DC UNIVERSE Month 16, Part Two

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #9 by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martínez Bueno and Miguel Mendonça. The Lords of Order have appeared, while Khalid Nassour explains that Kent Nelson hasd a disagreement about the Helm of Nabu, which caused him to take control of Kent and capturing Khalid. He has also managed to release the Otherkind to destroy magic. When Etrigan tries to stop him, he separates Etrigan from Jason Blood, sending Blood to Hell. Blue Devil has Bobo use his sword to teleport themselves away from The Lords of Chaos. Back on Earth, Wonder Woman and Zatanna meet with Circe in an effort to find Mordru. Bobo’s team appears as The Lords of Chaos begin their destruction of Myrra.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #7 by Dan Abnett and Will Conrad. Blackfire has realized that Darkseid has a plan and she unleashes her army to take down and kill the team, even if that means killing her sister Starfire. Starfire takes out the Tamaran army and tries to kill Blackfire, until Cyborg stops her. The team leaves and heads off to Aeolon,, where Darkseid is now, and has been mortally wounded by the Eskaton. The team fights off the Eskaton, leaving Darkseid to claim that he had tricked them and they are the weapon he needs. Back on Tamaran, Rapture touches down.

NAOMI #3 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. Naomi confronts Dee about who she is, leading to him explaining how he and the woman he loved were part of an elite secrete Thanagarian squad. Dee is not her father and the woman in the picture is not his mother. Naomi’s adoptive parents show up and take her away, causing her father to leas her to a secret cave where he reveals his spaceship and what appears to be his Rannian uniform.

NIGHTWING #58 by Scott Lobdell, Zack Kaplan and Travis Moore. Councilman Pollard has a bomb strapped to his chest, all thanks to the Joker’s Daughter. The Nightwings have to find a way to break in and save everyone. When they get in, they desperately try to defuse the bomb while Joker’s Daughter tries to bring the building down around them. The bombs get diffused and Ric takes out Joker’s Daughter, who manages to escape in the confusion. In the end, Ric has a heart to heart talk with Barbara Gordon.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #32 by Scott Lobdell and Stephen Segovia. Jason Todd is now in charge of the Penguin’s casino and has brought along some friends, and former enemies, to help him, like Bunker and Suzie Su. Batman shows up and Jason dares him to take him to jail for killing The Penguin, who is actually locked up in the Iceberg Lounge.

SHAZAM #4 by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham. Freddy and Darla have ended up in the Wildlands and are powerless. They get captured and are going to be fed to the tigers. Tawny the Tiger has been captured because he is reading forbidden literature. Eugene and Pedro are in the Gamelands where they find that they need to defeat the Gamesmaster to get out. In the Funlands, Shazam finds out that all of the kids who have been captured as they became adults and were put to work. Among the captured is Mary, who is now being put to work. While Billy foster parents and real dad deal with their missing kids, someone shows up at the Rock of Eternity-Black Adam.

THE SILENCER #15 by Dan Abnett and V Kenneth Marion. Hope and Raze go about their mission at Jonah Nine to kill their genetic sister. The mission goes sideways when Raze is killed and their sister wants what Hope has. Meanwhile, Hope’s husband learns that his wife is not who he thought she as when two guys from “Domestic Security Response” shows up.

SUPERGIRL #28 by Marc Andreyko and Eduardo Pansica. The clones of Kara are attacking her and the Omega Men and it turns out that the captives they were trying to save are actually Hokum’s sleeper agents. Supergirl uses the axe of Rogol Zaar to take them out. Meanwhile, Zn’dr and Krypto are trying to track down Kara, eventually getting a signal. Kara gets a solar boost from Ryand’r, who kisses her in the process. Because of their genetic makeup, the clones die from the solar blast. Kara chases after Hokum and interrogates him, where he reveals that he got his support from The Circle. He teleports away, minus his hand, and ends up with Gandelo, who interrogates him and executes him. She meets with The Circle and sends out a call for Supergirl’s death. In response, the followers of Rogol Zaar decide to take up the mantle.

SUPERMAN #9 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ivan Reis. Superman is with his family on World Peace Day when Jor-El shows up and kills everyone. This is only a fantasy is his mind as Jon continues to tell of his meeting with the Crime Syndicate. Ultraman captures him and Jon spends an undetermined amount of time being mentally tortured by Ultraman, who spends hours talking, crying and raging. Eventually, Jon gets free and heads to what he thinks is this world’s version of the Hall of Justice. The results in him meeting Superwoman…

TEEN TITANS #28 by Christopher Priest, Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. THE TERMINUS AGENDA Part One. After the recent events with Deathstroke in Arkham, Damien decides the team must go out and take down Deathstroke. With Djinn’s help, the team infilitrates a barbershop and tries to take Deathstroke down. While they defeat Deathstroke and take him to Damien’s jail, Roundhouse’ body seems to fall apart and he turns into a living blob of sorts. Later, Damien interrogates Deathstroke, Kid Flash shows up and questions what is up with this jail he wasn’t aware of.

THE TERRIFICS #14 by Jeff Lemire and Joe Bennett. On Earth-30, the reunited team, where their other worldly counterparts, battle Java and his team of Dreadfuls. Together, they take them down and turn them over to the House of Heroes, where they already have a jail filled with Java’s from the Multiverse. With the addition of Mrs. Terrific, Offspring and Element Dog, the new team is ready for action.

TITANS #35 by Dan Abnett and Bruno Redondo. Lord Travesty has killed Ernest and Beast Boy is attacking the Titans, while Raven is battling her evil half. Travesty frees the good side of Raven’s soul self, revealing he has planning on helping them all along. Ernest isn’t dead and uses his magic to free Steel and Kyle. They convince Raven’s soul self to rejoin with her other side and restore order. Kyle carves a message into Steel’s hammer and they transport it back to the Hall of Justice. Raven’s restored soul self enters Raven again and she uses her new powers to stop Beast Boy’s rampage. But Mother Blood has reinforcements and they arrive to continue the fight.

WONDER TWINS #2 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. Scrambler uses his mind control powers to break out of Lexicon Prison. He tries to join Lex and the Legion and ends up with the League of Annoyance. Zan and Jayna head off on an Honor Club field trip to Lexicon Prison. Later, they meet up with Beast Boy, who is making a commercial for Hot Mess Fruit Pies. Later, Zan orders himself a pet monkey and the pair take on Drunkula, who was trying to quit drinking blood but that becomes a fail after he is incarcerated. In the end, Gleep arrives.

WONDER WOMAN #66 by G. Willow Wilson and Cary Nord. In Rocky Mountain National Park, Maggie and the mythical animals are looking for a place to hide. Meanwhile, Diana and Aphrodite are on their way to help them. When they arrive, they find two Titans fighting Maggie and the animals. Mid-battle, Diana leaves and goes off to talk to Amanda Waller and ask for one of her prisoners to help. In the end, Wonder Woman returns with some muscle-Giganta.

WONDER WOMAN #67 by G. Willow Wilson and Cary Nord. Diana and Giganta face off and defeat the Titans before going off to breakfast together. Meanwhile, Maggie and the animals continue their journey, with she and Eirne sharing an intimate moment. In the end, Maggie goes into a lake and retrieves a sword

YOUNG JUSTICE #3 by Brian Michael Bendis and Patrick Gleason. Impulse and Superboy have a brief reunion before being challenged by the warriors from the Court of Opal. In a flashback, we see how Connor Kent was once struggling with high school life and was discovered by a secret organization that was experimenting a giant gem, which transported him to Gemworld. Back in the present, Superboy introduces Impulse to his wife and son. Elsewhere, the team finds itself being held in an underground jail.

DC UNIVERSE Month 16, Part One

ACTION COMICS #1009 by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve Epting. Superman has taken Amanda and Jimmy to the Fortress of Solitude to protect them after the Leviathan attack. She tells them, including a very distraught Lois, who is concerned that Waller knows his secret identity, that Sam Lane had a heart attack during their meeting. Superman checks in on him in the hospital, meets with The Question and then heads to Japan to find a curious note mentioning Leviathan. After going to the Batcave to meet Alfred, he goes to the site of the DEO destruction, where he finds Director Bones devastated by the destruction. Back at the Fortress, Lois breaks out some Gold Kryptonite, which allows them to change their appearance and become Chaz and Andi Donen-agents of Spyral.

ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS #8 by Peter J. Tomasi and Carlo Barberi. Lex has his new Injustice Army in place and thy take don the prison warden and take control of the prison. Meanwhile Damian gives Jon and Joker Jr. a tour of the Batcave he built. Together, they all go off to find the Green Lantern recruit. With the four of them masquerading, Jon and Damian are delivered to Luthor and crew, but Luthor sees through the ruse. Rex blasts Joker Jr. and jettisons the remainder of the team into space.

AQUAMAN #46 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha. The Old Gods arrive on the island while Aquaman battles Cailleach. Namma reveals that Caillie was created to hold Namma’s missing component, through which her ultimate power will be released. Knowing this will kill Caille, Aquaman battles Namma, which frees her control of Caille, before Namma turns into a giant dragon. Things look bad for our hero, but that is when the Old Gods arrive to lend a hand.

BATGIRL #33 by Mairghread Scott and Elena Casagrande. It’s Election Day in Gotham and Barbara should be helping at Congressperson Luciana Alejo’s headquarters, but she has found out that her brother James has been released from prison. This sends her on a citywide search 
for her brother, encountering Bard, her father and eventually James along the way. James claims he is under control of his urges due to the drugs he is on, but he fights the urge every day. In the end, it’s obvious that James is being plagued by The Batman Who Laughs.

BATMAN #66 by Tom King and Jorge Fornes. The Question interrogates Selina about how she met Batman and their relationship.

BATMAN #67 by Tom King and Lee Weeks. Batman spends the entire issue chasing after a masked criminal, who turns out to be The Joker. Hen he asks Joker why this all happened, Joker replies “Beep Beep”.

BATMAN BEYOND #30 by Dan Jurgens and Doc Shaner. It seems that The Joker isn’t really dead and he’s poised to kill Matt. But it’s only a nightmare of Matt’s. In actuality, Barbara reveals that The Joker has died of a heart attack. That lads Terry to go out and take down the remaining four members of the Jokerz. Matt follows in an attempt to help, but that leads to him almost getting killed by a momentary distraction by Hearts. In the end, the Bat Family insists that Robin needs to retire. And what appears to be an aged Harley goes to the morgue and takes Joker’s body.

THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS: THE GRIM KNIGHT #1 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Eduardo Risso. The Grim Knight has captured Commissioner Gordon and reveals his origin. His Bruce Wayne took revenge on the perp who killed his parents, which led him to a life of violent vigilantism. On his world, he kills all of the bad guys, until he got arrested by Jim Gordon. Back in the present, he is ready to kill our Jim Gordon until The Batman Who Laughs arrives and stops him, saying he has plans that are worse than death for Gordon.

CATWOMAN #9 by Ram V and John Timms. Selina pulls off a heist tpulls it off and gets back a stolen bracelet for her friend Carlos.

THE CURSE OF BRIMSTONE #12 by Justin Jordan and Denys Cowan. Brimstone battles it out with the Elemental known as The Home Office. He pushes his powers to the limit and sets off a nuclear blast which kills all of the other world villains and strips him of the power. But the cost is that the power has gone to Annie.

DAMAGE #15 by Robert Venditti and Aaron Lopresti. Ethan finds himself being chased through the jungle by a bunch of monsters including the Shaggy Man, the Beast of Belmora and Death Dog. Congo Bill arrives and uses his ring to scare the monsters away. He explains that Ethan needs to solve his problems eventually comes to his aid, calling the beasts off with his ring powers, explaining to Ethan that he will have to without Damage’ help. Ethan agrees to let Congo Bill train him. Echidna, the Mother of all Monsters, gains control of all the monsters and creates one big super monster. The super monster arrives and takes down Bill, forcing Ethan to let Damage loose. Echidna declares that she will claim Monster Rock for herself.

DEATHSTROKE #41 by Christopher Priest and Fernando Pasarin. Slade has broken out of Arkham and is now being hunted for killing people, who were really aliens. That’s when Damian gets involved.

DETECTIVE COMICS #1000 by Scott Snyder, Kevin Smith, Paul Dini, Warren Ellis, Denny O'Neil, Christopher Priest, Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi, Tom King, Greg Capullo, Jim Lee, Dustin Nguyen, Becky Cloonan, Steve Epting, Neal Adams, Kelley Jones, Alvaro Martinez-Bueno, Tony S. Daniel, Doug Mahnke and Alex Maleev. In a series of vignettes by some of the legendary names in comics, we travel through stories in Batman life. The highlight is the introduction of the Arkham Knight.

DIAL H FOR HERO #1 by Sam Humphries and Joe Quinones.  Miguel wanted to be a daredevil as a kid and once got saved by Superman. Now he lives with his Uncle Brent and works on his Uncle’s Mayonnaise food truck. He helps out a runaway girl named Summer, before trying to jump a gap on his bike after work. He seemingly is falling to his death when a red phone appears, telling him to dial H if he wants to live. He ends up in a magical phone booth which takes him to an alternate dimension. The dialing of the phone alerts a host of DC heroes including Robin, Lobo, Snapper Carr, Angel and the Ape, Harley Quinn, and Alfred. Miguel transforms into the hero Monster Truck, who allows him to leap out of the dimension and to safety on our world. But the police are after him for the damage he apparently caused and Summer, in the stolen Mayonnaise truck, comes to his rescue. The phone rings again and a mysterious figure known as The Operator, who is from a place called the Heroverse, tells him that the Thunderbolt Club is coming for the phone and ill kill him if needed.

DOOMSDAY CLOCK #9 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. After the energy blast that occurred in Moscow, many DC heroes head off to Mars to find the source of that explosion. The team faces off against Dr. Manhattan, who easily defeats them. He then shows Ron how Dr. Stein actually planned the merge that happened because of the “accident” that created Firestorm. Captain Atom shows up and destroys Dr. Manhattan. But he quickly reassembles and seemingly eliminates the gathered heroes. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is testifying at the U.N., when Black Adam and his team arrive, saying that he is ready to make his move.

THE FLASH #66 by Joshua Williamson and Scott Kolins. The original Trickster James Jesse reveals how he grew up in an unhappy home with his parents, who patterned  themselves after The Flying Graysons. He is forced to do a very dangerous stunt and that changes his life. But he actually is playing a part and that wins over the crowd, as his scared state is only an act. The parents actually pick-pocketed the crowd and the lesson was to succeed you must deceive. He talks about his life of crime and we see that Warden Wolfe was using torture to hurt him while in Iron Heights, eventually escaping to try to win back his name from the new Trickster.

THE FLASH #67 by Joshua Williamson and Scott Kolins. The Flash takes on the Dark Church of the Black Hand. After he defeats them, he discovers that everyone likes and appreciates The Flash, including Warden Wolfe and Director Singh. Also, Kristen introduces everyone to her new boyfriend- James Jesse, also known as The Trickster.

GREEN ARROW #50 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Javier Fernandez. Black Canary has been charged with taking down Green Arrow, and to take back the box he received from Martian Manhunter that has the potential to take down the Justice League if needed. In the end, Dinah turns on her team, allowing Ollie to be rescued and told to leave. He gets his box and finds it’s empty, leading him to go off on his own, promising that he will face the Justice League one day soon.

THE GREEN LANTERN #5 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. On the planet Vorr, Countess Belzebeth gives Hal Jordan three trials to complete in order to get all the pieces of the Blackstar suit. In the end, he completes the trials and becomes a Blackstar. What Belzebeth may not know is that the Guardians has assigned him to go undercover to infiltrate the Blackstars. Belzebeth gives him a final test to prove his loyalty-kill Adam Strange.

HARLEY QUINN #59 by Sam Humphries and Sam Basri. Harley wakes up as a cockroach and sends the entire issue trying to figure how to change back. After Petite Tina is humiliated at a dunk tank event, Harley takes her place, learning the lesson that you shouldn’t judge someone because of how they look. But that also allows her to complete her second trial.

HAWKMAN #10 by Robert Venditti and Bryan Hitch. The Deathbringers have arrived and Idamm battles Hawkman. Hawlman finally figures out what all of his trips to his past selves men and calls together his own army of his past selves to battle Idamm aitting nd the Deathbingers.

HEROES IN CRISIS #7 by Tom King and Clay Mann. Harley Quinn is hitting Booster Gold’s force field with her mallet while Batgirl and Blue Beetle watch. Batgirl realizes that Beetle is powering the force field and she knocks him out. Batgirl tells Harley not to kill him, but Booster is prepared to die. The pair realizes that each thinks the other is responsible and become friends. When Beetle wakes he remarks how today is five days since Wally died and, since Wally’s body was five days older when he died, they need to go find him. Wally is in a field of flowers, where he creates Poison Ivy out of a flower, before apologizing to her for having to witness his death. That’s when another Wally West shows up.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #19 by Scott Snyder and Jorge Jimenez. To help with their mission against the Legion, the League calls in Mr. Mxyzptlk, who puts them through their paces until they convince him they need all the help they can get to defeat Perpetua. He explains that beyond the Fifth Dimension is the Sixth Dimension, which is the home of Perpetua, the Monitor, Anti-Monitor and the World Forger. The Fifth Dimension is dying because of the Source Wall being destroyed, so he needs their help as much as they need his. Superman goes to the Sixth Dimension and comes back moments later, explaining he had been thee for over a decade and, based on his older looks, he has. They all proceed to the Sixth Dimension, where they meet older versions of themselves.

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JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #8 by James Tynion IV and Alvarez Martínez Bueno. The team members are all over trying to stop the various events connected to Otherkind, Meanwhile, Man-Bat is in the basement of the Hall of Justice, trying to find a way to free Khalid Nassour from the urn he took from Dr. Fate’s tower. At the Oblivion Bar, the place is filling up with magic types rescued from Otherkind. The Upside Down man shows up and Bobo has to open a portal to Myrra to get everyone away from him. Zatanna and Wonder Woman have gone to Papa Midnite’s bar to gather intel about the location of Mordru. Man-Bat succeeds in saving Khalid, who warns that Dr. Fate is looking to kill magic and restore order. That’s when Fate shows up with the Lords of Order.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #6 by Dan Abnett and Carmine di Giandomenico. Darkseid is on the planet Aeolon, where he is using the inhabitants to help him find a site for a new Apokolips. They turn on him, as they had been programmed by Brainiac to stop Darkseid. Meanwhile, the team heads to Tamaran, where they crash land and find the planet as all but been destroyed. Blackfire arrives and explains that this is Darkseid’s doing after he reneged on a deal to spare their planet from the effects of the Ghost Sector. To make sure his plan fails, Blackfire’s army must kill the Odyssey team.

NAOMI #2 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. Naomi continues to try and get information from Dee, who gets upset and tosses her out of his shop. Baack at home, Naomi questions her adoptive parents about her true parents and gets nowhere. Later, while talking with Annabelle, she learns that Dee was once in Iron Heights. That night, she sneaks out to go to Dee’s place and finds a photograph of a bearded man, presumed to be Dee, with a woman bearing a resemblance to Naomi.  

NIGHTWING #57 by Scott Lobdell, Zack Kaplan and Travis Moore. Ric sends some quality time with Bea before she heads off to meet with Barbara Gordon. Later, Councilman Pollard is attacked and kidnapped by Duela Dent, who trusses him up with a bomb and sends him off to a restaurant filled with people. Elsewhere, Ric seems to like the idea of working, as needed, with Sapienza’s team.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #31 by Scott Lobdell and Pete Woods. Jason has been captured by

Solitary, who reveals he was responsible for teaming Bizarro and Artemis with Jason. He is also the man behind Underlife and is responsible for creating all of the genetically altered Solomon Mondays. During their fight, Bunker gets free. Jason and his dog head off to track down Solitary and comes across Wingman in the process, who rumbles with him and tries to get him on his side. Jason eventually finds Solitary, who reveals he was working for the government, who strapped people up to a machine to mine their minds. Lex Luthor authorized a massacre of the lab and, in the process, becomes merged with the other two inmates on the machine. Solitary says that he is creating an empire to give to Jason, his son, when Jason realizes this is a FAKE Solitary and throughs a crowbar through it, before escaping. In the end, Jason and his new friends visit Roy’s grave and head off to Gotham.

SHAZAM #3 by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham. King Kid hosts a party in Funland and declares that he is to be the seventh member of the Marvel family. Mary is suspicious of everything, but King Kid says they can leave…before he has his followers attack the kids. Eugene, Billy and Pedro transform into their Marvel selves while trying to save their friends and not cause too much destruction. In the process, Eugene and Pedro end up in Gameland while Darla and Freddy end up in The Wildlands, where they are going to be taken to the tigers.

SIDEWAYS #13 by Dan Didio and Kenneth Rocafort. Tempus reveals to The Giver how he found Derek, gave him his powers and sent him back to Earth. Meanwhile, Derek tries to get acquainted with his biological mother, when his father tells him there is a break in the case involving the death of his mother. Derek meets with Detective Hopkins, who tells him a security guard named Jimmy was involved. Derek tracks down Sandy Bridwell: his mother’s assistant. It seems she was looking for a promotion and, with Jimmy’s help, they knocked out Derek’s mom. But the hit to her head was too hard and that killed her. He uses her powers to send her somewhere. In the end, he finally replies to his mother’s text from before she died. And, unbeknownst to him, someone answers…

THE SILENCER #14 by Dan Abnett and V Ken Marion. Brought back through the Lazarus Pit and now a devoted follower of Talia, Hope goes out on her first mission. After the mission is completed, Hope reveals she is not under Talia’s control. She gets called to a meeting with Talia and is told that she was used as a child in an experiment by Talia’s father to produce genetically altered children. Two died and the other two are Raze and Hope. She sends Hope off to find Splycer, the architect behind this, and take out him and any other children. Meanwhile, Hope’s husband and son find out that Hope wasn’t the simple housewife they thought she was when they find a secret buried in their backyard.

  

SUPERGIRL #27 by Marc Andreyko and Eduardo Pansica. Zn’dr is on a warship with his adoptive mother while taking care of an injured Krypto. Mom is upset that her son disobeyed her and is convinced that Supergirl is here to destroy her. The two argue and Krypto leaps off the table, destroys the mother’s hand and allows the pair to escape. Back at the prison, Supergirl is in a fight with Splyce, which is being watched by Harry Hokum,. During the fight, a young female prisoner is killed in a crossfire, which leads to Kara erupting and using her powers to take out Splyce. Two aliens are analyzing Zaar’s axe, which flies off and goes straight to Kara, who wants to kill Splyce but decides against it. The Omega men arrive and help the wounded prisoners, where Kara meets Starfire’s brother Ryand’r. Hokum is pretty pissed at the outcome of the battle and has decided to his new army on them-an army of Supergirl cones. While checking the prisoners, Kara notices a strange scar on their necks, which she recalls is Kryptonian cloning tech.

SUPERMAN #8 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis and Brandon Peterson. While Jon is being healed by Kelex, Superman goes off and fights Mongul. Upon returning, it is revealed that Jon is normal 17-year old Kryptonian. Jon continues his tale of being with Jor-El, wile meeting some of the Green Lanterns in the process. Later, as Jor-El is prepared to send Jon home, their ship is attacked and Jor-El disappears, leaving Jon alone with a vary angry and confused looking group of altered Justice League members-members from another Earth.

TEEN TITANS #27 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. Red Arrow spends some time consoling and bonding with Crush while Roundhouse takes Kid Flash to his house for dinner with Roundhouse’ mom.  D’Jinn reveals to Robin how she had betrayed her evil brother and ended up trapped in the ring as punishment, who was then used over the centuries to do unspeakable things. Just when they are about to kiss, Damien gets notification that Deathstroke has escaped from Arkham.

THE TERRIFICS #13 by Jeff Lemire and Joe Bennett. Java and his team attack Mr. Terrific and his wife from another world. Leading to them jumping through a bunch of Earths in the Multiverse to escape, before ending up on Earth 30. Java and the Dreadfuls arrive and just when things look the worst, the rest of The Terrifics arrive: Metamorpho, Element Dog, Phantom Girl, Plastic Man, his son Luke…and Tesla Strong.

TITANS #34 by Dan Abnett and Bruno Redondo. Mother Blood is interrogating Steel and Kyle Rayner, to use their information to get The Bleed into the entire multiverse. She reveals that Raven has been split in two, with a good self and the bad self being Commander Lenore. During this, Ernest realizes that this isn’t right and tells Lord Travesty he is sorry for making him this way and will fix it. But when Hinton goes to help Steel and Kyle, Travesty betrays him and seemingly kills him. Meanwhile, the rest of the tem fights and defeats their enemy, but then Raven sees Lenore and that turns the tide against the Titans. In the end, Beast Boy is infected with the Red.

WONDER TWINS #1 by Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne. Zan and Jayna start their day at school with Zan giving an embarrassing report about how their race deal with the onset of puberty. Later, they are at the Hall of Justice, where Zan doesn’t quite understand what it’s like to be Justice League members and get to babysit the Hll while the League takes on Mxyzptlk. Later, during track practice, Zan experiences Thunderlust for the first time, resulting in a new nickname for him. In the end, Mxyzptlk shows up in the Hall and Jayna gets the supercomputer to say his name backwards, sending him packing.

WONDER WOMAN #64 by G. Willow Wilson and Jesus Merino. Veronica Cale, who is convinced that Olympus and Themyscira have been destroyed, is talking with an imprisoned Nemesis. Meanwhile, Diana is taking care of the wounded Steve Trevor and Aphrodite. Cadmus the Pegasus arrives and takes Diana to Washington D.C. , where she finds a huge crater and Nemesis, who reveals that Cale is behind everything. The pair fight and Cale shows up to frame Diana for attacking her employee. Cale insists that it might be time for heroes to be registered to stop this kind of trouble. Then she reveals that Themsycira has been destroyed, which leads to Diana leaving in despair.

WONDER WOMAN #65 by G. Willow Wilson and Jesus Merino. Diana meets with Steve and Aphrodite before heading out to find Nemesis. She finds her in a cave that she has made into her lair and Nemesis attacks. Diana gets bit by Nemesis, who reveals that she has used her power to control Cale, not the other way around. Diana realizes that Cale is in trouble and she buries Nemesis in her cave. Meeting with Cale in the end, Diana reveals that Nemesis as controlling her and promises to find her daughter if Cale backs off on her lawsuit and plans to have superheroes be registered.

YOUNG JUSTICE #2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Patrick Gleason and Emanuela Lupacchino. Robin is teamed up with Amethyst in Gemworld while, back on Earth Wonder Girl meets Jinny Hex and Teen Lantern. Cassie reveals that she met with her grandfather a few weeks ago and he gave her an amulet that is part of the Trinity of the Gods and it is her duty of follow her destiny. Back in the present, she transports Hex, Lantern and herself to Gemworld, where they meet up with Robin and Amethyst. And that’s when Lord Opal of the Gemworld shows up.

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ACTION COMICS #1008 by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve Epting. Adam Strange goes to the D.E.O. and meets with Director Bones, which is a short meeting as the big blue light from last issue shows up and destroys the D.E.O. and almost all within it. Elsewhere, Amanda Waller meets with Sam Lane, before they encounter the mysterious blue light. When they awake, Waller shoots Lane. Lois Lane finally makes her way back to the Daily Planet, here she finds her old desk occupied by Robinson Goode. In her new space, she and Clark find a scared Jimmy Olsen, who is still suffering from the blue light attack that wiped out Kobra. Amanda Waller arrives and declares that Leviathan has arrived.

ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS #7 by Peter J. Tomasi and Carlo Barberi. A captured Joker Jr. is being interrogated about the location of the Super Sons by two other prisoners: Rex and Grundette. Flashing back a week, we see that Jon was being held in solitary confinement to dampen his powers. Robin is out in Levitztown, looking for Jon, beating up some villains for answers. AL-X, a Green Lantern in training, sends Robin off to meet Gizmo, who Joker Jr. had previously met with. Gizmo sends Robin off to an obvious trap, where Rex and Grundette are waiting. Just as things look grim, Jon appears, having gained his strength back from a stray ray of sunlight in his cell.

AQUAMAN #45 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha. Andy and Caille take a boat ride, where Caille explains how the world  was created by the gods known as Father Sea and Mother Salt. When the gods killed Father Sea, Mother Salt killed all the new gods, became Namma, creating the sun and humans in the process. Namma was then separated into seven parts and sent around the world. She has been able to assemble six of them, needing just one piece to be complete. It turns out that Caille is not Namma’s daughter, but the last part she needs to become a restored Namma.

BATGIRL #32 by Mairghread Scott and Norm Rapmund. Batgirl has made her way into the Gotham News Service where Cormorant is poised to kill Alejo. This leads to an uneasy alliance between Batgirl and Bard. Cormorant makes his way into the live interview and Bard takes a bullet to save Alejo. Just as he is ready to kill her, Batgirl shows up and cripples him, but he still manages to take her hostage. Batgirl tries to make a deal with him but Bard assassinates him before things get out of hand. Alejo is saved, ut Batgirl still doesn’t trust Bard. And who is the person behind Cormorant anyway?

BATMAN #64 by Joshua Williamson and Guillem March. Part One of THE PRICE. Batman is still troubled by the massacre at Sanctuary, that resulted in the deaths of Wally West and Roy Harper, among others. Over at the Flash Museum, there is an attack, which leads to Batman and The Flash teaming up to save everyone. Batman reveals this is just another calculated attack by Gotham Girl, designed to hurt Batman. Gotham Girl has been busy: she has resurrected her brother. Continued in THE FLASH #64.

BATMAN #65 by Joshua Williamson and Guillem March. Part Three of THE PRICE. Gotham Girl relates her origin story, which isn’t the real story. She monologues that she needs a real origin. Meanwhile, Batman and Flash continue their fight with the clones, who eventually burn themselves out by using their powers. At Central City Police Department, Gotham Girl and the Flash fight, but the Hank arrives and beats down The Flash. But Hank’s powers burn out and he dies again. Batman arrives and that leads to a distraught Gotham Girl powering up.

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THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #3 by Scott Snyder and Jock. Batman and Gordon meet with James Jr., trying to convince him to go back to his murdering ways to defeat the Batman Who Laughs. James Jr. declines but then the Grim Knight shows up and kidnaps Gordon. Elsewhere, the Batman Who Laughs meets with Penguin, kills an elderly Bruce Wayne and tells Penguin to look for a traitor in his organization named Matches Malone. Batman again meets with James Jr., but gets a call from Alfred saying the Joker made his y off the table, attacked Alfred and escaped. In the end, Alfred goes in the Bat Cave and finds that Batman has embraced the Dark Side.

BATMAN BEYOND #29 by Dan Jurgens and Brett Booth. Joker has captured Robin and is prepared to kill him with a crowbar on live tv unless he reveals who the mysterious “Bruce” is.  Batman shows up to rescue him, but finds he is not there. In actuality, Joker has made his way to the Batcave, as Robin gave up Bruce Wayne’s secret. The former Batman and The Joker duel with crowbars and, just before the clown is ready to kill his long-time enemy, he has a heart attack and dies.

CATWOMAN #8 by Joelle Jones and Elena Casagrande. Mrs. Creel meets with a mysterious woman who has a special elixir she needs. She also sees an artifact which the source of the elixir is. Penguin hires Catwoman to obtain the artifact while Creel uses the elixir to resurrect her dead son. Catwoman makes her way through the stronghold of the guardian of the artifact, fighting with her to obtain it. Although she is beaten badly, Catwoman gets the upper hand and is given the artifact, despite the warning that it will only bring problems. Catwoman takes it back to the Penguin, who apparently has double crossed her.

THE CURSE OF BRIMSTONE #11 by Justin Jordan and Denys Cowan. Annie and Joe battle the Salesman’s followers, leading to the rift being opened. In the end, Infernal crosses over, stating that it’s a pleasure to finally meet Brimstone.

DAMAGE #14 by Robert Venditti and Aaron Lopresti. Damage fights his way through Monster Island before finally getting saved by Congorilla. When his human host wakes up, he tells his story to Congo Bill. Bill locks himself into a special cage as his mind is transferred into Congorilla, who proclaims that they’re all monsters here.

DEATHSTROKE #40 by Christoper Priest, Fernando Pasarin and Carlo Pagulayan. Two-Face has helped Rose get free and now sends her home. Deathstroke continues to try to break out Arkham and that means fighting a true Rogue’s Gallery of villains, ending up with him facing Hugo Strange, who shoots himself in the head. Deathstroke remarks how the gun which was used to kill Two-Face was actually filled with non-lethal gel bullets. Devon shows up and they make heir way out to go battle aliens, complete with a Fourth Wall break involving Rob Liefeld. They take down the aliens and shut the portal down, which is an old television set. In the end, Robin and Kid Flash investigate the Arkham breakout, which will lead to a crossover between this title and TEEN TITANS.

DETECTIVE COMICS #998 by Peter J. Tomasi and Dough Mahnke. Battle battle Strange for answers into the mysterious events of the recent past, which leads the Dark Knight to tell a tale of teaming up with Etrigan to fight demons. That leads him to meet with Cyborg’s father, who turns out to be an illusion. It looks like the real villain here…is a younger version of Batman himself.

DETECTIVE COMICS #999 by Peter J. Tomasi and Dough Mahnke. Batman faces his younger self, which turns out to be, just like everything that has happened over the past few issues, a self-immersive computer program called 2.1 Landscape. Batman runs it every year on his birthday to make him a better detective and crime fighter. In the end, after his team gets him out of the machine, he goes out to dinner with Leslie and Alfred.

THE FLASH #64 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. Part Two of THE PRICE.  Gotham Girl is with her brother, who may be resurrected, but is looking ill. Behind her is a mysterious figure who apparently is behind it all. Meanwhile, Batman and The Flash are investigating the attack at the Flash Museum, before heading off to the Caribbean, where they investigate a castle filled with articles about the Justice League. Heading into another room, they find the lab filled with clones and Venom, meaning Bane may be the mysterious figure back Gotham Girl’s actions. Barry finds Psycho Pirate’s mask and asks Batman if he ever sent Gotham Girl to Sanctuary. Gotham Girl shows up and inserts another dose of Venom into the machines, bringing the clones to life. Gotham Girl reveals her next target is the Central City Police Department, before heading out and leaving Flash and Batman to deal with their attackers. Continued in BATMAN #65.

THE FLASH #65 by Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval. Batman and the Flash battle Gotham Girl to try to save her. Troubled by Wally’s death, Flash is determined to save her life when she is in danger of dying from using her powers and being affected by the Venom Toxin. Iris is there and she tees off on Batman for letting Wally die at Sanctuary. Gotham Girl, who has no memory of what she has done, is put into stasis until she has been cured. Flash and Batman get into a fight over the whole Sanctuary thing, which leads to Flash racing out of the Batcave. In the end, set in the future, Batman has a discussion with Batman concerning events we have yet to see and asks if we can trust Barry. The Year of the Villain is coming…

GREEN ARROW #49 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Javier Fernandez. Count Vertigo continues to demand Roy Harper so he can have his revenge for being imprisoned. The two battle until finally Ollie tell him that Roy is dead. Vertigo, upset that his revenge can’t be obtained, tells Ollie that Roy is another citizen that he couldn’t save, which causes Ollie to snap and he prepares to kill Vertigo until Canary intervenes. In the end, a mysterious robot arrives to meet with Canary with orders from the government to destroy Green Arrow.

THE GREEN LANTERN #4 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. In a space bar, a Blackstar tells a tale of how one of her people saved a planet that was threatened by sun-eaters. A four-armed space man tells a tale of how three Green Lanterns actually went to another planet that had been threatened by sun-eaters. Jordan’s plan is to get some good deeds done before being taken into custody for killing a prisoner. A Green Lantern that is a sentient star arrives and diverts the sun-eater so it can be taken into custody. It is revealed that Jordan was taken into custody by the Guardians and was taken away for mental therapy. Jordan is then revealed to be the four-armed space man and the Blackstar is really Countess Delzebeth. Jordan is here to join th Darkstars and is offering a power ring in exchange for his admission to the team.

HARLEY QUINN #58 by Sam Humphries and John Timms. The Harley/Batman team-up continues as they try to find who killed Dr. Regelmann. Along the ay, she stops a wife beater. Batman brings her to Arkham, even as she admits to knowing ho did this. It turns out Lord Death Man as responsible, which leads to the new Dynamic Duo to take him down. Batman lets her go and she meets with Mirand’r who congratulates her on passing the first trial. But there are three witches who are still not happy Harley messed with Captain Triumph.

HAWKMAN #9 by Robert Venditti and Bryan Hitch. Carter meets with Xanadu and explains that the Deathbringers are coming. No sooner does that happen when the Deathbringers show up, leading to a fight between them and Hawkman. During the battle, Carter’s old friend Idamm shows up, leading to a fight between them.  Idamm gains the advantage and is ready to kill Hawkman.

HEROES IN CRISIS #6 by Tom King, Clay Mann and Mitch Gerads. During a series of flashbacks, we see moments with Wally, Harley and Gnarrk, during their time in VR at Sanctuary. In the end, Gnarrk dies, Roy is near death and Wally is comforting him when he takes an energy blast to the chest. Booster walks in with his energy weapon ready and sees Harley, with both saying neither is supposed to be there.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #17 by Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung. Martian Manhunter is on Mars in the Sh’Anne Valley when he is forced to team up with Lex to survive. J’onn recalls being in the scientist lab as a child and being befriended by a young boy named Albie. J’onn agrees to work with Lex if he helps him find Albie. The pair team up to survive before both men get transported back to their respective bases. In the end, it is revealed that the scientist is Lionel Luthor and Albie was Lex.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #18 by James Tynion IV and Pasqual Ferry. Luthor and Brainiac team-up to find how to bring Perpetua back to life. Brainiac reveals he wants Perpetua and her power for himself and reveals how Vandal Savage was the first to discover the Nth Metal, leading to a lifelong search for all the keys of Totality. Eventually, Savage turns on Lionel, turning him into a broken alcoholic. This was the reason for Lex killing Savage as revenge. In the end, the pair focus their minds onto the orb to bring Perpetua back to life.

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JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #7 by James Tynion IV and Alvarez Martínez Bueno. Man Bat breaks the Fourth Wall and tells the tales of the past being written by a mysterious typewriter. Zatanna goes to  a mysterious club where she meets with the First of the Fallen, who is felled by The Otherkind. Detective Chimp and Swamp Thing meet with vampire Andrew Bennett, who has a supernatural meeting that causes him to flee. Frankenstein and the Creature Commandos, along with Wonder Woman, investigate a nuclear submarine taken over by otherworldly creatures. In another dimension, Zatara and Sargon the Sorcerer fight against the power of The Otherkind and The Rip, which are making their way to Earth.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #4 by Joshua Williamson and Philippe Briones. The citizens of the planet in the Ghost Sector continue to worship Cyborg, which still unnerves him, but he slowly begins to accept it as one of the followers reveals he is machine-like. He tells Cyborg that the Machine Worlds need him. The team then heads off with the follower to Machine Worlds, where they are confronted by The Programmer. To prove his worth, and that he is not a false messiah, he is put into the Colosseum to do battle with Azrael, who he defeats. Later, Azrael, Jessica and Starfire escape their prison and meet with Rapture, who has built his life around Azrael. Meanwhile, Darkseid meets with Blackfire, who he tries to convince that she needs to assist him in his grand plan.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #5 by Joshua Williamson and Carmine di Giandomenico. While the rest of the team is fighting with Rapture and his robots, Cyborg learns that the Programmer is creating a Motherbox, designed to turn all the people in the Ghost Sector ebing turned into cyborgs to save them. The team, with Rapture, heads to The Programmer where Cyborg grabs the Motherbox and learns that Darkseid lied to them and is planning on building a New Apokolips here. The Coluans collected all these planets to try and hide them from Darkseid. Rapture reveals that he and his Order of Azrael were the angels responsible for killing all of Starfire's followers. This ticks off Azrael, sending Rapture off to his Order and giving them orders to kill the Odyssey team. In the end, Rapture is revealed to be the Coluan who lost his Green Lantern love in issue #1.

NAOMI #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell. In a small town, Superman fights Mongul for 17 seconds and that event, missed by Naomi, affects her life. When it is revealed that this is not the first time that something happened in this town, it leads Naomi to do some research and finds that Superman had been here before…on the day Naomi was adopted. Is there a connection?

NIGHTWING #56 by Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza and Davide Gianfelice. The newly assembled Nightwing team takes on Scarecrow and those who have been transformed by the Fear Gas. Grayson sees this, but is concerned with finding and rescuing Beatrice. He sees Zak get shot and his sister Colleen wounded and Grayson leaps into action to help. Together, they overcome the Fear Gas and defeat Scarecrow. In the end, it seems like there may be a new superhero team in town, as the Nightwings ask Grayson to join them.

  

RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #11 by Marv Wolfman and Pop Mhan. Raven’s family is confused, finding her clothes in their house and they don’t even remember who she is. Raven is leading Night Force into Paraguay to save Skye and then make their escape into Azarath. Zack Zatara gets sick and they all proceed to call him "Barf Boy". Skye is dying and they learn that most of humanity has some degree of Arcane in them, meaning the Shadow Riders will have to kill billions to succeed. In the process, Skye dies.

RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #12 by Marv Wolfman and Pop Mhan. Skye resurrects but is dying and, despite Raven’s healing efforts, Skye explodes. After leaving Azarath, Raven goes to the hospital to visit the last of her faceless sisters, who gets killed by a Shadow Rider after Raven leaves. The Shadow Rider goes to Wintersgate and tells Raven he killed her sister and that leads her to be possessed by her natural powers and takes out the Rider. The team agrees they should all go back to Wintersgate, but Raven goes to her family and, after taking the forgetful spell off, she tells them her name is really Raven.

RED HOOD OUTLAW #30 by Scott Lobdell and Pete Woods. Jason finds himself in Mexico as he continues his hunt for Underlife, which takes him to Hierve El Agua. He discovers a building which has been torn apart by an axe, telling him that Artemis was here. Wingman shows up and captures Red Hood, telling him he wants Red Hood back in Gotham to lead a team that doesn’t follow Batman’s rules. He breaks free and takes down Wingman, acquiring a dog in the process and also discovering a cache of drugs. He also discovers a room full of bodies in liquid stasis, including Bunker. That is when his dad shows up, revealing he is Solitary. Meanwhile, in another reality, Artemis and Bizarro continue their journey.

SHAZAM #2 by Geoff Johns and Marco Santucci. The Marvel Kida are at the Rock of Eternity and try to decide which of the six lands they see on a map that they should explore. They take the magical train and head to Funland, where they meet the seventh champion of the family, King Kid. Meanwhile, Doctor Sivana, with the Encyclopedia of Magical Monsters in tow, meets with a doctor. He explains how his eye gives him magical sight and it is revealed by the creature in his head, that he needs the doctor’s tongue for a spell. The voice in his head is Mr. Mind.

SIDEWAYS #12 by Dan DiDio, Shane Davis and Kenneth Rocafort. Following the explosion at the end of last issue, Detective Hopkins finds Sideways, who Hopkins knows is Derek. Derek reveals what led to the explosion. The Dark Star Labs team captures Derek and harnesses him to open up at portal to the Dark Multiverse. Sideways creates a rift, but the rift inside a rift causes a Black Hole and almost everyone in Dark Star is sucked into it. Just when things look bad for Derek, he gets saved by a being from the Dark Multiverse. In the end, Derek makes amends with his father and then meets his birth mother.

THE SILENCER #12 by Dan Abnett and Jack Herbert. While Hope’s family is searching for her, she is in Talia’s lair with all of her potential followers. She refuses to pledge allegiance to her and that leads to a big brawl. Talia promises to keep Hope’s family safe if she stops fighting. Hope’s family is meeting with someone at the U.S. Embassy, who turns out to be in Talia’s employ. She has no choice but to surrender, which leads to Talia plunging a knife into Hope’s chest and throwing her out the window.

THE SILENCER #13 by Dan Abnett and V Ken Marion. It’s Hope’s origin story. It begins with her at St. Hadrian’s, where she meets Talia for the first time. Over the next few years, her skills improve. Talia asks her to give her a few more years and then, in the end, she will give Hope back an ordinary life. Many years later, she completes her mission to kill Guile. After that, despite being badly injured, she leaves Talia’s employ to start an ordinary life. Flashing forward to now, Hope has just come out of the Lazarus Pit and gives her allegiance to Talia.

SUICIDE SQUAD #50 by Rob Williams and German Peralta. Rick has been captured by the infected Waller and Harley shows up to help him out. Just when things look really bad, Cosmonaut arrives and sacrifices himself to save them. It turns out that the undead Marines are seeking revenge against Flag and have no problems infecting the world with the virus. The rest of the team is fighting them while Harley and Flag proceed on. The team regroups just as the underwater prison surfaces. Flag meets up with his former teammates, who encourage him to be infected and join them. Waller arrives and infects Harley. The team opens a portal and Katana uses her sword to get the creature in there, ending the crisis. Everyone is cured, the Marines finally die again and even Croc shows up.

SUPERGIRL #26 by Marc Andreyko and Kevin Maguire. Supergirl awakes and fins herself in the clutches of Harry Hokum. He is planning on using Supergirl’s cells to create Kryptonian children. Splyce transports Supergirl to a prisoner transfer while Kara pretends to be unconscious. At the prison, Kara is thrown in with a bunch of women and children who have been denied food and water. The guards outside the cells get taken out by the Omega Men and Kara agrees to help them if they help her get these prisoners free. They move through the prison and find three of their cohorts, who were dead and have been resurrected. Meanwhile, Zn’dr and Krypto are captured by two hooded men.

SUPERMAN #7 by Brian Michael Bendis, Ivan Reis, Brandon Peterson and Jason Fabok. Superboy has returned and looks to now be around age 17. He has a reunion with his parents and explains what happened on his trip with Jor-El. He reveals that they all faced off against the Dominators before landing on a planet where the people thought that Lois was a part of the House of El, because of the super suit she is wearing. While there, they run into Lobo. They also find out that the Khunds have been stealing children, so they go off to help there. Lois leaves and Jon tells them that she missed the best part: that Jor-El is completely insane and needs to be stopped.

TEEN TITANS #26 by Adam Glass and Bernard Chang. The Teen Titans break into Batcave where they encounter a robot Batman. Meanwhile, Damian encounters Alfred, who tells Damian he shouldn’t be taking what doesn’t belong to him. Damian says that Red Hood betrayed them and he is here to take what he needs.  The team beats the Batman robot and leave. Later, Red Hood catches Damian in the basement, where he has Black Mask chained up. Damian reveals that he believes Red Hood is either in league with The Other or is The Other. He also says that no that he has gotten this ornate box from the Batcave, Red Hood will no longer be a problem.

TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #1 by Adam Glass, Ryan Benjamin and Jose Luis. Damian tracks down Red Hood in a bar in Texas, where Damian confronts him about The Other and they battle. Damian shows Jason the box he stole from Wayne Manor causing Jason to get angrier, take down Damian and take the box…all while someone watches. In the second half, the rest of the team battles Joystick. He uses his mind control powers to take over Djinn, learning her secrets and revealing some of them to the team. Before they take him down, he reveals that Djinn has deep feelings for Robin which devastates Crush. Djinn goes to the prison where Joystick ends up and magically removes his ability to speak, threatening to remove something else if he reveals her secrets in the future.

THE TERRIFICS #11 by Jeff Lemire and Viktor Bogdanovic. With the team split up, the Terrifics are off pursuing their individual lives. Plastic Man goes to visit his wife and his son, who has his father’s powers and they berate Plastic Man for his non-involvement in the family. Linnya has returned to Bgtzl, where she is forced to wear clothing she doesn’t like, because h sei s considered royalty. Rex, who is now human, goes out looking for a job, which is difficult because he has almost no experience. Mr. Terrific is tracking Java, who is making is way through the Multiverse, killing alternate versions of Mr. Terrific. He gets to Earth-23, where Mr. Terrific’s wife Paula is Mr. terrific. Terrific transports there and comes face to face with Java’s team of Terrifics that he calls the Dreadfuls.

THE TERRIFICS #12 by Jeff Lemire and Viktor Bogdanovic. Mr. Terrific battles Doctor Dread’s Dreadfuls. They are Metalmorpho of Earth-44, Phantom Boy of Earth-13 and Plasma-Man from Earth-43. And when they’re done with him, they plan on killing Mr. Terrific of Earth 23, who resembles Mr. Terrific’s wife. Over on Bgtzl, Linnya’s moher is trying to have her daughter involved in an arranged marriage, which leads to her stealing a spaceship and heading back to Earth. Rex and his dog break into Stagg’s lab so he can destroy the Orb, so he cannot accidentally turn into Metamorpho again. Plastic Man meets up with his son Luke and gets schooled in a game of basketball. To convince his son how much he loves him, Plas steals that Batmobile so they can go joyriding. Back at Mr. Terrific’s lab, Linnya receives Mr. Terrific’s distress signal and calls the team back together. That leads to Rex making a fateful decision, destroy the Orb and he and the dog turn back into Metamorphos.

TITANS #33 by Dan Abnett and Bruno Redondo. Ben is back at Titans Headquarters, reading an Unearth book so he can get a better idea on how to help the team. After defeating their enemies, they head to the castle where Lord Travesty is waiting. Ernest, who created the world, is acting as Travesty’s advisor. After Ernest leaves, Travesty meets with his new allies: Mother Blood and the Blood Cult. They have helped Travesty get the throne and they want the Titans to come and try to retrieve Raven’s soul self. They get to the castle, but are attacked by a mighty warrior, who turns out to be Raven’s soul self.

THE UNEXPECTED #8 by Steve Orlando and Ronan Cliquet. Neon and Quenh are dead, and that means Firebrand and Hawkman have to face Mandrakk on their own. In actuality, Neon and Quench have a portion of themselves still alive in the World Forge. Neon convinces Quench to put aside their differences and they fight their way out of the World Forge, joining Hawkman and Firebrand to battle Mandrakk. Together, they change Mandrakk, who must now feed off Dark Matter and he’s gets sent back into the Dark Multiverse. Quench goes on his own journey, Neon repairs Firebrand’s hospital and Firebrand is prepared o battle for Earth as needed.

WONDER WOMAN #61 by G. Willow Wilson and Xermanico. Steve is healed by Aphrodite and they go off to find Wonder Woman. After a reunion, Diana, Steve, Aphrodite, and Etta convince the Prime Minister of Durovnia to go to the scheduled peace meeting. But their path is interrupted by aircraft attacks and an appearance by Ares.

WONDER WOMAN #62 by G. Willow Wilson and Xermanico. Diana and Ares battle, until Aphrodite gets involved and reminds Ares of who she is. The Prime Minister and the rebels meet and a peace is achieved. But that is all dependent on if the gods and their attendants leave their country immediately. Later, Diana and Steve visit Etta in the hospital, before Diana leaves to begin her search for Themyscira.

WONDER WOMAN #63 by G. Willow Wilson and Emanuela Lupacchino. The mythical creatures that had kidnapped Steve are out in the world and trying to fit in with problems resulting. They end up at the Old Ebbitt Grill, where the clientele are not happy to be eating with what they consider to be farm animals. A waitress named Maggie befriends them and offers to take them to somewhere where they might be more accepted. Diana returns with Ferdinand the Minotaur, leading to all of them heading to Ferdinand’s place where he is going to cook them a pasta dinner. In the end, it is revealed that Veronica Cale has Nemesis captive in her apartment.

YOUNG JUSTICE #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Patrick Gleason.  Invaders from Gemworld show up looking for Superman and that results in a team forming, made up of Jinny Hex, Tim Drake Robin, Impulse, and Wonder Girl. The team ends up on Gemworld and meets Amethyst. And then Connor Kent, long missing from DC continuity, shows up!

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ACTION COMICS #1006 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook. The Mayor has shut down the investigation of the mysterious fires and Clark Kent is on the case to find out why. What he finds out is the Mayor thinks there is a leak in the fire department and he wants someone to take care of Fire Chief Melody Moore. No sooner does that happen then Red Cloud shows up to threaten Moore. Luckily Superman comes to her rescue. Following this, Robinson Moore meets with the woman in charge known as Leone and is told that Leone just bought the Daily Planet. And she also has the car the Superman destroyed on the cover of the legendary ACTION COMICS #1.

ACTION COMICS #1007 by Brian Michael Bendis and Steve Epting. Jimmy goes on a date with a girl named Ella and ends up at meeting of the Kobra cult. Taking pictures of the event, Jimmy is chased out and hunted, only to be saved by a huge ball of energy in the sky which destroys the building and, presumably, everyone in it. He later tries to explain his situation to Clark, but he runs off to suddenly save a falling Amanda Waller. The same ball of energy arrives and Superman saves as many people as possible, with Waller disappearing from the area in the process. Meanwhile, Lois meets with her father and reveals that her husband is Superman.

ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SONS #6 by Peter J. Tomasi and Scott Godlewski. On a distant planet, Superboy and Robin meet a cute space monkey named Hukka. Later Rex shows up and threatens to kill Hukka unless the boys surrender to him. His plan is to use the Hypercube to team up with the Legion of Super Villains to wipe out all the heroes of Earth. Tommy Tomorrow shows up to save the day but sees the boys as bad guys so he takes them to the prison planet of Takron-Galtos.

AQUAMAN #44 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha. Wee tells Aquaman that he needs to take Caille back to her mother on another island. Aquaman meets with Caille and tries to convince her to join him. That night, the town’s elders meet on the beach and, during a ritual, it is revealed they are incarnations of ancient water gods. Aquaman and Caille show up and, after he throws a log in the fire, the gods manifest themselves and grab Aquaman by the throat, tossing him in the water to prove he can breathe underwater. Meanwhile, the search is on for a proper suitor for Mera.

BATGIRL #30 by Mairghread Scott and Paul Pelletier. Jason Bard and his cronies disguise themselves to start a riot during a rally for Gotham City congressional candidate Luciana Alejo. Batgirl arrives to keep the peace, even as Commissioner Gordon refers to her as a vigilante. Bard and company run off, but he gets caught by Batgirl, who pepper sprays her and escapes. The next day, Barbara shows up to volunteer for Alejo’s campaign, she finds Bard already there, warning that Alejo should be concerned about a bad guy named the Cormorant. Also, tensions rise between Barbara and her dad, which leads to her storming out.

BATGIRL #31 by Mairghread Scott and Paul Pelletier. While still working on the Alejo campaign, she still can’t believe that Jason Bard is the head of security, as she believes that Bard is Cormorant. There is a fundraiser that night and Barbara convinces the staff to let her attend, but she only shows up as Batgirl. Edward Wells, the man we are led to believe is Cormorant, arrives and the two battle. Later, she breaks into Branson Moore’s office to find Wells attacking Moore. Moore reveals that he didn’t hire Cormorant and that all of this has to do with possibly shutting down Blackgate and building a bigger, newer prison. In the end, there is a broadcast set with Alejo at Gotham Broadcast News. Bard is there and steps into an elevator with a cleaning man, who turns out to be Wells.

BATMAN #62 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Batman has been captured by Professor Pyg and is subject to torture and drug induced nightmares. The question is: what is false and what is real?

BATMAN #63 by Tom King and Mikel Janin. John Constantine narrates this dream sequence where Batman has married Selina and seemingly is going to live happily ever after. But John warns him that Selina will die and she does. Is this foreshadowing of what could have happened or is this just another nightmare in the life of Bruce Wayne.

THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #2 by Scott Snyder and Jock. Batman is desperately trying to save The Joker’s life, despite Alfred’s warnings. Batman is also undergoing treatment for his exposure to Joker Toxin. Meanwhile, Gotham is being filled with dead Bruce Waynes, seemingly from other worlds of the Multiverse. After disguising himself as Harvey Bullock, Batman heads over to Wayne Tower, where the Batman Who Laughs has made his way inside and sets off an explosion there. Later, Batman revives The Joker, demanding answers to The Batman Who Laughs plan. In the end, Commissioner Gordon seeks help from an unlikely source: his son.

BATMAN BEYOND #27 by Dan Jurgens and Brett Booth. After the massive explosion last issue at the Wayne Family Center of Tomorrow., The Joker has renamed The Jokerz as the Throwbacks and continues his plans of destruction. Despite all of this, Terry takes time to go out on a date with Ten. Robin calls him away and the pair go off to battle The Throwbacks. But there is a big surprise: Joker has converted one of his followers into a cyborg.

BATMAN BEYOND #28 by Dan Jurgens and Brett Booth. Batman and Robin continue to battle with the cyborg Joker, leading to Robin crashing elsewhere and being captured by The Joker. With the help of Dick Grayson, flying the Batplane, Batman defeats the cyborg but learns that Joker has captured Robin and is giving him a choice: watch Robin die or reveal who the “Bruce” Batman has been talking to really is.

CATWOMAN #7 by Joelle Jones and Fernando Blanco. Selina is in a jewelry store checking out some gems. Meanwhile, Penguin is in Villa Hermosa, where he kills his cab driver. Raina is waiting to see a doctor, as her looks have totally faded and she needs treatment ASAP. Selina heads out and witnesses an explosion on the Villa Hermosa pier before heading to a location where she meets with The Penguin.

THE CURSE OF BRIMSTONE #10 by Justin Jordan and Eduardo Pansica. After a flashback to Joe and Annie as children, we come to the present where Annie is with the Jack, who it is revealed has been watching her since the diner in issue #1. He once made a deal with one of The Salesman’s servants, killed him and has been masquerading as a helper ever since, creating carnage everywhere he has been. Razorjane, a woman who had been transformed by The Salesman arrives and, after a brief fight, begs to be saved. Brimstone arrives to save Annie while Jack kills Razorjane. Jack leaves to continue on his journey. Meanwhile, The Salesman and his followers are off to kill The Chamberlains.

THE CURSE OF BRIMSTONE ANNUAL #1 by Justin Jordan, Mike Perkins, Neil Edwards and Denys Cowans. Joe and Annie pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be John Constantine. They, along with Swamp Ting, battle the Gods of Carnage, resulting in Swamp Thing being killed. In the second tale, there is the origin of Enoch from issue #4 and how, after a deal with The Salesman, he became the creature known as Detritus, before having to kill his brother who became possessed by the creature. In the third tale, Jack’s origin is revealed: a salesman who made a deal with a minion of The Salesman, killed him and has been doing The Salesman’s killing ever since, because he enjoys it.

DAMAGE #13 by Robert Venditti and Aaron Lopresti. Ethan finds himself in the Hall of Justice, where Batman is giving him a tour and he is going all fanboy about meeting some members. But this turns out to be a ruse as he is actually on an aircraft. This causes him to turn into Damage and battle the Dark Knight. Batman eventually opens the hatch and that leads to Damage being dropped on Dinosaur Island. This is bad news because he has less than an hour to get out of there before he turns back to Ethan.

DEATHSTROKE #39 by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan and Fernando Pasarin. Deathstroke and a team of heroes and villains are battling Devon and his team. But this is all a flashback that Devon is explaining happened when he and Slade were Zeta Beam transported out of Arkham. He also explains that the Justice League was informed of an alien invasion and they disregarded it. It happened weeks ago but only lasted for a few minutes in Earth time. Meanwhile, Slade is still in Arkham and Hugo Strange has tortured him and his therapist. Joe jumps into Grundy’s body and, in the process, Candace gets accidentally killed by Slade. Devon shows up to free Slade and son so they can stop the alien invasion. Meanwhile, Rose continues on her journey to solve the Willow issue.

DETECTIVE COMICS #995 by Peter J. Tomasi and Doug Mahnke. Batman races a Jokerized Leslie back to the Batcave, where the anti-toxin isn’t working and she dies. “Commissioner Gordon” arrives at the Mansion, where Alfred opens the door and gets stabbed in the chest by someone dressed as Zorro. Damian arrives to repair Alfred's punctured lung while Batman heads to Arkham where he meets with many of his Rogue’s Gallery, just as the lights go out. Be afraid, villains-be afraid.

DETECTIVE COMICS #996 by Peter J. Tomasi and Doug Mahnke. Batman has beat up the Rogue’s Gallery and heads to the Batcave to check on Alfred. Batman deduces that someone who knows his true identity and believes it is not Ra's Al Ghul, but Henri Ducard. Ducard has an axe to grind because Damian as responsible for killing his son organ, who was the villain Nobody. He finds Ducard and, after a tussle, they talk, up until the creature from a few issues back arrives. Ducard gets captured by the creature, which is morphing into various villains, and he uses a grenade to kill the creature and himself. Batman goes to the Temple of Kirigi, where Batman had some of his training, and finds that the students there have been killed. After a fight with the lone surviving student, Batman meets with his sensei and learns the creature killed everyone. Batman goes to New Mexico where he finds an imprisoned Thaddeus Brown: the first Mister Miracle. Informing him it’s a trap, the ground explodes and the pair are gone.

DETECTIVE COMICS #997 by Peter J. Tomasi and Doug Mahnke. Batman and Thaddeus find themselves trapped underwater surrounded by sharks. They struggle to get free, with Batman taking a bite out of a shark, which attracts the piranhas that have entered the pool to chew away at Batman’s restraints. They free themselves and Batman gets attracted by a demon version of himself and members of the Batman family. He manages to defeat them all, complete with throwing the fake Batman into the water with the piranhas. He tells Brown this is a solo mission and leaves. In the end, Hugo Strange suffers an explosion that destroys his lab, just as Batman arrives.

THE FLASH #61 by Joshua Williamson and Christian Duce. The Flash and Fuerza are battling the Sage Force Goblins, even at Cauldron threatens Fuerza’s family. Fuerza finally uses her gravity powers along with The Flash using the Speed Force to destroy the Sage Force Goblins. The bad guys split, but Fuerza catches Cauldron and destroys the Sage Force gun, but the Strength Force reacts to Fuerza’s anger and transforms her into a monster. It takes Fuerza’s mother to calm her down, Cauldron is arrested and Iris uses the gun to search for the Sage Force. Commander Cold, who is spending some quality time with Detective Burns, gets contacted by Barry and reveals that the Sage Force is in Zandia. Barry and Iris dress as villains to blend into a crowd of bad guys, but got met by a “big fan”, who reveals he has the power to read everyone’s fears and knows Barry is The Flash.

THE FLASH #62 by Joshua Williamson and Christian Duce. The “big fan” says his name is Psych, he is an agent of A.R.G.E.N.T. and he is after Roulette, who has built a casino in Zandia. Psych, whose real name is Bashir, explains that he nearly burned his home down when he got his powers and A.R.G.U.S. saved him and enlisted him. With the trio blending with the crowd, Psych reveals Barry is the Flash, leading to a big brawl. Fleeing the casino, Flash confronts Psych who blames Iris, before surrendering. But this ruse leads to him incapacitating Barry and Iris. Psych was hired by Gemini to capture the Flash, but they turn on Psych and begin draining Flash and Psych of their powers.

THE FLASH #63 by and Minkyu Jung. Iris saves Flash and Psych from the power stealing Gemini, but that isn’t enough for Pysch, who uses his power to sap Santiago’s power and his life. Psych reveals that the four forces are constantly fighting to gain control of the Forever Force and that everything he has been told is a lie. He flees leaving Flash and Iris with Belladonna and her dead lover. Later, she reveals that Flash’ monkey friend told them everything about the various forces. Flash and Iris head back to Gorilla City, where it is revealed that Hunter Zolomon is on the Force Quest too, which is why Flash was lied to. He brings Iris back home and, after running into Booster Gold, heads to Sanctuary, where he finds Wally’s body.

THE FLASH ANNUAL #2 by Joshua Williamson and Scott Kolins. Following the discovery of Wally’s body, Flash loses it and heads into the Speed Force, where he is attacked by Godspeed. Flash chases him to Iron Heights, where Wallace and Avery are meeting with Meena. Godspeed attacks everyone before revealing that Wally is dead, which devastates Wallace. Flash takes out his anger on Godspeed before being knocked for a loop because of a special gauntlet from a former speedster. Impulse appears and attacks Godspeed, before running off with Impulse in pursuit, as he wants to find what has happened to his speed family. Barry returns to Iris and tells her the bad news, which breaks her heart. In the end, August meets with a mysterious person who thanks him for betraying Barry, as this fits into his plan to destroy the Flash for what he did to his family.

GREEN ARROW #48 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Javier Fernandez. Count Vertigo breaks out of jail and wants revenge on the person who put him in jail-Roy Harper. Only problem is Roy is dead.

THE GREEN LANTERN #3 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp. Earth hasn’t disappeared, it has just been shrunk so it can be sold by a Dhorian slaver. He eventually hands it over to a being called The Shepherd. The Green Lanterns attack the Blackstars, eventually taking them down. Hal goes after The Shepherd, who claims he is a peaceful collector of planets, giving everyone super powers. He is revealed to be a giant insect who has evil plans for everyone. Hal knocks out The Shepherd, tapes off Earth as a crime scene and goes after the Dhorian slaver. Hal kills him with construct spikes and hen claims it was self defense.

HARLEY QUINN #57 by Sam Humphries and John Timms. Harley is hanging out in Coney Island when she meets a Tamaran named Mirand’r, who informs Harley that she has been chosen to undergo some cosmic trials. Meanwhile, Batman and Commissioner Gordon discus finding a corpse with a Joker grin and immediately deduce Harley is responsible. Harley goes to visit her mom at the hospital, where she is asked to leave as she is a criminal. Later on, Batman shows up at her apartment and the two fight, until he makes her feel bad for being a criminal and gives him a hug. He cuffs her and takes her away. Meanwhile, the Joker grinning corpse wakes in the morgue, revealing that Harley and Batman are falling into his trap.

HAWKMAN #8 by Robert Venditti and Bryan Hitch. Hawkman meets with Catar-Ol, his Kryptonian version of himself from an earlier time. Hawkman explains everything there is to know about the survivors of Krypton: Superman and Supergirl. As Krypton is destroyed, Catar-Ol tells Hawkman that he must be the weapon. Hopefully he can be, as the Deathbringers have arrived in Earth space.

HEROES IN CRISIS #4 by Tom King and Clay Mann. Flash and Batman continue their investigation of Sanctuary, with the pair disagreeing as to who was responsible: Harley or Booster Gold. Meanwhile, Booster is interrogated by Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth seems to reveal that he is innocent. He later meets with Blue Beetle, who breaks him out of the Hall of Justice, and, in the Beetle ship, they go off together. Harley meets with Batgirl, who they brawl and then become a team. Superman meets with Batman and reveals that, despite Batman denying it, says there are videos of hero confessions from Sanctuary and that Lois has published her article about them.

HEROES IN CRISIS #5 by Tom King and Clay Mann. Batman examines Skeets and comes away believing that Skeets has no idea where Booster is. Batgirl decides this isn’t good enough and she interrogates Skeets, with Harley and her mallet as backup. Superman gives a press conference, where he reveals the existence of Sanctuary and what has happened there, which is sure to continue to feed the world’s distrust of heroes. Meanwhile, Booster and Blue Beetle come up with a plan, which is to break into Flash’ lab and examine Wally’s corpse. They discover that, because Booster has the ability, this corpse is from five days in the future.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #15 by James Tynion, Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung. Starman has awoken and is releasing his nuclear energy. Meanwhile, Savage Hawkman is about to kill Kendra when it is revealed to be a Thanagar trooper and this is all an illusion placed in their minds by Martian Manhunter. John Stewart, Kendra and J’onn J’onzz head to the Thanagar Prime vaults to find the Martian Keep, but get stopped by the Green Lantern Corps. Martian Manhunter slips free and meets with the Martian Keep, who is hooked up to a machine called the Absorbascon, which has created an entire lie of the planet, built from memories. Back on Earth, Starman reveals he can see the doings on Thanagar and that the League members there are about to learn the story of Perpetua.

JUSTICE LEAGUE #16 by James Tynion, Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung. J’onn learns that the Guardians hid a secret here which involved Perpetua. Her army was made from followers made from a fusion of human and Martian DNA. Humans got involved in reengineering Perpetua’s followers and made use of J’onn’s DNA as a child, explaining why he has seen visions of himself as a child in a cage. It is also revealed that the symbols on the “doorknob” represent justice and doom. The Martian Keep dies and Shayera tries to keep everything as it was, but fails and it all disintegrates, including the Savage Hawkman. The Trinity, along with Starman, arrive and Starman uses his energy to pull a piece of Shiera Hall out of Shayera and give it back to Kendra. He reveals that Shayera will help her people rebuild and it is now Kendra’s destiny to repair the Source Wall.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ANNUAL #1 by James Tynion, Scott Snyder and Daniel Sampere.

Justice League heads off to the Source Wall, where they plan on taking the surviving Omega Titans, along with Hawkgirl, and putting them back on the Wall, to keep the Multiverse from collapsing. Just as things look to be finalized, complete with Hawkgirl’s sacrifice, Brainiac arrives. He tells Luthor that the League has two of the keys to Totality and they need to direct those to Perpetua. Despite the best efforts of The Justice League, the New Gods and the Green Lantern Corps, the Source Wall breaks apart. Because of this, Apokolips and New genesis disappear, the Guardians reveal that the Multiverse will die in a matter of months, and Luthor and Brainiac are prepared for Perpetua to live again.