Chapter Summaries

Su Ming settled the aftermath of Druid’s death and prepared to return to Earth-0 to investigate a possible problem, leaving Barry, Aquaman, Cyborg, and Green Lantern to keep fighting the Hexes on Earth-40K. He reassured the heroes, supplied Barry and Aquaman with pizza, and left Cyborg asking about replacing his octopus parts.

• Su Ming decided to leave the remaining Hexes to the heroes on Earth-40K while he went to investigate a possible problem on Earth-0.
• Su Ming found Barry and Aquaman fighting a Hex near the Equator and asked them to stay behind and clear the remaining statues.
• Barry agreed to continue helping, and Su Ming gave him and Aquaman pizza and told them to call Adjutant if they needed anything.
• Su Ming found Cyborg and Green Lantern fighting Hexes on islands, and they also chose to remain on Earth-40K to save people.
• Cyborg asked Su Ming when he could replace his octopus parts, and Su Ming teased him by suggesting a squid or an electric eel.

Su Ming and his allies fought the Eternals’ Uni-Mind, a giant face formed from their collective Mental Power, while Cyborg realized that the crisis was affecting both Earths at once. The Uni-Mind remained under attack as Cyborg flew off to help Green Lantern, and Deathstroke confirmed that an unseen enemy had planned tactics specifically against him.

• Su Ming explained that the strange face forming in the clouds was the Uni-Mind, a manifestation of the Eternals’ collective Mental Power.
• Carol charged into the sky and punched the Uni-Mind, making its face twist in pain and erupt with purple radiance.
• Su Ming sent Cyborg and John Stewart to handle the other Hexes while the others dealt with the Uni-Mind.
• Cyborg realized that both Earths were in trouble at once and asked Deathstroke about the unusual situation.
• Deathstroke confirmed that the enemy had planned tactics against him and was still hiding in the shadows.
• Cyborg offered to help Deathstroke before flying away, and Deathstroke dismissed the idea that he might need rescuing.

Su Ming and his allies prepared to attack the Uni-Mind while Wanda worked to prevent it from ever forming again. In Metropolis, Superman sensed an approaching threat, but a winged monster ambushed him at home and left him injured as Jonathan tried to get his mother to safety.

• Su Ming assigned Thanos and Hela targets while Wanda prepared to alter the rules that allowed the Uni-Mind to manifest.
• Superman heard a malicious sound in the night, and Jonathan and Krypto confirmed they had heard it too.
• Superman saw something moving through the sky and suited up to investigate, but a massive shadow struck him and sent him crashing through the bedroom.
• Jonathan rescued his mother while Krypto shielded them from debris.
• A flesh-winged monster with an angel statue for a head hovered outside, and Superman demanded to know who it was while ordering Jonathan to get his mother away.

Superman fought the Flesh and Blood Angel, which called itself Mother and attacked him while disrupting his thoughts. As the fight continued around Earth, Superman struggled to keep his focus and tried Extreme Cold Air against it.

• Superman attacked the Flesh and Blood Angel, but its flowing body absorbed his blows and punched him onto the moon.
• The Angel appeared beside Superman and called itself Mother, claiming it would reclaim the life his other mother had given him.
• Superman flew toward Earth for sunlight, while Mother followed and strangled him with its shifting limbs.
• Mother’s influence filled Superman’s mind with distracting thoughts, and his Heat Vision failed to harm it.
• Superman regained his focus, headbutted Mother to change their flight path, and blew Extreme Cold Air at it.

The White Frost-shrouded Flesh Statue subdued Superman by hiding the sun and breaking his will, then made him vanish by “Blanking” him. The resulting change left Superboy unable to remember why he had brought Lois to Martha’s farm, and they left without realizing what had happened.

• Superman struggled against the Flesh Statue, but its tentacles restrained him while a gentle voice filled his mind with visions of Kansas.
• The statue eclipsed the sun, leaving Superman without its energy and causing him to stop resisting.
• The statue closed its hands around Superman’s image, made him vanish, and declared that he had been “Blanked.”
• After the change, Superboy forgot why he had brought Lois to Martha’s farm and decided to take Krypto to the pond instead.
• Lois apologized to Martha for the late-night visit, then left the yard while Jonathan and Krypto headed toward the pond.

Deadpool told Batman that Superman had been erased so completely that even his family and friends forgot him, and Batman realized he could not remember Superman either. Deadpool began testing whether the same erasure would affect him, but the chapter ended before he learned the result.

• Deadpool reacted to news that an enemy had made everyone forget Superman, then asked Batman whether he remembered him.
• Batman said he had never heard of Superman, despite listing several other heroes with similar names.
• Batman named the Justice League’s seven biggest names, leaving Superman out, and Deadpool confirmed that Batman had been affected.
• Deadpool called his insurance company to ask whether his policy would remain valid if everyone forgot he existed, but the company hung up on him.

Su Ming brought his team to Earth-0 and spoke with its Death about the thieves who had taken her body from 40K Earth. Death could not locate them, but warned that the new Destiny had not yet been chosen, leaving Su Ming a chance to change what was coming.

• Su Ming's team defeated the Uni-Mind, and Deathstroke brought them to a park on Earth-0.
• Hela sensed a different Death nearby, and Su Ming went to speak with the girl who appeared on a bench.
• Su Ming told Death that thieves had taken the body she used on 40K Earth and asked her for help tracking them.
• Death said she could not sense the thieves and warned Su Ming that she and the Endless might be targets.
• Death hinted that the new Destiny had not been chosen yet, then vanished with her soda.

Deathstroke chose to search for the missing Death, then Adjutant reported that the Sun’s light had changed. The team found the Sun hollowed into a ring of fire and prepared to alert the Justice League.

• Thanos urged Deathstroke to pursue Death, while Hela said she wanted to return home and Wanda warned that her Chaos Magic was limited in this universe.
• Deathstroke sent Wanda back to 40K to help guard it and decided to search for the missing Death.
• Adjutant reported an unexplained change in the Sun and its light, so Deathstroke took the team into space to investigate.
• The team discovered that the Sun had become a hollow ring of fire, and Carol suggested that something had eaten through its center.
• Deathstroke decided to notify the Justice League that the Sun appeared to have been eaten through by worms.

Su Ming learned that someone had killed Superman and erased his existence from the world’s memories and records. He split the investigation, sending Thanos and Deadpool to search for Death while he went to find Superman’s last known location.

• Deadpool revealed that the Justice League had forgotten Superman, and Su Ming concluded that Superman had been killed and erased from everyone’s memories and history.
• Su Ming sent Thanos and Deadpool to Shangri-La to find Deadman and search for the abducted Goddess of Death, with Man-Bat accompanying them.
• Su Ming asked the Justice League to investigate the sudden appearance of black-robed figures while he searched for Superman’s last battlefield.
• Su Ming warned the League that the enemy was likely targeting them, then ended the call and began his investigation.

Su Ming investigated the destroyed apartment where Superman had been attacked and found a plant that could serve as an eyewitness. He contacted Queen of May, but Poison Ivy emerged from the plant and confronted him about taking Harley out without her.

• Su Ming, Carol, and Hela examined Superman's wrecked apartment and found no blood near the destroyed bed.
• Su Ming realized the potted shrub could have witnessed the attack and contacted Queen of May through his connection with the plant.
• Su Ming watered the shrub and asked whether it had seen Superman being attacked.
• The plant grew a huge fruit that split open, and Poison Ivy emerged from it.
• Poison Ivy accused Su Ming of taking Harley out without inviting her.

Su Ming brought Poison Ivy to the wrecked bedroom to learn what the plants remembered about Superman’s attacker. Ivy drew the creature from their shared memories, giving Su Ming a lead on the enemy that had been erased from human memory.

• Poison Ivy arrived and explained that she had been developing a plant that could grow inside the human body.
• Su Ming asked Ivy whether she remembered Superman, and she used The Green to discover that its plants remembered him even though she did not.
• Su Ming told Ivy that Superman had been killed and that someone had likely erased all traces of his existence.
• Su Ming asked Ivy to draw Superman’s attacker, and she sketched a mass of earthworms with an angel statue, rotten wings, shapeshifting arms, and a greatsword.

Su Ming identified the Flesh Statue as one of the Three Mothers and prepared to trap her in an ambush. As he traveled to gather allies, he also planned to have Superboy-Prime move a yellow star to keep Earth warm.

• Ivy sketched the creature, and Su Ming recognized her as one of the Three Mothers, though he knew little about her powers or origins.
• Su Ming told Ivy that Harley was shopping in Gotham and warned that the replacement sun might leave Earth too cold for plants.
• Ivy left through a flowerpot after asking Su Ming to protect the plants, and Hela teased him about his relationship with Ivy.
• Su Ming gathered Hela and Carol onto Cloak and said he knew where the Flesh Statue was hiding, but wanted to assemble allies for an ambush.
• Cloak flew southwest as Su Ming ordered Adjutant to notify Superboy-Prime to help move a yellow star to replace the sun.

Su Ming went to Lux to ask Lucifer for help against the Mothers, but learned that Lucifer had already left to investigate something granting human wishes. The chapter left Su Ming suspecting the wish-granting phenomenon might be the real threat.

• Su Ming arrived in Los Angeles with Carol and Hela and explained his theory that the Flesh Statue wanted to extinguish hope by erasing Superman from memory.
• At Lux, Su Ming found the nightclub unusually quiet and asked Maze where Lucifer had gone.
• Maze said Amenadiel had told Lucifer about something granting human wishes, and Lucifer had left to investigate it.
• Su Ming recognized the wish-granting phenomenon as a possible source of the trouble.

Deathstroke suspected Blank’s wish-granting scheme could target Zorn Batman next and brought him to the nightclub for protection. Zorn agreed to stay with Deathstroke, who offered to help restore his memories of Superman.

• Deathstroke asked Maze whether Blank had rules for granting wishes, and Maze said she did not know.
• Deathstroke realized Blank might target Batwoman after Superman and ordered Adjutant to teleport Zorn to him.
• Zorn arrived at the nightclub and explained that he had been investigating the wishes while Deathstroke handled Superman’s disappearance.
• Deathstroke warned Zorn to stay with him because he might be Blank’s next target, and Zorn agreed.
• Deathstroke offered to help Zorn recover his memories of Superman.

Su Ming prepared to restore Zorn’s memories of Superman using the Anti-Life Equation, while Deadpool and Thanos recruited Deadman Brand to help locate Death. The search was set to proceed without Brand’s injured Goddess, though Thanos threatened to use force if cooperation failed.

• Su Ming told Zorn that Strangle could read and implant memories, then explained he would use the Anti-Life Equation and darkness to recover Zorn’s memories of Superman.
• Adjutant projected the Anti-Life Equation, and Su Ming began preparing to control Zorn and restore his memories.
• Deadpool introduced himself to Deadman Brand, and Man-Bat explained that Deadpool and Thanos were Deathstroke’s cousins seeking a dead woman.
• Brand said he could find corpses with his Goddess Rama Kushna’s help, but she was recovering from injuries sustained fighting Hecate.
• Deadpool offered to persuade Rama Kushna, while Thanos threatened to slaughter the city’s residents if they would not cooperate.
• Brand refused to let Deadpool meet his weakened Goddess and agreed to help them himself.

Deadman led a search for an outsider embodiment of Death while Deadpool and Man-Bat traveled toward Earth, expecting her to appear there. Meanwhile, Su Ming restored Zorn’s memories, offered to find him a new body in exchange for favors, and set out to regroup with Lucifer in Massachusetts.

• Deadman used his strange ability to search for the outsider manifestation of Death, while Justice League Dark traveled on a cursed flying carpet.
• Deadpool told Man-Bat that the group would wait for the Goddess of Death to come to Earth, and Man-Bat corrected his saying about waiting for a rabbit.
• Su Ming released the Anti-Life Equation’s control over Zorn, who remembered Superman and realized Blank had erased personal memories but not the universe’s memories.
• Su Ming offered to get Zorn a new body using consciousness-transfer technology, and Zorn agreed to owe him favors.
• Su Ming sensed Lucifer’s location, grabbed Maze, and asked the Adjutant to send them to southeastern Massachusetts.

Su Ming brought Batwoman and the others to Plymouth Harbor to find Lucifer, who was investigating why people’s wishes were coming true. After greeting the group, Lucifer agreed to discuss the matter with Su Ming, who offered Batwoman’s help.

• Su Ming carried Maze out of the nightclub and told her Lucifer would punish her for disobeying his orders, which delighted her.
• Su Ming’s group walked through Plymouth Harbor while Carol chatted with Zorn and Deathstroke sensed Lucifer nearby.
• The group found Lucifer speaking with a homeless man who fled into a drainage pipe after recognizing Deathstroke and fearing him.
• Lucifer greeted Hela, Carol, Deathstroke, and Batwoman, then rebuked Maze for leaving the club; Maze eagerly welcomed his promised punishment.
• Su Ming told Lucifer he had brought Batwoman to help investigate the wishes coming true, and Lucifer transformed into a blond woman.

Lucifer discovered that wishes came true only for the faithless and brought the group to Plymouth to test his theory. A vagrant wished for a hamburger and received one, leaving Deathstroke and Batwoman to examine what had happened.

• Lucifer told Deathstroke that everyone whose wish came true had been faithless, while Deathstroke, Batwoman, and Carol found their own wishes did not work.
• Lucifer explained that he needed a truly faithless person and revealed that he had found one before Deathstroke scared him away.
• Maze dragged the vagrant back from the sewer, and Lucifer asked him to wish for a hamburger.
• The vagrant wished for a hamburger, which appeared in his hands, and Lucifer asked Deathstroke and Batwoman what they had noticed.

Batman, Deathstroke, Lucifer, and their allies planned to use a controlled form of the Anti-Life Equation to disrupt Blank’s scheme among nonbelievers. A Mother descended and attacked Batman with a mental assault, and Lucifer became furious at the threat to him.

• Batman said that granting wishes to nonbelievers lacked a recognizable divine name or symbol.
• Deathstroke explained that Blank’s divine name could be nothingness, and Lucifer teased him about seeking a New God that did not exist.
• Batman proposed that Deathstroke use the Anti-Life Equation on nonbelievers, while Lucifer suggested spreading it through their dreams.
• A gigantic, baby-faced Mother descended and tried to draw Batman toward her with a mental attack.
• Deathstroke used Tenth Metal to free Batman from the attack, and Lucifer prepared to retaliate against the Mother.

Su Ming, Zorn, and Lucifer confronted the Child-faced Giant Maggot, which called itself Mother and attacked Batwoman. Lucifer discovered that it was a Concept Manifestation from outside their universe, then took Maze’s sword and prepared to attack it.

• Su Ming joked that the Child-faced Giant Maggot’s true name might be Martha, and Zorn objected that the joke involved his mother.
• Su Ming suggested that the shared name Martha might explain why Zorn and Superman had been targeted, though Zorn doubted the connection.
• Lucifer approached the monster and touched its forehead, discovering that it was not a living creature but a Concept Manifestation.
• Lucifer retreated to shore and explained that the outsider could manipulate space-time and could be killed only without leaving a corpse.
• Maze gave Lucifer her Flesh and Blood Sword, and he launched an attack at the approaching Child-faced Giant Maggot.