DC UNIVERSE Month 99, Part 2

GREEN LANTERN #34 by Jeremy Adams and Montos. Gridlock has escaped from Oa’s Sciencells and threatens to detonate the Earth’s core. Although having difficulty, Kyle eventually defeats Gridlock. Later, Odyssey and Kyle are walking down the streets of Los Angeles and Odyssey is propositioned by a man claiming to be a producer offering her a job in a movie. Meanwhile, Hal and Jayna have escaped from an Oan satellite but Hal sees they are running short of supplies and, in a lame disguise, go back to the planet, only to be taken by an invisible force that brings him to the Guardians, who request he returns home or his actions will be disastrous for the universe. As the Guardians try to force him to return home, Jayna rescues him. As they reach the ship, the Guardians destroy it. But the Guardians get paralyzed by a mysterious person who claims to be Toby Y2K-the last son of Earth.

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #15 by Morgan Hampton and Fernando Pasarin. Guy and his team battle with the Manhunters and find themselves losing as the enemy can absorb and redirect emotional energy back at the Lanterns. Guy uses Allsight to find the Manhunter’s weaknesses and the Lanterns manage to disrupt their emotional intake. Meanwhile, John Stewart battles to resist being taken over by Parallax, leading him on a journey of self-exploration with help from his deceased mother. In the end, the Lanterns manage to free the Proselyte but at the cost of Aya being corrupted by a Manhunter.

HARLEY & IVY: LIFE & CRIMES #5 by Erica Henderson. Harley and Ivy are allowed to crash at Ma Hunkel’s, where she is “unofficially” taking care of children who needed a place to stay. Ivy tends to the gardening while Harley helps to teach the kids. That night, the kids sneak out and Harley and Ivy join them at an empty building across the street that is alleged to be haunted. Two of the kids find a bag and, upon opening it, see a lot of money. Whn the girls hear a crash, they go to investigate and find that the kids are now stuck inside of…Clayface!

HARLEY QUINN #61 by Elliott Kalan and Carlos Olivares. Harley, as Bat Quinn meets Harley Quinn at Mrs. Grimaldi’s. How is this possible? Because of the Alpha Energy during DC K.O., Harley has been split into two beings with the Harley Quinn here actually being her brain known as Quinntellect. Mrs. Grimaldi remarks that Bat Quinn has lost her funny side. Bat Quinn ends up brooding outside of Althea Klang’s apartment. While Klang is trying to talk to Bat Quinn, Colonel Blimp arrives and Bat Quinn savagely beats him and breaks most of his bones, leading Klang to send Bat Quinn away and calling her a  monster. As the police and medical personnel take Blimp away, we see that Klang has reached out to Detective Philo Charles: The Monochromatic Man.

JSA #18 by Jeff Lemire, Mark Waid, Gavin Guidry, and Joey Vazquez. The individual future Justice Society members put aside any differences to fight against the Ultra-Humanite, defeating him and then putting together the Justice Society of America with its’ core membership: Ther Atom, Dr. Midnite, Green Lantern, Dr. Fate, Hawkman, The Flash, Sandman, and The Spectra. In the backup, Stargirl and Atom Smasher have arrived at the Brownstone and want The Flash and Green Lantern to open up their ranks to the ‘Lost Children’ and become their teachers. Green Lantern wonders were Kid Eternity is and we learn she is becoming the new Spectre, whether she likes it or not.

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERGALACTIC SPECIAL #1 by Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, and Travis Moore. Dreamer has a vision about the Witch Queen, AKA Maal Sinestro,  who has taken over Naltor and Galaxy and Star Sapphire head out to help. At the same time, Adam Strange, Green Arrow and Argus are also involved and their ship gets hit, resulting in a save by Galaxy and Sapphire. While Adam tries to find somewhere to land, Dreamer shows up, having dream-walked through Arrow’s unconscious mind, instructing him to land hear a ruined temple. The Witch Queen corrupts Carol and it is up to Galaxy to remove the creature. Next, they encounter similarly corrupted Green Lanterns,.with Galaxy doing her best to fight them without hurting them. Dreamer, Sapphire and Arrow  team up and work together to take Sinestro down. With the mission a success, Dreamer and Galaxy have a spat and then, suddenly, fall into a deep sleep. To be continued in JUSTICE LEAGUE: DREAM GIRLS.

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #18 by Mark Waid and Clayton Henry. In the wake of the tournament, the decision is made to grant amnesty to the supervillains that participated in the tournament. Ted Kord finds Guy and asks what vision he saw, with Guy saying he is supposed to be the Corps’ spiritual leader. He has been tasked to take the power bank to Oa and Mister Terrific and Hawkgirl have volunteered to accompany him. Ted visits Booster who is preparing a Time Bubble to search for Superman. Martian Manhunter and Mary Marvel agree to go with him and the ship is shattered and they are attacked by Epoch. Meanwhile, a team of villains and League members head to Bialya to rescue a group of kidnapped scientists. Lex recognizes some of the scientists as people who worked for the Geneva synchronics project and discover that T.O. Morrow is behind the kidnapping and he unleashes a molecular disruption device paralyzing all but Lex, who is protected by his armor. Giganta attempts to break it but it disfigures her right hand before shutting down as Lex has convinced Morrow to sell the weapon to him. He has also leaked the idea of the amnesty program to news outlets and now the whole world knows the League now has dangerous criminals working with them.

LOBO #2 by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona. Lobo gets a corporate approved makeover and then goes out to collect his first bounty, but he first has to go through everything being directed with cuts, edits and corporate censoring. While he deals with it and continues with his bounties, he is not happy about all of it; even more so once he learns that the ratings are slipping so he is tasked to apprehend Emperor Aquaman. The two battle at length and Lobo gets run through by Aquaman’s trident. That is when he discovers he has been cancelled due to a corporate merger. While he does get paid for his bounties, he is told his costume belongs to O.O.E.C., meaning he finishes the issue naked!

NEW TITANS #34 by Tate Brombal and Sami Basri. The two groups of Titans fight with each other until Victor Stone arrives, which seems impossible because Cyborg is already here. Cyborg’s features change and he flees, leaving Victor to explain they have a new member named Eva while also explaining that the Alpha Energy has separated Victor from Cyborg, with Cyborg creating his own Mecha-World that the Titans have been trapped in. Cyborg returns and the New Titans attack but are quickly taken captive. Tara ends up trapping Cyborg and he seemingly dissolves as Eva, the “daughter of tomorrow” arrives from within him.

NIGHTWING #137 by Dan Watters and Denis Cowan. Nightwing is having nightmares over the incident on the bridge with his strange passenger. Meanwhile, traffic is tied up on the bridge as construction crews have unearthed a skeleton in the concrete. A shot rings out and a woman on the bridge is killed. Commissioner Sawyer calls Nightwing and asks him to get involved regarding the shooting, which he does. But Batman is there too and he finds the shooter and gives chase. But two more people are shot, leading Nightwing to purposely attract the shooter’s attention so he could see where the shot came from. He is grazed by a bullet but make his way to the second shooter, who turns out to be a woman named Ioana Ruscova and her brother Andrei is the other shooter, who has now gone to a new location. Ioana gives herself up to save the life of her finance, one of the construction workers. Andrei had convinced her that a sacrifice was needed as the skeleton apparently was their great-grandfather and architect Raul and a sacrifice was needed to keep his spirit appeased. In the end, Dick has to deal with the ramifications of the accident he was involved in, the Witch of Bludhaven, and the Raul’s skeleton.

POISON IVY #43 by G. Willow Wilson and Jaime Infante. In the recent past, Ivy and Harley break up after Ivy says they cannot be together because of her new position of power. Later, she goes into the sewers with a plumbing contractor to examine the handiwork of his family. While there, Catwoman arrives, asking Ivy what her ultimate plan is as Mayor. Catwoman departs and Ivy discovers a message on a wall with a quote from Shakespeare’s RICHARD II. Together, Ivy and the plumber find an area where sewage exists and Ivy threatens him for trying to destroy the ecological balance in Gotham. She does more than threat as he becomes a part of  a Draecana draco tree. In the end, a hill comes to life and tells her that the Parliament of Trees wants war after Ivy ate the Bog Venus.

SUPERGIRL #12 by Sophie Campbell. Lena and Conner are wondering what is going on with Kara and notice some kind of ‘Super Substance’ filling the bottle containing Kandor. Kara wakes up after the disastrous end of last issue to find that she has been rebuilt with Bionic and Cybernetic augmentations. She is soon visited by members of the Science Council, with Kara Black Flame now has the yellow ring of Nor-Rann and is using that power. Bry-Zan shows off Team Thunder: clones of Boy Thunder. Black Flame and her followers break into the Science Council’s bunker. Kara battles with Black Flame and is frozen with her freeze-breath. That is when Team Thunder arrives, set on killing Black Flame.

SUPERMAN #37 by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora. Superboy-Prime visits Jonathan and Martha Kent, telling them he is happy to see them alive as his own parents are dead and some people, specifically Mark Waid, want to see Prime’s Johnathan and Marftha dead. Using the name CK, he has gotten a job at Asteroid Comics and is a candidate for Employee of the Monbth but a regularly late for work. After work, he visits Crime Alley in Gotham City  and is ambushed by Robin, with CK saying he didn’t like Damian at first but now he is a “fan favorite”. Together, they go searching for a chemical bomb stolen by Clayface. Prime keeps Clayface busy but uses his x-ray vision to find the bomb which he vaporizes with his heat vision, even as Clayface tries to confuse him by taking the form of Superman. Prime is consumed by a white light and he begins seeing visions of him killing superheroes. When he eventually awakes, he is on a rooftop and Robin says he spent the night watching over him, after he locked up Clayface. He races to work but someone else has gotten Employee of the Month. He admits it is tough to be a better person when people expect him to fail. Martha goes outside to talk to Power Girl who has been watching Prime as she does not trust him, telling PG that he cannot be expecting to change if he is constantly being monitored. In the end, a girl who has had a passing interest in CK says that she thinks he would be the perfect sacrifice for her ceremony.

SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #12 by Dan Slott and Lucas Meyer. President Castillo hosts a ceremony in Emerald City in honor of Superman following the King Omega tournament. Castillo is protected by his upgraded Krypto-Knights; upgraded thanks to weapons from the Fortress of Plentitude. Elsewhere, two scientists are injecting Kryptonite into animals and a chimpanzee escapes and is found by Bibbo, who names the ape Beppo. After their encounter with Master Txyz, Superboy and Tomorrow Man teleport to Smallville but Superboy yells at residents to leave him alone, causing the residents to be blown away and having to be saved by Tomorrow Man. Tomorrow Man takes Superboy to Metropolis to Lois’ apartment. Batman and Robin are also there and Batman asks Tomorrow Man who he is, which he refuses to do as he explains he is from the future.and does not want to disturb Superboy’s future. In the end, with Superboy back with his mother, Robin looks to make a Kryptonite batarang in case Superboy turns out to actually be a villain.

WONDER WOMAN #32 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere. Twenty years from now, the Matriarch is being interviewed. During the interview, Mouse Man comes in and whispers something to The Matriarch, mirroring an early moment between her and Darkseid. With that, she orders Mouse Man to destroy the footage of the interview, kill the reporter and find her another one. Meanwhile, Diana and Trinity land on Themyscrira, which is no longer home to the Amazons and is ruled by men. They make their way into a bunker where they find a captive Superman. Also captured here? Steve Trevor.

ZATANNA #1 by Jamal Campbell. Zatanna, the Prime Magus,  heads into the Vardant City of Elves to eliminate a plague spirit from the body of a young girl named Va’irra. Eventually succeeding, she is met by members of the D.E.O. who have entered the realms of magic including Agent Di Manes, who tells her that he is the head of the Occult Affairs division of the D.E.O., telling her the realm of magic is changing and he looks forward to working with her again.

DC UNIVERSE Month 99, Part 1

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #19 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta. 1,500 miles from Gotham, Absolute Scarecrow walks out of a corn field and, through his manipulations, is responsible for the deaths of two men on the ground and whoever is flying a small plane. In Gotham City, Batman takes down a group of criminals while being watched from the Bat Lair by Alfred , Harley and her Red Hood gang. Later he meets with Waylon, who is slowly reverting back to his normal self. He gets a call from Jim Gordon and meets him on a rooftop where Gordon gets attacked by birds, thanks to the Absolute Scarecrow, and falls to his death. News reports declare Batman killed Gordon and Mayor Hill reveals his new police leader, Slade Wilson, along with his team of Robins: Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Duke Thomas, Jason Todd, and Dick Grayson.

ABSOLUTE FLASH #14 by Jeff Lemire and Haining. Wally and Linda race through a maze of mirrors, where Wally sees the Kent Farm in one of them and Linda sees the Dibney Mission. Suddenly, men in goggles are behind them screaming “Where. Is. Scudder?” Wally and Linda flee, seeing visions of their lives and family reflected in the mirror, including Linda seeing her older brother who she thought was dead. When Wally sees his father and Barry in still point, he smashes the mirror and the men attack them, with one of them grabbing them and pulling them into the ruins of Barry’s lab. He claims he is “the real one” as Wally demands he opens the way to Still Point and he says his name in Sam Scudder who once worked with Barry to create S.T.A.R. Labs and also created the ‘Mirror Dimension’ that, because of an accident, he is now tied to. He cannot leave it for more than an hour or he will die and every time he attempts to leave, it creates a double that wants to kill him. He tells Wally to find Elenore because she can free him and he will open a portal to Still Point. Scudder tells him to go to S.T.A.R. Labs and find Ray Palmer. Linda, deciding to be a part of all of this, gets him a spare costume from a rack of suits and they head to Central City. In one of the broken shards from the mirror, unseen by Wally and Linda, there are the faces of evil Wally and Linda.

ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #13 by Al Ewing and Eleorona Carlini. On the planet Rann, Sin es tro-the Controller of Mu-talks with Overseer Shade of the Blackstars, ordering him to gather all Blackstars to break the Green lantern and kill all Tomars. He orders the Blackstars to bring in Scientician Sardath, demanding to know exactly what the Zeta Beam is for. Shade wears the M-Vest creating images that play on the paranoia of criminals. Shade removes his helmet and displays an x-shaped scar after the ‘Sacred Laser’ was used to carve out childish things from his brain. Sardath asks where his daughter Alanna is, fearing she has been sent to the Zone of Madness. But she has been changed, having also been subjected to the ‘Sacred Laser’. When Sardath refuses to reveal the true nature of the Zeta Beam, his own daughter executes him. Shade and Alanna locate the Zeta Beam device and it activates, bringing in O.S.S. Agent Emily Hawke. Using the M-Vest, Shade tries to scare her into defeat but she grabs him and breaks his neck, killing him; after which she fades away and enters the Zone of Madness.where she encounters the ‘Face of Steel’

ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #18 by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval. In the distant past, an orphaned slave named Teth-Adam tries to keep the slavers from beating an elderly man. Instead, they kill the old man and savagely beat Teth-Adam. That night, after a robed figure who may be the Absolute Phantom Strager talks of a savior, the boy sneaks out of their camp and walks into the desert known as ‘The Red Land’. As he is overwhelmed by a sandstorm, he calls out that the Gods and legends are false and demands he be struck down if he is wrong. The ‘wizard of the sands of eternity’ appears before him as a great metal skull in the sky. In actuality, it is a survey ship from the Brainiac Collective. They beam him onboard and expose him to a Father Box; curious of what it will do to him. In the present, In the present, Jimmy calls Clark to complain about his job at the Daily Planet. He also says Lois never showed up for her job interview and that turns out to be because she had broken into a deserted Lazarus Corp facility to track down the al Ghuls. Talia has led her father to the final Lazarus Pit and he proceeds to attempt to destroy it. Talia orders him into the Pit at the tip of her sword. Lois arrives, bent on killing Talia but Superman bursts in and orders them to drop their weapons, even as Talia produces a Father Box. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure carrying a magnetized hammer, takes out the Peacemakers. Ra’s begs Talia to shut off the father Box and she declares she will only do that if Ra’s kills Lois. The hammer wielder arrives and takes out Ra’s and Superman is able to knock the Father Box away. It hits a sarcophagus which opens and King Shazam, the former Teth-Adam, emerges from it.

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #19 by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. In the past, Aphrodite tells Circe that she cannot visit the island any more. In the present, Steve and Etta, along with some of the panicked citizens of Gateway City, head into a building where she discover a coven praying around Hecate’s symbol asking for protection. Meanwhile, Diana fights against The Eternal Flame/Giovanni Zatara, binding him in the Troika and putting them both in an unconscious state. The Troika divides into two with paths leading to Sindella or Zatanna as a baby. Accepting what he had done that brought him to this place, Zatanna appears and pulls him from this dream state. To get Diana out, Zatanna transforms into an image of Circe and manages to pull her out of the state. Zatara blasts Giganta and transports her back to her cell in Area 41. Angered, Cale sends the Iron Maiden to Gateway City. Diana orders the Zataras to flee as she prepares to fight Iron Maiden.

ACTION COMICS #1097 by Mark Waid and Skylar Patridge. Booster Gold, Mary Marvel and Martian Manhunter battle the armored individual, revealed to be Epoch. Superboy joins the trio and is hit with an energy blast before Epoch disappears. The trio explains that they will be friends in the future and that they had sent out the signal through the device Superboy found at the Science Expo. Martian Manhunter believes the device must be connected to Krypton, which Superboy knows nothing about as that secret of his home planet has yet to be revealed to him. Fearing that Epoch may try to kill Superboy before he can ever become Superman, the trio decide to stay and watch over him. They all assume human forms and meet with Jonathan and Martha. Jonathan asks J’onn where Clark came from and J’onn says he cannot reveal that, even as Jonathan explains how the spaceship crashed and that he and Martha hid it under the barn. Epoch arrives again and the foursome fight him until a blast from Jonathan’s shotgun leads to Epoch disappearing again. Everyone enters the barn only to find that Epoch has stolen Clark’s spaceship.

ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN: BOOK OF EL #7 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Scott Godlewski. The Valkyries explain to Otho-Ra that, in order to heal Superman she needs to find a way to steal Black Racer’s belt from him. In addition, she must light the belt with the five stars found inside Izaya’s Belt. The Valkyries deposit Superman into space to lure Black racer to him. With the Racer chasing her, Otho makes her way through space, gathering the stars. As she heads to the fourth star, the Racer grabs her ankle but she breaks free. As she reaches the final star, the Racer comes at her again but is pushed away by Khan-El. Otho-Ra becomes the new Black Racer as the existing one fades away. She reaches Superman and cures him of the Black Fire. Elsewhere, Osul-Ra materializes in a magic cage. A mysterious man, revealed to be Pyrrhos approaches and claims he is the only living son of Superman.

BATGIRL #18 by Tate Brombal and Takeshi Miyazawa. There is a dinner at Wayne Mansion and all of the Bat Family are there but Cassandra. That is  because Cass, Tenji, and Jaya have fled from Wu Zhi  into the Spirit World where they are immediately attacked by creatures from the Spirit World. They get saved by Wu Lin-The Bloodmaster, who surprises them as he has died in the real world. As they travel the Spirit World, he explains that Cass is cursed with his blood do to an oath she took.He also teaches her how she can use that blood as a weapon. In the end, Batgirl is forced to face off against Wu Bing.

BATMAN #8 by Matt Fraction and Ryan Sook. Commissioner Savage is seen arguing with Peregrine and Isley, as he wants a more aggressive stance in the city’s battle with Batman. Meanwhile, Batman has coffee with Alan Scott, asking him to help teach him how to deal with the Vandal Savage problem. In the end, Alan sees a headline on The Gotham Eye, which declares that Batman and Robin are wanted.

BATMAN/STATIC: BEYOND #5 by Evan Narcisse and Nikolas Draper-Ivey. Terry and Virgil team up to help the Slicers against the Cadmus troops. They track down , declaring that no one can stop him.Shutdown, bringing his parents to him and having them try to convince him not to explode the energy tanks and create a Big Bang in Neo-Gotham. Restraint robots arrive and Shutdown takes them out

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #50 by Mark Waid, Adrian Gutierrez, and Marcus To. Superman and Bastman find themselves in a dream dimension where they are battling friends and foes alike. This is all concocted by Doctor Destiny. But the pair fight through the nightmares and defeat him. In the backup, Batgirl and Supergirl team up against Robin and Jimmy Olsen as they race to find the Egyptian Statue of Dhur-La. They find a figure stabbed with an ornate dagger and bring it back home, with Jimmy removing the dagger. What they all discover is that Dhur-La is actually Durla and this is a shape shifter who changes into a Kryptonian Drang. Although they are taking a beating, Jimmy remembers he still has the dagger and the competing teams stab the create with it, sending the Durlan back into a magical stasis.

BATWOMAN #2 by Greg Rucka and Dani. Jacob Kane is talking on the phone with Kate’s stepmother when he notices the Batwoman symbol and realizes that Batwoman is back and uses the tracking device in her soon to try and find her. Batwoman is loose and, during the course of her captors trying to abduct her again, she kills them all, including one who is threatening to execute her father.

BIZARRO: YEAR NONE #1 by Eric Carrasco, Kevin Smith, and Nick Pitarra. David Dalton is using a duplicator machine and his experiment rips open a rift in reality and Perry and Jimmy end up on an alien world that is a warped version of Metropolis. They meet a different version of Superman who explains he built this world from pages of the Daily Planet and he brough Perry here so he could teach his planet’s reporters how to make news. Revealing he is the ruler of the planet and a super fan, he names Jimmy editor-in-chief of his Daily Planet. In the end, it turns out that this Superman is not only the ruler of the planet, he is a God and an evil one at that.

CATWOMAN #86 by Torunn Gronbekk and Davide Gianfelice. Two weeks ago, a horribly scarred Katarina Belov meets with Black Mask, telling him she does not want Selina killed just yet; she wants her to go through hell. Selina flees from the crime scene and visits Holly, who turns out to be one Black Mask’s gang disguised as Holly and she realizes that Holly has been kidnapped. She calls Slam Bradley, asking him to check on Maggie even as he realizes he is being followed. In the end, we see that Black Mask has kidnapped both Holly and Maggie.

DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR #2 by Tony Fleecs and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Deathstroke has barely survived the explosion that were placed around Wintergreen’s body. But that will not stop him as he battles them to make his way to one of his safe houses, calling in a favor from his mercenary friends. The military shows up and Slade battles with them when Deathblow and Deadshot show up. Are they friend or foe?

DETECTIVE COMICS #1108 by Tom Taylor and Pete Woods. Many years ago, Batman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary team up to stop a heist at Gotham’s Children Foundation when a masked hero arrives to assist, announcing that he is Prion. Today, Batman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary leave Prion’s grave after having seen Rita Reynoso and a woman they do not know and who apparently does not exist. Oracle informs Batman that Klep Corp whistleblower Nico Muniz is in a police convoy and Batman follows in a car they call the Hatchbat. Suddenly, the vehicle carrying Muniz goes out of control because it begins driving itself and the vehicle plunges into the water, leading Batman to drive the Hatchbat that turns into a submarine into the water to rescue the police and Muniz. After Muniz is checked out by Dr. Thompkins, Dinah offers to hide the whistleblower at her gym. Later, Ollie turns away the merger attempt and, after that is finished, he sees the mysterious woman who pushes Ollie off his building with him falling towards the street below..

EMPEROR AQUAMAN #16 by Jeremy Adams and John Timms. Arthurs uses his new powers to shatter the dam blocking her abilities and restore her to full strength. King Shark arrives and swears allegiance to Aquaman, even as his family questions it. He has Arion and Jackson help reinforce his universal Lighthouse and, after gathering his allies, including Karshon, Titanus, King Shark, and Zan, he heads into the Blue, arriving at a Lighthouse where they meet ant people. As they are being fed, a strange thing happens and worn aliens emerge from the ant people along with Karshon and Titanus. Arthur uses his power from the Blue to force the worms out and freeze them. In the end, the Crimson Queen and Jenny Greenteeth travel to meet someone who hates Arthur more than them: Black Manta.

THE FLASH #32 by Ryan North and Gavin Guidry. Wally has continued to save people who are purposely putting themselves in danger and is surprised to see Captain Cold doing the same. Saving him, Cold tells Wally he was doing it to get Wally’s attention, telling him that Robby Eves is simply a front for the challenge; that the underworld is planning something to kill everyone in Central City. After announcing he will be pre-emptively stopping people before they can video it, he does do that, causing a major drop in video submissions, so people begin endangering themselves in their homes. While he is saving a woman from injuring herself, a teen boy is hit by a train and severely injured. Linda tells her husband that she has found that their have been a number of heists of materials to build a thermonuclear bomb. Wally and Cold find where the bomb was assembled but it has been moved. They find a spare timer and Cold suggests he turn it on to see what the countdown is at, but when he does, it starts counting down from 20 minutes.

THE FURY OF FIRESTORM #1 by Jeff Lemire and Rafael De Latorre. The Nuclear Man arrive in Bedford, Colorado and experiments on the place and the citizens, turning everything to glass and chalk. Elsewhere, government agents storm Lorraine Reilly/Firehawk’s home to brief her on the situation. Following a falling out, Ronnie Raymond and Professor Stein have separated. The military accompanies Firehawk, with them suited up in experimental suits that are immune to any transmutation that he could unleash. But he slaughters to military, confirming to her that he is no longer Ronnie Raymond. Meanwhile, inside the matrix, Ronnie and Stein argue while fighting Hyena.in an endless memory loop. Soon, Ronnie is ejected and Firestorm torches him as he declares his independence. In Bedford, Firestorm attacks Firehawk and she tells the surviving military that they have to find the one person who knows Ronnie the most. But a bearded Stein is off somewhere burning his notes; one of which asks the question ‘Is it sentient’.