AQUAMAN: THE BECOMING #2 by
Brandon Thomas, Diego Olortegui and Skylar Partridge. Jackson comes out of the
Well surrounded by Atlantean police. They are looking to arrest him for treason
because they allegedly have video of him planting a bomb as part of a terrorist
attack. The police meet and interrogate Mera and it becomes obvious they have a
grudge against the people of Xebel. She manages to get word to Jackson and she
also gets away, to meet up with his mother. But Jackson is wounded from the
attack by the police and may not get to finish his mission.
AQUAMAN/GREEN ARROW-DEEP TARGET #1 by Brandon Thomas and Ronan Cliquet. A satellite is taken
offline, and a shadow team sets up a device that manages to bring a baby
dinosaur into it. They kill the dinosaur and transport it back to their base,
as part of an experiment that successfully brings living tissue from the past
into the future. Six months later, General Anderton is sitting around with
dinosaurs around. He gets transported to base, but something goes wrong.
Eighteen months later, Oliver Queen heads to Atlantis and confronts Aquaman.
But something is wrong as Aquaman is the archer and Oliver sits on the throne
and each other has the other person’s skill set and powers. After a face-to-face fight, they surface and meet up with some guys
in a boat, who tells Anderton they have returned. But Anderton appears
to be…a dinosaur?
ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE WORLD #1 by Dan Watters and Dani. Thing have gone crazy in a
post A-Day Gotham, with many villains loose throughout Gotham. Criminal psychologist Dr. Jacosta Joy is concentrating on getting the escaped
inmates the help she believes they need. While the “Ghost of Arkham” haunts Mad
Hatter, the Ten Eyed Man is loose and arrives at Joy’s home, where he tells her
they need a ritual…and presents her with the bloody jaw of one of his victims.
BATMAN #114 by James Tynion IV, Brandon Thomas, Jorge Jimenez and Jason Howard. Miracle Molly talks with Ivy and
figures out what Scarecrow’s endgame is and needs to get to Batman. Simon Saint
is freaking out that Peacekeeper-01 has gone rogue, which has Peacekeeper-X
being dispatched to help turn him back. This leads to a battle where Peacekeeper-01
is injured but kills Peacekeeper-X, even as Batman tries to help. In the end,
Saint’s Peacekeepers arrive, but so does Molly, who explains that she knows
what is really happening. In the backup, Clownhunter continues to hallucinate
while falling to his possible death. That’s when a Robin shows up to save him.
BATMAN #115 by James
Tynion IV, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Jorge Jimenez, Bengal and Jorge
Corona. Simon Saint is going crazy after the death of
Ricardo/ Peacekeeper-X, when he gets a call from Mayor Nakano, which he refuses
to take. Batman and Miracle Molly goes to the Unsanity safe house, where they
discover that the Scarecrow has the Mind Machine, which he can use to mind-wipe
everyone.Scarecrow meets up with Peacekeeper-01 and prepares him for the Mind
Machine. Queen Ivy meets with Master Wyze, who reveals he worked with Jervis
Tetch and was Doormouse to Tetch’ Mad Hatter. The Peacekeepers arrive at her
domain and Saint orders them to bring him Ivy’s head. In the backup, Batgirl is
on the prowl, leading Spoiler to find her. Bt that leads them into seeing the
“face” of Seer.
BATMAN/CATWOMAN #8 by Tom King and Liam Sharp. In the past, Batman and Catwoman’s
relationship continues to fracture because of her ongoing relationship with The
Joker. In the present, The Joker and Phantasm torment a family. It is revealed
that the family had another son who was kidnapped as a baby. Phantasm uncovers
her mask and says the kidnapped boy was her son. That leads t the Joker choking
her. In the future, Selina’s daughter meets with Commissioner
Dick Grayson and decide to team up to bring her mother in. Selina kidnaps The
Joker’s body, dismembers it and hangs the body part on the huge Christmas tree
in Gotham.
BATMAN SECRET FILES: PEACEKEEPER-01 #1 by Ed Brisson, James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson. Sean Mahoney/Peacekeeper-01 is
on the run after his confrontation with Peacekeeper-X. In flashbacks, we see
that the Mahoney family has been Gotham police officers for generations. As a
child, Sean witnesses his father and some cop friends kill another cop. Young
Sean also gets brainwashed by Mad Hatter, which leads he and his classmates
doing Hatter’s dirty work, deeply disappointing his father. Later, Jim Gordon
become Commissioner and exorcises dirty cops, including Sean’s father. He is
convinced to carry on the tradition but is blackballed by Gordon. Sean ends up
working as a guard at Arkham, eventually getting alone time with Hatter and
gaining his revenge. He get suspended for his actions and, on A Day, he was
trying to destroy his records. When he learns that two nurses are trapped, he
risks his life and saves them, but at a high cost to his body. Although Sean is
now considered a hero, his father refuses to pay the medical bills, which
allows Simon Saint to enter the picture, transforming Sean into Peacekeeper-01. In the end, Peacekeeper-01 ends up
confronting his father at his bar, where he calls his father a nothing and that
Sean is the future of Gotham.
BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #8 by Alyssa Wong, Dan Watters, Christian Ward, Brandon
Thomas, Vasco Georgiev, Nikola Cizmesija and Cian Tormey. Kate and her sister
Beth are talking while Beth continues to keep her Red Alice persona inside of
her when Rene Montoya shows up. She shows Kate video
of Batgirl killing civilians, leading Batwoman to seek her out. When she finds
her, Cassandra explains that the Anti-Oracle is at work spreading lies t the
people of Gotham. Seer shows a video that proves she has been stalking the
Bats. Kate races home to find Beth has attacked some Peacekeepers who have
invaded their home. She vows that Red Alice will d what Batwoman can’t. In the
second tale, a fairytale told by Thomas Wayne becomes a story of Professor Pyg fighting
a Big Bad Wolf in the form of Batman. In the third tale, Azrael is back from
his adventures in JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY and, after meeting with Batman,
is ready to take on the post A-Day world. The final story begins 30 years from
now, Duke Thomas is teamed up with Teekl, who sends the elemental Black
Lightning back in time with the to take out Jonah Whitfield: a regular guy who
gets twisted by Scarecrow. In the process, he meets the Outsiders:
Frankenstein, Metamorpho, Katana, Duke and Black Lightning. They try to help
Jonah and thing go bad fast, which is when Red Robin arrives.
BLACK MANTA #2 by Chuck Brown and
Valentine de Landro. Black Manta is still trying to find a way to cure his
sickness and he meets with Dr. Shin. Shin explains that it all relates to an
object called Orichalcum, which is awakening dormant Atlantean DNA in humans,
which suggests Manta may be of Atlantean descent. In Themyscira, a mysterious
woman arrives and reveals that the stones in her necklace are calling her to go
somewhere. Later, Manta and Gallous go to a party and, after making their way
through possessed people, convinces the Gentleman Ghost to transport them back
to Atlantis in 9000 B.C. In the end, a jailed youth sets off chaos throughout
the world, claiming he if called Devil Ray.
BLUE & GOLD #3 by Dan Jurgens and
Cully Hamner. Booster can’t get to secure his new office because Ted Kord
hasn’t paid the rent. Ted hasn’t paid the rent because he got fired and is
basically broke. An alien associated with the group that had kidnapped the
Justice League attacks the U.N., leading to the pair teaming up, along with
Ted’s newest invention: Buggles. Buggles transports the alien to a Louisiana
swamp where she promises revenge on our heroes. Trixie Collins Booster’s former
assistant, shows up and offers the team office space above her yoga studio and
they decide to engage in crowd sourcing to pay the rent.
CATWOMAN #36 by Ram V, Nina Vakueva and Laura Braga.
Peaxekeepers are hunting for Ivy and Selina, led by the Wight Witch, and lethal
force has been approved. Selina talks to Nygma and asks him to put the pieces
in place. While he reachs out to her allies, he also informs The Penguin that
they are moving Ivy. The rest of the team of former villains confront the Peacemakers
and get some unexpected help from Harley and the Gardener. They confront the
bad guys and Harley untimately takes down the Wight Witch. Ivy is ferried away
in a truck, but there are apparently multiple trucks and one of them contains
multiple versions of Wight Witch. So where is Ivy now?
CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER FRIENDS #7 by Peter J. Tomasi and
Max Raynor. Jon and Damian learn they are due to die, according to the Doom
Scroll. Rora arrives and tells them the curse is broken, but Savage and Faust
arrive. They are dispatched because the curse is broken, but the present-day
Savage and Faust are still here. Luckily, as the boys fight for their lives,
the Justice League arrives to take down the bad guys.
CHECKMATE #5 by Brian
Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. The team, while fighting Leviathan, gets
transported to Thailand, along with their headquarters, which falls apart upon
landing in Thailand. Just before that happens, Lois meets her brother as they
flee from the secret hideout. Shaw has Agent Whitney go undercover as a tourist
at the Hall of Justice. The team transports to the lair of Justice League Dark,
where it suddenly seems Talia is the traitor within the team. In the end, Shaw
confronts Lois and Leo.
CRUSH & LOBO #5 by Mariko Tamaki and Amancay Nahuelpan.Crush
continues her search for her dad, with her landing on a planet ruled by a two-headed
king who wants Crush to get off his plane. He has her attacked by Space Lizards,
but Space Lizards love Crush. With the Space
Lizards in tow, she heads to the house of one of Lobo's girlfriends. She
tells Crush Lobo was here but she doesn’t know where he went. Immediately after
Crush leaves, the girlfriend calls Lobo, who is gambling on Space Vegas.
Luckily, Crush overhears the call and, while ignoring multiple text messages
from her girlfriend, she heads to Space Vegas.
DEATHSTROKE INC. #2 by Joshua Williamson
and Howard Porter. Deathstroke, Black Canary and Toyman, in a batsuit, head to
a space station, where they encounter Cyborg Superman, who has wired up The
Weird to act like a cosmic battery. They defeat Cyborg Superman, free The Weird
and get their next assignment: find and capture Cheetah.
DETECTIVE COMICS #1044 by Mariko Tamaki, Stephanie
Phillips, David Lapham and Dan Mora. While Deb Donovan drinks at a bar, a John Doe in the morgue who died
from parasitic infection seems to be leaking Vile’s eggs.In the sewers, Batman
desperately tries to free Nakamo, who finds himself infected by Vile’s
parasites. Batman uses his grappling gun to get to Nakano, using his taser to
kill the parasites and maybe Nakano himself. Elsewhere, a redhaired woman walks
into the mayor's office and is told that it's been taken over by Nero XIX. She
reveals herself as Batwoman. In the backup, Nakano announces the construction
of Arkham Tower. But the site has a mysterious past and the spirits there may
be having an effect on the construction workers.
THE FLASH #775 by Jeremy Adams and Fernando
Pasarin. A large speared is embedded in the ground in Central
City and not even Superman can pull it free.
What it is apparently doing is radiating pure anger and is causing everyone in Central
City to exhibit this anger. Flash ends up feuding with friends and battles
enemies. Eventually, Starbreaker, an outer space energy vampire, arrives an
reveals the angry energy is making him stronger. He pulls out the artifact and
finds himself filled with a dark power. With that, he leaves and, just then,
Dr. Fate pulls Flash out of the situation, telling him the fate of the universe
is in his hands.
FUTURE STATE: GOTHAM #6 by Joshua Williamson,
Dennis Culver, Jorge Jimenez and Giannis Mionogiannis. Batman has been
“captured by Peacekeeper Red, which is all a ruse so they can get out. The plan
looks like it will work until Warmonger arrives and steals the Arkham Knight
armor. This means he can now control the Hatter’s nanites in the air and bend
everyone’s will to his own, including the Bat family. Batman and Red Hood are
immune, so Hood goes after Warmonger himself. In the backup, Batman tries to
train Damian to follow a plan to take down some bad guys. Of course, Damian
just goes out and does his own thing, leading to Batman being frustrated.
GREEN LANTERN #7 by Geoffrey Thorne, Tom Raney and Marco Santucci. John Stewart questions Lonar about being a New God, which
leads to them seeing a glimpse of the first meeting of the Oans and the New
Gods. When Uxas uses his power to attack the Oans, John steps in and is
transformed to his next place in his evolution. Meanwhile, Jo Mullein continues
to figure out what happened with the power battery. Keli Quintela, in her
sleep, creates a construct threat that Jo and Simon need to handle, while
trying to calm Keli.
HARDWARE: SEASON ONE #2 by Brandon Thomas and
Denys Cowan. The F.B.I. are in Alva’s building and he tells everyone that
Curtis is responsible for the Big Bang. Curtis, undercover as F.B.I., meets
with Tiffany, asking her to help him find something in Alva’s office relate to
Asher Sim. Tiffany meets with Alva, who knows she and Curtis are involved with
each other, and threatens her life. At the same time, Curtis sets off an
explosion and breaks int Ava’s office. Curtis leaves but then discovers Tiffany
has been captured by Ava, leading him to come back as Hardware. He gets
ambushed and, in the process, a man and his son are injured. He leaves the man
but takes the gravely injured boy to the hospital. Later, Hardware meets with
Barraki, tells her about Deacon being injured and heads off to confront Alva,
who is leaving Dakota on a jet.
HARLEY QUINN #8 by Stephanie Phillips and Riley Rossmo. Kevin steps up his
game and decides to take Harleys role as a protector of Gotham, that may cost
him his life. Meanwhile, Harley reunites with Ivy, or a version of Ivy. The
group of Harley, Ivy, Catwoman and the Gardner get confronted by Keepsake and
his Caucus of Corruption. During the battle, Harley figures out that Hugo
Strange is using mind control. Meanwhile, Strange, in his Batman suit, decides
to burn his building down, even if it means killing his own people.
I AM BATMAN #2 by John Ridley and Stephen Segovia. Anarky
has been killed by part of a group inspired by The Seer. Batman takes them down
and gets some intel from the guy who owns the warehouse where the six were
killed. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Chubb interrogate a member of the Moral Authority
who killed Anarky. Batman and Vol send out message of a fake meeting between
The Seer and his followers, leading to Batman taking them down. While Montoya
meets with Jace’ mom, The Seer tells his followers they need to protect
Anarky’s killer because he is a hero to their cause. They are also told to kill
Batman.
THE JOKER #8 by James
Tynion IV, Sam Johns,
Guillem March and Rosi Kampe, Vengeance
injures Isabella and kidnaps Gordon, leaving a trail of officers in her wake.
She reveals that she and her team arrived at the massacre at the laboratory,
revealing the Joker was indeed responsible. She also read the file on her,
showing how she was grown in a test tube, given a fake back story and addicted
to Venom from birth. She suggests they team up, go to the place where the chief
scientist lives and take down the Joker together. In the backup, Harper Row is
trying to get Kelly Ness out of prison so she can expose Alexis Kaye as a true
villain. They get an assist from Orca, giving them a chance to break out. But
Punchline sees all and sends other inmates to attack Harper and Kelly. Orca
lends a hand but gets stabbed by Punchline.
THE JOKER PRESENTS: A PUZZEBOX #3 by Matthew Rosenberg.
Jesus Merino, Dominike “Domo” Stanton and Juni Ba. The detectives question
Two-Face, who explains hoe he got back from Russia safter being shot by Black
Mask. After a visit from the Joker, he goes to investigate Black Mask, but runs
into Deathstroke, allowing him to team up against Slade with Doctor
Phosphorous. Batman attacks and steals Harvey’s car. The detectives leave and
meet with Officer Bachman, who offers to take Harvey’s ledger book, but they refuse
to maintain the chain of custody. Bachman meets with Harvey, who tells him he
needs to get the book back because Bachman is incriminate. The officer tells
him his new employer has removed his name and promised that he is protected.
Back with the Joker, he tells Gordon how Catwoman talked to Killer Moth, who
was in Zambesi near a volcano to retrieve the package. But that leads to a
fight between Moth and Man Bat, but still manage to recover the artifact. In
the present, the captured villains think Harvey is going to flip on them, so a
fight breaks out and Man Bat saves a police officer. Is he ready to flip?
