Chapter Summaries

Ganthet activated a failsafe that sent duplicate Lantern Rings across Earth, recruiting new members for the seven Corps as the Black Lantern crisis continued. Wonder Woman ended the Corps leaders’ argument and ordered them to gather their forces to defeat Nekron within twenty-four hours, while Carol began asking Superboy-Prime about Hal Jordan’s romances in other universes.

• Ganthet activated the ring failsafe, and duplicate rings flew across Earth to find people suited to each Corps.
• Bane and Scarecrow became Red and Yellow Lanterns at Arkham, while Jason Roland, Dick Grayson, Mr. Freeze, Nora Fries, and others received rings of their own.
• Batman, Damian, and Lex Luthor were chosen as Green, Green, and Orange Lanterns, while Rafael Arce received an Indigo Ring as he helped injured people in Metropolis.
• Indigo-1 explained to Amon Sur that she feared losing her ring and returning to her ruthless former self, while Sinestro prevented Amon from attacking her.
• Wonder Woman silenced the arguing leaders by beating Atrocitus against the table, then ordered the Corps to regroup and fight Nekron before the duplicate rings expired.
• Carol asked Superboy-Prime about Hal Jordan’s romantic history across parallel universes, and Green Lantern shivered as he gathered his Corps.

As the Seven Lantern Corps gathered to face the Black Lanterns, Green Lantern admitted he feared losing his friends, while Sinestro recalled Abin Sur’s warning that Earth would unleash a universe-ending darkness. The battle began when the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl appeared as Black Lanterns, forcing their reincarnations to fight their former selves.

• Jason sensed Green Lantern’s fear, and Green Lantern admitted he was afraid his fellow Lanterns would die in the coming battle.
• Sinestro remembered Abin Sur’s prophecy about Earth and listened to Abin’s message urging him to stop the darkness from being unleashed.
• Green Lantern and Sinestro traded barbs while Carol discussed using her Violet Lantern Ring, as the Lantern Corps assembled.
• A black vortex opened above Earth, and Adam and Eve emerged as the Black Lantern forms of Prince Khufu and Tiaa, the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
• Hawkman and Hawkgirl recognized their former selves and flew to put them to rest as the Zamarons and Atrocitus attacked the Black Lanterns.

Roland and the Lantern Corps fought Nekron and the Black Lantern invasion while Jason summoned seven angelic Homies and the Flash reversed the deaths of Black Lanterns. The battle turned against Nekron, and Roland ended the chapter by kicking him in his weak point.

• Atrocitus attacked Prince Khufu and Tiaa with a sea of blood flames, while Kara destroyed their unusually powerful Black Lantern Rings and triggered a surge of Black Lanterns from the vortex.
• Nekron sent blackened Oa toward Earth, and Superman pushed it back as Roland enveloped the planet with the Desire Serpent to protect its inhabitants.
• Roland explained that the Desire Serpent’s orange light made people see combined objects of their desires, while Sinestro and the Lantern Corps fought the Black Lanterns.
• Jason summoned seven angelic Homies named Michael, Remiel, Uriel, Raphael, Gabriel, Raguel, and Sariel, and the Flash reversed the deaths of Black Lanterns with white light.
• Green Lanterns from other universes and eras joined the fight, including Li Jiong and Li Chu, while Roland kept Nekron from finding an opening.
• Nekron trapped Roland with an inverted cross, but Roland broke free, bound Nekron to a cross, and kicked him in his weak point.

Green Lantern revived Dead Servant, who explained his strange romance with the Death Goddess before taking a call from Deathstroke about trouble at home. Joseph Wilson returned as a Black Lantern corpse and confronted his siblings and father, while Lantern Rings chose Deathstroke and Rose as new recruits.

• Green Lantern used the Spirit of Existence to revive Dead Servant, whose Violet Lantern Ring represented his love for the Death Goddess.
• Dead Servant recounted his history with Thanos and the Death Goddess, then answered Deathstroke's call about another family crisis.
• Joseph Wilson remembered his life, death, and return in his original body as a decayed corpse.
• Joseph surprised Grant Wilson and Rose Wilson at the Wilson villa, and Deathstroke attacked him to protect his children.
• A Black Lantern Corpse revealed herself as Adeline Wilson and held a sword to Deathstroke's throat while Joseph reached for Rose.
• Green Lantern Rings selected Deathstroke for both the Green and Red Lantern Corps and chose Rose for the Star Sapphires.

Deathstroke and his children fought the Black Lantern versions of Adeline and Joseph Slade, with Grant earning a Green Lantern Ring before Dead Servant arrived and resurrected the dead. Rose and Grant rejected Deathstroke’s attempt to reunite the family, while Jonathan stayed; Deathstroke then considered Dead Servant’s suggestion to hire Nightwing as Rose’s teacher.

• Deathstroke killed Joseph Slade’s corpse and led Rose and Grant to his safehouse, then left them there to face the Black Lanterns.
• Adeline and Joseph Slade attacked Deathstroke; Rose cut Joseph in two, and Grant embraced Adeline before triggering an explosion and receiving a Green Lantern Ring.
• Dead Servant removed the Black Lantern Rings and used a White Lantern Ring to resurrect Adeline and Jonathan Slade.
• Deathstroke asked his children to reunite as a family, but Rose and Grant rejected him while Jonathan agreed to stay.
• Rose said her mother was alive and warned Deathstroke not to seek her out, then left with Grant.
• Dead Servant suggested hiring Nightwing to teach Rose, and Deathstroke considered the idea.

Nightwing accepted Deathstroke's commission to help repair his relationship with Rose Wilson and recruited the Justice League, whose plan began after class. At a villa, they rescued a younger Rose from a monster, but it escaped, leaving them to protect her from the figures hunting her.

• Deathstroke offered Nightwing a year's mercenary earnings to help with Rose, and Nightwing accepted the commission.
• Nightwing recruited the Justice League to help with his plan, and Raven agreed while the others prepared to join after class.
• In history class, Traci Thirteen read a Tarot card that warned Jason the mission might involve unpleasant illusions.
• Rose Wilson, wearing Deathstroke's suit, rescued a younger Rose from a monster as Nightwing and the Justice League attacked it.
• The monster escaped, and the younger Rose told the group that Murderer and his Slaughter Squad had been hunting her.
• Rose asked the Justice League to protect the child.

Rose and the others discovered they were trapped in a Dream Space where their memories and histories had been altered, while Raven confronted a fake Demon Trigon. Raven identified the shared dream and demanded to know who had brought them there.

• Rose questioned Little Ross and learned that Murderer wanted to use her as a bridge from Insomnia to the Waking World.
• Little Ross attacked Rose, claiming Rose was the bridge, and the group fought monsters as Beast Boy faced a grotesque version of himself.
• Nightwing realized their memories and perceptions were illusions, then was killed by an owl-masked attacker; Green Arrow also turned on Roy.
• Raven confronted Demon Trigon on his planet, rejected his offer, and fought him with magic.
• Raven revealed that Soul Chains had connected the group and asked who had brought them into the Dream Space.

After Batman died in a bombing, Damian sought help from the League of Assassins and began brutally killing criminals who claimed responsibility for Batman’s death. In the Batcave, Batman confronted him, but Damian realized he was facing a nightmare rather than his father.

• Raven attacked Demon Trigon inside the shared dream while worrying about the others.
• Damian and Batman searched a mass grave at Triangle Docks, where a bomb killed Batman and injured Damian.
• Weeks later, Damian asked Talia and Ra's al Ghul to help find Batman's killer, and Ra's urged him to become the next Batman.
• Damian hunted down and killed criminals who claimed to have killed Batman, despite Alfred warning him that Batman would condemn the murders.
• Damian confessed his guilt to a priest he mistook for Father Roland, then returned to the Batcave and faced a nightmare version of Batman.
• Damian overpowered the nightmare Batman and recognized that his imagined father was far weaker than the real one.

Damian escaped Batman’s dream trap while Roland and his allies investigated the global nightmare and learned that John Dee had hidden the Nightmare Stone in an enemy’s dream. The group found Dee dead in Arkham Asylum, where his corpse offered to help them find the Stone after killing a few Robins.

• Damian recognized that the Batman in his dream was an illusion and defeated him, warning that the real Batman might be in danger at Roland Cathedral.
• Sandman told Roland that Doctor Destiny’s Nightmare Stone had spread dreams across the world and could turn dreams into reality.
• Roland, Cain, and Batman’s projected soul met Deadman, who explained that a spell connected the Dreaming and the World of the Dead and could make dream deaths real.
• Roland connected John Dee to Roderick Burgess, who had captured Dream and taken his magical implements, then summoned Merlin to help.
• Roland’s group found John Dee dead in Arkham Asylum, where Dee’s corpse revealed that he had hidden the Nightmare Stone in an enemy’s dream.

Roland and his companions confronted Insomnia, a dream construct searching for the Nightmare Stone, while Deadman uncovered clues about his hidden memories. Insomnia tried to frighten Hal Jordan with nightmares, but Hal overcame them and pursued Insomnia through the dream realm.

• Insomnia attacked Roland and his companions, but Roland bound him while Deadman searched his mind and learned about the Nightmare Stone, the Lazarus Rain, and Insomnia's hidden happy memories.
• Insomnia escaped toward the Nightmare Realm and threatened to watch the heroes' nightmares, but a green light from Coast City interrupted him.
• Insomnia trapped Hal Jordan in a dream of his father's funeral, but Hal summoned his Green Lantern Ring and broke free.
• Insomnia shifted Hal through memories of Carol, Abin Sur, and the Guardians, but Hal rejected each nightmare and realized they represented choices he had faced.
• Hal recited the Green Lantern oath, struck Insomnia, and chased him through the dream realm with a chainsaw created by his ring.

Green Lantern pursued Insomnia into The Flash’s dream, where The Flash uncovered The Trickster’s Sage Force plot to make Central City happy and plunge it into chaos. After The Trickster severed The Flash’s legs, The Flash overcame his terror and kept moving with his hands, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Green Lantern chased Insomnia into The Flash’s dream, where The Flash rescued a boy from Old Man Cicada and brought the cultists to Iron Heights.
• The Flash found Central City unnaturally peaceful, learned Captain Cold was supposedly unknown, and discovered The Trickster had taken Kristen’s boyfriend’s place in her photograph.
• The Trickster used the Sage Force and a happiness machine to control the city, while Warden Wolfe confessed that he had abused and erased The Trickster’s identity.
• The Flash escaped the machine’s influence, but Captain Cold froze him after The Trickster’s power affected him; The Trickster later captured The Flash and displayed the city’s chaos.
• The Trickster cut off The Flash’s legs, but The Flash rejected his fear and continued moving on his hands with Speed Force lightning.

The Flash and Green Lantern escaped Insomnia’s dream trap, while Deadman entered the Sleepless Knight’s nightmare and uncovered Christopher’s grief-driven hatred of the Justice League. Deadman realized Christopher’s memories came from a world that did not fit the current timeline, and Superboy-Prime appeared just as Christopher’s nightmare versions of the heroes emerged.

• The Flash and Green Lantern escaped Insomnia’s dream realm, and Superman explained that magic had stopped time while the Justice League awakened.
• Superboy-Prime coached Deadman to seize his chance to become more prominent, then Deadman confronted the Sleepless Knight and entered his body to inspect his dream.
• Deadman witnessed Christopher lose his family in an attack by the Murder Machine and later kill survivors while vowing revenge on the Justice League.
• Christopher summoned monstrous versions of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, and Deadman questioned how Christopher’s memories could come from the Flashpoint World.
• Superboy-Prime appeared beside Deadman, who demanded to know how he had entered the nightmare.

Roland, Batman, Cain, and Sandman searched the Between for the Nightmare Stone while Deadman and Superboy-Prime confronted Insomnia. Deadman rejected Insomnia’s fabricated family, and Insomnia returned to his own family before Deadman announced that the crisis was over.

• Sandman led Roland, Batman, and Cain through the Between toward the Nightmare Stone as they sensed its power in a dark forest.
• Insomnia created an imaginary family for Deadman, but Deadman rejected the dream because his friends needed him.
• Superboy-Prime used a dream family inspired by The Incredibles to overpower Insomnia and told him that his family had been resurrected after the Death Metal event.
• Deadman confronted Insomnia and chose to stop being a spectator, asking Superboy-Prime to send Insomnia back where he belonged.
• Insomnia returned to his home and tearfully reunited with his three children.
• At Arkham Asylum, Batman identified the corpse as Christopher Lucas, and Deadman appeared to tell the others that it was already over.

After Batman accidentally died in a fall, Joker lost his purpose and imagined a life as an ordinary Wayne Enterprises employee, where he rose through the ranks, married, and had a child. He woke in Arkham Asylum and learned that his fellow inmates had heard him sleep-talking about Batman.

• Batman slipped on the rain-soaked rooftop and fell to his death while Joker and his henchmen watched in shock.
• Joker and his henchmen robbed a bank, attacked a uranium ship, and built a bomb, but Joker soon lost interest in crime.
• Joker applied to Wayne Enterprises as John Caesar and became a valued employee, eventually receiving a promotion from Jester Wayne.
• Joker disrupted an office gathering with a rant, then adjusted to managing his team and joked with them at a project celebration.
• In Crime Alley, Joker was attacked by Mob members and reunited with Gaggy, whom he urged to find a meaningful life.
• Joker's dream of an ordinary life ended when he woke in Arkham Asylum, where Solomon Grundy, Maxim Zeus, Bane, and Scarecrow teased him about his sleep-talking.

After the nightmares ended, the heroes faced Doomsday, whose history tied him to Krypton and the Green Lantern Corps. As the group debated ways to stop him, Sandman offered to use a dream to bring him onto their side.

• Damian learned that Superboy-Prime had set him up, and Sandman promised Earth a year of sweet dreams.
• Superboy-Prime sensed Doomsday approaching, and Superman intercepted him over Metropolis before taking him to the Pacific Ocean.
• Green Lantern and Sinestro explained that Bertron’s team had created Doomsday on ancient Krypton, where repeated deaths made him adapt to whatever killed him.
• The heroes learned that Doomsday had slaughtered Kryptonians and Green Lanterns before a Guardian sent him into a rift in the universe.
• Doomsday revived after Green Lantern and The Flash attacked him, adapting to their attacks, while Superman and The Flash proposed sending him to the end of time.
• Sandman offered to weave a dream that might turn Doomsday to their side, and Green Lantern questioned whether the plan would work.

Destiny saw that Death worried about Dream and warned her to stay away from Earth, remembering the Dead Servant who loved her. Meanwhile, Doomsday experienced a series of dreams in which he shared ordinary adventures with heroes across the world.

• Destiny summoned Death, who said she feared she might have to take Dream away if his situation continued.
• Destiny reacted to the thought of the Dead Servant loving Death and told her to stay away from Earth for a while.
• Doomsday dreamed of working on Superman’s farm, then investigating murders with the Flash and comforting Green Lantern.
• Doomsday and Roland cared for an abandoned baby named Roger, prompting Roland to notice their family-like bond.
• Doomsday dreamed of adventures with Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Batman, and Aquaman.

Doomsday remained under control but joined Conner and Superboy-Prime in driving the Kent family into a financial crisis. To earn food, they went to Roland, who tried to learn the miracle of the loaves and fishes and discovered that a little boy had to hand him the food for the miracle to work.

• Doomsday woke from a dream, resisted the urge to attack his friends, and went with Superman to get food.
• A week later, Lois found that Conner, Superboy-Prime, and Doomsday had spent the Kent family’s savings and ordered them to get jobs.
• Conner, Superboy-Prime, and Doomsday set off for Gotham to seek work from Tim, Batman, and Roland, while Doomsday hoped Roland Cathedral would provide meals.
• Roland refused to feed Doomsday at the cathedral, then decided to learn the miracle of the five loaves and two fish.
• Roland traveled with Doomsday to the Church of the Miracle of the Loaves in Israel and experimented with Holy Power.
• Roland teleported a little boy over to hand him the food, and his attempt to reproduce the miracle worked.

Roland confronted Starro the Conqueror, a powerful alien psionic who had come to Earth after sensing Roland. After defeating and capturing Starro, Roland decided to guide him rather than kill him, while Batman took one of the starfish duplicates.

• Roland and Doomsday returned to Gotham, where the heroes were watching a horror movie with Rose Wilson.
• A dark cloud gathered over Gotham, and Roland recognized the approaching alien as Starro the Conqueror.
• Starro released mind-controlling spores and attacked Roland with an energy beam, but Roland reversed the spores and smashed Starro apart with his fists.
• Roland used a Psychic Scream to incapacitate Starro and packed the unconscious duplicates into a box.
• Batman asked Roland for a duplicate, and Roland gave him one while keeping Starro and the other starfish for himself.
• Roland refused to kill Starro, saying he believed the conqueror could be guided, and Batman warned him not to let the situation get out of hand.

Roland gathered heroes at his cathedral to hear the Time Trapper explain how a transformed Darkseid conquered another universe and how a tournament could create an Omega King to challenge him. The gathering ended with the warning that victory required the heroes to fight without mercy.

• Tim questioned Jarro becoming a Robin, and Batman offered to let Tim call him Dad.
• Roland invited Batman and other battle-hardened heroes to Roland Cathedral to hear a message from Doomsday.
• The Time Trapper showed the heroes how Darkseid became an all-consuming cosmic force and conquered his universe despite countless attempts to stop him.
• The Time Trapper explained that a Heart of Apokolips would hold a tournament to choose a champion who could become the Omega King.
• The Time Trapper warned that the heroes would have to defeat one another without mercy to make the Heart powerful enough to challenge Darkseid.

The Time Trapper brought Roland and his allies into the Omega Universe, where Booster Gold objected to their arrival and the two worlds’ heroes began sizing each other up. As the visitors prepared for war, Roland’s Batman urged the Omega League to resist the coming takeover.

• Green Lantern questioned why Roland had left Superman and Aquaman behind, and Roland explained that he had forgotten Aquaman.
• Booster Gold protested the Time Trapper’s decision to bring Roland’s powerful allies, while the visitors revealed their formidable abilities and frightened him.
• The Flash freed the Omega Universe’s Barry from the time stop, prompting the Time Trapper to cancel it and leave the two groups to talk.
• The two Batmen and Supermen discussed their counterparts, while the Roland Universe’s heroes explained why some of their allies had stayed behind.
• Roland claimed to be the smartest person in his world, and Batman told the Omega League to prepare for war and try to keep their universe out of Roland’s hands.