DC UNIVERSE Month 100, Part 2

 
HARLEY QUINN #62 by Elliott Kalan and Carlos Olivares. Brain Harley and her friends are watching a television show where Convoy is about to be interviewed. But the interview does not happen as Backhand, the man with the wrong-way arms interrupts it. Meanwhile, Brain Harley gets a visit from Detective Philo Charles, who takes her to the police station. At the television station, BatQuinn shows up to battle Backhand. Chicken Fingers arrives and tries to convince her to control herself and be his teammate, which she refuses before flying off. In the end, Backhand and Blimp find themselves in the same hospital bed when they get a visit from the Harley Quinn Revenge Squad.
 
JSA #19 by Jeff Lemire and Diego Olortegui. In the Unseem Realms, Kid Eternity has been taken over by the spirit of The Spectre and she gets confronted by the spirts of the deceased JSA members. Dr. Fate manages to separate The Spectre from Kid Eternity and Wildcat orders Kid Eternity to flee, with Mister Keeper ordering her to find Jim Corrigan. In the brownstone, Detective Chimp reveals that The Spectre may be coming back and his reappearance made be connected to the missing Kid Eternity. Later, a portal opens in the brownstone and Kid Eternity comes through, saying “it” followed her. As the JSAers race outside, they see the image of The Spectre overshadowing the entire city.
 
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #19 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. The Justice League has initiated an amnesty program for the villains who were involved with the K.O. event and that is not sitting well with the world. Gordon confronts Batman about it, but he says that Lex leaked the news but the League will handle it. :Later, Wonder Woman, along with Captain Marvel, The Flash, Doctor Polaris, Lex and Starro head to a military base where Neutron and Felix Faust are attacking. Starro disables Faust while the rest of the team catch up with Neutron. Lex holds a press conference saying Neutron and Faust were not given pardons but Polaris was because his desire for redemption and specific ability for this mission. Meanwhile, Mister Terrific’s team continue to Oa with the power bank. With Guy inspecting the power bank, their ship is hit by another ship and the power bank is thrown into space, with it crashing onto the planet’s surface. In the end, batman is surprised that Lex has managed to quell public outrage. Air Wave feels like he is losing control of his powers and disappears in a flash of green light, with the Brainiac Queen appearing in his place and asking about her mother.
 
LOBO #3 by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona and Nicoletta Baldari.  After having left his left job, Lobo has a virtual meeting with Dr. Bixwell of the Omega+ Department of Bounty Affairs. When asked about any traumatic events in his life, Lobo tells of a field trip with Miss Tribb’s class and he decides to release all of the Space Dolphins, which gets him in deep trouble as he continues his reckless ways. Later, he meets Francis Dalex: the Mauve Lantern. In the process, he steals the Mauve Lantern ring and creates butterflies that, unfortunately, bite and stab. After a week of chaos, Dalex makes a call and Green Lantern Staraor arrives to use their power to stop a rampaging mauve bear.Dalaz is stripped of his title and Lobo steals the mauve ring. In the present, Lobo refuses to go any further with the therapy session and decides to turn down continuing his duties as a member of the Intergalactic Bounty Union.
 
NEW TITANS #35 by Tate Brombal, Sami Basri, Jordi Tarragona, and Vicente Cifuentes. In the past, Eva meets with Victor Stone. In the present, Victor explains to his Titans who Eva is when the Fearsome Five attack. Red Devil transports the team away, with them ending up in the Justice League’s Secret Sanctuary where they face more hard-light constructs. Eva connects with Victor and he finds himself in Robo-Cyborg’s virtual world, playing video games with his younger self in a virtual moment; eventually convincing his younger self to merge, bringing the real Cyborg back to all of the Titans. In the end, Eva asks Cyborg when he will tell the Titans the truth about everything and he tells her he will when he feels they are ready.
 
NIGHTWING #138 by Dan Watters and Denis Cowan. Nightwing is still trying to figure out everything that has happened lately and that takes him to visit a farmer whose animals are being attacked by some kind of two-legged feral creature. Starfire arrives and Dick tells her that he tested alien blood and it’s a Psion. While they are talking, the Psion attacks, with Starfire cremating him. Then they discover what was his spaceship. Upon investigation, they see a prerecorded message from the alien who was named Vikil Shivic who asks for help. Starfire destroys the ship, setting the alien’s spirit free. In the end, Nightwing meets with D,A, Eastbourne to tell his side of the highway pile-up as the Witch of Bludhaven accepts a ride from someone who says they can help her..
 
POISON IVY #44 by G. Willow Wilson and Jaime Infante. Despite the Parliament of Trees expressing their anger at Ivy, she rebukes them, saying she has a city to run. She meets someone who has lost their job because of budget cuts and immediately reinstates him before holding a budget meeting, saying she wants to use money saved from firing certain contractors to reinstate services but gets pushback from the city council. The next day, Ivy finds out that The Den newspaper put out a hit piece on her and heads off to the newspaper to take care of things and learns the publisher was friends with Marie Henley, who Ivy killed. That night, Ivy makes her way to the publisher’s home where she kills him with a slow poison. With everything going on, Batman visits Janet and tells her she needs to find a way to convince Ivy to resign. In the end, Ivy brings the deceased publisher to the Parliament representative and feeds the corpse to it.,
 
SUPERGIRL #13 by Sophie Campbell. Black Flame is on a rampage and kills Thunderlad 002 and Thunderlad 004.Unable to help them, Supergirl flees and heads off to find Lesla, as Black Flame convinces Thundergirl to join her. Conner and Lena arrive and a fight ensues with Lena falling to the ground below as Thundergirl watches. Supergirl gets to Lesla’s lab, with lesla shocked to see the condition of Kara’s body. She agrees to leave, but wants to bring Grab and Melt, her two lab assistants, with them. Heading through the tower where the lab is, Lesla talks about how she wished she could undo everything. Then she decides to show Supergirl something in the sub-basement: a miniaturized Argo City, which they enter.
 
SUPERMAN #38 by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora. C.K. has closed the comic shop when he sees a woman being chased by monsters, that turned out to be illusions created by the girl, who reveals herself to be Witchfire. She hits him with a fire spell and that has no effect on him, exposing him as Superboy-Prime. She tells him she was trying to use a regular person to draw out demons her coven had discovered. Prime offers to help her. Changing into Goth themed clothing, they go to a nightclub that contains dark magic. She explains that her exposure to dark magic has led to her being killed and resurrected many times. Inside a secret tunnel, they encounter two of her coven: Encantadora and Mirabai, with the four of them continuing into a dungeon that has an effect on gravity. They eventually reach Blaze and Satanus: siblings of Neron. While Prime flexes his strength, the witches cast a spell that banishes the demons from Metropolis.  Later, Witchfire thanks Prime and considers them going on a date but Prime’s speech is distorted with him being dragged into a white void on a comic book page. There he meets Manchester Black, who provokes Prime into punching a hole in the white space, with Prime now in his black suit and being right in the middle of Infinite Crisis.
 
SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #13 by Dan Slott and Lucas Meyer. Two scientists, Rho and Sigma watch Beppo having lunch with Bippo. Robbers show up and Beppo bites one, who shoots Bippo in the chest. Beppo, irate, takes down the robbers and then  attacks the scientists. Meanwhile, Jon is troubled by nightmares and Lois calls for help, with Krypto responding while Tomorrow Man deals with another matter. Tomorrow Man eventually arrives and he heads off on a mission with Jon while Lois hears about the rampaging Beppo. Tomorrow man and Jon go to the devastated laboratory of the scientists and discover the scientists, who look remarkably like Dabney Donovan. Beppo attacks and bites through Tomorrow Man’s armor, causing Tomorrow Man to be infected by the animal that has been injected with Kryptonite. Beppo attacks Superboy, who fights back by almost knocking out the monkey. Tomorrow Man calls the Planet to find that Bippo is safe in the hospital. He also tells Lois about the Kryptonite experiments and she wonders why Jon was not affected, leading Tomorrow man to wonder what his younger self will do next..
 
TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS: GUY GARDNER #1 by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Laura Braga, and Vasco Georgiev. Guy captures an alien drug dealer and brings him to the planet of the Drekonites, where he demands to be paid 500 credits. Zardum from Green Lantern Internal Affairs has issues with his recent conduct and his paranoia about the Manhunters, who he insists are incapable of reactivating. Zardum summons John Stewart to meet with him, telling John that he needs to “reel in” Guy. On Earth, John heads to guy’s apartment, where he finds a lot of spoiled food and a pre-Lantern Manhunter in guy’s shower. Meanwhile, Guy is in space fighting space gorillas. John shows up and Guy immediately wants to know who he really is as “the real John” died. After a full-on, knock down, drag out fight, Guy is finally convinced that this John IS his John. Later, Killowog, at the direction of Zardum, that the Manhunters had been subverted by an alien from the Dark Pocket Universe; something they would have not known about if not for Guy and John. In the end, John and Guy go to dinner together and, after that, Guy had best watch his back as there is an angry gang of gorillas gunning for him.
 
WONDER WOMAN #33 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere. Twenty years from now, on the shore of Themyscira, Trinity gets a brief reunion with her father Steve Trevor but Wonder Woman tells the two that they need to follow her as she opens a way into the Underworld. Reaching the gates of the Underworld, they are greeted by Cerberus but the beast is easily tamed by Diana. They find Charron, who Steve had previously punched in the face and stolen his boat. Steve nicely asks to let them pass and Charron attacks them. Trinity subdues him and Diana knocks him out. Crossing the River Styx, they meet Zeus who refuses to let them pass so Diana cuts off her leg and they head to the palace of the Three Fates, where Diana demands they unmake the world they made which they refuse, saying what they did was not a mistake. Meanwhile, the Matriarch uses a Green Lantern ring to simulate Kryptonite and torture Superman, where he refuses to betray Diana and dies in the process. She races out and meets up with Diana, preparing for battle.
 
ZATANNA #2 by Jamal Campbell. Zatanna has gone to the Serpentes Shrine in the Sea of Dreams where she performs a purification spell, banishing the black tide from the shrine. She explains that the tide was the result of someone in the realm misusing magic. She returns to Shadowcrest and is greeted by Papa Midnite who says the spirit of singer Elodie Arnette has requested her. Elodie tells the story of Clara DuBois: a famous singer who died last week after being allowed to live for centuries. Aede, the spirit in the opera house where Clara had performed was devastated by her death and has become a plague spirit and started killing musicians. Meanwhile, Agent Di manes informs Director Bones at the DEO about the events from the last issue, which resulted in the deaths of civilians and agents. He is not happy and has found that the spirit’s origin is from a village in Southern France and instructs Di Manes to go there and finish the mission. Zatanna and her allies set up a performance to attract Aede while Di Manes and DEO agents watch. As soon as Zatanna begins to cast her spell, Di Manes and Agent Rhodes cast their own spell that knocks Zatanna out, with Di Manes taking control of Aede, with the spirit spreading flowers and red vines throughout the house.