is serving drinks to most of the Teen Titans while Old Man Damian has to constantly visit the bathroom because of bladder issues. Kraklow reveals that he is seeking revenge against the Justice League and that he got his abilities from a centuries old version of himself from another reality. This version gave him the power to create his army. The team works together and Superboy helps to save the day, as they defeat the bad guys and get Robin returned to normal. The Teen Titans leave at the end, Robin and Superboy to themselves. That is when a rift opens and a new danger arrives to menace our heroes.

SUPERWOMAN #13 by K. Perkins and Stephen Segovia. Superwoman and Red Sun are causing menace in Smallville when Lex Luthor arrives. This leads to a flashback from Lana’s youth. It involves bad seed Amos Aimes, who Lana thought was a good kid despite his troubling side. It also involves a necklace she had that was apparently made from Red Kryptonite. Back in the present, it seen Red Sun is really Amos Aimes and he and Lana have teamed up, having been corrupted by the Red K. Luthor manages to take them down, but could use a little help. Good thing that Supergirl just happened to show up.

TEEN TITANS #11 by Benjamin Percy, Phil Hester and Khoi Pham. While Jackson is attacked by the giant squid, Black Manta finally steps in to help him and shows his son that Jackson has the ability to control the ocean with his powers. Jackson retrieves the artifact for Manta, which now gives him ultimate control of the seas. What seemed like a bonding between father and son turns out to be just a ruse for Manta to get the power. They battle and eventually take their fight to the surface, where the Teen Titans get involved. Jackson uses his powers to defeat his dad and retrieve the artifact, even if Manta does escape. In the end, he is officially welcomed to the team as Aqualad as Tempest, the former Aqualad, passes the torch. Meanwhile, two mysterious strangers seem to have future plans for Gar.

TITANS #14 by Dan Abnett and Brett Booth. The Titans are fighting against the Trident Three: a group of Atlanteans who Garth once trained at the Silent School of Magic. They have decided to poison air breathing humans by putting deadly fish on the pizza served by Pizza Fish pizza. During the fight, animosities come up between Wally and Roy, who saw Wally kissing Donna a few issues back. Garth uses his long dormant magic to stop the Trident Three and that allows them to get back to the business at hand: finding out who the traitor is. It seems that is actually Dick Grayson and he makes sure to delete the information before anyone else can find out. Meanwhile, Gnarrk and Mal bust into a H.I.V.E. Field Station.

TRINITY #12 by Rob Williams and V. Ken Marion. Constantine, Zatanna and Deadman have been summoned to Gotham by Batman as we learn that Red Hood has been possessed by demons and the other two Outlaws are on their way.  Deadman tries to he and Zatanna getting swallowed by the demon. As Constantine enters the mouth of the demon, Bizarro and Artemis, also possessed, arrive show up and tangle with the Trinity. It seems this is all the work of Ras al Ghul and Circe and now the possessed Outlaws are prepared to kill the Trinity.

WONDER WOMAN #28 by Shea Fontana and David Messina. After visiting Dr. Crawford’s grave, Wonder Woman goes about getting Etta Candy released from the hospital and getting her home, where she will be caring for her. But Mayfly arrives outside and is trying to take Wonder Woman out with a sniper rifle. With Etta’s help, she takes her down. She reveals that she is a hemophiliac and only did it for the money, which apparently is part of a bounty being out u to kill Diana. A crwo flies into Etta’s apartment and Diana knows that this has something to do with Apollo. That is when five more assassins arrive.

WONDER WOMAN #29 by Shea Fontana and Inaki Miranda. Diana and Etta fight a cadre of villains who are here to collect a bounty on Diana. Plastique, once defeated, reveals that someone connected to the government was responsible for the hit. Later, Diana learns that the hit was put out by Dr. Hamilton Revere, who intends on using her DNA to cure people of various diseases. In the end, Diana willingly goes to meet with Revere, who informs her at gunpoint that HE is the government.