DC Comics hitting the stands December 19
Herein, Metamorpho saves the world, heroes play gender games, and Batman & Superman actually go LOOKING for kryptonite.
ON SALE THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 19TH
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #12
By Michael Green; Denys Cowan & John Floyd
Batman. Joker. 'Nuff said.
BIRDS OF PREY #113
By Sean McKeever; Art by Nicola Scott & Doug Hazlewood; Stephane Roux
Look, up in the sky! It's the Birds! In their plane! With Superman! And he's not happy with Oracle.
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #9
By Mark Waid; George Pérez & Bob Wiacek
The Book of Destiny! The Metal Men! The Blackhawks! The Newsboy Legion! The new Atom and Hawkman team! >WARNING: THE WEEKLY ALLOTMENT OF EXCLAMATION POINTS FOR THIS COLUMN HAS BEEN DEPLETED.<
CATWOMAN #74
By Will Pfeifer; David Lopez & Alvaro Lopez; Adam Hughes
The new blood in Gotham City plans to wipe Catwoman off the streets! Aw, hell... >FINAL WARNING: YOU NOW HAVE OVERDRAWN ON YOUR ALLOTMENT OF EXCLAMATION POINTS. CEASE AND DESIST.<
CHECKMATE #21
By Greg Rucka & Eric Trautmann; Chris Samnee; Kalman Andrasofszky
The 2-part "Mademoiselle Marie" story: Long before World War II, a legendary French spy network was born. You've heard of French Kissing? This is French Telling.
COUNTDOWN PRESENTS THE SEARCH FOR RAY PALMER: SUPERWOMAN/BATWOMAN
By Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray; Randy Green; Ryan Sook
On Earth-11, an army of Greek warriors led by Wonder Man marches against Washington and the JLA. It would read more excitingly if I had some exclamation points left.
COUNTDOWN SPECIAL: THE ATOM 80-PAGE GIANT #2
By Gerry Conway; Alan Lee Weiss, Arvell M. Jones & others; Ryan Sook
Last week, Ray Palmer was #1. This week, he's #2. (Snicker.)
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #19
By the Usual Suspects
The Countdown continues. Sigh.
COUNTDOWN: ARENA #3 (OF 4)
By Keith Champagne; Scott McDaniel & Andy Owens; Andy Kubert; Dale Eaglesham
More heroes look into warped mirrors. A few just close their eyes and pray for it to be over.
DETECTIVE COMICS #839
By Paul Dini; Don Kramer & Wayne Faucher; Simone Bianchi
In the climax of "The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul," everything comes to a head at Nanda Parbat. Except the beer. Buddhist monks, y'know.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #16
By Dwayne McDuffie; Joe Benitez & Victor Llamas
Is this new Flash from Earth-11? (Hint-hint.)
METAMORPHO YEAR ONE #6 (OF 6)
By Dan Jurgens; Mike Norton & Jesse Delperdans; Kevin Nowlan
Metamorpho saves the world from destruction. The Justice League offers him a spot on the team. Yea.
SHADOWPACT #20
By Matt Sturges; Tom Derenick & Wayne Faucher; Mario Alberti
Nightmaster learns some new tricks while trapped in the Nightshade Dimension, and the Blue Devil fights an army of wizards. (Hey, kids: draw in your own exclamation points. It'll help.)
SUPERMAN/BATMAN #44
By Michael Green; Shane Davis & Matt Banning
The Man of Steel and the Dark Knight undertake the impossible task of recovering all the Kryptonite on Earth! Ha! I used another exclamation point! And another! What're you gonna do about th--