DC UNIVERSE Month 2, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #22 by Steve Orlando and Neil Edwards. Frost has been cured because she made a wish and Tsaritsa, the Queen of Fables, answers it. Frost passes out, and that frees Tsarita, allowing her to run wild. Frost is at a cross-roads, knowing if she helps the JLA defeat Tsarita, she will end up with her powers again. They all fight, during which Sanctuary is destroyed and it appears Mari is killed. Meanwhile, in Vanity, Ray continues his fight with the Three Devils.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #23 by Steve Orlando and Neil Edwards. Tsaritsa was once the Queen of Fables, until she was turned into a story by use of a spell. This caused her sister Freya to starve herself and that meant Tsarita wants revenge. She sees Frost as the incarnation of her sister and tries to convince her to rule the world together. While Tsaritsa plans to create Immateria, Ray heads to help while Mari regenerates herself thanks to the Red. They all battle Tsarita’s followers, who is then confronted by someone who tells her she must pass through fire first. That person is Promethea.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA/DOOM PATROL SPECIAL #1 by Steve Orlando, Gerard Way, Hugo Petrus and Aco. Part One of MILK WARS. Retconn fires off a missile that turns everyone in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, including the JLA, into 1950’s characters. This is maintained by a character known as Milkman, who is really a transformed Superman, who provides the residents with mind controlling milk. The Doom Patrol arrives and get into a fight with the JLA, now known as the Community League of Rhode Island, we have some good and weird high-flying action. Retconn explains that superheroes descend from the god of superheroics, Ahl and Superman is a direct descendant. Crazy Jane whips up some art and shows everyone that they are all subjects of comic books. This changes all of the JLA back, except for Siperman, who is revealed to be the child of Casey Brinke and Terry None. Cave Carson arrives and tells the heroes they need to meet with him and Swamp Thing, which will continue the story in CAVE CARSON/SWAMP THING SPECIAL #1. The back-up features the origin of Formless Girl, which feels a lot like the origin of Elastic Girl Rita Farr.

NEW SUPER-MAN #19 by Mariko Tamaki and Brent Peeples. Taking place around issue #7 of this series, it focuses on Laney Lan as she tries to get information from Kenan and Baixi regarding what is going on at the Ministry of Defense, while also dealing with her confusing family life.

NIGHTWING #36 by Sam Humphries and Bernard Chang. Nightwing continues his desperate search for The Judge, who continues to affect the lives of those in Bludhaven with his powers. Meanwhile, The Judge pays a visit to the Mayor, who commits suicide, leaving behind a whole series of revelations regarding corruption and the casinos.

NIGHTWING #37 by Sam Humphries, Klaus Janson, and Jamal Campbell. While Lucy Weatherton deals with the dramas about the casinos in Bludhaven being shut down, we get a flashback to the first days of The Judge. Dick was still Robin and Lucy was a vigilante known as Baby Ruthless. In the present, Guppy is still dealing with his father’s illness and, thanks to The Judge’s casino coin, he may soon eliminate dad…permanently!

RAGMAN #4 by Ray Fawkes and Inaki Miranda. While Etrigan trains Rory to use his powers, Fanshawe and his minions are targeting Frank’s house, where his wife and child are. That leads Ragman to the house where he battles, and slays, some of Fanshawe’s minions. He finds Frank’s wife and asks about his son. It seems that Frank Jr. has been possessed.

RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #1 by Marv Wolfman and Pop Mhan. Raven is hanging with her friends at a bonfire and she reveals some parts of her past: how she was part of a cult with no TV or Internet. Meanwhile, Baron Winters predict that Raven must die, because that’s how it is written. She dreams of a meeting with Trigon and then ends up trying to help a girl known as Azure, who is being hunted. She saves the girl and, after believing the girl is really Trigon, discovers the girl is really someone with a huge head and big eyes. What is the connection between this character, Azar and Trigon?

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #18 by Scott Lobdell and Sergio Sandoval. Red Hood is taking on the H.I.V.E. Queen and gets some help from Artiemis and Bizarro, even if they are above the whole incident. Bizarro is losing his intelligence and needs more Kryptonite to maintain it, something he is being told by his imaginary Superman creature named Pup-Pup. Jason goes to visit Ma Gunn, who is mysteriously off on family business. It appears that she has been shrunk down by Bizarro and he is now keeping her in a house inside a bottle. In the end, The Creeper shows up and he is looking to settle a score with Artemis.

THE SILENCER #1 by Dan Abnett and John Romita Jr. Honor Guest is a retired assassin trying to live her normal life as a wife and mother. But she gets attacked by someone and that leads to her forming a bubble that silences everyting happening in it, allowing her to dispatch the killer in silence. She goes home and gets a visit from Talia Al Ghul, who tells her that there are peple coming to kill them. Before they get a chance to figure things out, the killers ambush Honor and Talia. This leads to Talis giving Honor a device to allow her to suit up in her old gear and fight back.

SUICIDE SQUAD #33 by Si Spurrier and Fernando Pasarin. New recruits, including Juan Soria, head off on a mission to an amusement park called Dozey Land. During the mission, the new recruits are all slaughtered by alien monsters, except for Jose, who loses a hand during the battle and may next lose his life.

SUICIDE SQUAD #34 by Si Spurrier and Fernando Pasarin. Most of the new recruits on this mission have been killed. Juan is about to be killed by an alien, but Croc saves him, basically because he wants to eat him later. After a time, he volunteers to go meet with the queen alien and is prepared to sacrifice himself, but manages to kill the creature because of his negative attitude. In the end, it is revealed that Waller set them all up to be able to use him to defeat this creature. He gets a reduced sentence, new cybernetic hands to replace the ones Katana cut off, and a new cell mate-Killer Croc.

SUPERGIRL #17 by Steve Orlando, Jody Houser, Robson Rocha, and Julio Ferreira. Deceilia Starshame was banished from her planet as a young child and has a bone to pick with Supergirl and the whole human race. While they decide if the people of Earth are worth the fight, Starshame slices the cruise ship they are fighting on in half, leading Supergirl to give up the fight to save the passengers. Kara breaks Starshame out of her mind-controlled state just as the DEO arrive, meaning Supergirl must melt their weapons to save herself. Elsewhere, Veritas is talking to Cameron Chase, who promises that Bones’ days are numbered. That night, there is a school dance and a big, bad villain arrives, threatening to kill everyone is Supergirl does not reveal herself.

SUPERMAN #38 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Sergio Davila. Part Four of Super Sons of Tomorrow. Aqualad, Starfire and Kid Flash go to Robin and Superboy’s Fortress and that leads to a battle between the five of them. Once they settle down, Jon convinces them all to go to the Fortress of Solitude, where he frees his father from the Red K. With the help of Future Tim’s severed hand, the Titans of Tomorrow exit Hypertime and arrive at the Fortress. They all can’t control Future Tim, but he absorbs Superboy’s out of control powers to save them all, sending himself back into Hypertime.

SUPERMAN #39 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Barry Kitson. After defeating the Demolition Team, Superman takes a group of kids with cancer into space, so they can meet the Justice League and visit the Watchtower. Eventually, they all end up on the moon, where they write their names on rocks and leave them there as a lasting memory that they were there.

SUPER SONS #12 by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Tyler Kirkham. Finale of Super Sons of Tomorrow. With Future Tim racing through Hypertime, and the crisis averted, the Titans of Tomorrow head back to their future. Superman has a chat with Damian and Jon about the future of the Super Sons and they convince him to let them continue. At a Teen Titans meeting, Damian suggests they vote in Jon as a member, and that gets turned down, because of his erratic powers. In the end, Jon thanks Damian for being his friend.

SUPERWOMAN #18 by K. Perkins and Max Raynor. Lana saves Metropolis by allowing Midnight to occupy her brain and feel the emotions Lana feels. After several moments with her friends, Midnight decides that she needs to be free and Lana allows that, even though it costs her the role and powers of Superwoman.

TEEN TITANS #16 by Marv Wolfman and Tom Derenick. After the team defeats Mammoth, Kori takes offense to being left out of a conversation because she is old and storms off. She ends up in a battle with the Psions who have mentally corrupted many people including Raven and Gar. She uses her powers to defeat the Psions and free everyone. In the end, she learns that all Gar was doing earlier was asking Raven for advice regarding his dating profile.

TITANS #19 by Dan Abnett and Paul Pelletier. Roy is off in New York searching for the manufacturers of the drug Bliss, which leads him to involvement by Intergang. The Justice League shows up at Titans Tower and criticizes the Titans for the way they handled the Troia incident, which leads to major infighting between the two teams. In the end, Dick decides to shut down the Titans until the Justice League can figure out  a solution to their ills.

TRINITY #17 by James Robinson and Patrick Zircher. Batman and Superman agree to help Diana find Themyscira. In the process, they come across a ship being sucked into a whirlpool and that sucks them in too. When they wake, they are in a land filled with lizard men and the remnants of an old SR-71 fighter. Because of the magic present, Superman loses his powers and Wonder Woman goes blind. They defeat the lizard men nd Diana declares that they are lost in the land known as Skartoris. At this point they are greeted by Travis Morgan, former U.S. Air Force pilot who now goes by the name of… The Warlord.

WONDER WOMAN #38 by James Robinson and Emanuela Lupacchino. Sometime in the past, Wonder Woman saves young Vanessa Kapatelis during a fight with Major Disaster. She suffers injuries that may keep her from ever walking again, but she saw Diana as a role model and even drew illustrations with her as a flying character known as the Silver Swan. She undergoes a procedure using nanites which allow her to walk again.  But she is also upset that Diana no longer spends a lot of time with her and didn’t visit when Vanessa’s mother died. This angers her and she plots to become a villain instead. In the present, while visiting with Jason, Diana goes off to check in on a family she recently saved. When she arrives, she finds the family dead and Silver Swan standing over them.

WONDER WOMAN #39 by James Robinson, Emanuela Lupacchino, and Carmen Carnero. Wonder Woman battles Silver Swan, who wants to kill her for abandoning her.  Jason sees the battle on the news and comes to his sister’s aid, which only results in his throat being slashed by Swan’s wings.  A huge explosion follows and Diana and Jason seemingly fall to their deaths.  Meanwhile, Darkseid is with Grail in the Amazon Jungle, where he dispatches a team made up of the Female Furies and Deep Six, to retrieve the missing artifacts he needs to fully become Darkseid the ruler of Apokolips again.

DC UNIVERSE Month 2, Part 1

ACTION COMICS #995 by Dan Jurgens and Brett Booth. Booster is arrested, and Skeets gives Superman Booster’s origin. It seems his father was an abuser and Booster did what he did to pay off his father’s gambling debts and save his life.  As fate turns out, Booster gets incarcerated in the same jail cell as his father. Superman arrives and busts Booster out, leading them to the Time Sphere to make their escape back to the past. The Eradicator shows up and breaks the controls, resulting in our heroes ending up on a planet controlled by Zod.

ACTION COMICS #996 by Dan Jurgens and Will Conrad. Lois heads to Logamba to try and save her father, which Jon tagging along, unbeknownst to her. Meanwhile, Superman and Booster are stuck on Jekuul, where it seems that Zod is in charge. After allowing themselves to be captured, they are taken to the planet’s ruler, where they discover it is a grown-up Lor-Zod who is going to be there chief adversary.

AQUAMAN #32 by Dan Abnett, Rick Leonardi, and Riccardo Federici. Aquaman frees Mera from King Shark’s prison and, finding out she can’t breathe underwater, takes her to the Widowhood to be healed. The Widowhood reveals how they want Mera to be the Queen of Atlantis, so she can rule and bring about peace. In the end, Aquaman and the Drift attack Corum Rath’s throne room.

BATGIRL #19 by Hope Larson and Chris Wildgoose. After stopping some would be donut shop robbers, who are actually hired actors meant to threaten but not harm the shop owners, Burnside gets hit with a freak snow storm. Even the Penguin enlists his crew to help with the clean-up. What she discovers is that a group from S.P.U.R. may have been messing with the weather forecasting satellites. Then she realizes it is all a diversion so the real bad guys can rob a secret government lab.

BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #18 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson and Marcio Takara. Spyral has recruited Huntress to find a black-market tech dealer and that means Barbara and Dinah are going to get involved at a Tech Expo. They manage to get a tracker on the guy before he can steal Hap-E: a power source that is impervious to EMPs and the like. Still, he steals the device and hooks it up to stolen Weather Wizard tech, causing havoc before they can finally capture him and shut the device down.

BATMAN #38 by Tom King and Travis Moore. Following the murders of a man who worked for Wayne Enterprises and his wife, Bruce Wayne takes their young son under his wing.  Batman investigates Victor Zsasz, as the M.O. is his. After some more murders, it appears it might be Two-Face’s doing. Eventually, the boy’s butler confesses to the murders. In the end, Batman discovers the boy is responsible because he wants to be just like Bruce Wayne, complete with carving Thomas and Martha’s names into his own face.

BATMAN #39 by Tom King and Joelle Jones. Wonder Woman meets with Batman, telling him they have an obligation to someone called the Gentle Man. The heroes swap dimensions with him, so they can fight his fight for him. Selina spends time with the Gentle Man while Batman and Wonder Woman fight monsters. In the end, it seems that there is a time difference between dimensions and Wonder Woman and Batman have been in the other dimension for ten years, while only being gone from ours for hours. At the same time, the heroes have formed a bond that may end up in a kiss.

BATMAN AND THE SIGNAL #1 by Scott Snyder, Tony Patrick and Cully Hamner. Gotham has a new place for developing metas and it’s called the Arkham Juvenile Center. Duke, now known as The Signal, battle with a character named Null and realizes he needs to find out more about these new metas. That leads to Detective Alex Aisi making her way into the Juvenile Center to find out the connection between the metas and a mysterious sun dial that seems to be creating these metas.  Duke makes his way in and realizes it’s a trap and he’s now stuck with a bunch of metas who want to kill him.

BATMAN BEYOND #16 by Dan Jurgens and Phil Hester. As it looks like Terry and Dana will fall to their death fighting Stalker, Batman’s wings get fixed and they are safe. The pair fight throughout the issue and, in the end, it looks like Stalker may kill Terry yet.

BATWOMAN #11 by K. Perkins and Scott Godlewski. Julia Pennyworth has been abducted  and Kate is on the hunt to find her. This leads her to Egypt where she discovers that Professor Pyg and his dolls are to blame, as Pyg is using his kidnaped victims to make new dolls. She finds and frees Julia, but Pyg escapes and all of his other victims are dead. Feeling as though she has let everyone down, she decides to meet Julia in Brussels, where everything began with Kate and Safiyah.

BLACK LIGHTNING: COLD DEAD HANDS #3 by Tony Isabella and Clayton Henry. There’s a villain named White Thunder loose, but that takes a backseat to a black man in custody who, along with his wife, gets shot dead by the police. In the panic that ensues, his two kids take off with one of Tobias Whale’s alien space guns. White Thunder has been tasked by Whale to get the gun back, the cops go after the kids, intent on doing to them what they did to their parents. Black Lightning gets to the kids before tragedy can happen, but now he has to face White Thunder.

BLUE BEETLE #17 by Christopher Sebela and Scott Kolins. Jaime is free and going after Stopwatch, while Paco, Brenda and Naomi are being crushed by falling debris. But Jaime stops Stopwatch by pulling out the pieces that make up his time travel device out of the villain’s body. This also allows time to reverse and saves his friends. In the end, Naomi has figured out Jaime is Blue Beetle and apparently will never speak to him again for not revealing his secret to her. And Stopwatch’ followers run into Stopwatch, who is now an alien creature, and still offer to help him.

CYBORG #20 by Kevin Grevioux and Cliff Richards. With all these children dead as a result of the minefield massacre last issue, Vic and Sarah flee into the jungle, where Sarah sprains her ankle. Vic saves her from a zombie attack and uses the horn to make one more wish: that everything was back as it was. The General uses the horn to become a rock monster, but gets turned back and shot by one of the kids. Not dead yet, he grabs a gun and shoots Nailah, killing her. The shaman shows up and says they did good and alls well that ends well.

DAMAGE #1 by Tony S. Daniel and Robert Venditti. Ethan is a military man who turns into, against his will, a creature of mass destruction. This apparently happens for an hour every 24 hours. In the process of his transforming and busting out of the plane he is in, he actually causes the plane to crash, while he begins a rampage in the city. Major Liggett dons special armor and begins his pursuit. Everyone dies in the crash except for Liggert, who got out prior to the crash. After getting his armor shut down, Damage goes in for the kill until Ethan’s voice in his head convinces him otherwise. The next day, Col. Jonas surveys the scene and Amanda Waller and Task Force XI show up.

DARK NIGHTS METAL #5 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. While Batman and Superman have managed to free themselves, the Forge of Worlds is going dark and that means that the Dark Multiverse is going to permanently become part of our Earth. Green Lantern and Mister Terrific are in prison and Terrific reveals that Plastic Man has become a super conductor for the cosmic energies, which is why he is being sought after by the bad guys. That’s when Martian Manhunter shows up, freeing them so they can get Plastic Man back. Wonder Woman finds the Nth Metal mace and battles and defeats Black Adam, which leads to her battling Hawkgirl, finally getting her back to her old self by punching her with the lasso. Aquaman and Deathstroke have  run in with Black Manta, which leads to them meeting up with half of Barbatos’ Dark Multiverse fractured heroes. Lantern, Manhunter and Terrific secure the Plastic Man egg, but it seems the rest of the bad guys have plans for them before they can load the egg into the Phoenix Cannon. In the end, Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl face an army of twisted heroes and villains, vowing to fight to the end.

DEATHSTROKE #27 by Christopher Priest and Diogenes Nieves. We see how Terra’s mom died in Markovia, sending her on a permanent path of self-destruction, especially after she ends up in bed with Slade. While Slade talks with the imagined Wintergreen, Willow seeks out the Forgotten and Adeline deals with the Superman of China. Jericho visits his father in prison and helps to free him, but not before Slade controls the device controlling the Ikon suit. Terra tracks down and takes out most of the Forgotten until Willow shows up, leading to her getting tossed out the window and being saved by Jericho’s ex-boyfriend.

DEATHSTORKE ANNUAL #1 by Christopher Priest, Larry Hama and Dennis Cowan. Power Girl is trapped in another dimension, but her presence causes Tanya to question her ability to be on Defiance, especially when she discovers that the death which made her part of the team was set up by Deathstroke. She also reveals that she has problems with Jericho’s lifestyle choices and reveals that she is in love with Kid Flash, actually offering herself to him. Jericho is offended and decides to move out, while Slade continues to try and do his job without killing. Terra and Jericho eventually team up to help Slade finish his mission, but then the team discovers that Tanya has committed suicide. In the end, it is revealed that she is not really dead and has used the machine that everyone thought she used to kill herself to join Power Girl in another dimension. Only problem: Kid Flash has moved her away from her transponder and now she is stuck with Karen.

THE DEMON HELL IS EARTH #3 by Andrew Constant  and Brad Walker . As the demons begin to rise up from Death Valley, we find that Merlin is really inhabiting the corpse of the dead girl. That means that Jason, Merlin, Madame Xanadu, and Etrigan are the front line to try and stop Belial and his demon army, who is trying to usurp Hell from Lucifer.

DETECTIVE COMICS #972 by James Tynion IV and Miguel Mendonca. Clayface confronts Batman, telling him he really is just a villain after all. Batman freezes him, only to discover that he has used his training well and this frozen figure is just a husk, meaning he has escaped and is probably heading for the Belfry. While Batwoman gets a powerful weapon from her father to use, Dr. October reveals she has a cure, but it’s only a temporary fix. Clayface arrives and battles Tim, Kate, and Batman, until Cassandra intervenes long enough for Basil to get back in control. That doesn’t last long and he turns into a giant monster, destroying the Belfry in the process. Meanwhile, it seems the First Victim is only about destroying Batman, something that is seemingly bothering Anarky.

DETECTIVE COMICS #973 by James Tynion IV and Jesus Merino. After a flashback showing how Tim created the mudroom using parts of Clayface’s clay, we jump back into the action. The Belfry is destroyed, Tim has a concussion, and the people of Gotham are becoming more convinced that Batman is truly evil. Anarky revolts, eventually taking down the First Victim. He gives Stephanie a jump drive which may have data on who the First Victim really is. Meanwhile, the battle with Clayface continues until Cassandra delivers the cure, which transforms him back to Basil. That is also the moment when Batwoman uses the gun she got from her father and puts a bullet through his head.

DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL #1 by James Tynon IV and Eddy Barrows. Back when he was young, Basil Karlos talks to his father about his movie make-up techniques, where he discovers a secret chemical that allows him to alter his ability for great makeup. Twenty years later, Basil gets the role of a lifetime, but gets a call saying his father has died and that leads to a car crash which scars Basil for life. Convinced he needs to restore his face, he begins using his father’s Renu chemical to make himself look as he used to. But the chemical has a horrible effect and scars him worse. Desperate, he tries to steal more of the banned chemical and that leads to the police shooting at him during a break-in and he is covered in the chemical, which radically alters his DNA. During one of his early battles with Batman, he ends up covering Glory in his mud, transforming her into the person we currently know as Mudface.

DOOMSDAY CLOCK #3 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. Although he was thrown through a window in WATCHMEN, the Comedian was transported away to the DC Universe before dying by Dr. Manhattan. Now he returns the favor by throwing Ozymandias out of Luthor's office window. While an aged Johnny Thunder watches an old Nathaniel Dusk movie and waits for his great-grandson to visit, Mime and Marionette begin a wrathful search for The Joker. Rorschach gives Batman Walter Kovac's journal before he cleans himself up to reveal he is a young black man. Batman reads the journal and takes Rorschach to Arkham to meet with Dr. Manhattan. In actuality, this is just an excuse for the Dark Knight to lock him away.

THE FLASH #38 by Joshua Williamson and Scott Kolins. Flash is stuck in Iron heights, where he is getting beat up by Captain Cold.  August turns from heel to face and shuts off the absolute zero device that was being used, allowing Flash to finish off the Rogues and head off to save Kid Flash and Copperhead.  Copperhead pleads innocence regarding the hijacked cold guns, but she seems to be in league with someone else. Yea, the bad gal was setup by the Rogues and it's up to Barry to save the day. There is turmoil at Iron Heights about the Rogues running the prison, but Kristen vouches for Wolfe and saves his job, which is really just her gaining his confidence. In the end, Cold gets transferred to Belle Reve and Barry visits his mother’s rave and seeks forgiveness from Iris.

THE FLASH #39 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine De Giandomenico. While Barry tries to patch things up with Iris, including a tour of the Watchtower, Wally gets to meet up with Avery, who has been hanging with the Justice League of China as of late. They investigate a jailbreak that results in Karver's death while time slows and stops for Barry up in space. This leads to him running into Multiplex, Meena, Raijin and the real villain of the piece: Grodd.

THE FLASH ANNUAL #1 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. Set before issue # 39, we begin in the 25^th Century, we see that history has been changed because of events which are happening in the 21^st Century. In the resent day, our Wally West Flash, Wally West Kid Flash and the Barry Allen Flash battle The Top. After they defeat him, Barry insists that our Wally talk to Iris and accidentally it comes out that Iris killed Thawne. This causes Wally to leave and head back to Titans Tower, where he recalls growing up wioth a girl named Frankie. He seeks her out and that eventually leads to her memories coming back, including how she was once a hero named Magenta but then became a villain with the same name. They battle until he finally gets her to recall that she was once good and she now hopes to be good again. Back in the future, a masked Time Judge sends his team of Renegades, fture versions of the Rogues, to retrieve Iris from the 21^st Century. In the end, the Judge reveals that he is Hunter Zoloman-Zoom. This will lead into the Flash War storyline, which will begin in THE FLASH #47.

GREEN ARROW #36 by Ben Percy and Juan Ferreyra. Henery and Dinah save Oliver from his undersea fate even as Shado eliminates Briderick with an arrow through the head. Ollie and Dinah meet up with Red Arrow and they head over to the Ninth Circle to confront Mom and Merlyn. The end result: Merlyn gets killed and Mom shoots an arrow through Emi.

GREEN LANTERNS #38 by Tim Seeley and German Peralta. While Jessica and Regent Anthene interrogate a Red Tide prisoner in their search Kesh Cur, Simon frees Podfather. With Liseth Vok in tow, they find Cur and realize that the Red Tide has been using aliens to create their Surge Engine and make themselves genetically better. In fact, this is just a response to the Regent who previously experimented on Kesh Cur and transformed him into the person he is. As it turns out, Liseth Vok has also been transformed and she plans to use her powers to unite Ungara and kill Lanterns.

GREEN LANTERNS #39 by Tim Seeley and Ronan Cliquet. Liseth Vok tells the people that she is going to help the Ungaran people with her powers and that all the others in the universe are weak. This leads to Simon, Jessica and the Regent into a battle with the transformed girl. Pod father almost sacrifices himself to save the injured Molites, but he gets a save and help from the Ungarans who band together. Simon uses his special light to cause Liseth to transform back to her old self. In the end, the Ungarans and the Molites are joined as one and Liseth has a long recovery ahead. And Night Pilot is forced into slavery in an asteroid belt.

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #36 by Robert Vendetti , Jack Herbert and Jose Luis. Kyle, Guy, Hal and John take on the Controllers. Kellic plans on harvesting all of the captured Guardians, but John destroys their machine. The Controllers flee to fight another day and the Guardians, after a quick change into their classic garb, prepare to be a governing council yet again. In the end, Kellic reveals his legion of Darkstars at the ready to continue his fight.

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERNS CORPS #37 by Robert Vendetti and Rafa Sandoval. With the Guradians back in some sort of control, John Stewart threatens to quit the Corps. Meanwhile, Hal and Kyle travel to Sector 2811, where they find General Zod, his family and the Eradicator. The Lanterns get beat up badly, as Zod declares this word to be his. Hal threatens that the rest of the Corps will arrive and Zod stands ready.

HARLEY QUINN #34 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, John Timms and Chad Hardin. Harley and friends head to Florida, where she gets to reunite with her family and her two beloved hyenas. In the end, she meets with Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, before ending up on a yacht with Ivy.

HARLEY QUINN #35 by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda. Harley and company are back home, and she is bumming about Mason’s death. While the rest of the Harleys try to cheer her up, they fail. Meanwhile, Tony gets kidnapped and that leads Harley into combat with Man Bat. It turns out this Man Bat is really a transformed Tony. Thinking that Kirk Langstrom is responsible, the gang investigates but they discover what Harley quickly finds out-it’s really Francine who is doing the attacks and Harley becomes her next victim.

HARLEY QUINN #36 by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda.  Harley has been turned into a Man-Bat and she and Francine Langstrom are terrorizing the folks at Coney Island. As the Gang of Harleys try to help her, Francine attacks them, which turns Harley from bad to good and she attacks Francine. Meanwhile,  the rest of the Harley crew find Tony and, with Kirk Langstrom’s help, find the antidote to change him back. Langstrom transforms himself and flees, but the crew go to the pier and administer the antidote to Harley. In the end, she convinces herself that she needs to be left alone and packs her bags, leaving them confused and disappointed. Coach thinks that someone is behind all of this and that person turns out to be The Penguin, who has more villains lined up to make their lives miserable.

HARLEY QUINN BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR SPECIAL EDITION #1 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Chad Hardin, Otto Schmidt, and Ben Caldwell. Reprinted from a Loot Crate release from last year, Harley finds a genie’s bottle and a genie named Jimm Salabim to go with it. She spends the entire issue wishing for things, mostly with bad results. She asks for a bigger chest, which causes her to fall down. She asks for her beaver to come to life, but he dies. She asks the Joker to be nice, but he is TOO NICE! She joins the Justice League and kills Luthor in the process. She even gets to meet Kamandi. In the end, she wishes the genie wasn’t a genie any more, which ends her wishes and leaves them both figuring what to do now besides be a part of her gang of Harleys.

THE HELLBLAZER #18 by Richard Kadrey and Davide Fabbri. John may or may not be dead, but he gets to meet Bardo, who he insults and ultimately sends Constantine back to life. That leads to him meeting back with the coven and panning to stop Ray’s killers. With their gold gun ready, the bad guys head to the hospital, intent on killing Jackie. But John turns the tables on them and Jackie unleashes a spell that eliminates them. With that, John leaves San Francisco and promises never to come back.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #36  by Christopher Priest and Pete Woods. After the incident that resulted in the death of a nun, the League is taking some serious heat. Things will certainly get worse when someone dressed as Batman, kills the Chairwoman of the special committee investigating them. Despite Batman ordering the team to not help a spy sub stranded in Chinese waters, team members do go, only to be chastised by the crew they save. In the end, Simon goes undercover to find the copycat and gets taken down by him in the process.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #37 by Christopher Priest and Philippe Briones. The fake Batman was injured as a child during a superhero battle before eventually becoming a war hero. But now, he has Simon locked up and dresses himself as a Green Lantern. Cyborg figures out their system has been compromised and it turns out this imposter was actually someone who worked on the Watchtower. Simon gets free and the imposter walks into a trap set by the League.  But the joke is on them, as he uses their own technology to transport them away.