ND 10-2023

FIRE FROM HEAVEN #4
(LGY: UNCANNY G-MEN #32)
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by David Marquez
Act Three, “Mother of Darkness and Light”, FINALE
It’s the G-Men and the Omega Men against the United Planets, with the fate of Penelope Pink on the line!
Thanks to some smooth legal trickery by Professor G, Penelope faces trial by combat for her crimes as PYRA — with her friends as her chosen champions!
Thanagar constructs an arena on Earth’s moon to serve as the battleground.
BASILISK is prepared to die protecting the woman he loves — and so is the unrequited lover PANTHA!
For the rest of them, Penelope is like family.
Champions, a veritable legion of super-humans from across the member systems of the United Planets, oppose them!
The odds are overwhelming — impossible, even.
Despite early successes, one by one, the G-Men fall in the face of the onslaught!
The FULL COPPER MAN folds! RUNAWAY is overrun! RAINMAKER is crushed. WINTER WONDERLAD is put on ice!
Even Pantha is pinned down.
It’s down to just Basilisk and Penelope Pink — and she knows how this ends.
She won’t let her friends, or her love, die for her! For a brief moment, her powers as PYRA reawaken, allowing her to save her family from death. But, she decides, it’s too late for her!
If she needs to die — and, she realizes, she does! — then let it be at her own hands!
Her defenses lowered, she triggers a weapon telekinetically, and with her lover’s name on her lips, Penelope Pink is incinerated!
Thus ends the saga of PYRA!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
ACTION COMICS #8
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by MATT FRACTION
ART by LEONARDO ROMERO
"The Witching Hour"
Sandman Superman and Metallo travels to the Fortress of Solitude.
Lex Luthor has been tracking Superman and finds out that this is Superman's secret base.
Sandman Superman is able to open the gate to the Fortress as he shares Superman's powers.
Metallo finds the new Kryptonite isotope, the Red Kryptonite.
Now he upgrades to Metallo 3.0, the man with three Kryptonite hearts.
But that's not the only thing they steal from the Fortress.
The Phantom Zone projector. But what is Lex planning to do with it?
Lois calls Clark to help her train Jimmy.
She tells Clark that Jimmy is in fact the new Kryptonite Man.
And she is going to train him to control that power.
But Clark suddenly hears the intruder alert from the Fortress of Solitude with his Superman hearing.
As Superman arrives at the Fortress of Solitude, he finds out that he's been robbed.
Superman faces off Sandman Superman!
He is suddenly blasted from behind by the Red-K radiation from Metallo.
With the effect to cause random mutation in Kryptonian. Gasp! Superman's face has been changed to a Lion!
Now how can Superman keep his secret identity a secret?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
AQUAMAN #36 *Fire From Heaven tie-in*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“WATER, FIRE, AND BLOOD”
Aquaman brings the might of Atlantis to defend the G-Men from the righteous wrath of the United Planets’ armada! There is a bond between Arthur Curry and Penelope Pink that goes back generations… for Aquaman comes not just from a line of underwater kings. Indeed, the touch of the fiery Ziridian that empowered Pyra is also in his boiling blood!
But Sinestro, leader of the U.P.-sanctioned Yellow Lantern Corps, will not tolerate any Atlantean interference in Pyra’s trial! This might not end well!
Ages ago…
The Ziridian host, Sharca, long caught in a love triangle, has finally made her choice. She loves King Atlan II… and is carrying his child! The Sorcerer Arion is left with a broken heart, but Atlan is left with a broken kingdom! His wife, Queen Cardarell, attacked Sharca and was burned alive in the process! Cardarell’s outraged father, Lord Sphyrnidae of Bazilia, brings the might of his shark-rider legions against the throne in Poseidonis! A civil war beneath the waves has erupted… but what side will Arion fight for?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #51
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE
The Han-Barc conglomerate has hired Nemesis to kill Bat-Wing and Deathblow to end their investigation into the death of Chinese spy Ken Yao. After David has found the information he needs in a Han-Barc lab, Deathblow tosses Nemesis out of a window 30 stories up so that they could escape! A human-trafficking network has been selling children as guinea pigs and soldiers to various companies and corporations around the world. One of those companies is OSIRUS, run by Lena Killian!
A separate investigation by Kia Okura and Rick Flagg has uncovered a connection between the missing children and a mysterious cult leader named Father Lost! He is the one supplying children to the Guild of Assassins and Han-Barc and one of those missing children is Kia's young niece! There is a compound in Singapore linked to Father lost so that is where they plan on heading!
Back in The Congo, Matu has been taking care of David's brother Isaac who seems to have suffered a mental breakdown. Isaac has no idea of who he is or of the several murders he committed as the hero-killer Massacre! Matu has prepared lunch for Isaac but when he enters his room, there is no sign of him! There is only a frightening message written on the wall, a message that makes Matu's blood run cold: "I Hunt Heroes!"
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
BRONZE TIGER #25
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Philip Tan
Plotter: Marvell2100
THE NIGHT PEOPLE
David's sister Madilyn has reached out to him concerned about her daughter Meran whom she believes has joined a dangerous cult. So he asks Ben to go with him to Colorado to look into her concerns. They arrive in the States and travel to a compound not far from Aurora that is heavily guarded. They approach the gates which suddenly open to reveal a well dressed couple. He is Doctor Moon and she is Sister Eve and they are the leaders of the Children of Nyx, Goddess of the Night. It is their mission to help young people to reach their full potential.
They welcome the strangers into their humble abode and ask how can they be of service. David tells them they are searching for a young girl who has been reported missing when he sees his young niece working in a field with others. He goes to approach her when he is stopped by Sister Eve who tells him that no outsider can approach the children. Ben looks around and all of the children appear to be in sort of a dazed state. And the guards all look to be ex-military or special forces. He asks himself, why does a place for helping children need so many guards? What is it exactly that Moon and Eve are doing?
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #4 *Fire From Heaven Tie-In*
Plot by NX01A
Written by JAMES TYNION IV
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III
'MMXXIII' Part 1 'HISTORAMA, SHOW ME...'
•Wisdom. Intelligence. Violence. They need not be mutually exclusive. Cunning coordination between, CAPTAIN MARVELOUS, CAPTAIN THUNDER, and HAWKGIRL bring down the OMEGA TITAN called MARVEL! A quick survey of Fawcett City shows no major structural damage, the citizens are still dazed after the Omega Titan tried to leech their imagination, and the sun has come out again.
•High above, an elated Captain Marvelous can see his foster parents' house from up here... and something's wrong. As they get close, the Captains and Hawkgirl enter an anti-magic field surrounding the house, and Kendra's wings barely last long enough to safely get teenaged Billy and shockingly sexagenarian MALIK WHITE to the ground!
•A trio in advanced armour and a cybernetic dog emerge from the house, identify themselves as the SUPER-POLICE of an alternate 2023, and confiscate the ePhone Billy left in his room! It's an old model, Billy thinks, why would they...?
•The Wizard MAMARAGAN installed the mystic Historama app on Billy's ePhone, letting the boy see distant locations, other dimensions, the past, present, and possible futures. Billy's only used it so far to ace a History test. These chrononauts claim they need it to prevent a great tragedy across space-time but the arcane lock on the ePhone is still active despite the dampening field.
•Will Billy's wisdom reveal the truth of the Sci-Cops' claim? Can Malik's intelligence interpret the temporal wave functions they're spouting off as proof? Or must Kendra remember that, even depowered, her mace is still a £v<#1И@ mace?
•MMXXIII continues in JLβ #9!
Science-Police Dossier
Sci-Cops: REX COSMOS, SANDRA McLANE, DON DRAKE, EXO the WONDER DOG
Affiliation: Precinct NFC1
Temporal Jurisdiction: 1935-2023
Powers: •Time Pills: Chronactin suffuses the body with chronitons, allowing temporal displacement by external means.
•Achronal DNA Augmentation: Slows the cellular degradation caused by chroniton exposure.
•ÆON Armour: Chronokinesis (time travel between January 1st 1935 and December 31st 2023), Enhanced Durability, Flight, Intangibility, Life Support, -REDACTED- Tactical Systems.
•Grandfather ParaBox: Temporal Sensors, Infokinesis, Magic Dampening.
Intelligence: •••
Strength: •••
Speed: •••
Durability: ••••
Energy Projection: •••
Fighting Skills: •••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
DEADLY HANDS OF CONNOR HAWKE #51
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: JEFF LEMIRE
Artist: ANDREA SORRENTINO
The Guild of Assassins have murdered dozens of diplomats in order to spread terror in Europe and Africa. Billy and Anita want to make The Guild the most feared organization on the planet. But this is more than just a fear campaign, they want to send a message that no one is safe! That would include a certain president of a Tiny African nation, Burendia! However, Connor, Avila and Richard Dragon have vowed to stop The Guild. As dangerous as Billy and Anita can be, they are no match for for the sheer ferocity and violence that Matthew Bland can unleash. The last thing the world needs is a war between The Guild and Burendia! Speaking of Bland, Burendia has just signed a treaty with President Ilyana Khisnov and the East Europe nation Uzikistan. This new alliance shifts the balance of power in Europe with other countries looking to join! Connor and the others will have to stop The Guild before they unleash a war across two continents!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
THE FLASH #51 *Fire From Heaven tie-in
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
Barry Allen is gone, his body possessed by the Black Racer. We now live in the…
“WORLD WITHOUT A FLASH” part five: “NO FRIENDS TO RUN TO”
Two of Barry Allen’s former speedster protégés, Breakneck and Running Shoes, aligned themselves with the ancient “Gen-Active” Damocles because they believed his metahuman movement could protect them from the Black Racer (see THE FLASH #49). Now, Damocles is a vegetable… his mind shattered by Dark Pyra (UNCANNY G-MEN: THE DARK PYRA SAGA #2). Breakneck and Running Shoes find themselves alone and without a leader - yet again. And this time they’re lashing out! Can Barry Allen’s original protégé, the current Flash, Wally West, stop their rampage before they cross a line that they can’t come back from?
Flash Fact: a supernova can cause damaging effects up to 160 light-years away.
Meanwhile, the Supernova that Dark Pyra caused in the Pegaron System has rendered Xanshi and other nearby worlds desolate, devastated husks… exactly how the Black Racer likes it! As he did on Savoth (see GREEN LANTERN #47), he seeds the burnt remains of the system with his unique strain of death-eating New Genesisian Bugs. The United Planets’ relief effort will be met with an unexpected nightmare…. This just became a horror comic!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #51 *Fire From Heaven tie-in*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“ORBIT: DANGEROUS”
The Pegaron System and the planet Xanshi are gone… and it’s John Stewart’s fault! On Stewart’s advice, United Planets President Arin Sur made the call not to preemptively strike Pyra - and now Sur’s scrambling to address the fallout! She took the unprecedented step of authorizing a summary execution of Pyra, and even that was foiled by the G-Men’s invocation of a binding trial-by-combat clause in the Thanagar Treaty! (How did they discover that anyway? ). Arin Sur has lost serious credibility and support. The U.P. appears vulnerable…
And the Khunds are the first to take advantage of that vulnerability! With the destruction caused by Pyra, so soon after Vandal Savage’s genocidal campaign threatened the universe, the Khunds now have a self-defense justification to strike at Earth! The United Planets’ armada, including much of the Green Lantern Corps, is already parked in Earth’s orbit - conflict is inevitable! Can John Stewart vindicate himself by saving his home planet?
Plus, it was secretly Hal Jordan that searched Oa’s legal database, found the trial-by-combat clause, and transmitted it to Professor G. But why? Why would Hal help the G-Men?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLβ #9 *Fire From Heaven Tie-In*
Plot by NX01A
Written by RAM V
Art by JAMAL CAMPBELL
'MMXXIII' Part 2 'MAGIC CRYSTAL OF HISTORY'
•Because YOU demanded it: The origin of the SLOW CHILDREN!
•They were the first to walk in eternity. In 1935, young BOBBY & BINKS thought they'd stumbled across an arcane orb able to take them through space and time. What they'd actually found was far more powerful and far more dangerous, and Bobby & Binks never returned to 1935. Their adventures across dimensions and realities changed the TIME TWINS into something far more yet far less than human: the skeletal consciousness of the Still Force!
•Flash forward to the end of 2023... The DEMON's hellfire judgement executed JUSTICE the OMEGA TITAN. There should be celebration but there's only silence as the world is frozen a few instants after the Titan's fall. WILL WALKER, STEEL, and the ÜBERADICATOR see the result of what the Slow Children call chronocide: a world stuck in an ever-present state of now, decaying rapidly as all energies from quantum foam on up the EM spectrum are drained elsewhen. The Slow Children protected the trio just before the great enemy grasped reality and started squeezing out its life.
•Only by recapturing the Magic Crystal of History from its demented wielder can reality be restored but he won't give it up without the fight of the centuries!
•MMXXIII continues in next month's CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #5!
JLβ Profile
SLOW CHILDREN
Name: Bobby & Binks Barreaux
Affiliation: The Still Force
Powers: •Still Force Physiology: Intangibility, Invulnerability, Immortality, Space-Time Travel, Dimensional Travel, Energy Absorption & Negation, Self Sustenance
Intelligence: ••••••
Strength: •••••••
Speed: •••••••
Durability: •••••••
Energy Projection: •••••••
Fighting Skills: ••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
SUPERMAN #8
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by GENE LUEN YANG
ART by GURIHIRU
"Minimum Horror"
The Planet of Transilvane.
A bottled tiny planet that has been created to look like classic horror films.
The tiny inhabitants look like horror movie creatures because they were quite literally programed with horror movies.
They can travel to the outside world, using coffins to enlarge themselves.
Now a team has arrived from the planet to the Daily Planet.
The planet of horror is facing a new threat and only Superman can help them!
Using coffin to shrink himself, Superman arrives on Transilvane.
Superman teams up with a Vampire, a Werewolf and a Mummy to investigate the planet.
Someone has programed a new generation of monsters using modern horror movies.
And the classic horror movie monsters are losing to the new monsters.
It's Vampire, Werewolf and the Mummy vs Alien, Jason and Freddy!
Can Superman find the true villain responsible in time?
Can Superman save Halloween on the Planet of Horror.
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN: THE DARK PYRA SAGA #4
(LGY: UNCANNY G-MEN #33)
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Pepe Larraz
Fire From Heaven Epilogue, Part One, “Elegy”
The Uncanny G-Men mourn the loss of their eldest member, Penelope Pink!
But their leader, – and Penelope’s lover – Basilisk, is overwhelmed by a sudden telepathic surge.
A last gift from his love – the location and secrets of Mister Whisper!
A gift… but also a warning! Mister Whisper is enacting a plan that may make the victory over Dark Pyra ring hollow!
The G-Men head to Whisper’s secret lab under Donovan’s Home for Foundlings, before its too late!
At the same time, the surviving Swords struggle against the dark influence of Damocles!
Looker, the Sword of Fortune, seems to burn out the influenced of the Damocles Spore within her – at a terrible price.
She’s left comatose, a vegetable.
If Ohmen, the former G-Man Union and the Sword of Justice, is to survive, he’ll have to figure out a way to live with the darkness Damocles gave him.
Easier said than done, especially when you’re the chosen heir of an ancient Tau-powerful Gen-Active warlord.
Can Professor G save the mind of his own student?
And what do the rest of the team find under in Mister Whisper’s lair?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
NEXT DAWN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #5
A haunting holiday anthology with creative teams writing and drawing from the afterlife!
“A NIGHTMARE OF MARS”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Art by FRANK FRAZETTA
The deceased author of A Princess of Mars resurrects his classic literary universe… but for how long? The fabled John Carter finds himself in a horrifying situation. Many of the Warlord of Mars’ top men have been killed under mysterious circumstances. It soon becomes apparent that they’re being hunted… man-hunted… by an entity of tremendous strength that can change shape and read minds! Does John Carter have any hope against such a monster?
“A SHADOW OVER AMNESTY BAY”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by H.P. LOVECRAFT
Art by IONICUS
The master of weird horror returns from the grave with a new tale to make you fear the water! When a sailor’s boat is damaged, he’s forced to come ashore at Amnesty Bay. What at first appears to be a dreary yet normal Maine town soon becomes a nightmare. There are strange things occurring… especially with the Lighthouse Keeper. Soon, the stranded sailor uncovers the truth: the Lighthouse Keeper shares carnal knowledge with an inhuman creature from beneath the waves! He’s even impregnated this deep one! What could result from this unholy union?
"A STRANGER ADVENTURE"
By Plotter NX01A, Writer ROGER ZELAZNY, & Painter ZDZISŁAW BEKSIŃSKI
Sunday, December 1st, 1935: Historian OLIVER WEED and street urchin FRITZ didn't know what they were getting into when they boarded scientist URIAH MOWCHER's time machine to explore the New York of a century past.
Thursday, December 31st, 1835: Angles beyond imagination, emotions beyond sanity, writhing matter, insane inhabitants, lost time... This century seemed quaint enough for the first few hours, then everything began to fester, and the time machine won't work. They've tried killing themselves for weeks but they can't die. It won't let them die. The time machine demands a sacrifice. Only one of them is going back to 1935, and he'll never be quite human again.
"NIGHT OF THE LIVING KENT"
Plot by COMMANDER TITAN
Written by GEORGE ROMERO
Art by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
*An Imaginary Story...*
Jon & Martha are newlyweds, driving down a lonely Kansas road at night, when they see what looks like a shooting star, only for it to come crashing into the middle of a nearby field. When they approach, they see its not a meteorite but some sort of space probe! Glowing green, it begins to reanimate the dead (animal and human alike) into ZOMBIES! The Kents, the Langs, the Rosses, and other Smallville residents all retreat to the Kent farmstead to hold off the hordes of undead as long as they can. But will it be the zombies, or their own rising tensions and distrust that do them in? Its blood in the barnyard in this spine-chilling, brain-munching night of terror!
66 PGs./Rated T+ …$6.66
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