Recaps

Cobalt Blue explained how he gained the Blue Flame and declared that his prophecy would bring a thousand-year war against the Flash family. The Flash and his allies began traveling through time to protect future Flashes, but their search remained unfinished as they reached the middle of the twenty-first century.

• Cobalt Blue revealed that a Thawne witch taught him to bind his rage into the Cobalt Blue Gem, whose prophecy foretold the deaths of two Flashes before Barry Allen’s.
• Lola explained that Cobalt Blue’s legacy would attack the Flash bloodline across a thousand years, and the Flash decided to use the gem to locate future victims.
• The Flash gathered his allies and traveled to the previous century, where Jay Garrick agreed to help them fight Cobalt Blue.
• In 2764, the group helped Jace Allen defeat that era’s Cobalt Blue after Jace learned to use static electricity against her.
• In the eighty-fifth century, John Fox agreed to help the Flash navigate to another era where a descendant might be in danger.
• The group reached the middle of the twenty-first century, where Superman spotted a billboard announcing President Carper’s vote to release Lex Luthor.

Roland and The Flash traveled through time to confront Cobalt Blue, meeting Roland’s descendants and discovering the threat behind the blue flames. In 2980, a Thawne descendant declared his family would overthrow Roland of Heaven, and Roland charged into the temple to stop them.

• Roland and The Flash met Little Iris West, Lian, and Moon after Moon defeated a robot, and Moon demonstrated her Hell domain and Sun-Slaying Bow before joining them.
• In the twenty-fifth century, Reverse-Flash saved The Flash from Chadak Allen’s blue flames, and Seymour Allen revealed that the Cobalt Blue Gem had corrupted his father.
• Roland subdued Chadak Allen with Magnetic Field Rotation, while The Flash caught Reverse-Flash after he fled.
• In 2980, a Thawne descendant announced that his family had recreated the Cobalt Blue Gem and planned to replace Roland of Heaven as rulers of the world.
• Roland charged into the temple with Moon and Lola, accusing the congregation of rebellion.

Roland and the Flash resolved Cobalt Blue’s conflict, but after returning to Central City, they became trapped in a Mirror World where their counterparts were notorious criminals. They set out to find Mirror Master and investigate the world, leaving their search ongoing.

• Roland and Lola captured the Blond Man, and Lola destroyed the Cobalt Blue Gem, ending the prophecy and returning the group to their world.
• The Flash brought Cobalt Blue to meet the Allens, and Nora accepted him as her son after hearing about the family’s conflicts.
• Roland, the Flash, and Wally entered a bar and noticed its mirrored writing and left-handed patrons, realizing they were in the Mirror World.
• Police officers arrested Roland, the Flash, and Wally for crimes attributed to their Mirror World counterparts, but Roland knocked them out and escaped with the others.
• Roland and the Flash read reports detailing their counterparts’ crimes and learned that President Luthor controlled Metropolis before deciding to seek help from their accomplices.

Roland and The Flash explored the Mirror World, where their acquaintances were twisted into disturbing versions of themselves, and asked them to find Sam Scudder. The search led them to Hong Kong, where Cassandra and White Bronze Tiger prepared to accompany them.

• Black Batman accused Roland of stealing Jason and demanded Wally in exchange for helping find Sam Scudder, so The Flash pulled Roland away from Wayne Manor.
• At Roland Cathedral, Black Jeanne d’Arc burned Owlman at the stake, Jason watched, and Black-Robed Raven tortured Trigon for his magic.
• Roland asked Black-Robed Raven to gather their allies and find Sam Scudder, whom he wanted alive.
• Roland and The Flash discussed the Mirror World’s monstrous versions of heroes and villains, including the fates of Heat Wave, Captain Boomerang, and Abra Kadabra.
• Black-Robed Raven reported that Sam Scudder had been seen in Hong Kong, and Cassandra and White Bronze Tiger agreed to guide Roland and The Flash there.

Roland and his companions found Mirror Master in Hong Kong while Bronze Tiger pursued a feud with Lady Shiva and Cassandra over Leopard Strike. Mirror Master explained that he had trapped them in a diverging Mirror Dimension, but his account of how he was caught left The Flash and Wally piecing together their memories.

• Roland took the group to Hong Kong, where The Flash dealt with a gunfight between police and gang members before Night Dragon arrived.
• Night Dragon described King Snake and Bane’s conflicts with his criminal operations, while Cassandra revealed her plan to take Leopard Strike from Lady Shiva and her grandmaster.
• Bronze Tiger challenged Lady Shiva to a Huale Bazi match and lost immediately, then Cassandra also lost when Lady Shiva struck her with Leopard Strike.
• Bronze Tiger drew a gun to threaten Lady Shiva, but Night Dragon reported that Mirror Master had been found, and The Flash tied Bronze Tiger up.
• Roland and the others questioned Mirror Master at the police station, where he said his trap had sent them into a diverging Mirror Dimension and began recounting how Lola had caught him.

Mirror Master explained how he and the Flash became trapped in the collapsing Mirror World, while Roland tracked the mastermind’s demonic aura to Bride’s Pool in Hong Kong. There, Roland battled an equally powerful mirror duplicate as his magnetic force grew, while Mirror Master finished repairing his gun and the others struggled to reach Roland.

• Mirror Master told Roland and the Flash that an unknown man had arranged to trap Roland, but Mirror Master’s modified gun had pulled him into the Mirror World too.
• Mirror Master warned that the Mirror World would collapse unless they escaped, and Roland detected a powerful demonic aura in Tai Po District and opened a portal there.
• At Bride’s Pool, Roland confronted Lady White Bone, who summoned a mirror duplicate of him and ordered it to kill him.
• Roland and Mirror Roland traded increasingly powerful attacks, raising their magnetic force and wrecking an area that grew to cover more than half the Earth.
• Mirror Master finished modifying his Mirror Gun while the Flash and Wally protected him, but they hesitated over how to bring Roland back from the distant battle.

Roland and The Flash escaped the collapsing mirror world, traveled through time, and reunited with Wally, who revealed that Bart had been murdered. The Flash and Roland found Bart’s body, and Roland began trying to restore it while seeking Bart’s soul.

• Roland defeated Mirror Roland, and The Flash carried him through the collapsing universe until they became lost in the Carboniferous Period.
• Roland learned that this world’s Vandal Savage had built a time machine, and he and The Flash used it to return to the twenty-first century.
• The Flash reunited with Wally, who explained that Inertia had tricked the Rogues into killing Bart.
• The Flash sent Wally after Inertia while he and Roland went to the Getty Center and found Iris grieving over Bart’s body.
• Roland used Cellular Reorganization on Bart and said they still needed to find his soul.

Wally captured Inertia and left him permanently frozen, then joined The Flash and Roland to retrieve Bart's soul from Black Flash. Bart was resurrected and learned that Wally and The Flash had come from another world.

• Wally caught Inertia in Los Angeles and learned that Bart had been powerless when the Rogues captured him.
• Wally took Inertia's speed and trapped him motionless forever in the Flash Museum, choosing not to kill him.
• The Flash used Wally's, Bart's, and Inertia's speed to become White Lightning, then summoned Black Flash and retrieved Bart's soul.
• Roland returned Bart's soul to his body and had an ancient Demon cast a spell to wake him.
• Bart awoke, reunited with Wally and The Flash, and learned that The Flash was not the Barry Allen from his world.

The Flash returned from the Mirror World, rescued Wally from the Rogues, and reunited with Roland, who learned that several people had been abducted or had gone missing. Damian fought a Lazarus Demon on Lazarus Island, where Mother Soul blamed him for ruining her plan to remake the world.

• The Flash celebrated Bart's safe return with Iris, Wally, and their family before saying goodbye and returning to Roland's universe.
• The Flash learned that Mirror Master and the Rogues had tied up Wally at the Flash Museum, then disarmed them and sent them to the Police Department.
• Roland told The Flash that Damian, Second Senior Brother, Doctor Fate's helmet, and Wade were missing, and The Flash suggested the incidents might share a culprit.
• Mother Soul forced Damian to fight a Lazarus Demon, and Damian defeated it, enraging her and prompting him to condemn her genocidal plans.

Jor allied with Demon Nezha, who used magic to control Damian and sought information from Zhu Bajie about Fire Bull King. Roland, Batman, and Marcus rescued Zhu Bajie, who explained Nezha and Red Boy’s history, leaving them aware that Fire Bull King was preparing for a conflict.

• Jor released Demon Nezha and helped him control Damian as part of a plan to dominate the world.
• Roland and Batman identified Nezha as the likely culprit after Damian attacked Batman under magical control.
• Nezha interrogated Zhu Bajie about Fire Bull King, and Zhu Bajie revealed that Fire Bull King was Nezha’s adopted son, Red Boy.
• Roland, Batman, and Marcus arrived on Lazarus Island and freed Zhu Bajie.
• Zhu Bajie explained that Red Boy became Fire Bull King after learning Nezha had helped expose the Heavenly Court to Darkseid, then absorbing his parents’ power.

Demon Nezha and the Fire Bull King fought Roland’s group on Lazarus Island, while Jor turned Deadpool into a powerful magic weapon. Deadpool’s explosion destroyed the island and unleashed a worldwide magic storm, and Captain Marvel appeared as the disaster began.

• Demon Nezha and the Fire Bull King confronted each other on Lazarus Island, while Roland, Batman, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus arrived to fight them.
• Roland sent the Fire Bull King flying, and Demon Nezha fought Batman, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus, knocking Zhu Bajie down and driving Marcus back.
• Jor sent Magic Dead Servant, a magically empowered Deadpool, against Roland; Roland repeatedly destroyed and attacked him, but Deadpool revived each time.
• Demon Nezha ordered Magic Dead Servant to self-destruct, razing Lazarus Island and allowing Demon Nezha to escape in the chaos.
• Roland, Batman, Zhu Bajie, and Marcus survived as the Lazarus Pit erupted and triggered a worldwide magic-energy storm.
• Captain Marvel arrived, and Deadpool revived naked after the explosion.

As Lazarus rain destabilized magic and science worldwide, heroes and allies handled crises in Atlantis, Gotham, and Arkham while Superman rescued civilians. In Metropolis, Ultra-Humanite activated the Phantom Zone Projector to summon the Stone Ape, hoping to make it swear allegiance to him.

• Zatanna warned on the Justice League's public channel that Lazarus rain was causing extreme weather and destabilizing powers and technology, while Superman rescued people around the world.
• Zhu Bajie entered the Trench's undersea prison, used a curse to calm and alter their cravings, and reunited with Aquaman and Mera's efforts to protect Atlantis.
• Roland and Gotham's allies broke up riots, while Astra stormed Arkham and forced Harley Quinn's faction to stand down as Roland went after the Joker.
• Harley Quinn worried that Roland might influence the Joker, then returned with Astra to the hospital.
• Ultra-Humanite persuaded Winston to activate the repaired Phantom Zone Projector, revealing the Stone Ape trapped inside.

Ultra-Humanite sought Lex Luthor’s help to open a portal to the Phantom Zone, while Lazarus energy transformed Mercy and unleashed mutated animals in LexCorp Tower. After Lazarus rain repaired the Phantom Crystal, Ultra-Humanite activated the projector and opened a stable portal.

• Ultra-Humanite’s attempt to open a portal failed, so he decided to steal the missing projector lens from Superman and considered Lex Luthor a potential ally.
• Emerald lightning struck Mercy at LexCorp Tower, and Lazarus energy gave her transforming weapons and enhanced abilities.
• Mercy fought the mutated laboratory animals, including a white wolf that impaled her, while Lex Luthor watched her powers emerge.
• Ultra-Humanite visited Lex Luthor to request help, but Luthor refused and suggested he approach Roland instead.
• Lazarus rain repaired Ultra-Humanite’s crystal battery and shattered Phantom Crystal, so he returned to the laboratory and activated the Phantom Zone Projector, opening a stable portal.

Zhu Bajie brought Marcus to face the Stone Ape Sun Wukong, the Great Sage's Remnant, but Marcus was swiftly defeated and began questioning his identity. Ultra-Humanite realized Marcus was connected to an incident fifteen years earlier, when Winston and Lola found an infant inside a meteorite and took him away.

• Zhu Bajie sensed Sun Wukong's presence and took Marcus to meet him, while the trench people reverted to their true forms after the pair left.
• Roland and Lex Luthor went to Ultra-Humanite's laboratory, where the Stone Ape challenged Marcus to prove he was his son.
• Marcus's miniature clones were overwhelmed by the Stone Ape's full-sized clones, and the Stone Ape declared Marcus was not his son.
• The Stone Ape's questions left Marcus frozen as Ultra-Humanite recognized a connection to his failure fifteen years earlier.
• Ultra-Humanite opened a Phantom Zone portal, but meteorites came through and Superman arrived to stop him.
• Winston and Lola found a baby inside a meteorite and fled with him, leaving Ultra-Humanite behind.

Marcus learned that he was a hair of Sun Wukong who had become a person, and chose to believe in the self he had built through his life on Earth. After the Fire Bull King fight, Superman urgently called Roland to Metropolis because Martian Manhunter was dying.

• The Stone Ape took Zhu Bajie into the Phantom Zone and explained that he had planned to withdraw from the age of the New Gods, while Zhu Bajie chose to remain with Marcus.
• The Ultra-Humanite revealed that Marcus was his grandson, injected him with nanobots, and invited him to dinner; Lola and Zhu Bajie chased him until he teleported away.
• Zhu Bajie taught Marcus the Perfect Clone technique and arranged a sparring match with the Fire Bull King on an artificial island.
• The Fire Bull King told Marcus he was only a hair from Sun Wukong, causing Marcus and his clones to doubt which of them was real.
• Zhu Bajie guided Marcus through his memories, and Marcus chose to believe in himself, reabsorbing his clones before facing the Fire Bull King again.
• Superman called Roland and urgently asked him to come to Metropolis to save the dying Martian Manhunter.

Martian Manhunter and Rafael Arce took on the pain of Metropolis residents caused by Rafael’s rain-enhanced empathic powers, until Lex Luthor volunteered to bear it. After recovering, Rafael set out to help people around the world without recklessly sacrificing himself.

• Martian Manhunter observed a wave of gratitude in Metropolis and, with Superman, found Rafael Arce absorbing the pain of hospital patients and residents.
• Martian Manhunter tried to share Rafael’s burden, but his telepathy absorbed the pain of everyone in Metropolis and left him as a mass of green slime.
• Superman fetched Roland, who arranged for Raven to transfer Martian Manhunter’s pain to Lex Luthor, and Lex endured it for six hours until the others recovered.
• Lex Luthor’s ordeal awakened telepathic powers, and he refused to let Martian Manhunter or Rafael share his burden.
• Roland and Superman persuaded Rafael to stop risking his life, and Rafael began traveling the world by motorcycle to help people in pain.

The Lazarus Rain unleashed strange divine disturbances as Wonder Woman, Superman, and Roland investigated returning Greek warriors and gods formed from human belief. After Wonder Woman defeated Sekhmet in Cairo, Hawkman recognized the goddess as his sister.

• Wonder Woman discovered Theseus and Heracles's ancient army beneath Themyscira, while Hippolyta sensed that the gods might also be returning.
• Shazam escaped the Rock of Eternity by absorbing it into his body, and Wizard Shazam vowed to reclaim its power.
• Roland, Superman, and Martian Manhunter found prophetic metahumans in Philadelphia, where Roland fought Apollo and concluded he was formed from humanity's beliefs.
• Wonder Woman agreed that the impostor Apollo had been created by belief and warned that the rain might bring more gods like him.
• Sekhmet appeared in Cairo and attacked Wonder Woman, who shattered her with one punch; Hawkman arrived and identified Sekhmet as his sister.

Hawkman learned that the gods had returned, while Roland explained his doomed reincarnation with Hawkgirl. Roland, Superman, and Wonder Woman subdued the gods appearing around the world, then confronted Hera on Mount Olympus and left her trapped as they dealt with Wizard Shazam.

• Hawkman met Wonder Woman and Superman, and Roland explained that Hawkman and Hawkgirl were reincarnations bound to repeat their love and deaths at Hath-Set’s hands.
• Roland, Superman, and Wonder Woman traveled to Iceland, where Superman froze Skadi after she demanded they become her followers.
• The trio defeated gods around the world, leaving Greece as their final destination.
• Hera sat on Wonder Woman’s throne on Mount Olympus as Wizard Shazam assured her that humanity was beginning to fear the gods.
• Roland trapped Hera in the Chair of Hephaestus, then broke Wizard Shazam’s staff when he tried to intervene.

At Jingtan Temple, Marcus defeated several Chinese gods in training while Roland and Wonder Woman waited for the Mages to address the Lazarus Rain. At the Tower of Fate, Roland tried to help restore magic by drawing cards, but his summons left Merlin bewildered.

• Zhu Bajie revealed that China's gods had been staying at Jingtan Temple to help train Marcus, and Marcus defeated White Impermanence, the Giant Spirit God, and the Four Heavenly Kings.
• Erlang Shen stood to test Marcus, while Roland and Wonder Woman left the temple's affairs to the others and waited for the Mages to stop the Lazarus Rain.
• Doctor Fate told Constantine that magic remained impossible to repair, partly because foreign magic and the magic forming Jeanne d'Arc's body had become mixed in.
• Constantine called Roland, who arrived at the Tower of Fate with Miriel and learned from Merlin that the problem involved more than Star Magic.
• Roland drew cards in search of something useful, and Romani Archaman appeared with a cake, leaving Merlin stunned.

Roland brought Doctor Roman, the human incarnation of Solomon from another world, into the effort to restore magic. The next day, Roman struggled to accept the strange life at Roland Cathedral, where Constantine pursued virtual idol fame and Jason treated armed walks through Gotham as normal.

• Roland explained that Doctor Roman was another world's King Solomon, and Merlin agreed he could help restore magic.
• Roland lured Roman into the research with cake, while Roman learned that Merlin planned to update the Magic☆Melly website.
• Constantine considered becoming a virtual idol, and Doctor Fate rejected his request to use the Helmet of Fate to lift his curse.
• The next day, Roman complained about the demons at Roland Cathedral, and Jason reminded him that he had also subdued demons in his own world.
• Jason told Roman that he went to class, read, and took walks, then explained that he carried a gun because they were in Gotham.

Roland investigated monster energy in Philadelphia and uncovered a white deer spirit possessing Dr. Sivana, while Marcus revealed himself as the Handsome Monkey Prince. After Roland destroyed the spirit, Marcus left to meet his friend Billy at school, and Roland suggested a way to address Marcus's lingering resentment toward Batman.

• At the Grand Church, Shazam arrived looking for Father Roland, and the demons panicked when they mistook Dr. Roman for King Solomon.
• In Philadelphia, Roland followed monster energy to Dr. Sivana's laboratory, where Shazam appeared to be strapped down while Sivana prepared to kill him.
• Marcus revealed that he had impersonated Shazam, freed himself with a magical rod, and exposed Dr. Sivana as possessed by a white deer spirit.
• Roland recognized the spirit as the White Deer from the Bhikshu Kingdom and destroyed its soul with a second Psychic Scream.
• Marcus told Roland that his friend Billy was back and that he was looking forward to going to school with him, while Roland advised him to talk to Batman about his childhood resentment.
• After Marcus left on his Somersault Cloud, Roland came up with an idea for how Marcus could mess with Batman.

Roland gathered allies to prank Batman, but Green Lantern was summoned to investigate a missing Corps member on Trama. The group joined the mission, where they learned that Balin Char had disappeared and was presumed killed by an unknown alien life-form.

• Roland proposed using three ghosts from A Christmas Carol to mess with Batman, and Marcus agreed to try it.
• Shazam returned Roland’s Ten Rings, reunited with Marcus, and joined Roland’s plan to prank Batman.
• The Flash and Superman arrived to join the prank, while Green Lantern was summoned by the Guardians to Trama in Sector 1522.
• Roland, Superman, and The Flash accompanied Green Lantern, warning him that groups of Green Lanterns often met disaster.
• Green Lantern asked Kilowog about the emergency, and Kilowog said Balin Char had gone missing on a Frontier World and was believed killed by an unknown alien life-form.

Green Lantern and his companions investigated a derelict warship after Green Lantern Balin was killed and found it infested with Xenomorphs. Superman and Green Lantern destroyed the aliens and the ship, leaving the approaching Lanterns wondering what their mission had been for.

• Green Lantern left Kilowog’s team with Roland, Superman, and the Flash to scout the source of Balin’s distress signal.
• The group found Balin’s body aboard a derelict warship and realized an alien parasite had burst out of his chest.
• Dozens of Xenomorphs attacked, but Superman knocked them back while the Flash assessed their abilities.
• A massive Xenomorph Queen charged the group, and Superman tore it apart with his Super Breath.
• Green Lantern recited his oath and unleashed a blast that reduced the ship and every Xenomorph aboard to dust.
• Kilowog, Tomar-Re, and the other approaching Lanterns saw the green pillar of light and wondered what they had come to do.

Roland and the heroes staged a mysterious text-based detective game to mess with Batman during his Gotham patrol. Batman suspected Roland and played along, while the chapter ended with Roland warning The Flash that Reverse-Flash might target him during his honeymoon.

• After returning from the Xenomorph problem, Roland told Superman, The Flash, Marcus, and Green Lantern his plan to mess with Batman.
• During a snowy Christmas patrol, Batman saw strange text describing a down-on-his-luck man named Bob and suspected Roland was behind it.
• Batman tested the text, followed Bob to the Toy Box, and guessed that Bob worked for Joker, while the heroes watched from hiding.
• The text portrayed Bob's boss as Scrooge, leading Batman to wonder whether it meant him before Robin revealed Bob was carrying Joker's stolen money.
• Batman discovered that someone had changed him into his Batsuit, and Roland joked that Reverse-Flash might harass The Flash during his honeymoon.

Batman investigated Bob, a poor employee working for Joker, and encountered subtitles casting him as Scrooge in a Christmas Carol reenactment. Superman, Roland, the Flash, and Green Lantern altered Batman's Black Mercy illusion, leading him to a clue about Joker and back to Bob's home, where Joker arrived and threatened Bob and Tim with a deadly game.

• Batman stopped Bob, learned he was delivering Joker's money, and found a note promising further instructions.
• Batman followed Bob to his rundown home and watched him apologize to Tim, whose homemade Christmas tree featured Superman and Batman decorations.
• In the Batcave, Batman recognized Roland and the others were staging A Christmas Carol, then Superman trapped him in a Black Mercy illusion and changed it.
• Batman emerged from the illusion with a clue about Joker and headed to Bob's home while Tim was reading and Bob slept.
• Joker appeared at Bob's door, introduced himself to Tim, and proposed playing Murder Game.