ND 08-2022

AQUAMAN #22
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“GET YOUR ASS TO MARS”
Aquaman wants Mars to form an alliance with Atlantis to either force Black Adam to reconsider War with the underwater kingdom … or to add their alien might to the fight against Kahndaq. Either way, he’s got to get Mars’ greatest hero, J’onn J’Onzz, back to the Red Planet to make it happen!
Atlantis’ long-lost space colony, Oceanid, sent Arthur a vessel: the O.S.S. Starshark. But the crew is… fishy. And by that, I mean suspicious. They’re not actually fish, because Arthur gets along great with real fish. These guys… not as much. Does this crew have Aquaman’s actual interests at heart… or are they about to snare him in their net?
And oh yeah, when Aquaman sprung the Martian Manhunter from jail… Lobo escaped too! The Main Man was incarcerated for offing the King of Markovia (see THE FLASH #30). This, in part, caused the U.N. to create the World Organization for the Advancement of Humanity: an anti-alien task-force that nobody realizes is secretly controlled by Vandal Savage. Lobo’s actions were completely disastrous for the planet… but he does have a Space Hog. Is he going to ruin Aquaman and Martian Manhunter’s voyage to Mars… or save it? Is it possible he somehow does both?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #37
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
Burendia: Come For Vacation, Leave on Probation!
Kisu, capital of Burendia: Somehow, Grifter, Kia, Flagg and Dakota have managed to sneak unnoticed into the nation of Burendia in their pursuit of Ravager! Grifter tells everyone that they have to keep a very low profile, they last thing they want is to get caught! But Kia doesn't want to be patient, she wants justice for herself and former partner Steve Trevor! Once they get Ravager, they'll use her to go after the person Kia really wants, Lena Killian! Dakota tells Kia to be honest with herself, she isn't looking for justice, she wants revenge. She's heard stories about the President of Burendia, the Red Lion and how truly dangerous he is.
Flagg warns everyone to look sharp, they are being followed! Back in the DRC, Batwing is desperately making plans to get to Burendia! He isn't going alone though as The Congo's other vigilante Dawn is going with him! He has to get there to help protect his friends, but deep inside he knows that it's more than that. He's been denying his feelings for Kia for to long and now that she may be in danger, he'll to do everything he can to protect her! But there is also another feeling that begins to rise to the surface inside David: Fear! The last time that he was in Burendia, he was nearly killed by The Red Lion! Can he survive a second encounter?
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
DEADLY HANDS OF CONNOR HAWKE #37
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: JEFF LEMIRE
Artist: ANDREA SORRENTINO
Return of the Mommy!
COLD CUT is back to perform their latest hit, Return of the Mommy!
Mommy! Mommy! Where you been? Stayin' in bed all day again?
Is it okay if I go outside? Wish I had me a little bike to ride!
Tommy and me goin' to the park! Promise I'll be back before it's dark!
What's for dinner? When can we eat? You look tired and Daddy looks beat!
You sip another drink lookin' all chill as Daddy pops another little blue pill!
While Connor has been enjoying his reunion with his estranged mother Talia al Ghul, someone else is becoming very suspicious of her return. Avila can't quite put her finger on it but she has doubts about Talia and her sudden interest in Connor. And of course there's The Magus, he's the one who brought Talia to San Francisco and he never does anything with out an ulterior motive! Does she tell Connor about her concerns and possibly ruin his mothers' return? But that decision will have to wait as Talia and The Magus have told Connor that they will take him home, back to the place where he was born!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
THE FLASH #37
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“RAPIDLY UNCOVERED”
Barry’s cover within the World Organization for the Advancement of Humanity has finally been blown! Cheetah, with her animalistic senses, recognizes the musky scent emitted by “Marathon Man” John Broome - for only the Flash produces such a unique aroma of burned rubber, red Gatorade, and Axe body spray…
Taking that information to Vandal Savage, the appointment of a new head of W.O.A.H.’s Speedster Division is arranged, and this guy has experience… of the negative kind. You know him as Dr. Eobard Thawne - the Reverse Flash!
Worse still, Cheetah and Killer Frost oust Captain Atom from his position as Director of W.O.A.H. and frame him for crimes against humanity and sexual harassment! Now the Earth-wide and U.N.-sponsored organization falls firmly into the grasp of Vandal Savage…
That leaves Barry and ex-Director Captain Atom on the run and with no allies - until, that is, some questionable (and ultraviolent) would-be friends arrive!
“They call me Magog, and this is Peacemaker. The old ways clearly aren’t working anymore, so we’re starting a Battalion… of Justice! Are you two in?”
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #37
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“HUNTING MANHUNTERS”
The Green Lantern Corps, as an intergalactic police force, was created by the Guardians of the Universe… but it wasn’t their first effort. Before the Guardians began empowering varied aliens, millions of years ago, they used machines. Robots. Manhunters.
As is common, eventually the unfeeling machines became too rigid in their application of “justice.” They came to view organics as inherently prone to crime and evil, in need of constant supervision… and control. The Guardians defeated them - or did they?
The enormous Manhunter Highmaster is two important things: (1) the leader of the remaining Manhunters, and (2) their primary manufacturing factory. Hidden on an obscure planet, the massive machine performs its ceaseless task: repopulating the Manhunter ranks. And it does this well. . Unfortunately for the Highmaster, Vandal Savage learned this.
The metahumans of W.O.A.H. - lead by secret members of the Light: Reverse Flash, Cheetah, and Killer Frost - are tasked with infiltrating the Manhunter planetoid and infecting the Highmaster with a virus that will allow them to assume control. With a legion of killer robots at his command, who could stand against Vandal Savage?
Meanwhile, the human Green Lantern Corpsmen are still stranded on Earth… but Hal Jordan had a contingency plan. What is his “Emerald City”?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
HOUSE OF S #3
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art by DUSTIN WEAVER
"THE TWO KINGS OF TWO KRYPTONS"
Once upon a time, there was a great kingdom on Krypton. The King led their kingdom into a Golden Age.
But that was before the fall, and before the war.
The King wanted more for his Kingdom, and he heard whispers in his dreams. Whispers that promised great powers and knowledge. All he need to do is to build a Gate. When the Gate finally opened, Doomsday arrived.
The Kingdome fell as demons flood through the Gate. In order to stop the demonic invasion, the other Kingdoms destroyed the Gate. And the whole Kingdom and its people disappeared with the Gate.
The King alone survived, but he lost his queen, his children and his people. So he vowed to bring them back, even if it means losing his own soul. He delved into the dark arts of Necromancy, and he assembled a great army of the zombies. And he declared war against the other Kingdoms.
The other great Houses that would be known as the Science Council. For this was a story of Bru-Al, the Kryptonian Necromancer.
Once upon a time, there was a great kingdom on another Krypton. The King led their kingdom into a Golden Age.
But that was before the fall, and before the war.
The King wanted more for his Kingdom, and he made a deal with the Demonic Doomsday, the Ultimate Weapon of the Empire of Tears.
The Kingdome fell, and the people were transformed into demonic creatures by Doomsday. The other Kingdoms fought against his demonic empire and exiled them to another dimension. The Grimlands.
The King alone had the powers to escape this dimension, as he calls out to the other King, in his dreams, in dark whispers. With the promises of great power and knowledge, the other King would build a Gate in his lands, just as the King would build his Gate in the Grimlands. Finally his demonic people would be free, finally his empire would be restored.
The other king would be known as Bru-Al, the Kryptonian Necromancer of Earth-0. For this was a story of Bru-Al, the Kryptonian Dark Lord of Earth-2.
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLAlien #8
Plot by NX01A
Written by AL EWING
Art by RYAN SOOK
'JLXX'
•MAXWELL LORD, MA'ALEFA'AK, BLACKFIRE, and VOODOO have fled a Super-Nazi Earth thanks to the Kryptonian artifact now possessing the Kryptonian corpse of the FINAL FÜHRER! The ÜBERADICATOR also absorbed the transdimensional Realitätstor gateway, so now the search for their home reality begins!
•Before the Realitätstor can recharge, women warriors descend on them! The JLXX have arrived but it's Max's magic-deflected psionic attempt to mind control them into going away that makes them attack!
•While the Überadicator focuses intently on linking his quantum signature to the Realitätstor's phase discriminator, Blackfire holds her own against POWERGIRL and NUBIA. Ma'alefa'ak faces Green Lantern SOJOURNER MULLEIN as Voodoo gets bestial with VIXEN! Since his telepathy doesn't work on warded BLACK EVE and ZATANNA, Max tries to do what he does best: talk his way out of it!
•By the time the Überadicator is ready, not everyone in this battle will be walking away.
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99
MAN OF BRONZE #11
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Philip Tan
Plotter: Marvell2100
Prison of the Broken Mind!
Ben meets up with his former squad mate Grifter and group of agents from The Congo in the rogue nation of Burendia! The agents have tracked Ravager, an assassin from The Guild, to one of the most dangerous places on the planet, a place that Ben and Grifter know all too well! After all, they spent two years of hell here in a prison cell after being betrayed by another of their teammates, John Diggle!
Years ago, Team 7 was given a dangerous assignment: kill Matthew Bland, a warlord who threatened the stability of Burendia. But they were betrayed by one of their own, Diggle and when Bland took control of Burendia, the rest of team 7 were labelled terrorists and sentenced to prison. Now, they're back and facing old demons but it will all be worth it if Ben can finish the job they began years ago and kill Bland!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
THE QUESTION #38
Writer: MARK RUSSELL
Artist: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
“Where in the World is Charles Victor Szasz?”
Part 8b: “You Were the Star, When Did It Close?”
The city that never sleeps gives Vic challenges he can’t solve by putting on a mask and punching some crooks. He wants Myra Fermin to do well in NYC, but for her to get a part (Siren’s mother, actually) in the Siren jukebox musical, he will have to do a favor for Ms. Lorelei Circe. Will Vic surrender his principles to help a friend? Will he even have to surrender principles? Siren will not ask the favor until he agrees to the deal.
Meanwhile, Cat Grant, stressed out show producer, is unaware of past issues between Vic and Lorelei and believes the two are going on as Johnny Carson (kids, google him) used to with many of his frequent guests.
Vic does manage to convince both cat and his doctor to allow a séance at the Dakota, which Lorelei Circe is very interested in taking part in.a séance run by known psychic Janie Welles. Urban Legends are what Vic Sage is about, right? It’s not like he had a health scare and is focused on his own mortality or anything.
32 PGS./ Rated M for Mature Readers...$2.99
 
SENSATION COMICS #26
Written by VITA AYALA
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN and EXCITER
Art by ROD REIS
Inspired by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS and ALEXANDER BOGDANOV
“MARS NEEDS (WONDER) WOMEN!” or
“CRISIS ON INFINITE MARSES”
Legends say that Barsoom, the world we know as Mars, is red because it is stained with blood. Those legends may be true, now more than ever!
After the fall of Helium at the hands of the White Martians, Diana and T’ars T’arkas journeyed to the center of Mars. There, they found a city of genderless communists and were captured while, on the surface, the treacherous Amazon, General Clea, used the Trident of Poseidon to overflow the sacred River Iss. That was six months ago…
Now, Mars is drowning. The whole world is now Iss, and with the support of the White Martians, Clea declares herself Empress of Mars - conqueror of the very world humans named after her new lover and partner: the god of war, Ares (the Romans called him Mars)!
With Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter arriving on the planet (see AQUAMAN #22), they’re able to rescue T’ars and Wonder Woman from captivity. But can they rally the remaining Green Martians and liberate the once-red world? And who is this star-clad blonde woman calling herself Wonder Woman?
Hidden from the view of mortal beings and gods alike, Enyo (Ares’ previous lover and also his sister) plots her revenge and supposed redemption. Ares has delved into many different Marses to bring forth many races and groups calling the planet home and wanted to place them at odds, making the planet a true world of war.
Can Diana lead their coalition against her arch-nemesis and her betrayer while also returning Mars to its natural state? Will the various Martian civilizations be able to co-exist in peace? What will it cost her? Spoiler Alert: A Lot.
Can Aquaman reclaim the Trident, a weapon of Mass Destruction capable of deterring Kahndaq’s invasion of Atlantis back home? The good news here is that the existence of liquid river water on Mars relies totally on the Trident and removing it will allow the planet to return to its current state.
And the Pellucidar-like commune isn’t beaten, merely enraged! It’s new alien chairman - the radical Star Czar - organizes a subterranean revolution! Will this inhibit the commune’s role in ending the eternal strife on the fourth planet?
48 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN #5
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Valerio Schiti
'BACK IN BUSAN'
A new mission in South Korea turns personal as Pantha runs into an old lover — Nam Jiseok, the heir to the powerful and corrupt Golden Chaebol!
The G-Men are running down a mutant trafficking operation, and signs point to the Golden Chaebol as the masterminds.
Pantha knows better than to think Jiseok would be involved himself — can the rest of the G-Men trust her judgment?
The chance meeting with Jiseok sets the G-Men on a collision course with the Chaebol’s enforcer: Jiseok’s cousin, Nam Byeoljji; aka, the latest woman to hold the mantle of SHATTERFIST!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
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