ND 06-2024

AQUAMAN #44
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“WORLD OF WARLORD” part five “WIGHT QUEEN”
Tara Morgan. In her zeal to avenge her fallen husband, the Warlord, she took up the cursed blade “Soultaker.” She used it to strike down the necromancer Deimos. His undead army is now hers to command. Unfortunately, in the struggle, Tara inadvertently cut herself - allowing the sentient Soultaker to fully possess her! She has become… the Wight Queen!
This was the plan of Klarion the Witch Boy all along! Now, using the Wight Queen and her army to hold back the realm’s defenders, Klarion plans to consume the magic of the eternal Sun that burns at the heart of Skartaris - thus becoming an unstoppable Chaos God! Can Aquaman and Shakira rally the remaining Skartaran defenders?
Meanwhile, Katana - the only human ever able to resist the corrupting influence of the Soultaker - knows only one way to liberate Tara Morgan… but it’s unfathomably risky and probably won’t work! An injured Arion, former Lord of Order, must astral project the souls of both Katana and Crablad into the cursed sword itself! Once there, they must rally the captive souls of the sword’s victims and attempt to inspire a mystical coup! No problem, right? Wrong! Many of trapped souls are evil themselves!
Profile: The Wight Queen
Human Death Knight
Specialization: Unholy
Strength: 18
Agility: 18
Stamina: 18
Intelligence: 18
Equipment: [Soultaker]; [Crown of Damnation]
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
ATOMICA #2
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer: Grant Morrison
Art: Frank Quitely
“Girl, Look What You've Done to Me. Me, and my Whole MULTIVERSE!!”
Rhonda Pineda doesn't remember her birthday and she doesn't know how old she is. Besides being a main character with past life amnesia trope, she does have a handle on many aspects of life, even if she doesn't remember them specifically. She can't remember any date she has had, but she knows she's been intimate before. She's also capable of recognizing the bad date. For example, a partner who feels the need to inform you that a dimensional counterpart of his father stepped on and killed a dimensional counterpart of yours is amazingly poor date talk.
His name is Alex Luthor. He has been traversing multiple dimensions and alternate realities for, well, when spacetime is part of a reality, is time really a thing when one is bouncing between realities? He looks at Rhonda, “I know where you're from,” he says, “and you need to get your @$$ back there ASAP.” Then the assassins attacked..
32pp $2.99 rated T
BAT-WING #59
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
David returns to Tinisha from Singapore with no way to connect Lena Killian to the global crime wave affecting his country and as well as the murder of the dirty D.E.O. agent Steve Trevor. He was able to capture the drug lord Father Lost but he was killed instantly by the bullet of an unseen, mysterious assassin(see last issue). Arriving at his office, he sees Kia and asks how Rick Flagg is doing with his recovery. Kia say that Rick should be okay after a few weeks of therapy. They each are afraid to ask the important questions or wonder if her near death in Singapore changes anything between them.
Just then David's partner Dakota Jamison comes in to tell him that they have a case. They rush off to arrive in a very affluent part of Tinisha. The police are already on the scene taking information. A resident of the neighborhood was on their morning walk when they found a dead body near the club house of the community golf resort. It was a male victim in their late 30's and the cause of death was a snapped neck. There were other wounds on the body and it looks like the victim had bruises on their hands like they tried to fight back. But even more disturbing was the message that was written on the side of the clubhouse, a message that shakes David to his core: "I Hunt Heroes!" Next Issue: Brother-In-Harm.
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #12
Plot by NX01A
Written by JAMES TYNION IV
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III
'DESCENSUS AD INFEROS'
•Trickster god ANANSI and the Wizard MAMARAGAN have descended into one of the infinite layers of Hell to confront the forces behind the attacks on Fawcett City: BLAZE and SATANUS! What Anansi thought would be a harrowing turns into a family reunion, and even the great trickster is shocked to learn that Mamaragan (in the guise of the human wizard SHAZAM) is the father of the demonic duo!
•CAPTAIN MARVELOUS and CAPTAIN THUNDER can barely hold back the legions of infernal SABBACS pouring through hellmouth portals all across the city. And where is HAWKGIRL?
•The small brimstone rift in her grandfather's office was her only lead on where he'd disappeared to, and so Hawkgirl flew into Hell! Mace of Disruption in one hand, defeated IBAC's Lash of the Oppressor in the other, Kendra Saunders flew through labyrinthine great halls and torture fields guided only by the love she shared with Speed Saunders.
•And there Speed was: bound to an altar before two vacant flaming thrones! The flaming devils who no doubt usually occupied them were confronting two luminous beings, one of whom Kendra recognized as the patron of Captain Marvelous. Next to her grandfather lay the to halves of an anthropomorphic fiendish sculpture reminiscent of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. Based on the chthonic energies flowing from it, Kendra knew what she must do... but would she survive the attempt?
Super-Police Dossier
BLAZE & SATANUS
Powers:•Reality Manipulation
•Magic Resistance
•Immortality
Intelligence: ••••••
Strength: •••••••
Speed: •••••••
Durability: •••••••
Energy Projection: •••••••
Fighting Skills: •••••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE FLASH #59
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“WAR FOR THE CITY OF THE APES”
Barry has listened to his speedster grandpa’s story… and, blood being thicker than water and all that, has decided to give him a chance! This reunion is what Mark Thompson prayed for while imprisoned for 20 years. It’s finally time for the Flash and “PDQ” to team-up and do some good! And gramps has an idea about where to start…
In Africa’s Congo Basin lies “Uhuhahh,” or “Gorilla City” in our tongue. For over a year now (since THE FLASH #47), it has been ravaged by warfare. Two native rivals, Grodd and Solovor, have put aside their political differences to fight a foreign aggressor: the “Ultra-Humanite,” a mad scientist who kidnapped Solovar’s son, the albino meta-ape Kolovar, and took over his body! Traitorous gorillas aligned with the Ultra-Humanite, adopting his quasi-religion of cybernetic enhancement. This divide tore the small talking gorilla community asunder. No more! As Flash and PDQ arrive on the scene, they look to end this gorilla war as fast as possible! Too bad the Ultra-Humanite’s cyber-primates have anti-speedster protocols!
Meanwhile, Scandal Savage, the Turtle, and Killer Frost continue their mission to bring Cheetah’s murderer to justice as they try to recruit an unlikely ally to their cause. But can they possibly convince Wally West that his mentor’s grandfather, Mark Thompson, needs to be taken down? Maybe… if they show him classified documents that Scandal stole from her late father’s files! What dark secrets about Mark Thompson did Vandal Savage know?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #59
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“DOMINATED” part II
The all-consuming DOMINOID has been unleashed! If left unchecked, they will consume all organic life in the galaxy and use it to grow! Grow! GROW!
To escape them, Green Lantern Jessica Cruz was forced to flee into the great empty chasm between galaxies. There she finds unexpected allies… the last surviving Dominators?
Now refugees from their own home system, which has been rendered devoid of biological life, these fleeing Dominators include amongst their number the very scientists who first unleashed the cosmic horror of Dominoid by mixing Dominator DNA with material extracted from the Omega Titan of Evolution! They caused this nightmare… but perhaps they can offer a solution.
The Dominator scientists theorize that Dominoid’s internal cohesion, the lethal evolutionary ability that allows them to control armies made up of… themselves, can be disrupted. From one, many. Divide and conquer.
But to sever that cohesion, one must enter Dominoid’s very heart and extract the Omega Titan of Evolution from their digestive system. And one would have to do that before the Titan was fully metabolized and Dominoid becomes unstoppable. The mad scientists estimate that this will be within the next…. four hours!?!?
There’s no time to get backup from the Corps. Strap in, because it’s Jessica Cruz and some creepy Dominators on a suicide mission with the fate of the entire universe at stake!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLβ #17
Plot by NX01A
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Art by JEFF SPOKES
'JLα' Part 6/Finale 'BETWEEN THE DARKNESS & THE LIGHT'
•SALOME GRUNDY and other half-formed plant elementals rise from the horror of terror-formed Slaughter Swamp to assault the JLα Doomguard headquarters.
•DOOMGUARDIAN and HUSH have found a small imperfection in the terror field, and Cassandra Cain's Soultaker Sword carves a rift to normal space.
•The ultraviolet sun and kryptonite outcroppings may keep BATWOMAN and SUPERWOMAN at bay but the energies that empower NIGHTWING & FLAMEBIRD freely flow through Hush's hole in their dimensional prison. John and Mary Grayson felt the familiar parental pangs when the young Hero and Cassandra went out into the swamp alone, memories of losing their own young son never far from their minds, but the young ones did what they had to do. Now it was their turn.
•Blinding light and endless darkness erupted from the Doomguard, burning away and ripping Salome Grundy and her ilk to shreds. Their powers combined into a wave of gray energy which shattered the dimensional prison, returning the JLα headquarters to normal space!
•The secret rulers of the world were impressed. Perhaps they had to take care of the JLα personally.
JLα Profile
Name: NIGHTWING (John Grayson)
Powers: Umbrakinesis (Shadow Form, Shadow Constructs, Intangibility, Flight, Shadow Teleportation Portals, Regeneration)
Intelligence: 3 | Strength: 3 | Speed: 3/7 *Teleportation | Durability: 4 | Energy Projection: 4 | Fighting Skills: 3
Name: FLAMEBIRD (Mary Grayson)
Powers: Photokinesis (Light Form, Photonic Constructs, Intangibility, Lightspeed Flight, Regeneration)
Intelligence: 3 | Strength: 2 | Speed: 7 | Durability: 4 | Energy Projection: 5 | Fighting Skills: 3
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
NIGHT FORCE #2
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer: R A Salvatore
Art: Sana Takeda
“SinEater, part 2”
Donovan Caine lay in a bed in Baron Winters' mansion. His right arm from the shoulder and right leg from above the knee are gone, seemingly and literally eaten by a creature who takes human form, specifically Donovan Caine himself. Baron Winters, with his Machiavellian style and manner, wants to
recruit a new Night Force team to replace the one Donovan was part of that was killed (and probably eaten by the creature).
Carrie Kelley, the judge: former CHECKMATE# agent and Gotham City cop, her focus is finding the line between right and wrong and making sure that line isn't crossed.
Marian Mercer, the punisher: sparked by childhood trauma, dressed in a costume and operated as a vigilante not to catch but to stop and hurt.
Bonnie Baxter, the brain: previously the number two on a time travel project, her scientific acumen and results give her claims of being the world's smartest woman credibility.
Baron Winters believes the creature will appear somewhere in very rural Utah where a fringe polygamist cult (not LDS) practices very bizarre activities. Being unattached women in a group of fledged polygamists will get the team attention. What they discover is that the creature is called the sin eater and by its consuming a corpse will free the soul from the ramification of their sins. The sin eater also gains the look of the last person they ate.
32pp $2.99 rated M Mature Audiences ONLY
G-FORCE #1
(LGY: THE NEW GEN-ACTIVES #6)
Written by Chrissy Williams
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Lauren Knight
“The Hand of Fate Must be Forced!”
Once, they were the New Gen-Actives. Students of Professor G. Young and idealistic.
No longer.
Now, they are G-FORCE!
Caitlyn Fairchild, aka SLAPHAMMER, the muscle!
Isaiah Crocket, aka HOT SPOT, the firepower!
Toni Monetti, aka ARGENT, the maker!
Angel O’Day, aka LEXICON, communications and translation!
Roland Tanghal, aka WILDEBEEST, stealth and bestial strength.
M%dren, aka MODREN, living technology and interface.
And their leader… the cyborg soldier known as CLOTHO, come from the future to save the past!
When the young metahumans, fed up with the hypocrisy of Professor G, ran away from the Gaunt Institute for the Exceptional, they faced the technosapien menace, Kilg%re!
Their deaths were certain — but they were saved by Clotho! She used her technis-organic arm to put Kilg%re to sleep, and sunk her to the bottom of the sea.
That was months ago. Now, Clotho leads her young charges as G-Force!
They take the fight to the enemies of peace and Gen-Active rights, proactively.
But why has Clotho come to this era? And what is the true threat she fights?
Their next mission provides a clue, as they fight Virgil Belasco, aka TOXUS, who seeks to poison the ocean under the orders of a mysterious benefactor!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN #43
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Caspar Wijngaard
The G-Men are in disarray!
After the events of last issue, Professor G is gone, spirited away to Thanagar, perhaps never to return.
In his stead, he has appointed HANS LECKTER as his heir.
But the prospect of working alongside their former arch-nemesis is too much for some of them to stomach.
LODESTONE and WINTER WONDERLAD quit, refusing to work with Leckter.
It’s the end of an era: the last remaining founding member of the G-Men has left!
RUNAWAY decides to stay; she wants to believe her father can truly change.
Her argument persuades her boyfriend, the FULL COPPER MAN.
UNITY, still recovering from his time under Damocles’ influence, doesn’t have anywhere else to go.
RAINMAKER, returned from Unoka, has learned well the value of unlikely allies. She accepts Leckter, not as a leader but as an equal.
PANTHA has too much blood on her claws for her to protest against Leckter’s addition to the team. She stops short of ceding him the role of leader, however.
With that, the G-MEN are reborn!
One Gen-Active out there isn’t happy… Leckter’s former acolyte, MR. MESMER.
He believes Leckter has betrayed him and their cause.
What dastardly plan for revenge has he hatched?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
G-FACTOR #1
(LGY: UNCANNY G-MEN #44)
Written by Si Spurrier
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Butch Guice
BECAUSE SOMEBODY DEMANDED IT — THE DRAMATIC RETURN OF THE ORIGINAL G-MEN!
The world watched as Hans Leckter was arrested.
The world watched as Hans Leckter was exonerated.
The world watched as Hans Leckter was inducted into the G-MEN.
Not everybody is happy about it.
Cameron Chase, Director of the Global Peace Agency, certainly isn’t.
As far as she is concerned, with Leckter at the helm, the G-Men are the new Extremists.
So… the world needs new G-Men.
Or rather… the old ones.
Chase invites August “Irish” Autumns, AKA Basilisk, to lead a new team: G-FACTOR!
August has been happily retired in Hawai‘i, raising his daughter, Ava Autumns.
But truth be told… he misses the superhero lifestyle.
Chase is also offering a fair salary, which isn’t something the G-Men can say.
Basilisk is back in action!
He quickly recruits fellow original G-Man Billy Gander, aka the WINTER WONDER, and Rhea Jones, aka LODESTONE — both of whom quit the G-Men rather than work with Leckter.
At the urging of his paramour Silver St. Cloud, Melvin Murgatroyd XIV, aka the high-flying ICARUS, joins as well — just to spend time with old friends.
That just leaves Harold McElhinney, aka the APE, of the remaining original members.
Just one problem… he’s gone missing!
G-Factor has their first mission… rescue their teammate!
It’s an inauspicious start.
The trail leads them to the laboratory of Harry’s old lab partner, Doctor Benjamin Love.
What they find will shock them!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
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