HARLEY QUINN #40 by Tini Howard, Natacha Bustos, and Grace Ellis. Harley is tasked to train a couple of Mr. Freeze’s recruits. As they prepare for their first mission, Harley meets with Zeus, who tells her of his wife’s death, convincing him to help her to convince them that crime is not the answer. When the mission goes down, it goes badly as the police arrive and apprehends them all, or attempts to as Harley escapes, realizing that this mission was just a distraction from the real theft: an isotope of frozen water. Harley turns herself in to save the others while Freeze places the isotope into the hands of his dead wife and it turns the skyscraper Freeze has as a headquarters into his ice-scraper. In the backup, Harley finds herself in school with Ivy as a professor and her failing her exam involving a mustache assignment. Once again, it is all a dream. But apparently she can create a mustache quite well in real life.
JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. GODZILLA VS. KONG #7 by Brian Buccellato and Christian Duce. Lois contacts the JLA and wants to know where Clark is. He arrives and asks her to marry him, which she agrees to. Deathstroke and Cheetah find what is left of Toyman, who has been crushed by Godzilla. As Kong and the heroes fight the monsters and Luthor’s mech, Gar transforms into a giant gorilla and teams up with Kong. Hal, mourning Guy’s death, creates a giant construct that also joins the fight. Meanwhile, Superman tracks down Godzilla and enrages him, forcing him to follow and join the fight. Along with Kong, who now wears Guy’s ring, Godzilla takes down the monster while the JLA takes down Luthor. Superman uses the Dreamstone to send Godzilla and Kong back home.
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD #5 by Joe Casey and Dan McDaid. A highly injured Zod finds himself on the spaceship and breaks free, killing all of the crew. He proceeds to free all of the ship’s inmates and tells them they are now to follow him, as the Legion of Zod.
NIGHTWING #114 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo. Because of events that happened two weeks ago, Nightwing and his dog are currently in a snow covered place. At a benefit for the Pennyworth Foundation, Heartless is preparing to make his move that will change Dick’s world.
OUTSIDERS #7 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Robert Carey. In another time and place, there is a meeting of the Planetary directors, consisting of Ambrose Chase, Elijah Stone, The Drummer, and Jakita Wagner who gets appointed to the role of Fourth Man, replacing Stone. Immediately after, the world shifts and their entire reality shifts. Jakita finds herself in Metropolis, where she sees the Justice League fighting Darkseid and his Parademons. Racing through the city, she gathers stacks of books chronicling stories from the DC Universe, including 52, Rebirth, and Convergence. She settles into her life in this reality, starting a new life and relationship until reality slips again and she finds herself in multiple realities, eventually ending up with the Final Knight. She tells this story to her current companions, saying she is merely a refugee. Later, she taps her drumstick on the Book of Planetary and someone holding the book of the Outsiders, flips towards the end.
THE PENGUIN #10 by Tom King and Rafael De Latorre. The pieces continue to shift as the Cobblepot children make plans, including killing off their rivals and confidants. Addison meets with her father and, after the meeting, sends her brother and their men to murder their father. But The Penguin is one step ahead and his team takes out the hired hands, giving Penguin a chance to violently beat his son with his umbrella. In the end, Batman meets with Addison.
POISON IVY #22 by G. Willow Wilson and Haining. While Grundy and Croc fend off the creatures and saves Janet from HR, Ivy battle Woodrue, transforming into a creature of the Green in the process. She takes control and orders the creatures to kill her and Woodrue to save the world.
POWER GIRL #9 by Leah Williams and Eduardo Pansica. A HOUSE OF BRAINIAC tie-in. The Holliday Girls and Crush team up with Power Girl in the fight against the Czrarnians. But they capture the Hollidays and that forces Power Girl and Crush to retreat. Elsewhere, someone from Power Girl’s recent past has returned with plans to finish what we started.
RED HOOD: THE HILL #4 by Shawn Martinbrough and Sanford Greene. Batman has arrived and now teams up with Jason and Dana to save her friends from Krekk’s monsters. Batman reveals he was responsible for relocating Krekk to The Hill, angering Jason. Demetrius meets with his father, telling the older man that he plans on taking The Hill and then Gotham. Denise meets with Omar, who sends his men after her as he says Dana represents chaos. She is saved by Jason. But who will save Dana, now that she comes home to find Demetrius waiting for her.
SHAZAM #11 by Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino. As part of a dream, Billy recalls issues he had with being deserted by his mother. Later, Darla is still wondering what was going on with The Captain burning the letter to Billy. As part of the plan to adopt the kids, an adoption worker arrives to interview all of the children, but there are creatures about at the house, leading to the children to continually distract the woman. Billy also speaks to The Captain, who apparently now takes over his body when he transforms. In the end, the adoption is upheld as it is being contested by a family member, who is revealed to be Billy’s mother.
SINISTER SONS #4 by Peter J. Tomasi and Vasco Georgiev. Sinestro heads to New Korugar only to find the power battery destroyed. Meanwhile, the trio inside of the space whale fight the space pirates. But just when things are looking up, Sinestro arrives and wants to know what they are doing in his sector of space.
SUICIDE SQUAD: DREAM TEAM #3 by Nicole Maines and Eddy Barrows. Deadeye, Bizarro, Harley, Clock King, and Black Alice go to parthas, where they find a group of citizens unconscious and asleep. They also observe one citizen being sucked into the trees and then realize dreams are being used to surround them all. They try to capture Dreamer, who tells them she is not trying to defeat Waller but outwit her. When she discovers it is 11:49 PM, she comments that it has already started and then disappears. She ends up at Parthas Elementary, where she sees a group trying to burn it down. The rest of the team shows up and Dreamer tells them this is all part of Waller’s plan, to poison the masses against Metas and heroes. Black Alice puts Dreamer to sleep and they tell Waller that they have secured Dreamer.
SUPERMAN #1413 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. HOUSE OF BRAINIAC Part 4. Superman and Lobo brawl with Lobo taking sides with General .Chacal. Meanwhile, Brainiac tells Lena she is his greatest weapon. Supergirl and Lex end up in the bottled city of Colu, where Lex reveals that he knows there are holes in Brainiac’s psyche and he is building a family. As Brainiac’s “family” arrives, Vril Dox and Luthor’s mother arrive to save the day, telling them he is here to kill his father. Superman has been captured and now Brainiac uses the Super Family’s powers to create his greatest creation, who then kills all the Czarnians but still needs more power. To be continued in ACTION COMICS #1066.
SUPERMAN: HOUSE OF BRAINIAC SPECIAL #1 by Joshua Williamson, Mark Russell, Edwin Galmon, Steve Pugh, and Fico Ossio. HOUSE OF BRAINIAC PART 2.5. In the past, on Czarnia, General Chacal and his pirate band was raging their own chaos on the citizens. General Tribb, wanting to eliminate this problem, meets with Brainiac, making a deal with him: take the city and the inhabitants away and she will give Brainiac immortality.. he took away the chaotic city and then betrayed Tribb. He left the world behind and centuries later, sees that it is a desolate wasteland. In the second story, Perry White’s campaign for Mayor is not going as well as he hoped. Garon Blake is his opponent and he embraces getting rid of all aliens, which is embraced by his followers. During a debate, a member of the crowd sees an alien child and the crowd turns on her, with Bibbo getting involved and allowing her to escape to safety. In the end, someone who was at the debate tells Bibbo that what happened to the girl was not right. In the final story, Waller meets with the Council of Light, revealed to be all the different versions of Brainiac. Feeling used, she terminates the conversation and possibly their relationship. In the end, the Brainiacs are building their ultimate weapon. To be continued in ACTION COMICS #1065 and ABSOLUTE POWER: GROUND ZERO..
TITANS #11 by Tom Taylor and Lucas Meyer. In the past, Morrow tries to turn a girl named Vanessa into the perfect example of his Post-Human Project. But she dies and he has now used her brain to build his newest creation, that he calls Vanadia. He convinces her that the Titans have been replaced by demonic robots, which pleases Waller. At the Tower, Dick uses a special code word to enter his own mind and learns that Raven might have been compromised by the dark winged queen. Vanadia attacks, during which Rachel heads back to her father’s world.
WONDER WOMAN #9 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere, and Belen Ortega. Diana is still a prisoner and she uses the power of her mind to communicate with an imagined Steve Trevor in a variety of situations, in order to keep her sanity. When her captor comes to check on here, Diana is sitting with her only companion: a rat. Still with her sanity, she asks him what is next. In the backup, trinity visits Zatanna in search of a way to turn Damian and Jon back to their normal selves, instead of being a dog and a cat. She spends an undetermined amount of time trying to train them, to the point of her exhaustion, until they finally revert back to their original selves..
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