Chapter Summaries

Jino called the Justice League together after a Purple Alert and revealed that the blood clan was threatening their world. Eileen explained what she knew about the clan, leaving the League to face the growing danger.

• Batman left Gotham after giving Dick permission to wear the Batsuit and asking Alfred to watch over him.
• Clark received the Purple Alert at Monte University and rushed to Justice League headquarters, leaving Lana behind.
• Batman and Shazam arrived at headquarters and joined Clark, Diana, and Jino in the conference room.
• Jino identified the blood clan as the reason for the meeting and pointed to Eileen, who began explaining the threat.
• Eileen's account made the League members increasingly grim.

Jino gathered the Justice League to address vampires infiltrating human society and asked Zatanna for magic that could track them. When Zatanna and Diana clashed, Jino summoned Constantine, who arrived demanding payment for his help.

• Diana explained that Amazonian legends described vampires as weak magical creatures, while Eileen warned that an order to create vampire thralls had been issued a week earlier.
• Batman proposed analyzing Eileen’s blood to develop a vampire-tracking device, but Jino suggested using magic and asked Singer to contact Zatanna.
• Zatanna described the vampire origin story involving Cain, the Mother of Darkness, and Blood Magic, then admitted uncertainty about finding a tracking spell.
• Diana and Zatanna traded barbs until Jino stopped them and summoned Constantine through a golden portal.
• Constantine landed in the hall, drank from his bottle, and told Jino he was busy and charged for his services.

Constantine, Jino, Clark, and Batman planned to use a detection spell and the Hour of the Witch mages to uncover vampires across the cities. Meanwhile, Barney prepared to pursue his plan to turn the world’s humans into vampires and become the Progenitor Vampire, while the Vampire Elders secretly planned to betray him to the Justice League.

• Constantine explained that he knew a spell that could detect vampires within a small-town-sized area, and Jino suggested recruiting the mages they had met during the Hour of the Witch.
• Batman paid Constantine five hundred thousand dollars for the spell, and Constantine agreed to help.
• Barney assured the Vampire Elders that his influence over human society would let him defeat the Justice League by assimilating the world’s humans.
• After Barney left, the Vampire Elders decided to give the Justice League a list of vampires and detailed intelligence so they could hedge against Barney’s failure.
• Barney told his follower that an ancient magic circle could gather vampires’ power into one vampire and revealved his ambition to become the Progenitor Vampire.

Batman and his allies hunted down blood clan members while Jino received an emissary seeking a deal on behalf of the Vampire Elders. Jino rejected the emissary’s claims and demanded to be taken to the elders.

• Penguin agreed to cooperate with a black-haired blood clan member, but Batman arrived in Mithril armor and attacked them.
• Batman and an elderly mage moved on to the Cabaret Bar after finishing their fight.
• Clark and an old mage defeated the remaining blood clan members in Metropolis, though Clark struggled to attack them.
• A Vampire Emissary asked Jino to negotiate with the Vampire Elders, claiming they meant humanity no harm.
• Jino forced the emissary to his knees and ordered him to take Jino to the Vampire Elders.

Jino Luthor killed the Vampire Elders after refusing their offer to trade a list of infected elites for a pardon, then learned that the president had also become a vampire. The chapter left Jino facing the president’s declaration that the Justice League was a terrorist organization and his order to attack its headquarters.

• Jino entered the vampires’ castle and crushed the vampires who bared their fangs at him.
• The Vampire Elders offered Jino a list of powerful people infected by Barney in exchange for a pardon, but Jino rejected the deal and killed them all.
• Singer showed Jino the conversion list, which revealed that the president was among the infected.
• Jino watched footage of the president declaring the Justice League a terrorist organization and ordering the military to attack its headquarters.
• The reporters rejected the president’s accusations, but he declared support for the Justice League and opposition to himself criminal.

The military bombarded Justice League Tower on the orders of its superiors, but a Blue-Silver Energy Shield left it untouched. Jino Luthor confronted the soldiers and told them their leaders had become vampire monsters.

• A commander ordered nearly fifty thousand troops to bombard Justice League Tower with heavy weapons and missiles.
• The bombardment ended without damaging the tower, whose Blue-Silver Energy Shield blocked the attacks.
• Citizens fled Metropolis as the military prepared to send in ground forces, with the commander planning to surrender if casualties grew too severe.
• Faora reacted angrily to the attack, but Jino restrained her and flew out to address the soldiers.
• Jino introduced himself as humanity's protector, said he loved all people, and revealed that the soldiers' higher-ups had become vampire monsters.

Jino persuaded the soldiers sent to capture him to lay down their weapons, then flew to Washington D.C. to confront the officials who had ordered the attack. He stormed the Pentagon, slaughtered the vampires there, and dragged the President away to hold a press conference before killing him.

• Jino offered the soldiers a chance to stand down, and they threw down their weapons.
• Jino assured the soldiers they would be safe and flew toward Washington D.C. to confront those responsible.
• At the Pentagon, the vampire in the bunker learned that General Lot had refused to attack the Justice League.
• Jino blasted through the bunker ceiling and killed the vampires with Heat Vision and Heavenly Magic.
• Jino found the President hiding under a table, dragged him out, and said they would hold a press conference before the President died.

Barney interrupted Jino Luthor’s broadcast exposing the vampires and began a Blood Sacrifice ritual beneath the ancient castle. He sacrificed the vampires gathered there to absorb their power, transforming into a winged monster.

• Barney told the vampires that human society’s chaos would soon let them rule humanity.
• Jino Luthor appeared on a broadcast with the captured president, exposed him as a vampire, and showed the Justice League fighting vampires.
• Barney destroyed the broadcast and began a Blood Sacrifice ritual, draining the gathered vampires despite their attempts to escape.
• Barney completed the ritual, absorbed the vampires’ energy, and transformed as red hair and bony wings grew from his body.

After defeating the vampire plot, Jino waited in Metropolis for Barney to arrive and challenge him. Barney declared himself a god, but Jino effortlessly repelled him and pinned him to the ground.

• Jino learned that Batman, Clark, and Faora had cleared the cities of villains and vampires, then waited atop Justice League Tower for the force behind the scheme to act.
• Barney sacrificed the vampires, transformed through blood magic, and flew toward Metropolis to kill Jino.
• Barney attacked Jino with a rain of blood-red beams and a blade forged from vampire blood, but Jino's golden barrier stopped the beams and his arm repelled the blade.
• Jino struck Barney into a building, pinned him to the road with steel pipes, and called him a weak god.

After the vampire war, a damaged boy watched news of the Justice League while strange metal cubes began awakening in Central City, Atlantis, and the Amazon prison. At a Justice League gathering on Kent Farm, Jino arrived with a warning that trouble had begun again.

• A metal-bodied boy watched reports of the war’s end and the Justice League’s victory, yearning to become a superhero.
• A silver-lit metal box began shaking in the boy’s apartment, while an ancient crystal stirred in Atlantis and a rusted cube trembled in the Amazon prison.
• At Kent Farm, Arthur told Clark about fighting vampires and asked about Lana Lang, whose relationship with Clark had worsened during the invasion.
• Bruce grilled meat as the League gathered, and Jino landed at the farm and warned them that trouble had returned.

Hippolyta’s Amazons were attacked when the Mother Box summoned Steppenwolf and his Parademons. Hippolyta escaped with the box as the prison collapsed, but she believed the conflict had only begun.

• Hippolyta learned that the Mother Box was flashing and ordered the Amazons to prepare for battle.
• The Mother Box opened a portal, bringing Steppenwolf and dozens of Parademons into the prison.
• Steppenwolf and the Parademons attacked the Amazons, killing many of them as Hippolyta’s forces struggled to hold them back.
• The commander urged Hippolyta to take the Mother Box, and Hippolyta pulled it away with a grappling rope.
• Hippolyta escaped as a guard collapsed the prison’s support pillar, burying the attackers beneath the falling structure.
• Hippolyta told Zuo Adjutant that the danger had only begun.

After learning that Steppenwolf’s forces attacked Themyscira and stole its Mother Box, Diana joined Jino, Clark, and Batman to identify the enemy’s likely hideout and discuss the threat. Arthur then reported that Atlantis’s Mother Box had also been taken, leaving the human world’s Mother Box as the only one unaccounted for.

• Diana learned that monsters had attacked Themyscira, stolen its treasure, and killed one of her generals, but Singer could not locate them.
• Jino and Clark joined Diana, who explained that Darkseid had sent Steppenwolf to Earth to find the three Mother Boxes.
• Jino narrowed the possible hiding places to Chernobyl, reasoning that the other locations were unsuitable for Steppenwolf’s forces.
• Batman arrived with photos of Parademons spotted in Gotham, and Diana explained that they were searching for the Mother Boxes to open a Boom Tube for Darkseid.
• Diana said Steppenwolf had taken the Amazons’ Mother Box, and Arthur reported that Atlantis’s Mother Box had also been taken.

Jino left Batman in command of the Justice League while he headed to Chernobyl, where Steppenwolf began preparing Earth’s invasion for Darkseid. In Central City, Barry Allen arrived for a job interview just as a truck ran a red light and struck a woman’s car.

• Jino gave Batman Level One access and command of the Justice League while he went to Chernobyl.
• Steppenwolf activated a Mother Box at an abandoned nuclear plant and sent Parademons to search for the other boxes.
• DeSaad reminded Steppenwolf that conquering Earth would fulfill his punishment and warned him about the Justice League’s leader.
• Steppenwolf dismissed the Justice League’s leader as an ordinary human and vowed to conquer Earth.
• Barry Allen went to a Central City convenience store for a job interview while a truck driver ran a red light and hit a woman’s car.

Jino Luthor met Barry Allen after Barry used his speed to save a girl from a car accident, then invited him to join the Justice League. Barry accepted the invitation and agreed to face dangerous missions as a probationary member.

• Barry Allen saved a girl from a suspended car accident using his super speed.
• Jino Luthor stopped the car from crashing by cutting it apart with Heat Vision.
• Jino invited Barry to a coffee shop and explained that Barry possessed powerful Power Replication.
• Jino told Barry he had been waiting for him to apply to the Justice League.
• Barry overcame his doubts and agreed to join the Justice League as a probationary member.

Victor learned that his father had used a Mother Box to save him and tried to contact the Justice League, while Steppenwolf discovered the final Mother Box was in Gotham City and set out to retrieve it. Jino and Barry arrived at the Mother Box’s defenses and prepared to fight the Parademons.

• Batman monitored the cities while searching for the Mother Box, and Victor's father left him a recording urging him to use his powers responsibly.
• Victor entered the Justice League's network, fought Singer's defenses, and revealed that his family had a Mother Box; Singer alerted Batman.
• Parademons seized Silas Stone, and Steppenwolf learned the final Mother Box was in Gotham City before opening a Spatial Tunnel to go there.
• Jino protected Barry from radiation and demonstrated the Mother Box's defenses as Parademons attacked them.
• Jino raised a magical shield against the Parademons' beams and told Barry to prepare to fight.

Steppenwolf discovered that Silas had used the Mother Box to save Victor and sent Parademons to retrieve him. Meanwhile, Batman, Superman, and Diana met Cyborg in Gotham, where Diana spotted Steppenwolf and charged into battle.

• Steppenwolf arrived at the abandoned steel mill and confronted Silas, who refused to reveal the Mother Box’s location.
• Steppenwolf used a mechanical centipede to search Silas’s memories and learned that Silas had used the Mother Box to transform his son, Victor.
• Steppenwolf ordered the Parademons to find Victor and bring him back.
• Batman, Superman, and Diana met Victor in a Gotham alley, and Victor told them that he had the Mother Box.
• Batman warned that Steppenwolf was coming, and Diana spotted him atop Gotham’s tallest tower and shouted a challenge.

Steppenwolf attacked the Justice League in Gotham City and escaped with Victor’s Mother Box, but Jino arrived with the two Mother Boxes he had taken from Steppenwolf’s headquarters. The team learned they had traded Mother Boxes, and Jino vowed to steal the remaining one back.

• Diana, Clark, Batman, and Victor fought Steppenwolf, but he used the Parademons to distract Clark and Diana while he seized Victor’s Mother Box.
• Steppenwolf transformed into a streak of light and vanished with the Mother Box as the League fought off the Parademons.
• Jino arrived through a golden teleportation circle and revealed that he had taken two Mother Boxes from Steppenwolf’s headquarters.
• Victor explained that Steppenwolf had stolen the Mother Box from him, and Jino realized they had raided each other’s holdings.
• Jino handed his two Mother Boxes to Batman and said they would steal the remaining one back.

Steppenwolf returned to find the Mother Boxes stolen and the Parademons massacred, then learned from Darkseid that he had failed to secure them. Jino arrived at Xebel, and Steppenwolf charged at him.

• Steppenwolf returned to a ruined Xebel and found the Parademons dead and two of the Mother Boxes missing.
• Darkseid emerged from the tower and demanded to know whether Steppenwolf had found all three Mother Boxes.
• Steppenwolf admitted that the other two Mother Boxes had been stolen while he retrieved the last one.
• Jino called out to Steppenwolf, and an abandoned school bus crashed down nearby.
• Steppenwolf recognized Jino as the thief, then charged at him with Thunderbolt crackling around his axe.

Jino Luthor defeated Steppenwolf above the ruins of Xebel, while the Justice League encountered Darkseid’s projection inside an abandoned industrial base. Darkseid learned Jino’s name and warned that they would meet again.

• Jino blocked Steppenwolf’s axe with his cane, then battered him with his Bio-Force Field and sent him crashing through buildings.
• Steppenwolf absorbed his axe into his armor, enlarged himself, and charged Jino, but Jino cut through his arm and pierced his chest.
• Jino suppressed Steppenwolf with his Bio-Force Field, silenced him with heat vision, and stomped him to death.
• Barry, Clark, and Diana entered the industrial base and found Darkseid’s projection waiting there.
• Jino presented Steppenwolf’s severed head to Darkseid, gave his name, and challenged him to return to Earth.
• Darkseid warned Jino that they would meet again and said he hoped Jino would be prepared.

Tony Stark brooded over his parents’ murder while Obadiah arranged to have him kidnapped in the Middle East. When Tony’s military escort was ambushed, the soldiers were killed and Tony was left behind the rocks.

• Pepper Potts noticed Tony had stopped drinking with women and worried about his unusual melancholy, while Tony agreed to attend a military meeting involving Hammer Industries.
• Tony recalled that Bucky had murdered his parents and that his efforts to find the killer through mercenary bounties had produced few results.
• Obadiah spoke with a terrorist leader and defended his plan, claiming he acted to make Stark Group stronger after years of resenting Tony’s arrogance.
• Tony traveled through the Middle East with American soldiers after completing a deal and joked with them about giving autographs.
• An explosion overturned the soldiers’ vehicle, and the escorts pulled Tony behind a rock before a sniper killed his protector and the ambush wiped out the soldiers.