HARLEY QUINN #64 by Elliott Kalan and Carlos Olivares. Batquinn is being hunted by the Harley Quinn Revenge Squad and is forced to fight Amenity, Forehand/Backhand, Colonel Blimp, Penny Plunderer, SUPR, and Super-Hunter. She is also looking for Mrs. Grimaldi, who she believes has been kidnapped. Forehand/Backhand take her to meet the “big boss” and there they find Mrs. Grimaldi. But she is not the boss; that would be Harleen who says she had to turn bad to save Harley from herself.
JSA #21 by Jeff Lemire and Diego Olortegui. Metron takes Doctor Fate, Stargirl, Kid Eternity and Jakeem to the Dawn of All Things, where they see Lucifer Morningstar attempt to have a rebellion against God. Lucifer became the Prince of Hell while Aztar was a demon lord. When Aztar went back to Heaven, God made him The Spectre: the dealer of Divine Wrath. Over the centuries, The Spectre acted with vengeance and eventually ended up with Jim Corrigan to be Aztar’s chosen host. Recently, Darkseid tried to be combined with The Spectre but Corrigan and The Spectre refused, but The Spectre was ripped from Corrigan’s body, allowing it to try and find a new host.. Meanwhile, Jade unites with her father to try and dispel The Spectre from Obsidian’s form, with Jade begging to take The Spectre into herself to save her father.Alan begs his daughter to allow him to become The Spectre, but the spirit departs and makes its’ new home in Yolanda Montez. Metron sends the Society members away to find Corrigan, sending them to Gotham in the 1940’s.
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #21 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora. The Brainiac Queen has escaped into the Internet and the League is trying to find her. The Queen is looking for Waller but they have no idea where she is after Dreamer had released her from imprisonment. When Red Tornado admits that he knows Waller’s location and knows the Queen will come after him, which she does by infecting the League’s mainframe. As Red Tornado resists, Atom shrinks her and traps her inside a Faraday cage. Tornado reveals he does not know Waller’s location and simply used that as bait for the Queen. Meanwhile, on the planet Dronnda, Terrific’s team is defending itself against the reptilian population and they discover the alien captain and crew were escaping from Despero. Hawkgirl believes they have a numbers advantage but the rest of the team is suddenly vaporized by a blast from Despero’s third eye. Back on the Watchtower, Batman confronts Lex about his actions and the two share a vision about a man, covered in a muck from a swamp, walking through the streets of Gotham: a man who will eventually be revealed as Prometheus. Continued in JUSTICE LEAGUE: KNIGHT VISION SPECIAL #1.
JUSTICE LEAGUE: KNIGHT VISION SPECIAL #1 by Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Miguel Mendonca. Batman and Lex Luthor team up in Slaughter Swamp fighting a group of gunrunners when a displaced crooked house appears; the home of Prometheus. They encounter more gunrunners who have been horribly corrupted by the alien tech in Prometheus’s home. Lex wants to kill them and Batman explains they need to be dispatched but not killed. The pair drop through a trap door and find themselves encountering multiple implanted visions until Batman takes out the projector, where they find more alien tech. Prometheus battles them, with his natural abilities merging with those of the Justice League. To adapt, Batman and Lex change their tactics long enough to remove his helmet, revealing he too has been corrupted by alien tech. The duo race out, carrying the gunrunners, before the house folds up and disappears. In the end, Lex recognizes the tech as coming from Apokolips.
LOBO #5 by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona. Mr. Kzzt has put out a
bounty on Lobo. Lobo gets a visit from someone named Lip Bomb and it looks as
though they will have some intimate time together when she turns out to be an
assassin, leading to Lobo being shot at until he can take her out. Then The
Johnnies arrive and they are also poised to kill Lobo and, despite being shot
up by them, he defeats them. Next up is Murder Mouth and Fisty Claws, who he
viciously defeats before paying Kzzt a visit. Kzzt offers him a lot of money to
take out the dental vendor who has raised their prices. Who is the dental
vendor? The Tooth Fairy, of course!
NEW TITANS #37 by Tate Brombal and Marcus To. Neibros has a baby given to him as tribute and calls upon the citizens of Happy Harbor to face off against the Titans. Meanwhile, Cyborg and Tara are facing off against Draggo, with Cyborg using his powers to force the creature to flee. Nightwing is able to grab Draggo as it heads towards Neibros and the Titans. Eva manages to snatch the baby from Neibros allowing the Titans to detain him until Red Devil can send him back to the Sixth Circle of Hell. In the aftermath, Titans Tower has been smashed and Tara uses her power to rebuild it. In the end, Virgil Hawkin’s long suffering girlfriend breaks up with him, just as Jon Kent arrives, offering him a spot in the Titans.
NIGHTWING #140 by Dan Watters and Denis Cowan. Nightwing is making his way through the seedy underworld, looking for Cannibal Colm. He eventually tracks him down and is told that Colm used to drive for Roland Desmond until he got killed and now drives for the Mayor. Colm reveals a meeting between the Mayor and Charles Halstead, who revealed he was once the Psycho Pirate: a role now attributed to Roger Hayden. The men designed the super highway to purposely make life worse for everyone who lives in Bludhaven. Colm executed Halstead. Nightwing tells him to come with him and testify but the police burst in and kill Colm. They attempt to execute Nightwing but fail.
POISON IVY #46 by G. Willow Wilson and Leandro Fernandez. Juhi and Janet are walking down the street, discusses Ivy’s current state of mind, when they spy the police beating up a boy for loitering. Janet declares her anger to them and one of them strikes her. When they discover Janet works for Ivy’s administration, the police leave and leave the boy, who it is revealed was the person who shot the assassination video, with Juhi and Janet. Hearing a noise that turns out to be a cast, Juhi summons her Familiar. Catwoman arrives and berates both women, saying they work in Ivy’s office and should keep her on a leash. The boy heads back home and soon the women cross paths with Great White Shark, who says that the women are going to mess up his “gig”, causing Janet to kick him in the groin and they run, Later, Juhi says she was responsible for the Shakespeare quotes appearing on the walls. As she starts to explain, a building explodes from a gas leak, leaving Janet more determined than ever to get Harley involved.
SUPERGIRL #15 by Sophie Campbell. Supergirl and Lesla battle The Black Flame. Connor arrives and lends a hand as does Thundergirl who turns her allegiance away from The Black Flame. The Black Flame gets powered up by direct sunlight; unaware that her exposure, thanks to her yellow ring, is overloading her cells, weakening her but raining her to the point of near death. Supergirl takes the ring away and Zora is brought back to Kandor proper, where Surpergirl insists that Zora and the Council should stand trial. Lesla stands up to her father, saying Zora does not belong in the Phantom Zone and how they should all work together to rebuild Kandor. Kara gives Lesla the yellow ring, saying that Kandor needs someone to light the way as Luminary. Back home in the Fortress, Kara decides to put together her Super Force: Lena, Luna, Nightflame, Princess Shark, Thundergirl, and herself.
SUPERMAN #40 by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora. A resurrected Manchester Black works to torture Prime mentally but Prime manages to take their fight into Asteroid Comics. As the latest issue of SUPERMAN falls off the shelf, Prime and Black emerge. Black wants to steal Prime’s knowledge of the world and Prime opens his mind to him, overloading Black’s mind and putting him into a catatonic state where he is then sent to the Phantom Zone. Mister Terrific is concerned that Prime relinquished the secrets. At Asteroid Comics, Prime apologizes for his lies while his boss promises to protect his secret. He apologizes to Rebecca and promises to stay in touch with her. Supergirl arrives, requesting him for a special mission. Later, he finds himself in a brawl with Connor.
SUPERMAN ANNUAL: YEAR ONE THOUSAND #1 by Joshua Williamson and Eddy Barrows. After winning the King Omega Tournament, Superman has repaired the reality damage but senses trouble and enters the Timestream, eventually landing on Hourman’s Timeship. Hourman tells Superman that the distant figure in the midst of the Timestorm, revealed to be the Infinite Man, is causing the chaos and feeding on it. Superman uses the Alpha Energy to undo the damage in time and he gets pulled through multiple possible futures eventually ending up in the 31st Century ruins of Metropolis. Noticing a small settlement of houses, he sees Saturn Girl carrying two small children, who explains that she does not want to fight and things have changed. Lightning Lad comes out of the house and explains they have been forced to hide from their enemies and their former master and have been forced to hide for years. Cosmic Boy arrives and shows him the monument to the dead Legionnaires. Superman tells them that, to fix the timestream, he needs to send them back to their original universe. Infinite Man arrives and he is here because this is the last version of the Legion that he can kill while also saying he is becoming the new Time Trapper. Superman blasts him and restores all versions of the Legion along with their timelines, but losing his cosmic power in the process. Powerless and floating in the Timestream, he is being pulled towards the End of Time until he is pulled to safety by his younger self as seen in ACTION COMICS #1100.
SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #15 by Dan Slott and Lucas Meyer. Ultraboy continues his attack on Tomorrow Man and Steel while the mutated Kryptonite crystals continue growing and it looks like it might consume Smallville. Because of exposure to the Kryptonite, Lana has mutated and now has the power to absorb Kryptonite radiation. At the Kent farm, Lois wakes Krypto and powers up the Supermobile, with the two of them protecting the people of Smallville while the Kents sound an alarm to have their neighbors head to their storm cellars. Batman and Robin arrive, with Robin equipped with Blue Kryptonite weapons. He then attacks Ultraboy, revealing he is from Universe-3 and is Ultraman’s son. Batman starts spreading a chemical that will turn Green Kryptonite into Blue, negating its effects. Tomorrow man convinces Ultraboy to save the people of Smallville, resulting in Ultraboy gathering up all the Kryptonite crystals and throwing them into space. As Tomorrow Man unmasks, although both Batman and Lois knew who he was, Txyz arrives, giving Jon a choice: save himself in the past or let Ultraboy stay here. He decides to save Ultraboy. Txyz opens a portal and Superwoman arrives, forcibly dragging Ultraboy away with her back to Universe-3. In the end, Batman agrees to help John Henry find a cure for Lana’s condition while Robin plans to investigate if those Kryptonite samples had been weaponized.
WONDER WOMAN #35 by Stephanie Williams and Clayton Henry. Twenty years from now, Wonder Woman has committed suicide and now the Fates have provided a boat for them to traverse the River Acheron. Along the way, Steve tells the story of how he and Diana met. A long time ago, Diana would spend her free time to stare into the Magic Sphere and see what the outside world looked like. Hippolyta tells her that she is wasting her time and tells of her time with the Justice Society but, because of their apprehension and suspicion, she left man’s world to head back to Themyscira. When Steve’s plane crashed on the shores, the Amazons tend to his wounds and, once he gained Hippolyta’s trust, she decided it was time to send their greatest champion to the outside world to protect Themyscira. Despite forbidding Diana to compete in the tournament, Diana donned a mask and entered the tournament. Steve ends the story there, frustrating Lizzie.
ZATANNA #4 by Jamal Campbell. Zatanna has been dispatched to Zehuti’s home to find out how she became Prime Magus. She creates shadow constructs representing the personalities of the mages. Hecate is the first Prime Magus who spread out pieces of herself when the universe was still young, creating Homo Magi during the Age of Creation. Next shade is the Upside-Down-Man: the second Prime Magus, who was responsible for the Age of Horror. The third shade, Zehuti, explains he brought order to the nature of magic in the Age of Wisdom. She is then called to a fairy-populated forest in the Sea of Dreams as the fairies of the four seasons believe each other to be responsible for the destructions of their gardens but Zatanna helps them restore their forest. She saves a huntress from demonic beasts before going off to stop an edification device from destroying a magical academy in the Sea of Dreams. Returning to Zehuti and tells of her exploits. She heads to Turkey, taking Allura to the hidden city of Homo Magi, only to find it immersed in flames.
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