Chapter Summaries

After attending Black Bolt’s accession celebration, Su Ming and Carol discussed Attilan’s society and the Kree before spotting Ronan’s fleet near the Moon. Su Ming suspected Ronan had brought Terrigen Crystals, but decided not to interfere and left for Earth, confident the Supreme Intelligence would thwart Ronan’s plans.

• Su Ming explained Attilan’s rationing system and compared its society with the Kree Empire while he and Carol watched Earth from a garden.
• Su Ming told Carol he had negotiated with the Supreme Intelligence to protect her and Mary from being hunted.
• Carol spotted Ronan’s Dark Aster Fleet near Mars, and an unarmed ship from it entered Attilan to meet Black Bolt.
• Su Ming guessed Ronan was offering Terrigen Crystals, revealing that he had taken Attilan’s original supply and kept it in his custody.
• Su Ming told Carol not to interfere because the Supreme Intelligence could monitor Ronan’s fleet, then flew with her back to Earth.

Su Ming returned to Earth, caught up on events across the world, and went home to Gin, while the chapter ended with Bobo struggling with grief after inheriting Jim’s bar and responsibilities. Su Ming planned to rest briefly before intervening on another Earth.

• Carol gave Su Ming a modified communicator before returning home, and he went back to Kamar-Taj to hear Hamill’s reports.
• Hamill told Su Ming that the Avengers had disbanded after their costly fight with Red Skull and reported developments involving S.H.I.E.L.D., the X-Men, Magneto, and other groups.
• Su Ming ordered Hamill to bring Monark back to brief him on the Magic World, then visited Zheng Xian and shared a meal with him.
• Su Ming returned to his villa, reunited with Gin, and said he would rest before acting on another Earth.
• Bobo drank alone at the Oblivion Bar and struggled with the grief and responsibilities he had inherited after Jim’s death.

Diana and Zatanna visited Bobo at the Oblivion Bar to ask for help protecting the World Pillar beneath Mount Olympus, but Bobo distrusted Constantine’s warning and refused. He left the crisis unresolved as the barrier to another Magic Dimension continued to weaken.

• Zatanna and Diana found Bobo drinking alone at the Oblivion Bar while Tracy complained about the damage Witchfire had caused and worried about him.
• Diana explained that Circe and Perpetua’s dark monsters were devouring the World Pillar beneath Mount Olympus, while Constantine and Swamp Thing investigated the Tree of Wonder.
• Diana said Constantine believed books in the Magic Kingdom of Myia might contain magic to reinforce the pillar, and Zatanna made Bobo coffee to sober him up.
• Bobo pointed out that Constantine was a liar and asked whether the caped Deathstroke had returned; Diana said he had not stayed, though Colonel Sanders had resumed serving fries and potato balls.
• Bobo refused to help, saying he would not let Diana fall into a dangerous trap based on Constantine’s claims.

With Circe and Perpetua attacking the magical defenses, Diana and Zatanna went to Myia to search for Fae Magic, taking Bobo’s Nightblade without his permission. Bobo followed them through the portal to retrieve the sword.

• After Hecate’s death, Circe gained control of most of the witchcraft power and, aided by Perpetua, attacked the multiverse’s magical defenses.
• The Upside-Down Man asked Diana to find a solution, and Constantine organized the heroes while Man-Bat gained magic through a deal with a demon.
• Diana and Zatanna planned to search the Great Library of Magic Kingdom of Myia for Fae Magic, but Bobo warned them that Myia held dangerous power.
• Zatanna secretly stole Nightblade while Diana distracted Bobo, then opened a portal to Myia and entered with Diana.
• Bobo complained to Tracy, then followed Diana and Zatanna through the open portal to reclaim Nightblade.

Su Ming returned to Harley’s apartment and watched disturbing videos of people killing one another with a rifle while Harley laughed at their reactions. After learning Poison Ivy’s plant had recorded the clips, Su Ming went to Harley’s shoe cabinet to find the hard drives, where a shadow suddenly lunged at him.

• Su Ming returned from Doctor Manhattan’s space to the dark apartment he shared with Harley and found her laughing at a video of a man being shot with an energy rifle.
• Harley showed Su Ming another clip in which the first shooter’s wife killed him with the same rifle, and the two watched more recordings together.
• Su Ming realized the videos followed the rifle’s users as they committed violent acts under the influence of unusual excitement.
• Harley told Su Ming that Poison Ivy’s plant had recorded the videos and that she had stored the hard drives in her shoe cabinet.
• Su Ming opened the cabinet, and a shadow lunged out at him.

Su Ming confirmed that Harley had tested his identity by hiding a corpse, then watched videos with her while learning about the chaos in DC. Harley explained the psychological details of a violent scene, but choked on popcorn.

• Su Ming recognized Harley’s corpse prank as an identity test and confirmed that he was the real Deathstroke.
• Harley introduced the corpse as a hard-drive seller she had killed, and Su Ming accepted her judgment that the man deserved it.
• Su Ming watched videos with Harley and tried to learn about the state of the world from her.
• Harley dragged the corpse away to feed it to the cats, then returned with popcorn.
• Harley analyzed a character’s violent behavior and identity conflict before choking on popcorn.

Su Ming analyzed Luthor’s empowered criminals and concluded that Batman’s absence, widespread excitement, and food shortages pointed to deeper problems, then prepared to take Harley out for a violent night. Meanwhile, Diana, Zatanna, and Bobo were besieged in Maya, where Bobo revealed that Circe’s army had noticed them.

• Su Ming watched Harley’s collected recordings at high speed and identified Luthor’s weak weapons, the criminals’ unusual excitement, severe food shortages, and Batman’s unexplained absence.
• Harley questioned Su Ming about the Batmen Bliss and Thomas, and he dismissed her concerns about Thomas’s actions in Gotham.
• Harley told Su Ming that Damian wanted to see him, but Su Ming did not explain what he suspected Bliss was doing.
• Su Ming and Harley prepared to leave, with Su Ming promising a night of fighting, drinking, and dancing.
• In Maya, Diana, Zatanna, and Bobo fought dragons, Half-Orcs, and undead after Nightblade’s passage brought them to the wilderness.
• Diana demanded an explanation from Bobo, who said that Maya was the Fairy Kingdom and that Circe’s army of sorcery had seen them.

Deathstroke took Harley to the Rock of Eternity and uncovered clues explaining Batwoman and Joker’s disappearance. He concluded they had entered a parallel world together and left him a coded request to look after the Justice League, while he focused on defeating Circe and Perpetua.

• Deathstroke learned that Circe had enchanted Luthor’s distributed supplies to amplify people’s desires, while Justice League Dark’s teams struggled against the spreading witchcraft.
• Deathstroke brought Harley to the Rock of Eternity instead of joining the front lines, then searched the chamber where Batwoman had secluded herself.
• Deathstroke used Bruce Wayne’s bloodstains and marks on the wall to deduce that Joker had controlled Bruce’s body and left a message on the ceiling.
• Deathstroke illuminated the ceiling with his Ultraviolet Lantern and found a smiley face pointing to the Comedian’s Badge, indicating that Batwoman and Joker had gone to find Doctor Manhattan.
• Deathstroke interpreted the bloodstain’s shape as Batwoman’s coded request to protect the Justice League and decided to concentrate on eliminating Circe before confronting Perpetua.

Su Ming calmed Harley by dancing tango with her, then explained Constantine’s plan to draw him away from the Main World by making Maya the battlefield. The chapter ended with Harley questioning his relationship with Wonder Woman and claiming Diana, Red, and Power Girl as hers.

• Su Ming took Harley’s hand, lit the hall’s braziers, and danced tango with her until the music ended.
• Su Ming told Harley that Perpetua threatened Earth and that she would need to be defeated for humanity to have a future.
• Su Ming explained that Constantine had sent Diana and Zatanna to Maya to lure him away and reduce pressure on the Main World.
• Harley asked why Constantine thought Su Ming would rescue Wonder Woman, and Su Ming cited Hera’s promise of marriage to several women in her family.
• Harley asked whether Su Ming had feelings for Wonder Woman, and he denied it before she declared Diana, Red, and Power Girl hers.

Su Ming summoned Barry to rescue Diana and Bobo from the Maia Dimension while deliberately leaving Zatanna there to draw Constantine into the conflict. After the rescue, Diana’s truthful answer revealed her feelings for Su Ming, and her conversation with Harley suggested Harley had spent time with him since his return.

• Su Ming used Harley’s phone to summon Barry to the Rock of Eternity and ordered him to bring back only Diana and Bobo from Maia.
• Barry returned with Bobo and a lasso-bound Diana, while Zatanna remained in Maia; Su Ming planned to use her connections to pressure Constantine into going there.
• Su Ming led Bobo aside while Harley untied Diana and questioned her under the Lasso of Truth.
• Diana admitted she had been thinking about Su Ming every day, and Barry pretended not to hear her.
• Harley told Diana that she and Su Ming had watched comedy, drunk, and danced together, prompting Diana to grip Vulcan’s Sword.

Su Ming learned how Bobo had placed Blue Devil on Maya’s throne and heard how Circe’s overwhelming forces threatened the kingdom. He returned with a plan but rejected Batman’s attempt to make him lead the Justice League, leaving Diana to wonder why he had come back now.

• Bobo told Su Ming that he had sent Blue Devil to rule Maya using a magical prop sword while keeping the real Nightblade with him.
• Bobo described how Blue Devil had become committed to defending Maya from Circe, while Bobo feared he lacked the power or skill to save the kingdom.
• Su Ming said their immediate goal was to find a way to kill Circe and rejected relying on Lucifer and the other powers who were preparing an escape route.
• Bobo explained that the Shadow Pact Squad was busy responding to disasters caused by Luthor’s inventions, and Su Ming dismissed Batman’s request that he take charge of the Justice League.
• Barry reminded Su Ming that Green Arrow was another League member, while Su Ming insisted Batman’s plans were darker than they seemed.
• Diana asked why Su Ming had returned at that moment, and he answered that a fist struck harder after being drawn back into the darkness before offering her instant noodles.

Su Ming proposed using magic to reach the Spectre Sector and access Apokolips technology as a way to defeat Circe. He revealed that he intended to seek an alliance with Darkseid, whose interests could align with theirs against Perpetua.

• Barry asked what the group should do next, and Su Ming explained that technology might counter the magical threat.
• Su Ming argued that Brainiac was not the universe’s true pinnacle of intelligence and described the far greater capabilities of Apokolips technology and Mother Boxes.
• Su Ming proposed finding Cyborg in the Spectre Sector to use Mother Box technology, but explained that its magnetic field blocked ordinary travel and communications.
• Su Ming said the Upside-Down Man could use magic to send them into the Spectre Sector.
• Diana warned that Darkseid might be there, and Su Ming said they should form an alliance with him because he also had reason to oppose Perpetua.

Darkseid manipulated Cyborg, Starfire, Jessica, Deathstroke, and Blackfire into helping him retrieve the Anti-Mother Boxes he had hidden across the Spectre Sector. After several months, they gathered every box for him, allowing Darkseid to regain his full power.

• Darkseid explained that Perpetua's destruction of New Genesis and Apokolips had forced him to recover the Anti-Mother Boxes and build Sepulk, his escape ark.
• Darkseid used the Mother Box to lure Cyborg and his companions into the Spectre Sector, where he had arranged for Brainiac's robots and brainwashed alien worshippers to shape their actions.
• Cyborg, Starfire, and Deathstroke accepted their followers' worship and agreed to help Darkseid collect the boxes, while Jessica remained suspicious of him.
• Starfire reunited with Blackfire, who agreed to help Darkseid after he promised to save Tamaran from the Spectre Sector's collapsing planets.
• Deathstroke resisted Ecstasy's demand for a holy war and instead kept his followers occupied while helping search for the boxes.
• After several months, the group delivered all the Anti-Mother Boxes to Darkseid, and he returned to his full power.

Luthor and Brainiac discussed their plans and dismissed Darkseid as dead, while Darkseid secretly listened from Sepulk. Darkseid began activating the Anti-Mother Boxes to turn the Spectre Sector into a refuge from the coming catastrophe.

• Luthor searched star charts for Darkseid and warned Brainiac that Darkseid and Deathstroke remained threats.
• Brainiac told Luthor that Harley Quinn had left with Deathstroke, and Luthor revealed he was using her to track Deathstroke.
• Darkseid listened to Luthor and Brainiac from Sepulk, where he had gathered the Anti-Mother Boxes and assembled the Sepulk Ark.
• Cyborg, Jessica Cruz, and the other Justice League members considered taking the ark, but Darkseid led them to its control room.
• Darkseid activated the Anti-Mother Boxes and explained that their network would seal the Spectre Sector from time and space as a shared safehouse.

Darkseid explained that he alone could preserve life through the Multiversal disaster, while Jessica and the others secretly planned to stop him after he activated the Ark. Cyborg returned to the control room to learn Serpulk’s system from Darkseid, but the network overwhelmed his Mother Box.

• Darkseid warned Deathstroke and the Justice League that they could work with him or perish with the Multiverse.
• Jessica urged Starfire, Deathstroke, and Cyborg to follow their plan to take Serpulk’s technology and defeat Darkseid after he activated the Ark.
• The four agreed to act together, and Cyborg returned to the control room after they settled their tactics.
• Darkseid showed Cyborg how to connect his Mother Box to Serpulk’s network and encouraged him to understand its data field.
• Cyborg failed to process the network’s energy peaks, and his Mother Box began to lose control.

Darkseid revealed that the Anti-Mother Boxes had upgraded Cyborg and transformed him into a New God under his control. The Justice League arrived to find Cyborg attacking them, while Darkseid declared that their plan had failed and confronted the team.

• Darkseid explained that the Anti-Mother Boxes had let Cyborg understand their advanced technology and insisted that his fear of losing his humanity was misplaced.
• Cyborg called the Justice League to attack, but Darkseid resisted his weapons, disabled him, and began turning his body into metal.
• Jessica rammed a captured Brainiac ship into Darkseid and tried to help Cyborg, but transformed Cyborg struck her aside and aimed a cannon at her.
• Starfire rescued Jessica, while Deathstroke prepared to destroy Cyborg and Jessica demanded that they save him.
• Darkseid emerged unharmed, claimed Cyborg had become a New God at his side, and admitted that the team's failed plan gave him some pleasure.

Darkseid activated Sepulk by transforming Cyborg, Starfire, Deathstroke, and Deathstroke’s followers into his servants, creating a universe isolated from the multiverse. Jessica Cruz faced him with only three percent of her Green Lantern Ring’s energy, while Darkseid mocked her resolve.

• Darkseid revealed that he had remade Cyborg into a loyal New God, and Cyborg shot Deathstroke when Deathstroke attacked him.
• Cyborg activated the Anti-Mother Box network as Darkseid used Omega Beams to force Starfire into Sepulk’s fire pit, igniting its creation.
• Sepulk’s new sun fixed the planets in the Spectre Sector and enclosed the sector, forming Darkseid’s universe.
• Darkseid transformed Deathstroke’s summoned followers into Parademons and remade Deathstroke and Starfire as New Gods.
• Jessica Cruz resisted Cyborg and the Parademons as her ring’s energy fell to three percent, then challenged Darkseid, who ordered his followers not to attack her.

Jessica refused Darkseid’s offer to join his New Gods, and he killed her as his new pantheon claimed the Spectre Sector. Meanwhile, Su Ming’s group arrived at an alien space station and found a furry creature waiting outside their room.

• Darkseid offered Jessica a place among the New Gods if she agreed to serve him, but she spat at him and attacked.
• Darkseid crushed Jessica’s Power Ring and arm, then killed her with his Omega Beams.
• Darkseid’s followers and the Parademons proclaimed his rule across the Spectre Sector.
• The Upside-Down Man sent Su Ming, Bobo, Barry, Harley, and Diana to a space station near the sealed-off Spectre Sector.
• Bobo opened the room’s door using an alien terminal, revealing a furry creature with golden eyes.

Su Ming’s group encountered Dex-Starr at the Zamarons’ stranded research station and learned why he blamed the Justice League for the Lantern Corps’ losses. Su Ming revealed that he carried a Red Lantern Ring and offered Dex-Starr catnip as he began negotiating a deal.

• Bobo recognized Dex-Starr outside the door, and Diana tried to reassure the wary Red Lantern that the group had come to save the universe.
• Dex-Starr condemned the Justice League’s failed attempt to repair the Source Wall and explained that its explosion had killed Lantern Corps members and stranded the station in space.
• Dex-Starr revealed that the station was once used by the Zamarons to study the Source Wall breach, while Harley joked about joining the Violet Lantern Corps.
• Su Ming approached Dex-Starr with a Ham Sausage, showed him his Red Lantern Ring, and said he came from the Origin Universe.
• Dex-Starr accepted the food, and Su Ming took off his mask and offered him catnip while preparing to make a deal.

Deathstroke used catnip to subdue Dex-Starr and questioned the Red Lantern about the damaged Zamaron station in the Spectre Sector. The group learned that a mysterious figure called Master might be a New God, and Su Ming prepared for negotiations that could turn into a fight.

• Deathstroke opened a container of catnip, making Dex-Starr abandon its threats and cling happily to his arm.
• Dex-Starr told Su Ming that the Red Lanterns had returned to their homeworld, while it had stayed at the station with the Zamarons scientist Hax and a mysterious figure.
• Dex-Starr explained that Hax had repaired the station’s teleportation machine and was preparing to retrieve something from the sealed Spectre Sector when she noticed an intruder.
• Dex-Starr said Hax called the mysterious figure Master, leading Bobo to conclude that the figure might be a New God worshipped by the Zamarons.
• Su Ming told Barry to remember their tactic for confronting a god, and Barry recalled the Speed Force Storm.