Saturday, October 31, 2026

DC UNIVERSE Month 105, Part 1

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #25 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta. In the past, Bruce goes to Croc’s Gym and visits with his friends during the regular poker game. After apologizing for what he did over the previous year, he is invited by Oz to join the game. In the present, he breaks into Grimm Manor, only to find his friends there waiting for him; telling him that Grimm came to each of them and convinced them he was not the monster Bruce claimed he was. Admitting each got something they desired, Grimm agreed not to reveal the Batman’s name to the world, while placing him in a psychiatric hospital. Bruce jumps out a window and runs. At the same time, Alfred calls Harley and asks her to look out for him. Bruce is pursued by police gunships and falls into a gave outside of the Manor where he is greeted by Grimm wearing a suit of infant flesh. As Batman pulls out the Bat-Axe, Grimm sheds the skin and transforms into the monstrous Joker, who reveals he got his name because people say he never laughs and only certain people can make him laugh. He shows him trophy cases holding century’s worth of weapons and armor with an empty one for Batman. During their battle, Batman buries the axe into The Joker’s back. He survives and attacks with daggers and eventually an explosive to bury The Joker. He survives them all. Batman is stabbed by The Joker’s tail, with him demanding his favorite joke. As The Joker goes to bite Batman’s head, Barbara Gordon, dressed as The Bat, arrives, shooting The Joker in the face, allowing her to rescue Batman as the villain flees. Bruce waves in the Batcave with Harley and The Bat around him. The Bat leaves after hearing that The Joker killed her father while Batman apologizes to Harley for how he treated her. He then sees a very pregnant Selina standing behind him.

ABSOLUTE FLASH #20 by Jeff Lemire and Haining. Wally finds himself confined to the sick bay aboard Ray Palmer’s ship, called the Ant Farm, along with Linda and Grodd. Palmer, the Absolute Atom, found them and brought them into the subatomic world after Scudder had told Wally to find Ray, who has been studying the Still Point energy, believing that he and Barry were tracking the same thing. Later, Ray discovers documents that tie Eleanor to H.I.V.E.: a group of scientists that have operated for centuries and had also installed a tracking device in Grodd, which Ray shrinks down to remove. He tells them not to go to the lower deck but Linda and Grodd do, finding a mutating Victor Stone. Ray arrives and intervenes before Stone, the Absolute Cyborg, breaks free. Outside of the subatomic world, Director Bones allies arrest Ralph Dibney as Bones lays out plans to frame Wally and his friends as domestic terrorists.

ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW #6 by Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque. The second Longbow Killer/Green Arrow is revealed to be Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance’s son, Connor Hawke, who reveals he faked his own death in issue #2 and had been working alongside Merlyn as part of a group of archers taking down corrupt billionaires. As Connor tells Dinah that her father is safe, Grundy arrives but is destroyed thanks to a fuel tank shoved inside of him that is exploded by a flaming arrow Dinah fires. Merlyn is confirm to have died, with Connor retrieving a thumb drive from Merlyn’s body. As Hammond’s troops arrive, Dinah releases her previously unknown sonic power, brought about by her emotional confrontation with Connor. Later, Hammond arrives at his home to find Dinah there waiting, telling him he should go into witness protection before he ends up dead. As it turns out, Hammond is found hanging in his apartment, dead by what is suspected to be a suicide.  In the end, Mia, Roy and Dinah are determined to find a connection between Kobra, Dinah’s mother and Arthur Curry, while at the same time at talk show host is looking to get Dinah on her talk show while Alby Raines is pushing the idea that Green Arrow is their Robin Hood.

ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #19 by Al Ewing and Jahnboy Lindsay. Simon, Agenet Zero, and Cameron review Argent File #0 in search of answers. The diary of Paul Kirk reveals how he met yellow aliens in the 1940’s who told him “no man escapes” and to beware Sin Es Tro. He later meets with Wild Bill Donovan who puts together the Office of Strategic Services. He is tasked with forming a sub-division called Task Force X. Other team members include Samuel Bradley, “Red Kate” Spencer, Emily “Zero” Hawke, Donald “Falcon” Richards, and Thor the dog. Later, he sends Hawke on a solo mission to Castle Blitzkrieg. He hears a recording from her. where it appears she is captured or killed along with the words “no man escapes”. With the intelligence community in a new space, he takes drugs, presumed to be LSD, and goes on a trip to see what Hawke saw. From there, the files show the journal of Donald Richards. Rick Nelson rebranded himself as Rick Flag and the company as the Agency. Red Kate went off to join Task Force X. He is called to the House on Unamerican Activities and gives up everything on Kate, Emily and Kirk before going home from that meeting to find Thor had died. Under pressure from Flag to assist with the MK-Ultra program, he writes a letter requesting a meeting with President Eisenhower, but died before that can happen; either murdered or by suicide. As it turns out, Sam Bradley, is used in the MK-Ultra trials. Where he meets a transformed Paul Kirk, but also meets Flag, who has taken the name of Uncle Sam. With the file finished, The trio realizes that Hammond runs the D.E.O. Everything is connected: Manhunters, Lazarus, Hammond and the D.E.O. In the end, Will Lawlor and Renee Montoya,  inside the abandoned Belle Reve Facility, have been observing the trio, with Lawlor going to inform their boss: Amanda Waller. She instructs Will to tell Kyle Rayner that he is back on Task Force X.

ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #24 by Jason Aaron and Juan Ferreyra. John Henry irons has relocated to the Kent farm, with the intentions of aiding Clark and, after seeing the sunstones from Krypton, building new armor for himself,. He reveals his original goal was to go to Metropolis and kill Ra’s, as he was the person who was responsible for buying the Peacemaker design and then not following through when John objected to using the design for his private army. John gets used to small town living, even observing Clark’s growing friendship with Lana. Superman continues to deal with various emergencies, but does so in a humane way. He helps Chemo, building him a containment suit. He gets the Atomic Skull into a treatment program for his addiction; even seeing Bloodsport’s rehabilitation under Iron’s tutelage. In the end, both heroes visit Irons’ mother’s grave.

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #25 by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman. Diana prepares to head to Gateway City and find Veronica Cale, making the decision to take a Tetracide Fear Potion designed to counteract any fear. Prior to this, Diana and Circe went to hell to help her prepare. When Diana leaves, Steve, Petra, and Ferdinand contemplate taking the potion, which they all eventually do. Steve heads off to follow Diana and meets with Hecate and becomes her emissary. Meanwhile Barbara fully transforms into a grotesque cheetah that still contains elements of the previous host for Cheetah, Priscilla Rich. She meets with Phobos and Deimos and devours them to gain their power. Diana arrives and tries to reach out to the person who was her friend but Barbara has become a being craving power over friendship and the two battle, with Cheetah having more of a physical advantage. Elsewhere, Veronica Cale speaks to the statue of her daughter, claiming she will do anything to save her. In the end, she has been taken to Cheetah’s lair and, just before she can eat Diana, Cheetah is knocked away by Steve Trevor, who has been transformed as the Emissary of Hecate.

ACTION COMICS #1103 by Mark Waid and Patricio Delpeche. In the past, Lionel Luthor, a brilliant scientist, had a run-in with Vandal Savage, resulting in his reputation being ruined and ending up working an assembly line in Shelby, Kansas. The experience turned Lionel into an alcoholic domestic abuser and taking his anger out on Lex, who he was jealous of. One night, during a dinner party his mother Leticia had created, Lex showed off his piano playing abilities which intimidated the guests. When they left, his mother broke down with his mother saying the guests were jealous and Lex should not care what they thought. Days later, Lionel and Leticia had a huge fight with Lionel leaving, which was Leticia’s plan. Mother and son create a plan to flee, starting with her reporting her car stolen, even though she had actually stashed it in the nearby bushes. She set the house on fire and, when she called emergency services, she pretended that she and Lex were dying in that fire. As the house burned, mother and son made their escape. During the same time period, Jonathan and Martha have to deal with Clark’s powers coming to light and feared that he would act without thinking to hide them.

ALL IN SAGA: DARKSEID VS. THE WORLD #1 by Scott ZSnyder, Joshua Williamson, Sanford Greene, and Yasmine Putri. Darkseid explains the events surrounding the King Omega conflict, while also detailing his life story, and clarifying how the tournament affected the heroes and their emotional energy has become the source of Omega power, along with the power from the Heart of Apokolips. Darkseid continues to tell his tale as he faces off against the Crime Syndicate on Earth-3, giving them the ultimatum of submitting to him or be forced to. They resist and fight him, though they are defeated. In the past, Darkseid was Uxas who, along with his brother Drax, was the child of King Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra. His father was obsessed with obtaining the Omega Force and he shared the same obsession, eventually killing his brother and obtaining the Omega Force for himself. He fell in love with a scientist named Suli who saw the Omega Force as something that would create harmony. Their relationship produced a son named Kalibak. Queen Heggra saw Suli as a threat and poisoned her, leading to Uxas killing his mother and his becoming Darkseid. He goes on to explain that Superman will always be his philosophical opposite and his universe is filled with suffering. Superman represents the Alpha and Darkseid is the Omega. He proposes a universe where no one would ever be lost: the Absolute Universe which he built to reflect his philosophy, where nothing is lost forever because everything happens all at once. In the process, he also created a new Source Wall made up of his defeated enemies.In the second story, Pandora, from the New 52 mythology, FLASHPOINT, and DOOMSDAY CLOCK, reappears, despite her perceived death during DOOMSDAY CLOCK. It is revealed that she did die but Darkseid brought her back to life and he reminds her that he has saved her and asks her why she had been spying on Earth-Zero after it reformed and demands she tell him what she has observed, making him fall silent. He refers to her as his harbinger and makes travel between worlds and alternate realities. He tasks her with finding people who would be useful to him while seeking out his enemies.

BARBARA GORDON BREAKOUT #6 by Mariko Tamaki and Pablo M. Collar. In the prison, Barbara and Myrna are investigating Sparrow’s death when they discover a false wall leading into the cell where Sparrow had been attacked. Two guards discover the women, leading to Barbara attacking them. As she resists, one of the guards is prepared to shoot her when a mysterious man kills the guards. Elsewhere, someone kills the warden and when some guards go to his office, the killer arranges to be taken to her. Imagine her surprise when the man who killed the warden turns out to be…Two- Face. Meanwhile, Savant is planning an escape with Aleksandr Creote

BATGIRL #24 by Tate Brombal and Takeshi Miyazawa. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. Batgirl continues to make her way through Gotham to save the life of the young girl. At the same time, those trapped in Bao’s restaurant have to band together to keep themselves safe. Batgirl eventually makes it to Gotham General while also refusing treatment. She returns to the restaurant and now stands ready with everyone else to defend themselves.

BATMAN #14 by Matt Fraction and Matteo Scalera. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. Police officers, wearing cheap Halloween style Batman masks, attempt to break in to Pennyworth Manor, where Verity is speaking to batman, who is on his way to find Victor Fries. Once inside, Verity fights the invaders, actually wearing one of the masks to infiltrate the thugs. Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Cold, Batman finds an injured Victor who has been incapacitated by his wife during a divorce battle resulting in his containment helmet becoming cracked. As much as she wants her husband to die, he reaches a deal: save Gotham by giving them what they have always wanted-winter.

BATMAN BAD SEEDS: GOTHAM CENTRAL #2 by Christopher Cantwell and Jacob Phillips. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. Even though Gordon and Baker have Anarky at gunpoint, he manages to escape, but is stopped by Batgirl Stephanie Brown. At the same time, the plants kill the train conductor, which speeds up in the process. Zsasz kills or tries to kill several people on the train when Stephanie intervenes. Baker calls for Bullock to move in, but Zsasz stabs her arm while a stray shot from Bullock hits Baker in the shoulder. Stephanie takes down Zsasz and, thanks to the subway manager, the train finally slows down. But Vandal Savage demands that the TUCOs blow the tunnel in order to kill a bat, Anarky, Zsasz, Gordon and others. The trapped passengers manage to escape the train but their path to freedom is blocked by a large carnivorous plant and they are forced to save Zsasz, who gets ensnared by the plant. Later, Stephanie saves Anarky from the same fate, The TUCOs blow up the subway train, with Anarky and Stephanie caught in the blast. She remains unconscious as Anarky leaves her behind. To be continued in GOTHAM GENERAL #1.

BATMAN BAD SEEDS: GOTHAM GENERAL #1 by Greg Rucka, Rosa Ekedal, and Steve Lieber. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. In the early evening, 14-year -old Shoshana Evans arrives at Gotham General to visit her mother Dr. Natalie Evans, who is finishing her final shift at the hospital, as she and Shosh are moving to Gateway, as Gotham has become too dangerous. Suddenly, the lights go out as Ivy’s attack is unleashed on the city. The hospital becomes overwhelmed by victims of Ivy’s attack and Nat orders her daughter to remain in the hospital break room. She gains access to a hidden telephone and tries to call someone who can give her information. One of the patients exhibits strychnine poisoning and a child arrives and stops breathing, meaning they have to put him on a ventilator and they believed he is suffering from curare poisoning. As patients pour in, the hospital begins to run out of resources. As the night goes on, Shosh discovers a locked Bat-Box that apparently has some connection to Batman and the Bat Family. In the end, an ambulance arrives carrying the injured body of Stephanie Brown, who was injured in BATMAN BAD SEEDS: GOTHAM CENTRAL #2.

BATMAN BAD SEEDS: STREETS OF GOTHAM #1 by Mariko Tamaki, Matt Fraction, Bruno Abdias, Rossi Gifford, Gretel Lusky, Jorges Fornes, Steve Lieber, and Brian Ching. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. A six story anthology set during the BAD SEEDS event. In the first story, a group of tenants in an apartment building decide to have gathering on the rooftop of their building. At the same time, two crooks decide to rob the empty apartments. One of the pair, who is not a fan of this whole thing, helps an elderly tenant, leaving his partner to continue. The young man finds a friend in the tenants while the other gets killed by one of the carnivorous plants. In the second tale, a woman named Beth helps a young man named Freddie negotiate his trip back home among the chaos. When they are confronted by crooks, the Signal , who Freddie apparently knows, intervenes. In the third tale, a group of kids are gathered together, including two girls who each think they are Batman. That eventually leads to all four of them teaming up to save some people from a man eating plant. In the fourth tale, Signal faces off against the TUCOs, one of whom is attacked and injured y one of the plants. Later, Signal visits him in the hospital, telling him that if he recovers, the two of them are going to have words. In the fifth tale, Tim and Berine face off against ninjas. In the final tale, a group of trapped television writers are saved by Signal, which leads to one of them coming up with the pitch for that project.

BATMAN BAD SEEDS: SUNRISE #1 by Matt Fraction, G. Willow Wilson, and Giuseppe Camuncoli. The BATMAN BAD SEEDS concluding chapter. It is 5:58 a.m. and Gotham City has become a prehistoric jungle. The Bat Family is spread throughout the city with Jim Gordon is trapped in the subway tunnel and Savage preparing to deploy his dangerous Ivycide, which is lethal to both humans and plants. Just before sunrise, Victor, Pamela and Batman use the Winter Engine, covering the city and causing the temperature to drop drastically; freezing the plants and neutralizing the spores. While Gotham has been saved, the city is now covered in ice. Elsewhere, Ivy is confronted by the Parliament of Trees, regarding her attempt as a failure and taking her powers away. Inured and exhausted, she is attacked by Savage and fights back, threatening to unleashing nightshade into his lungs; a false threat as she is powerless. He breaks off a piece of ice and is about to kill her when a Batarang breaks it. Batman pulls her to safety but she fights against him as she wants to kill Savage herself. Savage deploys his soldiers after Ivy and Batman but uses their tanks as a bomb, throwing them into the building and releasing the Ivycide. Batman shares his Bat-Breather with Ivy, as much as she says she is willing to die here. As Gordon and Espinoza arrives, Savage declares himself Mayor of Gotham City and claims that Ivy and Batman are dead and also responsible for the death of the TUCOs he actually killed. But Ivy and Batman emerge from the building and she is delivered to an ambulance. Waylon arrives and attacks Savage, tearing off Savage’s head and leaving his decapitated body in the sewer. With the attack over and Savage dispatched, the residents and heroes attempt to get back to a normal life, with Ivy in Arkham and Savage’s rule ended..

BATMAN AND ROBIN YEAR ONE: DYNAMIC DUOS #3 by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee. Batman meets with the Mad Hatter, battling a Gryphon before ultimately apprehending him. Meanwhile, Robin, in disguise, has been ordered to kill Catwoman to prove his loyalty. Before that happens, Kitten bumps into a column and that allows Catwoman to escape, which buts Dick at odds related to his subterfuge. Batman heads out and picks up Dick, who assures him he was not followed. But who is that hiding and observing? Catwoman.

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #56 by Mark Waid and Adrian Gutierrez. Ra’s al Ghul continues his plan to reduce the population of the Earth by 90%, claiming this is to save the planet from pollution. With the Justice League busy off plant, Superman and Batman are forced to split their resources and go after Ra’s allies, with Superman going off to fight Tokamak in South Korea, where he is destroying nuclear plants, and Batman is fighting against Ocean Master and the Atlantean army. Queen Bee has unleashed a deadly viral plague that is affecting citizens across the world. Talia allies herself with the heroes by battling Poison Ivy in Kansas where she is making plans to attack the world’s food supply. To combat Queen Bee’s attack, Batman teams up with Kid Flash to break Mirror Master out of prison and have him reverse engineer a cure. In the end, as things continue to get worse, Batman calls an audible and brings in additional allies in the form of Flash’s Rogues Gallery.

BATWOMAN #8 by Greg Rucka and Dani. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. In the catacombs of the Cathedral of St. Dumas, Batwoman waits for the arrival of the TUCOs, who have been tasked with killing her and claiming bounties from Savage. Before she can act, Huntress arrives, wounded from a clash involving a TUCO sniper that has left a blood trail. As Batwoman tends to Helena’s wounds, Helena urges her to use lethal force, having seen the video of Batwoman killing people. Batwoman refuses and uses non-lethal attacks to take down the TUCOs before the two prepare to leave the cathedral.

CATWOMAN #92 by Torunn Gronbekk and Danilo Beyruth. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. Catwoman saves a 13-year-old boy named Alfie Hendron, the son of the D.A., from getting abducted; taking it upon herself to make certain the boy gets home.

CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #4 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Fran Galan. The real Clayface meets with Dr. Victoria October so they can figure out who the fake Basil Karlo is. She reveals that there are a lot of people out there who have injected people with Clayface’s DNA, left over from what occurred in DETECTIVE COMICS #973 and #974. Elsewhere, a reporter meets with the fake Clayface and then finds where Katie is being held. When he tries to free her, he finds himself being killed by the fake Clayface. Later, Clayface gets ambushed by Lady Clayface who traps him in liquid Nitrogen, learning that it was her who sent the pictures and video to Clayface. She also reveals this fake Clayface is her husband, Preston Payne., who tells him that Clayface doesn’t know what Payne is really like.

THE DEADMAN #5 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo. Deadman is no longer what he was and has found himself restore as Boston brand. He is also somewhere in what is called the Gr33n Future, conversing with the Parliament of Circuitry. He tells Boston that The Master, believed to be a version of Mr. M, is responsible for what has happened. The Phantom Stranger, saying that all who would have been considered heroes, had been consumed by The Index: described as the beating heart to The Master’s mind. As he wanders through the city of the future, he comes across Connor Hawke, who is the Green Arrow of the Gr33n Future, along with Amril Melville-Ms. Terrific. He had been instructed to go to the tenth floor of the Empyrean Building: a building that technically does not have ten floors. Once there, he is greeted by Swamp Thing and they meet with The Master and soon finds himself back in the present as Deadman. Also there is Bobby the spirit, along with Mr. M and the Soul-Eaters.

DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR #8 by Tony Fleecs and Carmine Di Giandomenico. Adeline is controlling Slade’s business and the Deathstroke name, assembling a group of operatives including the Body Doubles, Captain Boomerang, Copperhead, Angel Breaker and others. Slade is no longer taking contracts but, when an obnoxious man cuts Slade in line at a gas station and then cuts Slade’s tires, Slade pursues him. He eventually catches him and kills him with a knife to the man’s head. Slade opens the man’s trunk and finds a dead Green Lantern in there, shocking Ray Palmer, who he has been speaking too throughout.

THE DEMON #1 by James Harren. In Camelot, in the past, a child with a distinct streak of white hair is seen sitting in a cottage. In modern day, a barefoot, much older and bearded Jason Blood wanders the street like a wandering homeless person, talking to Etrigan, who shares a body with him. Despite his appearance, he can see what ordinary people cannot and, as he pulls a wooden mask from under his cloak, he sees the infestation of creatures in the city; even as Etrigan goads him on to let him free. Jason ends up with the fairy folk and manages to defeat a creature coming for them, leading to them accompanying him in his fight with the creatures in the city.Meanwhile, Morgaine le Fey meets with her coven, including the Iron Duke, Somnambula, Ugly Meg, and The Baron. She meets with merlin, in the form of a baby, and steals his powers to call out the Princes of Hell. Offering them passage into the real world, leading to Etrigan’s brother manifesting and leading to Etrigan being released.

DETECTIVE COMICS #1114 by Tom Taylor and Clayton Henry. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. Batman is held at gunpoint by Nora as her husband is minutes away from death. Batman tells her that the only way to stop Ivy’s flora attack is to deploy Fries’ Eternal Winter Engine. She allows Batman to patch her husband’s cryogenic helmet, convincing the pair to put away their differences to save the city. En route, they see a young girl threatened by monsters and, despite their worried he was saving one to risk all, Batman does save her, with the girl giving Nora a flower and that rekindles her humanity. At the lab, they find a plant monster, which Batman freezes. To set off the machine, the couple must combined their blood. The Engine fires up, creating an ice dome over Gotham as the couple dances in the ruins. To be concluded in BATMAN: BAD SEED-SUNRISE.

THE DOOM PATROL #2 by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Niko Henrichon. After the events of last issue, Negative Man has been changed, but he has also retrieved a toy stuffed cat from the alien creature. Later, the Chief sends them on a lucrative mission to rescue a tech billionaire’s daughter from a death cult. Negative Man is asked to stay behind and reveals that the protean wasn’t eating cats at all; it was collecting them to hopefully bring back someone who really loved cats. As he leaves, he gives the stuffed cat to Caulder. En route to the cult, the team is attacked by the villain Warp. In the end, Negative Man and Elasti-Girl are trapped in a flaming vehicle and Caulder burns the stuffed cat.

EMPEROR AQUAMAN #22 by Jeremy Adams and John Timms. Animal Girl and Swamp Thing explain to Arthur that they are on Mogo, that contacted them to help heal it after having crashed into another planet. Aquaman senses something underground and they enter a crack near a mountain seeping black ooze. The trio encounters a creature of black ooze called Chaotix: a follower of the Lord of Chaos. Aquamna is able to destroy it using the waters of Mogo to dilute the creature. He cannot go back to Eath because Lolanna has blocked the portal back there. He opens a portal and ends up on New Korugar. Meanwhile on Earth, Lolanna and her followers search for the Zodiac Crystals in the Atlantean Royal Palace. She eventually deduces that her father had hid them in the throne, blowing it open and revealing the final four crystals.

THE FLASH #38 by Ryan North and Gavin Guidry. Despite Wally’s ability to see future events, three bridges have been destroyed. He checks on the people he had arrested and find they are still in custody, meaning someone else executed this event. He races to Metropolis to help Jon Kent with the rescue operation before traveling to Star City to assist there where Green Arrow objects to his presence. Ollie calls a meeting to the Justice League and suggests using a weapon to negate Wally’s powers, similar to one used on Superman over a decade ago. After defeating the Trickster and learning his ability is not always instantaneous, he goes to meet with the Justice League, where Red Tornado tells him that his continued use of the Speed Force has created wormholes within his brain, leading to poor judgment. With this evidence, Oliver is convinced that removing Wally’s powers is the right thing to do but Wally is poised to fight against them.

THE FURY OF FIRESTORM #7 by Jeff Lemire and Rafael De Latorre. After the events in Pittsburgh, Firehawk has to explain Ronnie’s actions to the Justice League. The Department of Metahuman Affairs gets involved, bringing in Mister Terrific and Captain Atom to decide what to do next. Firestorm is now walking the Earth to try to figure out who he is, meeting a young boy named Ronnie, which triggers a memory in this redesigned Firestorm. Terrific and Atom track Firestorm down and Atom overreacts, thinking Firestorm is going to attack. Firestorm creates a bubble to save himself and that is when Secretary Porter arrives and claims Firestorm is government property. In the end, as Firestorm begins to remember Lorraine, she meets with Jason Rusch and they try to figure if Firestorm can be controlled.

GREEN LANTERN #40 by Jeremy Adams, Vasco Georgiev, and Scott Godlewski. Hal continues to investigate why his name is in the Book of Oa and the craft he is travelling in crashes and the occupants are greeted by a hooded individual that turns out to be Krona wearing Hal’s face. Hal is poised to attack but Krona tells him that his look is due to an incomplete transfer of Hal’s body and memories, while saying his own investigation led him to the Nexus of Emotions. Meanwhile, Kyle encounters a villain named Temptation, whose power is to disperse fumes that cause people to willingly surrender their souls. With Jade and Odyssey, they attack and defeat this villain, thanks to Kyle creating a Green Lantern construct of a dragon. Tom Kalmaku, now called The Seer because of his visions, arrives and tells Kyle to return to Oa. Enroute, Odyssey explains she was once imprisoned in a sciencell under the name of the Time Bandit. Upon arrival, he learns that Guy is now The Allsight and the Book of Oa has been revealing pages regarding the Nexus of Emotions, which is connected to the origins of the emotional spectrum. He is showed a sciencell containing Predator. Guy says the next piece of their investigation revolves around the Emotional Wall. Kyle reunites with Soranik as Saint Walker explains how the Alpha Guardians are connected to the emotional entities. In the end, a new Black Hand is revealed to be Alexandra DeWitt: Kyle’s girlfriend who had been murdered by Major Force in 1994’s GREEN LANTERN #54, stuffing her body into Kyle’s refrigerator.

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #21 by Morgan Hampton, Juan Jose Ryp, Vaco Georgiev, and Serg Acuna. Guy gardener fights against Predator and calls out for assistance from the Alpha Guardians. When they arrive, they learn that Predator no longer possesses the power of love and is waiting for something called The Arrival. With the Predator is a cell, Guy looks in the Book of Oa, giving him the message that Hal Jordan needs his help. Meanwhile, Simon and El walk through Zillaboq, searching for the captured Lanterns. Kelli transforms herself into a bee construct and finds Jo and the captured Katma. Kelli transforms again and attacks the Darkstars, allowing Katma to flee while Kelli goes back and frees Jo.

HARLEY QUINN #67 by Elliott Kalan and Carlos Olivares. A BAD SEEDS tie-in. As Harley heads off to find Ivy, she is attacked by NKVDemon, getting stabbed by his dagger. Because of that and her exposure to the spores, she begins to hallucinate, seeing a retro version of classic Poison Ivy. Ivy tells her that there old days are over now. In her second hallucination, while being beat more viciously by NKVDemon, she sees images of Ivy and her together, sharing tender embraces. NKVDemon’s relentless attack continues and Harley has a third vision: a future vision of older Ivy and her together. Giving her hope, she gets lucid long enough to use the villain’s own sword to kill him before collapsing in an alley.

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