Recaps

After Batman learned that Marcus had forgiven him, Roland and the others returned to their families and prepared for Halloween. The celebrations brought the Flash face to face with his future family and introduced Stephanie Brown to Roland, while Damian lamented that the Justice League could not use the Teen Titans name.

• Batman stopped Joker from making Bob shoot him, and Bob lowered the pistol so Tim would see that he was not a criminal.
• Marcus told Batman he had forgiven him, while Roland and the others applauded Batman and joked about the trouble he would cause them later.
• Roland returned to the Grand Church and prepared Halloween drinks and decorations with Jason and Cassandra before Batman and his family arrived.
• Lola brought Bart to meet the Flash family in the future, where Granny Flash comforted Barry about Nora’s death and sent him back to celebrate Halloween.
• Nightwing introduced Stephanie Brown as Spoiler and explained how she had thwarted her father Cluemaster’s plan.
• Damian told the Justice League that their hardships had strengthened their bonds, then lamented that another group had registered the Teen Titans name first.

Batman led Roland and the others to the moon to investigate a Halloween legend, where they encountered Etrigan and the mercenary Lobo. Etrigan revealed that the ancient monster Malak Kalu was awakening near San Francisco, and Zauriel prayed to Roland for help.

• Wally hinted that Halloween could bring the future opponents Francis was eager to face, while Batman proposed exploring lunar ruins as a Halloween activity.
• On the moon, Etrigan ambushed Lobo and revealed that he had hired the mercenary to deal with a dangerous enemy; Roland arrived with Batman and the others.
• Etrigan recounted how an ancient ritual had created Malak Kalu, who was now breaking free from his prison during a Halloween ceremony near San Francisco.
• Roland sensed that the story was unfolding in reality as Zauriel watched Malak Kalu awaken beneath San Francisco and, desperate for help, began praying to Roland.

Roland rescued San Francisco from Malak Kalu, then joined the group on the Moon as Lobo and Etrigan defeated the guardian and escaped Malak Kalu’s stomach. Back in Gotham, Jason led the group to investigate the Bloody Mary murders at the Riverside Hotel, where a small blue giant revealed that Darkseid was coming for Roland’s son.

• Roland answered Zauriel’s call and used his psionic power to make San Francisco’s ground insubstantial as Malak Kalu emerged without destroying the city.
• On the Moon, Lobo and Etrigan fought and defeated the guardian, drawing Malak Kalu’s attention; Malak Kalu swallowed Lobo and the others.
• Roland helped the group search Malak Kalu’s stomach for the guardian’s sword, and Lobo used his love of his Cosmic Dolphins to wield it and destroy Malak Kalu.
• After the group returned to Gotham, Jason persuaded them to investigate the Bloody Mary murders at the Riverside Hotel.
• A small blue giant appeared at the hotel and warned Roland’s son that Darkseid was coming.

Darkseid explained that Bloody Mary was one of his Furies, trapped in the Mirror World after her Mother Box malfunctioned, and asked the group to hunt her. The group forced her back through a golden doorway, leaving Mirror Master alone in the Mirror World just as Bloody Mary approached him.

• Darkseid told Jason, Kara, and Astra that Bloody Mary came from Apokolips and offered them no reward for hunting her.
• Astra negotiated to take Bloody Mary back for Roland, and Darkseid led the group to the Riverside Hotel’s largest mirror.
• Bloody Mary emerged from the shattered mirror, wounded Astra, and attacked Darkseid and the others.
• Jason summoned Apollo to burn the mirror shards, while Astra crushed a fleeing shard and triggered a golden doorway that pulled Bloody Mary into the Mirror World.
• Mirror Master entered the Mirror World with stolen goods, where Bloody Mary’s voice sounded behind him.

Francis searched Central City for the missing Mirror Master but instead encountered and defeated Shatterpressure, who was protecting her criminal parents. Francis carried the injured girl toward the Grand Church, deciding to keep her as a pet.

• Roland learned that Francis had gone to Central City to rescue Mirror Master, while Jason said she should be able to handle Bloody Mary.
• Francis asked the Rogues about Mirror Master, and Captain Cold sent Pied Piper to check for leads with the Police Department.
• Pied Piper reported a recent robbery at Big Belly Burger, where Francis learned that a man and a woman had stolen a large amount of food.
• Francis encountered Shatterpressure in an alley and fought her after learning she was defending her parents.
• Francis overpowered Shatterpressure and carried her toward the Grand Church, thinking Astra could keep another alien as a pet.

Francis brought Shatterpressure to Roland Cathedral and tried to recruit her for sparring, while Roland, Jason, Nightwing, Aquaman, and the others investigated a rampaging lake monster at Okanagan Lake. They discovered Ogopogo had been poisoned by creatures attacking her nest, helped protect her eggs, and returned to the cathedral after Garth joined the Justice League as Aqualad.

• Francis brought the injured Shatterpressure to Roland Cathedral, where Roland recognized her as Lobo’s daughter and let her stay without contacting him.
• Shatterpressure refused Francis’s invitation to spar, and Kara bizarrely concluded that her lesbianism proved she had a mother fixation.
• Roland and Jason joined Nightwing and Aquaman at Okanagan Lake, where Ogopogo attacked them and Aquaman found claw wounds around her nest.
• Roland used Conqueror’s Haki to knock out the creatures threatening Ogopogo’s eggs, and Aquaman determined their neurotoxin had caused her paranoid hallucinations.
• The group grilled fish after resolving the danger, and Nightwing persuaded Garth to join the Justice League as Aqualad.
• The group returned to Roland Cathedral, where Roland complained that Aquaman had been petty and Jason lamented that they never got to eat the fish.

Roland joined Vixen and Bronze Tiger in Zambezi to investigate reports of strange black-eyed children, while Wonder Woman arrived to help. They discovered the children were young animals using a defensive transformation to seek help after poachers captured their parents, and Vixen followed the poachers' trail.

• Roland agreed to travel to Zambezi after learning that poachers had attacked Mary’s friends, while Deadshot stayed behind to watch the children.
• Vixen, Bronze Tiger, Wonder Woman, and Roland entered Halima’s village to investigate the black-eyed children who visited villagers at night and drained their energy.
• When children demanded entry to Halima’s hut and transformed into monsters, Bronze Tiger broke their attacks without being hurt.
• Vixen found a tranquilizer dart in one child, and Wonder Woman learned the children were young animals frightened because poachers had taken their parents.
• Vixen promised to stop the poachers, then used a dog’s sense of smell to follow the trail with the transformed animals.

Vixen and Wonder Woman stopped poachers, while Superman and Lois rescued missing twins from a supernatural farmhouse. Back at Roland Cathedral, the group prepared for Halloween patrol as Batman warned Stephanie to avoid dangerous criminals in costume.

• Vixen flipped the poachers’ jeep, Bronze Tiger deflected Scarface’s shot, and Vixen and Wonder Woman defeated the men and freed their captured animals.
• Roland extracted the poachers’ memories, and Wonder Woman agreed to return to Gotham with him and join a party.
• Superman and Lois searched for Zuri and Winnie Mona, then found the twins chained in a farmhouse basement guarded by a magical corpse and their parents’ old acquaintance.
• Superman broke free from the corpse and destroyed it, while Wonder Woman protected Lois and smashed a purple alien plant; the twins were reunited with their parents.
• At Roland Cathedral, Batman assigned Stephanie to patrol and told her to avoid criminals wearing special outfits, while Roland and Batman discussed the risks of Halloween in Gotham.

Roland and his companions celebrated Halloween in Gotham before Batman received a call about a telekinetic attacker holding hostages at the Gotham City Theater. Roland discovered the attacker was Shauna Belzer, whose painful childhood and failed audition culminated in her violent takeover of the theater.

• Roland invited Aquaman to the party, but Aquaman declined, and the group later went trick-or-treating in costume.
• Batman received Robin's request for backup after Stephanie was injured confronting a telekinetic enemy, and Roland opened a portal to the Gotham City Theater.
• Roland learned that Shauna Belzer had grown up overlooked beside her celebrated brother Ferdie, who died after Shauna's power caused his swing to break.
• Shauna was bullied at a birthday party, received the puppet Ferdie from clown Rainbow Rodney, and later implied that the other girls had been poisoned.
• At the Gotham Star auditions, the judges rejected Shauna's act and mocked her appearance, so she attacked Quentyn with screws hidden in the puppet.
• Shauna shocked the security guards, took a judge hostage, and invited the theater audience inside.

Shauna used her telekinetic powers and Puppet Freddy to attack the Gotham Star auditions, but Roland stopped her and rescued Miss Xaviera. Afterward, Annie awakened the Stand Sticky Fingers, and Roland encouraged Robin to train harder.

• Shauna and Puppet Freddy attacked Stephanie, then took Miss Xaviera hostage inside the theater.
• Robin and Annie confronted Shauna, but her telekinesis and hostage forced Robin to call Batman for help.
• Roland arrived, destroyed Puppet Freddy, and knocked Shauna unconscious before the police took her away.
• Roland arranged for Harvey to prosecute Shauna and explained his Stand, Black Sabbath, to Robin.
• Annie awakened Sticky Fingers after touching the Saint's Hand, and Roland congratulated her on gaining the Stand.
• Robin felt left behind by Annie's growing strength, so Roland encouraged him to train at the Grand Church.

Roland helped stop a monster summoned by four high school students, then returned to Roland Cathedral and teased Jeanne d’Arc about Jeanne d’Arc Alter. The chapter ended with Doctor Roman worrying about what would happen to Chaldea after he was gone.

• Roland and Robin realized the police had not arrived at the Gotham Grand Theater, and Roland sensed a curse nearby.
• Four students accidentally summoned Midnight by playing an urban-legend game, and the monster attacked them and responding police officers Harvey Bullock and Li.
• Roland destroyed Midnight with a punch, then trapped it in a hardened asphalt cube after it regenerated.
• Harvey Bullock and Li left for the Gotham Grand Theater while Roland warned the students against playing dangerous urban-legend games.
• Roland returned to Roland Cathedral, where Jeanne confronted him about his interest in Jeanne d’Arc Alter, and Doctor Roman worried about Chaldea’s future after his death.

After welcoming Dr. Roman to Gotham, Roland learned that Bruce had been captured by Kate Kane’s father, Jacob, whose army planned to take control of the city. Kate rejected Jacob’s offer to join him and mobilized Gotham’s allies against his unauthorized operation.

• Roland assured Dr. Roman he could rest in Gotham and later discussed using a cursed creature to make symbiote-like armor with Raven.
• Kate told Roland that Bruce had been kidnapped, and the chapter recounted Jacob’s visit to persuade her to join his military organization.
• Kate confronted Jacob over concealing Beth’s survival and left after blaming him for her sister’s fate.
• Jacob ordered his forces to capture Batman, then told Kate he wanted her to command his army and serve alongside him.
• Kate invoked her authority as Gotham’s mayor, challenged Jacob’s legal right to conduct a military operation, and vowed to stop him.
• Kate called Roland, Commissioner Gordon, Alfred, Cobblepot, and Thomas to rally them against Jacob’s forces.

Batman and Nightwing uncovered Jacob Kane’s Colony Corps, a rogue military unit preparing to target supposed Shadow League agents in Gotham. The group learned the Shadow League was real, and Roland revealed its elite now served as Cassie’s Personal Guard.

• Batman escaped captivity, confronted Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, and learned the Colony trained soldiers to imitate his fighting techniques.
• Jacob revealed he led the Colony and intended to shape Kate into a leader for an approaching war, but Batman knocked the assembled soldiers unconscious with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Batman asked Alfred to search military databases for the Colony Corps and learned Nightwing had infiltrated the base too.
• Nightwing accessed a Gotham map marked with Colony targets, stole the computer’s hard drive, and escaped after Ulysses disappeared through a floor chute.
• At Gotham City Hall, Robin explained that the Colony planned to attack innocent people it mistook for sleeper agents, while Kate said the unit had gone rogue.
• Roland corrected Batman’s account, saying the Shadow League’s elite were real and served as Cassie’s Personal Guard.

Kate organized Gotham’s leaders to resist Jacob Kane’s unauthorized military operation, while Batman and Roland stopped his Drone attack. Jacob was arrested after Kate confronted and knocked him unconscious, then woke in a hospital with Thomas beside him.

• Kate assigned Harvey, Commissioner Gordon, Penguin, Thomas, Cassandra, Jason, and Mr. Victor to counter the troops and keep Gotham secure.
• Kate confronted Batman about hiding his suspicions of her father, and they agreed to continue working together without further deception.
• Ulysses launched armed Drones despite Jacob’s misgivings, and Robin redirected their targets toward Batman and Roland.
• Batman and Roland endured the Drone explosions without injury as Kate confronted Jacob and knocked him unconscious.
• Jacob woke in a hospital beside Thomas and concluded that he must already be dead.

Jacob Kane woke from a memory and attacked Thomas Wayne, then warned Kate about the Shadow League and Lady Shiva. At the Department of Extranormal Operations, Mister Bones tried to enlist Kate against Batman and revealed that her sister Beth was alive, leaving Kate demanding to see her before deciding anything.

• Jacob woke in the hospital and fought Thomas, then learned that Thomas was alive and that Kate had not killed him.
• Jacob warned Kate and Batman that Lady Shiva and the Shadow League threatened Gotham, while Roland and Cassandra revealed Cassandra was Lady Shiva’s daughter and the Shadow League’s leader.
• A major general told Kate that someone had news about her older sister, and Roland accompanied her to the Department of Extranormal Operations.
• Mister Bones asked Kate to help uncover Batman’s identity and threatened to withhold Beth, so Kate had Roland send him crashing into a window.
• Agent Saze showed Kate a video of Beth and explained that an Egyptian-style sarcophagus had brought her back from the dead.
• Mister Bones offered to cure and return Beth in exchange for Kate betraying Batman, but Kate demanded to see her sister first.

Kate rescued Beth from the D.E.O. and brought her to Gotham, where Beth remained amnesiac and the Kane family and Colony crises continued. As Batman investigated Jacob Kane’s former team, Kate reflected on her military academy past and rejected her father’s plan to bring her back into the military.

• Kate freed Beth from her shackles, challenged Mister Bones, and escaped the D.E.O. with Roland through a portal to Gotham.
• Kate brought Beth to Roland Cathedral, where Beth clung to her and showed no sign of recognizing anyone except Kate.
• Kate and Batman reviewed the unresolved problems involving Beth, the Kane family, and the Colony, then Batman questioned Jacob Kane in prison without learning the Colony’s secrets.
• Batman gave Kate information about Jacob’s former team, the Ravens, and said he had found their entry records suggesting they might be in Gotham.
• Kate told Batman how Instructor Tate’s harsh training had shaped her ambitions and how her expulsion ended her military career, then insisted she would not follow her father’s plan.
• Kate asked Batman about Damian’s possible romantic interest, and they joked about Batman’s own youth and Zatanna.

Nightwing and his companions traveled to Blüdhaven after twenty-four gang members’ bodies surfaced in Gotham, suspecting a gang war was underway. They discovered Black Mask’s False Face Legion was fighting over territory and had stolen embryos to blackmail a rival gang leader.

• Damian chatted with his school friend Skyler at Monica’s Cafe, while Stephanie, Tim, and Annie teased him about their friendship.
• Batman and Kate investigated twenty-four bodies from the Angie Marlin Gang and traced them to Blüdhaven; Nightwing decided to go there.
• Nightwing invited Jason, Roland, Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire to join him in Blüdhaven, where Raven sent two thugs harassing Tandy to Africa and Nightwing arranged for her to return to Gotham.
• Nightwing identified the False Face Legion in a street shootout and realized Gotham crime bosses were competing for territory in Blüdhaven.
• Raven seized a stolen refrigerator and made one of the gang members reveal it contained embryos that the False Face Legion planned to use to blackmail Freddy for a share of the heroin trade.

Nightwing confronted corruption in Blüdhaven, uncovered a smuggling operation, and performed at the circus where his parents died. He ended the night without a lead, while Black Mask renewed his push to seize the city’s criminal business.

• Jason returned Mrs. Ming’s vial of eggs, and Nightwing went to the Police Department to meet Commissioner Redhorn.
• Nightwing knocked out Redhorn, and Detective Daly let him go before Nightwing arranged for Julian to replace Redhorn as commissioner.
• Nightwing and Detective Daly discussed Blüdhaven’s criminal factions and investigated a ship at Waterloo Harbor, where Nightwing defeated Mask Legion smugglers but found no clear lead.
• Nightwing, Roland, Jason, Raven, and Beast Boy went to Haly Brothers Circus, where Nightwing performed and reflected on his parents’ deaths.
• Black Mask told his subordinate that he wanted all of Blüdhaven’s business and demanded that the plan succeed.

Nightwing and Roland investigated a suspicious check-cashing shack in Z. Mori District, exposing a money operation tied to Black Mask. After Black Mask’s men cornered Detective Daly, Raven forced him to reveal that he had engineered the Blüdhaven chaos to take Marlin’s place.

• Detective Daly directed Nightwing to Ali’s bank in Z. Mori District and warned him about the upheaval in Blüdhaven’s Underworld.
• Nightwing and Roland noticed a suspicious check-cashing shack, and Roland destroyed it with his magnetic power, scattering its drug money across the district.
• A man in a fox mask threatened Nightwing in Black Mask’s name, and Nightwing sent him back with a warning for Black Mask to stay out of Blüdhaven.
• Black Mask raged over the failed operation and ordered his men to kill Summers.
• Three of Black Mask’s men cornered Detective Daly, but Roland and the Gothamites appeared, and Raven used her mental control to make Daly confess that he had told Black Mask about Nightwing and had caused the chaos to take Marlin’s place.

Roland was chosen to become Santa Claus and received Santa’s enchanted sack from Lucifer and Michael. When he used it, the sack produced the Mother of All, and Roland ended the chapter by calling everyone over for presents despite Michael’s warning that they needed pure hearts.

• Roland sang a strange local Christmas hymn with Jeanne d'Arc and Dr. Roman in Roland Cathedral when Batman arrived to collect presents.
• Lucifer and Michael asked Roland to serve as Santa Claus, explaining that he had taken Santa’s Philosopher’s Stone and that their father had chosen him.
• Roland accepted the job after confirming he did not need to provide the presents, and Lucifer explained how Santa’s enchanted sack worked.
• Roland reached into the sack and pulled out the Mother of All, revealing that Lucifer had wished for her.
• The Mother of All reunited with Lucifer and Michael, while Michael explained that presents were meant for people with pure hearts and dreams.
• Roland called everyone into line for presents and put Batman first, prompting Michael to question Batman’s purity of heart.

Roland handed out Christmas gifts at the Church before setting off with Wally and the Flash to deliver presents around the world. Shatterpressure received an invitation from Lobo to visit him in space prison, and Roland headed there as Santa Claus, leaving Lobo expecting trouble and excitement.

• Roland gave Batman a Spinosaurus, Jason a signed copy of Pride and Prejudice, and the others a range of unusual Christmas presents.
• Michael brought the Flash and Wally to serve as fast reindeer, and Roland began his Christmas deliveries in the Sled Car.
• Roland gave Aquaman a Cosmic Dolphin and learned that Lobo was Shatterpressure's father and was currently in prison.
• Shatterpressure watched Lobo's message inviting her to visit him, and Kara encouraged her to go; Shatterpressure answered, "Maybe."
• A robot told Lobo that Shatterpressure might visit, then reported that Roland was approaching; Lobo recognized him as Santa Claus and anticipated that the prison would soon get lively.

Roland and his companions delivered Christmas presents across Earth and space before accompanying Shatterpressure to visit her imprisoned father, Lobo. Shatterpressure was called to the visitation hall but remained dazed as the chapter ended.

• Roland gave a teenage boy a wig and joked with The Flash and Wally while they delivered presents around Earth.
• Roland, The Flash, and Wally traveled into space to give Green Lantern a crash-proof space fighter, and Green Lantern flew them toward Lobo's prison.
• Shatterpressure fought Doctor Coffee after he attacked her for criticizing his coffee, and Green Lantern arrested him for killing customers who left bad reviews.
• Roland brought Cyborg to the Space Prison, where the group entered after he disabled its security system.
• Lobo spoke about responsibility and change in a prison group session, then comforted a fellow prisoner who was anxious about seeing his child.
• Shatterpressure waited with Francis and Kara until the prison called her to visit Lobo, but she remained dazed until Francis touched her shoulder.

Lobo tricked Shatterpressure into taking his place in Prison A, then escaped and led Roland’s group across space to a planet where Shatterpressure learned he had gone to collect money and a package. They followed his trail to a floating island and discovered that Lobo was romantically involved with Julia, who welcomed Shatterpressure as her daughter.

• Lobo persuaded Shatterpressure to shake his hand, secretly transferring his prison monitor to her, and escaped when the bioscan identified her as a prisoner out of bounds.
• Roland, Cyborg, and their companions fought Lobo as Prison A erupted into chaos, but Lobo fled on a space motorcycle and Roland decided to follow him.
• Shatterpressure tracked Lobo by his discarded cigarette butts to a planet, where she used Space Lizards to force its two-headed king to reveal that Lobo had gone to collect money and a package.
• The group followed the coordinates to a floating island, where an alien girl named Julia greeted them and Shatterpressure recognized Lobo in a portrait beside her.
• Julia revealed that she was Lobo’s partner and warmly called Shatterpressure her daughter, leaving Shatterpressure horrified at the prospect of calling Lobo her dad.

Shatterpressure confronted her stepmother Julia about Lobo, learned Julia was secretly helping him, and set out with Roland and the others to find him in Space Vegas. After Francis destroyed a comedy club over an insult, Roland found Lobo at a casino and attacked him.

• Shatterpressure warned Julia that Lobo was dangerous, but Julia admitted she had lied to Shatterpressure and sent Lobo money after calling him.
• Shatterpressure grew distraught over Lobo, and Francis provoked her into a fight that left her ready to beat him up.
• The group traveled to Space Vegas and split up to search for Lobo, while Shatterpressure and Kara visited a shop selling life-size cookies.
• Francis destroyed a comedy club with her blade after a comedian insulted her and Wally.
• Roland cheated at a casino until the owner ordered Lobo to deal with him, and Roland immediately attacked Lobo.

Roland, Green Lantern, and The Flash traveled to the year 757 to investigate a legendary Green Lantern, but found Dragon Emperor Guardians caught in a conflict with Imperial Guards. The chapter ended with General Shan killing the temple’s old master as the Guards threatened to slaughter everyone.

• Shatterpressure and Francis defeated Lobo after Francis locked away his strength, and Kara took Lobo back to prison while Roland stayed behind with The Flash, Wally, and the other men.
• Green Lantern recruited Roland and The Flash to travel to the past, and they arrived in Tang China in the year 757 to seek a legendary Green Lantern.
• At Dragon Emperor Temple, Roland, Green Lantern, and The Flash encountered Li Jiong and his master discussing the Guardians’ beliefs and witnessed visions of dragons protecting humanity.
• Bi Yao fled into the temple with her baby and begged the Dragon Emperor Guardians to protect her from General Shan and the Imperial Guards.
• General Shan’s Guards stormed the temple, and General Shan stabbed the old master while threatening to slaughter everyone there.