DC UNIVERSE Month 22, Part 2

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: MILLENIUM #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Andrea Lima Araujo. In the future, Rose is talking with an older Supergirl, who is now President. Rose explains how Thorn, her alter-ego, killed her husband many years ago and is looking for help. She continues to live on without aging for over a thousand years. We see Thorn is battling bad guys and meets Batman Beyond, asking him if he is the original Batman. At another time after the Great Disaster, Rose/Thorn finds Superman’s suit and kills a tribal elder. Kamandi finds her and explains that the suit isn’t hers, although she claims it was her father’s suit. Still later on, she meets Tommy Tomorrow with desire to join the Planeteers. But she tells him that Thorn wants to kill him and that leads to Planeteers chasing her.

LEX LUTHOR YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 by Jason Latour and Bryan Hitch. Lex heads off into the Multiverse to manipulate the Luthor’s of other Earths, beginning with Earth-38, where he kills his “father” and brings a younger version of himself on the journey. They eventually end up on Earth-47, where the younger Luthor uses the weapon they got on Earth-45 to kill the Earth-47 version of himself. In the end, Luthor has the boy in stasis and he is listed as Human DNA Back-up 1.0.

LOIS LANE #3 by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins. Lois meets with Superman, ho apologizes for his actions as of late. Elsewhere, The two Questions meet, each surprised as to who the other is. In the end, Lois comes home and surprises her son Jon in the shower!

NIGHTWING #64 by Dan Jurgens and Ronan Cliquet. Talon is in Bea’s bar and menacing her. Meanwhile, Ric brings Zak to the hospital for treatment. The rest of the team shows up and Ric gets a call from Bea telling him Talon is there. He races off to find her, encountering bad guys on the way, before fiding her captured on a rooftop. That’s when Takon arrives to say he’s bringing Ric back into the fold.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #38 by Scott Lobdell and Kenneth Rocafort. Bizarro and Artemis discover Faye Gunn in the bottle inside Jason’s apartment. Meanwhile, Jason and his team encounter Reizer/Doomed. He relates how he became Doomed and tries to tell them there are other monsters coming. That is when Monster Arm and his team show up. In the end, the bottle containing Gunn falls and breaks…and it looks like Pup-Pup is responsible. Elsewhere, Luthor tries to recruit Devour.

  

THE RIDDLER YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 by Mark Russell and Scott Godlewski. The Riddler is miffed that he isn’t getting a gift from Luthor, so he teams up with King Tut to best the Batman and prove himself. That doesn’t go as planned and, when the going gets tough, he quits and walks away, leaving his trademark costume behind. Looks like it’s time for him to rebrand himself.

SHAZAM #7 by Geoff Johns, Dale Eaglesham and Scott Kolins. Eugene, Pedro and The Wizard Shazam are in The Wonderlands with White Rabbit and are in search of Alice. Freddy and Darla are trapped in The Wildlands, where they have been ordered to be killed by tigers. But Tawmy intervenes and helps them make their escape. In the process, they end up falling into The Darklands. Meanwhile, Mary tells her adopted parents their secrets and Billy shows up. After changing into Shazam, he ends up going back to the Rock of Eternity, where Sivana manages to get him into The Darklands. He busts out of his grave and meets with the ghost of the wizard, who explains there is a traitor in their midst. Shazam also sees a tombstone that says “Here Lies Captain Marvel.”

SUPERGIRL #34 by Marc Andreyko and Eduardo Pansica. Luthor tells Brainiac-1 to take all of the information hidden inside the Fortress of Solitude and use to become the real Brainiac, to which he agrees. Supergirl heads to the Black Site and meets up with Dr. Veritas, with Supergirl saying she’s tracking down Leviathan, who was responsible for her adopted parents disappearing. Veritas uses her computer to track Eliza, who is at the Allegeny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Kara opens a body bag to find Eliza’s dead body and her cybernetic hand. She is ambushed by Leviathan’s men, who try to subdue her with Krytonite batons. Just before she passes out, she is saved by a masked man who turns out to be Jeremiah Danvers.

SUPERMAN #15 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado. Superboy declares today as Unity Day before the Legion heads back to the 31^st Century. Adam Strange arrives and tells Superman that Jor-El has been arrested. The council decides that Jor-El needs to go back to his place in the original time stream, which means he dies with Krypton. Zod says he is ready to make reparations and the Super Family heads back to Earth.

SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #3 by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber. In the past Joachim Olsson is prepared to get revenge on Luthais Alexanderis about to have his revenge on the man who tried to kill him. Luthor is looking into family mysteries. Jimmy has issues of when he was Turtle Boy. But the world thinks Jimmy is dead, thanks to the help of Metamorpho and a decoy body. Jimmy helps to bury the body, along with his signal watch, before becoming Timmy Olsen. Lois tracks down Jimmy and he asks how hard it would be to take down Lex.

TEEN TITANS #34 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. D’Jinn interrupts a conversation between Robin and Kid Flash and declares that someone stole her ring, which leads Robin onto a series of interrogations. In the end, D’Jinn takes down Red Arrow and we find that Roundhouse has the ring and is controlling D’Jinn.

THE TERRIFICS #20 by Gene Luen Yang and Max Raynor. The Terrfics battle The Terribles before Bizarro uses the time machine to transport everyone. The Terrifics end up in the Eightes, where they battle Figment Girl, who has commandeered their minds. Breaking free, they commandeer a giant Eighties robot. In the Sixties, The Terribles see hippies, before Bizarro goes home to see his son…or is it a younger version of Bizarro?

WONDER TWINS #7 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. The Twins are made tour guides for the Hall of Justice. Meanwhile, villain Repulso gets early release to help battle crime. Word comes that a meteor is coming and the Twins team up with Repulso to quell the riots in the street.

WONDER WOMAN #78 by G. Willow Wilson and Tom Derenick. Diana battles an upgraded Cheetah and gets beaten down before being saved by Steve Trevor and Atlantiades. She meets with Etta and the Veronica who removes a sliver from the magic sword out of Diana;s body. Hopefully she can reverse engineer something from the sliver. But love is dead and the world is going crazy…with Cheetah’s help.

WONDER WOMAN #79 by G. Willow Wilson and Scott Eaton. Diana battles and defeats Cheetah, with Veronica’s help. Maggie meets with Atlantiades and maybe Atlantiades will follow in her mother’s footsteps. Love is dead and because of that, Steve breaks up with Diana.

YOUNG JUSTICE #8 by Brian Michael Bendis and John Timms. The team finds themselves on Earth 3 where they battle this Earth’s version of Young Justice: Amaxon Thunder, Luthor-El, Drake, Speed Zone, Hack and Hex. Red Robin is battling this version of him when The Batwoman, this Earth’s Stephanie, saves him. In the end, Jinny Hex meets her counterpart, who shoots her.