agents attack the Baxter Building, Reed changes everything, The Human Torch suffers a horrible loss, and Franklin and Val go shopping! There's Time Travel, Alternate Realities, Celestials, Eternals, Deviants, and Doombots... and more important than all of that, we find out the answer to the question: What is the Bridge?Collecting: Dark Reign: Fantastic Four 1-5

    But as the Titans realize that a former teammate is involved in the disappearances, they find themselves squaring off against the World's Greatest Heroes in order to protect their old friend. Featuring Superman, Flash, and Green Lantern, this book presents epic battles between mentors and protégés as Batman, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman each take up arms against their former sidekicks.

    But when disaster strikes in the form of aliens creatures, can the team survive? Plus, Warren Ellis introduces the concept of The Bleed, the fabric between realities that becomes a major aspect of the Wildstorm and DC Universe!

    Revolutionary artist Barry Windsor-Smith takes on the Uncanny X-Men! The original X-Men go toe-to-toe against Blastaar, deadly menace from the Negative Zone! Storm and Forge find themselves trapped on a primitive paradise world with no hope of escape! Spiral and Lady Deathstrike target Wolverine for death! And Dazzler is hunted by the Marauders, with only the X-Men to save her!

    After being paralyzed by the Joker, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon became Oracle, an information and cyberspace specialist, and began a crime-fighting union with Black Canary. Two women with different personalities and beliefs, their relationship has always been tumultuous but effective. This volume includes some of their earliest adventures as well as a rebirth for them as they are joined by the new Batgirl in their vigilante mission.

    In the wake of a devastating alien war, earth is protected by the Shockrockets - an unbeatable squadron of hi-tech aerial fighter craft, built from a fusion of captured alien technology and the best Earth has to offer. Manned by the world's most elite pilots, the Shockrockets protect an unstable Earth from natural disasters, worldwide piracy, rampaging mutantions and more. But now the Shockrockets face their most dangerous challenge - an all-out strike to take over earth from the military genius that saved the planet a generation ago. Their only real hope is Alejandro Cruz, a young man who becomes the newest Shockrocket pilot by a freak of chance. Will his outsider status prove to be the only thing that can unlock the true secret of the Shockrockets technology, and give the world a chance to remain free?

    But he's never seen anything like this. Amongst the Mayan ruins of the Amazon forest, the Dark Knight of Gotham is out of his element as he faces an intergalactic infestation of…Aliens!

    Tomasi brings you Superman, Volume 1: Son of Superman!Collecting: Superman 1-6, Rebirth

    As Gem Antonelli (a.k.a. Copycat) is debriefed in a holding cell, the story of how eight troubled teenagers were briefly gods of a prehistorical world unfolds against the backdrop of a cataclysmic disaster.

    But in BLACKEST NIGHT, he briefly became an Orange Lantern and got a taste of true power. Now he’ll do anything to get that power back. Buckle in for a greatest hits tour of the DCU’s most wanted as Lex Luthor begins an epic quest for power, all brought to you by writer Paul Cornell (Dr. Who, Captain Britain and MI-13) and artist Pete Woods (WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON).

    When a friend of Green Lantern is beaten and left for dead because of his sexual orientation, the ring-wielding hero embarks on a mission of vengeance. But as Green Lantern looks to punish the hate crime perpetrators by crossing a deadly line of violence, he becomes caught in a personal battle between great power and moral responsibility. An emotional and thought provoking tale, this book examines the true depths of human ignorance and viciousness that unfortunately exist in the world that we all live in.

    Leading his new field team, The Creature Commandos, Frankenstein and company must fight against supernatural threats even more strange and dangerous than themselves.Collecting: Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. 1-7

    Gambit plays his cards right and vaults into his own kinetically-charged solo adventures! He's a lover and a thief, but what else does ragin' Cajun Remy LeBeau get up to when he isn't hangin' wit' de X-Men? Would you believe raiding lost temples of doom? Clashing with the deadly X-Cutioner? Or teaming up with Sabretooth? Still, there's always time for the ladies, like old friend Storm and his favorite cherie Rogue...but who is Gambit's gaseous green guardian?Collects Gambit (1999) #1/2, 1-11, Gambit Annual '99, Marvel Authentix: Gambit #1, Material from X-Men Unlimited (1993) #18

    through all of infinite time and space! And in the real absence of Marvel's First Family, a substitute FF, hand-picked by the real deal - Ant-Man, Medusa, She-Hulk and the all-new Miss Thing - stand ready to guard the Earth and the nascent Future Foundation ... for the four minutes that the Fantastic Four will be gone. What could possibly go wrong?Collecting: Fantastic Four 1-3, FF 1-3, & material from Marvel Point One.1

    Freeze and Catwoman. Plus, the serial killer named Holiday seems to have returned to a life of crime, but who is committing Holiday's murders this time?