ND 10-2020

STARRO WARS #4
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN and MARK MILLAR
Art by FRANK CHO and JOE MADUREIRA
“NO JUSTICE... JUST US”
The universe-shaking conclusion to Next Dawn’s first major line-wide event!!!
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern John Stewart, Steel, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter have taken the Javelin-7 into the heart of Starro’s swarm to face down the enormous five-pointed monster itself! But Starro’s legions are endless... and the Justice League’s focus is split!
Martian Manhunter and Aquaman strain to combine their telepathy and marine communication abilities to usurp control of the galaxy-spanning horde! They seek to push those that Starro mentally enslaved to attack and remove their brethren’s Starro spores, freeing them from control - but to do that, they must engage in a battle of wills with Starro deep within the creature’s own extremely-alien mindscape! What echinodermic horrors lie within?
While on that mental journey, it’s up to Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Green Lantern to defend their physical bodies from a galaxy’s worth of Starro-controlled assailants... but John Stewart’s ring is about to run out of energy!
Meanwhile, Vandal Savage and his own hand-picked team of metahumans followed the League and have a more... final plan for Starro: a weapon that will send a shockwave through the swarm - killing all the spores, but also causing fatal brain hemorrhages in at least fifty percent of those controlled. These acceptable loses to Vandal Savage are not acceptable to Batman, Steel, and the Flash! Can they stop the immortal killer and his “children” before quadrillions die?
This. Is. It. The action-packed end to STARRO WARS!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #15
Written By MALCOLM JONES
Art By DEXTER SOY *new artist!*
Plot By MARVELL2100
KILLIAN WAS HERE!
DRC Agent David Zavimbe and his U.S. counterpart Dakota Johnson are meeting with the CEO of Cadmus, Lena Killian. Killian is looking to invest in The Congo because of it's emergence as a tech hub. She wants to build a new R&D complex outside of the capitol but that requires a lot of land. Camdus is trying to buyout the locals to acquire the property but they have all refused. Lena was hoping to convince the DRC gov't to help her with her problem, promising jobs for the community as well as rewards for those that help her to accomplish her goals. But David is suspicious of Killians' motives(wouldn't you be?) and wonders why such interest in the DRC!
In Kiso, Kia comes face to face with Tasha al Ghul, the person behind the hi-tech guns flowing into The Congo. Tasha and Shadowlord take her on a ride out into the countryside far away from the city to a small secluded warehouse. Inside are more armed men and something else, two DRC police offers sitting on the floor tied to each other. Tasha tells Kia that this is just a little test that she needs to pass. Kill the police officers and prove to them that she's not an undercover cop! They give her a gun and Kia stands there with a difficult decision: kill the two officers to keep her cover or don't kill them, blow her cover and they all die!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
DC EXTENDED UNIVERSE #13
Plotted by Clark_Kent
Written by Dan Jurgens
Art by Dan Jurgens & Jay Oliva
"Krypton Rises" Part Six
After what seemed like hours of battle, Superman finally subdues Faora. He knows they must act quickly if they are to contain her for long, so he meets with Batman for assistance. Professor Hamilton's drawings of Kryptonian symbols proves useful, however, as Batman is able to decypher some of it and discovers that the mother boxes can be used to activate a doorway to the Phantom Zone.
On Apokolips, Victor and Diana reach the armory. Here, Victor can plug into a power source strong enough to activate his Mother Box to send them home. Their stealth has not gone unnoticed, however...
Back on Earth, Arthur and Mera continue to work on the Phantom Zone devices. Meeting up with Superman and Batman, Mera notes that things are progressing too easily, to which Arthur agrees. Why did Faora plant devices that could be dismantled so easily? And...why is Faora laughing?
The device in Mera's hands explodes in light, sending the team flying! A Boom Tube opens! Victor and Diana appear, with dozens of Parademons chasing right behind them! The devices Faora was planting weren't Phantom Zone devices after all...they were Apokoliptian!
24PG / Rated T / $2.99
DEADLY HANDS OF CONNOR HAWKE #15
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: JEFF LEMIRE
Artist: ANDREA SORRENTINO
THE ASSOCIATION OF ASSASSINATION: THE LEFT HAND CLAN
While Connor is inside the Temple of Hao Shu Shin, Magus, Jax and Naomi are surrounded by dozens of ninja as they come face to face with the assassin Shiva, leader of The Left Hand Clan! It is a clan so dedicated, so deadly that each follower has cut off their right hand to show their loyalty to her. Even with one hand, they are some of the most feared fighters in the world! Shiva and Magus know each other as they were both members of The Guild but that will not stop her and her servants from carrying out their mission: anyone who enters the temple must die!
Inside, Connor listens as the bear known as Tse Shun(pronounced "say -shun"), tells him the story of The Guild, how in the beginning, they were the fierce defenders of China, protecting them from foreign powers who would corrupt and subjugate her people. But they were betrayed by the Zhou Dynasty who saw them as a threat to their own power. The Guild was nearly wiped out but a few escaped and went into hiding. The few survivors vowed never again to pledge themselves to a country and secretly declared war on all nations! They were responsible for assassinations, genocides and other heinous crimes throughout history.
Tse Shun tells Connor that there is a prophecy that says "One born of The Guild shall destroy The Guild". It was believed that Connors' father was to be the one. However, it was a mis-truth(fake news everywhere!). Connor's father was never the chosen one, that destiny belongs to him!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
THE FLASH #15 *Starro Wars Tie-In*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“FLASH IN THE PAN”
The Flash has never pushed his speed harder than on the warp treadmill than enabled the Justice League’s Javelin-7 spaceship to outpace most of Starro’s forces and get close enough to strike at the main echinoderm itself! Exhausted, he still can’t slow down!
While his team handles Starro, it’s up to Barry, alongside the grim vigilante Batman and the genius engineer Steel, to stop his old nemesis Vandal Savage from taking drastic measures to end Starro that would have the collateral consequence of killing half of everyone with a spore - which, by this point, includes both Iris West and his father, Henry Allen!
Flash fact: a Hemorrhagic Stroke occurs when a ruptured blood vessel causes bleeding inside the brain.
Standing in Flash's way are the hand-picked metahuman “descendants” of Vandal Savage: individuals with mighty powers indoctrinated into Savage’s radical human-supremacist ideology. One has a demonic claw. Two others are speedsters... speedsters that Barry is very familiar with. Hiawatha, swiftest Chief of the Onondaga, and Red Streak, the fastest Soviet alive! He met them both in the past (see THE FLASH #9 and #10), but how are they here now, why are they working with Savage, and can he possibly stop them both?!?
Meanwhile, with the League distracted, stowaway Gorilla Grodd escapes the Javelin. He hates both Savage and the Flash, so who will he strike at in their moment of weakness?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #15 Starro Wars Tie-In*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE”
This is John Stewart of the Green Lantern Corps. We are about to make our last plausible strike against Starro. If you can, I call upon you now to fight. Hit Starro’s forces in your area with all you can muster. Distract it, buy us the time we need. Because if you can hear this broadcast... you’re part of the Corps now. Oorah.
John Stewart has to keep the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman alive while they telepathically fight Starro in the creature’s mindscape. He’s working with gods, Wonder Woman and Superman, but his ring is now completely depleted and powerless and he cannot recharge after the Central Battery was destroyed on Oa. A mere man cannot survive long against Starro’s legions, especially when they include mind-controlled powerhouses like Lobo. Good thing Stewart’s no mere man...he’s a United States Marine! The Javelin-7 spaceship was packed with conventional weapons, so it’s time to make his final stand!
This is Hal Jordan... of the Red Lantern Corps. Time to f*** s*** up!
Dealing with his own dead battery, Hal has swapped ring colors. Now a Red Lantern, he leads the rage-filled Corps head-on into Starro’s front lines as they advance on Earth. He’s got to buy time for the Justice League to do its thing, so the mission is kill echinoderms... or die trying!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
LEGENDS OF THE MULTIVERSE: ANNUAL #1
Plotted by Clark_Kent
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
In these tales from Legends of the Multiverse, witness secret origins, unknown paths, and hints of the future!
* First, learn the secret origin of the Slayers of Earth 4! Centuries ago, in what would later become Khandaq, the first vampire was born. Ancient mystics, working with the Wizard Shazam, looked to the future and saw a void of darkness...a world of the undead. To combat this threat, they created the vampire slayer and throughout the ages the "Slayers" hunted the vampiric forces throughout the world. Eventually, in the late 20th Century, the legendary Dracula was driven out of Europe to the Americas, to Gotham City, where he met a different creature of the night...
* Then, travel with us as we reveal a secret path through the Multiverse! We know what awaits on Earth's 0 and 4, but what about the remaining Earths in the Orrery of Worlds? Just how many Earth's are there?
* Finally, we look to the future, where snippets of things to come flash before us: Dominus rises....Objects of Power found, and lost....Legends in the DCEU?!? Henshaw's path continues here!
60PG / Rated T / $5.99
OUTSIDERS #12
Written by BRIAN BENDIS
Plot by randomideaguy
Art by STEVE RUDE
"Half The Battle”
While Blackfire and Huntress escaped the clutches of Blockbuster, he’s called in the mother of all hits to off the two of them. To boot, the circumstances of the two dames disappearance doesn’t look good for Blackfire. Huntress and Blackfire are forced into the poorer parts of town. With Blackfire’s powers on the fritz and Huntress injured, can their luck hold out against Jinx? Meanwhile the rest of the gang has to face Blockbuster himself, and he’s very angry.
32 PGs./Rated T...$3.99
THE QUESTION #15
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer MARK RUSSELL
Artist BILL SIENKIEWICZ
“Quo Vadis 3: Where?”
Investigations are key this issue. Vic has discovered a secret lair of Lee Travis, American media magnate. Inside, the Question finds interesting items like two extremely high quality archery bows, a motorcycle with a saddle, an ancient sword, and plans for a flying Tucker manufactured car. Almost unnoticed are the handwritten documents in Mandarin.
Vicki Vale also investigates Vic’s background and find the orphanage he was raised in and tales of mysterious martial arts figures as well as some conflicting philosophies.
Now Lee Travis has discovered details of the long ago romantic ties between Vicki Vale and Charlie Szasz. In case you didn’t know, Charlie now goes by the name Vic Sage.
32 PGS./ Rated M for Mature Readers...$3.99
STARRO WARS: CLAW THE UNCONQUERED #4
Tie-In Miniseries
Plot by EXCITER
Written by R. A. SALVATORE
Art by JAE LEE
“ENDGAME”
Then: The mysterious Claw was the answer. Something within his demon hand killed the alien spores... but half of those people possessed by the creature also died. The Kingdom ruled by the man who would one day be known as Vandal Savage was badly wounded... yet Pytharia’s King still lived. Renewing his vow to never let humanity be conquered by alien life, Savage wants the weapon that ended the threat. Too bad it’s attached to Claw’s arm!
Now: Thousands of years have passed, but Vandal Savage never forgot the threat. Something in the Claw kills Starros, and the cursed hand is passed on genetically. That’s why Vandal created a clone, a combination of the original Claw’s DNA and his own. This new metahuman Claw has the power needed to end the threat of Starro forever - he just needs to get through the Flash, Steel, and Batman!
And aboard Savage’s starship, the Enûma Eliš, a cryogenic chamber opens... and from out of history, the original Claw the Unconquered enters the fray!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
STARRO WARS: RED LANTERN #4
Tie-In Miniseries
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GARTH ENNIS
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“WHAT WE CORPS FOR”
Are you pissed off? Have you had enough of all the shit? Of these spores trying to control your mind and force you to do what they tell you to do? Then it’s time to join the Red Lantern Corps and do something about it!
In a matter of months, Guy Gardner has turned the Red Lantern Corps into the biggest badasses in the universe. They’re organized, they’re violent, and now they’ve even got Hal freakin’ Jordan in their ranks. No more delay. It’s time to shove a red ring construct straight up Starro’s ass! ... or its papulae or whatever a f***in’ Starfish uses to excrete waste!
The Red Lanterns are ready to bust up Starro’s front lines, currently descending upon Earth. But is Guy ready to confront his life back home... and his own siblings Gerard and Gloria, now controlled by and hostages of Starro? This issue will change Guy and the Red Lanterns.... forever!
32 PGs./Rated M …$2.99
STARRO WARS: STAR-CROSSED #3
Plot by NX01A
Written by H. P. LOVECRAFT
Art by VIRGIL FINLAY
Black and White Gatefold Variant Cover by HOWARD BROWN
'OF TWO MINDS' part 3 'ELDERS'
•From the antiquarian depths of space-time, they came, hideous and loathsome with a singular purpose: the accursed resurrection of their decadent empire!
•The starfish-headed aliens known as the ELDER THINGS ruled Earth for million of years until even more abnormal entities overthrew their dominion, and they slept through strange aeons until the STARRO invasion woke them. Using curious weapons of psychic disturbance against metahumans with multiple personalities afflicted with Starros, the eldritch ones took full command of them to gather the clumsy man-ape technology needed to awaken their cyclopean Antarctic city and the blasphemous monstrosities within!
•DOCTOR FATE takes PSYCHO-PIRATE, SANDMAN, and CRAZY JANE to the bottom of the world where they will find not only mountains and madness but also cold malevolence older than mankind and eager for its annihilation!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99
TEEN TITANS #5
Plotted by randomideaguy
Written by FELICIA HENDERSON
Art by FIONA STAPLES
'FROM THE MOTHERLAND WITH LOVE'
Russia - Fresh off a tango Ravager in Africa, the Titans have traced to missiles origin to a remote base in Siberia. At first the base seems abandoned, yet they cannot help the feeling they are being watched. As the snow closes in, will they be able to solve the mystery in time? And will this elusive Rocket Red prove to be friend or foe?
32 PGS./ Rated T...$2.99
NEXT DAWN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #2
"THE CROOKS OF MAGICK"
Plot by NX01A
Written by ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI
Art by ZDZISŁAW BEKSIŃSKI
Within the castle of DREAM of THE ENDLESS is a library. No... The Library. Every book ever imagined is here, whether it was actually written or not. Wizards' grimoires are here, too, including the ultimate work of the ultimate wizard, and magical misfit JOHN CONSTANTINE has tricked teen thaumaturge TIM HUNTER into helping him steal this terrible tome. But what if the heist isn't to recover MERLIN's De Magia Libris but rather a book not yet written by Tim himself? Why does Constantine want Venator Ad Librum aka The Book of The Hunter, and does its uncreated existence portent some horrible fate for the boy wizard? Tim's first trip to The Dreaming may be his final nightmare!
“JACK-O-LANTERN”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by DENNY O’NEIL
Art by GIL KANE
Jack-O-Lanterns, Jack-O-Lanterns,
We are a frightful sight.
We sit out in the darkness,
Looking out into the night.
We were once sturdy pumpkins,
Growing on the vine.
Now we are Jack-O-Lanterns,
The lights at night that shine!
The bizarre Jack-O-Lantern Corps has arrived from the blackness of space. What fiendish intent lies behind their carved-out grins?
“THE FASTEST MAN (UN)ALIVE”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KANIGHER
Art by CARMINE INFANTINO
Zombies are scary as all get-out, but their weakness is that they’re all slow and shambling and you can usually get away from them. So... imagine one with the Speed Force? That’s a true Halloween nightmare! It’s up to Barry to investigate how this undead speedster came to be... and to stop this “ZOOMbie” from biting anyone!
“WAYNE MANOR – HALLOWEEN NIGHT”
Written by Bill Finger
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Bob Kane
So you’re a young Gotham City Juvenile Delinquent. What to do to get yourself on the fast track to arch-villain henchman? Obviously, the egging and teepeeing stately Wayne Manor. That will be a helluva accomplishment to have on your resume to present to titans like the Riddler and the Penguin. But guess what? It ain’t that easy.
66.6 PGs./Rated T+ …$Three handfuls of candy
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