JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #18
by Steve Orlando and Hugo Petrus. Documentarian, John Porter, is making
an insider film on the JLA. Well, it turns out that Porter is not who he says
he is and that’s when Afterthought shows up. He quickly takes down the Batman-less team and it’s revealed that Prometheus is the
cause for all their current and future troubles.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #19
by Steve Orlando and Hugo Petrus. Afterthought battles Lobo, before revealing
his real target is Black Canary. Canary gets free long enough to use her Canary
Cry to return Ryan back to our world and Killer Frost uses her powers to take
down Afterthought. Unfortunately, he was only the bait for a bomb Prometheus
has set. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is fighting Prometheus, who gives
Vixen the option to destroy her Totem or die. Elsewhere, Dreamslayer leaves the
doomed world of Angor and meets up with Blue Jay, Ray and Preon in the
Microverse.
NEW SUPER-MAN #17 by Gene Luen Yang and Joe Lalick. The Justice
League briefly fights with Kenan and is friends, until Kenan reveals he needs
to find the Red Jade Dragon to get his final power and hopefully free
I-Ching. The search takes them to Lex Luthor’s mansion where Kenana eventually
grabs the Dragon. As he learns of his new power, the All-Yang brings him into
the void and explains that he has killed I-Ching. If that wasn’t bad enough, he
unleashes the Demi-Gods of China uipon him.
NIGHTWING #32 by Tim Seeley and Scot Eaton.
Raptor confronts Dick at the casino and, it is revealed, that he slipped the Blockbuster serum into the drinks at the casino.
Dick is now forced to stop all these people from killing him while not harming
these innocents in the process. Meanwhile, the Run-Offs have hacked into
Raptor’s computer and figured out his master plan. But they will need help, so
they recruit Orca.
NIGHTWING #33 by Tim Seeley and Javier Fernandez. Nightwing
gets saved by Roland Desmond, after which he reveals that he gave Raptor the
Blockbuster serum. The two work together to keep the Blockbuster effected
citizens off the street, but are too late. Luckily Stallion and Gorilla
Grimm are on the case and trying to stop the flow of Blockbusters into
Bludhaven. DeFacer contacts Nightwing and explains that Raptor and Pigeon are
planning t release the formula throughout the city using birds.
RAGMAN #2 by Ray Fawkes and Inaki Miranda. Rory
continues to battle both his PTSD and demonic brothers from the ancient cult of
Ruah Tum’ah, as they try to
get him to give up his rags. He defeats
them in the end and the voices in his head of his fallen comrades encourage him
to continue the fight.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #16
by Scott Lobdell and Dexter Soy. The
Outlaws have been captured by the Suicide Squad, but both Jason and Artemis get
free. They eventually find Bizarro, who is having a relaxing cup of tea with
Amanda Waller. He has told her that he is aware of sub-atomic tremors in a
power source that is in one of Harvest’s abandoned facilities. That could bring
the world to an end, so they all team up and heads out into the snow to fix the
problem.
SUICIDE SQUAD #29 by Rob Williams and Barnaby Bagenda. The team has
landed on the moon and they have discovered a number of corpses of Task Force X
operatives that died here. On the body of
an agent named Tungsten, they find the words FARADAY LIED scrawled upon
him. That’s about the same time that Flag locks everyone in and releases the
Red Wave monster. In the back-up, we see the early days of Faraday working with
Task Force X, including missions involving the Black
Triangle UFO and the War Wheel. We also learn that Rick Flag was the fourth man
to land on the moon with Apollo IX and they encountered the Red Wave monster.
SUICIDE SQUAD #30 by Rob Williams, Philippe Briones
and Wilfredo Torres. Rick Flag Sr. has been taken over by the Red Wave and
there is a giant monster version of it too. Harley, Boomerang and Croc get
taken down, but Harley manages to flee and hide, finding a bunch of DC Universe
artifacts in the process. Katana tries to warn Karin that the monster is coming
for it’s heart, but she has also been taken over by the Red Wave. She also
reveals that half of the heart is on Earth, which the rest of the team learns
when they find Faraday’s diary with a message warning anyone who reads it.
Harley finds a magic mirror to the Phantom Zone and sees Rick Flag Jr. inside
it. In the back-up, we learn that Faraday came back from the Apollo XI mission
and was possessed by the Red Wave monster.
SUPERGIRL #15 by Jody Houser, Steve Orlando and Robson
Rocha. Mr. Bones is the new head of the DEO, where he has Magog making a cell
capable of holding Supergirl, once they catch her. He also has Dr.Veritas
making weapons to help defeat her. Meanwhile, the DEO are all over Kara’s
school, searching for answers and clues. In the end, a visitor from Supergirl’s
past comes looking for revenge.
SUPERMAN #34 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Ed Benes
and Doug Mahnke. The people of Apokolips
realize that Luthor has lied about being their god, so he manages to use a Boom
Tube to bring Superman there and show that HE is really their god. Elsewhere,
Lois gets captured by the Female Furies and, when one of them is killed by a Dredge
Worm, she joins them, earning Granny Goodness’ respect and made part of the
team. In the end, Jon runs into some of Darkseid’s soldiers and the Hunger Dogs,
forcing him to flee.
SUPERMAN #35 by Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi,
Travis Moore and Stephen Segovia. Clark and Lex are trying to get away from the
people of Apokolips, who think Superman is their savior. Kalibak arrives and
has a plan to free his father by shooting the Chaos Cannon into the core of the
planet. Meanwhile, Lois arrives with the
Furies and Kalibak decides that if he can’t have the throne, no one will and he
fires of the cannon again. Of course, that results in the planet starting to
split apart. Jon is off dealing with the Hunger Dogs, who he saves from being
eaten by the soldiers and he comes riding to hopefully save the day.
SUPER SONS #10 by Peter J. Tomasi and Jose Luis.
Damian, Jon, Bruce and Clark are hanging out together before they drive off and
Jon shows Damian what it’s like to fly. Later, Bruce wakes Damian and takes him
to the new underwater headquarters that he and Clark have designed for the
boys. However, it comes with a price: Damian is going to be attending school
with Jon, which doesn’t go over so well with a boy who claims to be smarter
than all the teachers. Meanwhile, we see the future and Batman 666.
SUPER SONS ANNUAL #1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Paul
Pelletier. With Jon and Damian out stopping bank robbers, a per kidnapping
occurs. Krypto reads the headlines in the paper and immediately sets about to
reform, with the help of Detective Chimp, the Super Pets. When last they were
together, facing off against Dex-Star and his evil pets, costing the life of
Clay Critter. Despite bad feelings, the team comes back together and defeats an
alien who has kidnapped all of the dogs around. In the end, the dogs are free
and end up at Jon’s house while Titus and Krypto fist bump.
SUPERWOMAN #16 by K. Perkins
and Stephen Segovia. Lois tries to
explain that John Henry has been captured by Midnight. Traci 13 deduces that
Lois is trying to tell them what happened by reciting binary numbers which
leads Traci 13 to connect
electrodes to her head and surf the Internet, leading her to discover Lena
Luthor is behind Midnight. Lana goes off to confront Midnight, allowing her to
take control of her body to save her friend.
TEEN TITANS #14 by Benjamin Percy and Khoi Pham. While Robin and Red Arrow try to stop the
huge tidal wave that threatens Star City, the rest of the team convinces Kid
Flash to join them and give an assist. Kid Flash uses his power to save the
day, which frees the team up to take on Onomatopoeia. Red Arrow gets wounded
and that sends Robin into a frenzy and, with the help of Kid Flash, they take
down the serial killer. Wally gives Damian a flash drive with information on
Deathstroke and the air shake hands. In the end, Emiko turns down Robin’s
invite to join the team and Tim contemplates telling the Teen Titans he is
alive.
TITANS #17 by Dan Abnett and Minkyu Jung. Troia
explains that she is the Donna Troy from the future and she has travelled back
in time to make sure Donna doesn’t have to watch al her friends die, as she herself
is immortal. After explaining how each of the Titans will die, with Bumblebee
being the last, Troia decides she needs to kill all of them now and asks Donna
if she would like to help. Meanwhile, Kid Flash realizes that Wally can’t be
dead because he can still feel the Speed Force inside of him.
TRINITY #15 by Rob Williams
and V. Ken Marion. While Circe explains how she is dying and needs everyone’s
life energy to survive, Batman, along with Red Hood and the Outlaws, who have
been restored by the Dark Knight, show up to try and save the day. looking awesome and ready for a fight. Circe
creates a giant Ani-Men, which they quickly defeat. Zatanna heals Constantine
while Ra’s rises from the pit, stabs Circe and throws her in, leading to Wonder
Woman to save her life.
WONDER WOMAN #34 by James Robinson and Sergio Davila. We begin by seeing
the night of Diana and Jason's birth how Jason
was given to immortal Argonaut Glaucus to keep him safe from the gods. After
catching up on their respective lives, Grail arrives, and Jason reveals his
true self. He hates his sister because of everything she was given with him. He
also reveals the extent of his powers and creates a tsunami to take her out. In
the end, Diana finds herself at the mercy of Grail and Jason.
WONDER WOMAN #35 by James Robinson and Emanuela
Lupacchino. Taking a step back from the current story, we travel to a time many
years ago when Glaucus tells Jason about who
he really is. He earns of his powers and Glaucus tells him he needs to keep
that a secret. Hercules arrives to infrequently train Jason and, one day,
Glaucus leaves and Jason begins his life as a fisherman. One day, Deep Six
comes calling and Jason jumps into action.
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