DC UNIVERSE Month 3, Part 2

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #24 by Steve Orlando and Neil Edwards. Vixen is in the Red and states how she is prepared to save the world for all the "Wishers" trapped here. While Promethea battles the Queen, Vixen arrives with her army of Wishers and they take down the Queen’s tower. Frost gets her curse back and uses her powers to kill Tsaritsa. Promethea eaves, promising she can come back if needed. Ray returns to the team and so does Batman, who is ready to take them to the next hot spot in the world.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #25 by Steve Orlando, Miguel Mendonca and Mikyu Jung. Batman has arrived and, while criticizing the team for the damage that occurred, The Ray introduces Aztek to the team.  While Batman continues to complain and explain the reasons why he started the team in the first place, he decides the team needs one last mission-to Angor. As it turns out, the mission is just Batman, Black Canary and Dreamslayer. Arriving to see the homeworld devastated, Dreamslayer says that someone or something is keeping him from rebuilding his world. The Adjudicator arrives, claiming responsibility. In the end, Havok arrives to hopefully help rebuild.

MERA QUEEN OF ATLANTIS #1 by Dan Abnett and Lan Medina. Orm, the former Ocean Master, is living a happy life with his wife and son, when he hears on television about everything going on with his brother and wife and the recent events in Atlantis. Meanwhile, Mera finds herself battling a villain known as The Eel. After defeating him, she contacts the Justice League, to inform them that she is currently a Queen in exile. She also discovers that Rath paid the Eel to attack Mera. She later meets with the State Department regarding her status and Orm may be getting ready to resort to his old life.

MOTHER PANIC/BATMAN SPECIAL #1 by Jody Houser and Ty Templeton. MILK WARS Part 2. Gather House has returned and now it is being run by someone named Father Bruce, who happens to dress as a bat. She heads off to Gather House and discovers that milk is the reason for the return. She encounters his children sidekicks who call themselves the Holy Sidekick Choir of Merciful Justice. Father Bruce reveals how, after his parent’s death, Alfred came through his window with milk and his life was changed. Mother Panic battles Father Bruce and his sidekicks and eventually frees him by destroying the source of the milk. He follows Mother Panic back to her mother’s house and learns a bit about her powers. Joined by Fennec Fox, the trio heads off to meet Cave Carson. In the back-up, we get another “vintage” tale about Formless Girl.

NEW SUPER-MAN AND THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF CHINA #20 by Gene Luen Yang and Brent Peeples. While Keenan and Avery share some quiet conversation, the rest of the League battles an energy drining beast clled The Sleez. Keenan and Avery arrive to help, but so does the Green Lantern Corps of China, who are looking to sprehend our heroes. The team manages to get aay and Keenan and Avery share a kiss. Meanwhile, in North Korea, Ahn Kwang is questioned by the state police, because he has been watching THE SIMPSONS on television. The police beat him up, but they get theirs when two giant spider crabs crawl out of his sweat and proceed to move him across the border into China.

NIGHTWING #38 by Sam Humphries and Bernard Chang. We find that Svaboda shot Nightwing because of the influence of The Judge’s golden poker chip. Nightwing goes to visit Guppy who has killed his father because of The Judge’s influence. He heads to the Justice Tree to discover it has ben poisoned and he heads off to the casino to have a confrontation with The Judge. In the end, Nightwing gets beaten down and The Judge reveals that he is blind.

NIGHTWING #39 by Sam Humphries, Phil Jimenez, and Jamal Campbell. Dick is held captive by The Judge who reminds him of the second time they met, when Dick was in college. The Judge then goes on to explain that he was the First Judge of Bludhaven. After letting a guilty man go free, he was thrown in the ocean, but survived and was changed. Over time, he ended up at St. Jude's Monastery, where he sewed his eyes shut. With the water rising, he leaves Nightwing tied to a chair where it appears he will drown.

RAGMAN #5 by Ray Fawkes and Inaki Miranda.  Ragman fights to save Frank’s possessed son, while battling demons in the process. But he stops when he realizes that these demons are actualy possessed townspeople. The Shining Knight arrives and tells Rory that Etrigan is actually using him. To save everyone, Rory agrees to give the cloak he wears to Z’Dargall: give up the magic hell cloak, despite it resulting in the loss of his own life. With that, the demon kills Rory.

RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #2 by Marv Wolfman and Pop Mhan. Raven is facing off against Azure, who soon departs and Raven heads home, troubled by images of

Trigon the Terrible.  Soon, she heads off to the hospital, as her friend Teri’s Grandmother is dying and there is nothing Raven can do. Later, she helps decorate the family Christmas tree, although she doesn’t understand why. Azure observes this and then leaves in a van, while Raven follows. Attack helicopters arrive, destroying the van and killing Azure in the process. Baron Winters observes this and Raven observes him, leading to her transporting to a place where she gets attacked by a tentacled monster.

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #19 by Scott Lobdell and Marcio Takara. Jason and Artemis go out on a date and end up in the Batcave, where they can have a conversation without Bizarro being able to listen in. Meanwhile, Bizarro meets with Solitary, who may be the person responsible for the Outlaws coming together in the first place. With Bizarro becoming more and more dependent on Kryptonite to keep him super smart, he ends up being found by Jason and Artemis passed out in a Gotham bar. With that, they bring him back home, aware that they realy need to keep an eye on him.

SIDEWAYS #1 by Kenneth Rocafort, Dan DiDio and Justin Jordan. Derek was a regular high school kid until Challengers Mountain dropped into Gotham City and this teenager ended up with powers which allow him to open a doorway in space and transport a ywhere in the world. While trying to navigate high school life and be an Internet sensation as a hero, he hears a strange voice in his head. He creates a rift and transports right into the face of the voice: a massive creature who has judge our hero to be a problem for the space-time continuum and is sentenced to death.

SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL/WONDER WOMAN SPECIAL #1 by Cecil Castellucci and Mirka Andolfo. MILK WARS Part 3. Shade is trapped in a world where Wonder Woman has come to believe that she is a 1950’s mom named Wonder Wife. With the help of Cave Carson’s Cybernetic Eye, Shade and Loma are able to finally crack open the walls of sanity and convince Diana that she is really Wonder Woman. Using the eye, they travel off to their next stop in order to stop Retconn. In the back-up by Magadalene Visaggio and Sonny Liew, ALHPA 13 is rebooted as CHRYSALIS THE ETERNITY GIRL.

THE SILENCER #2 by John Romita Jr and Dan Abnett. Honor Guest continues to fight Underlife assassins Breacher and Bloodvessel, eventually taking them down. This leads to her calling The Switchboard, who sends out a cleanup crew to dispose of the bodies and make everything right again. She goes home, after cutting what’s left of her disheveled hair, which leads to her and her husband having some “quality time”. The next day, she contacts Remedy and arranges a meeting, where he wants her to do some house cleaning for him. When she refuses, he brings out the heavy artillery, which she says she can take down in a matter of seconds.

SUICIDE SQUAD #35 by Rob Williams and Eduardo Pansica. The government has their own new Black-Ops Super Soldier in the form a The Wall. While Killer Croc is trying to regain his humanity and King Faraday is profiling the team for Waller, who leaves to witness the birth of her grandchild, the team is off fighting, and losing to, Damage. In the end, all of Belle Reve’s system are comprised by someone looking for revenge: Hack.

SUICIDE SQUAD #36 by Rob Williams and Eduardo Pansica. The team arrives back in Belle Reve to find that everyone has been released and Hack is in control of everything, demanding to know who her killer was. Hack has her hands-on Waller’s secret documents and wile Killer Croc eats most of the other prisoners, Waller decides to do what she must to save her secrets. That means blowing up Belle Reve!

SUPERGIRL #18 by Steve Orlando, Jody Houser and Carmen Carnero. What to do? If Kara changes into Supergirl, she saves all of her friends, but will reveal her secret identity. Agent Ocampo shows up, allowing Kara to head into the photo booth and change into Supergirl. She Mr. Bones are up to when Mokkari arrives, intent on shutting her down permanently.

SUPERMAN #40 by James Robinson and Doug Mahnke. Superman and son plan on celebrating the anniversary of the destruction of Krypton by watching it via a holographic projection.  They witness a planet which is about to suffer the same fate and the two head off to save it. Only, the people don’t want to be saved, as they believe their destruction is God’s will. Not wanting his interference, they use the magic of prayer to null his powers. Luckily they are saved by a scientist, who while believes that their religion is a joke and he convinces them that they must find a way to save the people.

SUPERMAN #41 by James Robinson and Ed Benes. Superman and son, alon with rogue scientist Klain, are trying to get off of Galymane before it explodes. In tow, is an egg containing Klain’s children. Despite Superman wanting to save the citizens of the planet, the populace arrives, killing Klain in the process. While Superman doesn’t agree with their decision, he respects it. Superboy heads off to find a new world for the children as Superman stays with the citizens until the planet explodes. Eventually he reunites with his son and they head back to Earth for apple pie and ice cream.

SUPER SONS #13 by Peter J. Tomasi and Carlo Barberi. Damian is still trying to fit in at his new school, but is aggravating more classmates than he is making friends with. Things get worse when Talia shows up, trying to convince her son that he has a higher calling and delivers his League of Assassins outfit to him. This leads the boys to take down Ezar, an assassin that Damian trained, who reveals that Talia is in town because of the whole thing going on in SILENCER. Not only that, she has someone on her hit list…and her name is Lois Lane.

SWAMP THING WINTER SPECIAL #1 by Tom King, Jason Fabok, Kelley Jones and Len Wein. Swamp Thing finds himself stuck in an endless loop of never-ending Winter , trying to protect a young boy. After what seems like years, he realizes that, to save the Green, he must kill the boy, which he does. The second story has no words, because Len Wein died before the lettering could be finished. It features Jones’ artwork and features Batman, Solomon Grundy and Matthew Cable.

TEEN TITANS #17 by Benjamin Percy and Scot Eaton. Because Titans Tower-West is still a mess following the Super Sons of Tomorrow story, the team is forced to move out. Beast Boy goes to a baseball game and is mistakenly called Yeast Boy, which just shows how far his stock has dropped. He gets met by a fan who take him to her clubhouse for “lost boys” called Nevrland. They introduce him to a VR implant that allows the user to live in many worlds at once. Gar gets injected with it and he feels a change. Meanwhile, the rest of the team saves a school bus filled with kids that are in peril because one of the kids freaked out. Of course, that kid appears to have been under the same influence of the VR tech.

THE TERRIFICS #1 by Jeff Lemire and Ivan Reis. Simon Stagg is trying to access the Dark Multiverse by tapping into Metamorpho’s Nth Metal, which is not a good thing.  Mr. Terrific shows up with Plastic Man and they all get transported into the Dark Multiverse, where they find themselves standing on a giant corpse. They also run into

Linnya, who most of us know as Phantom Girl. The signal that brought them there. That signal was sent by… Tom Strong!

TITANS #20 by Dan Abnett and Paul Pelletier. Roy is beating up Intergang bad guys when Cheshire arrives and helps him. The two go off together and try to patch up things in their lives. Meanwhile, Donna Troy is dealing with the loneliness of being held on the Watchtower until the Justice League can figure out if she is a danger to the world. Back on earth, Arsenal and Chershire find the pure sample of Bliss, which leads them back to his apartment to celebrate. When he wakes in the morning, she is gone and so is the sample. It turns out she is really working for The Brain and Monsieur Mallah.

TRINITY #18 by James Robinson and Patch Zircher. The Trinity continues to tell their tale from being on Skartaris. They learn that The Warlord is really just an apparition, because he is battling Deimos. They go off to find his daughter Jennifer and make their perilous journey on unicorns. After defeating several of Deimos’ horde, they get to Shamballah where they meet Jennifer and find that Travis Morgan is dead. They also discover that they are all aging rapidly, just like the corpses of the pilots they found along the way.

WONDER WOMAN #40 by James Robinson and Emanuela Lupacchino. Jason and Diana have survived their perilous fall, and both are healing rapidly. They go to Garrett Memorial Hospital, where they find that Silver Swan has killed everyone and destroyed all her research. Jason heads home and Silver Swan goes to attack him, but Diana arrives and defeats her. She is taken into custody and, maybe someday, there will be a cure for her. Jason decides he is hampering his sister and decides to leave. But a mysterious energy field takes him away before Diana can say goodbye to him. Meanwhile, Steve and company continue to fight the Furies.

WONDER WOMAN #41 by James Robinson and Stephen Segovia. Darkseid is pissed off that Steve Trevor and his team defeated them, meaning he can’t get the relic he wanted. He’s also upset because Earth means nothing to him now that Themyscira is out of his reach. Diana informs Steve that she has had to battle a number of individuals with power and that she thinks Veronica Cale may be responsible. In the end, Jason comes back, now wearing armor.