ND 11-2023

ACTION COMICS #9
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by MATT FRACTION
ART by LEONARDO ROMERO
"This looks like a job for Superbot"
Clark Kent shows up at Daily Planet without a Lion's face.
But truth be told, this is not Clark Kent, this is Clarkbot now.
With his face turned to a lion, Superman has no choice but to send Superbot to the daily planet.
This is Superbot pretending to be Superman pretending to be Clark Kent.
And no one can stop Superbot from spamming #LexLoser on social media.
Lois Lane trains Jimmy to control his powers as the Kryptonite Man.
But Sandman Superman is watching them, is he friend or foe?
Meanwhile Superman sends out his secret weapon, Supergirl!
Can Supergirl retrieve the weapons stolen from the Fortress of Solitude in time?
Before Lex Luthor can use the Phantom Zone Projector?
But for what?
Standing between Kara and her objective is the new Man of Steel.
It's Supergirl vs Metallo!
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
AQUAMAN #37
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“ORDER UP”
The “Fire From Heaven” event has concluded, but Aquaman and his companions now have a reborn Lord of Order in their midst! Arion, the incomparable sorcerer and most acclaimed hero of Atlantean legend, was summoned in the hour of his greatest need to combat the Omega Titans. But he’s been gone for so long… is there any place for him in this modern universe?
With the revelations about Arthur Curry’s distant lineage, Arion sees in Aquaman a descendant of the woman he once loved, the Zirandian-host Sharca, but also of the man who stole her away from him, King Atlan II. For now, Arion thinks it’s best to leave Atlantis and return to the otherworldly Realm of the Lords of Order. And Crablad asks to go with him! You know, to check the place out.
But Arion’s homecoming isn’t welcomed. It wasn’t planned. It is… chaotic. In his absence, the cosmic-entity Kismet amassed power and influence amongst the Lords of Order. She’s been pushing a more radically-ordered agenda - and the sometimes passionate Arion, more of an order-centrist, isn’t part of her plan! Kismet and her loyalists launch a surprise attack! Can Arion survive? Has Kismet just triggered a civil war of Order?
While Arion fights for his life, he tasks Crablad with sending an S.O.S. back to Atlantis! Can the uncanny crustacean get the shell out of there?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #52
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT.
Human-trafficking! Dangerous experiments! Weapons smuggling! All roads lead to Len Killian, the head of Oracle, Inc.! That's the conclusion that Bat-Wing and Deathblow have come to after they escaped their battle with Nemesis! She's an old... acquaintance of David's who has shown that she can be ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what she wants, even him! Bat-Wing thanks Deathblow for his help but tells him he will take it from here, it's time he confronted Killian! Elsewhere, Kia and Rick infiltrate a compound in Singapore where her niece along with other teenagers are being held by Father Lost! They've freed the children and are getting ready to leave when they are suddenly stopped in their tracks by the deadly assassins Kilroy and Komodo(Please visit their MyFace page to check out their wedding photos!)!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
BRONZE TIGER #26
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Philip Tan
Plotter: Marvell2100
THE NIGHT PEOPLE! Part 2
Doctor Moon and Sister Eve run a compound for wayward tens called The Children of The Night! This is where Ben and David have found David's niece Natalie who was reported missing by her mother. But Natalie like many of the other teens appear to want to be here. So exactly what is it being done here with these teens? Moon and Eve take Ben and David on a tour of their facilities where there appear to be happy people doing farm work and schoolwork.
David asks what exactly are these teens being taught. Sister Eve smiles and says that they are being taught to love themselves and to make the world a better place. But on the other side of the compound, Ben notices that there are groups being trained in hand-to-hand combat and how to use weapons. It seems to him he thinks that it's almost like they are being trained for war!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #5
Plot by NX01A
Written by JAMES TYNION IV
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III
'MMXXIII' Part 3 'UNDYING INFECTION'
•While CAPTAIN MARVELOUS decides whether or not to let the 2023 SUPER-POLICE access the mystic Historama app on his ePhone, the screams begin in distant parts of Fawcett City.
•The ever-present twilight over the city darkens to night but no human below has ever witnessed the alien constellations whirling above, no human below has ever seen the things seeping from the ever-present shadows.
•These TECHNO-ZOMBIES, animated by an obscene union of magic and machine, are the gynoid drones of the great darkness threatening existence, and they hunger for processing power of both computer and brain varieties.
•Even after the Super-Police drop their anti-magic field, can repowered CAPTAIN THUNDER and HAWKGIRL keep the exponentially growing Techno-Zombie horde from overrunning Billy's home while he opens the Historama app?
•MMXXIII continues in JLβ #10!
Super-Police Dossier
Threat: TECHNO-ZOMBIES
Powers: •Infectious Interface: Electro-necrotic corruption of flesh and technology on physical contact.
•Enhanced Strength, Durability, Regeneration
•Hive Mind
Intelligence: •••
Strength: •••
Speed: •••
Durability: ••••
Energy Projection: •••
Fighting Skills: •••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
DEADLY HANDS OF CONNOR HAWKE #52
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: JEFF LEMIRE
Artist: ANDREA SORRENTINO
THE END OF THE WORLD AS YOU KNOW IT!
Connor's mother Tasha al Ghul and The Magus have joined The Guild of Assassins! The Guild of Assassins has put a target on the President of Burendia, Matthew Bland! Burendia has just signed a treaty with Uzikistan creating a powerful, new alliance! That's a lot of batsh!t crazy people with a lot of power! Connor, Avila and Richard Dragon must stop The Guild from attacking one of the most dangerous people on the planet! Not only is Bland President of Burendia, he's also The Red Lion, a feared and ruthless killer who leads a small but powerful nation! Dragon learns that Bland will be travelling to Uzikistan to meet with President Ilyana Khisnov and that is where The Guild will most likely strike! It's a dangerous mission but they don't have a choice! They will have to sneak into Uzikistan, stop The Guild from attacking Bland and hope that he won't kill everyone just for fun! But a secret that has been kept for years will be revealed, a secret that will re-shape Connors' life if he lives long enough to learn it!
32 PGS./Rated T+.../$3.99
THE FLASH #52
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
Barry Allen is gone, his body possessed by the Black Racer. Wally West has become the Flash, and now he must…
“RACE AGAINST DEATH” part one “STARTING LINE”
With the immediate threats of the “Fire From Heaven” event largely extinguished, the Flash Family can return to their most personally important mission: freeing Barry Allen from the Black Racer’s possession. Wally West, Nora West, Henry Allen and the so-called “Deicide Squad” are taken aboard the starship G.L.C.S. Interceptor, where Hal Jordan pledges the full support of the Green Lantern Corps. They’re going to space! But knowing is half the battle, and there is much to learn about the nature of their enemy…
Long ago, in the Fourth World, a race of New Gods rose from the ashes of the Old. Amongst them was a God of Speed, fastest deity in the universe. Yet when war broke out between New Genesis and Apokolips, even he wasn’t fast enough to escape fate…. Captured by the darkest tyrant, he was imbued with the essence of death itself and gained the ability to kill with a touch. Thus was born the ultimate weapon… the Black Racer! As a means of control, he was shackled to a mortal host and his speed was stolen, forcing him to rely on Cosmic Skis to mimic his former rapidity. Eventually he slipped his master’s bonds, though maddened by his ordeal and eons of servitude, forever haunted by a desire to once again possess the Speed Force from which he was forcibly separated!
The planet Savoth worshipped the Speed Force, so in jealously he visited death upon that world. There he encountered the mortal Barry Allen - a human intrinsically bonded to the Speed Force! Seizing the opportunity to reclaim his former power, the Black Racer discarded the body of Willie Walker and claimed the Flash as his host (see THE FLASH #45)! Now a God of Speed and Death, with the carrion-eating New Genesis Bugs he has cultivated, he can establish an empire to rival Darkseid! And unless he’s stopped, all life and death in the universe will be his to control…
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #52
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“RACE AGAINST DEATH” part two “DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR”
After the “Fire From Heaven” event, United Planets’ President Arin Sur is scandalized. Her political enemies attack her as weak on security, especially after the destruction of Xanshi and the Pegaron System, and on criminal justice, as she was unable to carry out the judicially ordered execution of Penelope Pink, who chose to incinerate herself instead. At the same time Sur is seen as unreasonably protective of Earth, getting U.P. forces engaged in a conflict with the Khund Empire to protect the planet when many believed the Khund had justification for attacking. Her romantic relationship with the earthling John Stewart is blamed…
With elections coming up, President Sur needs a win - as does Stewart, the Representative of a now highly unpopular Earth. It is decided that stopping the Black Racer’s reign of terror must be that win!
Teaming with the Flash Family, John Stewart boards the G.L.C.S. Interceptor with Guy Gardner and the head of the Corps himself, Hal Jordan. They’re heading to the husk of Xanshi, the Black Racer’s last known location before communications were cut off. But what they find is so much worse than what they expected. The system is an absolute war zone!!
United Planets relief forces are nearly gone, overwhelmed by seemingly billions of the Black Racer’s insectoid carrion-fueled New Genesian Bugs! As the heroes join the fray of an impossibly intense battle, Stewart - overcome with guilt for allowing Xanshi to be destroyed, which in turn produced the mass death that empowered the Black Racer’s forces - rushes forth to challenge the God of Speed and Death! And he… is… touched!
My god, is John Stewart dead?!?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLβ #10
Plot by NX01A
Written by RAM V
Art by JAMAL CAMPBELL
'MMXXIII' Part 4 'IN THE WEEDS'
•The SLOW CHILDREN weren't the only young ones who went through time in 1935. BOBBY & BINKS thought they were the first but that curse belonged to others. FRITZ, the illegitimate son of historian OLIVER WEED, was the sole survivor of scientist URIAH MOWCHER's time machine disaster which opened a rift to and trapped them in the maddening chronoverse. Street urchin Fritz killed the others, assured by the whispers of the infernal time machine that it would take him home to 1935... but it lied, and Fritz became the undying avatar of a Hell he christened The Weeds.
•At perhaps the cost of their own existence, the Slow Children have brought WILL WALKER, STEEL, and the ÜBERADICATOR into The Weeds: a chronophagic parallel dimension obliquely intersecting reality. Apart from the hordes of TECHNO-ZOMBIES wearing the same two tormented men's faces, the trio's own matter and energy are being drained by the vampire plane. Can they elude the untimely undead while hunting the chronocidal madman intent on destroying their home?
•The Magic Crystal of History thought it could defeat one child monster by creating two child heroes. Had it instead merely damned two more souls to torment? Now in the hands of chronovore Fritz as he sits fused to a throne grown from the evil time machine, has its failure damned us all?
•MMXXIII continues in next month's CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #6!
JLβ Profile
Name: Fritz Weed
Powers: •Chronovore Physiology: Space-Time Absorption, Dimensional Portals, Invulnerability, Immortality, Techno-Zombie Creation
Intelligence: ••••••
Strength: •
Speed: •
Durability: •••••••
Energy Projection: •••••••
Fighting Skills: •
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE NEW GEN-ACTIVES #1
Written by Chrissy Williams
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Lauren Knight
Renewel, Part II
The threat of Dark Pyra is over… but, in a way? Things have never looked more dire for the Gen-Active people of the world!
That’s bound to happen when an ancient Gen-Active warlord named Damocles tries to incite the Earth’s metahumans to kill the baseline humans.
Professor Hiram Gaunt knows his G-Men can handle themselves. It’s the next generation of Gen-Actives that need his guidance!
Professor G, with Ivana Baiul at his side, resolves to enroll new class of students at his Gaunt Institute for the Exceptional!
Hailing from the Iowa countryside is Caitlyn Fairchild, aka SLAPHAMMER, a powerhouse in the making!
From a Zanzibar-American community in Chicago comes the pyrokinetic Isaiah Crocket, aka HOT SPOT.
In New Jersey, the young Toni Monetti discovers her energy construct powers, becoming ARGENT!
The ditzy Angel O’Day, from the neighborhood of Brentwood in Los Angeles, is a master of all languages, aka LEXICON!
Born in Manila but taken in by Ivana Baiul as a foster-child, Roland Tanghal shapeshifts into the bestial WILDEBEEST!
Together, they are the NEW GEN-ACTIVES!
Now, the Professor doesn’t want these new students to venture into superheroics… but we’ll see how long that lasts!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
SUPERMAN #9
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by GENE LUEN YANG
ART by GURIHIRU
“The Thing from 40K"
Superman once battled the Thing from 40000 AD in Metropolis.
A shapeshifter exiled from a distant bleak future, who can copy even Superman's powers.
Now, another Thing arrives in Smallville from the future.
As another Time Sphere broke through time and space, bringing the horrors of 40K to this time.
With Superman's face changed to a lion, this looks like a job for Supergirl!
Can Kara fight off the Thing who can transform into the Supergirl?
What is the Thing from the future planning to do?
Knowing that not even Superman can defeat the Thing 1v1, what is Kara's strategy?
And who else is coming from the grimdark future?
Meet the Legion 40K!
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
TARZAN: LORD OF THE JUNGLE #1
(ADVENTURE COMICS #2)
Story from lost notes, recently uncovered, by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, set in his classic TARZAN continuity!
Adapted by EXCITER
Art by DAN MORA
“TARZAN THE SUPREME”
By the year 1920, the legend of Lord Greystoke, John Clayton II, had already spread worldwide… though most knew him better as the incomparable Tarzan of the Apes! One man, however, took particular interest. For his own ends, Dr. Buck Davenport, MD, PhD, sought to separate the myth from reality…
Everyone knew about Tarzan’s uncanny agility, used to swing through trees with ease, and his prodigious strength, used to grapple with lions and other beasts. Few, however, knew of his superlative intellect. Far from the “Me Tarzan” brute many misunderstood him to be, he was rather quite the polymath. Accomplished pilot, equestrian, conservationist, and financial investor, he also had a special gift for linguistics: from teaching himself to read as a child, he quickly learned over twenty languages, including tongues from lost civilizations.
Many also mistakenly believed Tarzan’s gifts were wholly unique. Yet his son, Jack “Korak” Clayton, inherited many of Tarzan’s preternatural abilities. This suggests a genetic component.
Another popular misconception was that gorillas raised Tarzan. Not so. He was actually raised and nurtured by “Mangani,” a rarer and more human-like “missing link” species.
Thus, Davenport concocts a theory: when the infant Tarzan was nursed by his adopted ape-mother Kala, something in the Mangani’s milk changed him on a biological level... and hyper-evolved him into a peak human! If Davenport could capture a Mangani, he could replicate the process… and create an army of super-humans that his German associates would pay handsomely for!
Recruiting a significant force of mercenaries and animal trappers, Davenport launches an expedition into the Dark Continent… but the Lord of the Jungle accepts no threats to his jungle... or his Mangani family!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN #34
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Valerio Schiti
Epilogue, Part Two, “Coda”
Once the G-Men fought past MIster Whisper’s defenses, they were faced with a shocking prize.
In a gestation chamber sat a baby girl.
A quick examination of the lab revealed her to be the genetic amalgam of Basilisk and Levitation Lass.
To put it in more human terms… she’s the daughter of Irish Autumns and Penelope Pink.
Dr. Baiul runs a battery of tests on the child, and comes to the conclusion that she’s just what he appears to be. A baby. No Mister Whisper nonsense. Just a baby.
Basilisk, grieving and delighted in turns, decides to retire with the baby to his familial home in Hawai‘i… and he won’t be alone.
Accompanying him is Primus, who Basilisk now knows to be his long lost father, Prentiss.
The Omega Man won’t be remaining on Earth for long… but he’s decided to finally stop running away from his family!
Basilisk names the baby Ava Sharpe Autumns-Pink. (Everybody thinks it’s a bit of a mouthful, but is too polite to mention it.)
A happy ending? Not quite, but against all odds, something beautiful has emerged from the ashes…
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
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