Help Support The Heroes We Love: This month, we’re highlighting Pride, the type that goes beyond a single annual one-shot. To close out the month, we’re focusing on DC’s highest profile queer character, Harley Quinn. Is it weird that we’ve mainly highlighted such antagonists as Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, the Secret Six, and the villains of JSA this month, due to a lack of queer representation at the Hero levels? Perhaps, but I don’t know if this industry will ever move away from queer coded villainy. Harley Quinn by Elliot Kalan is a strong comedic take on Harley Quinn as she combats Althea King, a queer business woman whose desire to gentrify brings her into conflict with a clown faced woman torn between violence and intellect (quite literally, Harleen’s intellect is a split personality this time around). It throws a lot of jokes at the wall, but the majority of them stick and there’s a real tension between lead and antagonist that is engaging. So you can read the first couple arcs of this combat over community over at DC Universe Infinite, when you subscribe to the Ultra Annual Level (which runs the price of $170 CAD).
Weekly Omissions – Absolute Martian Manhunter #4, Absolute Wonder Woman #9, Dc X Sonic The Hedgehog #3, Green Lantern Dark #5, Peacemaker Presents: The Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature #4
Hero Of The Week – It’s a good week where some unusual suspects get a chance to shine. Unsurprisingly, Performance Of The Week goes to We Are Yesterday‘s Central Hero, Airwave, who brought in 16 Points in a single Appearance. While Hal Jordan and Clark Kent clashed for Hero Of The Week with identical 18 Points over 2 Appearances stats, it’s actually Carol Ferris who won it. Star Sapphire brought in 20 Points over 2 Appearances. Welcome back to the big leagues, Carol. She got Hero Of The Week before Diana did in 2025.
Antagonist Of The Week – Antagonist Of The Week goes to Grodd as his Event comes to an end, scoring 13 Points in a single Appearance. We Are Yesterday brought Grodd into the top 3 with 70 Points total, sitting beneath Posion Ivy (75) and Lex Luthor (80). This also means Lex has dethroned Ivy for the first time in 2 years as DC’s top Antagonist… wonder if he has a movie out or something? Lady Shiva is #4 at 55 Points, but she’s dead now, so we’ll see if anyone else can clear the distance to break into the Top 3 in 2025.
Book Of The Week – It’s Event Week and Justice League Week, so it’s not even a question of where the gold is going. Our Book Of The Week is Justice League Unlimited #8, the final chapter in We Are Yesterday, which brought in a whooping 193 Points over 36 Characters. That’s nearly 7 Points per character in this title, which is a powerhouse performance.
Power Of The Week – We get to highlight another fun Power usage this week. The Power Of The Week this time is Deception in Harley Quinn #52. Both Rose and Harley telling competing sides of a story involving each other, in bold dramatic fashion, which of course means both are lying. Deception at it’s finest.
Welcome To The League – One New Hero Added: Green Lantern (Aya).
We are just 4 Heroes shy of 750 total characters being scored by the FCL at the half way point of 2025. Will we make it through July before we hit 750?
Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.
| Green Arrow #25 (10) |
| Arsenal (RH) – Swing, Tech Green Arrow (OQ) – Melee, Swing, Tech, Weapon, DA (Vertigo) Antagonist(s) Count Vertigo (WZ) |
| Green Lantern #24 (53) |
| Green Lantern (Aya) – Absorb, Flight, CD: Reborn Green Lantern (HJ) – Blunt, Energy, Energy Offensive, Ensnare, Flight, Investigation, Light, Projectile, Shield, Vehicle, TU (Star Sapphire), LT, DA (Criminals) Green Lantern (KR) – Absorb, Energy, Flight, Gun, TU (Superboy), LT, DA (Manhunters) Silver Beetle (DG) – Energy Offensive, Flight, Melee, Vehicle, TU (Superboy), DA (Manhunters) Star Sapphire (CF) – Energy, Energy Offensive, Ensnare, Flight, Influence, Investigation, Light, Sense, Vehicle, TU (Hal), LT, DA (Criminals) Superboy (CK) – Energy Offensive, Flight, Melee, Strength, TU (Green Lantern), DA (Manhunters) |
| Harley Quinn #52 (18) |
| Harley Quinn (HQ) – Agility, Blunt, Deception, Durability, Explosive, Melee, Personality, Weapon Ravager (RW) – Agility, Blade, Business, Deception, Durability, Gun, Melee, Vehicle, Weapon |
| Justice League Unlimited #8 (193) |
| Airwave (HJ) – Absorb, Computers, Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Intangibility, Melee, Reality, Speed, Strength, Teleport, Temporal, TU (Magog), LT, DA (Grodd) Batman (BW) – Melee, Vehicle, TU (Magog) Batman (TM) – Flight, Melee, TU (Magog), DA (Joker) Beast Boy (GL) – Claws, Morph, TU (Magog) Blue Beetle (JR) – Flight, Morph, Shield, TU (Magog) Black Lightning (JP) – Energy, Energy Offensive, TU (Magog), DA (Sinestro) Firestorm (RR) – Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, TU (Magog), DA (Sinestro) Green Arrow (OQ) – Projectile, Weapon, TU (Magog), DA (Black Manta) Green Lantern (Ab) – Energy, Energy Defensive, Energy Offensive, Ensnare, Flight, TU (Magog), DA (Bizarro) Green Lantern (HJ) – Energy, Ensnare, Flight, TU (Magog) Harley Quinn (HQ) – Weapon, TU (Magog) Jonah Hex – Gun, Precision, Weapon, TU (Magog), DA (Captain Cold) Martian Manhunter (JJ) – Absorb, Durability, Flight, Intangibility, Tech, TU (Magog), LT, DA (Grodd) Metamorpho (RM) – Morph, TU (Magog) Mister Terrific (MH) – Tech, TU (Magog) Phantom Girl (LW) – Vehicle, TU (Magog) Plastic Man (PO) – Ensnare, Morph, Stretch, TU (Magog) Robin (DG) – Agility, Ensnare, Melee, Swing, TU (Magog), DA (Black Manta) Shazam (BB) – Durability, Flight, Melee, Strength, TU (Magog) Star Sapphire (CF) – Energy, Energy Defensive, Ensnare, Flight, Melee, TU (Magog), DA (Sinestro) Supergirl (KK) – Flight, Melee, Strength, TU (Magog) Superman (CK) – Durability, Energy, Flight, Melee, Strength, TU (Magog), DA (Lex) The Atom (RP) – Shrink, Tech, TU (Magog), LT, DA (Grodd) The Flash (BA) – Melee, Speed, TU (Magog), DA (Captain Cold) The Flash (WW) – Melee, Speed, Speed Defensive, TU (Magog), DA (Captain Cold) Wonder Girl (DT) – Ensnare, TU (Magog), LT Wonder Woman (DP) – Durability, Ensnare, Flight, Melee, TU (Magog), DA (Lex) Antagonist(s) Bizarro (OL) – Flight Black Manta (DH) – Energy, Suit Captain Cold (LS) – Ice Doomsday (TT) – Sense, Teleport, Temporal Gorilla Grodd – Absorb, Claws, Durability, Energy, Energy Offensive, Melee, Reality, Sense, Strength, Telepathy Offensive, Teleport, Temporal Green Lantern (Si) – Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight Lex Luthor – Energy Magog (DR) – Flight, TU (Titans) The Joker (TC) – Blunt |
| Mister Terrific: Year One #2 (26) |
| Black Lightning (JP) – Energy Mister Terrific (MH) – Agility, Intellect, Investigation, Melee, Tech, CD: Decides To Become A Vigilante, DA (Hound) The Spectre (JC) – Energy, Flight, Influence, Melee, Morph, Reality, Temporal, CD: Convinces Michael To Take On The Moniker Of Mister Terrific Antagonist(s) Darkseid (UX) – Influence, Telepathy, LT Mercy Graves – Deception, LT |
| New History Of The DC Universe #1 (4) |
| The Flash (BA) – Computers, Investigation, CD: Creates A Timeline Of The DC Universe |
| Superman #27 (39) |
| Booster Gold (MC) – Absorb, CD: The Lynch Pin Of The Absolute Universe Jimmy Olsen Lois Lane – Business, CD: Comes To Peace With Losing Her Powers Superman (CK) – Flight, Heal, Melee, Senses, Strength, Willpower, TU (Marilyn), LT, SC, DA (Graft) Antagonist(s) Doomsday (TT) – Strength, Teleport, CD: Learns The Truth Of The Absolute Universe Graft (Me) – Suit Lex Luthor – Deception, Intellect, Stealth, LT, CD: Gave Up Lex-Corp, DA (Pharm) Mercy Graves – Bionics, Business, Computers, CD: Became CEO Of Lex-Corp Pharm (Me) – Suit Silver Banshee (SS) |
| The Flash #22 (60) |
| Booster Gold (MC) Impulse (BA) – Speed Inspector Pilgrim (WW) – Computers, Intellect, Investigation, Tech, Telepathy, Teleport, Temporal, LT Kid Flash (AW) – Speed Max Mercury (MX) – Speed The Boom (JG) – Speed The Flash (AH) – Speed The Flash (BA) – Influence The Flash (WW) – Creature, Intellect, Sense, Speed, Stealth, Vibrations, LT The Surge (JW) – Intellect, Sense, Teleport, Temporal Thunderheart (IW) – Absorb, Energy, Melee, Sense, Speed, Strength, DA (Flash) Antagonist(s) Captain Cold (LS) – Ice, Vehicle, DA (Flash) Doomsday (TT) Magenta (FK) – Energy, Flight Tar Pit (JM) – Flames, Melee, Strength, DA (Flash) The Shade (RS) – Reality, Sense, Temporal |
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