Chapter Summaries

Bruce was ambushed inside Superman’s mind and recognized Lex Luthor as his attacker, while a strange galaxy appeared in the universe. John Stewart then attacked the Hall of Justice with a purple Lantern ring, but Su Ming knocked him out, and Barry remained unable to slow down.

• Bruce’s flying vehicle was shot down, and he escaped before a mutated cell swallowed him, identifying Luthor as his opponent.
• Su Ming and the others returned to the Hall of Justice, where Cyborg showed them a newly revealed black-and-purple galaxy beyond the known universe.
• John Stewart crashed into the command center wearing a purple uniform and wielding an unfamiliar Lantern ring.
• John summoned purple constructs fueled by guilt and remorse and attacked the heroes.
• Su Ming struck John with his greatsword, ending the attack, and Cyborg carried him to the infirmary.
• Barry told Su Ming that he could not slow down.

Su Ming learned that the Invisible Spectrum came from a living Phantom Zone galaxy called the Eclipsed Star, and planned to stop it by targeting its power source. John revealed that the spectrum was linked to six other forces sealed by the Cosmic Stillness, leaving Barry to try to close the door with the Speed Force.

• Su Ming explained to Barry that the Still Force had exposed the Invisible Spectrum and reasoned that stopping its second move could undo the enemy’s plan.
• Su Ming went to the infirmary, where Mister Terrific treated John, and Barry followed him there.
• John woke and told the Justice League that the Invisible Spectrum had controlled him and forced him to relive his regret over abandoning J’onn on Zanash.
• John explained that Sinestro had guarded the secret of the Eclipsed Star, a living Phantom Zone galaxy powered by a self-aware Black Sun that recruits Lanterns on doomed planets.
• John revealed that the Invisible Spectrum was linked to six other forces sealed by the Cosmic Stillness, and Su Ming asked Barry to reverse the Speed Force and close the door.

Su Ming realized his regret over the Cloak of Levitation consuming a gemstone had attracted a ring from the Invisible Light Corps, but Tenth Metal protected him from its control. Eclipsed Star then recruited nearly all of Earth’s population, forcing the Justice League to defend the Hall of Justice while Su Ming prepared to confront it.

• John and Cyborg left for the lunar debris to triangulate Eclipsed Star’s position while Su Ming considered whether Sinestro had allowed it to escape.
• Su Ming tried to find a way to feel regret, and Aquaman suggested the Indigo Lantern Corps before the Cloak of Levitation consumed a gemstone Su Ming had given it.
• Su Ming regretted losing the gemstone, and a ring from the Invisible Light Corps appeared on his finger, but Tenth Metal blocked the invading will.
• Eclipsed Star selected nearly 99 percent of Earth’s population, and purple-clad civilians flew toward the Hall of Justice as the League raised its shields.
• Su Ming told Barry to summon the Suicide Squad to defend the Hall of Justice, then set out to deal with Eclipsed Star.

Su Ming flew toward Eclipsed Star to investigate how to stop it from reaching Earth, but Sinestro intercepted him and demanded he join the forces of destruction. Su Ming refused and prepared to fight as Sinestro drew power from the star.

• Su Ming disguised himself as an Unseen Light Lantern Demon and flew toward Eclipsed Star, passing John and Cyborg as Sinestro overwhelmed them.
• Su Ming learned that Hal Jordan and the other Lantern Corps were occupied fighting stone giants that had broken free from the Source Wall.
• Su Ming approached Eclipsed Star to search for a weakness, but Sinestro appeared and exposed his disguise.
• Sinestro revealed that he wanted to use destruction to change the future and invited Su Ming to join him.
• Su Ming drew the Nightfall Greatsword and refused Sinestro's offer as Sinestro gathered power from Eclipsed Star.

Su Ming charged into Eclipsed Star to destroy its Central Power Battery, while Luthor and Joker took control of Clark and Martian Manhunter to reach the Totality. Batwoman ambushed Luthor and tried to take the Door Handle from him.

• Su Ming baited Sinestro into pursuing him, then let Eclipsed Star's gravity pull him inside.
• Clark and Martian Manhunter found a glowing blue sphere after the giants stopped fighting.
• Luthor revealed he had hacked into Clark's mind, while Joker took control of Martian Manhunter.
• Luthor and Joker flew toward the Totality, and Luthor carried the Door Handle marked with the symbol for Destruction.
• Batwoman emerged from the darkness, pulled Luthor from his vehicle, and attacked him to take the Door Handle.

Batwoman fought Luthor over the Door Handle inside Superman’s brain, but Luthor seized it and blasted the heroes back to the Hall of Justice. As Batwoman underwent emergency surgery, he gave Constantine urgent intelligence before losing consciousness, leaving Constantine to consider a dangerous plan involving Raven and Trigon.

• Batwoman beat Luthor back and fought him for the Door Handle inside Superman’s brain, while Joker sent tendrils through Superman’s optic nerves to attack him.
• Joker’s tendrils wounded Batwoman, allowing Luthor to grab the Door Handle and unleash its power, which threw Batwoman, Superman, and J’onn back to the Hall of Justice.
• Heroes took Batwoman to the infirmary, where he ordered the Final Machine to operate without anesthesia and began questioning Dove about the Justice League.
• Constantine arrived and told Batwoman that the League he wanted was there; Batwoman then shared urgent intelligence before blood loss left him in shock.
• Constantine considered abandoning the problem, then began plotting to bargain with Trigon by using Raven as leverage.

Su Ming destroyed the Invisible Spectrum Lantern Battery from inside Eclipsed Star by empowering a Black Lantern Battery with Tenth Metal and Manhattan’s gemstone. He woke in a quiet gray world of ash and walking corpses, where a shifting black-and-white tunnel appeared to be his only way forward.

• Su Ming reached the Invisible Spectrum Lantern Battery at Eclipsed Star’s center and photographed his surroundings as proof of his work.
• Su Ming fused Tenth Metal and Manhattan’s gemstone into the Black Lantern Battery, though the death energy rotted much of his body.
• Strangle helped Su Ming throw the empowered Black Lantern Battery into the Invisible Spectrum Lantern Battery, causing Eclipsed Star to shake and explode.
• Su Ming lost consciousness in the explosion and woke alive in a gray realm among bones, ash, and silent walking corpses.
• A walking corpse pointed Su Ming toward a twisting black-and-white tunnel on a distant mountaintop, and Su Ming headed there to find a way out.

Su Ming entered Death’s domain after Black Lantern detonated Eclipsed Star and waited in her palace for her to appear. Death revealed that Destiny had arranged their meeting and said that Daniel, the current Dream, had disappeared.

• Su Ming left the procession of walking corpses and entered the black-and-white passage, which opened into Death’s home, the Inevitable End.
• Su Ming recognized the realm as the transit place where the dead passed and waited on a sofa for Death.
• Death appeared and welcomed Su Ming, saying Destiny had brought them together.
• Su Ming asked why Death had summoned him, noting that someone was waiting for him on Earth.
• Death compared death to dreams and told Su Ming that Daniel had disappeared.

Su Ming learned that Daniel and Lucifer had disappeared amid changes in the Dreaming and growing danger beyond the Source Wall. Death sent him into the Dreaming to find a way back to the Main World, where he saw cracks tearing across its sky.

• Su Ming connected recent events to the number seven and learned from Death that Daniel and Lucifer had disappeared.
• Death told Su Ming that Daniel had abandoned his throne, left the Dreaming, and taken books containing unwritten stories from his library.
• Death revealed that Doctor Manhattan had been dead for ten years by the Main World's reckoning, startling Su Ming.
• Su Ming chose Death's offer to send him to the Dreaming so he could return to the mortal world through someone's dream.
• Su Ming entered the Dreaming and saw enormous cracks across its colorful sky.

Su Ming traveled through Harley’s dream to return to the Hall of Justice, where he learned the Invisible Spectrum threat had been temporarily contained. Barry revealed that he had begun to control the Still Force, though only within a tiny area for now.

• Su Ming entered the Dreaming with the raven and searched the floating dreams for a Superhero’s dream.
• Su Ming found Harley’s dream, entered it, and startled her awake by ordering the dream masseurs to attack her kidney reflex zones.
• Su Ming awoke in Diana’s bed at the Hall of Justice and learned the barrier had been lifted and Eclipsed Star had been severely damaged.
• Su Ming found Barry in the command center and took back his cigarette.
• Barry told Su Ming he had comprehended the Still Force and could freeze time within an area about the size of a cigarette butt.

Su Ming learned that the Justice League was dividing up its members’ duties while Batwoman recovered, leaving Diana to guard the Hall of Justice. Hawkgirl returned with the Totality after striking Luthor and Joker, and Batwoman sent her to the hospital to recover and check on Hawkman.

• Barry told Su Ming that Bruce’s bones had been shattered and that he would need months to recover in his Life Support Armor.
• Barry described the apocalyptic future he had glimpsed through the Still Force, and Su Ming considered the enemy roster and who might join it next.
• Barry brought Su Ming to the meeting room, where Batwoman assigned Clark to repair the Moon, sent J’onn and John to investigate a Martian prophecy, and gave Aquaman, Cyborg, and Barry separate duties.
• Su Ming wondered whether Batwoman was deliberately splitting up the Justice League and whether she had prepared a trap for Luthor.
• Hawkgirl arrived wounded with the Totality, explaining that she had attacked Luthor and Joker and taken it back from Luthor.
• Batwoman praised Hawkgirl, then told her to get medical attention and look after Hawkman.

After the Justice League prepared for war, Su Ming negotiated payment with Batwoman and declined to take over Barry’s Gotham assignment. Diana misread his concern about her nightmares as romantic interest, while his questions showed he was watching for the entity threatening her.

• J'onn rallied the heroes, but Barry questioned whether their enemies were truly evil, and Batwoman answered that they would uphold justice either way.
• Su Ming charged Batwoman five million for his recent work, accepted unmarked cash, and was allowed temporary freedom inside the Hall of Justice.
• Su Ming refused to take over Barry’s task in Gotham and said he preferred being with Diana, leaving her wondering whether he had confessed his feelings.
• Diana said she had no nightmares, and Su Ming left after checking whether she was safe from the entity seeking to awaken witchcraft.
• Diana asked the main control computer about Su Ming’s heartbeat, learned it had never changed, and suspected he was hiding something.

Su Ming learned that Eris had used gifts and rumors to embroil him in an Olympus marriage scheme and draw him into Hera’s plan to claim the God of War’s office. After deciding to hurry up and find Dream, he was shot through the heart by Artemis, but survived and resolved to teach her a lesson.

• Su Ming stored his silver suitcase at Hephaestus’s volcano while Vulcan asked about the Gauss Rifle.
• Vulcan told Su Ming that Eris had given gifts in his name to Athena, Artemis, and Hestia, and had spread rumors that he planned to marry the three goddesses.
• Vulcan revealed that Hera had agreed to Eris’s scheme and planned to set Su Ming the Twelve Labors, using him to replace Diana as God of War and make him dependent on Hera.
• Su Ming realized Eris wanted to provoke strife among the goddesses and gods, and decided to focus on finding Dream.
• An arrow of moonlight struck Su Ming through the heart, and he recognized Artemis as the shooter before resolving to teach her a lesson.

Su Ming used Vulcan’s God Metal Gauss to knock Artemis into the sea, then returned to the Hall of Justice as the Suicide Squad prepared to leave. He gave Deadshot a fake prize to mislead Amanda Waller and considered rescuing Harley, while wondering whether The Batman Who Laughs’ head was truly dead.

• Su Ming pursued Artemis and told Vulcan he could destroy moonlight after the Justice League had blown up the moon.
• Su Ming shot Artemis in the buttock with the God Metal Gauss, sending her into the sea before she flew back to Olympus to speak with Athena.
• Hera watched the incident through a heavenly mirror and smiled, satisfied that nobody had guessed her plan.
• Su Ming gave Deadshot blue gloves made by Kang the Conqueror and told him to pass them off to Amanda Waller as the most valuable item from the Totality.
• Deadshot accepted the gloves and boarded the ARGUS helicopter, while Harley asked Su Ming to rescue her sometime and promised him something good.
• Su Ming considered freeing Harley from ARGUS and wondered whether The Batman Who Laughs’ head was really dead.

Batwoman considered Jar-ro’s warning about Otherworld Deathstroke while Diana left the Justice League to see Zatanna perform, with Su Ming accompanying her. As they flew toward Los Angeles, Su Ming told Diana that the gods were targeting him and hinted that he had a plan to deal with them.

• Batwoman consulted Jar-ro, who said Otherworld Deathstroke’s mind appeared white and bright and could not be touched or controlled.
• Diana decided to visit Zatanna at her Magic Theater after realizing it was the weekend and that Zatanna had been avoiding her.
• Su Ming followed Diana, saying he did not want her out of his sight, and the two flew toward Los Angeles.
• Su Ming told Diana that the gods were targeting him because he had tried to claim four goddesses for himself.
• Diana warned Su Ming that gods could be as dangerous as demons, and he said he had a practical plan despite their ability to return from the Underworld.

Su Ming killed Pan when the god challenged him, then arranged for Diana to knock him unconscious so he could enter the Dreaming and ask Death for help. Death agreed to let Pan reincarnate, while Su Ming proposed bypassing the Underworld and sending him through another realm of the dead.

• Pan challenged Su Ming to a contest of musical talent, but Su Ming decapitated him with Godslayer before he could perform.
• Su Ming joked about Pan's parentage, looted his Drachma, and broke his pipes before asking Diana to knock him out.
• Diana punched Su Ming into the ground, and he entered his dream, used Tenth Metal to escape, and traveled to the Land of the Dying.
• Su Ming told Death that Olympian gods were obstructing his work and asked for help dealing with them.
• Death explained that Olympian gods reincarnated through the Underworld, and Su Ming proposed sending Pan through another realm of the dead instead.

Pan was sent to Yanluo’s Palace and condemned to the Eighteen Levels of Hell after Su Ming killed him. Su Ming and Diana arrived at Zatanna’s theater, where Diana planned to take them backstage to watch the performance.

• Pan died after Su Ming chopped off his head and entered the Underworld, where Yanluo ordered Ox-Head and Horse-Face to take him through all eighteen levels of Hell.
• Su Ming woke from a dream while Diana carried him through the air, then told her he had sent Pan to Yanluo’s Palace.
• Diana worried that Pan’s punishment might spark trouble between pantheons, but agreed he would no longer bother them.
• Su Ming and Diana reached a theater covered in posters for Zatanna’s performance, and Su Ming questioned how its audience had recovered from Eclipsed Star’s influence.
• Su Ming disguised himself in a formal suit made from Strangle and entered the theater with Diana, who led him toward the backstage employee passage.

During Zatanna’s theater performance, her Backward Magic went wrong and unleashed a tentacled monster from her hat. Su Ming brought the hat to himself after piercing it failed to stop the creature.

• Zatanna performed a dove trick, then used Backward Magic to produce a rabbit from her hat.
• A dead, bloodied rabbit appeared, and a violet light released a tentacled monster from the hat.
• The monster attacked the audience, while Zatanna warned people to flee and tried to use magic to stop it.
• Diana and Su Ming rescued civilians as the monster continued to spread through the theater.
• Zatanna’s fire spell gave the monster the ability to spit fire, so Su Ming pulled her away from the fight.
• Su Ming stabbed the hat with Godslayer, but the monster kept emerging, so he hooked the hat and drew it toward himself.

After Su Ming destroyed the monster at the theater, Diana learned that Zatanna was hiding a problem with her magic. Diana and Su Ming set out to question local spellcasters, while Zatanna secretly headed to a gathering of mages about magic malfunctioning.

• Su Ming burned the tentacled monster wearing the top hat, then discussed the origins of fire with Diana and Zatanna.
• Diana asked Zatanna why she had been distant, but Zatanna made an excuse and hurried away.
• Diana decided to consult witches she knew in Los Angeles, and Su Ming agreed to accompany her.
• Zatanna teleported to Winters Manor, where Baron Winters was hosting a meeting about malfunctioning magic attended by heroes and villainous magical groups.
• Diana and Su Ming visited their first local spellcaster, but Su Ming noticed the dark cabin had suspicious footprints and smelled of decomposing protein.

Diana and Su Ming searched for the Warlocks on her list and found that they had all died from magical causes. Su Ming stopped Diana from calling Constantine and took her to find Arabelle Quinn, a powerful demonologist who might help them.

• Diana and Su Ming broke into a Warlock’s home and found his body twisted and ruined by magic.
• Diana covered the corpse and continued with Su Ming to search for the next magical consultant.
• Diana considered calling Constantine, but Su Ming stopped her and said he knew someone more reliable.
• Su Ming told Diana how Arabelle Quinn gained dark magic through a contract with Lucifer and became a demonologist.
• Su Ming and Diana flew toward Los Angeles to find Arabelle through her advertisement in the Yellow Pages.