JUSTICE LEAGUE: LAST RIDE #6 by Chip Zdarsky and Miguel Mendonca. Hal and Bruce
have found Darkseid’s cones, but Hal isn’t himself, as he’s revealed to be
possessed by Darkseid, who now has
the power of the Green Lanterns. The rest of the team battles Cyborg Superman
and Vril Dox, who also has the Lantern power. Superman gets stabbed by a
Krytoknife, but continues to fight. While Darkseid is preparing to lauch an
attack from a reborn Apokolips, Superman saves Hal and Batman. It is revealed
that Lobo let himself be captured because he was hired by Darkseid to set this
trap. Superman offers Lobo money to switch sides, which he does. The team
regroups as Darkseid meets with Granny Goodness and they lead the attack on the
League. A reborn, Lantern empowered Martian Manhunter arrives…but what side is
he on.
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #6 by Becky Cloonan,
Matthew Rosenberg, Dike Ruan and Cian Tormey. Batman deals with a traumatized
Solomon Grundy, who is troubled by mirrored images of his former self. In the
second story, Gotham has flooded because some criminals have blown up the dam
to engage in a heist. So it’s a team up between Batman and Killer Croc to take
the bad guys down.
NIGHTWING #85 by Tom Taylor
and Robbi Rodriguez. Barbara
sends out a message to everyone that the Oracle Network has been compromised,
leading her to trash her system. The only way to take down Seer is to shut down
Oracle 2, so she and Dick go off to meet Tim. They get to the Oracle 2
warehouse and get dosed with Fear Toxin. When they recover, Barbara and Dick
kiss before learning that Seer is broadcasting from a spaceship. In the end,
Seer sets off an explosion in the Watchtower where the Batgirls are.
NUBIA & THE AMAZONS #1 by Stephanie
Williams, Vita
Ayala and Alitha Martinez. On Themyscira, the Well of Souls starts giving
birth to more Amazons. They begin their journey by adjusting to new life, as
they have no memory of their past lives. But one has troubling dreams about the
end of times, which may actually be coming true.
ROBIN #7 by Joshua
Williamson,
Gleb Melnikov and Max Dunbar. Damian battles with Respawn,
who desperately tries to hide his space and it costs him a life. Damian calls
out Mother Soul, revealing he knows her true identity as Ruh al Ghul: Ra’s al
Ghul’s mother. The whole reason for the tournament is to feed the island with
death energy. The tournament continues with the final four. Flatline faces off
with Damian, resulting in her death. Meanwhile, Hawke takes down Ravager,
leading to the final face-off between Robin and Connor Hawke.
SHAZAM! #4 by Tim
Sheridan and Clayton Henry. Adam reveals that the Apocalypse will be brought
about by the actions Billy is engaging in now and will be brought about by
Raven. After a meal and cocoa, Adam gets Billy to channel his power and he is
back to full power. After facing off against Pride and realizing he cannot save
Freddy, he and Black Adam Jr. team up to continue their fight to stop the
future from happening. In the end, the Titans meet with a recovering Dane,
whose true self seems to have awakened, meaning the end of days may already be
starting.
SUICIDE SQUAD #8 by Robbie Thompson, Eduardo
Pansica and Dexter Soy. Peacemaker battles Swamp Thing, who removes the brain
bomb that was forcing him to do Waller’s bidding. While one of Waller’s own
conspires with Talon to bring her down, the team continues to battle in Hell.
The end result is she gets a way to seal off access to Earth-3. She also has a
cache of Lazarus Resin, meaning death is no longer a way out of the Suicide
Squad, as she resurrects Culebra. Peacemaker, now free of Waller, meets with
Flagg and his new Squad.
SUICIDE SQUAD: KING SHARK #2 by Tim Seeley and
Scott Kolins. Shark battles a giant jellyfish while Vik and Shawn conspire to
make certain he loses in the tournament. But he defeats Tiger Queen in the next
round and their plan seems to be going sideways.
SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY #4 by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin. Inside
the Bottle City of Kandor, Ultrahumanite prepares to take over Superman's body
by putting his brain inside it. Lois Lane shows up with a White Kryptonite
gun and takes the Ultrahumanite down. They discover this is all part of a plan
by Brainiac. The rest of the team battles on various fronts, even saving Lia,
who was kidnapped by Eclipso. The team joins together and heads to Warworld, in
a thread which will continue in ACTION COMICS. In an interesting
epilogue, set after those events, Superman and Manchester Back examine an
artifact from the Source Wall that says “Lightray is”.
SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #4 by Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo. The Justice
League arrives at the destroyed Kent farm and learns that someone dropped Faultiline
here. Jon learns that Jay is a Post-Human and he and Jon meet with Aerie and
Wink, who reveal that Bendix cheated to become President of Gamorra. Jon invades
Gamorra and meets with him, but he has his people overload Jon’s powers.
THE SWAMP THING #8 by Ram V and Mike Perkins.Swamp Thing battles Parasite,
learning his back story in the
process. He
learns the Green chose Levi, while
his brother Jacob tried to force the Green's power into himself. The dark magic
Jacob uses transforms him into Hedera, where he plans to use the power to save
the planet. Levi battle Peacemaker where he removes the brain bomb and tells
him to go make peace. In the end, orders go out to pick up Jennifer Reese.
TASK FORCE Z #1 by Mathew Rosenberg and Eddy Barrows.
Crazy Quilt battles a reincarnated Man Bat and Bane, who are being handled by
Red Hood. After his capture, Jason meets with Hanna Hobart and some of the
people in charge of Project Halperin. After Crazy
Quilt gives up information about who might have some quantities of Lazarus
Resin, the team, made up of Red Hood, Bane, Arkham Knight, Man Bat and Bloom,
confront Mr. Freeze. The team is decimated, Freeze gets away and Jason finds
himself frozen…with a hungry Arkham Knight menacing him.
TITANS UNITED #2 by Cavan Scott and Jose Luis. The Titans go after a powered-up Kite-Man, eventually taking
him down. They find a former Cadmus scientist who was responsible for helping
them create sleeper agents to safeguard against out-of-control metahumans.
Before he can reveal much more, an arrow from Lady Vic kills him. Connor and
Starfire give chase, but Conner’s powers fail him and he gets captured by Blackfire.
WONDER GIRL #4 by Joelle
Jones and Adriana
Melo. Yara Flor, deemed to be Hera’s new champion, continues her training with
Chiron on the outskirts of Mt. Olympus to become Hera's new champion. Later, while
Joao sleeps, she is visited by Potira, who shows her why she needs to be the
new champion. She is eventually returned and meets with Artemis and Wonder
Girl. In the end, Chiron shows Yara off to Hera.
WONDER WOMAN #780 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Travis Moore and Steve Pugh. Diana finally returns home to the surprise and delight of most, except for Dr. Psycho. In the end, she goes to Themyscira, meets with Nubia and gets her lasso back.
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