ND 06-2022

AQUAMAN #20
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“THE WAR FOR ATLANTIS” part two “BOILING SEA”
Aquaman almost convinced Black Adam to end the Atlantis-Kahndaq conflict. Almost. But then Adam discovered that Arthur Curry no longer possessed the divinity of Poseidon. Emboldened at this shift in the hierarchy of power, Adam leads Kahndaq to war!
It’s first front: the Fisherman Kingdom, where deep denizens are more fish than man. Nanaue, better known as “King Shark,” prepares to hold the line. This initial clash will answer many questions: How will Kandaqi forces fare on an aquatic battlefield? How unified is Atlantis’ defenses? And how much of a game-changer is the involvement of Black
Adam himself?
Vandal Savage’s connections within international media and governance have been leveraged to convince the public that Atlantis is dangerous and should be under Kahndaq control. As a result, Aquaman has few allies to turn to… save, perhaps, for Savage’s other enemies. The conspiratorial immortal’s “Humanity First” agenda resulted in an old friend of Arthur’s from the Starro Wars being arrested, detained, and charged with espionage. But if Arthur and Crablad can liberate J’onn J’onnz from prison, might Mars itself come to Atlantis’ aid? It’s an assault on the Las Tunas Detention Center to liberate the Martian Manhunter!
But when Mera makes a critical mistake, has she just, proverbially, s**t the bed?
BONUS
Father’s Day Special: “EGG-XCELLENT”
During mating, the male crab carries the female on his back for two weeks, after which the female stores his sperm in sacs on her abdomen for later use on eggs. It is on Father’s Day that Crablad honors that noble two-week sacrificial burden and the subsequent lifetime of support. Thanks, Crabdad!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #35
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
PARADISE CITY
As David and Matu continue working to help Isaac deal with his trauma, Kia Okura along with Dakota Johnson and Rick Flagg continue their own quest to hunt down the assassin Ravager. Her trail leads them to an island far off the the Southern coast of South Africa. Despa is a small island used as a little know hideaway for anyone who wants to disappear. The trio begin looking for clues in the capitol, Paradise City, asking some very dangerous questions. Kia learns that Ravager was here not too long ago and left but no one knows where to.
As Kia's frustration begins to grow, they're all approached by someone claiming that they can help them find who they're looking for but there is a price. Suddenly, they find themselves surrounded by at least a dozen armed mercenaries! Their leader says that Ravager knows that they're looking for her and she wanted them to clean up this tiny problem. They all raise their weapons to fire when before any of them can pull a trigger, they're all gunned down. Once the smoke settles, a lone figure steps from the shadows. He looks them over and tells them that his name is Grifter and they should come with him if they want to live! Next Issue: Live and Let Die!
32 PGS./Rated T+... $3.99
DEADLY HANDS OF CONNOR HAWKE #35
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: JEFF LEMIRE
Artist: ANDREA SORRENTINO
Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Ninjas!
Connor is in a state of shock! Not only has The Magus returned but he brought along Tasha as Ghul who says that she is his mother! Connor never knew his birth parents, he was given up, raised in the temples of The Guild by Richard Dragon! For most of his life all he knew was The Guild, becoming an assassin trained to kill! For so long, he believed that Dragon was his only parent. But deep inside, he knew that somewhere his true parents were out there and that they would come for him.
But no one ever came and Conner realized that he would have to leave The Guild, that there was more to life than just being a killer! So he ran away, leaving The Guild to go out into the world and make his own destiny! Now his mother, a woman he never knew, stands before him and they only thing that Connor can think to do is.... to give her the biggest embrace of his life!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #26
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“LEGACY OF KANE”
The Wayne lineage is long and storied, as Batman recently discovered. It stretches from his great-grandfather Patrick Wayne, who fought Nazis in the 1930s, to Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Wayne, to the swashbuckling founder of Gotham, Edmond Wayne, all the way back to Sir Gawain of Arthur’s Round Table. Yet the Wayne legacy is not all Bruce inherited…
His mother was a Kane, an almost equally impressive pedigree that boasts at least one famous hero - the Puritan who devoted his life to vanquishing evil: Solomon Kane!
With flintlock pistols and rapier in hand, the sixteenth and seventeenth century saw Solomon battle pirates, vampires, and all manner of sadistic fiends. His death, though, remains undocumented and it is rumored that Solomon may still be vanquishing evil today….
Could the genealogical cult that’s been haranguing Bruce Wayne be enemies of the Kane line and his Puritan ancestor? And could this result in a team-up centuries in the making?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE FLASH #35
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“CAT SCRATCH LEADER” part one
While undercover within the World Organization for Advancement of Humanity, Barry Allen encountered S’kidd-Flash and the Savothians: aliens who worship the Flash because, in the distant past, Flash saved their race for invading Cheetahs. But how’d that happen?
The past. Africa.
Barbara Minerva, an archeologist of some renown, is hired by a wealthy benefactor named Vandal Savage and asked to lead an expedition to uncover the lost city of Urzkartagan.
Savage, as always, has ulterior motives. In particular, he wants to scout an isolated location where he can test the Speed Force’s ability to hyper-evolve advanced mammals (in this case, gorillas (see THE FLASH #8 for the creation of Gorilla City!)).
But when Barbara’s team is captured by natives and slated for human sacrifice, her only hope may be the activation of the latent metagene that Savage knows she possesses. Is her transformation purely scientific, as Savage believes, or are the natives correct - has she become an avatar of the vengeful Cheetah god? And if so, to what ultimate purpose? And will any of her team or the natives survive?
The much more distant past. Planet Savoth.
“For Queen Minerva! For the Acinonyx Jubatus!”
The Acinonyx Jubatus are apex predators; a mighty pride of Cheetahs. Since their Queen materialized, they have evolved from solitary nomads into a formidable force prepared to seize control of all Savoth’s primary cities.
This is the home, kinship, and acceptance that Barbara Minerva always wanted… and she found it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. In this place and time, no one can stand in her way. No one… accept the Flash?! But how and why is he here - in the past, on another world - in her moment of triumph?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #35
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“MISDIRECTION”
Attention: All Green Lantern Corpsman from Sector 2814, covering planet Earth of the Sol System, are to report to Oa for assignment reassessment immediately.
The Green Lantern Corps may have accepted Hal Jordan back into their ranks, but Earth has not! The United Nations, with subtle and not-so-subtle influence by the illuminatus Vandal Savage, has send a firm “revocation of jurisdiction” to Oa. Earth no longer wants the Green Lanterns to have any operational authority in their system… so what’s to become of Hal, John, Guy, and Jessica?
Meanwhile, Earth’s World Organization for Advancement of Humanity (W.O.A.H.), with its specialized teams of metahumans, is capitalizing on the Lantern’s bureaucratic quagmire. The Ungarans, space-faring aliens neighboring Earth’s system, have an observation station orbiting Neptune. The W.O.A.H. wants it gone. W.O.A.H. Agent Killer Frost leads her ED-1 (the elite unit of the Elemental Division) on a sortie to claim the outpost for Earth.
When the Green Lanterns from Earth receive the Ungaran S.O.S., will they take action and risk another intergalactic incident?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
HOUSE OF S #2
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by RYAN SOOK
“THE RED SON”
Kryptonopolis, the former Capital City of Krypton, is under construction.
There has been a bunch of New Kryptonians who were recently resurrected. And they believe that the old way of Krypton should die with Krypton, and New Krypton should have their own culture. They are protesting against the Science Council. Superman and Nightwing (Golden Age Superman) try to stop any conflict between the Science Council and the New Kryptonians. But things get a little complicated when Bru-Al decides to use magic on the protesting crowd. And the leader of the protesting group intervenes.
The Fortress, Jon Kent and Kara Zor-El decides to lead an expedition to the other continents on New Krypton. Mostly the Zoo continent, which is created from the Zoo in Fortress of Solitude where Superman rescued all the extinct animals from around the universe. Krypto has gone to the Zoo continent and has yet to return. Jon and Kara wants to find Krypto.
And The leader of the New Kryptonians is finally revealed!
The Red Son.
Now, here is a little detail we left out in all previous issues. The Superman we know is wearing a Blue Suit.
Superman Blue!
And the leader of the protesting New Kryptonians, is wearing a Red Suit.
Superman Red!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLAlien #6
Plot by NX01A
Written by AL EWING
Art by RYAN SOOK
'VOLUNTARILY INTO THE MADHOUSE'
•The Super Nazis have a hypergate able to open portals to other dimensions and realities. Why settle for one Earth when you can carve swastikas on the moons over every Earth?
•MA'ALEFA'AK. Malefactor. Betrayer. Pyromancer. Survivor. He burned almost every Green Martian alive out of spite for not sharing their telepathy, and here he is on another almost dead world. His invisibility and intangibility kept him hidden from even ÜBER and FRÄULEIN FÜRST's enhanced senses but not from the two who stalk him now through the most heavily guarded section of the ÜBERREICH's American headquarters.
•ALTER ADELE is also the last of her race, differing from Green Martians only in skin colour, and she hears Ma'alefa'ak's vile thoughts screaming in her mind as she stalks him with similar invisibility and intangibility. As a proud member of die Wölfinnen der Schutzstaffel, it was her red planet zooxanthellae which turned Earth's oceans crimson and killed everything within.
•DIE DAME is almost the last of her race. When Über's gene-bombs killed 99% of humanity, crippled another .9%, and granted the remaining .1% superpowers, HELENA KYLE knew she had been chosen for a higher purpose. While most survivors had useless abilities, Fräulein Fürst's selective breeding program would birth a true fighting force within two generations. Like Alter Adele, Die Dame was an elite She Wolf of the SS, and her cloaking ability and burning touch which inflicted unbearable physical and psychic pain plus eventual death made her a perfect assassin.
•Reduced to a quivering puddle of goo on contact with Die Dame, Ma'alefa'ak hopes the women who suddenly appear to fight the She-Wolves are on his side. Little does he know that MISTRESS WOMAN, BATTLEDRESS, LANTERN ARROW, and the rest of the AVENGING ALLIES don't plan on leaving anyone live on the eastern seaboard on this suicide mission!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99
LEGION OF S #6
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art by FRANCIS MANAPUL
“CRISIS”
Everything dies.
Brainiac-5 discovered that there has been Crossovers between universes. The point of Crossover is Earth. The Crisis on Earth-One and Crisis on Earth-Two is coming.
Dream Girl of Earth-Unknown just crossed over to this Earth-Zero, and using her powers she predicted the Crisis between this universe and the next.
Brainiac-5 had to make a tough decision, and he used the Miracle Machine in secret to push the other Earth away. But the Dream Girl from another universe is left behind on this Earth and she warns him that there will be more Crises.
This leaves Brainiac-5 with no choice but to assemble a secret black-op team of his own to deal with Crisis.
Known Team Members: Brainiac, Dream Girl, Nix Uotan.
Brainiac-5 hides the truth of Miracle Machine from Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl.
Dream Girl makes a prediction that there will be another Crisis in a week.
On Earth-Three, Brainiac-5 takes control of everything following the Great Disaster. And he intends to take control of another Earth in collision course with his Earth-Earth-Zero.
Data Page:
Crisis: Crossover between Parallel Universes
Crossover Point: United Planets, Earth
Cause of Crisis: Unknown
“It is believed that the Crisis phenomenon has stopped after the Final Crisis at the start of the 21st century. But we have come to believe that after a thousand years, the Crisis phenomenon has returned. Certain properties of planet Earth have caused these Crisis. Further investigation required.”
Journal Entry
Brainiac-5
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
MAN OF BRONZE #10
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Philip Tan
Plotter: Marvell2100
FRIENDLY FIRE
After the events in Gotham and his night with the Huntress, Ben and David are heading back to London to get some down time. Ben also needs to reflect on what happened in Uzekhistan with his ex Flo! (See: Man of Bronze issues 1-5!). While he did kill President Igor Khisnov, there's still the issue of how he was used to do a black ops job where a lot of the wrong people got killed. He was lied to by his ex-wife and people died because of it. As he thinks about his next move, his phone rings and he hears a voice that he hasn't heard for a very long time. Cole Cash, a.k.a. Grifter, is down on the Pacific island of Despa. There is a team of agents from The Congo looking for a member of the League of Assassins called Ravager. If they help these agents, maybe they can lead them to another "old friend", the man who betrayed them all: John Diggle!
32 PGS./Rated T+... $3.99
POWERS OF S #2
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by MATT FRACTION
Art by MIKE HUDDLESTON
“THE BEST PAL OF SUPERMAN”
Lana Lang is the new head of Olsen Corps. And Director Olsen is investigating the stolen technology from his company.
At the same time, Steel made contact with the new Army of Metallo. But Steel isn’t the only one interested in the Army of Metallo. There is another Superman. A Negative Superman has been created by using the Ray Gun.
But Steel gets unexpected help from the original Metallo who stops the Negative Superman.
Jimmy Olsen discovers that Evil Factory is back in business and their new director is Hank Henshaw, formerly known as Cyborg Superman, now in human form. And the clones he has been creating are actually his wife and team mates. The same crew that perished with Henshaw due to solar radiation. Henshaw believes that just like Kryptonians, humans can evolve with solar radiation as well.
But Henshaw didn’t steal the Olsen techs, it was stolen by Composite Superman. But there is another mind behind all this?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE QUESTION #35
Writer: MARK RUSSELL
Artist: BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
“Where in the World is Charles Victor Szasz?”
Part 7b: “How Are You Feeling, Mr. Sage?”
The last thing Vic remembers is walking across the Boston Common after his taping to look for the Cheers bar when he felt a tightness in his chest. The nighttime lights started to blind him and then nothing. He awoke to find himself strapped to a hospital bed with a tube down his throat. Eventually, he discovered he was at St. Eligius hospital in Boston’s South End. Cat Grant was at his bedside unhappy because there was no crowd wondering what had happening to Vic. She was happy the tox screen came back clean.
Luckily Vic’s coronary angiogram showed almost no blockage and he was discharged after a couple of days. However, he was put on a few prescriptions, told to maintain a regular healthy diet, and not to overexert himself. For the host of a television program that is doable, but for a masked adventurer running around half the night beating up bad guys? That’s a good question. Next stop, New York City.
32 PGS./ Rated M for Mature Readers...$3.99
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