Recaps

Brad clashed with Batman and Superman, then cured Barbara and established Skynet while building connections to Battleworld. The arc ended with Brad trading technology to Lex Luthor and gaining a device that could temporarily strip people of their powers.

• Brad traded Joker technology for Laughing Gas and Fear Toxin, then fought Batman and Superman after refusing to explain the deal.
• Brad summoned his Skynet army, rejected a Yellow Lantern ring’s recruitment attempt, and later accepted another ring while Batman studied it.
• Brad cured Barbara’s paralysis, helped her create the AI Collective, and breached the Bat-Family communications channel as War Horseman.
• Brad’s receiver connected him to Battleworld, where Arno and Number One fought Tony Stark’s forces and eventually returned Arno, Pietro, Carol, and an infant to Brad’s universe.
• Brad restored Pietro’s mutant gene, and Barry Allen arrived to investigate Pietro’s Speed Force before agreeing to help research and train him.
• Brad opened Skynet Research Institute, demonstrated his command of the green light of will, and drew hundreds of thousands of unclaimed Green Lantern rings toward Earth.
• Lex Luthor visited Skynet and traded several technologies with Brad, who found that Luthor’s Superpower-Deprivation Ray could temporarily separate people from their powers.

Brad helped assemble and strengthen the Justice League while confronting threats in another universe and deepening his powers. When three alternate-world factions arrived, he formed an alliance with them to investigate dangers across the multiverse, beginning in Injustice Superman’s world.

• Brad and the heroes crossed into an alternate universe, where Batman had become the leader of the League of Assassins, and captured Albert Swan after learning that Ra's al Ghul and Lex Luthor had orchestrated the Justice League’s destruction.
• Brad helped the heroes defeat Grodd and Carl Luthor, then joined Batman in confronting the older Batman who had used dark magic to transform Gotham and imprison criminals inside his body.
• Brad and Batman sent the older Batman monster into Hell, while Doctor Manhattan showed Brad projections of powerful future beings and Brad’s son arrived at Earth One’s Justice League.
• Brad helped Deadpool and Robin stop the Joker, armed Deathstroke in exchange for electrum, and discovered that the Joker’s identity could pass between different people before trapping him in accelerated time.
• Brad recruited Jaime Reyes, Ray Palmer, and Ronnie Raymond, helped Ronnie reconcile with Firestorm, and gained the ability to reshape information he knew.
• Brad brought Firestorm to the Endless, warned the Justice League of a future crisis, and spent the following year expanding the team and upgrading its technology.
• The Justice Lords, Injustice Superman’s group, and the Crime Syndicate arrived through a rift, and Brad restrained the visitors after Green Arrow killed Ultraman and Johnny Quick.
• Brad revealed how madness had influenced Injustice Superman’s world, challenged the Justice Lords’ oppressive system, and formed an alliance among the visiting factions to investigate their worlds.
• Injustice Superman returned to his world as Brad’s delegation set out to find that world’s Batman, while Batman told Deadshot and his allies to remain at his hidden base.

Brad organized the Multiverse Justice League’s campaigns against the evolved Doomsday, New Krypton, and Nekron’s Black Lantern universe while investigating the Inspiration Realm and the forces behind the dark universes. After confronting Barbatos and learning that he and The Batman Who Laughs carried Perpetua’s mark, Brad left the DC Multiverse to recruit Trigon for his next move.

• Brad united heroes and villains from parallel universes, detected an evolved Doomsday, and compressed the Justice Lords’ Doomsday into a pellet before Amazo the Divine took on the multiversal threat.
• Brad learned that The Batman Who Laughs had possessed Owlman, then joined the alliance’s plan to confront New Krypton and Nekron’s Black Lantern universe.
• Brad and Superman invaded New Krypton, where Superman battled its warriors and Brad subdued Kara after she revealed The Batman Who Laughs had supplied her with technology.
• Brad entered Dark Universe Earth-22, encountered the madness surrounding Bruce Wayne, and used controlled madness to reach the Inspiration Realm before The Batman Who Laughs emerged from the World Forge.
• Brad helped the Multiverse Justice League defeat Nekron by trapping him in a Black Lantern and removing the rings, after which the heroes agreed to confront the dark universes.
• Kong Kenan and his team entered a demon-corrupted world, met Sun Wukong, and brought him to Brad, who reconstructed the Great Thunderclap Temple before Sun Wukong vanished as another multiverse reclaimed him.
• Brad secretly tested whether a universe could produce a naturally evolved version of himself, then helped The Batman Who Laughs lure Barbatos into battle and discovered that both of them bore Perpetua’s mark.
• Brad and The Batman Who Laughs revealed their role in Luthor’s search for the Totality, while Brad later escaped the Anti-Life Equation’s repeated erasure and struck a bargain with Trigon for help.