DC Weekly Review: January 5, 2024 (Week 01)

Help Support The Heroes We Love: This month, we’re highlighting Titans: Beast World by Tom Taylor and company. This Event has hit it out of the park, propelling the Titans to the frontrunners of the Fantasy Comic League and doing so with strong action and character moments. Every tie-in has hit hard as well and the whole Universe shines here. And you can read the opening salvos of the story at DC Universe Infinite, when you subscribe to the Ultra Annual Level (which runs the price of $170 CAD).

Weekly Omissions – Superman ’78: The Metal Curtain #3

Hero Of The Week – We kick off 2024 with a refreshing change of pace… I’m just kidding. Bruce Wayne takes the first Hero Of The Week with 23 Points over 2 Appearances. He also takes the First Performance Of The Week, with an 18 Point Appearance. Long Live The Bat.

Antagonist Of The Week – This week sees General Zod earn his first On-Going Series, and it landed him Antagonist Of The Week with a 14 Point Appearance.

Book Of The Week – Event Week, which means our Book Of The Week is none other than Titans: Beast World Tour – Atlantis #1, which brought in 73 Points over 12 Characters.

Welcome To The League – One New Hero, One New Antagonist Added: Sin (Cynthia Lance); Blood Scarab (Javier Basualdo)

YEAR START / WEEK 2

Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.

Batman #141 (23)
Batman (BW) – Agility, Bionics, Blade, Computers, Durability, Ensnare, Explosive, Intellect, Melee, Personality, Projectile, Suit, Swing, Tech, Vehicle, Weapon, CD: Zur En Arrh Personality Uploaded Into Failsafe
Nightwing (DG)
Oracle (BG) – Computers, Intellect
Antagonist(s)
The Joker (TC)
Birds Of Prey #5 (43)
Batgirl (CC) – Agility, Blade, Melee, Projectile, Weapon, DA (Undead)
Big Barda (BF) – Blade, Melee, Strength, Weapon
Black Canary (DL) – Agility, Fourth Wall, Influence, Melee, Sonics, Sonics Defensive, Sonics Offensive, LT
Harley Quinn (HQ) – Blunt, Explosive, Influence, Melee, Weapon, DA (Undead)
Sin (Cynthia Lance) – Agility, Influence, Melee
Wonder Woman (DP) – Durability, Melee
Zealot (oK) – Agility, Blade, Heal, Melee, Weapon, LT, DA (Undead) 
Blue Beetle #5  (49)
Blue Beetle (JR) –Blunt, Durability, Energy Offensive, Flight, Morph, Personality, Shield, Speed, Strength, Suit, Weapon, TU (Victoria Kord), LT
Blue Beetle (DG) – Energy, Melee, Strength, DA (Kha-Ef-Re)
Dynastes (XE)– Durability, Suit, TU (Starfire) 
Nitida (Ro)– Durability, Suit, TU (Starfire)
Starfire (K’r) – Durability, Flames, Flight, Speed, TU (Nitida) LT, DA (Creatures)  
Antagonist(s)
Blood Scarab (Javier Basualdo) – Assassin, Creature, Deception, Durability, Energy, Energy Defensive, CD: Create Wrights 
Victoria Kord (VK) – Computers, Influence, Intellect, TU (Blue Beetle), LT
Fire And Ice: Welcome To Smallvile #5 (15)
Ambush Bug (IS) 
Fire (BD) – Flames, Flight, SC
Ice (TO)– Flight
Antagonist(s)
Gentleman Ghost (JC) – Flight, Intangibility, Thief
Lobo (II) – Thief
Maxie Zeus (MZ) – Strength 
Kneel Before Zod #1 (23)
Antagonist(s)
General Zod (D-Z) – Business, Durability, Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Intellect, Melee, Speed, Strength, Tech, LT, CD: Delusions of Jor-El, DA (Khunds)
Lor-Zod (LZ) – Energy, Flight, Melee, Rage, Vehicle, CD: Banished By His Father
Ursa Zod (UZ) – Computers
Poison Ivy #18  (29)
Batman (BW) – Tech, TU (Poison Ivy) 
Antagonist(s)
Floronic Man (JW) – Grow, Morph, CD: Born From Poison Ivy, DA (Poison Ivy)
Killer Croc (WJ) – Claws, Melee, Strength, TU (Solomon Grundy), DA (Spore-Men)
Poison Ivy (PI) – Influence, Intellect, Melee, Tech, Willpower, TU (Batman), LT, CD: Pregnant With Jason Woodrue, DA (Spore-Men)
Solomon Grundy (CG) – Melee, Strength, TU (Killer Croc), DA (Spore-Men)
Shazam #7 (34)
Shazam (BB) – Absorb, Durability, Flight, Intellect, Lightning, Melee, Morph, Rage, Speed, Strength, Weapon, CD: Moved, DA (Felix Faust) 
Shazam (DD) – CD: Moved
Shazam (EC) – CD: Moved
Shazam (FF) – CD: Moved
Shazam (MB) – CD: Moved
Shazam (PP) – CD: Moved
Antagonist(s)
Black Adam (TA) – Durability, Flight, Melee, Speed, Strength, SC
Felix Faust (FF) – Telekinesis, TU (Bizarro Shazam)
Titans: Beast World Tour – Atlantis #1 (73)
Aquaman (AC)  – Creature, Influence, Melee, Sense, Strength, Weapon, TU (Tempest), LT, CD: Infected
Aquaman (JH) – Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Intellect, Water, Water Offensive, TU (Tempest), SC 
Aquawoman (AC)– Flight, Influence, 
Beast Boy (GL) – Creature, Flight, Influence 
Dolphin – Flight, CD: Infected
Queen Mera (Me) – Appendage Offensive, Blade, Claws, Energy Offensive, Ensnare, Flight, Melee, Water, TU (Aquaman), LT, CD: Infected, DA (Aquaman) 
Tempest (Ga) – Flight, Melee, Water, Water Offensive, TU (Aquaman), DA (Creature) 
Tula – Flight, Melee, TU (Aquaman) 
Vixen (MM) – Agility, Creature, Energy, TU (Suicide Squad)
Antagonist(s)
Amanda Waller (AW) – Business, LT, CD: Infecting Superheroes On The Down Low
Black Manta (DH) – Appendage, Appendage Offensive, Morph, CD: Infected
Captain Boomerang (DH) – Blade, Precision, Projectile, Weapon, TU (Vixen)


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