DC UNIVERSE: Month 44, Part 2

THE JOKER PRESENTS: A PUZZLEBOX #2 by Matthew Roseberg, Jesus Merino, Keron Grant and Dani. In Russia, a meeting between Black Mask and Two Face goes down with Roman betraying Dent. In the present, Gordon and Bullock continue to interrogate Joker. This leads to the part of the story where Harley encounters Mad Hatter and loses a puzzle piece in the process. In the end, Roman is interrogated but is free on bail before they can get much out of him.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #67 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ram V, Phil Hester and Sumit Kumar. The team continues to battle Synmar Utopica with the help of Hawkslayer of Thanagar, Prince Zerep of Tamaran, Dominator QQ of the Dominion, and Devinea, the Mega-Daxamite of Daxam. Superman uses the Phantom Zone projector and sends Synmar away. In the end, Daemon Rose/Leonardo Lane is confronted by a team of Deathstrokes. In the backup, Justice League Dark battles sea creatures while Constantine confronts Merlin, who is getting an assist from Zatanna.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #68 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ram V, Scott Godlewski and Sumit Kumar. The United Order of the United Planets faces off with the Justice League over the Phantom Zone projector. Superman convinces them to let him keep the projector and they leave. Now they have to rebuild the Hall of Justice, but Flash and Superman accomplish that at super speed even before the rest of the team can decide what to do. Naomi’s parent take her home as the team realizes Green Arrow is not with them. He is off with Checkmate, which is staking out Daemon Rose’s secret hideout. They get attacked by a grou of Deathstrokes, but get saved by Superman, who is about to take out the Deathstrokes when the issue ends. In the backup, the team faces off against Merlin in Atlantis. He is not who he seems and they find Zatanna, who contains the spirit of the Upside Down Man.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: LAST RIDE #5 by Chip Zdarsky and Miguel Mendonca. The Brainiac-controlled Cyborg Superman battles Flash and Superman, John Stweart and Wonder Woman fight Mongul and Hal and Batman learn that someone leaked Lobo’s location. In the past, Superman and Batman argue, until Diana convinces them to get their head in the game. Darkseid shows up and Superman drops the power battery of Oa on him.

LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #5 by Brandon Thomas and Giannis Milonogiannis. Batman saves some children, reaizing there is a connection between their birthdays and also the Martian alphabet. He calls in Martian Manhunter, but he is being corruted by an alien criminal. After being saved, J’onzz reveals everything is part of a plot by Calendar Man, who is also possessed by one of these alien criminals. The heroes team up to defeat Day and the creature.

MIDNIGHTER 2021 ANNUAL by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Michael Avon Oeming. Midnighter, Shilo and Apollo team up to take on Andrej Trojan and his followers. In the process, they find the current Midnighter and free him, as future Midnighter battles Trojan. With Apollo, present day Midnighter and Shile using a Boom Tube to leave, future Midnighter sacrifices himself to take our Trojan. But…it appears Trojan will live on inside of his chief scientist.

MISTER MIRACLE: THE SOURCE OF FREEDOM #5 by Brandon Easton and Fico Ossio. Shilo and Oberon come across Orion, who is fighting against N’vir and her army. Quickly defeating them, Orion shows them the original Mobius chair. Shilo sits in it and sees images of N’vir at her parents graveside, but find their bodies are gone. It is also revealed she believes Shilo is responsible for their deaths, even though Shilo and Orion do not know who Scott and Barda were. She reorganizes her forces and attacks, even as the mystery continues. Are Scott and Barda lost in the Omniverse?

NIGHTWING #84 by Tom Taylor and Robbi Rodriguez. Nightwing gets a call from Barbara, but it's actually the Anti-Oracle. Dick heads to a meeting in Crime Alley and crosses paths with the Magistrate. Batman arrives and the pair escape. Later, Dick meets with Barbara, who decides to join the fight…as Batgirl.

ROBIN #6 by Joshua Williamson and Gleb Melnikov. The tournament continues and the numbers dwindle. Robin becomes friends with Flatline and convinces Ravenger and Connor that the secret of the island lies in Mother Soul’s book. During the next round, Damian steals the book and figures out who she really is. But he may not get a chance to reveal the information as Respawn attacks.

SHAZAM! #3 by Tim Sheridan and Clayton Henry. Billy and Dane get away from Sulibak and run into Neron, who promises to lead them to the Rock of Eternity. He gets them there but then turns on them. Luckily they get a save from Raven. She takes the injured Dane back to Titans Tower and Billy finally enters the Rock of Eternity. He expects to find the Wizard, but is surprised when he sees Black Adam.

STATIC: SEASON ONE #3 by Vita Ayala, Nikolas Draper-Ivey and Chriscross. Francis Stone has been captured and may end up joining the group hunting Bang Babies. Meanwhile, Virgil is hiding in Metcalf’s storage unit and acquires some of Metcalf’s tech to escape. At home, Virgil makes use of a strange metal he got from Metcalf’s and creates a costume. Elsewhere, Daisy meets with Darius and reveals she is a Bang Baby. Later, the Feds and Hotstreak show up at school and take Daisy and Darius away.

SUICIDE SQUAD 2021 ANNUAL by Robbie Thompson, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira and Dexter Soy. Superboy battles Superboy, where we discover that the Suicide Squad Superboy is actually a clone now known as Match and infused with Bizarro personality. The full team discovers a lab filled with Superboy clones. In the end, the team convinces Match to stay with them and take Waller down. Rick Flag goes to Baxk X Prison and frees Mirror Master. He also reveals he has someone on the inside of Task Force X…Talon.

SUICIDE SQUAD #7 by Robbie Thompson and Eduardo Pansica. Waler has the recently returned team in stasis where they are living a dream of being on a beach with Ambush Bug, who explains how they have been mind-controlled. After a virtual training mission in their heads, Waller sends the team to Hell to find the Rock of Eternity. But the Hell Squad is there to stop them.

SUICIDE SQUAD: GET JOKER! BOOK TWO by Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev. The team has some down-time in which to bond before heading to a strip club looking for The Joker. It goes bad while Harley gives The Joker a lap dance and, outside, Toyman kills Yonder. Toyman is revealed to be a robot and Banshee gets shot up by a team consisting of Rick Flag, Deathstroke, Peacemaker and others. Is this Waler’s doing?

SUICIDE SQUAD: KING SHARK #1 by Tim Seeley and Scott Kolins. Defacer is in Belle Reve in a therapy session when she gets into a tussle with Hot Take. King Shark takes a liking to her and later eats Hot Take when he menaces Deacer, Later, Amanda Waller tasks her with a mission with King Shark to go visit his father. They head off to Waipio Bay to meet Shark’s father, but get into a fight with Orca. After defeating her, the pair enter a portal that takes them to an ethereal dimension. Once there, they meet with Vik Wynn who tells them they will end up in a fight to the death against a group known as The Exemplers.

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW #4 by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Kara and Ruthye continue their planet hopping journey as they search for Krem.

SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY #3 by Grant Morrison, Travel Foreman and Mikel Janin. The team saves Enchantress from her troubled mind and she joins up. The team split up onto several missions, with Apollo looking for Lightray, who may have been captured by Eclipso. Midnighter, Natasha Irons and Manchester Black travel to Dubai and come face to face with a team calling themselves The Authority. At Fort Superman, Superman is attacked by the Ultra-Humanite who now lives in Solomon Grundy’s body. He easily dispatches Superman and prepares to take him to the bottled city of Kandor, where he plans to put his brain into Superman’s body.

SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #3 by Tom Taylor and John Timms. The Infantino Tower in Coast City is ready to collapse and father and son team up to save everyone. The cause is a girl with density powers named Faultline who can't control her powers. To keep her and everyone else safe, they take her to S.T.A.R. Labs. Later, Jon goes to a protest against Henry Bendix and his treatment of the Gamorran people and gets arrested. Forty-five minutes later and Superman bails him out, as Jon’s new friend Jay attempted to also do. Jay accompanies them to dinner on the Smallville farm, but has an emotional break when he meets his hero, Lois Lane. Soon, he tells Jon he needs to go to Warworld and leaves Jon in charge. Finding out Superman is gone, Bendix releases Faultline onto the Kent family home.

THE SWAMP THING #7 by Ram V and Mike Perkins. The Suicide Squad finds Heatwave's body, leading Peacemaker to call Waller for help. Nightmare Nurse manages to probe Swamp Thing’s mind to find what troubles him. It all goes back to   when Levi's company wanted to buy the land but Levi's family and the people of Kaziranga were convinced that selling would lead to destruction of the ecosystem of the Green. Levi's company bought the land with the help of the government and bribes. Levi's father is shot during protests and Levi's family blames him for it. Nightmare Nurse sends in Chemo to dissolve Swamp Thing but, with the power of Kaziranga’s green, he fights back.

TEEN TITANS ACADEMY #6 by Tim Sheridan and Rafa Sandoval. It’s summer vacation and Stich, Chupacabra, Tress, Summer Zahid and Gorilla Gregg check out a vacation village in East Nyack, New York. Gregg goes missing and, realizing something feels wrong, they go undercover and follow the townspeople to a meeting. There they find Gorilla Grodd as he prepares the people to take over New York City. And by his side/ His nephew-Gorilla Gregg!

TITANS UNITED #1 by Cavan Scott and Jose Luis.The team of Nightwing, Starfire, Donna Troy, Raven, Beast Boy, Superboy, and Red Hood face off against an ex-con named Evan Morton, who has the power to absorb the team’s individual powers. In the process, he absorbs Superboy’s powers and that leaves him injured with a broken arm. Back at Titans Tower, they get an emergency call from Hawk and Dove, who tells them they are getting beaten up by Kite Man. Just what is going on?

WONDER GIRL #3 by Joëlle Jones and Adriana Melo. Yara wanders away from the plane crash and she and João share a kiss. Eros arrives and starts is shooting arrows at them. A giant snake begins chasing Eros and Yara gives chase. This leads her to a clearing here she meets a pair of mystical monsters who say they have been waiting to meet her. While she tries to take out the creatures with the bolas she received from Iara, Eros stabs her with one of his arrows, leaving her in love with him. He takes Yara to Mount Olympus where she meets Hera, Queen of the Gods. Esewhere, Cassie and Artemis team up against some Amazons before deciding they must find Yara things get worse.

WONDER WOMAN #779 by Becky Cloonan, Jordaire Bellaire, Michael Conrad, Travis Moore and Paulina Ganucheau. Boston Brand is dead and Janus is to blame. Diana wraps her lasso around Deadman and he rises up. He explains that they are stuck in the in-between space with no way out but then admits he was lying and goes off to get help. Sigfried and Ratatosk arrive and so does The Norns, who wrap Janus in their threads and plan to remove er from the thread of reality. Deadman returns with the dead Oympians and Janus’ other half, who orchestrated the whole thing in order to eliminate his other half. Diana begs The Norns to spare their lives and stitches them back together again. Wonder Woman uses the Godscraper to make a portal out of herself and disappears, Sigfried and Ratatosk head to Asgard and the Olympians return home. In the backup, Young Diana enters an Amazonian competition that may finally result in her becoming Wonder Woman.

DC UNIVERSE: Month 44, Part 1

ACTION COMICS #1035 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Sean Lewis, Daniel Sampere and Sami Basri. Superman battles a confused Thao-La and convinces her to break the chains, even though it may cost the lives of her people, promising her that he will go to Warworld and release the slaves. She ends up in stasis as Superman prepares to leave. The Justice League shows up to lend a hand, but they already know he has selected a team to assist him. He says goodbye to Jon and Lois, before meeting with his new team, The Authority, before heading to Warworld. In the backup, The Guardian tracks down a kid who is getting everyone to play a game that summons a tech demon called Dismember.

AQUAMAN: THE BECOMING #1 by Brandon Thomas and Diego Olortegui. Jackson is fighting on Apokolips in a virtual training session being overseen by Aquaman. When finished, he goes to lunch with his mother where he takes an interest in his server and the server does the same. He leaves and takes down a new criminal called the Human Flying Fish. Later, he goes to The Well and gets arrested for crime against the Atlantean Empire.

BATMAN: FEAR STATE: ALPHA #1 by James Tynion IV and Riccardo Federici. Months ago, Simon Saint meets with Jonathan Crane, who develops the idea of creating a “Fear State” in Gotham and hints that they were responsible for A-Day. In the present, Scarecrow is tormenting Batman and a drugged-out Peacekeeper-01races through Gotham. At the Clock Tower, a new Oracle takes over the system, spreading lies to Gotham and claiming that Batman is dead.  Under Gotham, Harley and the Gardener convince Queen Ivy to allow the Unsanity Collective to hide here. In Alleytown, Selena cares for the other Ivy as the Magistrate stalks the area. Elsewhere, the Second Son contemplates putting on the suit.

BATMAN #112 by James Tynion IV, Brandon Thomas, Jorge Jimenez and Jason Howard. Batman finally escapes the Scarecrow and heads to the Clock Tower, where he learns that the Anti-Oracle has corrupted Oracle and is spreading misinformation to Gotham. Ghostmaker is in a jungle in the sewers of Gotham where Harley and the Gardener ae trying to convince Queen Ivy to join the fight. Meanwhile, Peacekeeper-01 is dosed with Fear Gas and on the loose, causing Simon Saint to create Peacekeeper-X.  In the backup, Clownhunter, faces off with Scarecrow and it might kill him.

BATMAN #113 by James Tynion IV, Brandon Thomas, Jorge Jimenez and Jason Howard. The Anti-Oracle is spreading false messages over the airwaves to ensue panic among Gotham. Batman visits Commissioner Renee Montoya and tells her everything about Simon Saint, the Magistrate, and Mayor Nakano. When he leaves, he encounters the Magistrate’s Cybers. He meets up with Ghostmaker, who uses an old VR headset to get into Batman's mind to find anything the Scarecrow left behind in his head. What they discover is Ghostmaker's memories reveal his connection to Jonathan Crane during his school years where Crane had already written a paper regarding Fear State. In the end, Peacekeeper-X confronts Peacekeeper-01 while Scarecrow watches. In the backup, Clownhunter finds himself in a nightmare where his parents are still alive and he is facing up against monster-sized Jokers.

BATMAN/CATWOMAN #7 by Tom King and Liam Sharp. In the past, Bruce and Selina have sex and then explains his anger on how he could smell that The Joker was there before him. In the present, a naked Bruce has been locked up in a bank vault naked and has to fight the police. He covers his face with blood and fights his way out. In the future, Selina is arrested for the murder of the Joker and Huntress.

BATMAN: REPTILIAN #4 by Garth Ennis and Liam Sharp.Batman confronts Croc, explaining that the creature hunting the villains of Gotham is Croc’s child, that apparently, he gave birth to.

BATMAN SECRET FILES: MIRACLE MOLLY #1 by James Tynion IV and Dani. Molly and the Unsanity Collective break into a home that turns out to be her family. From there, we learn that Molly is actually Mary Kowalski, who is working as a tech for a company that doesn’t value her input. This leads her down the rabbit hole and discovers the work of Master Wyze. Frustrated, she breaks into a meeting at work to present her robotics designs, but that gets her fired. At the same time, she loses all of her research to the company, which plans on announcing it as their own designs. Later, she tries to get her notebooks back and she gets in a confrontation with her former boss, who she kills in a fit of rage. She tracks down Master Wyze who transforms her into Miracle Molly.

BATMAN/SUPERMAN #22 by Gene Luen Yang and Paul Pelletier. Calendar Man, who died during A-Day, is resurrected by Mr, Mxyzptlk, explaining that all of reality is just organized int little boxes. When he embraces this, he goes off through the comic panels and discovers Batman’s secret identity. After dispatching some other villains who doubt him, he goes after Batman and Superman in a panel breaking battle. Calendar Man accidentally loses one of his arms because of a magic erasing pen. Superman stops the bleeding and the bad guy ends up in Blackgate, where Mxyzptlk shows up and restores his arm and removes the memory of Bruce Wayne being Batman.

BATMAN/SUPERMAN 2021 ANNUAL by Gene Luen Yang, Francesco Francavilla and Paul Pelletier. On the World of the Knight, Superman battles a variety of villains, eventually leading him to the Spider Lady. On the World of Tomorrow, Batman and Robin face off against Bizarro Two-Face, Martha Wayne and Alfred, who transforms into Doomsday. Luckily, Superman and Spider Lady come through a film burn and defeats Doomsday.

BATMAN: THE DETECTIVE #5 by Tom Taylor and Andy Kubert. Batman and Squire break up an Equilibrium created hostage taking and later meets with Ducard, who is recovering from being shot. He reveals that Equilibrium is a former student of his named Charlotte LeSerf. One day, Batman saved the life of John Gallagher who eventually kills Charlotte’s husband and son in a car accident, leading her to believe that this made Batman an Agent of Caos and that people he had saved needed to die.

BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #7 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Tim Seeley, Guillaume Singelin, Kenny Porter, Max Dunbar, Juan Ferreyra and Baldemar Rivas. In the future, Bruce Wayne is dead, having been killed by a super A.I., leading Terry to avenge him and fully take on the mantle of the Bat. To be continued in BATMAN BEYOND: NEO-YEAR #1. In Batman 666, Damian Wayne is a Batman in a future where he fights a new generation of villains. In the third tale, Future State Batgirl Cassandra fights against the Magistrate. In the final tale, Batman One Million, who has the ability to change into Batman’s of the past, fights against Hades-the son of Vandal Savage and descendant of the Bane Dynasty.

BLACK MANTA #1 by Chuck Brown and Valentine De Landro. Black Manta and his crew chase down an ancient relic with connections to Atlantis. The relic is causing Manta extreme pain and someone long buried in Atlantis is reborn.

BLUE & GOLD #2 by Dan Jurgens and Ryan Sook. Blue Beetle rescues Booster from certain death, but all Booster cares about is that it didn’t get livestreamed. Later, the pair take out some bad guys in the Adirondacks. Ted Kord gets fired from his own company and is now broke. But that news gets to Booster too late as Booster holds a press conference to announce Blue & Gold Restoration.

CATWOMAN #35 by Ram V and Nina Vakueva. Hadley as died saving Selina’s sister and her sister has left Alleytown for good. While her team of former villains fight crime, Selina meets with Leo and learns of Anti-Oracle’s message saying that Batman is dead. This forces her to make the decision to go to Gotham and help out with the Fear State situation. In the process she encounters the Magistrate and teams up with Lian. She also learns that the Anti-Oracle is giving false information and that Batman is still alive. Elsewhere, it’s revealed that Riddler and the Penguin are working together, and the Penguin believes if they can find Ivy, they can reengineer her power and Riddler can use it to control Alleytown.

CHALENGE OF THE SUPER SONS #6 by Peter J. Tomasi and Max Raynor. Jon and Damian battle Faust and Savage and get some help from the Justice League. But they’re not really the Justice League: they are just trolls created to look like the greatest heroes due to a spell from Rora. She gives the boys a scroll to go save the League in the present. But can they do this before the bad guys can stop them?

CHECKMATE #4 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Guardian and Merlyn are in the old Watchtower when they are confronted by Green Arrow and Manhunter. On Earth, Bones and company examine some of Guardian’s blood, discovering that Shaw has found a way to brainwash people into being sleeper agents by splicing alien DNA into their blood. Elsewhere, Lois explains what has happened to Clark before opening the snowman statue and finding the birth certificate for Leonardo Lane: her brother she did not know she had. At Checkmate’s headquarters, Leviathan attacks. But Robin reveals they are not here to kill Checkmate…but to transport them to Shaw.

CRUSH & LOBO #4 by Mariko Tamaki and Amancay Nahuelpan. Crush is still stuck in prison and dealing with her cellmate, prison fights, memories of her girlfriend Katie and trying to convince prison officials that she is not her daddy. She convinces prison officials that she is not who they believe her to be and they give her an hour to track Lobo down.

DEATHSTROKE INC. #1 by Joshua Williamson and Howard Porter. H.I.V.E. is using people as incubators for nanotech to turn them into weapons. T.R.U.S.T. dispatches Deathstroke and Black Canary, with an assist from Toyman 2.0, to capture the H.I.V.E. queen. Also, Slade reveals he has accepted this job because he is dying.

DETECTIVE COMICS #1043 by Mariko Tamaki and Dan Mora. With Gotham in turmoil, many of Nakano’s security force attempt to assassinate him. When that fails, the team kidnaps Nakano, leading to Batman intervening and freeing him. They escape to the sewers, where they find Vile’s creature egg cache. In the backup, Batman saves Donovan and Red Hood joins in the fight. But Jason is captured and offered a job…leading Task Force Z

THE FLASH #774 by Jeremy Adams and Christian Duce. Wally West and his daughter Irey are going off to a "Daddy/Daughter" dance. When they arrive at the party, they discover everyone is unconscious and that Dr. Nightmare is responsible. Irey grabs Nightmare’s nightmare inducing hat and uses the creatures from her dreams to defeat him. In the end, the pair travel to Paris and dance the night away.

FUTURE STATE: GOTHAM #5 by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Rafae Grampa and Giannis Milonogiannis. White Rabbit takes out Mad Hatter, much to the surprise and dismay of the Arkham Knight. In the present, Warmonger continues to force Batman and Peacekeeper Red fight each ither, while revealing to Astrid that he was responsible for blowing the bat shaped hole in the middle of Gotham. Jason figures out that they are being controlled by Mad Hatter technology and manages to diffuse it. Cybers and the Arkham Knights team shows up, leading to Astrid’s release and Warmonger flees. Astrid reveals how Warmonger was Supercop Zero and was a failed prototype for the Peacekeeper program. Later, Nightwing meets with his team and discovers that Batman has been arrested by… Peacekeeper Red. In the backup, the Joker continues his never-ending battle against crime, which is assisted by Alfred disguised as The Joker.

GREEN LANTERN #6 by Geoffrey Thorne, Marco Santucci and Tom Raney. Jo Mullein faces off against the Sinestro Corps. Eventually, she meets with Sinestro, who denies that he destroyed the Central Power Battery. Elsewhere, Kilowog is stuck in the Dark Sectors with no ring power. But without a working ring, he may not stand much of a chance of survival. John Stewart gets told the history of the Gold Centurions and prepares to head to Anacitus when he confronts Lonar of New Genesis, who was on Oa before it blew up.

GREEN LANTERN  2021 ANNUAL by Ryan Cady, Sami Basri and Tom Derenick. The Sinestro Corp ring has chosen Jessica Cruz and she delivers Low, Ugg-I, and Lyssa Drak to New Korugar. Sinestro sees her potential in Jessica teaches her to use the power of fear. She finds a refugee ship escaping from Oa and tries to help by putting the First Officer and her security team in charge. Hal Jordan arrives and criticizes her for siding with Sinestro. She quickly realizes that the First Officer and her security team are really space pirates and quickly fixes the situation.In the end, she embraces the power of the Yellow Lantern…for now.

HARLEY QUINN 2021 ANNUAL by Stephanie Phillips, David LaFuente, Marco Failla and Jon Sommariva. Kevin and Solomon Grundy take on Mr. Freeze with predictable resilt. Grundy gets frozen and Kevin tries to explain how he ended up here. Harley runs into Keepsake who insists they go to dinner. They do, but it goes bad fast and Keepsake kidnaps Harley. Grundy and Kevin end up at Penguin’s house, who sends them to find Cheshire, who sends them on a continuing trail of villains in search of Keepsake’s location. Freeze give the pair the info they need, for a price, tracking him to the Ace Chemical Factory. Harley gets free and the two end up in a chemical vat, where Grundy saves her. Later, the team performs at the birthday party of Freeze’ niece. But Keepsake is still on the loose and he will seek revenge in HARLEY QUINN #7.

HARLEY QUINN #7 by Stephanie Phillips and Riley Rossmo.Keepsake and Hugo Strange put together a team of villains Keepsake calls the Caucus of Corruption. It also leads to Strange taking on the role of Batman. He also reveals he needs Poison Ivy to complete his plan. Meanwhile, Harley and Kevin go through the woods looking for a lost dog and run into a bear. They find the dog and Bela finds them, revealing she has found Ivy.

I AM BATMAN #1 by John Ridley and Oliver Coipel. Jace dons his Batman uniform and begins his role as the Caped Crusader. While his predecessor, presumed dead, hid in the shadows, Jace wants to be seen by the people of Alleytown as their protector who doesn’t just fight super villains. In the end, GCPD finds the dead body of…Anarky?

ICON & ROCKET: SEASON ONE #3 by Reginald Hudlin and Doug Braithwaite. Icon and Rocket take out the drug trade in Afghanistan, sending many countries into a tizzy as it is doing damage to their economy, including in the United States, where even the President is concerned. It is revealed the U.S.  was visited by an alien baby in 1939 and the government had him killed. The President calls for Mr. Lord, who turns out to be an alien Icon knows and is now hunting Rocket’s mom. Luckily, a certain lawyer with a sword intervenes, but that may not be enough.

INFINITE FRONTIER #5 by Joshua Williamson, Tom Derenick, Jesus Merino and Paul Pelletier. Omega Psycho Pirate is making a deal with Mr. Bones and Machine Head, claiming that the work of the heroes of Earth-0 are destroying the Multiverse. On Earth-Omega our heroes confront Bones and find Barry Allen running in his imposed fantasy. This leads t a battle between the heroes and Injustice Incarnate. Omega Psycho Pirate tells Roy that is he sides with him, he will spare Earth-) and save Liam. Roy unleashes the Black Lantern power and ends up being controlled…by Darkseid.

INFINITE FRONTIER #6 by Joshua Williamson and Xermanico. Darkseid has arrived and has control of the Omega Lantern. Obsidian saves Roy and, in disgust, Darkseid kills Machinehead. Darkseidsends the heroes back to their headquarters, where they decide to find The Flash and the crack in the Omniverse before Darkseid does, which will be resolved in JUSTICE INCARNATE #1. In the end, Darseid gathers his team so he can control The Great Darkness. Barry continues to run, ending up in Multiverse-2, where he meets with Pariah, sending Barry to a happier time on Earth-Flash-1, where he is living his life with his friends and family, including his mother.

THE JOKER #7 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Guillem March and Sweeney Boo. In Santa Resica, someone is trying to turn the prison int a Bane theme park. That person turns out to be Julia Pennyworth and she ends up in a shootout with the potential buyers. Meanwhile, Gordon is under being interrogated by detective Isabella Hallows, who wants his help in bringing down The Network. He agrees, but adds there may be a problem named Vengeance, who interrupts the dinner date between Gordon and Hallows. Elsewhere, Barbara gets attacked by a Talon and it takes the Batgirls to help her out. In the backup, Alexis searches Blackgate Prison for Harper Row and gets an assist while hiding from Orca. Harper makes her way through the prison and finally finds  Kelly Ness. Meanwhile, Cullen learns that his boyfriend is closely connected to the Royal Flush Gang.