Help Support The Heroes We Love: This month, we’re highlighting the All-In Initiative at DC, which is the branding used to launch new main universe titles alongside the new Absolute Universe line of comics. Many of these Titles are not relaunching, but instead seeing new creative teams taking over. This week we’re looking at Catwoman, which sees Torunn Gronbekk and Fabiana Mascolo take over Selina’s On-Going. Torunn comes to us from Marvel, where she helped oversee Asgardian and Symbiote titles. Fabiana is a Spanish artist, who has worked on titles in the Cyberpunk 2077 world. And you can read the opening salvos of their Catwoman tale at DC Universe Infinite, when you subscribe to the Ultra Annual Level (which runs the price of $170 CAD).
Weekly Omissions – Batman: Full Moon #1, Dark Knights Of Steel: All-Winter #4, Harley Quinn In Paradise #1, Jenny Sparks #3, Multiversus: Collision Detected #3, Nothing Butt Nightwing #1, This Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story #1
Hero Of The Week – Oh baby, we got a tie between two of the pillars of DC. One of them is obviously Bruce, but it’s not Clark or Diana that tied with Bat-Boy. No, it’s the Legacy pillar that showed up, lifting Dick Grayson to Hero Of The Week alongside his mentor. Both men brought in 23 Points over 4 Appearances. And Clark swung up in the rear to snag Performance Of The Week, with a 12 Point Appearance.
Antagonist Of The Week – This was a good week for newer Antagonists, as our latest addition to the FCL tied with the Antagonist of Tom Taylor’s Nightwing run for Antagonist Of The Week. Star Shroud and Heartless both brought in 9 Points in a single Appearance.
Book Of The Week – Look, Batman and Superman might get top billing in the name of the series itself, but Batman/Superman: World’s Finest is really a book about the larger DC Universe in a by-gone age where Dick Grayson still wore the Robin tights. Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #32 brought in 92 Points over 20 Characters to score Book Of The Week.
Power Of The Week – Something happened this week and no other Power usage was going to come even close to matching this one. After saying farewell to Steve Trevor in the Underworld, Diana’s use of Reality saw her give birth to their daughter, Elizabeth Marston Prince, in a way that beautifully reflected Diana’s own origin, in both fiction and real life.
Welcome To The League – Two New Protagonists, Two New Antagonists Added: Blue Lantern (Saint Walker), Predator (Love Entity); Lord Thaaros, Star Shroud (Varron)
Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.
| Action Comics #1071 (39) |
| Mon-El (GL) – Vehicle, Weapon, LT, CD: Taken On The Moniker Of Phantom King, DA (Spiders) Superboy (CK) – Blunt, Flight, Precision, Sense, Strength Supergirl (KK) – Agility, Energy, Flight, Melee, Strength, Vehicle Superman (CK) – Durability, Energy, Ensnare, Flight, Intellect, Melee, Sense, Speed, Strength, Suit, DA (Spiders) Superman (KK) – Flight, Projectile, Sense, Speed, Strength, DA (Superboy) |
| Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #32 (91) |
| Batgirl (BG) Batman (BW) – Computers, Durability, Energy, Flight, Projectile, Strength, Willpower, TU (JSA) Black Canary (DL) – TU (JSA) Commissioner Gordon (JG) – Light Doctor Fate (KN) –Absorb, Artifact, Flight, Intellect, Magic, Magic Defensive, Sense, TU (Justice League), LT Doctor Midnite (CM) – TU (Justice League) Green Arrow (OQ) – Influence, Weapon, TU (JSA) Green Lantern (AS) – Energy, Flight, Precision, TU (Justice League) Green Lantern (HJ) – Energy, Flight, Precision, Strength, TU (JSA) Hawkman (CH) – Blunt, Flight, TU (Justice League), LT Plastic Man (PO) – Stretch, TU (JSA) Robin (DG) – Computers, Suit, TU (JSA) Superman (CK) – Flight, Melee, Speed, Strength, TU (JSA) The Atom (RP) – Grow, Intellect, Shrink, TU (JSA) The Flash (BA) – Vibrations, TU (JSA) The Flash (JG) – Flight, Speed, TU (Justice League) The Sandman (WD) – Toxin, TU (Justice League) The Spectre (JC) – Deception, Influence, Melee, Strength, Telepathy, Teleport, TU (Justice League) Wild-Cat (TG) – Agility, TU (Justice League) Antagonist(s) Eclipso – Ensnare, Influence, Vehicle, LT, DA (Justice League) |
| Batman & Robin: Year One #1 (23) |
| Alfred Pennyworth (PO) Batman (BW) – Blade, Crawl, Intellect, Swing, Tech, Vehicle, LT Commissioner Gordon (JG) – Light Robin (DG) – Agility, Blade, Sense, Suit, Swing, Tech Antagonist(s) Two-Face (HD) – Artifact, Explosive, Personality, LT |
| Catwoman #69 (9) |
| Catwoman (SK) – Agility, Deception, Melee, Stealth, Swing, Tech, Weapon, DA (Greg) |
| Green Lantern #16 (57) |
| Blue Lantern (Saint Walker) Green Lantern (B’d) Green Lantern (CS) – Energy, Flight Green Lantern (GG) – Energy, Flight Green Lantern (HJ) – Blade, Blunt, Creature, Energy, Energy Defensive, Energy Offensive, Flight, Vehicle, LT Green Lantern (JS) – Blunt, Creature, Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Vehicle Green Lantern (KQ) Green Lantern (SB) Green Lantern (SM) – LT Predator (Love Entity) – Flight Star Sapphire (CF) – Energy Defensive, Flight, Intellect, Vehicle, SC Antagonist(s) Lord Thaaros – Energy, CD: Reborn Orange Lantern (La) – Durability, Melee, Strength Red Lantern (Mo) – Durability, Strength, CD: Destroyed Thanagar Star Shroud (Varron) – Assassin, Durability, Energy, Ensnare, Flight, Melee, Whip, LT |
| Nightwing #118 (42) |
| Batgirl (CC) – Investigation, DA (Goons) Batman (BW) – Ensnare, Investigation, DA (Goons) Nightwing (DG)– Agility, Creature, Durability, Melee, Willpower, LT, SC, CD: Finally Visited His Parent’s Gravestone, DA (Heartless) Oracle (BG) – LT, SC Robin (DW) – Investigation, SC Robin (TD) – Investigation, SC Spoiler (SB) – Investigation, SC Antagonist(s) Heartless (SL) – Assassin, Deception, Durability, Gun, Heal, Melee, Strength, CD: Death Tony Zucco – Assassin, Influence, CD: Death |
| Titans #16 (51) |
| Arsenal (RH) – Projectile, CD: Joins The Titans, DA (Creature) Beast Boy (GL) – Crawl, Flight, Influence, Morph Beast Girl (Ka) Black Canary (DL) Blue Beetle (TK) – Creature Booster Gold (MC) – Flight Cyborg (VS) – Absorb, Bionics, Flight, Morph, Shield, Teleport Donna Troy (DT)– Durability, Willpower, CD: Made Leader Of Titans Elasti-Woman (RF) – Stretch Green Arrow (OQ) Green Lantern (HJ) – Energy, Flight Martian Manhunter (JJ) – Flight Nightwing (DG) – CD: Stepped Down As Leader Of The Titans Power-Girl (PS) – Flight Raven (RR) – Flight, Magic Robot Man (CS) Starfire (K’r) – Energy, Flight The Flash (WW) – CD: Steps Down From The Titans The Question (RM) Antagonist(s) Clock King (WT) – Influence, Telepathy, DA (Titans) |
| Wonder Woman #14 (25) |
| Batman (BW) – Investigation Colonel Trevor (ST) – Influence, Thief, Vehicle, CD: Death, DA (Charron) Martian Manhunter (JJ) – Computers Superman (CK) – Investigation Wonder Girl (CS) Wonder Girl (YF) Wonder Woman (DP) – Flight, Influence, Reality, Teleport, Thief, CD: Birthed Her Daughter Antagonist(s) Doctor Psycho (EC) Giganta (DZ) Grail (DD) Kite-Man (CB) |
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