I'm combining two weeks' worth of books into one post. That's a total of 8 books, but 7 were from last week. I nearly skipped this week due to the transit strike, but I made my way into town on the Regional Rail, which is still running. All for one book. Soooooooooo...
Blackest Night 4 (of 8): By the end of this issue, the power level of the black rings reaches 100 percent, a character named Nekron rises and about 7 million dead people, killed in Coast City, are about to. Yet I still really want to know why Black Hand carries Bruce Wayne's skull around. There'd better be a good answer to that by the end of this.
Green Lantern 47: Meanwhile, I keep buying this book because of the "Blackest Night" story, yet it just doesn't interest me here, bouncing around as they are to different planets and following the Black Lanterns' attacks on the Red Lanterns, the Orange Lanterns, etc.
Detective Comics 858: The origin of Batwoman, beginning with events from the childhood of Kate Kane and her twin sister Beth. Unless there's a surprise twist, we probably know what eventually happened to Beth, based on the close of issue 857.
Gotham City Sirens 5: The Joker wants to kill Harley Quinn (and if Catwoman and Poison Ivy die as well, so be it). Or does he? It's loopy, flighty Harley who figures out the truth first.
Superman 693: With the various storylines involving New Krypton slowly coalescing, this book finally returns to its focus on Mon-El, believed dead but in reality captured by General Lane. Lane wants Mon-El to join his anti-Kryptonian fight...or else.
Superman: Secret Origin 2 (of 6): Young Clark Kent begins his career as Superboy (in secret) and has his first encounter with the Legion of Super-Heroes. And young Lex Luthor gets bad news, and then good news.
World's Finest 1 (of 4): Back in the day the "World's Finest" title was a long-running book featuring Superman and Batman teaming up for adventures. That series eventually ended but the title's been used a few other times in miniseries and one-shot stories. Since their new series together was simply named "Superman/Batman," it's available for this new four-parter, which will feature various Superman characters and Batman characters meeting for the first time. First up: Red Robin and the new Nightwing.
And finally, this week's entry...
Superman: World of New Krypton 9 (of 12): The cliffhanger from the last issue gets resolved, there's some internal political infighting and a chat between General El and General Zod, and then another arrival, and another cliffhanger. Can we skip ahead to the Earth/New Krypton war already?
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