DC Weekly Review: August 11, 2023 (Week 32)

Help Support The Heroes We Love: You can purchase all DC Comics digitally through their digital app, or the Comixology service. This month, we’re highlighting the Knight Terrors Event that has replaced normal publications. Is it a great idea to suspend on-going publications of storylines that just started for a Two-Month Event?Well you can decide for yourself, when you read the opening salvos of the story at DC Universe Infinite, when you subscribe to the Ultra Annual Level (which runs the price of $135 CAD).

Weekly Omissions- Danger Street #8

Hero Of The Week- While it was a larger than average week with 12 Titles, there was practically no repeat offenders on the Hero side; Roy Harper is the only two-fer this week and he didn’t put up many points during those Appearances. So our Performance Of The Week and Hero Of The Week is one and the same: Hal Jordan brought in 17 Points in a single Appearance.

Antagonist Of The Week – Another Week of Knight Terrors, another Week of Insomnia being an untouchable God of a performer. This week he put up 44 Points over 5 Appearances, earning himself Antagonist Of The Week.

Book Of The Week- This week’s best title earned Book Of The Week and I’d like to take a moment to praise the fantastic job Matthew Rosenberg and crew have done with WildC.A.T.S. The numerous attempts to intergrate Wildstorm properties into the DC Universe proper have rarely gone as well as it has with the current WildC.A.T.S title. This is Matthew Rosenberg at his most Rosenbergest and the book is a delight, cover to cover, every month. This week, WildC.A.T.S #10 brought in 59 Points over 13 Characters.

Welcome to the League – Livewire (Leslie Willis)

WEEK 31 / WEEK 33

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

Batman Incorporated #11 (30)
Batman (JO) – Melee
Batman (WB) – Melee
El Gaucho (SV) – Melee, Strength, LT, DA (Clowns)
Grey Wolf (An) – Intellect
Night-Runner (AB) – Agility, Melee, Vehicle, DA (Clowns)
Raven Red (CE) – Agility, Melee, Strength, LT, DA (Clowns)
The Knight (BH) 
Antagonist(s)
Clown-Hunter (BP)
Ghost-Maker (MK) – Durability, Weapon,
The Joker (TC) – Explosive, LT
Knight Terrors #3 (31)
Batman (BW) 
Deadman (BB) – Fourth Wall, Projectile, Sense, TU (Robin), CD; Claimed The Nightmare Stone, DA (Sleepless Knights)
Mr. Terrific (MH)
Robin (DW) – Blade, Sense, Vehicle, Weapon, Willpower, TU (Sandman), LT
Sandman (WD) – Blade, Explosive, Gun, Intellect, Toxin, Weapon, TU (Robin), LT
Antagonist(s)
Insomnia (Lu) – Assassin, Blade, Sense, Weapon
Knight Terrors: Green Lantern #2  (31)
Green Lantern (HJ) – Artifact, Blade, Blunt, Energy, Energy Defensive, Energy Offensive, Flight, Gun, Melee, Speed, Strength, Vehicle, Weapon, Willpower, SC, DA (Family)
Antagonist(s)
Insomnia (Lu) – Appendage, Claws, Creature, Energy, Ensnare, Flight, Influence, Morph, Projectile, Sense, Speed
Yellow Lantern (Si) – Willpower 
Knight Terrors: Robin #2 (29)
Red Hood (JT) – Blade, Durability, Gun, Influence, Melee, Suit, Weapon, Willpower, TU (Robin), CD: Cleared Animosity With Tim
Robin (TD) – Blunt, Influence, Melee, Projectile, Weapon, Willpower, TU (Red Hood), CD: Cleared Animosity With Jason
Antagonist(s)
Insomnia (Lu) – Blunt, Claws, Creature, Melee, Morph, Reality, Strength, Weapon
Knight Terrors: Shazam #2 (56)
Shazam (DD) – Absorb, Flight, Lightning, Melee, Morph, Teleport, Willpower, DA (Giants)
Shazam (EC) – Absorb, Flight, Intellect, Lightning, Melee, Morph, Teleport, Willpower
Shazam (FF) – Absorb, Flight, Lightning, Melee, Morph, Teleport, Willpower
Shazam (MB) – Absorb, Flight, Intangibility, Intellect, Lightning, Melee, Morph, Speed, Strength, Telepathy, Teleport, Willpower, DA (Giants)
Shazam (PP) – Absorb, Flight, Lightning, Morph, Teleport, Willpower
Antagonist(s)
Insomnia (Lu) – Creature, Durability, Flight, Melee, Reality, Speed, Strength, Weapon
Knight Terrors: The Flash #2 (24)
The Flash (BA) – Absorb, Blade, Durability, Melee, Morph, Speed, Speed Offensive, Teleport, Temporal, Vibrations, DA (Reverse Flash)
The Flash (WW) – Speed
Antagonist(s)
Insomnia (Lu) – Absorb, Creature, Deception, Durability, Energy, Influence, Reality, Speed, Weapon
Knight Terrors: Zatanna #2 (16)
Detective Chimp (BC)
Robot Man (CS) – Melee, Strength, DA (Sleepless Knights)
Wonder Woman (DP) 
Zatanna (ZZ) – Agility, Deception, Ensnare, Heal, Magic, Tech, Teleport, LT, DA (Sleepless Knights)
Spirit World #4 (20)
Batgirl (CC) – Agility, Blade, Melee, Projectile, Weapon, LT
Hellblazer (JC) – Flames, Flames Offensive, Magic, Magic Offensive, 
Xanthe Zhou – Blade, Blunt, Energy, Magic, Weapon, Willpower, SC
Superman Annual 2023 #1 (28)
Superman (CK) – Flight, Melee, Strength, DA (Robot)
Antagonist(s)
Brainiac – CD: Captured The Lost City Of Czarnia
Livewire (Leslie Willis) – Energy, Energy Offensive, Flight, Lightning, Melee, TU (Lois Lane), CD: Reporter For Daily Planet, DA (Red Cloud)
Lobo – CD: Learns He’s Not The Last Of His Kind
Mercy Graves – Business, Explosive, Morph
Parasite (RJ) – Creature, Tech
Silver Banshee
Toy-Man (WS) – Creature 
WildC.A.T.S #10 (59)
Arsenal (RH) – Agility, Precision, Projectile, Weapon
Batman (BW) – Agility, Intellect, Melee, Projectile
Black Canary (DL) – Agility, Melee
Deathblow (MC) – Durability, Energy Offensive, Flight, Influence, Melee, Possession, Strength, TU (Voodoo)
Fairchild (CF) – Melee
Grifter (CC) – Guns, Influence, Weapon
Ladytron (MM) – Appendage, Gun, Teleport
Spartan – Durability, Energy, Flight, Personality
Voodoo (PK) – Melee, TU (Deathblow)
Zealot (oK) – Agility, Blade, Melee, Precision, Weapon
Antagonist(s)
Backlash (MS) – Ensnare, Melee, Weapon, Whip
Maul – Durability, Melee
Peacemaker (CS) – Explosive, Melee
Threshold (Matthew Callahan) – Melee
World’s Finest: Teen Titans #2 (24)
Aqualad (Ga) – Influence, Melee, TU (Lilith)
Bumbleebee (KB) – TU (Lilith) 
Kid Flash (WW) 
Mal Duncan 
Omen (LC) – Sense, Telepathy, TU (Titans)
Robin (DG) – Vehicle, TU (Lilith), LT
Speedy (RH) – Melee, Projectile, Weapon, TU (Lilith)
Wonder Girl (DT) – Melee, TU (Lilith) 


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