Chapter Summaries

The Justice League faced escalating threats across Gotham as Joker's wishes empowered dangerous groups and disasters, while Andrew sent Diana and Hancock to investigate. The chapter ended with Joker revealing that a beggar's wish to become a nuclear bomb had not caused the explosion, which came from a massive gang shootout instead.

• General Calvin deployed troops to protect civilians, while Andrew warned the military against nuclear missiles and rejected sending in the Suicide Squad.
• Clark dismissed the crisis as something he could not help with, while Barbara secretly decided to go to Gotham and seek stronger powers from Joker.
• Damian escaped intelligent gorillas armed with modern weapons and told the Justice League that their leader planned to release a deadly virus and remake Earth as a world of gorillas.
• Andrew sent Diana to help Damian stop the gorillas, then dispatched Hancock to investigate the rapidly expanding Gotham Botanical Garden and the vanished humans there.
• Joker announced that a disabled beggar had wished to become a nuclear bomb, but said the explosion was actually caused by a massive gang shootout.

Joker revealed that Nuclear Man would detonate in an hour and unleashed Arkham villains empowered by wishes, forcing the Justice League to fight while searching for him. As Gotham’s battles spread and its escape bridges were destroyed, Andrew remained confident the heroes would win.

• Joker announced that Nuclear Man would detonate in an hour and warned that more people might wish to become Nuclear Man.
• Raven and Mary defeated over a hundred Joker Gang members, then Joker arrived with freed Arkham villains and challenged Batman to find his location among their Joker Cards.
• Bane attacked Batman with Superman’s abilities, while Mary, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, Raven, Cyborg, Batman, and Tony fought empowered villains.
• Scarecrow transformed into a Fear Lantern Beast and attacked Tony, who equipped the anti-Kryptonian Battle Suit and blasted him, but Scarecrow regenerated.
• General Calvin told Andrew that the army had entered Gotham and the bridges out of the city had been destroyed.

Andrew coordinated the response to the city’s threats while Diana and Damian struggled against Gorilla King’s apes and Hancock fell under Poison Ivy’s control. Joker broadcast both crises to Gotham and warned that the Gorilla Virus could kill most humans, leaving the city facing imminent danger.

• Andrew told General Calvin to protect civilians and report when soldiers found Nuclear Man, then learned Diana was dancing uncontrollably while fighting apes with Damian.
• Gorilla King ordered his superpowered apes to capture Diana and Damian, while the Red-Haired Orangutan absorbed attacks meant for him.
• Andrew advised Diana to master the power of Thunderbolt to break the Dancing Ape’s control and stop the Gorilla Virus.
• Poison Ivy poisoned Hancock, took control of him, and ordered him to guard her as she accelerated plant growth in the Botanical Garden.
• Joker broadcast footage warning Gotham that Poison Ivy’s plants would soon turn its citizens into fertilizer, then showed the ape threat and the Gorilla Virus.
• Joker said Diana and Damian had failed to stop the apes and wondered why Damian looked familiar.

Joker used Gotham’s disasters to persuade frightened residents to wish for superpowers, worsening the city’s chaos as many new metahumans turned to crime. Andrew had Raven block Joker’s projection and sent The Atom to follow Barbara, who entered Gotham seeking Joker and began forcing a shopkeeper to wish for his location.

• Joker announced that superheroes could not save Gotham and urged residents to make wishes for powers, while secretly planning to take their kindness and humanity.
• Many residents made wishes, and the resulting metahumans split between fleeing, fighting criminals, and committing robberies and murders.
• Andrew ordered the military to protect civilians and warn people that wishes came at a price, then asked Raven to block Joker’s projection.
• Andrew sent The Atom and Raven to follow Barbara, believing she would find Joker because she was likely to become Cheetah.
• After entering Gotham by yacht, Barbara threatened a shopkeeper with a shotgun and demanded that he wish for Joker’s location, while The Atom hid in her pocket and prepared to intervene.

Barbara found Joker through a wish and became Cheetah after he granted her power, while Raven and the Atom tracked his true hideout. Their attack failed to kill the immortal Joker, who turned the battle against them by unleashing his superpowered gang and raising Kryptonian and Doomsday corpses as zombies.

• The shop owner wished to learn Joker's location, and Joker granted the wish by directing him and Barbara to a church; Barbara knocked everyone unconscious before leaving.
• Barbara met Joker at the church, agreed to capture Batman's allies, and transformed into Cheetah after he granted her power comparable to Wonder Woman's.
• Raven traced Joker through the rabbit, and the Atom and Faora followed her to an abandoned castle where they attacked Joker alongside her.
• Joker recovered from having his head destroyed and his body blown apart, revealing that he could not be killed; Raven silenced the gang to stop them from making wishes.
• Joker's gang overwhelmed Faora, Raven, and the Atom with their powers, then lifted the Silence Spell and summoned Kryptonian and Doomsday corpses as obedient zombies.

Joker broadcast his threat over Gotham as Andrew organized the rescue and the heroes fought their way to him. After Faora and the others destroyed the Zombies and subdued the Joker Gang, Joker remained protected by a powerful Light Screen and questioned why he could not bring himself to kill Andrew.

• Joker projected footage over Gotham, warned that finding him would only deepen the citizens’ despair, and offered to grant wishes addressed to him.
• Andrew ordered Faora to use the Kryptonian Long Sword, sent most of the heroes to the castle, and assigned Mary and Tony to hold off Bane and the other villains.
• Diana broke free of Gorilla King’s control, unleashed her thunder powers, and destroyed the ape territory.
• Faora used the Kryptonian Long Sword while Raven cast Soul Lullaby to defeat the Doomsday and Kryptonian Zombies in the castle.
• Andrew’s team arrived as Flash stopped a Joker Gang member from making a wish; Faora activated the Kryptonite device and wiped out the remaining Kryptonian Zombies.
• The heroes attacked Joker’s Light Screen, but it held, and Joker told Andrew that he sensed no killing intent toward him and did not dare kill him.

Andrew stopped Joker’s nuclear plot, saved Gotham, and erased Joker’s mind with the Amnesia Hammer. Joker’s final words caused wishes across Gotham to vanish, restoring people’s abilities and changing their behavior.

• Joker blocked the heroes with three Nuclear Men, who planned to destroy Gotham and explode.
• Andrew used Harley’s network-connected nanite to bring Alice to Joker; Alice knocked him unconscious, and Faora carried the Nuclear Men into space, where they exploded.
• Andrew erased Joker’s memories with ten strikes of the Amnesia Hammer, allowing the nanite to control him.
• Joker said, “All wishes shall disappear,” and people across Gotham lost the powers and altered behavior caused by their wishes.
• Clark’s wish-driven frustration vanished, and he apologized to Lois before setting out to help Zatanna and rescue people in Gotham.

As the wishes ended, Gotham’s metahumans lost their powers and the heroes subdued the remaining chaos. Joker was killed and his soul destroyed, while Harley chose to have her memories erased; the chapter ended with Diana confronting Barbara, who admitted she wanted to keep her youth and would kill anyone who stopped her.

• Tony ordered his Battle Suits to kill supervillains whose powers were disappearing, then stopped when the remaining villains surrendered; Batman objected to the killings but did not challenge Tony further.
• Poison Ivy and Cheetah accepted the God of Lies’ offer to become Divine Envoys and regained their powers; Cheetah fled toward the harbor, while Poison Ivy left Gotham with Hancock after marking a warning at the Botanical Garden.
• Alice captured the diminished Yellow Crystal and gave it to Andrew, and Harley shot Joker before Raven burned his soul with Oblivion Fire.
• Harley asked Andrew to erase her memories of the past ten years, and he struck her with his hammer so she could start over as an ordinary person.
• Andrew sent Faora to dispose of the Doomsday and Kryptonian corpses and ordered the heroes to rescue people and restore order in Gotham.
• Diana stopped Barbara’s escape and asked whether her earlier words had been lies; Barbara admitted she wanted to remain young and threatened to kill anyone who tried to stop her.

Diana defeated Cheetah, while Poison Ivy and Hancock escaped after Superman was diverted to save civilians. Andrew assessed the rewards and confronted Barbara about the God of Lies, and the chapter ended with General Zod asking a cybernetic Lex Luthor about his data analysis at Fort Rozz.

• Diana defeated Cheetah and prepared to take her back, while Poison Ivy and Hancock fled after learning Superman might arrive.
• Superman pursued Poison Ivy and Hancock, but stopped to rescue people when Hancock damaged a building, allowing them to escape.
• Andrew returned to the Justice League base, reviewed his gains, and gave Harley a Nano Mask and a chance to resume her work as a doctor under a new identity.
• Andrew confronted Barbara in her cell and tried to summon the God of Lies, who remained silent until Andrew left.
• The God of Lies told Barbara to train and wait for him to rescue her, while Barbara vowed to take everything Diana had.
• At Fort Rozz, General Zod asked the cybernetic Lex Luthor how his data analysis was progressing.

Luthor developed obedient Doomsday clones for General Zod and learned that two Zerg swarms were being lured toward Earth. Meanwhile, Andrew proposed selling Exoskeleton Armor to ease the backlash against Tony and gain leverage over the military, leaving Tony interested in tampering with the armor.

• Luthor told General Zod that kryptonite could weaken Kryptonians and asked for access to Kryptonian technology, but Zod refused to grant it yet.
• Luthor revealed he had removed Doomsday’s ability to evolve so the clones would follow orders, and Zod demanded the highest authority over them.
• General Zod said two Zerg swarms were being drawn toward Earth, including one with a hive that could predict the future, and promised Luthor a battlefield for testing Doomsday.
• Tony complained to Andrew about Gotham demanding compensation for the EMP damage and about being expected to take part in Andrew’s sacrifice plan.
• Andrew offered to resolve the compensation dispute by selling the military cheap Exoskeleton Armor, which Tony criticized as outdated before agreeing it could strengthen the military.
• Andrew suggested the armor could help them gain indirect control over the U.S. Army, and Tony asked whether he meant tampering with it.

Andrew obtained the Demon Wish Ring after sacrificing Tony’s favor, while Tony resolved the Exoskeleton Armor dispute and helped fund Gotham’s reconstruction. Andrew prepared a plan to use the ring-powered ability-transfer device to draw Poison Ivy out and rescue Hancock, as Barbara contacted the God of Lies after Diana told her she would lose her powers.

• Andrew and Tony completed the sacrifice, turning the Yellow Crystal into the Demon Wish Ring, and the Lord of Hell described the changes in the Main Universe.
• Tony sold the Exoskeleton Armor to the military and donated the proceeds to Gotham’s reconstruction, while Andrew continued researching the Alzheimer’s drug and asked Morr about defeating Trigon.
• Andrew sent Alice and Faora to search primeval forests for Poison Ivy and Hancock, while Poison Ivy used golden soil to cultivate plant beings under the God of Lies’s guidance.
• In January 2015, Diana told Barbara that Andrew could transfer her abilities, prompting Barbara to angrily contact the God of Lies.
• Andrew revealed that the ability-transfer device was powered by the Wish Ring and planned to use it to lure Poison Ivy into rescuing Barbara, creating a chance to capture Poison Ivy and find Hancock.

Andrew and the Justice League prepared to confront an alien fleet of bio-ships detected approaching Earth. They assembled at the Moon Base with nuclear missiles and military support, waiting for the fleet to arrive.

• Alice alerted Andrew that Tony Stark had detected an alien fleet nearing Earth, so Andrew ordered the Justice League and military to assemble.
• Poison Ivy and the God of Lies discussed rescuing Cheetah while the Justice League was away fighting the approaching fleet.
• At the Justice Hall, Andrew assigned Raven and Zatanna to remain on Earth and equipped the other heroes with Nano Space Combat Suits.
• Andrew coordinated with General Calvin to secure nuclear missiles, military personnel, and worldwide preparations for an invasion.
• Superman retrieved the missiles, Flash brought Colonel Hardy and the soldiers, and the group traveled to the Moon Base.
• The Justice League and military readied their forces near the Moon as the alien fleet approached.

Andrew prepared the Justice League to fight the arachnis zerg and sent superheroes into their fleet after its ships attacked Earth. The heroes advanced through the alien vessels and prepared to detonate the pocket nuclear bombs, while a mimic zerg ship secretly headed for Earth.

• Andrew gave Faora, Superman, Diana, and Mary pocket nuclear bombs and explained his plan for using them against the alien fleet.
• The arachnis zerg fleet attacked Earth's forces with plasma blasts, and the superheroes destroyed or diverted much of the barrage.
• Andrew ordered the superheroes to attack, while the Moon Base launched nine nuclear missiles that the zerg intercepted.
• Poison Ivy sent Hancock and the ents toward the Justice Hall, as an invisible mimic zerg ship slipped toward Earth.
• Superman, Diana, Mary, and Faora entered the alien ships and fought through swarms of bugs while the Moon Base deployed Unmanned Armor suits.
• Superman contacted the others to confirm they were ready to activate their bombs, and Mary objected that the tactic was absurd and terrifying.

The Justice League destroyed several Zerg spacecraft with nuclear bombs and The Atom’s Shrink Ray while battling Lex Luthor’s Doomsdays. After another spacecraft was destroyed near the Moon, more than a hundred burning meteors began falling toward Earth.

• Superman planted Pocket Nuclear Bombs inside four Zerg spacecraft, and the bombs enlarged and destroyed most of the vessels.
• Lex Luthor returned with thirty-two Doomsdays and helped the Zerg send two spacecraft toward Earth, while the Doomsdays pinned down the superheroes.
• The Atom fired his Shrink Ray from the Moon Base, shrinking one Transport Bug spacecraft and crushing the bugs inside it, but the second vessel countered the beam with Flying Bugs.
• The Zerg attacked the Moon Base with Plasma Cannons and Warrior Bugs, while The Atom’s Unmanned Armor carried nuclear bombs toward the remaining spacecraft and destroyed one.
• Humanity’s generals received an urgent report of more than a hundred flaming meteors falling from the sky and suspected an alien attack.

Houston suffered a meteor strike that unleashed Mimic Zerg, while the Justice League faced attacks at Justice Hall. Barbara revealed that she had secretly agreed to help Andrew Wang and forced the God of Lies to withdraw.

• Meteors struck downtown Houston, and Mimic Zerg emerged from the craters to attack civilians.
• General Calvin ordered troops and the Exoskeleton Armor Corps to defend Houston, and Andrew Wang promised Justice League support.
• Poison Ivy entered Justice Hall with the Ents while Hancock fought Raven and Zatanna, then freed Barbara from her cell.
• Barbara revealed that she was Andrew Wang's undercover agent and held Poison Ivy hostage until the God of Lies left.
• Barbara explained her deal with Andrew Wang and the protections from his Wish Ring, then ordered Hancock and the Ents to stop.

After Hancock was freed from Poison Ivy’s toxins, Andrew sent him and the others to defend Houston from the invading zerg. Hancock arrived at a shelter and began rescuing civilians while the rest of the team fought elsewhere in the city.

• Alice fitted Hancock with four Inhibitor Devices, and Poison Ivy neutralized the toxins controlling him.
• Hancock tried to attack Poison Ivy, but Andrew ordered Alice to transfer the Inhibitor Devices to her; Hancock chose not to kill her.
• Andrew assigned Poison Ivy to prison and sent Hancock, Alice, Raven, Zatanna, and Barbara to Houston, offering Barbara five million dollars to help.
• Hancock took the ents with him, and the group set out for Houston as mimic zerg overran the city.
• Hancock rescued civilians from a besieged shelter while the ents, Zatanna, Raven, and Barbara fought zerg elsewhere.

The Justice League and arriving forces fought to contain the zerg outbreak in Houston while Andrew’s team battled the Doomsdays and alien ships in space. Lex Luthor revealed his alliance with the zerg, and the chapter ended with him countering Tony Stark’s kryptonite attack.

• Zatanna and Raven failed to locate the Mimic Zerg leader, so Alice sent reconnaissance nanobots to search Houston while the Justice League fought the bugs.
• General Calvin ordered reinforcements to hurry to Houston, and William Cage was forced into combat in Exoskeleton Armor after his transport plane was struck by an energy cannon.
• Andrew told the superheroes that another zerg fleet had reached Earth, and Luthor admitted he had deliberately brought the Mimic Zerg into the conflict.
• Luthor agreed with the Arachnis Zerg Brain Bug to send psychic crystals and hosts to the Doomsdays, while General Zod planned to use the zerg to weaken Earth and test the Doomsdays.
• Tony Stark activated kryptonite against the Doomsdays, but Luthor deployed their defensive shields and ordered them to retreat until the kryptonite’s effect ended.

As the heroes fought Doomsday and Luthor’s failed specimens in space, Luthor’s tricks weakened Tony’s Kryptonite weapon and kept the heroes from gaining ground. With Houston suffering heavy losses and the battle worsening, Andrew reversed time to the moment the monsters reached the heroes.

• Diana destroyed a plasma beam and killed sixteen Doomsdays with a powerful lightning attack, while Tony’s green light helped burn them to ashes.
• Luthor sent hundreds of failed Kryptonian and Doomsday specimens into battle, and the Brain Bug dispatched flying bugs while the Plasma Bugs charged another attack.
• Tony weakened the monsters with his Kryptonite sword, but their corrosive blood and explosive bodies damaged the weapon as flying bugs separated him from the others.
• Mary and Diana fought the remaining specimens while the heroes argued over whether they should have killed Luthor, and Andrew urged them to focus on the battle.
• Andrew saw that the fighting in Houston was going badly for the troops and reversed time to the moment the failed specimens reached the heroes.

Andrew discovered that time was looping from a fixed point, traced the disturbance to Houston, and went there to investigate while William Cage repeatedly died and revived amid the bug invasion. William was rescued by the Suicide Squad, who continued their mission as he asked to join them.

• Andrew questioned Flash about the time reversal, warned Tony about the monsters, and realized that time kept resetting to a fixed point.
• Andrew learned that Houston had lost communications, found that Alice could not reach her subprogram there, and teleported to Earth to investigate.
• William Cage survived a parachute landing but was killed by a toxic bug, then repeatedly revived in midair and died trying to escape Houston.
• The Suicide Squad rescued William after Wade and the team killed the bugs blocking his path.
• William asked to join the Suicide Squad, while Shark King Nanawei eyed him as food.

William joined the Suicide Squad as they fought through Houston, while Andrew and Cheetah rescued Rita’s team and searched for the hidden Zerg leader. Andrew captured a bug to study its memories and offered Barbara an expensive Nano Combat Suit.

• Wade dragged William along with the Suicide Squad and rambled about how he had ended up in prison after trying to kill Green Lantern.
• Thinker suggested the squad remove their neck chips after they lost contact with Amanda, but Peacemaker shot him before the others could act.
• A swarm of bugs ambushed the Suicide Squad, and Nanawei, Wade, William, and the others fought back with help from Cleo’s rats.
• Andrew and Cheetah rescued Rita and two surviving teammates from a bug attack, then Andrew ordered Barbara to leave one bug alive for him.
• Andrew used nanoparticles to build a device for studying the captured bug and offered Barbara a Nano Combat Suit for fifty million dollars.