ND 05-2024

ACTION COMICS #11
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by MATT FRACTION
ART by LEONARDO ROMERO
"Six Months Later"
Six months later, Lex Luthor has created an army of Metallo.
Now the All American Supermen are sold all over the world.
Lex Corp now has taken full control of the Superman brand.
You see, if Lex kills Superman, the brand dies with Superman.
But if Lex controls the brand, he can change what Superman means.
In Metropolis, Lois Lane, Kryptonite Jimmy and Sandman Superman have been trying to stop Lex Luthor to no avail.
But they may be able to find a way to free Superman?
Meanwhile, Superman and Supergirl find their way into the City of Kandor.
They managed to escape from General Zod in the phantom zone.
The only other phantom zone projector left is in the bottled City of Kandor.
Superman is no longer a ghost, but he is now super small?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
AQUAMAN #43
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“WORLD OF WARLORD” part four “REGICIDE”
Disaster! The evil necromancer Deimos routs the forces of Aquaman and the Warlord! The Warlord Travis Morgan… is killed!
His wife, Tara Morgan the War-Queen of Skartaris, swears revenge! But how can she slay a foe that defeated both her husband and Aquaman at once? Klarion the Witch Boy, Lord of Chaos, knows of a way: simply pick up the Soultaker - a cursed blade that steals the very souls of its victims to empower its wielder - and strike Deimos down with it! Arion, a Lord of Order in exile, recognizes the weapon as an instrument of Chaos! Will Tara willingly accept the sword’s curse to cut down her greatest enemy? It’ll have to be over Arion’s dead body!
Meanwhile, Crablad (who has fashioned his antennule into a goatee) and Katana frantically rush to the scene! Katana was the former wielder of the Soultaker and knows its curse intimately. She first picked it up to protect her husband from his evil twin, a murderous Yakuza thug. It enabled her to take out her heinous brother-in-law and his numerous gangster associates… but in the process, the Soultaker accidentally claimed her husband - the very man she was trying to protect! If anyone else picks up that sword… they will regret it! And innocents will die!
Profile: Deimos
Undead Warlock
Specialization: Affliction
Strength: 9
Agility: 8
Stamina: 18
Intelligence: 20
Equipment: [Scrolls of Blood]; [Robes of the Blood Moon]; [Theran Blade]
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
ATOMICA #1
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer: Grant Morrison
Art: Frank Quitely
“Especially If Nobody Else Sings Along”
Rhonda Pineda remembers doing doctoral work at Princeton. She remembers assisting Dr. Ryan Choi in his quest to change the size of not only various objects, but of living creatures themselves. She also remembers his last words to her, “Honestly, you're a bit of a mess. You're also the only one who knows my tech and what can be done with it as the Atom as well as I do. But more important than all of that ... you're the one I’m forced to trust with this.” She shrunk in a panic and when she was finally able to regain her full size, the belt used to shrink her was useless, the circuitry and tech had fused. The energy needed to shrink and regrow was now within her.
The world was different now. Circumstances were close but not the same. Historical events often differed by a single major factor. And most oddly, people now had their hearts on the left sides of their chests.
She spent some time working for an international intelligence agency known as CHECKMATE# with a short stint with a group calling themselves the Justice League. On that stint, she shrunk into a green ring which while empty at the time could contain massive amounts of energy. Rhonda was affected by that, and she became more unfocused at times, her thoughts drifted. She ghosted CHECKMATE# and fell into some low-level grifting to keep herself fed.
One day she meets an orchid haired man calling himself Kell Mossa. He also refers to himself as Pariah which is not an endearing quality. He gives Rhonda name she hasn’t heard since Ryan Choi mentioned the name to her: “Luthor”.
32pp $2.99 rated T
BAT-WING #58
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
LOST AND FOUND
Singapore, Hidden compound of the criminal Kingpin Father Lost: With Kia and Rick safely out of the country, Bat-Wing turns his full attention to Father Lost! And the only thing standing between David and Father Lost are dozens of heavily armed soldiers! However, they prove no match for an angry Bat-Wing, breaking bones and smashing faces as he works his way thru some of the most deadliest killers in the world!
After battling an army, Bat-Wing finally comes face-to-face with the man who has caused misery and death to hundreds of thousands of people. Lost is a skilled fighter himself and proves equal to the challenge, surprising David with his abilities. However, David is determined to bring Father Lost to justice and after a long, exhausting fight, he emerges victorious!
With Father Lost captured and his criminal empire destroyed, David can now try to connect him to Lena Killian. But he receives a shock when Lost tells him that he knows David. Father Lost's real name is Luko Bendha and he is the man who killed David's family and turned him and his brother Isaac into child soldiers!
Shocked and stunned, David begins to think back to the death of his parents. the horrors that he and Isaac went through. At last, he has come face-to-face with the man who ruined his life! He can finally avenge his parents and village by killing the man responsible for their deaths! For long. agonizing minutes, David thinks for a long time about he should do. Killing Lost would be easy but that wouldn't be justice.
He starts to ask Lost questions starting with his connection to Lena Killian! Is she the one behind his criminal empire and who else does she control? But before Father Lost can answer, a bullet rips through his head, killing him instantly. He won't be answering any questions now or ever. About 300 yards away, a lone figure lodges another bullet into a high powered sniper's rifle. They pull out a cell phone and tells the person on the other line that Father Lost is dead. They also have the vigilante Bat-Wing in their sights and can sanction him as well.
The person on the other end tells them no and that the money has been wired into their account. Deathblow disassembles his rifle and checks his account, confirming that the money has been received. On to the next assignment!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #11
Plot by NX01A
Written by JAMES TYNION IV
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III
'BLACK SABBAC'
•IBAC's Lash of the Oppressor makes him the equal of the Captains of S.H.A.Z.A.M.! but HAWKGIRL's Mace of Disruption and her natural ability to weaken nearby magic smacks him down to size.
•And what of Kendra's grandfather, SPEED SAUNDERS? Only a sulfurous crater in his office remains.
•CAPTAINS MARVELOUS and THUNDER hoped their Übermensch problems were over but the stink of brimstone and bursts of hellfire dash those hopes against the rocks of evil.
The pair who appear have the invincible strength of Satan, the indestructible body of Amy, the wisdom of Belial, the flames of Beelzebub, the courage of Asmodeus, and the speed of Crataeis. They are the first of the SABBAC to arrive on Earth, and they won't be the last.
•Elsewhere... Trickster god ANANSI and the Wizard MAMARAGAN fear their champions won't be able to handle the waves of incarnate evil spewing from the nether-realms. For the first time since Göbekli Tepe was abandoned, the two powers put aside their differences and descend into Hell!
Super-Police Dossier
THE SABBAC
Powers:•Flight
•Invulnerability
•Superhuman Strength, Cunning, Healing, Speed, Reflexes
•Magic Resistance
•Self Sustenance
•Brimstone Breath
Intelligence: •••••
Strength: •••••••
Speed: •••••
Durability: ••••••
Energy Projection: ••••••
Fighting Skills: •••••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE FLASH #58
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“FLASH FAMILY REUNION”
The Flash finally meets his grandfather! Well, he met him when he was a baby… but Barry doesn’t remember that. This is the first time that counts, and pop pop just killed the Cheetah. Not a great first impression… but he can explain!
Barry has to understand, Mark Thompson is from a different time! When he was the “Arms Racer” during the Cold War, Mark didn’t flinch at killing Soviet operatives. He earned medals for it! Cheetah had it coming anyway. Among countless other crimes, she murdered the person that Mark loved most: his daughter, Nora. It was doubly painful, as Nora was taken before Mark got a chance to repair their estranged relationship. Barry should understand Mark’s actions - Nora was his mother, for crying out loud!
Mark spent twenty years in Vandal Savage’s prison thinking of what he would do when he escaped. He had three goals: (1) avenge his daughter; (2) reunite with his grandson; (3) make up for his past mistakes by effecting positive changes in the world as the speedster hero “PDQ”! He’s now accomplished his first two goals. Will Barry give him a chance at number three?
Meanwhile, some of the “reformed” villains that were part of the “Deicide Squad” with Cheetah prepare to get payback for the murder of their teammate. King Faraday nudges them in the right direction. Look out, PDQ - Scandal Savage, the Turtle, and Killer Frost are coming for you!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #58
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“DOMINATED”
Green Lantern Corpswoman Jessica Cruz was assigned a covert mission by Hal Jordan himself: infiltrate Dominator space and investigate their current activities. What she finds is unexpected…
Nothing. The worlds nearest the Dominator’s borders are completely dead. No bio-mass detected at all.
She pushes further into their territory…
Still nothing. Just dead and drained worlds. She encounters no resistance, right up to their home-world. Or, should we say, their former home-world.
Dominus One has become the host of a nightmarish threat to all organic life in the universe…
After it was freed from the Source Wall during the “Fire From Heaven” event, the Omega Titan of Evolution was captured by the Dominators. Obsessed as they were with evolving, the Dominators experimented on the Omega Titan. They wanted to upgrade their DNA, gaining the equivalent of a metagene. Instead, they created the ultimate super-organism: weaponized evolution made manifest, ever-growing with the ability to spawn warriors or tanks or space vessels or armies and fleets thereof as needed.
Jessica calls them the Dominoid.
An abysmal scourge, they consume all biological matter to fuel their own replication. Seek. Dominate. Recycle. This is their genetic impetus. They’ve consumed their creators and eaten everything within Dominator space - and now they are ready to spread outward!
Can Jessica escape their notice and warn the Corps? Or will she, too, be consumed and recycled?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLβ #16
Plot by NX01A
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Art by JEFF SPOKES
'JLα' Part 5 'DEAD SILENCE'
•The JLα Doomguard headquarters has been displaced to a dimension designed to kill all heroes within. Well, almost all.
•The mute CASSANDRA CAIN became BATWOMAN's ward after evading a cabal of rogue elements from the Court of Owls, the League of Assassins, Kobra, Leviathan, and more. She was engineered and raised to be a hero-killer but they also instilled a bit too much rebellion and anarchy in her programming. Now she is HUSH, armed with inherent talents and stolen assassin relics, ready to protect those the shadows would destroy.
•HERO CRUZ's H-Dial rings up a new superpowered persona for him: the reactive evolutionary DOOMGUARDIAN!
•While they wade through an even darker version of Slaughter Swamp, Hush and Doomguardian soon realize they're not alone. Half-formed plant elementals rise from kryptonite-poisoned waters to sizzle under an ultraviolet sun, and SALOME GRUNDY leads them toward Doomguard!
•In times like these, it's good to know a reliable assassin.
JLα Profile
HUSH
Name: Cassandra Cain
Affiliation: JLα
Powers: •Peak Human Strength, Speed, Senses, Durability, Healing
•Dampening Field: Negates nearby superhuman talents, magical fields, etc.
-Temporarily charges batarangs, bullets, etc. with this dampening field.
•Battle Precognition: By analyzing her surroundings and her opponent's body language, Cassandra can determine the most likely course of a fight and stay one step ahead.
•Photographic Reflexes: On the rare occasion she encounters an unknown fighting style, Cassandra can instantly replicate her opponent's movements and incorporate them into her own gestalt style.
•Shadow Belt: Thanagarian Nth Metal belt transforms wearer into an intangible shadow.
•Soultaker Sword: Captures the spirit of every being it kills, and allows wielder to communicate with or interrogate those souls.
Intelligence: ••••
Strength: •••
Speed: ••
Durability: ••••
Energy Projection: •••
Fighting Skills: ••••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE NEW GEN-ACTIVES #5
Written by Chrissy Williams
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Lauren Knight
MY NAME IS KILG%RE
The New Gen-Actives faced a terrible truth in the mind of Crazy Jane… Professor G is not the saint he pretends to be.
Now, they’ve runaway from school!
The timing couldn’t be worse for the students… or better for the cosmic Technis menace falling in from out of space!
That’s right; Modren’s sire, the deadly Kilg%re, has arrived at last!
The technosapien primarch intends first to slay her wayward daughter.
The students won’t give up their friend without a fight!
Especially not when they learn that after that, Kilg%re plans to assimilate the whole planet!
Despite Professor G’s best intentions, they New Gen-Actives have fought monsters before. Pacifiers. Rogue metahuman personalities. Themselves, once or twice.
But nothing has prepared them for this!
Kilg%re overwhelms them with ease.
All seems lost… only for a mysterious warrior to join the fray.
Enter: CLOTHO!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
NIGHT FORCE #1
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer: R A Salvatore
Art: Sana Takeda
“SinEater, part 1”
Donovan Caine was an Associate Professor of Parapsychology at Georgetown, having done his studies at Miskatonic University in Massachusetts when he first encountered Baron Winters. He became involved with Winters’ Night Force, a rotating team used by Baron Winters to fix some mystical problem. The Night Force has been in existence for well over a century and of those dozens who have been drafted to the cause, few have left voluntarily. Even fewer have left intact. Caine took part in the Night Forces last mission which settled the final fate of television personality Vic Sage (Quick! Go order a back issue of DC Special 1, if you still can!) and the other participants have left. As Caine and Winters prepare to crack open a bottle of rare ancient Chinese huangjiu (Winters’ ability to obtain these alcoholic beverages is truly a super-power), there’s a pounding at the front door. Winters heads for the door while his pet Leopard starts growling at Caine, holding his drink while a smirk starts to grow on his face. The door opens and there is another Donovan Caine, minus his right arm and right leg. “You see,” the intact Caine says,”staying just to get the good stuff was one of his sins. Because of me, he no longer suffers from that tendency. And then there’s his pride, Baron. By the way, Donovan, you’re welcome” The first Caine disappears as the glass drops to the floor shattering.
32pp $2.99 rated M Mature Audiences ONLY
SUPERMAN #11
PLOT by GUANLISHABI
WRITTEN by GENE LUEN YANG
ART by GURIHIRU
"Camelot Falls"
Superman is summoned by Merlin through time to the Court of Camelot.
The dreaded dragon of Albion has arisen.
And no one can defeat it, not even King Arthur with the might of Excalibur.
Merlin believes Albion is not of this world, that's the reason nothing can harm it.
Superman fights the dragon only to find out that the white dragon has super powers.
Not only does the dragon has magic powers and magic resistance, he also has Heat Vision and Yellow Sun Light Absorption. The dragon is from Krypton!
Can Superman help Arthur defeat Albion?
And where does the mysterious Sword of Superman come from?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN #41
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Caspar Wijngaard
”The Trial of Hans Leckter”
*This Story takes place after NEW GEN-ACTIVES #5*
Montreal finds itself host to the trial of the century!
Hans Leckter, formerly leader of the Extremists, surrendered himself after injuring his own daughter, Runaway, in battle with the G-Men!
Elena Challis, an old friend of both Hiram Gaunt and Hans Leckter, arrives to serve as Hans’ defense attorney.
The court finds him not guilty on a technicality — because he had been turned into a baby, he’s not liable for any offenses committed before Vandal Savage restored him to adulthood.
Suddenly, the proceedings are attacked by NIDHOGG, aka Anton and Una Zero: the twin scions of Baron Zero, leader of KOBRA!
Years ago, Hans Leckter offended their father, and they're here to take revenge!
The G-Men spring into action to defeat them, but in the crossfire, Professor G is severely wounded!
A critically-injured Professor G is taken to Thanagar Space by the Omega Men!
His last plea is to his old friend, Hans Leckter, begging him to become the steward of his dream.
Now, all eyes are on Hans Leckter… leader of the G-Men!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN: THE ELOI SAGA #4
(LGY: UNCANNY G-MEN #42)
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Luciano Vecchio
Damocles, the Gen-Active Génocidaire who rocked the world in FIRE FROM HEAVEN, has been awakened from the stupor inflicted upon him by a vindictive Dark Pyra!
Siculus and his Allie’s forced the healer Kwai to work her powers on the brain dead warlord.
He’s a shadow of his former self; a broken-minded hulk. But he is powerful still, both as a metahuman and symbol!
As Damocles and Siculus lay siege to Rainmaker and her allies, they are joined by an unlikely ally:
Otava, the wife of Damocles, herself!
She recognizes that Rainmaker earned her position legitimately.
Siculus’ challenges makes a mockery of the old ways he claims to fight for! And more than that, they make a mockery of Damocles himself.
With her assistance, Rainmaker strikes down Damocles and Siculus both.
Together with Otava, she declares that the Eloi of Unoka have begun a new era!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
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