Recaps

Batwoman pursued Gotham’s fugitives and faced Joker’s deadly games while The Batman Who Laughs struck at the Justice League. Su Ming gathered powerful artifacts for Green Arrow, securing The Question’s key as the group prepared to continue their hunt.

• Batwoman fought Bane, stopped Doctor Egghead’s monstrous creation, and joined forces with Trench Coat Fighter to pursue Arkham escapees, including the Shame Squad.
• Joker lured Batwoman to Gotham Museum with evidence that he had captured Catwoman, while The Batman Who Laughs infiltrated the Hall of Justice and brought allies and a nuclear bomb through a portal.
• Batwoman followed Joker’s clues, defeated Ms. Vick, and learned that a nuclear blast had destroyed the Hall of Justice, and she then refused Joker’s forced choice and safely subdued the Smiling Men with antidote gas.
• J’onn confronted Luthor on Mars and recovered their shared childhood memories, but Luthor refused to join him and escaped through a portal to Brainiac and the Legion of Doom.
• Su Ming, Diana, and Green Arrow saw Washington D.C. reduced to a crater, then set out to strengthen Green Arrow with the Guilty Trinity artifacts while the Justice League sought cosmic help.
• Su Ming took The Phantom Stranger’s necklace by force and gave it to Green Arrow, who used its powers before the group traveled to Chicago in search of The Question.
• Su Ming traded liquor and promises of money and a girlfriend for The Question’s Golden Light key, which he handed to Green Arrow after hearing The Question’s warning about the Three Sins and the box.

The Justice League’s attempt to repair the Source Wall awakened Perpetua and shattered the Wall, while Su Ming pursued Pandora and The Batman Who Laughs. Joker’s game left Catwoman dead and Batwoman catatonic, and Su Ming flooded Gotham to flush out The Batman Who Laughs as he searched for Water Rat.

• Su Ming forced Constantine to summon Wrath, subdued the Seven Deadly Sins, and made a deal with Satan to find Pandora.
• The Justice League’s attempt to seal the Source Wall failed when Brainiac redirected Starman’s power and awakened Perpetua, causing the Wall to shatter.
• Satan delivered Pandora to Su Ming, who learned that the Source Wall had broken and took her back to Earth.
• Joker’s traps drew Batwoman away from Gotham’s defenders, and Su Ming traced the attacks to The Batman Who Laughs and his use of Penguin’s sewer map.
• Batwoman fought through Joker’s challenges, but Joker revealed himself as Trench Coat Fighter and killed Catwoman before leaving Batwoman catatonic.
• Su Ming persuaded Arthur to flood Gotham, and Arthur helped capture the real Joker while Su Ming exposed Jane Doe’s disguise and began searching for Water Rat.

Su Ming and the Justice League pursued The Batman Who Laughs through Gotham, while Joker’s death infected Bruce with madness and Thomas Wayne returned to help him. The team uncovered a pattern in the deaths of alternate Bruces, as Luthor moved ahead with a separate plan involving Vandal Savage.

• Su Ming searched the Batcave records, found the Batman Who Laughs’s file on Brutal Knight, and led a team to stop him from killing Gordon.
• Zorro and Oliver weakened Brutal Knight, and Diana killed him before Su Ming took his equipment and warned the team to stay together.
• The Batman Who Laughs attacked Arkham, killed Joker’s impostor, and left without realizing the real Joker had escaped by impersonating Bob.
• Joker returned to Wayne Manor, shot himself with a hidden Prank Gun, and died, passing a green wisp of madness into Batwoman.
• Su Ming and his allies confronted The Batman Who Laughs at Wayne Tower, but his attack triggered the Final Laugh System and destroyed the tower as the villain escaped.
• Su Ming brought Thomas Wayne out of the collapsing Flashpoint world, and Thomas returned to the Batcave, reunited with Bruce, and helped him regain control.
• The Justice League examined three dead Bruces, and Barry’s findings led Su Ming’s team to suspect that demonic deals had taken their souls.
• Luthor told Brainiac that he had drawn Deathstroke away from Batwoman, then showed him Vandal Savage discovering a golden meteorite fragment.

Su Ming hunted down the Batman Who Laughs’s allies in Gotham while Batwoman gathered the Justice League and used Mister Mxyzptlk to expose the threat beyond their world. The arc ended with Mxyzptlk revealing that chaos from the broken Source Wall was devouring the Multiverse and that Kendra’s map led to the Sixth Dimension.

• Lex Luthor told Brainiac that he had killed Vandal Savage and formed the Legion of Doom to finish his father’s New Humans Project, while Clark left his family to answer J'onn’s call.
• Su Ming borrowed the Dream King’s crown, followed its footprints, and discovered that the It-Things had entered the Dreaming through rifts, possibly from a Hell Plane created by a Batman from the Dark Multiverse.
• Su Ming used a Triple Ring to blow Gotham’s toxin-laced clouds out to sea, then traveled to Lucifer’s Hell with Mazikeen and his allies to find the demon empowering The Batman Who Laughs.
• Su Ming tracked Demon Batman to a hidden tomb, exposed Thomas’s face to reveal his escape route, and had the Upside-Down Man blast him toward the sun.
• Su Ming confronted Batman Owl, who identified himself as Match Malone and revealed that he had borrowed The Batman Who Laughs’s power to revive himself through a time loop.
• Su Ming used his deal with Death to defeat Batman Owl, then stayed in Gotham with Thomas as Barry carried news of Batwoman’s urgent Justice League meeting.
• Batwoman and J'onn lured Mister Mxyzptlk into a Brainwave Amplifier cage, but he warped Metropolis before J'onn and Batwoman disabled his powers by making him recite his name backward.
• Mister Mxyzptlk led the League to the Hall of Justice and explained that chaos from the broken Source Wall was consuming the Multiverse, while Kendra’s map showed a route to the Sixth Dimension.